{"id":4686,"date":"2023-12-06T14:44:51","date_gmt":"2023-12-06T14:44:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/waysandmeansshow.org\/?p=4686"},"modified":"2024-04-26T14:04:37","modified_gmt":"2024-04-26T14:04:37","slug":"s8e8-goodbye-cloud-factory","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/waysandmeansshow.org\/2023\/12\/06\/s8e8-goodbye-cloud-factory\/","title":{"rendered":"S8E8 Goodbye, Cloud Factory"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In this episode of the Ways &amp; Means podcast: how a crusade shut down a coal-fired Chicago power plant for good. What the closing of that plant meant for children\u2019s health and the environment. And what it didn\u2019t mean.<\/p>\n<p>This is the eighth and final episode in our \u201cClimate Change Solutions\u201d series, where we look at research-based ideas to help cool a rapidly heating planet.<\/p>\n<p><iframe title=\"Goodbye Cloud Factory by Sanford School @ Duke\" width=\"500\" height=\"400\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"no\" src=\"https:\/\/w.soundcloud.com\/player\/?visual=true&#038;url=https%3A%2F%2Fapi.soundcloud.com%2Ftracks%2F1683751623&#038;show_artwork=true&#038;maxheight=750&#038;maxwidth=500\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<h2>Guests<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Kimberly Wasserman is Exeutive Director of the Little Village Environmental Justice Organization, and past winner of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.goldmanprize.org\/recipient\/kimberly-wasserman\/\">Goldman Environmental Prize.<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/sanford.duke.edu\/profile\/sarah-komisarow\/\">Sarah Komisarow<\/a> is Assistant Professor of Economics and Public Policy at Duke University.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.emilypakhtigian.com\/\">Emily Pakhtigian<\/a> is<span class=\"C9DxTc \"> a former PhD student in public policy at Duke, now Assistant Professor at the <\/span><span class=\"C9DxTc aw5Odc \">Sc<\/span><span class=\"C9DxTc aw5Odc \">hool of Public Policy at Penn State University<\/span><span class=\"C9DxTc \">.<\/span><\/li>\n<li>Youki Terada is Editor at Edutopia from the George Lucas Educational Foundation.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Resources<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/waysandmeansshow.org\/subscribe\/\">Subscribe to Ways &amp; Means<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/waysandmeansshow.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/30\/2023\/12\/S8E8-Goodbye-Cloud-Factory-Transcript.pdf\">Read the transcript<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Review the study:<a href=\"https:\/\/www.edworkingpapers.com\/ai20-290\"> Are Power Plant Closures a Breath of Fresh Air? Local Air Quality and School Absences.<\/a><\/li>\n<li>The study featured in this episode was part of a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.edutopia.org\/article\/10-most-significant-education-studies-2020\">top 10 list of significant studies<\/a> that Edutopia compiled.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/2022.climate.duke.edu\/\">Find out more about the Duke Climate Commitment<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Thank you<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Jackson Roach provided reporting from Chicago.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.joyliu.org\/\">Duke student Joy Liu<\/a>\u00a0designed the artwork for the season.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><em>Season 8 of Ways &amp; Means is made possible thanks to support from the Office of the Provost at Duke University. Find out more about\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/2022.climate.duke.edu\/\">the Duke Climate Commitment.<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Climate Change Solutions Series 8: What the closing of a Chicago power plant did and didn&#8217;t meant for one community.<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/waysandmeansshow.org\/2023\/12\/06\/s8e8-goodbye-cloud-factory\/\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">S8E8 Goodbye, Cloud Factory<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":4687,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"pgc_meta":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[50,52,39],"homepage-visibility":[60],"class_list":["post-4686","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-environment-energy-policy","tag-health-policy","tag-social-policy","homepage-visibility-visible","ratio-natural","entry"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v23.8 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>S8E8 Goodbye, Cloud Factory - Ways &amp; Means<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"What the closing of a Chicago plant meant for children\u2019s health and the environment. 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