Waste Not WHY Not
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Waste Not WHY Not
Waste Not Why Not (WNWN) is a podcast on climate and sustainability from Ghost Island Media in Taiwan. Debuted on Earth Day in 2019, it's hosted by Nature N8 (Nate Maynard), a sustainability consultant working on energy, ocean and waste. Media partner at AAAS Annual Meetings in 2020 and 2021. Recogn...
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69. Finale: Our last episode (for now)
One fine day in December 2018, Nate Maynard and Emily Y. Wu met over a coffee in downtown Taipei. The two talked about podcasting and sustainability....
68. Live from COP28, Part 3
For this final part of our COP28 mini-series, Nature N8 attends his last day at COP28. He chats with Tanmatra Bhanti, Manager of Policy & Partnerships...
67. Live from COP28, Part 2
Nature N8 spends another day at COP28 in Dubai where he continues to go behind the scenes giving his thoughts, explaining some of the cool exhibits, a...
66. Live from COP28, Part 1
Skip to 4:00 minutes for Nate live from Dubai! Go behind the scenes at COP28 with Nate where he gives his thoughts, what he hopes to see, and what coo...
65. Regrowing Hope with Tony Rinaudo, the “Forest Maker”
Tony Rinaudo is an Australian agronomist widely known as the “forest maker”. He's lived and worked in Africa for decades where he put into a forest re...
64. A Vegan Story (by students at Minerva University)
Today’s piece is guest-produced by students at Minerva University - a four-year, US accredited college where the students are on semester-abroads all...
63. Lunar New Year updates from Ghost Island Media
Happy lunar new year from all of us at Ghost Island Media! At time of this new years greetings recording, we didn't know yet of the mass shooting in M...
62. Combating Climate Anxiety with Ocean Mindfulness (Joshua Sam Miller, Sounds Of the Ocean)
Joshua Sam Miller is a musician, a filmmaker, a conservationist, a yogi, and a collector of ocean sounds and peoples. He’s performed at COP as well as...
61. Dispatch from Energy Taiwan
Last month, Taiwan’s largest green energy event took place in Taipei connecting the domestic renewable energy industries with their international coun...
60. N8 Take: Everything on Fire Everywhere (But we still have books)
The climate crisis came into full view this summer as countries across Europe experienced record-high temperatures in July. In the UK, a train track c...
59. A Game Show! Circular Economy with Double Dribble, REnato Lab, AIT
Double Dribble is a fashion & accessories brand that upcycles basketballs. The founders come from product design, but they’re now trying to design a n...
58. Coral Resilience: Shashank Keshavmurthy (Academia Sinica)
The ocean temperature is rising, and that’s killing corals. But scientists are finding out that some corals can resist climate change. So if we wanted...
57. Why care about corals (Ep 3)
A new, knowledge-filled, episode on corals is coming your way, but to prepare you for it, we bring you an old episode to catch you up to speed. Happy...
56. Solar Energy Investment 101 with Mark Oei (Kellogg) and Calvin Cheng (PGE Taiwan)
Solar is - in some places in the world - the cheapest energy, even cheaper than coal and oil with fossil fuel subsidies. Solar is inexpensive, inoffen...
55. EV dirt bikes, supercars, space: Azizi Tucker (Graft EV)
From building dirt bikes to supercars, to something that may or may not be on Mars right now, Azizi Tucker has done it all. Being environmentally cons...
54. Green Buildings with Vivian Loftness (CMU), Lee Carnell (AIT)
What does “good” look like? And what does “wonderful” look like? What does a “wonderful green building” look like? How do they make us happier?
...
53. One more week
Taiwan's seeing an uptick of COVID the past two weeks. And while that's happening, our new season launch is pushed to May 3. In today's home recording...
New season coming on April 22
As promised, we’ve new episodes coming to you, starting April 22, Earth Day, aka our third anniversary! Get ready for a 5-part mini series with the Am...
52. Circular Economy 101 by Angela (Mandarin episode 循環經濟)
Angela Chao was a rising senior at National Taiwan Univ (NTU) when she made this episode for “In Training 小鬼登島” - a Ghost Island Media program for...
51. N8 installs solar panels
California is leading the United States into the solar panel revolution. And spoilers: it’s actually quite boring. Or at least, that's what an OG envi...
50. N8's back in San Diego
N8's visiting home in San Diego!
Don't worry though, the show's not ending, and he promised he will write us regularly.
For other enviro...
49. Sustainable menstrual products
This week, we bring back Emily Cardinali on the show! She was our very first editor, and she had really wanted to report on sustainable menstrual prod...
48. Isabel Aagaard (LastObject) on Sustainable Design
We don’t all have to be sustainability consultants in order to save the environment. You can keep doing what you’re good at - and apply your expertise...
47. "Taiwan's Green Parties": Dafydd Fell (SOAS University of London)
Today’s show is a cross over with The Taiwan Take.
Taiwan’s next referendum will soon vote on activating the nation’s fourth nuclear plant, as w...
46. En-ROADS, a climate simulation
Do you enjoy gaming? Do you enjoy surviving our climate apocalypse? Well, good news! You can enjoy both at the same time!
Last fall, Nature N8...
45. Is Seaspiracy worth seaing? (Not debunking)
Nature N8 is too old and tired to debunk any more bad environmental hogwash baloney. So he’s definitely not debunking Seaspiracy, the new 2021 Netflix...
40. Covid-19 is NOT Climate Change
N8’s noticing some viral trends on Twitter, again. This time, media pieces are comparing COVID-19 to Climate Change. (Spoilers: they’re not comparable...
39. Dr. Jasmine Clark (Georgia State Representative, US) at AAAS 2021
Representative Dr. Jasmine Clark of Georgia is a microbiologist who organized the March for Science in Atlanta and was part of the following wave of s...
38. We dig into e-waste (CEWS, Corporate eWaste Solutions)
Surprise! Nature N8 embarks on yet another field trip—this time to a waste recycling facility. Specifically, an electronic waste facility. If you’re r...
37. Solar energy is finally the cheapest in history?
*in some cases.
Here’s another short(er) episode where N8 talks about whatever’s in the news!
The International Energy Agency’s annual rep...
36. Smart windows, happy brains? Piers MacNaughton (View, Inc.)
Nature N8 looks into a smart windows company: View, to chat with Piers MacNaughton. Piers is the Director of Health Strategy at View, a Research Assoc...
35. Will K-pop and anime become carbon neutral?
Nature N8 gives a quick quip about recent news that other Asian countries are going “carbon neutral,” specifically: China, Japan, and South Korea. N8...
34. N8’s taking a break! (from pollution)
N8’s currently AFK on a trip to Taitung!
But don’t worry, we’re still working on episodes while he’s gone, and you can expect more newsletters...
33. Ocean Economics: Jason Scorse (Center for the Blue Economy)
Jobs? In this apocalypse? It’s more likely than you think. It’ll also be more likely if we would just PAY ATTENTION to the ocean. That’s what Dr. Jaso...
32. "Nature of Nature": Dr. Enric Sala (National Geographic explorer-in-residence)
Nature N8 speaks with Dr. Enric Sala about his new book: "The Nature of Nature - Why We Need the Wild", which lays out precisely how we are integrated...
31. "Two Trees Make a Forest": Jessica J. Lee (author)
"Two Trees Make a Forest" is a mix of nature writing and memoir, that follows the narrator Jessica J. Lee through Taiwan’s landscape and history. Born...
30. Tiny Batteries: Antonio Baclig (Stanford U)
Renewable energy is the future. But before we get there, we still need to figure out how to store renewable energy properly — and there are a billion...
29. Inside a food lab: Mattson (San Francisco)
Mattson is a food innovation company that creates food for almost all of our favorite grocery stores and restaurants. N8 grabs a bite with Mattson’s f...
28. Lydia Zepeda (UW–Madison) on Sustainable Food (Live at AAAS 2020)
Zepeda is a Professor Emeritus of University of Wisconsin-Madison and an expert on food systems. She gives us a taste of everything food-related from...
27. Life after CSR: Christine Bader ("The Life I Want")
Nature N8 sits down with Christine Bader, former head of CSR for Amazon, and before that, a long-term employee at BP. What is it like working for gian...