The Gas Stove Love Affair

Sustainable Minimalists

Bleav + Stephanie Seferian

Kids & Family, Leisure, Parenting, Home & Garden

4.8 • 1.1K Ratings

🗓️ 25 August 2022

⏱️ 22 minutes

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Summary

Good cooks cook on gas, or so we've been told. Any realtor will likely tell you that a gas stove ranks high on homebuyers' lists of new home must-haves, but are they good for us? Are they good for the planet? Fellow Americans, it's time to end our love affair with gas stoves. On today's show, we discuss All. The. Things. the natural gas industry doesn't want you to know about gas stoves, natural gas, and everything in between. Here's a preview: [1:30] Gas = luxury? A peek inside the gas industry's marketing campaigns [4:00] Human health concerns re: burning a fossil fuel in your kitchen [10:30] Let's chat about fracking for a hot minute [12:15] CO2's evil stepsister, methane: Here's how this potent global warmer fits into the natural gas conversation [14:45] Aren't natural gas power plants cleaner than coal power plants? (Yes, but ...) [17:00] The why and how behind the "electrify everything" movement Resources mentioned/Further reading: Did I Turn Off the Stove? Yes, but Maybe Not the Gas (via NY Times) Vintage 1965 Commercial For Gas Cooking (via YouTube) We Need To Talk About Your Gas Stove, Your Health And Climate Change (via NPR) Your Gas Stove Is Bad for You and the Planet (via NY Times) Cleaner But Not Clean - Why Scientists Say Natural Gas Won't Avert Climate Disaster (via Reuters) -- * Join our (free!) community here. * Find your tribe. Sustainable Minimalists are on Facebook, Instagram + Youtube. * Email me and say hello! MamaMinimalistBoston@gmail.com. Our Sponsors:* Thank you to LifeStraw! https://lifestraw.com/Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/sustainable-minimalists/exclusive-content

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1:00.8	Well, hello listeners and welcome back. My name is Stephanie Safarian and
1:06.7	you're listening to episode 298 of sustainable minimalist, a twice weekly show
1:12.3	about intentional and eco-minimalist living.
1:16.2	On today's show, we are discussing gas stoves, natural gas, and everything in between. There is something so primal about cooking over an
1:26.2	open flame. Am I right? We Americans we are attached to our gas stoves and as of 2015, which is the most recent year for which data is available,
1:37.0	there were over 40 million gas stoves here in the United States.
1:42.0	But gas stoves here in the United States. But gas stoves burn natural gas and natural gas is a
1:47.5	fossil fuel and it is made up primarily of methane. So on today's show we are discussing so many things. Part one is about
1:57.7	how marketing has influenced our collective love of the gas stove. Part two is the indoor air pollution problem
2:08.0	associated with the gas stove in our home and then the bulk of our conversation part three today is a deep dive
2:15.5	into the extraction of natural gas from the earth. What are the implications of such extraction?
2:24.0	What are the environmental issues associated with the burning of natural gas?
2:29.0	We're going to get into all of that in part three of today's conversation.
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