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Rebuilding for Climate: Successful City Strategies
24 Jun 2022
Contributed by Lukas
83% of people in the United States live in urban areas. And these days that’s where important climate progress is happening. Cities all over the cou...
REWIND: Climate Miseducation
17 Jun 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Climate change science isn’t taught accurately — or equally — across the country. Investigative reporter Katie Worth dug into textbooks and talk...
Digging Deep into the Next Farm Bill
10 Jun 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Roughly every five years, the U.S. designs and implements a new farm bill, which sets federal policy on agriculture across a huge swath of programs, i...
Disrupted Energy Markets: Fossil Revival or Renewable Opportunity?
03 Jun 2022
Contributed by Lukas
As Russia’s invasion of Ukraine and other economic pressures disrupt global energy markets, even insiders are scrambling to make sense of this momen...
Indigenous Insights on Healing Land and Sky
27 May 2022
Contributed by Lukas
According to the World Bank, land managed by Indigenous peoples is associated with lower rates of deforestation, reduced greenhouse gas emissions, and...
Coping with Climate through Music
20 May 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Music and social movements have historically gone hand in hand. Folk music played a unifying role for the labor movements in the United States. Music ...
Russ Feingold on Biodiversity, Climate and The Courts
13 May 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Russ Feingold became a household name co-authoring the Bipartisan Campaign Reform Act, more commonly known as McCain-Feingold. It’s the only major p...
Big Money: Investment Managers Driving Corporate Action
06 May 2022
Contributed by Lukas
More than half of Americans are invested in the stock market, either directly or through their retirement funds, but individual investors rarely think...
Dismantling White Supremacy to Address the Climate Crisis
29 Apr 2022
Contributed by Lukas
A fundamental injustice of the climate crisis is that those who have contributed to it least are already bearing the brunt of the impacts, and that wi...
Climate & Democracy with Jamie Raskin, Heather McGhee and Rebecca Willis
21 Apr 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Congressman Jamie Raskin (D-MD) took the national spotlight as the lead manager for the second impeachment trial of the former president. As a member ...
Breaking Down Climate Misinformation with Amy Westervelt and John Cook
15 Apr 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Fossil fuel companies and others have spent decades casting doubt on climate science to allow them to continue to profit. As documented by climate com...
Can We Get Clean Energy Without Dirty Mines?
08 Apr 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Global sales of electric vehicles more than doubled in 2021. Projections for this year are for another huge gain as more automakers introduce more mod...
Solar Flare-ups
01 Apr 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Earlier this year, California regulators were set to propose significant changes to the incentives that drive rooftop solar installations. After wides...
Coping with COVID and Climate Fatigue
25 Mar 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Since March 2020, the global community has grappled with an unprecedented pandemic. At first, most people were willing to do what it takes to keep the...
Playing With Fire: Russia, Ukraine and the Geopolitics of Energy
18 Mar 2022
Contributed by Lukas
The IPCC released its latest report the same day as the U.S. Supreme Court heard the most environmentally significant case in a decade, all while Russ...
Turning Air into Stone: Tech-Based Carbon Removal
11 Mar 2022
Contributed by Lukas
It has been 3 million years since there’s been this much CO2 in the atmosphere. Even if we stop all burning of fossil fuels today, humans have alrea...
Peat, Kelp and Trees: Nature-Based Carbon Capture
04 Mar 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Humans must dramatically rein in greenhouse gas emissions in order to slow the planetary warming caused by centuries of fossil fuel combustion. But ev...
Cow Poop and Compost: Digesting the Methane Menace
25 Feb 2022
Contributed by Lukas
In a 20-year time frame, methane is 80 times more damaging to the climate than carbon dioxide. Nationally, 37% of methane emissions come from cows. 17...
Our Greatest Unintended Experiment
18 Feb 2022
Contributed by Lukas
For years, scientists, activists, and politicians have tried to warn the world of the potential catastrophic consequences of dumping greenhouse gases ...
The Enablers: The Firms Behind Fossil Fuel Falsehoods
11 Feb 2022
Contributed by Lukas
For years, fossil fuel companies have claimed to support climate science and policy. Many have recently pledged to hit net zero emissions by midcentur...
REWIND: Should We Have Children in a Climate Emergency?
04 Feb 2022
Contributed by Lukas
The climate crisis seems to be unfolding faster than ever before — with catastrophic floods, winter wildfires, and last summer’s killer heat. It’...
State of the Unions: Navigating Job Creation and Destruction
28 Jan 2022
Contributed by Lukas
With expanding electrical infrastructure and some jurisdictions beginning to ban gas appliances in new construction, the transition to a clean energy ...
Corporate Net Zero Pledges: Ambitious or Empty Promises?
21 Jan 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Corporate pledges of reaching net zero carbon emissions have quickly become commonplace. Critics argue that such pledges are mere greenwashing, and ev...
REWIND: Should Nature Have Rights?
14 Jan 2022
Contributed by Lukas
If corporations can be legal persons, why can’t Mother Earth? In 2017, New Zealand granted the Whanganui River the full legal rights of a person. ...
John Doerr And Ryan Panchadsaram: An Action Plan For Solving Our Climate Crisis Now
07 Jan 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Beyond his position as chairman of the venture capital firm Kleiner Perkins, John Doerr rose to global prominence in the business world with his popul...
Ayana Elizabeth Johnson and Naomi Oreskes: The Schneider Award
30 Dec 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Each year, Climate One gives an award to a natural or social scientist for excellence in science communication. This year’s recipient of the Stephen...
Managed Retreat: When Climate Hits Home
23 Dec 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Southeastern Virginia currently experiences the fastest rate of sea level rise on the Atlantic seaboard, and that’s only projected to accelerate. Fo...
This Year in Climate: 2021
17 Dec 2021
Contributed by Lukas
A recent poll shows that in 2021, for the first time, a majority of Americans personally felt the effects of climate change. But has that growing awar...
Climate Miseducation
10 Dec 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Climate change science isn’t taught accurately — or equally — across the country. Investigative reporter Katie Worth dug into textbooks and talk...
What the Infrastructure Deal Means for Climate
03 Dec 2021
Contributed by Lukas
President Biden recently signed the biggest piece of climate legislation in U.S. history into law. To be sure, the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs ...
REWIND Finding the Heart to Talk About Climate
25 Nov 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Ever have a difficult conversation about climate? Pretty much everyone has. Knowing all the facts and figures only goes so far when talking to someone...
Taking Stock of COP26
19 Nov 2021
Contributed by Lukas
In 2015, delegates from 196 nations entered into the legally binding treaty on climate change known as the Paris Agreement, which set a goal of limiti...
Climbing, Conservation and Capitalism
12 Nov 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Rick Ridgeway estimates he’s spent about five years of his life sleeping in tents, often in the world’s most remote places alongside fellow outdoo...
Geoengineering: Who Should Control Our Atmosphere?
05 Nov 2021
Contributed by Lukas
According to the latest IPCC Assessment Report, we’re currently on course for at least 3°C (5.4°F) of warming by 2100 even if all of the voluntary...
Electrify Everything
29 Oct 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Fully electrifying our homes, cars and industries could cut the amount of total energy we need by half, says Saul Griffith, an entrepreneur, inventor ...
What’s on Tap at COP26 in Glasgow
22 Oct 2021
Contributed by Lukas
People around the world have been experiencing unprecedented extreme weather events – raging wildfires, killer heatwaves and catastrophic floods. In...
Zen and Coping with Climate
15 Oct 2021
Contributed by Lukas
How do we manage our own anxiety around an uncertain climate future – let alone help our children work through their feelings and fears? In his lat...
Firefight: How to Live in the Pyrocene
08 Oct 2021
Contributed by Lukas
We’ve experienced yet another summer of record wildfires in the western U.S., endangering lives, displacing communities, and sending unhealthy smoke...
Katharine Hayhoe on Hope and Healing
01 Oct 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Despite her identity as an evangelical, climate scientist Katharine Hayhoe doesn't accept global warming on faith; she crunches the data, analyzes the...
Preparing for Disasters We Don’t Want to Think About
24 Sep 2021
Contributed by Lukas
The COVID-19 pandemic revealed structural weaknesses and inequities that existed long before 2020. Like COVID-19, climate change is another “threat ...
Diet for a Threatened Planet
17 Sep 2021
Contributed by Lukas
This September marks the 50th anniversary of the seminal work Diet for a Small Planet, in which Frances Moore Lappé argued that cattle constitute “...
Water and Civilization: Resilience and Collapse
10 Sep 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Water is essential for life, and throughout history we have sought to control and make use of it. As Giulio Boccaletti explores in his new book, Water...
The Fight Over Pipelines
03 Sep 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Hundreds of people have been arrested in Minnesota in ongoing protests against Line 3, a pipeline that will move Canadian tar sands oil, and which cou...
Should We Have Children in a Climate Emergency?
27 Aug 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Listener Advisory: This episode contains some content related to a suicide. If you or someone you love is thinking about suicide, the National 24-hour...
Which Way Are Swing Voters Swinging on Climate?
20 Aug 2021
Contributed by Lukas
In early August, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change released a report unequivocally connecting global warming and extreme weather to human-...
30x30: This Land Is Whose Land?
13 Aug 2021
Contributed by Lukas
In October 2020, California Gov. Newsom announced a plan to protect 30% of his state by 2030. In 2021, the Biden Administration announced its own 30x3...
Jay Inslee, BP and Washington’s Climate Story
06 Aug 2021
Contributed by Lukas
In Washington State, voters defeated initiatives to put a price on carbon ― twice. Governor Jay Inslee himself then lost his personal bid for the Wh...
Vandana Shiva and the Hubris of Manipulating Nature
30 Jul 2021
Contributed by Lukas
From clearing land for pasture to building dams, humans have long changed the face of the Earth. But Indian eco-feminist Vandana Shiva is highly criti...
How a Manufactured Car Culture Blocks Transit
23 Jul 2021
Contributed by Lukas
The United States is famous for its car culture. But a hundred years ago, pedestrians didn’t want cars to take over the streets — and it took deca...
REWIND: A Feminist Climate Renaissance
16 Jul 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Pathways for reducing carbon emissions include electrifying transportation and replacing fossil fuels with wind and solar power. But in this time of n...
Mark Carney, Fatih Birol and the Narrow Path to Net Zero
09 Jul 2021
Contributed by Lukas
When we think of action on climate change, we usually think of what individuals can do, what governments can do, and maybe what businesses can do. But...
Clearing the Air on Carbon Offsets
02 Jul 2021
Contributed by Lukas
For over two decades, carbon offset programs have promised individuals and businesses that they can reduce their overall carbon footprint by paying so...
Extreme Heat: The Silent Killer
25 Jun 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Extreme heat causes more deaths than any other weather-related hazard in the U.S., wreaking quiet havoc on the health and economic well-being of billi...
Shepard Fairey, Mystic and the Power of Art
17 Jun 2021
Contributed by Lukas
From activism to political campaigns to corporate advertising, the power of music and images is undeniable. So how can the arts inspire and advance th...
Colorado River Reckoning: Drought, Climate and Equal Access
11 Jun 2021
Contributed by Lukas
The Colorado River supplies water to more than 40 million people across seven states. Lake Mead has fallen to its lowest level since it was filled in ...
Finding the Heart to Talk About Climate
04 Jun 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Ever have a difficult conversation about climate? Pretty much everyone has. Knowing all the facts and figures only goes so far when talking to someone...
Should Nature Have Rights?
28 May 2021
Contributed by Lukas
If corporations can be legal persons, why can’t Mother Earth? In 2017, New Zealand granted the Whanganui River the full legal rights of a person. ...
Hot Cities, Methane Leakers and the Catholic Church
21 May 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Mapping has emerged as a powerful tool for helping humans combat climate disruption. Technology for measuring the totality of global carbon emissions,...
Journey of a Former Coal Miner
14 May 2021
Contributed by Lukas
What motivates the activists? Grassroots activism can take many forms, from protests to letter-writing to citizen science to community organizing. But...
Climate Stories We Tell Ourselves
07 May 2021
Contributed by Lukas
How do our identities and values shape the way we listen to others’ climate experience? Author Nathaniel Rich and journalist Meera Subramanian cover...
Distorted Democracy and the “Zero-Sum Game”
30 Apr 2021
Contributed by Lukas
In the US, we’ve become accustomed to climate – like nearly everything else – being politicized. Even when potential solutions might benefit eve...
Living with Climate Disruption
22 Apr 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Guests: Tamara Conry, Camp Fire survivor Julia Fay Bernal, director of Pueblo Action Alliance Britt Wray, postdoctoral researcher at Stanford Univ...
REWIND: Billionaire Wilderness
16 Apr 2021
Contributed by Lukas
For many of us, the story of the American wilderness begins when Europeans arrived on these shores and began conquering it. The wide open spaces of th...
Investing in a Clean and Equitable Recovery
09 Apr 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Speakers: Julian Brave NoiseCat, Vice President of Policy and Strategy, Data for Progress Julie Pullen, Director of Product, Jupiter Intelligence ...
Entrepreneurs Creating an Inclusive Economy
02 Apr 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Guests: Sandra Kwak, CEO and Founder, 10Power Donnel Baird, CEO, BlocPower Andreas Karelas, Author, Climate Courage: How Tackling Climate Change Can B...
Weird Winters
26 Mar 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Warmer, shorter winters may sound like an impact of climate change that would inspire more joy than despair. But rising temperatures and decreasing sn...
When Words Aren’t Enough: The Visual Climate Story
19 Mar 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Guests: Céline Cousteau, Explorer and Filmmaker Davis Guggenheim, Director, An Inconvenient Truth; Founder, Concordia Studio Cristina Mittermeier, ...
The Political Reality of Climate Action
12 Mar 2021
Contributed by Lukas
True to his campaign promise, President Biden dove right into the climate crisis on Day One, signing a stack of executive orders that signaled his det...
Temperature Check: Science, Texas, and Climate Chaos
05 Mar 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Just two months into 2021, deadly winter temperatures left millions of Texans without water and power. Meanwhile, California is preparing for another ...
John Kerry, Gina McCarthy and Biden’s Climate Team
26 Feb 2021
Contributed by Lukas
“The long-term energy future of America is not going to be written in fossil fuels,” declared John Kerry last April. President Biden recently app...
Climate Narratives with Jeff Biggers, Elizabeth Kolbert and Kim Stanley Robinson
19 Feb 2021
Contributed by Lukas
In the past decade, narratives of a dystopian climate future have helped connect people with heroes in worlds decimated by climate disruption and indu...
Killer Combination: Climate, Health and Poverty
11 Feb 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Experts have warned us that COVID-19 is just one example of climate change-related diseases on the rise. And while climate disruption, environmental h...
This Moment in Climate with Michael Mann & Leah Stokes
05 Feb 2021
Contributed by Lukas
With a new pro-science, pro-climate action administration in the White House, there are more pathways — and far greater political will — than ever...
Varying Degrees: Climate Change in the American Mind
28 Jan 2021
Contributed by Lukas
A decade ago, a nationwide survey showed that only around twelve percent of Americans were seriously concerned about climate change. Today, public per...
Fast, Fair and Clean: The New Energy Transition
22 Jan 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Hopes and expectations are high for President Biden’s first weeks in office. His recovery plans promise to take on COVID-19, a battered economy, and...
Biden’s Climate Opportunity (Part 2)
15 Jan 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Incoming President Biden faces an unimaginable set of challenges, including the COVID-19 pandemic, a gutted economy and a nation reeling from the rece...
Talk Green, Play Dirty: Corporate America’s Mixed Record
08 Jan 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Questioning science, funding vocal climate denial groups, and encouraging the focus on personal carbon footprints are corporate America’s preferred ...
REWIND: Erin Brockovich / Inconspicuous Consumption
03 Jan 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Twenty years ago, Julia Roberts won an Oscar for her portrayal of maverick environmental activist Erin Brockovich in the film of the same name. These ...
Biden’s Climate Opportunity (Part 1)
01 Jan 2021
Contributed by Lukas
President-elect Joe Biden says he will infuse climate change into every corner of his agenda. That’s becoming evident looking at his emerging team. ...
REWIND: Reimagining Capitalism / Fossil Fuels in Your Portfolio
26 Dec 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Maintaining a consumption-driven economy while keeping emissions down seems more and more like a pipe dream -- is it time to re-think capitalism altog...
Mary Nichols: A Climate Champion’s Legacy
11 Dec 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Throughout a 45-year career as an environmental regulator, Mary Nichols has been a powerful champion for climate action and cutting emissions. Having ...
Breaking Through: A Year of Climate Conversations
04 Dec 2020
Contributed by Lukas
“Unprecedented” is one of the most overused words of 2020, but it reflects the superstorm of disruption brought on by an overlapping pandemic, rac...
Last Call for Gasoline
27 Nov 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Is this the end of the road for the internal combustion engine? California isn’t the first major economy to ban gas-powered cars and trucks, and it ...
REWIND: Racism and Climate / Climate Change Through the Artist’s Eyes
20 Nov 2020
Contributed by Lukas
In this program, we revisit two Climate One programs from earlier in the year. First, events of the past year, including the murders of George Floyd, ...
Cropped Out: Land, Race and Climate
13 Nov 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Harvest season is especially hard this year as the pandemic strains farmers and food systems, highlighting a deeply divided and often unjust America. ...
The 2020 Election: Anxiety and Incrementalism
06 Nov 2020
Contributed by Lukas
The 2020 campaign season has finally come to a close. And days after November 3rd has passed, the country is still reeling. About seventy percent of A...
Power Shift: Jamie Margolin and Dorceta Taylor
30 Oct 2020
Contributed by Lukas
What is the role of power in deciding the fate of a planet? 2020 has seen a reckoning with various forms of power embedded in racial, gender, and gene...
Steve Schmidt and Varshini Prakash on Disrupting Climate Politics
23 Oct 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Can we break up the political logjam on climate? “The brokenness of our politics,” says Republican political strategist Stephen Schmidt, “is tha...
Climate Ambition with Gina McCarthy, Annie Leonard and Tamara Toles O’Laughlin
16 Oct 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Environmental groups like NRDC, 350.org, and Greenpeace helped move climate onto the presidential agenda last year, pushing Joe Biden and other Democr...
A Feminist Climate Renaissance
09 Oct 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Pathways for reducing carbon emissions include electrifying transportation, replacing fossil fuels with wind and solar power. But in this time of nati...
Tech to the Rescue?
02 Oct 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Technology has helped the world survive, thrive and stay connected through the COVID-19 lockdown. As countries look toward re-opening in a post-pandem...
Erin Brockovich: Superman’s Not Coming
25 Sep 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Twenty years ago, Julia Roberts won an Oscar for her portrayal of maverick environmental activist Erin Brockovich in the film of the same name. These ...
Daniel Yergin: Energy, Markets and the Clash of Nations
18 Sep 2020
Contributed by Lukas
From pipelines to clean power, the world’s biggest economies are brokering developments in oil, gas, and renewables that will shape climate and poli...
Living With Fire
11 Sep 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Wildfires are nothing new – they’ve been part of the west’s ecology for millennia. But burning fossil fuels and suppressing the burning of fores...
Polluting and Providing: The Dirty Energy Dilemma
04 Sep 2020
Contributed by Lukas
The cost and health burdens of electricity production have long been higher for low-income communities of color than for wealthy white ones. But for m...
Climate Change Through the Artist's Eyes with Alonzo King
28 Aug 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Can art help us process our changing climate? The story of climate change is typically told in the language of facts and figures, graphs and charts. B...
COVID-19 and Climate: Implications for our Food System
21 Aug 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Coronavirus outbreaks in food markets, food plants, and farmworker communities have impacted food access and put a spotlight on food insecurity. Farme...
Flooding in America
14 Aug 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Miami may be the poster child of rising waters in the U.S., but further inland, states are grappling with torrential flooding that is becoming the new...
Billion Dollar Burger
07 Aug 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Long before the coronavirus began disrupting America’s trillion-dollar meat industry, lab-grown proteins were upending the way we consume chicken, p...
The Future Earth: Eric Holthaus and Katharine Wilkinson
31 Jul 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Science has given us a realistic picture of what Earth will look like with unmitigated climate change: increased extreme weather events, crippled econ...