Presenting: What If We Get It Right?

How to Save a Planet

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Science, News, Society & Culture

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🗓️ 16 June 2025

⏱️ 66 minutes

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Summary

Hey there, Earthlings. Did you miss Ayana and Alex, your beloved How to Save a Planet co-hosts? Well, they reunited on Ayana’s new podcast, What If We Get It Right?, cracking up about how they met, reminiscing about the old show, and discussing Alex Blumberg’s new clean energy startup. (Alex, Ayana is so proud of you!) So, today we’re sharing an episode of What If We Get It Right? – a show about climate solutions, about what we need to do to address the climate crisis, and how to make those things happen — from changing laws, to electrifying buildings, to improving fashion and media. Each week an expert guest joins host Dr. Ayana Elizabeth Johnson to break it down, delightfully, and help us all envision what getting right on climate looks like, so we can reel that vision into reality. If you liked How to Save a Planet, this show is definitely for you. Check out the back catalog and follow, then sign up for the What If We Get It Right? Substack newsletter for updates and bonus content. Reunited and it feels so good. Earthlings, let’s get into it. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hello? Is anyone still in here? It's your old pal, Dr. Iona Elizabeth Johnson. Remember me?
0:08.4	I used to host How to Save a Planet, this delightful show with The One and Only Alex Bloomberg.
0:14.4	And I'm dropping in here to tell you about my new show. It's called What If We Get It Right?
0:19.9	And this will absolutely not surprise you.
0:22.5	It's a show about climate solutions.
0:25.6	But before we get into that, let me just rewind a little bit.
0:33.5	Okay.
0:34.6	I don't know that that was a great sound effect, but back when Alex and I started
0:38.9	How to Save a Planet, when we were brainstorming what we wanted the show to be, we had a few
0:43.9	goals in mind, admittedly lofty, but what we were aiming for was we wanted to make a really
0:50.3	entertaining podcast. We wanted to bring our listeners actionable ways to be part of climate
0:56.1	solutions, and we wanted to help save the freaking planet. Now, that show ended a few years ago,
1:02.7	but the work certainly did not. We still have so much to do and so much to learn, and I've
1:10.0	learned a lot in these last few years. In fact, I wrote a book
1:13.5	about it. It's called What If We Get It Right, Visions of Climate Futures. And I started this podcast,
1:21.9	also called What If We Get It Right? As for Alex, he left podcasting and, oh my God, you guys, this is such exciting news.
1:31.0	Alex Bloomberg went all in on climate. He is now a full-time climate entrepreneur, which brings
1:39.2	us full circle because I had Alex on as a guest on a recent episode of What If We Get It Right? It was such a sweet
1:48.8	reunion. And we both reminisced about our How to Save the Planet Days, what we learned about
1:53.7	climate communication, what we miss about the show, what we wish we'd done differently.
1:58.4	And Alex caught me up on his new company, his renewable energy company,
2:04.5	and his deep commitment to climate work. I'm going to share that conversation with you now.
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