Wild Weather

December 13, 2011

2011 has been marked by extreme weather. In the U.S. alone, a record dozen disasters caused more than $1 billion in damage. This, and the release...

The Stephen Schneider Award

December 6, 2011

The event is a moving tribute to the late Stanford University climatologist Stephen Schneider, as Richard Alley is honored as the inaugural winner...

Boom or Bust?

November 18, 2011

Climate change “is going to dominate our world in the next century. It’s a very big risk, but it’s also a tremendous opportunity, if we make...

Sun Up

November 18, 2011

In the wake of the collapse of solar panel maker Solyndra, the solar industry has received front-page treatment for the first time.
Dan Shugar,...

The Great Disruption

November 8, 2011

Growth as we’ve known it is over, say Paul Gilding and Richard Heinberg. “The idea that we can keep on growing the economy up against the...

Energy Innovation

November 3, 2011

America’s innovation engine is the envy of the world, yet it struggles to deploy new technology at the scale commensurate with its economic...

Bill Ford: A World with Too Many Cars

October 28, 2011

It might sound strange coming from the scion of a family whose name is synonymous with cars, but Bill Ford is worried about a world with too many...

U.S. Senator Jeff Merkley

October 26, 2011

America should wean itself from foreign oil and invest in clean energy technologies and infrastructure. Join us for a broad conversation about...

Beyond Petroleum: Lessons from the Gulf of Mexico

October 21, 2011

More than a year after oil stopped gushing into the Gulf, the co-chairs of the commission tasked with investigating the Deepwater Horizon oil...

Beyond Petroleum: Navy Seals Leading the Charge

October 21, 2011

The U.S. military has ambitious plans to reduce its dangerous dependence on oil and other fossil fuels. Can the buying power of the Pentagon drive...

Saltworks and Beyond

October 18, 2011

The debate over Saltworks, a proposal to build 12,000 homes on former salt ponds in Redwood City, is a harbinger of coming development fights in...

Daniel Yergin on the Energy Remaking the Modern World

October 14, 2011

Bullish on technology’s ability to tap previously unreachable oil and gas, energy analyst Daniel Yergin tells this Climate One audience to...

Red Alert

October 12, 2011

The four China watchers assembled for this Climate One panel debate the motives for, and the implications of, China’s domestic climate action,...

Drop In, Scale Up?

October 6, 2011

Next-generation biofuels are on the verge of a breakthrough but aren’t ready to displace conventional fuels, three Bay Area biofuel company CEOs...

Truckin'

October 6, 2011

In August, the Obama administration announced the first-ever fuel efficiency standards for heavy-duty trucks and buses. 
John Boesel, CEO,...

Jeremy Rifkin and the Third Industrial Revolution

October 3, 2011

The world is doomed to repeat four-year cycles of booms followed by crashes if we don’t get off oil, Jeremy Rifkin warns in this Climate One...

Big Green

September 28, 2011

It would not seem a fruitful time to be on the frontlines in the fight to protect the environment in the United States, with the EPA under daily...

Carbon & Courts: Cap and Trade

September 14, 2011

It might be the only reference to Star Wars you’ll ever hear at Climate One. Reaching for an analogy to drive home the impact of a shrinking cap...

Carbon & Courts: Atmospheric Trust

September 14, 2011

With climate legislation dead in Congress, and the international climate talks years from resolution, some proponents of climate action are...

Secretary Ken Salazar

September 19, 2011

California reservoirs are at healthy levels this year, but the state’s water system remains in crisis.
Ken Salazar, Secretary of the Interior