Episode 15

The Carbon Almanac Collective - The Origin Story of 'The Carbon Almanac'

SUMMARY

The Carbon Connection is one of four podcasts on The Carbon Almanac Podcast Network. Today we listen to the podcast that launched the entire network.

The Carbon Almanac Collective features conversations with some of the people who helped write The Carbon Almanac.

In this episode, we get to learn from:

Seth Godin, founding editor of The Carbon Almanac.

Niki Papadopoulos, Editor in Chief of Portfolio, the imprint of Penguin Random House that published the book,

And Jennifer Myers Chua, the founder and Executive Producer of The Carbon Almanac Podcast Network.

In this episode, we learn how Seth Godin put an idea into action, how he created a network of contributors, and how he and Niki worked together to publish The Carbon Almanac.

CONTRIBUTORS

Special Acknowledgment: 

The Carbon Collective Podcast Team

  • Executive Producer: Jennifer Myers Chua
  • Editor: Sam Schuffenecker
  • Production Team: Leekei Tang and Barbara Orsi

Episode Producer: Tania Marien

Music: Cool Carbon Instrumental, Paul Russell, Musicbed

Episode Art: Jennifer Myers Chua

Network Voiceover: Olabanji Stephen

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When it comes to the climate, we don’t need more marketing or anxiety. We need established facts and a plan for collective action.

The climate is the fundamental issue of our time, and now we face a critical decision. Whether to be optimistic or fatalistic, whether to profess skepticism or to take action. Yet it seems we can barely agree on what is really going on, let alone what needs to be done. We urgently need facts, not opinions. Insights, not statistics. And a shift from thinking about climate change as a “me” problem to a “we” problem.

The Carbon Almanac is a once-in-a-lifetime collaboration between hundreds of writers, researchers, thinkers, and illustrators that focuses on what we know, what has come before, and what might happen next. Drawing on over 1,000 data points, the book uses cartoons, quotes, illustrations, tables, histories, and articles to lay out carbon’s impact on our food system, ocean acidity, agriculture, energy, biodiversity, extreme weather events, the economy, human health, and best and worst-case scenarios. Visually engaging and built to share, The Carbon Almanac is the definitive source for facts and the basis for a global movement to fight climate change.

This isn’t what the oil companies, marketers, activists, or politicians want you to believe. This is what’s really happening, right now. Our planet is in trouble, and no one concerned group, corporation, country, or hemisphere can address this on its own. Self-interest only increases the problem. We are in this together. And it’s not too late to for concerted, collective action for change.