Climate One

Human activity has touched every corner of the Earth. The Arctic, the Amazon, the bottom of the deep, blue sea. Places you and I will most likely never visit – and can hardly even imagine. Yet oil drilling and industrial fishing are changing even these places. And changes there are impacting us at home as well. It’s a small world. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Climate change awareness and action are growing. Solutions are being implemented, with more in the wings. Are we experiencing an “atmosphere of hope?” Tim Flannery, Scientist, Explorer, Author, Atmosphere of Hope (Atlantic Monthly Press, 2015) Ben Santer, Climate Scientist, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory Rebecca Shaw, Associate Vice President and Lead Scientist, Environmental Defense Fund This program was recorded in front of a live audience at the Exploratorium with the Commonwealth Club of California on November 10, 2015. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

California has an ambitious plan to reduce carbon emissions. Can EVs and driverless cars save the day? Or will they just add to our already clogged roads? Shad Balch, Environment and Energy Communications Manager, General Motors Alexandre Bayen, Liao-Cho Professor of Engineering and Director, Institute of Transportation Studies, UC Berkeley Hector De La Torre, Member, California Air Resources Board Diarmuid O’Connell, Vice President of Business Development, Tesla This program was recorded in front of a live audience at the Exploratorium with the Commonwealth Club of California on November 2, 2015. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

PG&E hopes to become 50% renewable by 2030 by transitioning to renewable power sources and investing in a 21st century grid. Can they reach their goal? Anthony Earley, Jr., Chairman, CEO and President, PG&E Corporation This program was recorded in front of a live audience at the Exploratorium with the Commonwealth Club of California on October 15, 2015. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

El Niño is waiting in the wings, and heat waves, sea level rise and drought are in the forecast as well. How prepared are we to weather the next big disaster? Nile Malloy, former Director, Communities for a Better Environment Patrick Otellini, Chief Resilience Officer, San Francisco Laura Tam, Sustainable Development Policy Director, SPUR This program was recorded in front of a live audience at the Exploratorium with the Commonwealth Club of California on October 5, 2015. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Pope Francis – in his new encyclical, and in his recent talks at both the U.N. and U.S. Congress – says that it is our moral obligation to the poor to address climate change. This time, the world may be listening. In preparation for the upcoming climate talks in Paris this December, China, along with most major nations around the globe, has announced a plan to cut down on fossil fuel pollution. Some say it’s too little, too late. Others are hopeful that we can begin to move the ball forward. China, the Pope and Paris: on the next Climate One. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Thanks to climate change, the wild corners of the planet are shrinking or disappearing altogether. How can we preserve the natural world and its creatures? Bernie Krause, Soundscape Artist; Author, Voices of the Wild: Animal Songs, Human Din, and the Call to Save Natural Soundscapes (Yale University Press, 2015) Jason Mark, Editor, Earth Island Journal; Author, Satellites in the High Country: Searching for the Wild in the Age of Man (Island Press, 2015) Tanya Peterson, Director, San Francisco Zoo This program was recorded in front of a live audience at the Commonwealth Club of California on September 24, 2015. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Consumers in Marin and Sonoma already have freedom of choice when it comes to renewable power. Now San Francisco voters are about to have their say. Dawn Weisz, CEO, Marin Clean Energy Geof Syphers, CEO, Sonoma Clean Power Matthew Freedman, Staff Attorney, The Utility Reform Network Phil Ting, California State Assemblymember (D-19) London Breed, President, Board of Supervisors, San Francisco Barbara Hale, Assistant General Manager, San Francisco Public Utility Commission’s Power Enterprise Hunter Stern, Business Representative, International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers This program was recorded in front of a live audience at the Commonwealth Club of California on September 24, 2015. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Few of us will ever venture to the faraway Arctic. But our entire planet is affected by environmental and economic changes happening in the frozen north. William Collins,Director, Climate and Ecosystem Science Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory Alex Levinson, Executive Director, Pacific Environment Sergey Petrov, Consul General of the Russian Federation in San Francisco Hilde Janne Skorpen, Consul General for Norway in San Francisco This program was recorded in front of a live audience at the Commonwealth Club of California on September 22, 2015. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

As the health of our oceans go, so goes the health of our planet. But climate change, overfishing and pollution have taken their toll – what can we do to help? Sylvia Earle, National Geographic Explorer in Residence This program was recorded in front of a live audience at the Commonwealth Club of California on May 27, 2015. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices