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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- Update frequency
- every 6 days
- Average duration
- 58 minutes
- Episodes
- 858
- Years Active
- 2007 - 2025
SF Climate Week 2024: Are Businesses and Governments Measuring What Matters?
Many businesses and governments have a goal of reaching net zero emissions. Sounds good. But what does “net zero” even mean? And how do we get there? Alicia Seiger is a lecturer at Stanford Law Schoo…
00:24:29 |
Wed 01 May 2024
SF Climate Week 2024: Leading San Francisco in a Hot and Volatile World
In 2021, Mayor London Breed released the San Francisco Action Plan, which aims to achieve net zero emissions for the city by 2040. The plan not only charts the course for eliminating emissions over t…
00:18:27 |
Wed 01 May 2024
REWIND: Building a Better Battery Supply Chain with JB Straubel and Aimee Boulanger
Batteries are a critical part of the transition away from fossil fuels. From electric vehicles to grid scale storage for wind and solar, demand for batteries is expected to grow 500% by 2030. In orde…
01:09:14 |
Fri 26 Apr 2024
SF Climate Week 2024: Is California on Track for an Affordable and Just Energy Transition?
The Golden State has staked much of its reputation on its green credentials, with state leaders often touting its role on the leading edge of global and national climate progress.
But California is …
00:20:34 |
Wed 24 Apr 2024
SF Climate Week 2024: California Attorney General Rob Bonta on Suing Big Oil
On behalf of the People of the State of California, Attorney General Rob Bonta has filed a lawsuit against five of the world’s largest oil and gas companies, along with the lobbying organization Amer…
00:19:40 |
Tue 23 Apr 2024
Artificial Intelligence, Real Climate Impacts
Artificial intelligence can do some pretty amazing things, including for the climate. AI can help optimize the electric grid, make heating and cooling buildings more efficient, and pinpoint exactly w…
00:57:11 |
Fri 19 Apr 2024
Nearly 2 Years In… Is the Inflation Reduction Act Delivering Yet?
In August 2022, Congress passed the biggest piece of climate legislation in our nation’s history: The Inflation Reduction Act, which put $400 billion into boosting the transition to a clean energy ec…
01:00:29 |
Fri 12 Apr 2024
Elizabeth Kolbert on Hope, Despair, and Everything In Between
Even before Al Gore’s “An Inconvenient Truth” brought climate change to the mainstream, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Elizabeth Kolbert was on the beat. Her reporting in the early 2000s culminate…
00:56:02 |
Fri 05 Apr 2024
Rising Temperatures, Rising Prices: How Climate Drives Inflation
Climate change means extreme weather, shifting landscapes, and generally more instability. More and more, you can feel the impacts of climate disruption in your wallets. Drought is pushing up the cos…
00:56:54 |
Fri 29 Mar 2024
Climate Migration: Should I Stay or Should I Go?
The places that most people call home are coming under increasing threat from climate change. From rising seas and more frequent floods to stronger hurricanes and cyclones, to more devastating drough…
00:58:03 |
Fri 22 Mar 2024
Talk Isn’t Cheap: The Power of Conversation
As heat waves, storms, droughts and wildfires continue to worsen, talking can seem like a seriously insufficient climate solution. It’s fair to ask: Are we just engaged in blah, blah, blah?
Too often…
01:03:17 |
Fri 15 Mar 2024
How Activism Can Win Bigger and Faster with Kumi Naidoo
Kumi Naidoo is a world renowned activist and climate leader. Before going on to lead Greenpeace International then Amnesty International, Naidoo was a 15 year old anti-apartheid activist in South Afr…
00:59:24 |
Fri 08 Mar 2024
What More Can I Do?
If you’re a climate-conscious person, you likely already know some of the main ways you can reduce your contribution to greenhouse gasses: buy less, eat less meat, ride your bike.
But there are othe…
00:55:57 |
Fri 01 Mar 2024
Geothermal: So Hot Right Now
When most people hear the phrase renewable energy, they imagine fields full of solar panels or giant spinning wind turbines. But another source may be heating up: geothermal. Twenty years ago it was …
00:55:55 |
Fri 23 Feb 2024
Let’s Talk Dirty to Clean Energy
As fossil fuels are phased out, shuttered coal plants, contaminated landfills, and abandoned mine lands across the U.S. are finding new life as renewable energy projects. More than 23 states have 100…
01:03:39 |
Fri 16 Feb 2024
Busted: The Newest Emission Cheaters
A settlement for the largest civil penalty resulting from the Clean Air Act has just been reached. The EPA, DOJ and the State of California have agreed to a $1.7 billion fine for engine maker Cummins…
00:52:13 |
Fri 09 Feb 2024
REWIND: Jane Fonda: A Lifetime of Activism
Jane Fonda has spent the last several decades fighting for Indigenous peoples' rights, economic justice, LGBTQ rights, peace, gender equality and more. Now, she is devoting herself to the climate eme…
00:56:25 |
Fri 02 Feb 2024
Indigenous Perspectives: What Makes a Just Transition?
We often talk about a “just transition” from dirty to clean energy as if the term means the same thing to everyone. Indigenous people have seen their resources extracted and exploited to further the …
00:53:34 |
Fri 26 Jan 2024
Wardrobe Malfunction: The Climate Impact of Clothing
What we wear defines us in so many ways. But in recent decades we’ve moved away from long-lasting, quality pieces in favor of disposable fast fashion, with major consequences for our climate and envi…
01:01:22 |
Fri 19 Jan 2024
Pairing Scientists with Community Advocates
The climate crisis can feel distant — like it’s someone else’s problem — until your town is flooded, your home is damaged by storms, or you're struggling to pay electricity bills as the summers get h…
00:54:31 |
Fri 12 Jan 2024
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