U.S. Senator Jeff Merkley

October 26, 2011

America should wean itself from foreign oil and invest in clean energy technologies and infrastructure. Join us for a broad conversation about...

Beyond Petroleum: Lessons from the Gulf of Mexico

October 21, 2011

More than a year after oil stopped gushing into the Gulf, the co-chairs of the commission tasked with investigating the Deepwater Horizon oil...

Beyond Petroleum: Navy Seals Leading the Charge

October 21, 2011

The U.S. military has ambitious plans to reduce its dangerous dependence on oil and other fossil fuels. Can the buying power of the Pentagon drive...

Saltworks and Beyond

October 18, 2011

The debate over Saltworks, a proposal to build 12,000 homes on former salt ponds in Redwood City, is a harbinger of coming development fights in...

Daniel Yergin on the Energy Remaking the Modern World

October 14, 2011

Bullish on technology’s ability to tap previously unreachable oil and gas, energy analyst Daniel Yergin tells this Climate One audience to...

Red Alert

October 12, 2011

The four China watchers assembled for this Climate One panel debate the motives for, and the implications of, China’s domestic climate action,...

Drop In, Scale Up?

October 6, 2011

Next-generation biofuels are on the verge of a breakthrough but aren’t ready to displace conventional fuels, three Bay Area biofuel company CEOs...

Truckin'

October 6, 2011

In August, the Obama administration announced the first-ever fuel efficiency standards for heavy-duty trucks and buses. 
John Boesel, CEO,...

Jeremy Rifkin and the Third Industrial Revolution

October 3, 2011

The world is doomed to repeat four-year cycles of booms followed by crashes if we don’t get off oil, Jeremy Rifkin warns in this Climate One...

Big Green

September 28, 2011

It would not seem a fruitful time to be on the frontlines in the fight to protect the environment in the United States, with the EPA under daily...

Carbon & Courts: Cap and Trade

September 14, 2011

It might be the only reference to Star Wars you’ll ever hear at Climate One. Reaching for an analogy to drive home the impact of a shrinking cap...

Carbon & Courts: Atmospheric Trust

September 14, 2011

With climate legislation dead in Congress, and the international climate talks years from resolution, some proponents of climate action are...

Secretary Ken Salazar

September 19, 2011

California reservoirs are at healthy levels this year, but the state’s water system remains in crisis.
Ken Salazar, Secretary of the Interior

Ecosystem Services

September 13, 2011

“Humanity needs nature to thrive.” For Peter Seligmann, who delivers that line, and Jib Ellison, who shares the stage with him at this Climate...

Blessed 350

September 8, 2011

In this Climate One conversation, two of the most influential environmentalists of the past 30 years share the same stage for just the second time...

Canada’s Oil Sands

August 30, 2011

The 1,700-mile Keystone XL pipeline would carry heavy crude oil from Alberta to America’s Gulf Coast refineries.
Cassie Doyle, Consul General,...

Power Down

July 22, 2011

Energy underpins our civilization. It’s hardly surprising that convincing people to use less of something so tied to their comfort and survival...

Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. on Democracy and Free Markets

June 17, 2011

The fact that Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is so readily embraced by progressives can conceal that his message is an inherently conservative one. 
Robert...

Crops, Cattle and Carbon

June 14, 2011

Making California’s farms more energy efficient, and ensuring that farmers can adapt to a warmer planet, will be a decades-long challenge,...