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
Granta “Extracted Earth” (interview by Thomas Meaney)
Dissent “The Lithium Problem” (interview by Alyssa Battistoni)
Latin American Advisor Will Chile Move to Nationalize Lithium and Copper Mines? (Response to Expert Q&A)
Terrain What’s Going on?
Mining Technology New Power, Old Power Dynamics: The Battle for Land and Lithium
Viento Surb Entrevista a Thea Riofrancos: La Apuesta por un Green New Deal Radical
Revista Común Extractivismo y Anti-extractivismo En El Futuro de la Izquierda Americana. Entrevista con Thea Riofrancos
Jacobin AmErica Latina Reconstruir la Economía y Salvar el Planeta