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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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?
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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
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Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., Senior Attorney, Natura...
Progressives' acceptance of Robert F. Kennedy Jr. can conceal his inherently conservative message. The market is flawed, he says, by polluters who make themselves rich by making everyone else poor- externalizing their costs and internalizing the profits.
67 min
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Crops, Cattle and Carbon (6/14/11)
Making California’s farms more energy efficient, and ensuring that farmers can adapt to a warmer planet, will be a decades-long challenge, agrees this panel of experts gathered by Climate One.
64 min
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Salmon Odyssey (6/3/11)
If wild salmon are to survive, in California and elsewhere, we must acknowledge that well-intentioned human ingenuity in the form of dam construction has failed. Tough choices await, says this panel of experts.
64 min
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Sustainable Urbanism (5/25/11)
Infill development is hard. Even in California, one of the few states to have given local officials guidance on how to plan for growth, building smart, sustainable projects close to transit is a challenge, says this panel of experts.
62 min
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Peter Calthorpe, Founder, Calthorpe Associates;...
It’s a love story gone horribly wrong. Big cars, ever-bigger homes, distant suburbs – all of it kept afloat by cheap oil. If this American arrangement ever made sense, it certainly doesn’t now, Peter Calthorpe says.
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Edward Humes: Wal-Mart; Force of Nature or Gree...
Wal-Mart isn't a sustainable company, says author Edward Humes, but the mega-retailer is investing in sustainability. Humes, author of Force of Nature: The Unlikely Story of Wal-Mart’s Green Revolution, describes Wal-Mart's pivot toward green.
64 min
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Charge It (5/12/11)
Consumers are ready for electric vehicles. Entrepreneurs and policymakers just need to hustle to work out the kinks in the nationwide networks that will charge the cars, says this panel of experts assembled at Climate One.
68 min
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Pole Position (5/12/11)
Before electric vehicles dominate the market, industry, policymakers, and consumers will have to grapple with some unresolved questions, says this panel of industry giants and start-ups.
68 min
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Dr. Tim Flannery: A Natural History of the Plan...
Tim Flannery doesn’t do pessimism. Flannery explains the source of his optimism, a major theme of his new book, Here on Earth: A Natural History of the Planet, in this Climate One conversation at the Hoover Theatre, in San Jose.
61 min
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Senator Dianne Feinstein, Member, United States...
In this Climate One conversation at the Mark Hopkins Hotel in San Francisco, Senator Dianne Feinstein touches on some longtime pursuits – national security experience and protecting the California desert from development.
64 min
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Measure What? (4/15/11)
Forward-thinking companies are coming to realize that sustainability isn’t just good for their bottom lines; it makes it easier to win over customers and compete in the market, say Michel Gelobter of Hara, Eric Olson of BSR, and Glen Low of Blu Skye.
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