COVID-19 and Climate: The Future of Energy

May 22, 2020

If you lived through the oil crisis of the 1970’s, you remember lines of cars at the gas stations, waiting to fill up on “alternate days.” Now, after...

Storytelling Through the Climate Crisis

May 15, 2020

How are writers using stories to help readers – and themselves – process the experience of climate change? Author Jenny Offill felt a “creeping sense...

Zero-Emission Cities

May 8, 2020

Can we solve the climate crisis by reimagining our cities?  Climate activists have long envisioned the zero-carbon cities of the future. Now, with...

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 in a...

Fossil Fuels in the Ground and in Your Portfolio

April 24, 2020

Can your nest egg finance the transition to a cleaner economy?  Universities, churches, pension funds and other organizations with $14 trillion in...

COVID-19 and Climate: Implications for Public Health

April 17, 2020

Human incursion into remote ecosystems can have far-reaching effects on our health and well-being. Deforestation and changes in land use, often to...

What’s the Future of Nuclear Power?

April 10, 2020

Nuclear power - revive it or allow a slow death?  In middle of the last century, nuclear power promised an exciting new world of efficient and eternal...

COVID-19 and Climate: Human Response

April 3, 2020

How do human beings respond to invisible threats like the coronavirus and carbon pollution? One threat is personal, direct, and close – touch an...

REWIND: Aligning Profits with Planet / The Circular Economy

March 27, 2020

Can trees and businesses get along? Business leaders know that consumers are concerned about the environmental footprint of the products they buy...

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 and...