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Addressing the climate crisis begins by talking about it.

Climate One is a one-hour weekly public radio program (newscast compatible) about energy, economy and the environment from the Commonwealth Club of California. Host Greg Dalton presents empowering conversations that connect all aspects of the climate crisis -- the scary and the exciting, the individual and the systemic. Join us.

Free to all stations. Contact Steve Martin steve@sfmconsulting.com or 703.715.0827 with carriage questions.

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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The climate crisis can be difficult to cover in a way that most people can relate to. The mechanism of harm goes from a person's gas car or stove t...

  • Added: Sep 21, 2023
  • Length: 58:58
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Jane Fonda has spent the last several decades fighting for Indigenous peoples' rights, economic justice, LGBTQ rights, peace, gender equality and m...

  • Added: Sep 28, 2023
  • Length: 58:57
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Congressman Ro Khanna has made a name for himself as a pragmatic progressive and critic of Big Oil. He grilled oil company CEOs under oath and help...

  • Added: Oct 05, 2023
  • Length: 58:59
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For thousands of years, the American buffalo evolved alongside Indigenous people who relied on them for food and shelter, and, in exchange for kill...

  • Added: Oct 12, 2023
  • Length: 58:57
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Disasters caused by burning fossil fuels are becoming more frequent, and in the aftermath of hurricanes, floods and wildfires, federal and state re...

  • Added: Oct 19, 2023
  • Length: 58:59
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Laughter can be good medicine, but when is it okay to laugh at something as deadly serious as the climate crisis? Jokes help us remember informatio...

  • Added: Oct 26, 2023
  • Length: 58:58
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Writer, historian, and activist Rebecca Solnit has been examining hope and the unpredictability of change for over 20 years. In 2023 she co-edited ...

  • Added: Nov 02, 2023
  • Length: 58:58
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Climate affects everyone, but not equally. Those affected first and worst are often the same communities that suffer from housing and income inequa...

  • Added: Nov 09, 2023
  • Length: 58:57
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One of the most common questions people ask about climate is: what can I do? Since time is one of our most valuable resources – and we spend so muc...

  • Added: Nov 16, 2023
  • Length: 58:58
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Most Americans support climate action, but you wouldn’t know it from Congress or the courts – or from most of the media. People on both the left an...

  • Added: Nov 21, 2023
  • Length: 59:00
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The 28th annual Conference of the Parties, COP28, opens this week in Dubai. For the 28th time, the nations of the world have gathered to see what p...

  • Added: Nov 30, 2023
  • Length: 59:00
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This week, we’re reporting from Dubai, where the 28th UN climate change conference (COP28) is now underway. Ever since the Paris Agreement was sign...

  • Added: Dec 07, 2023
  • Length: 58:57
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It’s been a year of weather extremes – again. But there’s also been cause for renewed hope about our climate future. On the heels of this year’s i...

  • Added: Dec 18, 2023
  • Length: 59:00
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Ben Santer has spent decades researching and identifying the human fingerprints on the climate system changes we’re now all seeing. He was lead aut...

  • Added: Dec 21, 2023
  • Length: 58:57
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Can you imagine if everything you needed in your everyday life was just a walk or bike ride away? That’s the goal of the 15-minute city, a new name...

  • Added: Dec 28, 2023
  • Length: 58:57
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From the climate movement’s earliest days, young people have been at the forefront of activism. But the first major international climate conferenc...

  • Added: Jan 04, 2024
  • Length: 58:58
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The climate crisis can feel distant — like it’s someone else’s problem — until your town is flooded, your home is damaged by storms, or you're stru...

  • Added: Jan 11, 2024
  • Length: 58:58
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What we wear defines us in so many ways. But in recent decades we’ve moved away from long-lasting, quality pieces in favor of disposable fast fashi...

  • Added: Jan 18, 2024
  • Length: 58:59
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We often talk about a “just transition” from dirty to clean energy as if the term means the same thing to everyone. Indigenous people have seen the...

  • Added: Jan 25, 2024
  • Length: 58:58
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Jane Fonda has spent the last several decades fighting for Indigenous peoples' rights, economic justice, LGBTQ rights, peace, gender equality and m...

  • Added: Feb 01, 2024
  • Length: 58:58