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HEADLINES: Monster Fracks

Sustainable Minimalists

Bleav + Stephanie Seferian

Leisure, Parenting, Kids & Family, Home & Garden

4.81.1K Ratings

🗓️ 6 October 2023

⏱️ 18 minutes

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Summary

Your enviro-news for Friday, October 6 2023: [00:30] Everything you need to know about monster fracking  [5:00] Better late than never? Vaccines, horseshoe crab blood, and (finally) a synthetic alternative [9:00] Will our grandchildren know frogs? [12:00] Introducing the Climate Corps, a green jobs training program   Resources mentioned:  American Climate Corps (via The White House)  Upstate NY program on sustainable agriculture and animal welfare Join our (free!) community here. Find your tribe. Sustainable Minimalists are on Facebook, Instagram + Youtube. Say hello! MamaMinimalistBoston@gmail.com. This show is listener-supported. Thank you for supporting! Join our (free!) Facebook community here. Find your tribe. Sustainable Minimalists are on Facebook, Instagram + Youtube @sustainableminimalists Say hello! MamaMinimalistBoston@gmail.com.

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0:00.0

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0:06.4

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1:00.8

Well, hello there and welcome back to another headline episode where we're covering the need to know environmental news headlines in under 15 minutes.

1:11.0

Let's get right into it today. We have a lot of stories to cover.

1:15.0

Let's start with the new type of fracking that's on the scene. It's called monster fracking, and it is using up an awful lot of water.

1:25.1

To get oil, you need water, lots of it, and water is already being depleted at

1:32.0

astounding rates

1:33.3

thanks to industrial farming and cities

1:35.8

in search of drinking water.

1:37.8

And so let's back up and just remind ourselves

1:40.8

what fracking is and how it works. Fracking is shorthand. ourselves what

1:45.0

happens when fracking is and how it works.

1:46.0

Fracking is shorthand for hydraulic fracturing,

1:47.0

and that's what happens when cracks in and below the Earth's surface

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