Power Plays: Media Roundtable

February 3, 2012

Clean energy has boomed in recent years, but to guarantee its continued growth investors need stable, long-term policy support, according to three of

Sun Spots

January 30, 2012

Can large solar farms and the California desert co-exist? Yes, says this expert panel, which includes state and federal policymakers, California

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 last

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 of

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 the right

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, CEO

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 physical

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 might

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 what

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 spill

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 the

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 expect the

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 say

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, CALSTARTMike

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 talk

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 on