{"id":3507317,"date":"2025-01-15T10:44:22","date_gmt":"2025-01-15T10:44:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.resilience.org\/?p=3507317"},"modified":"2025-01-15T10:46:38","modified_gmt":"2025-01-15T10:46:38","slug":"crazy-town-episode-96-freq-flyer-tree","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.resilience.org\/stories\/2025-01-15\/crazy-town-episode-96-freq-flyer-tree\/","title":{"rendered":"Crazy Town 96. The Frequent Flyer Tree: Losing the Last Bit of Sense in the Climate Emergency"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"height:15px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div><div id=\"buzzsprout-player-16431135\"><\/div><script src=\"https:\/\/www.buzzsprout.com\/244372\/episodes\/16431135-the-frequent-flyer-tree-losing-the-last-bit-of-sense-in-the-climate-emergency.js?container_id=buzzsprout-player-16431135&#038;player=small\" type=\"text\/javascript\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><div class=\"gb-button-wrapper gb-button-wrapper-af35d9a5\">\n<a class=\"gb-button gb-button-736fa41c gb-button-text btn res-btn-blue\" href=\"https:\/\/lnk.to\/crazytownWB\">Listen on your favorite app<\/a>\n\n<a class=\"gb-button gb-button-f8db5292 gb-button-text res-btn-yellow\" href=\"\/crazy-town-podcast\/episodes\">See all episodes<\/a>\n<\/div><figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"The Frequent Flyer Tree: Losing the Last Bit of Sense in the Climate Emergency (Episode 96)\" width=\"1200\" height=\"675\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/F_uI5iBjpkk?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure><p><strong>Show Notes<\/strong><\/p><div class=\"gb-container gb-container-b18365bc\">\n<p>In the world of college sports, money talks and the volleyball team walks, er, flies 33,000 miles to play games. The NCAA, like almost everyone else, is playing games with Mother Nature. What do we expect student-athletes to gain from ignoring the climate emergency (not to mention putting their health at risk)? Who cares, as long as we can wring a few more dollars out of the TV deals &#8212; am I right?!? Jason, Rob, and Asher propose a new plan for college sports and for taking the climate emergency seriously.<br><br>Warning: This podcast occasionally uses spicy language.<\/p>\n\n<p><strong>Sources\/Links\/Notes:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Jeff Eisenberg, &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/sports.yahoo.com\/conference-realignment-has-redefined-travel-ball-135309973.html\">Conference realignment has redefined &#8216;travel ball&#8217;<\/a>,&#8221; <em>yahoo!sports<\/em>, September 11, 2024.<\/li>\n\n<li>Stanford University&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/woods.stanford.edu\/\">Woods Institute for the Environment<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/sustainability.stanford.edu\/\">Doerr School of Sustainability<\/a><\/li>\n\n<li>Stanford has the <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/List_of_NCAA_schools_with_the_most_Division_I_national_championships\">most winning NCAA program<\/a>, counting all sports. (2nd and 3rd are UCLA and USC, by far!)<\/li><\/ul>\n\n<p>FeedSpot <a href=\"https:\/\/podcast.feedspot.com\/environmental_economics_podcasts\/\">ranked <em>Crazy Town<\/em> as the #1<\/a> environmental economics podcast.<\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the world of college sports, money talks and the volleyball team walks, er, flies 33,000 miles to play games. Who cares, as long as we can wring a few more dollars out of the TV deals &#8212; am I right?!? 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