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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350 Pieces

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Looking for a movie that takes climate science to the masses? In the first part of this week’s episode, former Vice President Al Gore joins Climate...

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  • Added: Jun 07, 2018
  • Length: 58:58
  • Purchases: 10
Caption: Anna Lappé, Author, Diet for a Hot Planet
Mark Kurlansky and Anna Lappé are two of the country’s most prolific and influential authors writing about feeding a crowded planet with a destabil...

Bought by WJCT, KPIP-LP, KWIT, NPR Now, KPTZ, Port Townsend, WA and more


  • Added: May 30, 2018
  • Length: 58:56
  • Purchases: 8
Caption: Davida Herzl, CEO and Co-Founder, Aclima
Over a century ago, the industrial revolution brought wealth and opportunity to a generation of American innovators. It also brought us dirty coal ...

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  • Added: Jan 21, 2019
  • Length: 58:57
  • Purchases: 9
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In June 2017, President Trump announced his plan to withdraw the country from the 2015 Paris Climate Accord, claiming it disadvantaged the United S...

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  • Added: May 17, 2018
  • Length: 58:58
  • Purchases: 7
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Climate change isn’t just an environmental problem – it’s also a health hazard. Air pollution and changing weather patterns give rise to heat-relat...

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  • Added: Jan 07, 2019
  • Length: 58:57
  • Purchases: 9
Caption: David Fenton, Founder and Chairman, Fenton Communications
The scientific consensus is that human activity is cooking the planet and disrupting our economies. Yet many people still don’t believe that climat...

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  • Added: May 03, 2018
  • Length: 58:59
  • Purchases: 6
Caption: Paul R. Ehrlich, President, Center for Conservation Biology, Bing Professor of Population Studies, Stanford University
In 1968, the best-seller “The Population Bomb” (written by Paul and Anne Ehrlich, but credited solely to Paul) warned of the perils of overpopulati...

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  • Added: Apr 24, 2018
  • Length: 58:58
  • Purchases: 9
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In an emergency, we’re told to “break the glass” and grab the fire extinguisher. If we’re in the midst of a climate emergency, is there a firehose ...

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  • Added: Apr 19, 2018
  • Length: 58:58
  • Purchases: 9
Caption: Ashley Allen, Mars Corporation; Host Greg Dalton
As the planet heats up, it’s affecting many of the foods we love – when and where they’re grown, how they get to the grocery store and how much we...

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  • Added: Apr 12, 2018
  • Length: 58:58
  • Purchases: 8
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Volkswagen’s brazen cheating on air pollution rules rocked an industry with a history of skulduggery. The scandal has now cost the company $30 bill...

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  • Added: Apr 05, 2018
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 4
Caption: Icebergs at Sunset, Greenland, Credit: Lee Narraway, Students on Ice 2017
We’ve all heard that hopping on a plane is one of the worst things we can do for the climate. So how do we justify the environmental costs of world...

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  • Added: Jun 05, 2019
  • Length: 58:58
  • Purchases: 4
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In her book “Dark Money: the Hidden History Behind the Rise of the Radical Right,” New Yorker writer Jane Mayer exposes the powerful group of indiv...

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  • Added: Mar 22, 2018
  • Length: 58:59
  • Purchases: 4
Caption: L-R: Patrick Flynn, Aron Cramer, Lynelle Cameron
Tech companies are cleaning up their data centers and building shiny new buildings that sip water and energy. But are they really as green as they ...

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  • Added: Mar 15, 2018
  • Length: 58:57
  • Purchases: 3
Caption: Christine Pelosi and Debbie Dooley
Executive Committeewoman of Democratic National Committee Christine Pelosi, as well as staunch Trump supporter and clean energy advocate, Debbie Do...

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  • Added: Mar 08, 2018
  • Length: 58:58
  • Purchases: 4
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The price of solar power has declined dramatically in recent years. That’s good news for homeowners, the environment and the economy. Renewable pow...

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  • Added: Feb 28, 2018
  • Length: 58:57
  • Purchases: 3
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After more than a century of ruling the roads, oil is starting to lose its dominance over the auto industry. More and more automakers are introduc...

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  • Added: Feb 22, 2018
  • Length: 58:57
  • Purchases: 4
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What should climate-conscious people do to eat most sustainably? How people approach their diet is deeply personal and can be extremely controversi...

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  • Added: Feb 08, 2018
  • Length: 58:58
  • Purchases: 7
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It was in 1970, under President Nixon, that the Environmental Protection Agency was founded. While the Agency enjoyed tremendous bipartisan support...

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  • Added: Feb 01, 2018
  • Length: 58:59
  • Purchases: 6
Caption: Michael Mann, Distinguished Professor of Atmospheric Science, Penn State University, Credit: Ed Ritger
When Michael Mann and colleagues published the infamous “hockey stick papers” in 1999, Mann soon found himself under attack by climate skeptics and...

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  • Added: Jan 25, 2018
  • Length: 58:57
  • Purchases: 8
Caption: Bruce Gibney, author, "A Generation of Sociopaths: How the Baby Boomers Betrayed America"
Consumption-crazed baby boomers are leaving millenials with a mountain of debt and a destabilized climate. In his book "A Generation of Sociopaths:...

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  • Added: Jan 18, 2018
  • Length: 58:58
  • Purchases: 6