Recent Episodes
COVID-19 and Climate: The Future of Energy
May 22, 2020
If you lived through the oil crisis of the 1970’s, you remember lines of cars at the gas stations, waiting to fill up on “alternate days.”...
Storytelling Through the Climate Crisis
May 15, 2020
How are writers using stories to help readers – and themselves – process the experience of climate change? Author Jenny Offill felt a...
Zero-Emission Cities
May 8, 2020
Can we solve the climate crisis by reimagining our cities? Climate activists have long envisioned the zero-carbon cities of the future. Now, with...
COVID-19 and Climate: Economic Impacts
May 1, 2020
The COVID-19 recession has happened faster and hit deeper than most people could have imagined. Perhaps not surprisingly, the people most at risk...
Fossil Fuels in the Ground and in Your Portfolio
April 24, 2020
Can your nest egg finance the transition to a cleaner economy? Universities, churches, pension funds and other organizations with $14 trillion in...
COVID-19 and Climate: Implications for Public Health
April 17, 2020
Human incursion into remote ecosystems can have far-reaching effects on our health and well-being. Deforestation and changes in land use, often to...
What’s the Future of Nuclear Power?
April 10, 2020
Nuclear power - revive it or allow a slow death? In middle of the last century, nuclear power promised an exciting new world of efficient and...
COVID-19 and Climate: Human Response
April 3, 2020
How do human beings respond to invisible threats like the coronavirus and carbon pollution? One threat is personal, direct, and close – touch an...
REWIND: Aligning Profits with Planet / The Circular Economy
March 27, 2020
Can trees and businesses get along? Business leaders know that consumers are concerned about the environmental footprint of the products they buy....
Me vs We: What Matters Most for Climate Action?
March 20, 2020
This program was recorded at the Commonwealth Club in San Francisco on February 26, 2020, just before coronavirus was declared a global pandemic...