SF Climate Week 2024: Leading San Francisco in a Hot and Volatile World

April 30, 2024

In 2021, Mayor London Breed released the San Francisco Action Plan, which aims to achieve net zero emissions for the city by 2040. The plan not only...

SF Climate Week 2024: Is California on Track for an Affordable and Just Energy Transition?

April 24, 2024

The Golden State has staked much of its reputation on its green credentials, with state leaders often touting its role on the leading edge of global...

SF Climate Week 2024: California Attorney General Rob Bonta on Suing Big Oil

April 23, 2024

On behalf of the People of the State of California, Attorney General Rob Bonta has filed a lawsuit against five of the world’s largest oil and gas...

Artificial Intelligence, Real Climate Impacts

April 19, 2024

Artificial intelligence can do some pretty amazing things, including for the climate. But, as with most technology, there are significant trade offs...

Nearly 2 Years In… Is the Inflation Reduction Act Delivering Yet?

April 12, 2024

Almost two years ago, Congress passed the biggest piece of climate legislation in our nation’s history: The Inflation Reduction Act, which put $400...

Elizabeth Kolbert on Hope, Despair, and Everything In Between

April 5, 2024

Even before Al Gore’s An Inconvenient Truth brought climate change to the mainstream, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Elizabeth Kolbert was on the...

Rising Temperatures, Rising Prices: How Climate Drives Inflation

March 29, 2024

We’ve heard a lot in the last few years about inflation – how much of it we’re seeing, who’s to blame, when it might be tamed enough for interest...

Climate Migration: Should I Stay or Should I Go?

March 22, 2024

In the coming decades, the coasts and major urban centers that most Americans call home will come under increasing threat from climate change. The...

Talk Isn’t Cheap: The Power of Conversation

March 15, 2024

As heat waves, storms, droughts and wildfires continue to worsen, talking can seem like a seriously insufficient climate solution. Are we just engaged...

How Activism Can Win Bigger and Faster with Kumi Naidoo

March 8, 2024

Kumi Naidoo is a world renowned activist and climate leader. Before going on to lead Greenpeace International then Amnesty International, Naidoo was a...

What More Can I Do?

March 1, 2024

As climate change impacts our lives more and more, many of us want to know: what can I do to make a difference? If the scale of the crisis feels...

Geothermal: So Hot Right Now

February 23, 2024

When most people hear the phrase renewable energy, they imagine fields full of solar panels or giant spinning wind turbines. But another source is...

Let’s Talk Dirty to Clean Energy

February 16, 2024

After more than a century, the U.S. is moving away from coal, the dirtiest and most dangerous form of power generation.  “We are now at a point where...

Busted: The Newest Emission Cheaters

February 9, 2024

A settlement for the largest civil penalty resulting from the Clean Air Act has just been reached. The EPA, DOJ and the State of California have...

Indigenous Perspectives: What Makes a Just Transition?

January 26, 2024

We often talk about a “just transition” from dirty to clean energy as if the term means the same thing to everyone. Indigenous people have seen their...

Wardrobe Malfunction: The Climate Impact of Clothing

January 19, 2024

Clothing may not be one of the top things you think about in terms of climate solutions, but the way we source, make and churn through clothes has a...

Pairing Scientists with Community Advocates

January 12, 2024

The climate crisis can feel distant - like it’s someone else’s problem - until your town is flooded, your home is damaged by storms, you're struggling...