A Decade of Oil: From Deepwater Horizon to Deflation

June 5, 2020

America's latest oil boom began with a bang, literally, on Earth Day, 2010. That’s when an offshore oil rig owned by BP exploded, killing eleven...

REWIND: Fate of Food / Plate to Planet

May 29, 2020

How will we feed a planet that’s hotter, drier, and more crowded than ever? Much of it starts with innovators who are trying to re-invent the...

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.”...

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...

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...

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: 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...

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...

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...

What the 2030 Climate Deadline Really Means

March 13, 2020

Are we on track to meet our climate deadline?
For years, scientists have been saying that the climate battle will be won or lost in the next...

Big Ideas with Dan Esty & Andy Karsner

March 6, 2020

Does solving climate change mean re-thinking old top-down approaches and embracing big change at high speed? A half-century after the first Earth...

Oil and Opioids on Trial

February 28, 2020

What do Big Pharma, Big Tobacco and Big Oil have in common?
They’ve all been brought under fire, and into the courts, for knowingly causing...

Is California’s Climate Progress Going Up in Smoke?

February 21, 2020

California has been at the forefront of America’s climate fight since Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger signed Assembly Bill 32, the country’s...

Building a Resilient Tomorrow

February 14, 2020

How do we build communities that are more resilient than the ones we were raised in? 
Climate-fueled floods, fires and droughts have devastated...