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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World Bank: Driving Incomes Up, Carbon Down
The World Bank is at the center of the great 21st-century challenge of reducing carbon while creating opportunity in emerging economies. When are those priorities in alignment? When do they conflict? How does the Bank’s efforts relate to private capital?
65 min
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Curtailing Suburban Sprawl in California
As California’s population has grown, so too has the state’s thirst for expansion and space. Panelists discuss a recent state law that passed to curtail suburban sprawl, as well as the impact legislation will have on individual citizens and the state.
66 min
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Chevron + Sierra Club: Drilling for Common Ground
Chevron and the Sierra Club both see renewable fuels as a growing part of our future, yet they have different views on how that will occur. In their first public dialogue, O’Reilly and Pope discuss energy and the environment in the 21st century.
65 min
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The Road to Copenhagen: Are We on Track?
In six months more than 180 nations will gather in Copenhagen to hammer out one of the most far-reaching international treaties since the post-war order was established nearly 70 years ago. Is the world on track to make a deal?
69 min
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Rethinking Buying and Building: A New Sustainab...
This panel, which includes the CEO of the country’s largest recycler, $14 billion Waste Management, will discuss innovations in design, materials and marketing that are convincing people and companies that being green is good for business and the planet.
67 min
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Clean Coal: Myth, or Reality?
Coal-fired power plants are the largest U.S. emitters of CO2 and human-generated mercury, yet our nation is poised to build many new coal plants in the future. Our panelists look at the reality and myths involved in the coal industry and "Clean Coal".
67 min
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Change in Your Palm: The Borneo Rainforest
Biologist Birute Mary Galdikas discusses the connection between Indonesian rainforests and climate change.
24 min
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Auden Schendler: Getting Green Done - Hard Trut...
59 min
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Climate Security
What is the geopolitical context in which the “Carbon Quad” – The United States, European Union, China and India – are posturing regarding a global deal to reduce carbon pollution?
32 min
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Clean Tech for California: Winners of the Third...
Meet the winners of the Third Annual California Clean Tech Open 2008. This statewide competition focuses on keeping California the leader in commercialized green technologies.
60 min
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Two Billion Cars: Dan Sperling, Founding Direct...
By 2020, the number of cars on the planet will double to two billion. Join energy expert Dan Sperling as he reveals what is at stake if we refuse to move quickly, and what opportunities exist if we act now.
64 min
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Letter To President Obama: Path to a Greener Fu...
Can President Obama heal the economy and turn it green at the same time? A leading policymaker, advocate and businessperson discuss what Obama should do to realize his vision for America, and what that means for California.
69 min
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Alan Weisman, Author of "The World Without Us"
In this 2007 program author Alan Weisman talks about his book titled The World Without Us which looks at how the world would change without a human presence.
70 min
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Cars: Clean Them or Crush Them. International C...
The number of cars in the world may double in twenty years to 2 billion if the emerging middle class in India and China get their hands on a new set of wheels.
51 min
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Getting Your Green Dream Job.
INFORUM hosts a panel to discus job opportunities in the coming Green Economy.
65 min
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Climate Countdown: Can The World Cut A Deal? Th...
This panel produced by INFORUM and Climate One, two divisions of The Commonwealth Club, focuses on climate change policy after the UN's Climate Change Conference in Poland this year.
66 min
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Energy Efficiency Unplugged. Chevron, NRDC, Wal...
Climate One presents a panel on energy efficiency and conservation, with some lively debate on the intersection of the free market and government regulation.
61 min
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Stewart Brand, Co-founder and President, Long N...
Founder of the Whole Earth catalog and President of the Long Now Foundation, Stewart Brand discusses issues of economics and environment in this program from June of 2007.
64 min
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James Howard Kunstler, Author of "The Long Emer...
This March 2007 program featured James Howard Kunstler speaking about Peak Oil and his book "The Long Emergency"
65 min
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Renewable Energy for California: Challenges and...
64 min
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John Hofmeister, Founder and Chief Executive, C...
Former CEO of Shell Oil and Founder and Chief Executive of Citizens for Affordable Energy, John Hofmeister comes to the Club's Climate One forum to discuss US Energy strategy.
72 min
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Rob Dunbar, Professor of Earth Science, Senior ...
Stanford University's Ron Dunbar is Professor of Earth Science and speaks to the Club about climate change issues.
70 min
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Eric Schmidt, CEO, Google
The Commonwealth Club's Climate One Initiative and INFORUM welcomes Google CEO Eric Schmidt who discusses Google's new energy initiative.
63 min
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Arnold Schwarzenegger, Governor of California
Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger comes to the Commonwealth Club's Climate One forum to discuss California's leading role in the fight against Climate Change and the creation of the Green Economy.
65 min
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Dr. Rajendra K. Pachauri, Chair of the Nobel Pe...
The Commonwealth Club's Climate One Initiative brings Dr. R.K. Pachauri to San Francisco to speak with Green leaders about how California's landmark AB32 legislation can pave the way for the Nation and the World to limit carbon emissions.
67 min