On Friday's "Access Utah" we feature an episode from the series "BURN: An Energy Journal" hosted by Alex Chadwick and Flora Lichtman. "The Adaptors" looks at people from all walks of life who are working to counteract energy and climate crises. Adaptors are all around us: farmers and coastal-dwellers finding new ways to work and live; scientists thinking outside the box about energy; corporate leaders bringing new technologies to market; DIY inventors dreaming up the next big thing in green living. These stories provide a window into the essence of who we are as a species - and a measure of hope that we can muster the will to tackle perhaps the biggest challenges we've ever faced.
Listen to "BURN: An Energy Journal" from "The Adaptors" at www.theadaptors.orgHere's more on the series: It is the fundamental issue of our time: Energy; where we get it; how we use it; what happens then. It powers our homes and our economy; it creates troubled alliances and disturbing divisions; it empowers and impoverishes; it enables almost all that we do and now threatens all that we have become. BURN: An Energy Journal offers specials hosted by one of public radio's most trusted journalists and master storytellers, Alex Chadwick. Alex explores our energy future through the intimate stories of visionaries of research, maverick inventors, industry insiders and concerned citizens. These personal stories help explain how and why we face an energy crisis, the dilemma of the continuing demand for energy, the realities and consequences of a mostly carbon-based industry and infrastructure, and some possible alternatives and personal/global solutions to what looks increasingly to be an ever more grim energy and climate future in the coming decades. Each BURN special follows the quest for Energy answers and the public initiative required to transition to this new energy world.
