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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348 Pieces

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Warmer, shorter winters may sound like an impact of climate change that would inspire more joy than despair. But rising temperatures and decreasing...

Bought by WCNY, KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, WMUU-LP, KGUA, KSQD Santa Cruz and more


  • Added: Mar 25, 2021
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 14
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While IPCC risk assessments and emission projections can help us understand climate change, they don’t exactly inspire the imagination or provoke a...

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, Ohm Radio , KGUA, KSQD Santa Cruz, KZUM and more


  • Added: Mar 17, 2021
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 13
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True to his campaign promise, President Biden dove right into the climate crisis on Day One, signing a stack of executive orders that signaled his ...

Bought by KTSW 89.9, KGNU Community Radio, KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, KGUA, KSQD Santa Cruz and more


  • Added: Mar 11, 2021
  • Length: 58:59
  • Purchases: 14
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Just two months into 2021, deadly winter temperatures left millions of Texans without water and power. Meanwhile, California is preparing for anoth...

Bought by WCNY, WAMU, Maine Public Radio, MPR News Stations, KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio and more


  • Added: Mar 05, 2021
  • Length: 58:58
  • Purchases: 18
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“The long-term energy future of America is not going to be written in fossil fuels,” declared John Kerry last April. President Biden recently appo...

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  • Added: Feb 25, 2021
  • Length: 58:58
  • Purchases: 13
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In the past decade, narratives of a dystopian climate future have helped connect people with heroes in worlds decimated by climate disruption and i...

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, WMUU-LP, KSQD Santa Cruz, KGUA, Ohm Radio and more


  • Added: Feb 18, 2021
  • Length: 58:58
  • Purchases: 11
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Experts have warned us that COVID-19 is just one example of climate change-related diseases on the rise. And while climate disruption, environmenta...

Bought by WMUU-LP, KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, KSQD Santa Cruz, KGUA, WDSE and more


  • Added: Feb 11, 2021
  • Length: 58:57
  • Purchases: 10
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With a new pro-science, pro-climate action administration in the White House, there are more pathways — and far greater political will — than ever ...

Bought by Maine Public Radio, KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, WMUU-LP, KSQD Santa Cruz, KOWS and more


  • Added: Feb 04, 2021
  • Length: 58:58
  • 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
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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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Incoming President Biden faces an unimaginable set of challenges, including the COVID-19 pandemic, a gutted economy and a nation reeling from the r...

Bought by MPR News Stations, KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, Ohm Radio , WMUU-LP, WAMU and more


  • Added: Jan 14, 2021
  • Length: 58:59
  • Purchases: 13
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Questioning science, funding vocal climate denial groups, and encouraging the focus on personal carbon footprints are corporate America’s preferred...

Bought by KTSW 89.9, Maine Public Radio, Ohm Radio , WMUU-LP, KUCR 88.3 fm Riverside, Calif. and more


  • Added: Jan 07, 2021
  • Length: 58:59
  • Purchases: 12
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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 Ohm Radio , KUCR 88.3 fm Riverside, Calif., WMUU-LP, WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass., KGUA and more


  • Added: Dec 31, 2020
  • Length: 58:59
  • Purchases: 12
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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...

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


  • Added: Dec 23, 2020
  • Length: 58:59
  • Purchases: 7
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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...

Bought by WAMU, WMUU-LP, KSQD Santa Cruz, KOWS, KUCR 88.3 fm Riverside, Calif. and more


  • Added: Jan 10, 2021
  • Length: 58:59
  • Purchases: 10
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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
  • Purchases: 10
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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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“Unprecedented” is one of the most overused words of 2020, but it reflects the superstorm of disruption brought on by an overlapping pandemic, raci...

Bought by KUOW, MPR News Stations, WMUU-LP, KCPW Salt Lake City, WAMU and more


  • Added: Nov 20, 2020
  • Length: 58:59
  • Purchases: 10
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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...

Bought by KFAI Minneapolis, WDSE, KSQD Santa Cruz, Northwest Public Broadcasting, KUCR 88.3 fm Riverside, Calif. and more


  • Added: Nov 18, 2020
  • Length: 58:58
  • Purchases: 7
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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...

Bought by Maine Public Radio, WDSE, WMUU-LP, KSQD Santa Cruz, KICI Iowa City and more


  • Added: Nov 12, 2020
  • Length: 58:58
  • Purchases: 9