Podcast - The Triple Point Newsletter & Podcast (Page 2)

Episode 16 - Weathering the Built Environment

Flooding, storm surge, temperature and wind loads on buildings, air quality along transportation corridors, environmental impacts to communications infrastructure, and so much more have trillions of dollars of impacts every year on the built environment.

Episode 15 - Global Water Security

Sep 26, 2022 Podcast Water Water Security Water Quality

Mike Gremillion and Dr. Kate Brauman are leading the Univ. of Alabama's Global Water Security Center to make water data, both domestically and internationally, more available and especially more accessible for governments, industry, and communities to make more informed water management decisions.

Episode 14 - Weather and Climate in Agriculture

Sep 19, 2022 Podcast Agriculture Food Security Climate Change

Human population has exploded since the shift to agrarian societies 12,000 years ago with agriculture improving food availability. Short- and long-range weather predictions aid the agriculture industry, and climate change may cause us to rethink how and where we get and grow our food in the future.

Episode 13 - Mining the Weather Gap

Sep 8, 2022 Podcast Mining Supply Chain

The mining and supply chain industries are growing as demand for renewables heats up and with companies exploring their supply chain weaknesses after COVID. More work is needed to provide end-to-end supply chain environmental analysis to map weather risks along each link of the supply chain.

Episode 12 - Weather in the Line of Fire (Part II: Energy Under Fire)

Sep 1, 2022 Podcast Wildfires Energy Utilities Climate Change Renewables

We have three main prongs contributing to more destructive fires: first is unfortunately our fire management to put out every fire, second is encroachment of large numbers of people into the wildland urban interface, and third is the changing climate. It's not an easy question to solve for sure.