Climate One

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Addressing the climate crisis begins by talking about it.

Climate One presents empowering conversations that connect all aspects of the climate crisis -- the scary and the exciting, the individual and the systemic. Join us.

We’re living through a climate emergency; finding solutions starts by talking about it. Climate One is a weekly public radio program focused on elevating critical conversations around climate change. Since climate touches all aspects of our lives, we bring together diverse perspectives in empowering conversations: one week we might talk with Jane Goodall or Bill McKibben or an oil industry exec – sometimes on the same panel – and the next week we might hear first-hand stories from people who narrowly escaped a fire or a flood, and the next we might focus on democracy and climate justice. In all of this, we aim to connect the personal to the systemic, and empower conversations to continue beyond our show.


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From pipelines to clean power, the world’s biggest economies are brokering developments in oil, gas, and renewables that will shape climate and pol...

Bought by KOWS, WDSE, WMUU-LP, KSQD Santa Cruz, KICI Iowa City and more


  • Added: Sep 17, 2020
  • Length: 58:59
  • Purchases: 7
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Twenty years ago, Julia Roberts won an Oscar for her portrayal of maverick environmental activist Erin Brockovich in the film of the same name. The...

Bought by KUCR 88.3 fm Riverside, Calif., WDSE, WMUU-LP, KSQD Santa Cruz, KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash. and more


  • Added: Sep 24, 2020
  • Length: 58:57
  • Purchases: 6
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Technology has helped the world survive, thrive, and stay connected through the COVID-19 lockdown. As countries look toward re-opening in a post-pa...

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  • Added: Oct 01, 2020
  • Length: 58:59
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Pathways for reducing carbon emissions include electrifying transportation, replacing fossil fuels with wind and solar power. But in this time of n...

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  • Added: Oct 08, 2020
  • Length: 58:58
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Environmental groups like NRDC, 350.org, and Greenpeace helped move climate onto the presidential agenda last year, pushing Joe Biden and other Dem...

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  • Added: Oct 14, 2020
  • Length: 58:58
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Can we break up the political log jam on climate? “The brokenness of our politics,” says Republican political strategist Stephen Schmidt, “is tha...

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  • Added: Oct 22, 2020
  • Length: 58:57
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What is the role of power in deciding the fate of a planet? 2020 has seen a reckoning with various forms of power embedded in racial, gender, and g...

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  • Added: Oct 29, 2020
  • Length: 58:59
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The 2020 campaign season has finally come to a close. And days after November 3rd has passed, the country is still reeling. About seventy percent o...

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  • Added: Nov 05, 2020
  • Length: 58:58
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Harvest season is especially hard this year, as the pandemic strains farmers and food systems, highlighting a deeply divided and often unjust Ameri...

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  • Added: Nov 12, 2020
  • Length: 58:58
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In this program, we revisit two Climate One programs from earlier in the year. First, events of the past year, including the murders of George Floy...

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  • Added: Nov 18, 2020
  • Length: 58:58
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“Unprecedented” is one of the most overused words of 2020, but it reflects the superstorm of disruption brought on by an overlapping pandemic, raci...

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  • Added: Nov 20, 2020
  • Length: 58:59
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Is this the end of the road for the internal combustion engine? California isn’t the first major economy to ban gas-powered cars and trucks, and ...

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  • Added: Nov 25, 2020
  • Length: 58:59
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Throughout a 45-year career as an environmental regulator, Mary Nichols has been a powerful champion for climate action and cutting emissions. Havi...

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  • Added: Dec 10, 2020
  • Length: 58:58
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President-elect Joe Biden says he will infuse climate change into every corner of his agenda. But after the destructive environmental policies of t...

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  • Added: Jan 10, 2021
  • Length: 58:59
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Maintaining a consumption-driven economy while keeping emissions down seems more and more like a pipe dream -- is it time to re-think capitalism al...

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  • Added: Dec 23, 2020
  • Length: 58:59
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Twenty years ago, Julia Roberts won an Oscar for her portrayal of maverick environmental activist Erin Brockovich in the film of the same name. The...

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  • Added: Dec 31, 2020
  • Length: 58:59
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Questioning science, funding vocal climate denial groups, and encouraging the focus on personal carbon footprints are corporate America’s preferred...

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  • Added: Jan 07, 2021
  • Length: 58:59
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Incoming President Biden faces an unimaginable set of challenges, including the COVID-19 pandemic, a gutted economy and a nation reeling from the r...

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  • Added: Jan 14, 2021
  • Length: 58:59
  • Purchases: 13
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Hopes and expectations are high for President Biden’s first weeks in office. His recovery plans promise to take on COVID-19, a battered economy, an...

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  • Added: Jan 21, 2021
  • Length: 58:59
  • Purchases: 10
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A decade ago, a nationwide survey showed that only around twelve percent of Americans were seriously concerned about climate change. Today, public ...

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  • Added: Jan 28, 2021
  • Length: 58:59
  • Purchases: 14