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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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- Update frequency
- every 6 days
- Average duration
- 58 minutes
- Episodes
- 859
- Years Active
- 2007 - 2025
Peat, Kelp and Trees: Nature-Based Carbon Capture
Humans must dramatically rein in greenhouse gas emissions in order to slow the planetary warming caused by centuries of fossil fuel combustion. But even if we accomplish that through major reforms to…
01:02:22 |
Fri 04 Mar 2022
Cow Poop and Compost: Digesting the Methane Menace
In a 20-year time frame, methane is 80 times more damaging to the climate than carbon dioxide. Nationally, 37% of methane emissions come from cows. 17% of all US methane emissions come from food wast…
00:56:59 |
Fri 25 Feb 2022
Our Greatest Unintended Experiment
For years, scientists, activists, and politicians have tried to warn the world of the potential catastrophic consequences of dumping greenhouse gases into the atmosphere: Think of An Inconvenient Tru…
01:01:27 |
Fri 18 Feb 2022
The Enablers: The Firms Behind Fossil Fuel Falsehoods
For years, fossil fuel companies have claimed to support climate science and policy. Many have recently pledged to hit net zero emissions by midcentury. Yet behind the scenes they fight those very sa…
00:53:44 |
Fri 11 Feb 2022
REWIND: Should We Have Children in a Climate Emergency?
The climate crisis seems to be unfolding faster than ever before — with catastrophic floods, winter wildfires, and last summer’s killer heat. It’s becoming increasingly hard to mentally set climate a…
01:00:28 |
Fri 04 Feb 2022
State of the Unions: Navigating Job Creation and Destruction
With expanding electrical infrastructure and some jurisdictions beginning to ban gas appliances in new construction, the transition to a clean energy economy is already happening. Understandably, lab…
00:56:54 |
Fri 28 Jan 2022
Corporate Net Zero Pledges: Ambitious or Empty Promises?
Corporate pledges of reaching net zero carbon emissions have quickly become commonplace. Critics argue that such pledges are mere greenwashing, and even if pledges are fulfilled, the balance sheets u…
00:58:26 |
Fri 21 Jan 2022
REWIND: Should Nature Have Rights?
If corporations can be legal persons, why can’t Mother Earth?
In 2017, New Zealand granted the Whanganui River the full legal rights of a person. India granted full legal rights to the Ganges and Ya…
00:56:05 |
Fri 14 Jan 2022
John Doerr And Ryan Panchadsaram: An Action Plan For Solving Our Climate Crisis Now
Beyond his position as chairman of the venture capital firm Kleiner Perkins, John Doerr rose to global prominence in the business world with his popularization of OKRs (Objectives and Key Results), w…
00:55:22 |
Fri 07 Jan 2022
Ayana Elizabeth Johnson and Naomi Oreskes: The Schneider Award
Each year, Climate One gives an award to a natural or social scientist for excellence in science communication. This year’s recipient of the Stephen H. Schneider Award is marine biologist Dr. Ayana E…
00:56:00 |
Thu 30 Dec 2021
Managed Retreat: When Climate Hits Home
Southeastern Virginia currently experiences the fastest rate of sea level rise on the Atlantic seaboard, and that’s only projected to accelerate. For many neighborhoods, it’s not a question of if the…
01:00:44 |
Thu 23 Dec 2021
This Year in Climate: 2021
A recent poll shows that in 2021, for the first time, a majority of Americans personally felt the effects of climate change. But has that growing awareness translated into action?
This week, Climate…
00:59:38 |
Fri 17 Dec 2021
Climate Miseducation
Climate change science isn’t taught accurately — or equally — across the country. Investigative reporter Katie Worth dug into textbooks and talked with dozens of children and teachers to find out why…
00:58:22 |
Fri 10 Dec 2021
What the Infrastructure Deal Means for Climate
President Biden recently signed the biggest piece of climate legislation in U.S. history into law. To be sure, the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act got pared down significantly from what was fi…
00:59:23 |
Fri 03 Dec 2021
REWIND Finding the Heart to Talk About Climate
Ever have a difficult conversation about climate? Pretty much everyone has. Knowing all the facts and figures only goes so far when talking to someone who just doesn’t agree. So how do we break throu…
00:54:38 |
Thu 25 Nov 2021
Taking Stock of COP26
In 2015, delegates from 196 nations entered into the legally binding treaty on climate change known as the Paris Agreement, which set a goal of limiting global warming to “well below 2 and preferably…
01:08:04 |
Fri 19 Nov 2021
Climbing, Conservation and Capitalism
Rick Ridgeway estimates he’s spent about five years of his life sleeping in tents, often in the world’s most remote places alongside fellow outdoor adventure luminaries. Ridgeway worked for Patagonia…
00:55:34 |
Fri 12 Nov 2021
Geoengineering: Who Should Control Our Atmosphere?
According to the latest IPCC Assessment Report, we’re currently on course for at least 3°C (5.4°F) of warming by 2100 even if all of the voluntary Paris Agreement emissions pledges are fulfilled. Cle…
00:56:19 |
Fri 05 Nov 2021
Electrify Everything
Fully electrifying our homes, cars and industries could cut the amount of total energy we need by half, says Saul Griffith, an entrepreneur, inventor and author of Electrify: An Optimist’s Playbook f…
00:59:54 |
Fri 29 Oct 2021
What’s on Tap at COP26 in Glasgow
People around the world have been experiencing unprecedented extreme weather events – raging wildfires, killer heatwaves and catastrophic floods. In August, the UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate …
00:56:26 |
Fri 22 Oct 2021
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