Leah Stokes: 2024 Schneider Award Winner
A Matter of Degrees
Dr. Leah Stokes, Dr. Katharine Wilkinson
4.8 • 533 Ratings
🗓️ 10 January 2025
⏱️ 52 minutes
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Summary
In this episode of A Matter of Degrees, we partner with Climate One to share an inspiring conversation between Dr. Leah Stokes and Greg Dalton, the founder and co-host of Climate One, when Leah received the 2024 Stephen H. Schneider Award for Outstanding Climate Science Communication in December.
And as a double feature, this episode also includes a conversation between writer, historian, and activist Rebecca Solnit and Climate One co-host Ariana Brocious from 2023.
This episode was also released on the Climate One podcast.
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | This is a matter of degrees, and I'm Dr. Leah Stokes. |
| 0:06.3 | Happy New Year to all our listeners. |
| 0:08.7 | We're back in your feed with an exciting special episode from a live conversation I had last month when I had the honor of receiving the 24 Stephen H. Schneider Award for Outstanding Climate Science Communication from Climate One. |
| 0:23.3 | In this conversation, I sat down with Greg Dalton, who is the founder and co-host of Climate One. |
| 0:29.4 | And we discussed a lot of my favorite topics, including how we can change our energy system, |
| 0:34.9 | the Inflation Reduction Act, everyone's favorite law, and bringing people |
| 0:39.1 | into the climate movement. Also included in this episode is a conversation with my good friend, |
| 0:44.7 | the amazing writer, historian and activist Rebecca Solnit, which she had with Climate One back in |
| 0:50.3 | 2003. Her conversation about the pace of progress, not giving into despair, and the |
| 0:56.0 | power of coming together during a disaster, those are topics that are just as relevant today |
| 1:01.3 | as they were two years ago. So you can think of this episode like a double feature. You know, |
| 1:07.2 | when you go to a movie theater and you see two films at the same time, and if I do say so myself, watching these two films is a great choice. |
| 1:16.1 | So as we prepare for the year ahead, I think that sharing conversations like these, they can help us start the year feeling energized and remind us about the need to stay focused and united and keep welcoming more people into the climate movement. |
| 1:31.0 | So with that, let's head to San Francisco, specifically to the Commonwealth Club. |
| 1:36.4 | And I hope you enjoy listening to these conversations. |
| 1:42.7 | I began working on climate around 2005. |
| 1:46.5 | This is also when Hurricane Katrina happened. |
| 1:49.2 | And the next year, 2006, an inconvenient truth came out. |
| 1:52.5 | And that was such an important film to wake up so many people to the climate crisis. |
| 1:58.0 | And I saw it in person at the University of Toronto. |
| 2:00.6 | But the thing I remember the most saw it in person at the University of Toronto. |
| 2:05.3 | But the thing I remember the most from that experience of watching the film was actually the credits. |
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