When it comes to climate change, there's one question we hear over and over again.

Is there anything I as an individual can do to open the door to change?

But what can I do?

What can we as individuals do?

What measures should an individual take to reverse the effects of climate change?

I'm Dr. Capon Wilkinson.

And I'm Dr. Leah Stokes, and we're the co-hosts of the podcast, A Matter of Degrees,

stories for the climate curious.

And at long last, it is time for season three.

We're back, baby.

This season, we're kicking things off with a three-episode mini-series tackling the question

we are all asking.

What can I do to address the climate crisis?

We'll trace that question across three big spheres of our lives.

From the personal to the professional to the political.

We learned from a climate finance expert about how traditional banking and investing ensnars us in planetary harm, and what we can do to make our money work for good.

What's happening is that our money, the money that we have sitting in that bank account,

is being leveraged for harm and mostly for fossil fuels when it comes to the energy economy.

We'll follow the journey of someone whose career started in the oil and gas industry and who found her way out into climate work.

I didn't make any sort of impact that I was hoping to make. I didn't change anyone's opinions.

And I kind of felt like what am I even doing here? What am I doing in this industry? And I just had this huge guilt. I have to make a change. I have to make a change. We dig into the grassroots movements powering climate politics across the country and how to make every election count. We elect public service commissioners here, and we elect county commissioners,

and we elect city councils, and we elect state legislators, and we elect a lot of people, half a

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