Latest Climate economy Podcast Episodes
Artificial Intelligence, Real Climate Impacts
Climate One - April 19, 2024 07:10 - 57 minutes ★★★★★ - 502 ratingsArtificial intelligence can do some pretty amazing things, including for the climate. AI can help optimize the electric grid, make heating and cooling buildings more efficient, and pinpoint exactly where greenhouse gas emissions are coming from all around the world. On the other hand, the energy...
Nearly 2 Years In… Is the Inflation Reduction Act Delivering Yet?
Climate One - April 12, 2024 07:10 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 502 ratingsIn August 2022, Congress passed the biggest piece of climate legislation in our nation’s history: The Inflation Reduction Act, which put $400 billion into boosting the transition to a clean energy economy over the next ten years. The IRA has spurred companies to announce nearly $110 billion of in...
Elizabeth Kolbert on Hope, Despair, and Everything In Between
Climate One - April 05, 2024 07:10 - 56 minutes ★★★★★ - 502 ratingsEven before Al Gore’s “An Inconvenient Truth” brought climate change to the mainstream, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Elizabeth Kolbert was on the beat. Her reporting in the early 2000s culminated in her book “Field Notes from a Catastrophe,” which sounded the alarm on the causes and effects ...
Rising Temperatures, Rising Prices: How Climate Drives Inflation
Climate One - March 29, 2024 07:10 - 56 minutes ★★★★★ - 502 ratingsClimate change means extreme weather, shifting landscapes, and generally more instability. More and more, you can feel the impacts of climate disruption in your wallets. Drought is pushing up the cost of candy and leading to shipping delays in the Panama Canal. Globally, researchers say climate ...
Climate Migration: Should I Stay or Should I Go?
Climate One - March 22, 2024 23:22 - 58 minutes ★★★★★ - 502 ratingsThe places that most people call home are coming under increasing threat from climate change. From rising seas and more frequent floods to stronger hurricanes and cyclones, to more devastating droughts and wildfires, the most habitable parts of our world are becoming far less so. Over time, our c...
Talk Isn’t Cheap: The Power of Conversation
Climate One - March 15, 2024 07:10 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 502 ratingsAs heat waves, storms, droughts and wildfires continue to worsen, talking can seem like a seriously insufficient climate solution. It’s fair to ask: Are we just engaged in blah, blah, blah? Too often, talking is one sided – more of a lecture aimed at conveying information or solely stating one's ...
How Activism Can Win Bigger and Faster with Kumi Naidoo
Climate One - March 08, 2024 08:10 - 59 minutes ★★★★★ - 502 ratingsKumi Naidoo is a world renowned activist and climate leader. Before going on to lead Greenpeace International then Amnesty International, Naidoo was a 15 year old anti-apartheid activist in South Africa. The boycotts he organized led to him being a target of the Security Police. He fled South Afr...
What More Can I Do?
Climate One - March 01, 2024 08:10 - 55 minutes ★★★★★ - 502 ratingsIf you’re a climate-conscious person, you likely already know some of the main ways you can reduce your contribution to greenhouse gasses: buy less, eat less meat, ride your bike. But there are other, less obvious methods we don’t always think of: voting, having climate conversations, engaging w...
Geothermal: So Hot Right Now
Climate One - February 23, 2024 08:10 - 55 minutes ★★★★★ - 502 ratingsWhen most people hear the phrase renewable energy, they imagine fields full of solar panels or giant spinning wind turbines. But another source may be heating up: geothermal. Twenty years ago it was thought that geothermal could provide at most 10% of any given area’s electricity, and only in ver...
Let’s Talk Dirty to Clean Energy
Climate One - February 16, 2024 08:10 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 502 ratingsAs fossil fuels are phased out, shuttered coal plants, contaminated landfills, and abandoned mine lands across the U.S. are finding new life as renewable energy projects. More than 23 states have 100% clean energy goals, and in order to reach those goals, some states are starting to convert what ...
Busted: The Newest Emission Cheaters
Climate One - February 09, 2024 08:10 - 52 minutes ★★★★★ - 502 ratingsA settlement for the largest civil penalty resulting from the Clean Air Act has just been reached. The EPA, DOJ and the State of California have agreed to a $1.7 billion fine for engine maker Cummins Inc. The fine is the result of Cummins being caught using “defeat devices” to fool emissions test...
REWIND: Jane Fonda: A Lifetime of Activism
Climate One - February 02, 2024 08:10 - 56 minutes ★★★★★ - 502 ratingsJane Fonda has spent the last several decades fighting for Indigenous peoples' rights, economic justice, LGBTQ rights, peace, gender equality and more. Now, she is devoting herself to the climate emergency, beginning with Fire Drill Fridays, the national movement to protest government inaction on...
Indigenous Perspectives: What Makes a Just Transition?
Climate One - January 26, 2024 08:10 - 53 minutes ★★★★★ - 502 ratingsWe often talk about a “just transition” from dirty to clean energy as if the term means the same thing to everyone. Indigenous people have seen their resources extracted and exploited to further the wealth of others for centuries. Now renewable energy is looking to expand to Indigenous land. How...
Wardrobe Malfunction: The Climate Impact of Clothing
Climate One - January 19, 2024 08:10 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 502 ratingsWhat we wear defines us in so many ways. But in recent decades we’ve moved away from long-lasting, quality pieces in favor of disposable fast fashion, with major consequences for our climate and environment. From mechanized farming and pesticides to grow fiber crops, to energy for manufacturing a...
Pairing Scientists with Community Advocates
Climate One - January 12, 2024 08:10 - 54 minutes ★★★★★ - 502 ratingsThe climate crisis can feel distant — like it’s someone else’s problem — until your town is flooded, your home is damaged by storms, or you're struggling to pay electricity bills as the summers get hotter. Figuring out the specifics of how a region is vulnerable to climate impacts can be the diff...
REWIND: Youth Activists 15 Years Later
Climate One - January 05, 2024 08:10 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 502 ratingsFrom the climate movement’s earliest days, young people have been at the forefront of activism. But the first major international climate conferences took place 30 years ago. The first cohort of youth activists are now adults, some with children of their own. The emotional cost of seeing so littl...
REWIND: Just a Walk or Bike Ride Away: The 15-Minute City
Climate One - December 29, 2023 08:10 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 502 ratingsCan you imagine if everything you needed in your everyday life was just a walk or bike ride away? That’s the goal of the 15-minute city, a new name for an old idea. Reducing the need for cars cuts emissions and gets autos off of the roads, which is a boon for safety, air quality and the climate. ...
Ben Santer: 2023 Schneider Award Winner
Climate One - December 22, 2023 08:10 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 502 ratingsBen Santer has spent decades researching and identifying the human fingerprints on the climate system changes we’re now all seeing. He was lead author on the historic 1995 conclusion of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, which proclaimed that “the balance of evidence suggests a discer...
This Year in Climate: 2023
Climate One - December 15, 2023 08:10 - 53 minutes ★★★★★ - 502 ratingsIt’s been a year of weather extremes — again. But there’s also been cause for renewed hope about our climate future. On the heels of this year’s international climate conference held in the oil-rich Middle East, Climate One hosts Greg Dalton and Ariana Brocious review major climate stories of th...
Reporting from COP28: The People at the Heart of It All
Climate One - December 08, 2023 08:10 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 502 ratingsThis week, we’re reporting from Dubai, where the 28th UN climate change conference (COP28) is now underway. Ever since the Paris Agreement was signed at COP21, the central issue has remained the same: How do the nations of the world keep global heating to 1.5 degrees Celsius above pre-industrial ...
On the Ground at COP28: What’s at Stake with the Global Stocktake?
Climate One - December 01, 2023 08:10 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 502 ratingsThe 28th annual Conference of the Parties, COP28, opens this week in Dubai. For the 28th time, the nations of the world have gathered to see what progress they can make on addressing the increasingly global climate crisis. It’s fair to wonder why, after three decades, we still haven’t taken the c...
REFRESH: Another Look at Bridging the Great American Divide
Climate One - November 24, 2023 08:10 - 55 minutes ★★★★★ - 502 ratingsMost Americans support climate action, but you wouldn’t know it from Congress or the courts – or from most of the media. People on both the left and the right experience the same devastating floods, the same life-threatening heatwaves and the same catastrophic wildfires. Yet individuals tend to s...
The Coolest Show: The Referendum — Stop Cop City with Rev. Keyanna Jones
Climate One - November 21, 2023 08:10 - 33 minutes ★★★★★ - 502 ratingsFrom The Coolest Show: The City of Atlanta has leased 381-acres of Weelaunee Forest, stolen Muscogee land, to the Atlanta Police Foundation for a police military facility funded by corporations. This would be the largest police training facility in the US in a primarily Black community who overwh...
Six People Who’ve Changed Jobs for Climate
Climate One - November 17, 2023 08:10 - 54 minutes ★★★★★ - 502 ratingsOne of the most common questions people ask about climate is: what can I do? Since time is one of our most valuable resources – and we spend so much of our time at work – changing jobs may be the most effective individual climate action a person can take. Those changes could be big or small: Leav...
Katharine Hayhoe on how to start climate conversations
Degrees: Real talk about planet-saving careers - November 15, 2023 09:00 - 33 minutes ★★★★★ - 74 ratingsDr. Katharine Hayhoe’s research focuses on understanding what climate change means for people and the places where we live. She is the Horn Distinguished Professor of Public Policy and Public Law at Texas Tech University. Her book Saving Us: A Climate Scientist's Case for Hope and Healing in a D...
Putting It All on the Line with Rev. Lennox Yearwood, Jr. and Jacqueline Patterson
Climate One - November 10, 2023 08:10 - 57 minutes ★★★★★ - 502 ratingsClimate affects everyone, but not equally. Those affected first and worst are often the same communities that suffer from housing and income inequality, and climate and societal injustice. Rev. Lennox Yearwood, Jr. has made striving for social, economic, and climate justice his lifelong pursuit. ...
How to land one of the millions of new clean energy jobs
Degrees: Real talk about planet-saving careers - November 08, 2023 09:00 - 21 minutes ★★★★★ - 74 ratingsBetony Jones is a nationally recognized expert in labor-climate issues, with a focus on the intersection between climate jobs, clean energy, and unions. As the director of the Office of Energy Jobs, she oversees workforce development strategies and engages with organized labor and other stakehol...
Rebecca Solnit on Why It’s Not Too Late
Climate One - November 03, 2023 07:01 - 53 minutes ★★★★★ - 502 ratingsWriter, historian, and activist Rebecca Solnit has been examining hope and the unpredictability of change for over 20 years. In 2023 she co-edited an anthology called, “It’s Not Too Late,” which serves as a guidebook for changing the climate narrative from despair to possibility. How can we find ...
How to green your faith communities with Rev Dr. Ambrose F. Carroll
Degrees: Real talk about planet-saving careers - November 01, 2023 08:00 - 26 minutes ★★★★★ - 74 ratingsRev. Dr. Ambrose F. Carroll, Sr., is the founder and CEO of Green The Church, a catalyst for environmentalism and sustainability built for and by the Black Church. Pastor Carroll serves on the National Environmental Justice Action Committee for the United States Environmental Protection Agency. ...
Is This a Joke? Comedy and Climate Communication
Climate One - October 27, 2023 07:01 - 59 minutes ★★★★★ - 502 ratingsLaughter can be good medicine, but when is it okay to laugh at something as deadly serious as the climate crisis? Jokes help us remember information that otherwise might not be retained. A snappy punchline can be a powerful way to get a message through to an audience. Comedy can also be a way for...
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