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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349 Pieces

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Expanding oil extraction and clean energy, supporting capitalism while fighting climate change: can humans ever really have it all? In their new bo...

Bought by WUTC, WMUU-LP, KSQD Santa Cruz, KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash., KICI Iowa City and more


  • Added: Jun 26, 2020
  • Length: 58:59
  • Purchases: 6
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As the global population approaches eight billion, humans continue to test the number of bodies that can fit onto a planet of finite resources. Emp...

Bought by WUTC, KTSW 89.9, and KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash.


  • Added: Jun 16, 2020
  • Length: 58:59
  • Purchases: 3
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With less than four months before early voting begins in the presidential election, America is enraged and inflamed across the country. People of a...

Bought by WUTC, WGCU, WAMU, MPR News Stations, WMUU-LP and more


  • Added: Jun 11, 2020
  • Length: 58:59
  • Purchases: 12
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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 wo...

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  • Added: Jun 04, 2020
  • Length: 58:57
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How do we go about feeding a planet that’s hotter, drier, and more crowded than ever? The connection between global warming and the dinner table is...

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  • Added: May 27, 2020
  • Length: 58:59
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After decades of relying on imported oil, the U.S. achieved the unthinkable and became the world’s largest producer. Production has doubled over th...

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  • Added: May 21, 2020
  • Length: 58:56
  • Purchases: 7
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How do we confront the reality of a future that will be hauntingly different from today? Some authors are using fiction to create relatable narrati...

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  • Added: May 14, 2020
  • Length: 59:00
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Can we solve the climate crisis by reimagining our cities? Climate activists have long envisioned the zero-carbon cities of the future. Now, with C...

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  • Added: May 07, 2020
  • Length: 58:57
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The COVID-19 recession is unfolding at historic speed and depth. New jobless claims reached a record 10 million in just two weeks. Wall Street’s fe...

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  • Added: Apr 30, 2020
  • Length: 58:59
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When institutional investors divest from fossil fuel companies, does it make a difference, or is the impact merely symbolic? Some advocate keeping ...

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  • Added: Apr 24, 2020
  • Length: 58:57
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What can the spread of coronavirus teach us about the spread of climate change? Both crises have global reach, invisible perpetrators, and require...

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  • Added: Apr 17, 2020
  • Length: 58:59
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Nuclear power - revive it or allow a slow death? Today, about a hundred nuclear plants provide 20 percent of America’s electricity. Once touted as...

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  • Added: Apr 10, 2020
  • Length: 58:56
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Why does an invisible, life-threatening virus prompt a nationwide emergency, but invisible, life-threatening gases don’t? Experts have been emphasi...

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  • Added: Mar 31, 2020
  • Length: 58:59
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“How do you move from a place of simply trying to stop bad things and asking instead how would you make products and services in a sustainable mann...

Bought by WJCT, WMUU-LP, WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass., KSQD Santa Cruz, and Northwest Public Broadcasting


  • Added: Mar 26, 2020
  • Length: 58:59
  • Purchases: 5
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Addressing the climate challenge requires incremental and transformational change on both personal and systemic levels. That means altering our per...

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  • Added: Mar 19, 2020
  • Length: 58:59
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For years, scientists have been saying that the climate battle will be won or lost in the next decade. The IPCC has stated that to avoid climate ca...

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  • Added: Mar 12, 2020
  • Length: 58:57
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Can hip hop help bridge the divide between communities of color and environmentalism? Are strong regulations making fracking safer and cleaner? Env...

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  • Added: Mar 04, 2020
  • Length: 58:59
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Tobacco companies, opioid suppliers, gun manufacturers and the fossil fuel industry -- all have been brought under fire, and into the courts, for k...

Bought by WJCT, WMRA, KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, WFHB, WGCU and more


  • Added: Feb 27, 2020
  • Length: 58:56
  • Purchases: 10
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Climate-fueled floods, fires and droughts have devastated America’s cities and rural areas. Our natural response is to regroup, recover and rebuild...

Bought by WJCT, Spokane Public Radio, WMUU-LP, Maine Public Radio, Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE, Minnesota and more


  • Added: Feb 13, 2020
  • Length: 58:57
  • Purchases: 10
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California has been at the forefront of America’s climate fight since Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger signed the country’s first major climate law i...

Bought by WJCT, WFHB, WMUU-LP, KSQD Santa Cruz, and Northwest Public Broadcasting


  • Added: Feb 20, 2020
  • Length: 58:58
  • Purchases: 5