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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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?
53 min
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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.
56 min
128
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?
54 min
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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.
55 min
130
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
131
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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132
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?
51 min
133
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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135
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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136
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.
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138
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?
56 min
140
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?
51 min
141
REWIND: Molly Wood on Tech, Money and Survival
Longtime tech and business journalist Molly Wood has moved into venture capital, driven by the potential she sees in financing climate tech startups. Humans have created the seemingly insurmountable climate crisis, and yet human ingenuity, she says, can help us survive it.
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Revisiting The Enablers: The Firms Behind Fossi...
Fossil fuel companies spend vast amounts of money on advertising and PR campaigns touting their climate commitments. Yet actions rarely live up to the hype. Who is really behind the misleading corporate narratives?
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This Year in Climate: 2022
Climate One hosts Greg Dalton and Ariana Brocious review the top climate stories of 2022, from the global impacts of Russia’s war on Ukraine, to the passage and signing of the Inflation Reduction Act, to the recent international climate summit in Egypt.
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Stefan Rahmstorf: 2022 Schneider Award Winner
Stefan Rahmstorf, winner of this year’s Schneider Award for outstanding science communication, says we’re running toward a cliff in a fog. What can science tell us where that cliff is – and how to avoid it?
51 min
145
Green Buildings: Cooking Without Gas
It may surprise many that some of our biggest fossil fuel uses are inside our homes – with the appliances that heat and cool water and air, dry our clothes and cook our food. But government funding, new technology and home building improvements are changing the way we think about constructing and living inside our homes and buildings to rely less on fossil fuels.
57 min
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What’s in My Air?
A growing number of research coalitions, citizen scientists and activists are using a slate of new tools to detect and report emissions and harmful air pollutants, with the goal of increasing regulations to improve climate and health outcomes at the local and global level.
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Yvon Chouinard: Giving It All Away
Patagonia founder Yvon Chouinard and his family recently transferred their $3 billion stake in the storied outdoor gear company to a special purpose trust that will give away $100 million a year to environmental causes. Yet climate philanthropy still only accounts for a small fraction of all charitable giving.
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In Person at COP27: Funding the Global Energy T...
Climate One has been at the COP27 summit talking with climate leaders about how developing countries, who are facing the effects of the climate crisis first and worst, can transition to clean energy in a world where even wealthy nations are struggling to meet their own emission reduction goals.
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On the Ground at COP27: Tallying Payments and P...
Climate One is on the ground at COP27 in Egypt, where the nations of the world are meeting to hash out how they will accomplish their carbon reduction goals in the coming years. For the first time, richer nations will discuss paying poorer ones for the impacts of climate-fueled disasters.
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Kamala Harris and Gina McCarthy: Views From The...
This week we get an insider’s take on White House climate policy with Gina McCarthy, President Biden’s former White House Climate Advisor. We also feature a special interview between Vice President Kamala Harris and the hosts of the podcast A Matter of Degrees, Katharine Wilkinson and Leah Stokes.
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