Biden’s Climate Opportunity (Part 1)

December 18, 2020

President-elect Joe Biden says he will infuse climate change into every corner of his agenda. That’s becoming evident looking at his emerging...

Climate Ambition with Gina McCarthy, Annie Leonard and Tamara Toles O’Laughlin

October 16, 2020

Will Joe Biden take bold action on climate if he becomes President? And what lessons can be drawn from the failure of Barack Obama and Joe Biden...

Erin Brockovich: Superman’s Not Coming

September 25, 2020

Twenty years ago, Julia Roberts won an Oscar for her portrayal of maverick environmental activist Erin Brockovich in the biopic of the same name....

The Future Earth: Eric Holthaus and Katharine Wilkinson

July 31, 2020

Science has given us a realistic picture of what Earth will look like with unmitigated climate change: increased extreme weather events, crippled...

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...

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...

Big Ideas with Dan Esty & Andy Karsner

March 6, 2020

Does solving climate change mean re-thinking old top-down approaches and embracing big change at high speed? A half-century after the first Earth...

REWIND: Drawdown / Solving Climate Change

January 24, 2020

To solve climate change, where is best place to start?

The organization Project Drawdown has published a list of top solutions for climate change...

Rewind: Jonathan Safran Foer and David Wallace-Wells

December 13, 2019

In this week’s episode we revisit conversations with two writers who confronted the climate challenge with new books in 2019.
In his most recent...

Jonathan Safran Foer: We Are the Weather

October 4, 2019

Eating a climate friendly diet is one of the most powerful things a person can do to cut their personal carbon footprint.  But virtuous individual...