Ways & Means

Why many college students' ballots are getting tossed — and what could be done about it. --- In this episode of Ways & Means – as we head into the 2024 elections – why lots of North Carolina college students’ votes did not count in the last election, or the time before that, or the time before that. Why those votes weren’t counted, and how to prevent it from happening again. Guests:  * Gunther Peck, Associate Professor of History and Public Policy Studies, Duke University * Duke Student Research Team Members: Ameya Rao, Hannah McKnight, Kathryn Thomas * Tiffany Crawford, Master of Public Administration student at North Carolina Central University

In this episode: how a crusade shut down a coal-fired Chicago power plant for good. What the closing of that plant meant for children’s health and the environment. And what it didn’t mean. This is the eighth and final episode in our “Climate Change Solutions” series, where we look at research-based ideas to help cool a rapidly heating planet. Guests: * Kimberly Wasserman is Exeutive Director of the Little Village Environmental Justice Organization, and past winner of the Goldman Environmental Prize. [https://www.goldmanprize.org/recipient/kimberly-wasserman/] * Sarah Komisarow [https://sanford.duke.edu/profile/sarah-komisarow/] is Assistant Professor of Economics and Public Policy at Duke University. * Emily Pakhtigian [https://www.emilypakhtigian.com/] is a former PhD student in public policy at Duke, now Assistant Professor at the School of Public Policy at Penn State University. * Youki Terada is Editor at Edutopia from the George Lucas Educational Foundation. Season 8 of Ways & Means is made possible thanks to support from the Office of the Provost at Duke University. Find out more about the Duke Climate Commitment. [https://2022.climate.duke.edu/]

In this episode of Ways & Means: the hidden role that climate plays in the story of migration. How a changing climate is driving thousands of people to enter the U.S. each year. And how relatively small, inexpensive changes on the ground could make a difference with a daunting geopolitical problem. This is the seventh episode in our “Climate Change Solutions” series, where we look at research-based ideas to help cool a rapidly heating planet. Guests: * Sarah Bermeo [https://sanford.duke.edu/profile/sarah-blodgett-bermeo/] is a political economist and associate professor of public policy and political science in the Sanford School at Duke University. She directs Duke’s Program on Climate-Related Migration. [https://dcid.sanford.duke.edu/climate-migration/] * Abrahm Lustgarten is a ProPublica reporter. [https://www.propublica.org/people/abrahm-lustgarten] His new book, On The Move,The Overheating Earth and the Uprooting of America, [https://us.macmillan.com/books/9780374171735/onthemove] explores the connection between climate change, American lives and migration. * Pedro Santos is a Honduran farmer. * Also: voices of migrants from Guatemala Season 8 of Ways & Means is made possible thanks to support from the Office of the Provost at Duke University. Find out more about the Duke Climate Commitment. [https://2022.climate.duke.edu/]

In this episode: kicking America’s multi-billion-dollar food waste habit. How tons of wasted food contribute to climate change, and how one simple change – better food date labels – just might help make a dent in the problem. This is the sixth episode in our “Climate Change Solutions” series, where we look at research-based ideas to help cool a rapidly heating planet. Guests: * Norbert Wilson, Director, Duke World Food Policy Center [https://wfpc.sanford.duke.edu/people/norbert-wilson/] * Roni Neff, Associate Professor, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health [https://publichealth.jhu.edu/faculty/1991/roni-a-neff] * Congresswoman Chellie Pingree (D-Maine) [https://pingree.house.gov/] Season 8 of Ways & Means is made possible thanks to support from the Office of the Provost at Duke University. Find out more about the Duke Climate Commitment. [https://2022.climate.duke.edu/]

In this episode of Ways & Means – New research into how solar mini-grids could change lives for farmers in Ethiopia, and why that matters for the climate as a whole. This is the fifth episode in our Climate Change Solutions series, where we look at surprising answers to the question of what we can do to help cool a rapidly heating planet. Guests: * Jonathan Phillips, Director, James E. Rogers Energy Access Project [https://energyaccess.duke.edu/] at Duke University * Rahel Bekele, Postdoctoral Associate at Duke University’s Sanford School of Public Policy, DREAM Project [https://energyaccess.duke.edu/distributed-renewable-energy-agriculture-modalities-dream/] Team Member * Marc Jeuland, faculty member at Duke Sanford School of Public Policy and Duke Global Health Institute, Principal investigator DREAM Project [https://energyaccess.duke.edu/distributed-renewable-energy-agriculture-modalities-dream/] * Resources, Credits, Transcript  [https://waysandmeansshow.org/2023/03/30/s8e5-water-fields-solar/] Season 8 of Ways & Means is made possible thanks to support from the Office of the Provost at Duke University. Find out more about the Duke Climate Commitment. [https://2022.climate.duke.edu/]