Recent Episodes
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Solar Power to the People
February 14, 2025
At this moment, the cheapest way to create electricity is by pointing a solar panel at the sun. That’s good news for the climate. It’s also...
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Drag Queen Pattie Gonia: Bringing Joy to Climate Action
February 7, 2025
Addressing climate change can take many forms. For some, like the R&B duo Mike Roberts and Will Hammond Jr., it’s creating music videos to...
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What Climate Progress Is Possible Now?
January 31, 2025
The second Trump administration has hit the ground running. The president has signed a flurry of executive orders targeting everything from...
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LA Wildfires: Loss, Recovery and Resilience
January 24, 2025
It’s been more than two weeks since massive infernos started in Los Angeles. New fires just broke out near San Diego. As of when this episode...
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Even Old Houses Can Learn New Elec-Tricks
January 17, 2025
If we include personal cars, along with appliances like water heaters, stoves and furnaces, more than 40 percent of U.S. greenhouse gas emissions...
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Leah Stokes: 2024 Schneider Award Winner
January 10, 2025
Every year Climate One grants the Stephen H. Schneider Award for Outstanding Climate Science Communication to one scientist. This year’s...
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REFRESH – Big Plastic: The New Big Oil
December 27, 2024
Plastics are everywhere. Jane Patton, U.S. Fossil Economy Campaign Manager at the Center for International Environmental Law - says, “They're...
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This Year in Climate: 2024
December 20, 2024
2024 set new records for extreme heat around the world in what is already the warmest decade on record. According to the World Meteorological...
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Transfer of Power: Life After Coal
December 13, 2024
For more than a century, coal powered much of the U.S. Now it's on its way out. That means all across the country, the communities that were built...
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What Trump 2.0 Means for the Climate
December 6, 2024
For climate-concerned citizens, the recent November elections were hugely disappointing. As a candidate, Donald Trump said he would be a dictator...