Climate One

We’re living through a climate emergency; addressing this crisis begins by talking about it. Co-Hosts Greg Dalton and Ariana Brocious bring you empowering conversations that connect all aspects of the challenge — the scary and the exciting, the individual and the systemic. Join us.

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Peter Gleick on Water Poverty, Conflict, and a ...
In an era defined by climate disruption, our relationship with water will determine our ability to survive and thrive. Water expert Peter Gleick says we’re not managing this relationship well at all. How can we ensure a future where clean water exists for all who need it and navigate the challenges of too little or too much?
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Cory Booker: Taking on Big Ag & Going Big on Cl...
Our food and agricultural systems are helping fuel the climate emergency. Senator Cory Booker says they also impact local economies, human dignity, and animal welfare. Yet our partisan divide makes the root causes almost impossible to address. How do we heal these broken systems?
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REWIND: Saket Soni on the People Who Make Disas...
As human-driven global warming amplifies the frequency and potency of natural disasters, we are increasingly dependent on one group of workers who live in the shadows: the migrant workforce that arrives to clean up and rebuild.
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Killer Heat: Confronting Disproportionate Impac...
Extreme heat is a silent killer. And in many places, women and girls are particularly vulnerable. Rising temperatures caused by burning fossil fuels also present non-lethal health and job risks. From Freetown to Athens, cities around the world are incorporating ancient methods into modern design to mitigate heat.
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Bringing Biodiversity Back from the Breaking Point
Land use, pollution and the climate crisis are driving what may be the largest mass extinction event since the dinosaurs. Over 190 countries around the world recently committed to conserve 30% of land and water by 2030, a huge environmental win – if we can achieve it. Can we bring biodiversity back from the breaking point?
59 min
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Naomi Oreskes, David Gelles and The Myth of Fre...
Market fundamentalists argue that loosely regulated markets allow for the best economic outcomes. But Naomi Oreskes says that idea is built on a lie: “It's based on asking us to trust that these corporations will behave themselves, when in reality we have abundant evidence that they don't.” For decades, American industry, especially fossil fuel companies, have fought regulation to serve their short-term financial interests at the expense of our climate and environment.
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Two Heroes Challenging the Powerful
After discovering that an oil well next to her apartment was making her sick, nine-year-old Nalleli Cobo led the charge to shut it down. Meanwhile, in the Netherlands, Marjan Minnesma brought a historic lawsuit that could change the legal landscape the world over. What motivates activists to devote their lives to local and systemic change?
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Amy Westervelt on Drilling, Denial and Disinfor...
Investigative journalist Amy Westervelt uncovers big oil’s methods of shaping public opinion and legal rulings in its favor. Through true-crime storytelling, her podcasts shine a light on the oil industry's climate and environmental harms and on those individuals who try to hold them accountable.
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Get Up, Stand Up: What Actions Move the Needle?
From the Boston Tea Party to the Civil Rights Movement to Black Lives Matter, activists have long sought to bring pressing issues into the public consciousness. Climate activism is no different. But what kind of actions really move the needle?
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Lights, Camera, Inaction: Where is Climate’s St...
Climate disruption is a bigger and bigger part of our lives, and yet there’s one place it still doesn’t show up much: our television and movie screens. Apple TV+ just released the series Extrapolations, a star-studded exploration of our hot and messy climate future. But why doesn’t climate get more play in Hollywood?
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Missed Connections: Modernizing Our Multiple Grids
Thousands of renewable energy projects are ready to be built and start producing fossil-free power, but they’re stuck in a long limbo for one essential piece of the puzzle: getting connected to the grid. What will it take to modernize our multiple grids?
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Bitcoin Uses a Ton of Energy — On Purpose. Is i...
Bitcoin mining uses as much energy as mid-sized countries like Sweden. It’s designed that way to be super secure, but all that digital mining contributes megatons of carbon emissions to the atmosphere at a time when we need to be slashing them. And even when bitcoin mining uses renewable power, it’s drawing that power away from our energy transition.
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Two Voices on Climate That Will Surprise You
As the effects of the climate crisis become more apparent, we need leaders from all political and industrial perspectives to work together. How can common ground be found between environmentalists on the left and Republicans on the right? What does an EV-driving member of the ConocoPhillips board have to say about reducing emissions?
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White House Climate Advisor Ali Zaidi on Willow...
White House National Climate Advisor Ali Zaidi plays a leading role in coordinating the implementation of the biggest investments in clean energy the U.S. has ever made. This week he joins us to discuss the complicated maze of industrial policy intended to create a more just economy while reducing greenhouse gas emissions.
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Yes, Happiness and Climate Action Can Go Together
Our brains evolved to handle immediate dangers, but they are not so great at processing large existential threats, like the climate crisis. How can we use our understanding of behavior to incorporate happiness into meaningful climate action?
52 min
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A Global Just Transition — For Whom?
Rich countries of the world are finally starting to own up to the fact that their fossil-fueled development has unjustly put developing nations at increased climate risk. Those poorer countries will also need help financing a transition to a clean energy economy. How can that be achieved while centering economic justice?
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Stop, Listen, What’s that Sound?
Every place we inhabit has its own tapestry of sound. But as the planet warms and we lose biodiversity, those sounds are changing. In urban centers, our efforts to mitigate the climate crisis will also have a direct sonic effect. Will we listen to the messages our world is sending us, or will we tune them out?
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Has Hydrogen’s Moment Finally Arrived?
For decades, hydrogen has been considered the fuel of the future. Now, with a slew of new U.S. tax incentives, research and funding, its moment may have finally arrived.
53 min
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Housing Density as a Climate Lever with Scott W...
The lack of affordable housing in the US has contributed to a homelessness crisis and has forced people to move farther away from urban centers. Inevitably, that increases car travel and emissions. How do we address the housing and climate crises equitably?
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Climate Smart Agriculture with Secretary Tom Vi...
Could “climate smart” agriculture reverse the carbon impact of mainstream farming and ranching? USDA Secretary Tom Vilsack advocates for a new federal program aimed at changing the system at a commodity level. But will it be enough to incentivize more climate-friendly practices for growing food and fuel?
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What We’re Watching in Climate Now
2022 was a banner year for climate – both in terms of climate-fueled disaster and historic federal investments in clean energy, electric vehicles and home electrification. The questions now: How will the programs be implemented? How will the money be spent – and who will benefit?
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Saket Soni on the People Who Make Disaster Reco...
As human-driven global warming amplifies the frequency and potency of natural disasters, we are increasingly dependent on one group of workers who live in the shadows: the migrant workforce that arrives to clean up and rebuild.
56 min
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Blue Carbon: Sinking it in The Sea
When most of us think about using nature to remove carbon dioxide from the air, we think of trees. Yet blue carbon, a new name for CO2 stored in coastal and marine ecosystems, may have even greater sequestration potential. How can ocean-based solutions benefit both the planet and the people who depend on coastal ecosystems?
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Activism, Art and Environmental Justice
On Climate One we often try to shine a light on the vast inequities that exist between those who benefit from extracting and burning fossil fuels and those who suffer its impacts first and worst. How can activism and art highlight these inequities and provide new ways of thinking and viewing ourselves in relationship to the earth?
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REWIND: Coping with Climate through Music
Music and social movements have historically gone hand in hand. Now, when governments consistently fail to take meaningful action on climate, why aren’t more musical artists raising the alarm over the growing catastrophe?
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