From Stony Brook University's Collaborative for the Earth, C4E Presents explores environmental science, climate change, and actionable climate solutions through engaging talks with environmental scholars and scientists. Host Heather Lynch guides listeners through environmental science issues, including marine plastics and climate attribution, to confront today's toughest climate challenges. Discover expert perspectives and solutions for a healthier planet. Learn more at stonybrook.edu/c4e/
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Mark Jacobson has spent the majority of the last two decades developing roadmaps to completely transition states to wind, water and solar renewable energies — not nuclear. Host Heather Lynch and Jacobson, a professor of civil and environmental engineering at Stanford University and co-founder of the non-profit group, The Solutions Project, with actor/activist Mark Ruffalo, spoke in November 2025.
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C4E Presents is a production of Stony Brook’s Collaborative for the Earth.
Host: Heather Lynch
Editor: J.D. Allen
Producer: Jordan Vallone
Program Manager: Jennifer Gilday
Nuclear Power ‘Baloney’ | C4E Presents #048
Season 4 · Episode 4
Tuesday, September 15, 2026 • Duration 24:07
Investigative journalist Karl Grossman has had his eye on nuclear energy since the 1970s. Grossman, an author and nationally syndicated television host turned journalism professor and co-founder of the anti-nuclear proliferation group, Beyond Nuclear, told producer J.D. Allen that the shift to nuclear power to fight climate change is just baloney — a result of media failures since the fight to stop the Shoreham Nuclear Power Plant on Long Island.
Building Nuclear Energy In The U.S. | C4E Presents #047
Season 4 · Episode 3
Tuesday, September 8, 2026 • Duration 25:23
Steven Biegalski closely monitored the development of the United State's first nuclear power facility in the last decade at Plant Vogtle near Augusta, Georgia. Host Heather Lynch and producer J.D. Allen spoke with Biegalski, chair of the Nuclear and Radiological Engineering program and Medical Physics program at Georgia Institute of Technology, in October 2025.
More than 100 people joined students from New York University's debate team on Governors Island to argue what role nuclear energy should play in fighting climate change.
Hear the full arguments for and against going nuclear featured in C4E Presents’ director’s cut of America's Nuclear Future, a national radio broadcast special from American Public Media in early 2026.
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C4E Presents is a production of Stony Brook’s Collaborative for the Earth.
Behind The Scenes | C4E Presents #045
Season 4 · Episode 1
Tuesday, August 25, 2026 • Duration 24:59
Season 4 of C4E Presents will be a director's cut of America's Nuclear Future, a national radio broadcast special about whether the United States could have a future powered by nuclear energy.
In early 2026, the broadcast special from American Public Media was aired across nearly 20 states in cities from New York City and Atlanta to Seattle and San Diego, as well as Tucson, Des Moines, and Missoula in between.
Host Heather Lynch and J.D. Allen, the special’s lead producer and lecturer in the Department of Journalism, who also does climate communication strategy for Stony Brook University.
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America’s Nuclear Future | C4E Presents: National Special #001
Season 4 · Episode 1
Tuesday, April 21, 2026 • Duration 55:47
This special episode of Collaborative for the Earth (C4E) examines how U.S. efforts to move away from fossil fuels collide with surging electricity demand from AI and data centers, prompting companies like Microsoft, Amazon, and Google to pursue nuclear power.
Distributed by American Public Media from January through April 2026, C4E presents in its first national radio broadcast the history of nuclear energy in the United States, from Eisenhower’s 1953 “Atoms for Peace” through Three Mile Island, and changing public opinion under the Trump administration. Today, approximately 94 reactors supply just over 18% of U.S. utility-scale electricity. The narrative episode explores the restarting of shuttered plants, the promise and skepticism around small modular reactors, and shifts in energy policy as climate solutions that were discussed during an April 2025 Governor’s Island forum debate, in partnership with The New York Climate Exchange.
Ben Novak is bringing back the extinct passenger pigeon. Host Heather Lynch and Novak, program manager for the Biotechnology for Bird Conservation Program for Revive & Restore, discuss de-extinction, restoring ecosystem function by using gene editing or selective breeding to give living relatives traits needed to fill extinct species’ ecological roles, and correcting Jurassic Park misconceptions about using ancient DNA directly. Novak explains how museum specimens provide fragmented DNA for sequencing and the limits of mapping genomes, emphasizing goal-oriented trait recovery over perfect genetic identity.
Dana Golden studies energy markets and electricity transmission. Host Heather Lynch and Golden, graduate research assistant in the Graduate School at Stony Brook University, speak about why Suffolk County electricity averages much higher than the national average and how prices are set through generators, transmission constraints, and utilities. Golden explains how data-center-driven load growth raises prices and strains reliability, and supports an “all of the above” mix including nuclear and emerging geothermal.
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Fires From Afar | C4E Presents #042
Season 3 · Episode 12
Tuesday, March 10, 2026 • Duration 47:16
Health experts Mahdieh Danesh Yazdi and Nozomi Sasaki look at how climate change is increasing wildfire smoke exposure and related health risks. Host Heather Lynch, as well as Danesh Yazdi and Sasaki from Program in Public Health at Stony Brook University, discuss evidence linking airborne particles to increased mortality and cardiopulmonary impacts. They point to growing research, using large administrative datasets and local hospital data to assess impacts, that suggests wildfire smoke is more harmful than other pollution sources.
Marija Krstić, assistant professor of practice in the Department of Civil Engineering at Stony Brook University, is interested in cement production, which is a major source of global carbon emissions. Host Heather Lynch and Krstić explore the difference between cement and concrete, why steel reinforcements are essential for structural concrete, and how Portland cement – the binder, or glue in concrete production – requires high kiln temperatures, which releases CO2. Krstić explains why it is still unlikely that concrete is to be fully replaced with sustainable alternatives and changed methods in the near future.
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C4E Presents is a production of Stony Brook’s Collaborative for the Earth.
Special thanks to The New York Climate Exchange and Stony Brook’s Office of the Provost, Office of Marketing and Communications and the MS in Journalism program for their support.
For all things Stony Brook on social media: https://gosbu.co/m/social
C4E Presents is a production of Stony Brook’s Collaborative for the Earth.
Host: Heather Lynch
Editor: J.D. Allen
Producer: Jordan Vallone
Program Manager: Jennifer Gilday
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