Critical Frequency Launches Slate of Coronavirus & Climate Podcasts

This month, Critical Frequency, winner of Adweek’s “Podcast Network of the Year” in 2019, launches an ambitious slate of four podcasts that take different looks at how the current coronavirus crisis impacts and influences the ongoing climate crisis.

“I’m hearing from a lot of reporters that nothing matters other than the direct health or economic impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic,” Amy Westervelt, head of Critical Frequency, said. “But from listeners and readers I’m hearing that they’re keen to understand how all this will shape what happens on climate in the next year, and what those who are concerned about climate change should be doing while they’re cooped up at home, so we figured it was a good niche for us to fill right now.”

 

* Drilled - Season 4 “There Will Be Fraud”

Big Oil has already begun leveraging the global pandemic to pass its deregulation wishlist and secure its dominance. Given that the next decade is absolutely critical for acting on climate, the policies that get put in motion now could literally mean the world. There's never been a more important time for climate accountability reporting, and the team at Drilled, the most downloaded podcast on climate change, will keep on it, covering every move Big Oil tries to make under the cover of COVID-19.

New episodes weekly through June. Hear the first episode here.

 

* Drilled Presents: HEATED

The HEATED podcast is a 6 episode, limited-run series that shows how COVID-19 and the climate crisis cannot be separated. In a series of up-to-the-minute interviews with Bill McKibben, Mary Heglar, Anthony Rogers-Wright, Kate Aronoff and others, Emily Atkin, founder of the enormously popular HEATED newsletter, connects the dots on how two of the most pressing issues of our time are really one and the same.

New episodes every Wednesday for six weeks. Hear the first episode here.

 

* Hot Take - “Through the Looking Glass—Viewing Climate through the Lens of Coronavirus, and Vice Versa” Miniseries

With special guest hosts David Wallace-Wells, Eric Holthaus, and Dr. Samantha Montano, Hot Take hosts Mary Annaise Heglar and Amy Westervelt dig into how the coronavirus story is unfolding in ways that seem similar to the climate story, what coronavirus could teach us about climate and vice versa, where the comparisons between the two hold up and where they fall apart, and how climate grief prepared some of us to handle pandemic grief.

New episodes every other Wednesday. Hear the first episode here.

 

* No Place Like Home

How can spiritual wisdom help us through crisis, even when, especially when, it’s a real struggle? Hosts Mary Anne Hitt and Anna Jane Joyner are two Southern women, climate activists, and dear friends. On the new season “Bring the Light, they explore faith and spirituality in all its forms to wrap our arms around crises from climate to coronavirus.

New episodes every week. Hear the first few episodes here.

 

 

About Critical Frequency

Founded by journalist Amy Westervelt, Critical Frequency is one of the few all woman-owned and operated podcast networks. Our mission is to not only create compelling content, but also to provide a platform for independent creators and those who are often overlooked in mainstream media. We believe that amplifying those voices is critical — especially now.

 

About Amy Westervelt

Amy Westervelt is the founder of the Critical Frequency podcast network, and an award-winning print and audio journalist. She contributes to The Washington Post, The Nation, and The Wall Street Journal, as well as KQED, The California Report, Capital Public Radio, and many other outlets. In 2007, she won a Folio for her feature on the potential of algae as a feedstock for biofuel. In 2015 she was awarded a Rachel Carson award for "women greening journalism", in 2016 she won an Edward R. Murrow award for her series on the impacts of the Tesla Gigafactory in Nevada, and in 2019 she won the Online News Association award for “Excellence in Audio Storytelling”. As the head of Critical Frequency, she has executive produced more than a dozen podcasts, including her own show Drilled -- a true-crime podcast about climate change. Her book Forget Having It All: How America Messed Up Motherhood, and How to Fix It was published in November 2018 by Seal Press.