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...

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...

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...

SF Climate Week 2024: Leading San Francisco in a Hot and Volatile World

April 30, 2024

In 2021, Mayor London Breed released the San Francisco Action Plan, which aims to achieve net zero emissions for the city by 2040. The plan not...

What More Can I Do?

March 1, 2024

As climate change impacts our lives more and more, many of us want to know: what can I do to make a difference? If the scale of the crisis feels...

Geothermal: So Hot Right Now

February 23, 2024

When most people hear the phrase renewable energy, they imagine fields full of solar panels or giant spinning wind turbines. But another source is...

Let’s Talk Dirty to Clean Energy

February 16, 2024

After more than a century, the U.S. is moving away from coal, the dirtiest and most dangerous form of power generation. 
“We are now at a point...

Wardrobe Malfunction: The Climate Impact of Clothing

January 19, 2024

Clothing may not be one of the top things you think about in terms of climate solutions, but the way we source, make and churn through clothes has...

The Nuclear Option

September 15, 2023

Fourteen years after receiving its permit, the nation’s first new nuclear reactors in decades just fired up in Georgia. And they ended up...

Rethinking Economic Growth, Wealth, and Health

September 8, 2023

Since the industrial revolution, the global north has seen massive economic growth. And today, many believe continued growth to be the engine of a...