Nuclear Power
April 4, 2014
Three years after Fukushima is nuclear power dead in the water? Or is it poised for revival due to the world’s desperate need for carbon-free...
Listen & Watch
Fracking Boom
April 1, 2014
America is in the midst of a fracking boom. Most new oil and gas wells in this country are drilled using hyrdraulic fracturing, the injection of a...
Beyond Plastic
January 31, 2014
Who should take responsibility for reducing the amount of plastic debris that litters our cities, waterways and oceans? While many consumers have...
Aquatech
March 12, 2014
From Egyptian irrigation systems to Roman aqueducts to the dikes and canals of The Netherlands, the world’s civilizations have long found...
The Goldman Prize at 25
March 7, 2014
Since 1989, The Goldman Environmental Prize has honored more than 150 grassroots heroes who are fighting on the front lines to deliver clean...
Meatonomics
February 24, 2014
Tim Koopman is a fourth-generation rancher; his family has been raising cattle on their ranch in Alameda County since 1918 and he now heads the...
Condoms and Climate
February 26, 2014
Breathing, eating and consuming, an individual human being produces tons of carbon every year – population may be the key to curbing greenhouse...
Rising Seas, Rising Costs
February 12, 2014
Swelling sea levels used to be a concern associated with future generations and faraway lands. Then Superstorm Sandy poured the Atlantic Ocean...
Going to Paris: Ambassador Todd Stern
February 20, 2014
The United Nations Climate Change Conference in Warsaw, Poland last year achieved modest progress toward an international agreement on reducing...
Fluid State
January 10, 2014
“For us, a drought means human misery, economic devastation to some natural assets and certainly an unproductive living standard for the...
U.S. Navy Secretary Ray Mabus
January 7, 2014
"A clean-energy economy, I think, is the future,” according to 75th U.S. Secretary of the Navy Ray Mabus, who leads America’s Navy and Marine...
U.S. Secretary of the Interior Sally Jewell
November 7, 2013
“We could start by being rational about how we spend the money that we have,” said U.S. Secretary of Interior Sally Jewell about taking care...
Skeptics & Smog
December 10, 2013
"We could end up being part of the problem, even when we're right," said Jim Hoggan, co-Founder of the DeSmog Blog and chair of the David Suzuki...
Forest Wars
December 5, 2013
“I wish more companies would come out of the closet, so to speak, and talk about what they’re doing,” said Sissel Waage, director of...
Carbon Curves
December 12, 2013
"Climate change is not some academic thing, it's pervasive – you see the signs of change everywhere,” said Ben Santer, a climate scientist at...
Lord Nicholas Stern: The 2013 Stephen Schneider Award
December 12, 2013
"I don't think there's any right to emit, I think there's a right to development," said former World Bank chief economist Lord Nicholas Stern, a...
Ag and Trade
November 19, 2013
"This country has forgotten rural America for far too long," said U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Tom Vilsack. Although the U.S. has had the best...
Power Year in Review
December 2, 2013
“Fear of fracking is rampant,” said KQED science editor Craig Miller when asked about California’s energy headlines of 2013. But more...
Parched California
November 15, 2013
"The Bay Delta debate sucks all the oxygen out of the water discussion," according to Lester Snow, executive director of the California Water...
Fracked State
November 5, 2013
"We have been fracking in California for 60 years and we have done it safely," according to Paul Deiro, an energy lobbyist with KP Public Affairs....