Climate Hour
The best in climate news, technology and practices from experts in the field. For more information, vist http://ClimateHour.net or email [email protected]
- Update frequency
- every 30 days
- Average duration
- 50 minutes
- Episodes
- 45
- Years Active
- 2022 - 2025
How Climate Change is Impacting World Forest Growth
CLIMATE HOUR -- We know that deforestation, commercial farming, urban sprawl and other forms of defoliation contribute to climate change. But what about the other way around. What is climate change …
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Mon 01 Jan 2024
Food Security, Polyforestry and NOAA’s Climate Dashboard
CLIMATE HOUR -- For most of the world, food security – having enough to eat – is one of today’s greatest challenges. As climate change continues to disrupt today’s industrial farming systems, world …
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Fri 01 Dec 2023
Ocean Warming And The Survival Of The World’s Largest Ecosystem
CLIMATE HOUR -- Oceans cover 70% of our planet’s surface. Oceans absorb 90% of the heat from global warming. They absorb 30% of the carbon dioxide produced by burning fossile fuels. Oceans drive our…
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Wed 01 Nov 2023
India’s Perspective on Climate Change
CLIMATE HOUR -- India has now surpassed China as the world’s most populous nation. That’s almost one-and-a-half billion people living in an area three times smaller than the United States. To put th…
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Sun 01 Oct 2023
Nuclear Energy
CLIMATE HOUR -- Nuclear supporters think that nuclear energy is a safe, sustainable option with zero greenhouse gas emissions, that plays an important role in fighting climate change. The anti-nucle…
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Fri 01 Sep 2023
Engaging With Black Communities on Climate
The Climate movement is predominantly white. Many climate activists raise up Climate Equity and the importance of engaging with communities of color, but then what do we do? How do we actually engag…
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Tue 01 Aug 2023
Climate Science and Renewable Technology
Science has now demonstrated that there’s enough wind energy globally to supply the energy needs of the entire planet. Combine this with all of the renewable solar and water energy, and there’s more…
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Sat 01 Jul 2023
Strategic Defense Impacts of Climate Change
If you’ve tuned in to the Climate Hour before, you’ve heard us explain that the burning of fossil fuels has led to an increase in greenhouse gases that have trapped the heat from the sun and increas…
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Thu 01 Jun 2023
International Youth Climate Movement
Young people across the world are forming networks to take positive action on climate change. Many act locally, but increasing numbers are coming together to form national and continental coalitions…
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Mon 01 May 2023
Urban Farming
Food is a pretty fundamental part of life. The history of the world is often defined by its farming systems, and today’s world seems defined by expensive, un-nutritious monocrops; often genetically …
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Sat 01 Apr 2023
How To Lobby For Climate Solutions
Making sustainable choices in our personal lives is our first responsibility if we want to live a healthy life and give that option to our children. But what comes next? How do we promote sustainabl…
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Wed 01 Mar 2023
The Carbon Almanac
The Carbon Almanac is both a book and a global community; an easily understood source of climate knowledge and an amazing example of collective action. The book itself is a compilation of reliable i…
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Wed 01 Feb 2023
Sustainable Fashion
The industrial sector accounts for 21% of greenhouse gas emissions, and a single industry – the fashion industry – accounts for 39% of all industrial emissions and an even larger amount of industria…
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Sun 01 Jan 2023
Teaching Children About Climate Change
How do we prepare our children to live in a world filled with extreme temperatures, life-threatening storms, and collapsing food systems? How do we provide the skills our children will need to creat…
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Thu 01 Dec 2022
Plastics And Their Effect On Climate Change
Plastics are made out of crude oil and natural gas, the same fossil fuels used in our homes and cars. And, because plastics can never fully disintegrate, they overflow our landfills, rivers and ocea…
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Tue 01 Nov 2022
Climate Impacts of the Inflation Reduction Act
The Inflation Reduction Act of 2022 is the successor to the House-passed Build Back Better Act and is the largest piece of federal climate legislation ever to be enacted in the United States. Is it …
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Sat 01 Oct 2022
Impacts of the Russo-Ukranian War on Labor’s Climate Movement
Over the past few months, we’ve seen a massive realignment of global alliances and supply chains caused by Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. How is this impacting the U.S. labor movement and how does it…
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Thu 01 Sep 2022
Sustainable Food
Food systems are responsible for 24% of global greenhouse gas emissions and is the world’s largest consumer of land and fresh water. Personal food choices impact our health & longevity, our pocket b…
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Mon 01 Aug 2022
The International Sustainable Fashion Movement
The clothing you are wearing right now has a surprisingly large impact on our environment and climate systems. The fashion industry is responsible for 8.1% of global greenhouse gas emissions. Today’…
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Fri 01 Jul 2022
Green New Deal
The New Deal enacted by President Franklin D. Roosevelt pulled the U.S. out of the Great Depression and led to decades of American prosperity. That New Deal combined economic reforms with lots of ne…
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Wed 01 Jun 2022
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