Climate One
We’re living through a climate emergency; addressing this crisis begins by talking about it. Co-Hosts Greg Dalton, Ariana Brocious and Kousha Navidar 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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Sun Spots (1/30/12)
Can large solar farms and the California desert co-exist? Yes, says this expert panel, which includes state and federal policymakers.
66 min
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Wild Weather (12/13/11)
2011 has been marked by extreme weather. In the U.S. alone, a record dozen disasters caused more than $1 billion in damage. This, and the release last month of a special UN report on extreme weather, was the backdrop for this Climate One panel.
64 min
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Dr. Richard Alley, Winner of the Stephen H. Sch...
The event is a moving tribute to the late Stanford University climatologist Stephen Schneider, as Richard Alley is honored as the inaugural winner of the Stephen H. Schneider Award for Outstanding Climate Science Communication.
62 min
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Dan Miller: Boom or Bust? (11/18/11)
Managing Director at the venture capital firm The Roda Group, Dan Miller says climate change “is going to dominate our world in the next century. It’s a very big risk, but it’s also a tremendous opportunity, if we make the right choices.”
66 min
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Sun Up (11/17/11)
California continues to be bullish on solar power, but the sun still supplies a tiny fraction of the state’s electricity. What does that mean for U.S. companies and consumers?
65 min
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The Great Disruption (11/7/11)
Are the 40-year-old Club of Rome ideas about limits of growth finally gaining traction? What lies beyond growth? Join us for a conversation with two visionary thinkers about the economic road ahead
64 min
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Energy Innovation: Overhaul or Tweak? (11/3/11)
These three experts of the nation’s leading universities says that the U.S. risks falling behind if it refuses to address the technical, financial, and political barriers slowing energy innovation.
65 min
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William Clay Ford, Jr. (10/27/11)
Join us for a conversation with an American icon about the move toward electric cars, government regulations, new technologies and environmental stewardship.
64 min
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US Senator Jeff Merkley (D-OR) (10/26/11)
America should wean itself from foreign oil and invest in clean energy technologies and infrastructure. Join us for a conversation about what Congress could do to promote electric cars, create jobs and development of biofuels from agricultural lands.
68 min
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Beyond Petroleum: Lessons from the Gulf of Mexi...
How much safer is offshore oil drilling 18 months after the Deepwater Horizon sank on Earth Day 2010? The president’s commission found systemic problems with industry practices and regulatory oversight.
62 min
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Beyond Petroleum: Navy Seals Leading the Charge...
The U.S. military has ambitious plans to reduce its dangerous dependence on oil and other fossil fuels. Can the buying power of the Pentagon drive innovation in new energy technologies and create markets?
64 min
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Saltworks and Beyond (10/18/11)
Is DMB Associates' proposal to build 12,000 homes on Cargill's salt ponds in Redwood City an example of smart growth, or just dirty old development? Where else can the Bay Area add needed homes while creating resilient communities?
64 min
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Daniel Yergin: On Energy, Security and the Rema...
Bullish on technology’s ability to tap previously unreachable oil and gas, energy analyst Daniel Yergin tells this Climate One audience to expect the age of fossil fuels to continue well into this century.
68 min
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Red Alert: China Time, China Scale (10/12/11)
The four China watchers assembled for this Climate One panel debate the motives for, and the implications of, China’s domestic climate action, particularly its abundant clean energy investments.
70 min
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Drop In, Scale Up? (10/6/11)
Next-generation biofuels are on the verge of a breakthrough but aren’t ready to displace conventional fuels, three Bay Area biofuel company CEOs say. The CEOs insist that their fuels must compete on price with conventional gasoline or diesel.
63 min
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Truckin' (10/5/11)
In August, the Obama administration announced the first-ever fuel efficiency standards for heavy-duty trucks and buses. The three experts convened at this Climate One panel say that the trucking industry is ready to meet the new rules.
62 min
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Jeremy Rifkin, President, Foundation on Economi...
The world is doomed to repeat four-year cycles of booms followed by crashes if we don’t get off oil, Jeremy Rifkin warns in this Climate One talk. The solution is the “Energy Internet,” a system linking millions of small renewable energy producers.
70 min
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Big Green (9/28/11)
Three environmental leaders participating in this Climate One panel note that many efforts to protect the environment exist outside of Washington, with at least one formidable adversary, utilities operating coal fired-power plants, forced to play defense.
66 min
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Carbon & Courts II: Cap and Trade: Fixable or F...
This Climate One panel debates the impact of a shrinking cap on carbon emissions in California.
66 min
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Carbon & Courts I: Atmospheric Trust (9/14/11)
Some proponents of climate action are turning to the courts in the hope that judges will compel governments to act. This Climate One panel brings together three attorneys who pursue climate action through a novel concept: atmospheric trust litigation.
64 min
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Ken Salazar, Secretary of the Interior (9/19/11)
California reservoirs are at healthy levels this year, but the state’s water system remains in crisis. Join us for a conversation with Secretary Salazar about water, fishing and farming, and other resource concerns in California & the American West.
64 min
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Ecosystem Services (9/12/11)
“Humanity needs nature to thrive.” For Peter Seligmann, who delivers that line, and Jib Ellison, who shares the stage with him at this Climate One panel, the abundant services provided by nature too often go unrecognized. So what are those services?
66 min
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Blessed 350: Paul Hawken & Bill McKibben (9/8/11)
In this Climate One conversation, two of the most influential environmentalists of the past 30 years share the same stage for just the second time in their long careers in public life.
71 min
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Canada’s Oil Sands: Energy Security, or Energy ...
The 1,700-mile Keystone XL pipeline would carry heavy crude oil from Alberta to America’s Gulf Coast refineries. In this Climate One debate, a panel of experts argues for and against the controversial pipeline.
65 min
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Power Down (7/22/11)
Smart policy has given California a head start on energy efficiency, but it’s not enough. We need to dig deeper to reap energy savings, say these three experts convened by Climate One.
56 min