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Billionaire Wilderness

24 Jul 2020

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...

John Kerry: The Global Dynamics Of Decarbonization

17 Jul 2020

Contributed by Lukas

The COVID-19 pandemic is expected to cut U.S. carbon emissions by 7.5% in 2020 — exactly the rate needed globally to meet the climate goals outlined...

The 2020 Election with Tiffany Cross, Rick Wilson and Rich Thau

10 Jul 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Racism, police and the pandemic are dominating hearts and headlines, but will they translate to votes in national and regional elections? One study fo...

Real Talk: Racism and Climate

02 Jul 2020

Contributed by Lukas

The national uprising ignited by the murder of George Floyd has cast a spotlight on the country’s embedded, institutional racism, including the frau...

Reimagining Capitalism: Wealth, Power, and Patriarchy

26 Jun 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Expanding oil extraction and clean energy, supporting capitalism while fighting climate change: can humans ever really have it all? In their new books...

Empowering Women: The Climate Solution We Don’t Talk About

19 Jun 2020

Contributed by Lukas

As the global population approaches eight billion, humans continue to test the number of bodies that can fit onto a planet of finite resources. Empowe...

Will Climate Matter in the Election?

12 Jun 2020

Contributed by Lukas

With less than four months before early voting begins in the presidential election, America is enraged and inflamed across the country. People of all ...

A Decade of Oil: From Deepwater Horizon to Deflation

05 Jun 2020

Contributed by Lukas

America's latest oil boom began with a bang, literally, on Earth Day, 2010. That’s when an offshore oil rig owned by BP exploded, killing eleven wor...

REWIND: Fate of Food / Plate to Planet

29 May 2020

Contributed by Lukas

How do we go about feeding a planet that’s hotter, drier, and more crowded than ever? The connection between global warming and the dinner table isn...

COVID-19 and Climate: The Future of Energy

22 May 2020

Contributed by Lukas

After decades of relying on imported oil, the U.S. achieved the unthinkable and became the world’s largest producer. Production has doubled over the...

Storytelling Through the Climate Crisis

15 May 2020

Contributed by Lukas

How do we confront the reality of a future that will be hauntingly different from today? Some authors are using fiction to create relatable narratives...

Zero-Emission Cities

08 May 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Can we solve the climate crisis by reimagining our cities? Climate activists have long envisioned the zero-carbon cities of the future. Now, with COVI...

Fossil Fuels in the Ground and in Your Portfolio

01 May 2020

Contributed by Lukas

When institutional investors divest from fossil fuel companies, does it make a difference, or is the impact merely symbolic? Some advocate keeping you...

COVID-19 and Climate: Economic Impacts

01 May 2020

Contributed by Lukas

The COVID-19 recession is unfolding at historic speed and depth. New jobless claims reached a record 10 million in just two weeks. Wall Street’s fea...

COVID-19 and Climate: Implications for Public Health

17 Apr 2020

Contributed by Lukas

What can the spread of coronavirus teach us about the spread of climate change? Both crises have global reach, invisible perpetrators, and require ag...

What’s the Future of Nuclear Power?

10 Apr 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Nuclear power - revive it or allow a slow death? Today, about a hundred nuclear plants provide 20 percent of America’s electricity. Once touted as...

COVID-19 and Climate: Human Response

03 Apr 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Why does an invisible, life-threatening virus prompt a nationwide emergency, but invisible, life-threatening gases don’t? Experts have been emphasiz...

REWIND: Aligning Profits with Planet / The Circular Economy

27 Mar 2020

Contributed by Lukas

“How do you move from a place of simply trying to stop bad things and asking instead how would you make products and services in a sustainable manne...

Me vs We: What Matters Most for Climate Action?

20 Mar 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Addressing the climate challenge requires incremental and transformational change on both personal and systemic levels. That means altering our person...

What the 2030 Climate Deadline Really Means

13 Mar 2020

Contributed by Lukas

For years, scientists have been saying that the climate battle will be won or lost in the next decade. The IPCC has stated that to avoid climate catas...

Big Ideas with Dan Esty and Andy Karsner

06 Mar 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Does solving climate change mean re-thinking old top-down approaches and embracing big change at high speed? A half-century after the first Earth Day,...

Oil and Opioids on Trial

28 Feb 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Tobacco companies, opioid suppliers, gun manufacturers and the fossil fuel industry -- all have been brought under fire, and into the courts, for know...

Is California’s Climate Progress Going Up in Smoke?

21 Feb 2020

Contributed by Lukas

California has been at the forefront of America’s climate fight since Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger signed the country’s first major climate law ...

Building a Resilient Tomorrow

14 Feb 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Climate-fueled floods, fires and droughts have devastated America’s cities and rural areas. Our natural response is to regroup, recover and rebuild....

Driving Forces: How Climate Fuels Human Migration

07 Feb 2020

Contributed by Lukas

From the first humans to venture out of Africa 60,000 years ago to the displaced refugees of today, migration has always been a part of human life. An...

What is a Just Transition?

31 Jan 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Our nation’s dependence on fossil fuels has led to climate disruption and inequality. Underserved communities are the ones most harmed by pollution,...

REWIND: Drawdown / Solving Climate Change

24 Jan 2020

Contributed by Lukas

When it comes to cutting carbon pollution, where do we start? Today’s solutions are doable, but daunting: decrease global meat consumption, improve ...

REWIND: Exploring Climate Psychology / Getting Outside in the Digital Age

17 Jan 2020

Contributed by Lukas

We all know about the environmental effects of climate change. But what about its impact on our mental health? Therapists report that their patients a...

Inconspicuous Consumption: The Environmental Impact You Don't Know You Have

10 Jan 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Everyday choices – like deciding which shirt to buy or on which platform to binge-watch shows on – may impact the planet more than you think. Tati...

Dr. Robert Bullard: The Father of Environmental Justice

03 Jan 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Often described as the father of environmental justice, Dr. Robert Bullard has written several seminal books on the subject and is known for his work ...

The Big Climate Stories of 2019

27 Dec 2019

Contributed by Lukas

2019 saw a number of significant events in the climate world. Wildfires, floods, wind and extreme weather continued to batter the nation from Californ...

Blackout

20 Dec 2019

Contributed by Lukas

The 2018 Camp Fire was one of the most destructive in California’s history, resulting in over eighty deaths and destroying the town of Paradise. Dry...

Rewind: Jonathan Safran Foer and David Wallace-Wells

13 Dec 2019

Contributed by Lukas

A look back at conversations with two writers confronting the climate challenge in 2019. In The Uninhabitable Earth: Life After Warming, David-Wallace...

High Risk, High Hopes: A Year of Climate Conversations

06 Dec 2019

Contributed by Lukas

2019 has been a year of climate rising. Youth activists skipped school and took to the streets, the Green New Deal thrust climate equity into the spot...

Shadows to Spotlight: Climate in the Media

29 Nov 2019

Contributed by Lukas

Murder, love, and the human experience are the stuff of great stories, as podcasts like Serial and RadioLab have shown us. But climate change? Not so ...

Letters to The Boss: Help Fix Our Climate

22 Nov 2019

Contributed by Lukas

Climate change has become a major risk factor for corporations. With groups like the Carbon Disclosure Project grading companies on their carbon footp...

John Browne: Engineering the Future

15 Nov 2019

Contributed by Lukas

Can oil companies reinvent themselves as clean energy providers? John Browne attempted it over more than a decade as CEO of British Petroleum, where h...

California’s Story: How Did It Get Here?

08 Nov 2019

Contributed by Lukas

California has long led the country in environmental action. It established strong automobile emission standards; it preserved fragile lands from deve...

Libation Migration: Beer, Wine and Climate Change

01 Nov 2019

Contributed by Lukas

America’s most popular alcoholic beverages are about to take a hit from climate. Mild, sunny growing conditions have made California king of a $62 b...

Cities for the Future

25 Oct 2019

Contributed by Lukas

Cities around the world are bracing for a growth spurt. With over half of the global population living in urban centers, and another 2.5 billion expec...

Law and Disorder: Climate Change in the Courts

18 Oct 2019

Contributed by Lukas

The jury is out on whether our legal system is equipped to deal with climate change. While some parts of the country are inundated by floods, others a...

Scorched Earth: Culture and Climate Under Siege

11 Oct 2019

Contributed by Lukas

From the Amazon to the Congo to California, our planet’s forests are being decimated. And along with them, the stability of our climate. Why? Becaus...

Jonathan Safran Foer: We Are the Weather

08 Oct 2019

Contributed by Lukas

Is clinging to habits and cravings destroying our future? An outspoken critic of factory farming and animal-centric diets, Jonathan Safran Foer writes...

Heavy Weather: Balancing Joy and Despair

26 Sep 2019

Contributed by Lukas

Can we still find happiness in our daily lives without ignoring the dark reality of climate chaos? Author and meditation teacher Mark Coleman recalls ...

My Climate Story: Terry Root

20 Sep 2019

Contributed by Lukas

Scientist Terry Root’s research has helped reveal how climate change puts bird and animal species at risk for extinction. For Root, the climate conn...

A Tale of Two Cities: Miami and Detroit

19 Sep 2019

Contributed by Lukas

Climate change is upending Miami’s real estate markets, turning one of its poorest neighborhoods into some of the most desirable real estate around....

My Climate Story: Ben Santer

17 Sep 2019

Contributed by Lukas

In 1995, Ben Santer authored one of the most important sentences in the history of climate science: “the balance of evidence suggests a discernible ...

From Wheels to Wings: Our Flying Car Future

13 Sep 2019

Contributed by Lukas

Can we beat the traffic by taking to the skies? For more than a century, the automobile has ruled our city streets, chaining us to grid-shaped street...

How Pro Sports Can Be a Player in Climate

06 Sep 2019

Contributed by Lukas

From stadiums packed with fans, to food, beer, and waste – pro sports can have a big carbon footprint. But could the core values of athletics — in...

Carbon Offsets: Privileged Pollution?

30 Aug 2019

Contributed by Lukas

A carbon offset is a credit – a way to offset a unit of pollution created in one place by, say, planting a tree, or otherwise sequestering carbon, s...

Tom Steyer: Power Disruptor?

23 Aug 2019

Contributed by Lukas

Would you vote for the candidate who says he’ll declare climate change a national emergency on Day One of his presidency? Businessman and activist T...

Superpower: How Renewables are Transforming America’s Energy Future

16 Aug 2019

Contributed by Lukas

What’s new in renewable energy? In April, 23 percent of America’s electricity came from renewables, surpassing coal for the first time. Ten states...

The Land of Dreams and Drought

09 Aug 2019

Contributed by Lukas

The California dream, with its promise of never-ending sunshine, fertile soil and rivers running with gold, has been beckoning people west for over tw...

Drawdown: Do We Have What It Takes to Solve Climate Change?

02 Aug 2019

Contributed by Lukas

When it comes to solving climate change, where do we start? The organization Project Drawdown has published a list of top solutions for climate change...

The Art of the Green Deal

26 Jul 2019

Contributed by Lukas

The climate conversation in Washington has changed enough that Democrats and Republicans are talking climate deals. A lot of that change can be attrib...

The Fate of Food

19 Jul 2019

Contributed by Lukas

How will we feed a planet that’s hotter, drier, and more crowded than ever? Much of it starts with innovators who are trying to re-invent the global...

Cities for the Future

12 Jul 2019

Contributed by Lukas

When Ridley Scott envisioned the dystopian Los Angeles of 2019 in “Blade Runner,” he probably didn’t think about how much energy would be needed...

Climate Winners and Losers

05 Jul 2019

Contributed by Lukas

Do you live somewhere that might actually benefit from climate change? Rising temperatures and seas will produce losers and winners. Some parts of the...

David Wallace-Wells: The Uninhabitable Earth

28 Jun 2019

Contributed by Lukas

At what point does Planet Earth become inhospitable to life – let alone a flourishing human civilization? In his new book The Uninhabitable Earth:...

Can a Circular Economy Salvage the Climate?

20 Jun 2019

Contributed by Lukas

Produce, consume, discard; we all know the routine. Raw materials are extracted, produced into goods, and used – sometimes only once – before turn...

Jay Inslee: The Climate Candidate

14 Jun 2019

Contributed by Lukas

As the 2020 presidential election approaches, Greg Dalton will be sitting down with some of the candidates to talk about their plans for a clean energ...

Mindful Travel in the Age of Climate Change

07 Jun 2019

Contributed by Lukas

Guests: Jennifer Palmer, Founder, Women for Wildlife James Sano, Vice President for Travel, Tourism and Conservation, World Wildlife Fund Norbu Tenzin...

If You Won't, We Will: Youth Action on Climate

31 May 2019

Contributed by Lukas

Although many climate conversations talk about impacts on future generations, all too often those younger generations are not at the table or in the r...

David Gergen on Climate Politics and Public Opinion

31 May 2019

Contributed by Lukas

“This is turning out exactly the way scientists predicted, with one exception: it’s happening faster than they thought,” says political analyst ...

Republicans and a Democrat on Climate

17 May 2019

Contributed by Lukas

This program was recorded in front of a live audience at The Commonwealth Club of San Francisco on April 30, 2019. During the 2016 presidential elec...

Sea Changes: Why Oceans Play a Bigger Role in Climate Change Than You Think

10 May 2019

Contributed by Lukas

Global temperatures would be soaring even higher were it not for a powerful heat-trapping ally: oceans. From regulating the temperature of the planet ...

How Climate Broke California’s Biggest Utility

03 May 2019

Contributed by Lukas

PG&E has had a bad few years. A series of record-breaking wildfires culminating with 2018’s devastating Camp Fire propelled the California utility g...

REWIND: Oppressive Heat: Climate Change as a Civil Rights Issue

25 Apr 2019

Contributed by Lukas

While the environmental movement is typically associated with upper-class white folk, it is also a civil rights issue. Communities of color often live...

Fighting Fossil Fuels All the Way to Prison

20 Apr 2019

Contributed by Lukas

How far would you go to make your voice heard on climate change? College student Tim DeChristopher disrupted an auction for oil and gas leases - and l...

Climate One at Harvard With Obama’s Climate Team

12 Apr 2019

Contributed by Lukas

With the Green New Deal in the national spotlight, a vigorous debate is happening: how ambitiously and broadly must the U.S. act on climate? Are issue...

The New Surf and Turf

05 Apr 2019

Contributed by Lukas

Production of animal protein is producing vast amounts of climate-eating gases. But a new generation of companies are creating innovative food product...

Insane Mode: Tesla’s Wild Ride

29 Mar 2019

Contributed by Lukas

Despite having the top-selling luxury car in 2018, and a loyal if not rabid customer base, Tesla has been facing major challenges. In August, maverick...

Naturally Wired: Getting Outside in the Digital Age

22 Mar 2019

Contributed by Lukas

What does it take to get people off their phones and into the outdoors? Research has shown the deleterious effects of electronics on weight, sleep, an...

EPA Chief Andrew Wheeler on Cars, Coal, and Climate

15 Mar 2019

Contributed by Lukas

Greg Dalton sits down for a rare interview with newly-confirmed U.S. EPA Chief Andrew Wheeler on cars, coal, and climate. Mary Nichols, Chair of the ...

If Global Warming Exists, Why is it so Cold Outside?

08 Mar 2019

Contributed by Lukas

The last five years have been the hottest on record globally. But this past winter, plunging temperatures, snowstorms and torrential rains throughout ...

Weathering the Storm in America's Cities

01 Mar 2019

Contributed by Lukas

From floods and fires to heavy snow and hurricanes, recent years have brought a raft of extreme weather disasters costing the U.S. hundreds of billion...

Donor Power: The Influence of Climate Philanthropy

22 Feb 2019

Contributed by Lukas

Fighting climate change isn’t cheap. Where’s the money coming from? Major philanthropic organizations like Hewlett and Bloomberg are at the forefr...

Can California Go Carbon Neutral?

15 Feb 2019

Contributed by Lukas

Just ten years ago, an entire state running on 100% renewable electricity seemed fanciful. But this dreamy vision became reality when, with the backin...

Katharine Hayhoe: Why We Need to Talk About Climate Change

08 Feb 2019

Contributed by Lukas

Many of us find it daunting to talk with our neighbors, colleagues and family members about climate change. But climate scientist Katharine Hayhoe say...

How Some Countries Are Solving Climate Change

01 Feb 2019

Contributed by Lukas

When it comes to cutting emissions, there are many paths to success. Sweden, France, South Korea, and Ontario have all taken steps to replace fossil f...

Cool Clean Tech

25 Jan 2019

Contributed by Lukas

Over a century ago, the industrial revolution brought wealth and opportunity to a generation of American innovators. It also brought us dirty coal pow...

REWIND: We're Doomed. Now What?

20 Jan 2019

Contributed by Lukas

Can changing our consciousness hold off the climate apocalypse? When we think about the enormity of climate change and what it’s doing to our planet...

The Hidden Health Hazards of Climate Change

13 Jan 2019

Contributed by Lukas

Climate change isn’t just an environmental problem – it’s also a health hazard. Air pollution and changing weather patterns give rise to heat-re...

The Paris Agreement at Three: Floundering or Flourishing?

03 Jan 2019

Contributed by Lukas

In its infancy, the Paris Agreement carried the promise of a truly global climate solution. Supporters still say the Agreement is the first step in se...

Going Carbon Negative

28 Dec 2018

Contributed by Lukas

The math is clear: lowering greenhouse gas emissions is not enough to keep the earth below 1.5 degrees Celsius of post-industrial warming. The latest ...

The Big Climate Stories of 2018

21 Dec 2018

Contributed by Lukas

We’re making a list (and checking it twice) of 2018’s biggest climate stories, with the help of Vox reporter David Roberts. Roberts notes that whi...

Mind Over Chatter: Exploring Climate Psychology

14 Dec 2018

Contributed by Lukas

We all know about the environmental and physical effects of climate change. But what about its impact on our mental health? Therapists report that the...

Fire and Water: A Year of Climate Conversations

07 Dec 2018

Contributed by Lukas

From fires and floods to hurricanes and hot temperatures, 2018 put climate on the front page in ways it hadn’t been before. Yet amidst the disruptio...

A Four-Zero Climate Solution

30 Nov 2018

Contributed by Lukas

Stabilizing our climate is going to take some hard truths – and hard numbers. “If you look at 1.5 degrees, it's about 13 years,” says Stanford’...

Documentaries for the Holiday Season

27 Nov 2018

Contributed by Lukas

It’s a holiday movie special as Climate One talks to the directors/producers of four recent documentaries that bring human drama to the climate stor...

Are Human Lives Improving?

15 Nov 2018

Contributed by Lukas

In their 1968 book The Population Bomb, Paul and Anne Ehrlich warned of the dangers of overpopulation. These included mass starvation, societal upheav...

Saudi America

09 Nov 2018

Contributed by Lukas

The U.S. has surpassed Saudi Arabia and Russia as the world's biggest oil producer, largely due to the fracking revolution. Yet new development of fos...

Prosperity and Paradox: A Conversation with Arlie Hochschild and Eliza Griswold

01 Nov 2018

Contributed by Lukas

Red states, blue states – when it comes to our environment, are we really two different Americas? New Yorker writer Eliza Griswold spent time in sou...

Climate Silence: Why Aren’t There More Votes?

26 Oct 2018

Contributed by Lukas

After a year of climate-amplified fires and hurricanes around the country, New York Times reporter Trip Gabriel tells host Greg Dalton how climate and...

Will China Save the Planet?

18 Oct 2018

Contributed by Lukas

Chinese factories churn out parts and products that end up in our cars, our kitchens and our cell phones. And all that productivity has improved the l...

Climate Press Pool: Robert Gibbs and Jeff Nesbit

12 Oct 2018

Contributed by Lukas

Climate used to have bipartisan support. Now that the Republican party is skeptical about fighting climate, companies are moving into a leadership voi...

Christiana Figueres: A Conversation on Mindfulness and Climate

05 Oct 2018

Contributed by Lukas

Former UN climate negotiator Christiana Figueres credits Buddhist teachings both for helping her through a personal crisis, and for providing a source...

Let's Talk Solutions: Global Climate Action Summit

28 Sep 2018

Contributed by Lukas

The Paris Climate Accord was successful in bringing together the entire world around a common goal, but the focus was on what could be done at the nat...

The World on Fire

22 Sep 2018

Contributed by Lukas

Wildfires have always been part of the landscape in the western states. But the size and intensity of fires over the last several years is something n...

Farm to Table 2.0: Chefs Cutting Carbon

14 Sep 2018

Contributed by Lukas

Can a menu at a fancy restaurant be a map for solving the climate challenge? A handful of high-end chefs are using their restaurants to show how innov...