The Climate Buzz

16/11/2025

Toyota’s first in-house battery plant outside of Japan in NC.

The Toyota battery factory in North Carolina is the only such facility outside of Japan and has a capacity of 30 GWh per year.

15/11/2025

We are excited to welcome back the Executive Director for the Center for Cultural Preservation, David Weintraub, to The Climate Buzz this Monday, 11/17, 9am-10am, on Asheville FM. David has more than twenty years of experience creating cultural programs that include concerts, festivals, forums, film screenings, and more.

On last week's episode of The Climate Buzz, we played the first half of David's latest radio documentary, FROM HELENE AND BACK – Nature’s Wake-up Call where he interviewed many who were impacted by the flooding and landslides as well as those involved in the remarkable recovery efforts. This week we will play the second half of the documentary and chat with David more about the film. We hope you can tune in this Monday on Asheville FM!

The Climate Buzz is co-hosted by Bob Hanna & Brad Rouse (Energy Savers Network). We're committed to sharing the stories, the people, the science, the challenges and the solutions for a warming planet. We hope you can tune in locally on 103.3FM and streamed at www.ashevillefm.org; you can also check out the AshevilleFM App. And don't forget to follow/like us on FB and Instagram to keep up with all the latest climate buzz!

14/11/2025

09/11/2025

The Texas-based oil giant Exxon financed right-wing think tanks to help spread climate change denial across Latin America, according to newly revealed documents published by The Guardian and DeSmog. The Exxon effort was intended to push countries in the Global South to be "less inclined" to support U.N. climate treaties.

(image: Brian Katt/Wikimedia)

09/11/2025

In the first eight months of Trump’s second term, the Justice Department filed only nine major pollution cases for the EPA, down from 53 during the same time frame of his first term.

The shift in enforcement shows the extent to which the Trump administration has reoriented the agency toward promoting economic growth. https://wapo.st/4os3LNF

08/11/2025

We are excited to welcome the Executive Director for the Center for Cultural Preservation, David Weintraub, to The Climate Buzz this Monday, 11/10, 9am-10am, on Asheville FM. David Weintraub has more than twenty years of experience creating cultural programs that include concerts, festivals, forums, film screenings, and more. In 2016, David's award-wiinning documentary film, COME HELL OR HIGH WATER, Remembering the Great Flood of 1916, tells the story of that horrific flood and the grave warning that it could it happen again. David is now releasing his radio documentary, FROM HELENE AND BACK – Nature’s Wake-up Call that focuses on Helene but also what we’ve learned from the many great floods that have hit our area for millions of years. We will playing the first half of the documentary this Monday and chat with David about the film and will play the second half of the documentary the following week. We hope you can tune in this Monday on Asheville FM!

The Climate Buzz is co-hosted by Bob Hanna & Brad Rouse (Energy Savers Network). We're committed to sharing the stories, the people, the science, the challenges and the solutions for a warming planet. We hope you can tune in locally on 103.3FM and streamed at www.ashevillefm.org; you can also check out the AshevilleFM App. And don't forget to follow/like us on FB and Instagram to keep up with all the latest climate buzz!

02/11/2025

We are excited to welcome Cheryl Orengo of the Third Act NC Coordinating Committee to The Climate Buzz this Monday, 10/6, 9am-10am, on Asheville FM. Cheryl is a mother of two daughters, a wife of 49 years, a grandmother of a small granddaughter and a tiny grandson and cares for them regularly. She is also an activist, an organizer and educator and a former Maternal Child Health Educator at the Buncombe County Health Department and after retirement with the former Mission Hospital Women’s Health Education Department. She joined the Third Act NC Coordinating Committee 3 years ago because of her family and the planet. We hope you can tune in this Monday on Asheville FM!

The Climate Buzz is co-hosted by Bob Hanna, Lisa Raleigh (RiverLink), & Brad Rouse (Energy Savers Network). We're committed to sharing the stories, the people, the science, the challenges and the solutions for a warming planet. We hope you can tune in locally on 103.3FM and streamed at www.ashevillefm.org; you can also check out the AshevilleFM App. And don't forget to follow/like us on FB and Instagram to keep up with all the latest climate buzz.

01/11/2025

25/10/2025

21/10/2025

Of the 2m flood-prone houses across the country, at least 70% have had values reduced, a new report by Climate Council and PropTrack has found

15/10/2025

Devastating situation in western Alaska, where the remnants of Typhoon Halong hit this weekend into Monday. The storm had Category 3 hurricane force winds and pushed water up the coast into homes. There are over 1,800 displaced in shelters, many of whom were rescued by helicopter. The storm has impacted 49 communities, most of which are normally accessible only by aircraft or boat, and many runways have been submerged. These are low-lying Alaska Native communities along the Yukon-Kuskokwim Delta in the southwestern part of the state, nearly 500 miles from Anchorage.

This is over Kipnuk, Alaska.

📸: Alaska National Guard

15/10/2025

The remote village of Kipnuk planned to use the money to protect against flooding. On Sunday, it was inundated.