‘Getting Warmer With Kal Penn’ Explores Solutions to the Climate Crisis
Each week, the actor and former White House aide digs into new developments in the fight against global warming—with a dose of humor and optimism.
Why are the recycling symbols on plastic cups misleading? How does the carbon credit market work? What’s the future of water in a drought-ridden world? Each week, actor and former White House aide Kal Penn will tackle questions like these as part of Getting Warmer With Kal Penn, a new show debuting on Bloomberg Originals on Feb. 1.
For Getting Warmer’s first season, Penn spent weeks on the road meeting innovators, researchers, community leaders and entrepreneurs who are focused on developing new energy sources and spearheading low-carbon technology. In Texas, he talks to self-declared “crypto cowboys” who claim Bitcoin mining can help stabilize the state’s electric grid. In Nevada, Penn visits a company attempting to build America’s first closed-loop supply chain for electric vehicles. In New York, he explores the urban designs proposed to save the city from the next Superstorm Sandy. From recycled wastewater to regenerative agriculture, Getting Warmer breaks down how countries across the world are trying to solve problems caused by the climate crisis.