Megan Hall

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Podcast Producer at Scientific American

Writer. Podcast producer. Dedicated to bringing clarity to complexity. Former health care reporter for Rhode Island Public Radio.

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How do we solve the climate change home insurance crisis?

1 week ago | thepublicsradio.org | Juliana Merullo |Megan Hall

Megan Hall: Welcome to Possibly, where we take on huge problems, like the future of our planet, and break them down into small questions with unexpected answers. I’m Megan Hall. Journalists, researchers and politicians have been sounding the alarm in recent months about a new industry impacted by climate change: home insurance. In the past two episodes we’ve looked in to what the problem is and how different states are approaching it.
Climate change is messing up our home insurance prices. What can states do?

2 weeks ago | thepublicsradio.org | Juliana Merullo |Megan Hall

Megan Hall: Welcome to Possibly, where we take on huge problems, like the future of our planet, and break them down into small questions with unexpected answers. I’m Megan Hall. We already know that climate change is making natural disasters more extreme and happen more often. Home insurance is supposed to help us recover from those natural disasters, but now climate change is affecting that industry, too.
How is climate change affecting home insurance? - TPR: The Public's Radio

3 weeks ago | thepublicsradio.org | Juliana Merullo |Megan Hall

Megan Hall: Welcome to Possibly, where we take on huge problems, like the future of our planet, and break them down into small questions with unexpected answers. I’m Megan Hall. You might think climate change just affects the weather or polar bears. But that’s not the case. It also creeps into our economy. For example— home insurance. Juliana Merullo and Nat Hardy from our Possibly team are here to explain.
Are people moving because of climate change?

1 month ago | thepublicsradio.org | Iman Khanbhai |Hamid Torabzadeh |Megan Hall

Megan Hall: Welcome to Possibly, where we take on huge problems like the future of our planet and break them down into small questions with unexpected answers. I’m Megan Hall. We hear a lot about climate migration—the idea that people will have to move as climate change makes some places unlivable. But is this something we’re still waiting for, or is it already happening? Our reporters, Iman Khanbhai and Hamid Torabzadeh, looked into it.
What does the Air Quality Index really mean?

1 month ago | thepublicsradio.org | Hamid Torabzadeh |Iman Khanbhai |Megan Hall

Megan Hall: Welcome to Possibly, where we take on huge problems like the future of our planet and break them down into small questions with unexpected answers. I’m Megan Hall. If you take a look at your weather app and scroll down, you’ll usually see a number for the day’s air quality. But what does that number mean? And where does it come from? We had Hamid Torabzadeh and Iman Khanbhai from our Possibly Team look into this question.
What can we learn from France about food waste?

1 month ago | thepublicsradio.org | Megan Hall |Stephen Porder

Megan Hall: Welcome to Possibly, where we take on huge problems like the future of our planet and break them down into small questions with unexpected answers. I’m Megan Hall. Here’s an interesting approach to food waste- a supermarket chain in France sells products that other stores would have thrown away. Our founder and the provost of sustainability at Brown University Stephen Porder visited one of those markets during a recent trip to Paris. He’s here to tell us more about it.
How can schools fight food waste? - TPR: The Public's Radio

2 months ago | thepublicsradio.org | Will Malloy |Christine Okulo |Megan Hall

Megan Hall: Welcome to Possibly, where we take on huge problems like the future of our planet and break them down into small questions with unexpected answers. I’m Megan Hall. When we throw away our food, it creates some big problems. First, it takes up lots of space in our landfills – more than plastic, metal, or paper. Second, when that food decomposes it creates a lot of greenhouse gasses. So, what can we do about it?
When should I charge my electric car?

2 months ago | thepublicsradio.org | Will Malloy |Megan Hall

Megan Hall: Welcome to Possibly, where we take on huge problems like the future of our planet and break them down into small questions with unexpected answers. I’m Megan Hall. Today we’ve got a question from our show’s founder Stephen Porder. Stephen and his family have an electric car, and he wants to try to reduce the greenhouse gases that come from charging that car. So he wants to know, when should he charge it? We had Nat Hardy and Will Malloy from our Possibly Team look into this.
Are geothermal networks the future of heating and cooling?

2 months ago | thepublicsradio.org | Cameron Leo |Christine Okulo |Megan Hall

Megan Hall: Welcome to Possibly, where we take on huge problems like the future of our planet and break them down into small questions with unexpected answers. I’m Megan Hall. This episode, we’re taking a look at one neighborhood in Framingham, Massachusetts. This summer, residents had their furnaces and ACs replaced with a network of pipes that get energy from the heat of the earth. The network is the first of its kind in the country.
How can hospitals cut their plastic waste?

2 months ago | thepublicsradio.org | Hamid Torabzadeh |Charlie Adams |Megan Hall

Megan Hall: Welcome to Possibly, where we take on huge problems like the future of our planet and break them down into small questions with unexpected answers. I’m Megan Hall. If you’ve ever been to a hospital, you know how much plastic there is all around. From syringes, IV bags, catheters, test kits, gloves, scalpels, the list goes on. But, there’s some good news. Some hospitals are now finding innovative ways to reduce the amount of plastic that ends up in the trash.