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,...
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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,...
Daniel Hesse
Former CEO, Sprint
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,...
Salmon Odyssey
June 3, 2011
In the post-World War II boom, previous generations prioritized cheap electricity and economic development over salmon. On the West Coast, huge...
Sustainable Urbanism
May 25, 2011
Infill development is hard. Even in California, one of the few states to have given local officials guidance on how to plan for growth, building...
Peter Calthorpe: Urbanism in the Age of Climate Change
May 25, 2011
It’s a love story gone horribly wrong. Big cars, ever-bigger homes, distant suburbs – all of it kept afloat by cheap oil. If this American...
Wal-Mart: Force of Nature or Greenwashing?
May 17, 2011
Wal-Mart is not a sustainable company, says author Edward Humes. But the mega-retailer is making money by investing in sustainability. The story...
