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Growing Impact

Penn State Institute of Energy and the Environment

Growing Impact explores cutting-edge projects of Penn State researchers and scientists who are solving some of the world's most challenging energy and environmental issues.

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60 episodes

  1. Can plants detect PFAS? 22:47
  2. Plastic recycling with coal 19:58
  3. Resilient power grid planning 22:45
  4. Managing India's groundwater crisis 25:21
  5. Microplastics in the marsh 20:34
  6. Decoding wildfire smoke forecasts 17:07
  7. Energy saving smart windows 18:42
  8. Indigenous communities and Amazon oil 26:32
  9. Climate change, extreme heat, and infant health 18:40
  10. Cooling high-performance buildings 26:06
  11. Measuring nitrous oxide emissions 24:42
  12. PFAS and human health 25:03
  13. Seismic sensing with fiber optics 23:22
  14. Low-carbon cement from farm waste 26:12
  15. Feeding a changing world 31:17
  16. Visualizing flood risk 23:00
  17. Converting CO2 into fuel 22:48
  18. Growing Impact: Season 5 2:45
  19. Floating offshore wind energy 29:33
  20. Evaluating lighting efficiency 22:10
  21. Underground carbon storage 38:41
  22. Investigating thawing permafrost 28:52
  23. Youth climate leadership 25:44
  24. Low-cost PFAS filtration 30:47
  25. Community-powered solar farming 35:17
  26. Climate, crops, and the Colorado River 34:08
  27. Contrails and Climate Change 37:09
  28. Restoring Malawi's Forests 38:34
  29. Solar-Powered Water Treatment 48:08
  30. Upcycling Plastics with Fungi 45:34
  31. Growing Impact: Season 4 2:25
  32. Flooding, Addiction, and Resilience 28:19
  33. Urban embodied carbon 11:25
  34. Cities cooled by trees 23:37
  35. Climate and health policy solutions 23:40
  36. Battery energy from waste heat 18:34
  37. Fuels from waste 22:26
  38. Cleaner community air 19:06
  39. The art of renewable energy 14:23
  40. Farms of the future 20:20
  41. Climate signals from wetlands 15:57
  42. Food-energy-water dynamics 23:04
  43. In pursuit of energy equity 21:23
  44. Vanishing tree 22:40
  45. Water's plastic problem 19:14
  46. When the levee breaks 19:29
  47. Healthy habitat hurdles 16:23
  48. One Health 20:54
  49. Visualizing history's future 16:51
  50. Got methane? 14:02