Guests:Sandra Kwak, CEO and Founder, 10PowerDonnel Baird, CEO, BlocPowerAndreas Karelas, Author, Climate Courage: How Tackling Climate Change Can Build Community, Transform the Economy, and Bridge the Political Divide in America Summary: As the spring of 2021 arrives, it would be hard to design a more challenging — or more promising — moment for implementing climate solutions. Americans are reeling from an economic shutdown that’s pushed many out of the workforce, and widened the gap between the wealthy and the poor. In this brave new post-Covid world, can President Biden step up where Obama couldn’t? “I'm delighted about what I'm seeing from the Biden-Harris team,” notes Donnel Baird, CEO of BlocPower. “Climate justice and racial equality are wedded together alongside employment, alongside public health and working our way out of these kinds of four simultaneous crises we’re dealing with.” From big tech to clean energy, what are the opportunities for scaling new solutions — and where do inequity and politics continue to set us back?Related links:10PowerBlocPowerClimate CourageRe-volv Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Warmer, shorter winters may sound like an impact of climate change that would inspire more joy than despair. But rising temperatures and decreasing snowpack won’t just transform water supplies and species ranges. It will also disrupt a multi-billion dollar winter sport industry, including the jobs and local economies associated with them. “If we're not able to ski or snowboard anymore,” says Mario Molina, CEO of Protect Our Winters, “the least of our concerns will be the activities that we participate in.” So how are winter sports enthusiasts and others preparing to weather the storm?Speakers:Elizabeth Burakowski, Assistant Professor, Earth Systems Research Center, University of New HampshireKit DesLauriers, National Geographic Explorer; Skimountaineer Geraldine Link, Director of Public Policy, National Ski Areas Association Mario Molina, CEO, Protect our WintersRelated Links:Protect Our WintersHigher Love: Climbing and Skiing the Seven SummitsNational Ski Areas Association Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Guests:Céline Cousteau, Explorer and FilmmakerDavis Guggenheim, Director, An Inconvenient Truth; Founder, Concordia Studio Cristina Mittermeier, National Geographic Photographer; Co-Founder, SeaLegacyWhile IPCC risk assessments and emission projections can help us understand climate change, they don’t exactly inspire the imagination or provoke a personal response to the crisis. But a growing league of storytellers is using photographs, films and the human experience to breathe life into the cerebral science of climate change and conservation. “It's not the blockbuster, big-splash film,” says explorer and filmmaker Céline Cousteau, “It's truth, it’s intimacy, and some of it is ugly and some of it is beautiful.” So how far can images and sound go to inspire a global climate response?Related Links:He Named Me MalalaMy Octopus TeacherSeaLegacyTribes on the Edge Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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 determination. But how effective are they? “Executive orders, I think, are often very splashy when they're introduced, and they get a lot of attention,” notes Axios reporter Ben Gemen. “I think the better way to look at an executive order is sort of firing a starting gun for an extraordinarily long race.” But while he faces certain blowback from Republicans in Congress, there are signs that when it comes to conservative thought, the wind may be changing.What can the Biden Administration accomplish using existing authority? How much will conservatives and businesses step in and step up on climate?Guests:Rep. Kathy Castor (D-FL), Chair of House Select Committee on the Climate CrisisRich Powell, Executive Director, ClearPathBen Geman, Energy Reporter, AxiosFor complete show notes, visit our website. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Just two months into 2021, deadly winter temperatures left millions of Texans without water and power. Meanwhile, California is preparing for another year of intense drought, and Wall Street millionaires are moving their remote work to Florida, ground zero for flooding and sea-level rise.“We think about the Earth as a system,” says Marshall Shepherd, director of Atmospheric Sciences Program at the University of Georgia, “so we can't understand climate change unless we understand changes in the Arctic, or in the ocean circulations, or in the biosphere, and so forth.”“Hope or waiting and seeing is no longer a valid risk mitigation strategy."Guests:Katharine Mach, Associate Professor, Marine Ecosystems and Society, University of MiamiMarshall Shepherd, Director, Atmospheric Sciences, University of GeorgiaFor complete show notes, visit our website. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

“The long-term energy future of America is not going to be written in fossil fuels,” declared John Kerry last April. President Biden recently appointed the former Secretary of State to a top position in his climate cabinet - United States Special Presidential Envoy for Climate.Joe Biden did not start his campaign as the “climate candidate.” But as he starts his second month as president, he is looking at everything through a climate lens – from jobs and infrastructure to international diplomacy, public health and social justice.“He really is a person who was engaged somewhat in climate, but I don't think it was as yet sort of ingrained into him,” said former EPA Administrator Gina McCarthy. “Well, it is now!”McCarthy and Kerry are just two of the climate leaders that President Joe Biden has tapped to put his ambitious climate plan into action. In this program, we revisit conversations with these and other Climate One guests from the past year that have been named to prominent roles in the Biden-Harris administration.Speakers:Jay Inslee, Governor of WashingtonGina McCarthy, Former President & CEO, NRDC Action FundJohn Kerry, Former U.S. Senator and Former Secretary of StateSonia Aggarwal, Former Vice President of Energy, Energy InnovationBrian Deese, Former Managing Director, Global Head of Sustainable Investing, BlackRock Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Exploring the impact of climate storytelling on raising awareness, the challenges of reshaping narratives against the coal industry, and the urgency of rebuilding resilience in the face of environmental crises. Discussions on the power of compelling narratives to inspire action, preserving coral reefs, and rethinking solutions like geoengineering for the climate emergency.

Experts have warned us that COVID-19 is just one example of climate change-related diseases on the rise. And while climate disruption, environmental health and the current pandemic may seem like three distinct problems, to those in the health and environmental justice field, that’s not the case."All of them are connected," says Adrienne Hollis of the Union of Concerned Scientists. "And the underlying cause is systemic racism.""If you want to address pandemics, and you want to address climate change, you’ve got to focus on equity," agrees Aaron Bernstein of the Harvard Chan School of Public Health. "And the solution, and the great news in some ways, is that these actions you need to take are one and the same."How are heat, lack of sanitation, and other environmental issues killing Americans in underserved communities? A conversation on what happens when climate, health, and poverty converge.Guests:Catherine Coleman Flowers, Founder, Center for Rural Enterprise and Environmental Justice; Author, Waste: One Woman’s Fight Against America’s Dirty Secret  (The New Press, 2020)Adrienne Hollis, Senior Climate Justice and Health Scientist, Union of Concerned ScientistsAaron Bernstein, Interim Director, Center for Climate, Health, and the Global Environment at the Harvard T. H. Chan School of Public Health For complete show notes, visit our website. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

With a new pro-science, pro-climate action administration in the White House, there are more pathways — and far greater political will — than ever before for the clean energy transition. The question is now less about what can be done to act on climate, and more about how soon. “We have the best opportunity in more than a decade now to see federal climate action through legislation,” says Leah Stokes from UC Santa Barbara. So how quickly can a new administration turn around a gutted EPA, myriad environmental law rollbacks, and a legacy of climate denial from fossil fuel companies?Guests:Michael Mann, Distinguished Professor of Atmospheric Science, Penn State UniversityLeah Stokes, Assistant Professor of Political Science, UC Santa BarbaraRelated Links:Executive Order on Tackling the Climate Crisis at Home and AbroadThe New Climate War: The Fight to Take Back Our PlanetShort Circuiting Policy: Interest Groups and the Battle Over Clean Energy and Climate Policy in the American States Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

A decade ago, a nationwide survey showed that only around twelve percent of Americans were seriously concerned about climate change. Today, public perceptions have changed. “The alarmed are between a quarter and 30% of the public,” says Edward Maibach. “That makes them the largest single segment of Americans…as their name implies, they’re alarmed about climate change.”How does understanding the perceptions of a broadly concerned public enable our leaders to create lasting change? How do climate concerns break down across political, economic, and regional divides?A conversation with Anthony Leiserowitz and Edward Maibach, recipients of the tenth annual Stephen H. Schneider Award for Outstanding Climate Science Communication. At a time when understanding climate perceptions has never been more important, Dr. Leiserowitz and Dr. Maibach have exemplified the ability to be both scientists and powerful communicators through their work on the public’s understanding of climate change, including the seminal Global Warming’s Six Americas project.Guests:Anthony Leiserowitz, Director and Senior Research Scientist, Yale Program on Climate Change CommunicationEdward Maibach, Director, George Mason University Center for Climate Change CommunicationHost: Greg DaltonRelated Links:Global Warming’s Six AmericasYale Climate Connections PodcastClimate Matters – Jim GandyClimate Matters in the NewsroomWhite House Fact Sheet: President Biden’s Executive Actions on Climate Change Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices