Reverse Course: Green living in New Mexico

Here & Now Anytime

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🗓️ 10 August 2024

⏱️ 47 minutes

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We'd love to hear your thoughts on the podcast. Take the survey at wbur.org/survey. In Taos, New Mexico, a community of people are living in self-sufficient Earthships made of recycled materials. Host Peter O'Dowd reports on how these off-grid refuges operate. And, that's not the only form of sustainable building in New Mexico. Here & Now's Chris Bentley reports on how sustainable systems combined with Indigenous building practices allow people to live in green homes. Then, O'Dowd catches up with Eric Mack, who moved his family into a half-built house outside Taos and devoted himself to going off the grid. Plus, heating and cooling American homes accounts for nearly 20% of the country's greenhouse gas emissions. So some people are forgoing air conditioning to avoid making the planet even hotter, and O'Dowd shares their stories.

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0:26.0	reporting from our series reverse course.
0:29.1	In addition to the stories and conversations that we bring you every weekday.
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0:53.2	Now on with the show.
0:54.7	It's not something we can separate ourselves from.
0:57.4	Our houses are almost like the shells of an oyster.
1:00.7	They're part of us, and they form our relationships with each other and with the environment and we're just going to have to change
1:08.5	Lessons in living lightly and sometimes off the grid entirely in New Mexico.
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1:29.9	It's getting hot in here.
1:32.0	2023 was the hottest summer on record worldwide,
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