RADIO AND PODCASTS

2024

The Dig Morbid Symptoms w/ Gabe Winant, Amna Akbar, and Thea Riofrancos

Macrodose The Future of Global Capitalism w/ James Meadway, Asad Rehman, and Thea Riofrancos

Novara Novara FM: Clean Energy Is Already Terraforming the Earth w/ Thea Riofrancos

2023

Volts Decarbonizing US transportation with an eye toward global justice

Marketplace (NPR) E-SUVs may be popular, but are they sustainable?

Weekend Edition (NPR) The hidden environmental costs of transitioning to electric vehicles

Outside/In The Race to Net Zero: building a car-free future and The Race to Net Zero: will EVs get us there fast enough?

2022

Tech Won’t Save Us Electric Vehicles Are Driving a Mining Boom

Business Daily (BBC) Growing opposition to mining in Panama

Upstream The Green Transition, Part 1: The Problem with Green Capitalism

Upstream The Green Transition Part 2: A Green Deal for the People

Know Your Enemy A New Pink Tide? (w/ David Adler)

New Climate Capitalism Mining for clean energy: fact, fiction and misinformation

Science Friday (NPR) An Oregon Lithium Deposit Could Help Power Clean Energy Tech

Trash Future Lithium Rush ft. Thea Riofrancos

Storytelling Animals Resource Radicals: Thea Riofrancos on Democracy, Our Extractive Economy, and Indigenous Resistance

The Inquiry (BBC) Do we have enough lithium to power the future?

2021

A World To Win with Grace Blakeley Post-Extractivist Green Transitions: An Interview with Thea Riofrancos

For The Wild Thea Riofrancos on Planetary Perspectives of Green Energy

Upstream Thea Riofrancos on Climate Change and a Green New Deal

How We Survive (Marketplace) The Necessary Evil

All Things Considered (NPR) Ecuador Chooses Conservative Banker As Its Next President

The Dig Organizing DSA’s PRO Act Campaign

The Dig Resource Radicals with Thea Riofrancos

New Books in Political Science Thea Riofrancos, "Resource Radicals: From Petro-Nationalism to Post-Extractivism in Ecuador"

Long Reads/Jacobin Radio Long Reads: Thea Riofrancos on Biden, the Green New Deal, and the Climate Movement After COVID-19

Outside/In (New Hampshire Public Radio) The Lithium Gold Rush

2020

Tech Won’t Save Us We Can’t Talk About Tech Without Talking About Resources, with Thea Riofrancos

Pod Damn America Tyranny Of The Climate Czar

The Dig Planet to Win with Thea Riofrancos and Daniel Aldana Cohen