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2025-11-19What’s the deal with indoor air quality?
A conversation with Dr. Georgia Lagoudas. Environmentalism has typically focused on outdoor air quality, but climate change is pushing more people indoors more of the time, even as airborne pathogens and wildfire smoke challenge indoor air quality. I discuss the fight for better indoor air with Dr. Georgia Lagoudas, who recently coordinated a global pledge -
2025-11-19What’s the Deal with Indoor Air Quality? A Conversation with Georgia Lagoudas
This document is a podcast transcript from the Volts podcast discussing indoor air quality, featuring Dr. Georgia Lagoudas, a biosecurity expert and Senior Fellow at Brown University's Pandemic Center. The conversation covers why indoor air quality has been historically overlooked compared to outdoor air, its growing importance in the context of climate change and pandemics, and a Global Pledge for Healthy Indoor Air launched at the United Nations in September 2025. Note: this document does not contain content related to Sea-Tac Airport noise policy. -
What’s up with electric aviation?
What’s up with electric aviation? Jun 19, 2024 Volts 1000s of subscribers A newsletter, podcast, & community focused on the technology, politics, and policy of decarbonization. In your inbox once or twice a week. In this episode, CEO Kyle Clark of BETA Technologies walks us through the details of how to design, build, and operate -
Volts – What’s Going On With Biofuels?
Although the article (and the evidence) on biofuels is clear, the subject of aviation comes up in the last eight minutes of the podcast. And it is agreed that aviation (and perhaps marine) are the only defensible uses of biofuels. However, there is a ceiling--the amount of biofuels that can be generated from waste materials. There is no, zero defensible use case for growing crops specifically for biofuels. In every such case, the net is a huge negative. -
2023-03-29We’re about to give billions of dollars to clean hydrogen. How should we define it?
This document discusses the debate over how to define 'clean hydrogen' as the U.S. government prepares to distribute up to $100 billion in tax credits under the Inflation Reduction Act. It explains that hydrogen is only truly clean if produced using clean electricity through a process called electrolysis, and that the IRS must decide how strict the standards should be. Experts warn that overly lax definitions could inadvertently increase greenhouse gas emissions rather than reduce them.