Podcast
Have regulators, environmentalists, and automakers reached détente on the need to boost the fuel efficiency of America’s vehicle fleet? If one judges by the bonhomie...
Part of Cruising 55, February 2012
Podcast
Clean energy has boomed in recent years, but to guarantee its continued growth investors need stable, long-term policy support, according to three of the Bay Area’s leading...
Part of Power Plays: Media Roundtable, February 2012
Podcast
Can large solar farms and the California desert co-exist? Yes, says this expert panel, which includes state and federal policymakers, California Resources Agency Secretary...
Part of Sun Spots, January 2012
Podcast
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 month of a special UN...
Part of Wild Weather, December 2011
Podcast
The event is a moving tribute to the late Stanford University climatologist Stephen Schneider, as Richard Alley is honored as the inaugural winner of the Stephen H. Schneider...
Part of Dr. Richard Alley: The 2011 Stephen H. Schneider Award for Outstanding Climate Science Communication, December 2011
Podcast
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 choices,” says Dan...
Part of Boom or Bust?, November 2011
Podcast
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, SolariaTom Dinwoodie, CTO...
Part of Sun Up, November 2011
Podcast
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 limits of the Earth” –...
Part of The Great Disruption, November 2011
Podcast
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.
Severin Borenstein, Co-...
Part of Energy Innovation: Overhaul or Tweak?, November 2011
Podcast
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 automobiles. “Even if we...
Part of William Clay Ford, Jr., October 2011
Podcast
America should wean itself from foreign oil and invest in clean energy technologies and infrastructure. Join us for a broad conversation about what Congress could do to...
Part of U.S. Senator Jeff Merkley, October 2011
Podcast
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 appear together in this...
Part of Beyond Petroleum: Lessons from the Gulf of Mexico, October 2011
Podcast
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 innovation in new energy...
Part of Beyond Petroleum: Navy Seals Leading the Charge, October 2011
Podcast
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 age of climate change. ...
Part of Saltworks and Beyond, October 2011
Podcast
Bullish on technology’s ability to tap previously unreachable oil and gas, energy analyst Daniel Yergin tells this Climate One audience to expect the age of fossil fuels to...
Part of Daniel Yergin, October 2011
Podcast
The four China watchers assembled for this Climate One panel debate the motives for, and the implications of, China’s domestic climate action, particularly its abundant clean...
Part of Red Alert, October 2011
Podcast
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 in this Climate One talk...
Part of Drop In, Scale Up?, October 2011
Podcast
In August, the Obama administration announced the first-ever fuel efficiency standards for heavy-duty trucks and buses.
John Boesel, CEO, CALSTARTMike Tunnell, Director,...
Part of Truckin', October 2011
Podcast
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.
Jeremy Rifkin, President,...
Part of Jeremy Rifkin, October 2011
Podcast
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 attack and climate...
Part of Big Green, September 2011