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Climate of Change with Cate Blanchett and Danny Kennedy

By: Cate Blanchett, Danny Kennedy
Narrated by: Danny Kennedy, Cate Blanchett
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Please note: this series contains adult language and themes.

Actor and environmental campaigner Cate Blanchett and clean technology expert Danny Kennedy explore eco-anxiety, optimism and hope in the face of climate change.

The two long-term friends take listeners around the world to hear from the most exciting green energy initiatives addressing the climate crisis. From a Navajo solar farm in the Arizona desert, to renewable technology in Filipino fishing, and ideas that could transform the global fashion industry; Cate and Danny offer uplifting stories of ingenuity and resilience.

Along the way, they interview some of the world’s leading authors and thought leaders to discuss how humankind can tackle our biggest environmental challenge. It’s the podcast about climate change that gives you hope…hopefully.

Featuring an exclusive soundtrack by Grammy Award-winning electronic artist Imogen Heap and biologist Dan O'Neill.

An Audible Original podcast, created and produced by Dirty Films in association with StoryHunter.

©2022 Audible, Ltd. (P)2022 Audible, Ltd. Earth Sciences Science

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Episodes
  • Ep. 1: The Sooner the Better

    Ep. 1: The Sooner the Better
    Apr 14 2022
    Cate and Danny seek advice from former President of Ireland, Mary Robinson about how to become 'prisoners of hope'. Social historian Rutger Bregman tells us why we should be more positive about humankind and we travel to the Philippines to meet entrepreneur Jeraiza Molina bringing clean energy to night fisherfolk.
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    36 mins
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  • Ep. 2: The Disruptive Decade

    Ep. 2: The Disruptive Decade
    Apr 14 2022

    Cate and Danny chat with HRH Prince William about his ambitious Earthshot Prize and hear about some of the ground-breaking solutions from the 2021 Earthshot Finalists and Winners. Other guests include economic thought leader and author Tony Seba and Agamemnon Otero, who is transforming communities and train platforms across London.

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    37 mins
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  • Ep. 3: Collective Urge

    Ep. 3: Collective Urge
    Apr 14 2022

    This episode explores our collective urge to harness the power of the sun over the ages. Navajo Power is bringing solar energy to the Navajo Nation, whilst being a force for social good in native lands. And Katy Milkman explores how we can change our behaviour to combat climate change.
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    31 mins
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Inspiring initiatives


The 2020s will be the fastest, deepest, most disruptive decade in history, in energy, transportation, food and agriculture information and materials. With cascading ripple effects across all sectors of the economy, from finance to healthcare.

- Tony Seba, Author, Entrepreneur, Academic
Climate of Change with Cate Blanchett and Danny Kennedy

Meet the hosts

Cate Blanchett
An internationally acclaimed, Academy award-winning actor, producer, artistic director, and humanitarian, Cate is a Global Goodwill Ambassador for UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency, and a lifetime member of the Australian Conservation Foundation. Cate is a strong supporter of the Australian Wildlife Conservancy and received a Crystal Award at the World Economic Forum in Davos for her work with UNHCR. In 2012, Cate was awarded the Chevalier de l’Ordre des Arts et des Lettres by the French Minister of Culture and has presided over the festival juries in Cannes and Venice. She has received Honorary Doctorates of Letters from three universities as well as the Companion of the Order of Australia in the General Division in recognition of her continued advocacy for the arts as well as humanitarian and environmental causes.

Currently, Cate is in pre-production for the Apple series Disclaimer directed by Alfonso Cuaron, in which she will star and executive produce. Recently Cate wrapped production for the Todd Field-directed feature Tar, in which she will also star and executive produce, as well as Del Toro’s Pinocchio. She stars in Guillermo Del Toro’s Nightmare Alley, as well as Adam McKay’s film, Don't Look Up. Alongside Andrew Upton (with whom she was co-CEO and Artistic Director of the Sydney Theatre Company from 2008 - 2014), she is the co-Founder and Principal of film and television production company Dirty Films.

Danny Kennedy
Danny is CEO of New Energy Nexus, connecting entrepreneurs to capital to build an abundant clean energy economy that benefits all. NEX is a platform organisation for funds and incubators, with chapters in ten countries. He oversees the CalSEED.fund for early-stage companies in California plus the CalTestBed initiative with the University of California. He is an adviser to Young Greentech Entrepreneurs in China with the Asia Society and is Chair of the Board of Third Derivative, a program with RMI building the world’s largest climatetech accelerator.

Danny co-founded Sungevity in 2007, the company that created remote solar design, and Powerhouse, an incubator and fund in Oakland, CA. He was the first backer of Mosaic, the $3B solar loan provider, and remains on the Board of Powerhive, a solar utility in Kenya. He was a founding Director of Sunergise, out of Fiji and EnergyLab Australia. He is a Director of the Epic Institute and an adviser to Solar Philippines. He authored Rooftop Revolution: How Solar Power Can Save Our Economy – and Our Planet – from Dirty Energy in 2012. Prior to being an entrepreneur and investor he worked at Greenpeace and other NGOs on climate & energy from 1989.

A documentary with a stunning soundscape

Alongside the stories of ingenuity and resilience discussed in Climate of Change we hope you'll enjoy the soundtrack created by Grammy award-winning electronic music artist Imogen Heap and wildlife sound producer Dan O’Neill.

Imogen Heap


As a self-produced composer, recording artist and tech enthusiast for over 20 years, Imogen Heap has multiple awards under her belt, her own independent music label and three honorary doctorates. Never sitting still, she has developed music gestureware MI·MU gloves and an integrated digital ID solution, The Creative Passport, to empower music makers to be the change toward a fair and flourishing music ecosystem. She has released under-the-skin hits such as Hide and Seek for grown-ups to The Happy Song for babies, composed the music for the Harry Potter and The Cursed Child stage show and is currently building her own AI system.

Imogen is an artist’s artist, an entrepreneur, and a mother and is also an advisory board member for the Creative Industries Federation, a director of FAC and has collaborated with Ariana Grande, Taylor Swift, Jeff Beck, Nitin Sawhney, Jon Hopkins & many more.

Dan O'Neill

Dan O'Neill is a wildlife television presenter, film director, zoologist and LGBTQIA+ activist. After working internationally as an expedition researcher and video journalist, he joined the BBC’s Natural History Unit, presenting for BBC Earth.

He has since directed and presented a number of projects from finding snow leopards in the remote mountains of Central Asia and filming jaguars deep in the Amazon Rainforest, to traveling into the red zone of Mindanao Island, Philippines to learn the story of the world's most endangered eagles. To date, Dan’s digital films have accumulated millions of views across platforms. His new series Dan O’Neill Investigates launches summer 2022 on BBC Earth YouTube.

Dan founded the UK’s first touring wildlife film festival, Wilderland, which, after a sell-out UK tour in 2019, will return for autumn 2022. Furthermore, he is an advocate for increased LGBTQIA+ representation in STEM careers and wildlife television, for which he was named one of Attitude Magazine’s 101 Global Trailblazers in 2021. In 2022, Dan begins shooting his first international broadcast wildlife series, filming some of the world’s most iconic species across three continents.

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I loved this series. It was highly (and gently) educational and gave me a renewed sense of hope and purpose.

uplifting

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This podcast was fascinating, so good I didn't want it to end. I can't wait until for the next one.

Fascinating

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Very useful series but with interviews only lasting several sentences, and then repeated perhaps by the hosts, I didn’t get enough to understand the key messages.

It’s very headline driven trying to cover a wide range of topics.

I’m left with less clarity because the projects seemed pilot stage or small, rather than large scale impacts that we need.

Left confused after listening.

Interviews lack detail, confusing in general

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we have been waiting too long for possitivr news, real world stories of people making a difference and this show brings it in spades

well done Kate and Dan

kudos 👏

Finally some possitive news!

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I was blown away by how good this series was and in particular it's two presenters who were funny, erudite and passionate about this issue. The positive examples they cite are inspiring but so too is the strong suggestion that these are business opportunities for enlightened entrepreneurs and the rest of us to invest in.
really looking forward to second series 😊👍

the reinstallation of hope re Climate Change

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Informative and inspirational, and definitely full of hope. Showing a way through the eco anxiety in an accessible and entertaining podcast. I can't recommend this enough.

Brilliant!

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Loved this! A really accessable listen, with interesting and insightful topics, on what is the most important subject of our time. Climate change.

Great! Easy listen to a difficult subject.

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I have enjoyed hearing the positive rather than the boom sayers. A light at the end of the tunnel is always good.

Aid to fear

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It's very useful, and thank you for the Series 2. I listened it every morning.

I love the content and the voice of the hosts

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Long on rhetoric and short on reality. So focused on emphasising positives that it’s dangerously complacent. It reminds me of the musicians playing on the deck of the sinking Titanic - very touching, very compassionate but useless when the bottom of the ship has a gaping hole in it.
Unless we quickly accept the simple fact that the human population exceeds our planet’s sustainable limit and find a way to curb our instinct to keep increasing the population overload, we will ensure our own extinction.

Missed opportunity

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