Climate Hour
Episodes
Opportunities for Climate Action Through Social And Economic Reform
01 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
CLIMATE HOUR – One of the major drivers of climate change is perpetual economic growth. Throwing things away and buying new stuff emits far more car...
How To Transition The World To A Sustainable Future
01 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
CLIMATE HOUR – A sustainable future is certainly no guarantee at this point. There are simply too many systems broken. And that’s why it’s so im...
Practical Ways To Make Your Own Homegrown National Park
01 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
CLIMATE HOUR – Nature is on everyone’s mind these days. Our news cycle is filled with the latest natural disasters, the latest political battles b...
Degrowth: The Path From Consumerism To Survival
01 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
CLIMATE HOUR – Sustainability is about finding life’s balance. Producing enough to satisfy your customers’ needs while earning enough to satisfy...
How Melting Ice Sheets Are Drowning The World
01 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
CLIMATE HOUR – Sea level rise may be climate change’s biggest long-term impact. With just today’s 1.2 degree Celsius increase in global temperat...
Reasons For Climate Denialism: How To Speak The Truth
01 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
CLIMATE HOUR – Climate issues are clearly on everyone’s minds. The constant weather disasters, disruption of our food systems, sea level threats t...
Volcanoes and Rocks: This Is The Ultimate Hard Climate Science
01 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
CLIMATE HOUR – The study of volcanoes and rocks help scientists chart our planet’s history of warming and cooling. These studies provide quantifia...
How Electric Vehicles Make Practical Sense Under Multiple Scenarios
01 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
CLIMATE HOUR – Today’s electric vehicles out-perform gas vehicles on every front. A study at Michigan's Transportation Research Institute found th...
How To Make Trees Fight Climate Change
01 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
CLIMATE HOUR – You can make trees. You can plant them, watch them grow, and they will automatically fight climate change for you. Trees are made out...
GenZ Perspectives On The World Of Climate Change
01 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
CLIMATE HOUR – Generation Z is now the world’s largest demographic group, representing over 20% of U.S. population and 25% of world population. Me...
Prospering In A Post-Climate Change World
02 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
CLIMATE HOUR – Prospering may sound like it has financial overtones, but there’s more to it than that. A prosperous life is one filled with joy an...
The Growth Of Climate Anxiety Impacts World Mental Health
01 Jan 2025
Contributed by Lukas
CLIMATE HOUR – Many people are experiencing climate-related disasters on a regular basis. This can lead to climate anxiety; a type of emotional anxi...
The Case for Climate Optimism and Green Energy Law
01 Dec 2024
Contributed by Lukas
CLIMATE HOUR – Current political trends are making it harder and harder to express climate optimism. Not only are countries failing to meet their Pa...
The Opportunities Women’s Voices Offer In World Climate Actions
01 Nov 2024
Contributed by Lukas
CLIMATE HOUR – Women are deeply effected by the climate crisis. They repeatedly demonstrate that they have the strength, ideas and skills to make cr...
How to Make Policy Work Through Collective Climate Action
01 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
CLIMATE HOUR – We as individuals know that we can do things that reduce our personal carbon footprint – things that make us healthier, more secure...
Role Of State Government In The Challenge Of Climate Change
01 Sep 2024
Contributed by Lukas
CLIMATE HOUR – What is the role of state government in the challenge of Climate Change? The scientific consensus is that global warming of over two ...
Surprising Connections Between Humans And The Natural World
01 Aug 2024
Contributed by Lukas
CLIMATE HOUR – Connections between humans and the natural world are often seen as exploitative or destructive. But scientists continue to find surpr...
Water Wars: Direct Impacts of Water Scarcity on the World
01 Jul 2024
Contributed by Lukas
CLIMATE HOUR – Clean water is essential for life, yet billions of people around the world don’t have enough water. Global warming is increasing th...
Marine Mammals: Early Warning For World Climate Survival
01 Jun 2024
Contributed by Lukas
CLIMATE HOUR – Marine mammals are the planet’s canary in a coalmine. For as the ocean goes, so goes the land and all that dwell upon it. Climate c...
The Amazing Impacts of the Little Community Orchard
01 May 2024
Contributed by Lukas
CLIMATE HOUR – A little community orchard provides an amazing number of benefits. First there’s basic carbon sequestration. Trees take carbon out ...
Value of Teaching Teachers To Be Climate Teachers
01 Apr 2024
Contributed by Lukas
CLIMATE HOUR – We’ve talked about climate education before. We’ve discussed how to teach children about climate, and we’ve talked about climat...
Reframing The Climate Conversation Now
01 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
CLIMATE HOUR – When was the last time you talked about climate issues with a friend or family member? Studies find that the majority of people are c...
How To Make Higher Education Work for Climate Change
01 Feb 2024
Contributed by Lukas
CLIMATE HOUR -- How do we prepare our college and university graduates to understand, survive and even prosper in this age of climate change? Some of ...
How Climate Change is Impacting World Forest Growth
01 Jan 2024
Contributed by Lukas
CLIMATE HOUR -- We know that deforestation, commercial farming, urban sprawl and other forms of defoliation contribute to climate change. But what abo...
Food Security, Polyforestry and NOAA’s Climate Dashboard
01 Dec 2023
Contributed by Lukas
CLIMATE HOUR -- For most of the world, food security – having enough to eat – is one of today’s greatest challenges. As climate change continues...
Ocean Warming And The Survival Of The World’s Largest Ecosystem
01 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
CLIMATE HOUR -- Oceans cover 70% of our planet’s surface. Oceans absorb 90% of the heat from global warming. They absorb 30% of the carbon dioxide p...
India’s Perspective on Climate Change
01 Oct 2023
Contributed by Lukas
CLIMATE HOUR -- India has now surpassed China as the world’s most populous nation. That’s almost one-and-a-half billion people living in an area t...
Nuclear Energy
01 Sep 2023
Contributed by Lukas
CLIMATE HOUR -- Nuclear supporters think that nuclear energy is a safe, sustainable option with zero greenhouse gas emissions, that plays an important...
Engaging With Black Communities on Climate
01 Aug 2023
Contributed by Lukas
The Climate movement is predominantly white. Many climate activists raise up Climate Equity and the importance of engaging with communities of color, ...
Climate Science and Renewable Technology
01 Jul 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Science has now demonstrated that there’s enough wind energy globally to supply the energy needs of the entire planet. Combine this with all of the ...
Strategic Defense Impacts of Climate Change
01 Jun 2023
Contributed by Lukas
If you’ve tuned in to the Climate Hour before, you’ve heard us explain that the burning of fossil fuels has led to an increase in greenhouse gases...
International Youth Climate Movement
01 May 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Young people across the world are forming networks to take positive action on climate change. Many act locally, but increasing numbers are coming toge...
Urban Farming
01 Apr 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Food is a pretty fundamental part of life. The history of the world is often defined by its farming systems, and today’s world seems defined by expe...
How To Lobby For Climate Solutions
01 Mar 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Making sustainable choices in our personal lives is our first responsibility if we want to live a healthy life and give that option to our children. B...
The Carbon Almanac
01 Feb 2023
Contributed by Lukas
The Carbon Almanac is both a book and a global community; an easily understood source of climate knowledge and an amazing example of collective action...
Sustainable Fashion
01 Jan 2023
Contributed by Lukas
The industrial sector accounts for 21% of greenhouse gas emissions, and a single industry – the fashion industry – accounts for 39% of all industr...
Teaching Children About Climate Change
01 Dec 2022
Contributed by Lukas
How do we prepare our children to live in a world filled with extreme temperatures, life-threatening storms, and collapsing food systems? How do we pr...
Plastics And Their Effect On Climate Change
01 Nov 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Plastics are made out of crude oil and natural gas, the same fossil fuels used in our homes and cars. And, because plastics can never fully disintegra...
Climate Impacts of the Inflation Reduction Act
01 Oct 2022
Contributed by Lukas
The Inflation Reduction Act of 2022 is the successor to the House-passed Build Back Better Act and is the largest piece of federal climate legislation...
Impacts of the Russo-Ukranian War on Labor’s Climate Movement
01 Sep 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Over the past few months, we’ve seen a massive realignment of global alliances and supply chains caused by Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. How is th...
Sustainable Food
01 Aug 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Food systems are responsible for 24% of global greenhouse gas emissions and is the world’s largest consumer of land and fresh water. Personal food c...
The International Sustainable Fashion Movement
01 Jul 2022
Contributed by Lukas
The clothing you are wearing right now has a surprisingly large impact on our environment and climate systems. The fashion industry is responsible for...
Green New Deal
01 Jun 2022
Contributed by Lukas
The New Deal enacted by President Franklin D. Roosevelt pulled the U.S. out of the Great Depression and led to decades of American prosperity. That ...
Urban Permaculture
01 May 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Join Climate Hour host, Bob Grove, and guests to discuss the rise of Urban Permaculture.
In the Midst of Crises, The Importance of Earth Day
01 Apr 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Join Climate Hour host, Bob Grove, and guests as they discuss Earth Day 2022.
The Green Party of the United States
08 Mar 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Join Climate Hour host, Bob Grove, and guests as they explore the Green Party.
Environmental Justice & Climate Equity
08 Feb 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Join Climate Hour host, Bob Grove, and guests to discuss environmental justice & climate equity.
The Sustainable Home
02 Jan 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Join Climate Hour host, Bob Grove, and guests to discuss creating a sustainable home.