Interviews

Power Metal

Mining and the Clean Energy Paradox | NPR Marketplace

The minerals tech can’t do without | BBC Tech Life

The toxic tradeoffs of a fully electric future | NPR Think

Parsing the global plastic pollution problem | NPR’s 1A

‘Power Metal’ Examines the Cost of Our Battery-Powered Lives | KQED Forum

Minimizing Damage as Mining for Critical Minerals Ramps Up | Columbia Energy Exchange

Vince Beiser and Michael Castleman | Bookish

Is Recycling a Scam? | Magnetic North Substack

After Words with Vince Beiser | C-SPAN

Vince Beiser on the Race for the Resources That Will Shape the Future | The Diplomat

The HC Commodities Podcast

Dirty Electric Cars | The Loh Down on Science

The Global Race For Critical Metals! | Fully Charged Podcast

Journalist Vince Beiser writes about the resources that will shape the future in new book “Power Metal” | The Roundtable


General

American Greed, CNBC


The World in a Grain

TEDx talk

Wilson Center

Blood, Sand, Rocks, and Roots: A Scientific Look at the Elements That Create Our World | Los Angeles Times Festival of Books

The story of sand and why it’s important to our lives | Global News

High demand for sand has spurred a global black market for it | BNN Bloomberg

The Man Who builds Beaches | Science Friday

Efecto Naim

The Battle For The Beach | 1A

The Story Of Sand In ‘The World In A Grain’ | Weekend Edition, NPR

Is the world running out of sand? | BBC Newshour

The precious resource of sand | BBC video

The Guardian (segment starts at 21:58)

Sand mining ‘violence is at its worst in India, Kenya and Gambia’ | BBC

Vince Beiser talks about desertification in China and how the government is fighting it | CGTV

The Global Sand Crisis Seminars | Northwestern