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Let's Talk Solutions: Global Climate Action Summit

14 Sep 2018

Contributed by Lukas

On the eve of the Global Climate Action Summit (GCAS), we started the conversation about how solutions could be led by states, cities, businesses and ...

Climate Gentrification

07 Sep 2018

Contributed by Lukas

Solutions to the climate crisis include driving cleaner cars, planting more trees, eating less meat. But how do our housing choices factor into this? ...

Carbon Captives: The Human Experience

01 Sep 2018

Contributed by Lukas

Fossil fuels have helped bring people out of poverty around the world, and many people working in the industry are proud of their contribution. Willia...

Permanently Temporary: Living with Rising Seas

25 Aug 2018

Contributed by Lukas

The reality of permanent change along the shoreline is starting to slowly sink in. Recent studies indicate that vulnerability to changing tides is sta...

National Security and Climate Change

17 Aug 2018

Contributed by Lukas

What’s the connection between climate change and national security? “Military commanders don't operate on the basis of fiction,” says Leon Panet...

California Greenin': Shaping America’s Environment

10 Aug 2018

Contributed by Lukas

California. Land of sunshine and seashore. In an effort to protect the state’s magnificent landscape, California has led the country in environmenta...

The New Surf and Turf

03 Aug 2018

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...

We're Doomed. Now What?

27 Jul 2018

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...

Climate Storytellers

20 Jul 2018

Contributed by Lukas

Strategic Adviser for National Geographic, Andrew Revkin, has been writing about climate change since the 1980s, including 21 years for The New York T...

New Wheels in Town

12 Jul 2018

Contributed by Lukas

Electric scooters, skateboards and bicycles are popping up all over in cities all over the country. Ride-hailing companies are also moving to two whee...

Making the Grade: Corporations and the Paris Climate Accord

10 Jul 2018

Contributed by Lukas

When you think of climate activism, Wall Street doesn’t immediately come to mind. But as investors are coming to realize, they do have a voice – a...

Summer Films on Corn, Coal, Lights and Flights

29 Jun 2018

Contributed by Lukas

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

Rounding Up the Facts on GMOs

22 Jun 2018

Contributed by Lukas

Are GMOs the answer to our planet’s food shortage? Or do they jeopardize our health, crops and climate by creating a destructive cycle of Roundup re...

Climate Winners and Losers

15 Jun 2018

Contributed by Lukas

The new climate reality means that even those living on a hill will be affected by flooding in the valley, and those living in the North will be affec...

Al Gore and Bill Nye

08 Jun 2018

Contributed by Lukas

Looking for a movie that takes climate science to the masses? In the first part of this week’s episode, former Vice President Al Gore joins Climate ...

Mark Kurlansky and Anna Lappé: Plate to Planet

02 Jun 2018

Contributed by Lukas

Mark Kurlansky and Anna Lappé are two of the country’s most prolific and influential authors writing about feeding a crowded planet with a destabil...

California Gubernatorial Candidates on Climate One

30 May 2018

Contributed by Lukas

For fifteen years, California Governors Arnold Schwarzenegger and Jerry Brown charted a steady bi-partisan course as climate leaders. Their combined l...

Cool Clean Tech

25 May 2018

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...

A Paris Progress Report

18 May 2018

Contributed by Lukas

In June 2017, President Trump announced his plan to withdraw the country from the 2015 Paris Climate Accord, claiming it disadvantaged the United Stat...

The Hidden Health Hazards of Climate Change

11 May 2018

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...

Selling the Science of Climate Change

04 May 2018

Contributed by Lukas

The scientific consensus is that human activity is cooking the planet and disrupting our economies. Yet many people still don’t believe that climate...

The Population Bomb, 50 Years Later: A Conversation with Paul Ehrlich

27 Apr 2018

Contributed by Lukas

In 1968, the best-seller “The Population Bomb,” written by Paul and Anne Ehrlich (but credited solely to Paul) warned of the perils of overpopulat...

Geo-Engineering Climate Solutions

20 Apr 2018

Contributed by Lukas

In an emergency, we’re told to “break the glass” and grab the fire extinguisher. If we’re in the midst of a climate emergency, is there a fire...

Climate One at Duke University: How Climate Change Will Change the Way We Eat

12 Apr 2018

Contributed by Lukas

As the planet gets hotter, it’s affecting many of the foods we love – when and where they’re grown, how they get to the grocery store and how mu...

Exposed: Dieselgate's Impact on the Auto Industry

06 Apr 2018

Contributed by Lukas

Volkswagen’s brazen cheating on air pollution rules rocked an industry with a history of skulduggery. The scandal has now cost the company $30 billi...

Mindful Travel in the Age of Climate Change

30 Mar 2018

Contributed by Lukas

We’ve all heard that hopping on a plane is one of the worst things we can do for the climate. So how do we justify the environmental costs of world ...

Dark Money and The US Chemical Safety Board

23 Mar 2018

Contributed by Lukas

In her book “Dark Money: the Hidden History Behind the Rise of the Radical Right,” New Yorker writer Jane Mayer exposes the powerful group of indi...

Is Silicon Valley as Green as it Claims?

16 Mar 2018

Contributed by Lukas

Tech companies are cleaning up their data centers and building shiny new buildings that sip water and energy. But are they really as green as they cla...

Dooley and Pelosi: Bridging Trump's Divide

09 Mar 2018

Contributed by Lukas

Executive Committeewoman of Democratic National Committee Christine Pelosi, as well as staunch Trump supporter and clean energy advocate, Debbie Doole...

Cloudy Days for Solar?

02 Mar 2018

Contributed by Lukas

When the U.S slapped 30 percent tariffs on imported solar panels, headlines heralded bad times ahead for clean energy in this country. But the stock p...

Power Shift: The End of Gasoline Cars?

23 Feb 2018

Contributed by Lukas

After more than a century of ruling the roads, oil is starting to lose its dominance over the auto industry. More and more automakers are introducing...

Weathering the Storm: Mayors of Houston, Miami and Columbia

16 Feb 2018

Contributed by Lukas

2017 brought a raft of extreme weather disasters costing the U.S. hundreds of billions of dollars in damages, including hurricanes Harvey, Irma and Ma...

Climate on Your Plate

09 Feb 2018

Contributed by Lukas

What should climate-conscious people do to eat most sustainably? How people approach their diet is deeply personal and can be extremely controversial....

EPA Then and Now

02 Feb 2018

Contributed by Lukas

It was in 1970, under President Nixon, that the Environmental Protection Agency was founded. While the Agency enjoyed tremendous bipartisan support fo...

On the Ice with Michael Mann

26 Jan 2018

Contributed by Lukas

The so-called hockey stick papers, published in 1999, ignited an assault on the science of climate change that still rages to this day. But lead autho...

Inheriting Climate Change

20 Jan 2018

Contributed by Lukas

Consumption-crazed baby boomers are leaving millenials with a mountain of debt and a destabilized climate. In his book A Generation of Sociopaths: How...

Jane Goodall and Yvon Chouinard

12 Jan 2018

Contributed by Lukas

World-renowned primatologist and conservationist Jane Goodall talks about her life’s work, the link between deforestation and climate change and why...

Net Zero Living

05 Jan 2018

Contributed by Lukas

Conservation begins at home – literally. Designing and operating a home that generates as much power as it uses is rapidly becoming a reality. Meanw...

Ai Weiwei: Human Flow

29 Dec 2017

Contributed by Lukas

In his new movie, “Human Flow,” artist and human rights activist Ai Weiwei documents the plight of refugees struggling in a hot and crowded world....

Chaos and Progress: A Year of Climate Conversations

22 Dec 2017

Contributed by Lukas

It’s safe to say that 2017 was not been the best of times when it came to climate. Record-breaking hurricanes, year-round wildfires, and a renewed c...

Changing Minds: Climate Politics and Science

16 Dec 2017

Contributed by Lukas

Donald Trump once advocated for climate action. Now, he’s moving Barack Obama’s efforts in the opposite direction. Obama’s former science adviso...

Concussions, Cigarettes and Climate

08 Dec 2017

Contributed by Lukas

What do football, tobacco and oil have in common? A common narrative of deceit. When tobacco companies faced public scrutiny about the link between ca...

High Tide on Main Street

01 Dec 2017

Contributed by Lukas

The coast line has been basically in the same place for all of human civilization and now that’s changing in very unpredictable and unsettling ways....

Bill Nye: Science Guy

24 Nov 2017

Contributed by Lukas

Sifting through the Trump administration’s misleading statements on climate change can be a daunting task. That’s where scientist Bill Nye comes i...

Jeff Goodell: The Water Will Come

17 Nov 2017

Contributed by Lukas

Rising waters represent the most visible and tangible impact of climate disruption. Protecting people and property from all that water, while simultan...

Oppressive Heat: Climate Change and Civil Rights

10 Nov 2017

Contributed by Lukas

Communities of color often live closest to factories and refineries that spew toxic pollution. That’s one reason why polls show more African America...

A Conversation with Amy Goodman and Kenneth Kimmell

03 Nov 2017

Contributed by Lukas

When trying to fight a campaign of disinformation, who better to be on your side than a muckraking journalist like Amy Goodman and a lawyer running th...

Deep Dive Into the Arctic

27 Oct 2017

Contributed by Lukas

Climate One goes to the front line of climate change - the high Arctic - to hear from the people there how their economies, communities and culture ar...

Chasing the Harvest in the Heat

20 Oct 2017

Contributed by Lukas

Rising temperatures are making hard outdoor jobs even harder. It is the kind of heat that will ground airplanes and melt rail lines, and health expert...

Elizabeth Kolbert and David Roberts: Covering Catastrophe

13 Oct 2017

Contributed by Lukas

Communicating about climate change and convincing the public that something needs to be done about it is a complicated proposition, one that reporters...

California's Climate Crusade

06 Oct 2017

Contributed by Lukas

Some environmentalists said the law extending California’s cap and trade system to 2030 is a sellout to the oil industry and it shortchanges disadva...

Happening with James Redford

29 Sep 2017

Contributed by Lukas

Fossil fuels are in favor again in Washington. New opportunities are opening to mine coal and drill for oil despite the fact that the costs for fossil...

Greening Professional Sports

22 Sep 2017

Contributed by Lukas

People who are involved in the sports world have seen the benefits of greening their professions. Many athletes and executives gathered at the Green ...

Harvey and Irma: A Hurricane’s Human Fingerprints

15 Sep 2017

Contributed by Lukas

From Katrina and Sandy to Harvey, Irma and José, how is climate change fueling these increasingly destructive hurricanes? Greg Dalton and his guests ...

Yvon Chouinard

08 Sep 2017

Contributed by Lukas

The explorer, climber, surfer and founder of sporting goods company Patagonia, Inc., has spent a lifetime welcoming adventure – and risk - of all ki...

Aligning Profits with the Planet

07 Sep 2017

Contributed by Lukas

It is possible to protect profits and the planet. Despite claims that a win for the environment is a loss for the economy, corporations are finding in...

Jane Mayer: Behind Dark Money

25 Aug 2017

Contributed by Lukas

Who is bankrolling our political system? Jane Mayer takes us behind the scenes to expose the powerful group of individuals who are shaping our country...

Tesla: Impossible Until It's Not

18 Aug 2017

Contributed by Lukas

Tesla is the most valuable car company in the US, recently surpassing even the auto giant, General Motors. But this high valuation is not due to the n...

Jane Goodall in Conversation with Jeff Horowitz and Greg Dalton

11 Aug 2017

Contributed by Lukas

Noted conservationist Jane Goodall talks about her life’s work, the link between deforestation and climate change and why she sees reasons for hope....

Al Gore and An Inconvenient Sequel: Truth to Power

04 Aug 2017

Contributed by Lukas

Former Vice President Al Gore joins Climate One to talk about his tireless fight, training an army of climate champions and influencing international ...

Is Climate Denial Destroying Our Planet?

30 Jul 2017

Contributed by Lukas

Climate denial has become both a psychological and a political problem. Can better communication help us expand common ground and move on to solutions...

Chain Reaction: Why Two Wheels are Better than Four

21 Jul 2017

Contributed by Lukas

Getting out of a car and onto a bike is one of the best things you can do for the climate and your personal health. Bike lanes are growing in American...

Trumping the Climate: Coming in Hot

14 Jul 2017

Contributed by Lukas

The Trump administration’s determination to revive coal mining and domestic oil drilling is causing concern that international efforts to combat cli...

Rounding up the Facts on GMOs

07 Jul 2017

Contributed by Lukas

Are GMOs the answer to our planet’s food shortage? Or are they jeopardizing our crops by creating a destructive cycle of Roundup resistance? Like ma...

Youth in the Streets and in the Courts (Update)

05 Jul 2017

Contributed by Lukas

As Buffalo Springfield sang in 1967, “There’s something happening here…” But today’s youth revolution is happening far beyond the Sunset Str...

Water Whiplash

30 Jun 2017

Contributed by Lukas

Californians are accustomed to living through wet times and dry times, but lately things are getting more extreme and much more difficult to predict. ...

Banking on Change at Standing Rock

16 Jun 2017

Contributed by Lukas

They were an unlikely group of activists; Native American youths concerned about teen suicide sparked the movement against the Dakota Access Pipeline ...

Inheriting Climate Change

09 Jun 2017

Contributed by Lukas

Do the baby boomers owe millennials a clean planet? Or is it every generation for itself? Consumption-crazed baby boomers are leaving their younger co...

How Cities can Solve the Climate Challenge

02 Jun 2017

Contributed by Lukas

Cities around the country are reshaping their economies for a greener future. Mayors and chambers of commerce are promoting smart growth and moving to...

Texas Surprise

26 May 2017

Contributed by Lukas

The Lone Star State leads the country in wind power, thanks to legislation signed by Governor Bush; clean energy has breathed fresh air into Texas’ ...

#Resist with Annie Leonard and Shanon Coulter

19 May 2017

Contributed by Lukas

What can you do if you care about putting your money to work toward a cleaner economy? Join us for a conversation on pressuring companies and personal...

Amory Lovins: Peak Car Ownership

12 May 2017

Contributed by Lukas

Will the arrival of robotic cars lead to the blissful end of traffic? Or will they instead put drivers out of work and clog our streets more than ever...

The New Political Climate

05 May 2017

Contributed by Lukas

Can the far right and far left come together on clean energy? Join us for a meeting of the minds between staunch members of both the Tea Party and 350...

C1 Revue: Does Greening The Economy Leave Some People Behind?

01 May 2017

Contributed by Lukas

Cities are leading the way in the greening of America’s economy. From urban parks and farms to microgrids and living buildings, dynamic urban planni...

Jane Mayer: Behind Dark Money

28 Apr 2017

Contributed by Lukas

Who is bankrolling our political system? Jane Mayer takes us behind the scenes to expose the powerful group of individuals who are shaping our country...

Jane Goodall in Conversation with Jeff Horowitz and Greg Dalton

21 Apr 2017

Contributed by Lukas

Noted conservationist Jane Goodall talks about her life’s work, the link between deforestation and climate change and why she sees reasons for hope....

Sea Heroes: Extreme Edition

14 Apr 2017

Contributed by Lukas

Our planet’s oceans drive our weather and generate much of our oxygen -- and they’re being severely impacted by climate change. What can be done a...

Cigarettes & Tailpipes: Tales of Two Industries

07 Apr 2017

Contributed by Lukas

Cigarette makers downplayed the dangers of smoking for decades with distracting science. How close is the link between tobacco denial and climate deni...

C1 Revue: Can Our Connected Lives Be Green and Safe?

04 Apr 2017

Contributed by Lukas

The "Internet of things" promises a world with smart connected devices such as refrigerators that automatically order food and robots that anticipate ...

Youth in the Streets and in the Courts

31 Mar 2017

Contributed by Lukas

Today’s youth activists are speaking up and speaking out, pressing for more government action on climate change now to protect their future and ours...

Climate Equity

24 Mar 2017

Contributed by Lukas

Communities of color are most affected by pollution, yet they’ve been overlooked by the green movement. How can we ensure environmental justice for ...

Why Facts Don’t Trump the President

16 Mar 2017

Contributed by Lukas

An information war is raging in our country, in mainstream news and on social media. What is factual and what is an “alternative fact?” Do facts e...

Remaking the Planet

10 Mar 2017

Contributed by Lukas

Geoengineering may sound like science fiction, but there are many who believe we can -- and should -- be taking drastic measures to cool our planet do...

Killing the Colorado

09 Mar 2017

Contributed by Lukas

Every year, 41 million Americans take more water out of the Colorado than nature puts into it. How can we continue to share an ever-shrinking resource...

C1 Revue: Republican Renegades on Climate

01 Mar 2017

Contributed by Lukas

The Trump administration has moved quickly to reverse some of the previous administration’s energy and climate policies. But not all Republicans are...

Can Clean Tech Clean Up Our Future?

16 Feb 2017

Contributed by Lukas

The clean tech sector is on the rise - what areas are most promising for growth, jobs and “gee-whiz!” innovation? What will the new administration...

Doubt, Deny or Defend: Republicans on Climate Change

10 Feb 2017

Contributed by Lukas

Much has been made of the partisan divide on climate change. But there are Republicans out there who believe it’s real – and they have solutions ...

Green Latinos (02/07/14) (Rebroadcast)

02 Feb 2017

Contributed by Lukas

What are the issues that link the Latino community to the environmental movement? For many, it comes down to la familia. Latinos, who make up nearly 4...

C1 Revue: The Future of Oil and Nuclear Power

01 Feb 2017

Contributed by Lukas

In 2006, California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger launched California's attack on climate change by signing a pioneering law to reduce carbon polluti...

Ecological Intelligence

27 Jan 2017

Contributed by Lukas

What’s really preventing us from enacting environmental change? Blame our brains, says Daniel Goleman, author of Ecological Intelligence. As he expl...

Nature's Price Tag (07/25/13) (Rebroadcast)

20 Jan 2017

Contributed by Lukas

An emerging area of economics aims to put a price on nature as a way of justifying preserving it in societies dominated by the wisdom of markets. A mo...

Is Climate Denial Destroying Our Planet?

13 Jan 2017

Contributed by Lukas

Climate denial has become both a psychological and a political problem. Can better communication help us expand common ground and move on to solutions...

The Sixth Annual Stephen Schneider Award: Naomi Oreskes and Steven Chu

06 Jan 2017

Contributed by Lukas

Science historian Naomi Oreskes has had her share of hate mail from climate deniers. But, she says, “We can't give up on the challenge of explaining...

C1 Revue: Political and Climate Disruption

01 Jan 2017

Contributed by Lukas

2016 began in the afterglow of the Paris climate accord, and ended with the triumph of a presidential candidate who has labeled climate change a hoax....

Fighting Fossil Fuels All the Way to Prison

30 Dec 2016

Contributed by Lukas

Radical protesters Tim DeChristopher and Georgia Hirsty put the “active” in “activism.” But is civil disobedience the best way to effect real ...

2016: From Paris to Trump

23 Dec 2016

Contributed by Lukas

2016 began in the after-glow of the Paris climate summit and ended with the election of Donald Trump. A look back at the year’s energy triumphs and ...

What Now for California?

16 Dec 2016

Contributed by Lukas

As Donald Trump moves into the West Wing and the GOP takes control of congress, what will become of California’s environmental trailblazing? Christ...

Nicholas Stern and Steve Westly

09 Dec 2016

Contributed by Lukas

While federal experts warn that it will cost $44 trillion to rid the U.S. economy of carbon, Citibank counters that failing to act on climate disrupti...

Will Trump Force One Run Clean?

02 Dec 2016

Contributed by Lukas

A recent agreement is designed to curb emissions from international plane flights. But what if the new administration doesn’t clear it for takeoff? ...

C1 Revue: Climate Change on Your Kitchen Table

01 Dec 2016

Contributed by Lukas

Climate change is as much about what we eat as what we drive or where we live. Rising heat is hitting chocolate, wine, beer, bread and other foods we ...