If you’re a climate-conscious person, you likely already know some of the main ways you can reduce your contribution to greenhouse gasses: buy less, eat less meat, ride your bike. 
But there are other, less obvious methods we don’t always think of: voting, having climate conversations, engaging with your local government, changing where your money is invested. And while our role as individuals does matter, we’re more powerful when we work together in collective action. 
Guests: 
Jon Foley, Executive Director, Project Drawdown
Eliza Nemser, Executive Director, Climate Changemakers
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What More Can I Do?

When most people hear the phrase renewable energy, they imagine fields full of solar panels or giant spinning wind turbines. But another source may be heating up: geothermal. Twenty years ago it was thought that geothermal could provide at most 10% of any given area’s electricity, and only in very limited regions. There were also environmental concerns about depleting groundwater. 
But new technological advances may have unlocked the potential for scalable geothermal energy just about anywhere. And in a bit of irony, those technological advances came from the oil and gas industry.

Guests: 
Amanda Kolker, Laboratory Program Manager for Geoscience and Geothermal Technologies, NREL
Jamie Beard, founder of Project InnerSpace
Lauren McLean, Mayor of Boise
Contributing Producer: David Condos

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Geothermal: So Hot Right Now

As fossil fuels are phased out, shuttered coal plants, contaminated landfills, and abandoned mine lands across the U.S. are finding new life as renewable energy projects. More than 23 states have 100% clean energy goals, and in order to reach those goals, some states are starting to convert what was once considered “dirty” into “clean” energy generation. 
But what happens to the infrastructure, workers, and community after a coal plant shuts down? And as billions are dispersed through policies like the Inflation Reduction Act, what is being done to ensure that the same communities who have been historically left behind are included in the energy transition?
Guests: 
Mary Anne Hitt, Senior Director, Climate Imperative
Thomas Ramey, Commercial Home Evaluator, Solar Holler
Nick Mullins,  Energy Systems Technology Instructor, Tri-County Technical Center and Former Coal Miner
Delmar Gillus, COO, Elevate
This episode also features a reported piece by Jordan Gass-Pooré from the "Hazard NJ" podcast, an investigative podcast and multimedia project from NJ Spotlight News.
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Let’s Talk Dirty to Clean Energy

A settlement for the largest civil penalty resulting from the Clean Air Act has just been reached. The EPA, DOJ and the State of California have agreed to a $1.7 billion fine for engine maker Cummins Inc. The fine is the result of Cummins being caught using “defeat devices” to fool emissions testers into thinking the engines pollute less than they really do. 
Does that sound familiar? It’s exactly what Volkswagen was caught doing nearly 10 years ago. VW and Cummins aren’t the only ones; it’s an industry wide problem. So how do we stop the deception? What have we learned since the infamous VW “Dieselgate” scandal? 
Guests: 
Rachel Muncrief, Acting Executive Director, ICCT
Hector De La Torre, Member, California Air Resources Board
Margo Oge, Former Director, Office of Transportation and Air Quality, U.S. EPA
Alberto Ayala, Executive Director, Sacramento Metropolitan Air Quality Management District
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Busted: The Newest Emission Cheaters

Jane Fonda has spent the last several decades fighting for Indigenous peoples' rights, economic justice, LGBTQ rights, peace, gender equality and more. Now, she is devoting herself to the climate emergency, beginning with Fire Drill Fridays, the national movement to protest government inaction on climate change she started in October 2019. 
Through the Jane Fonda Climate PAC, she is focused on defeating political allies of the fossil fuel industry. At 85, Fonda continues to fight for the most vulnerable among us, consistently pointing out the intersection between the myriad of causes. What keeps the iconic Jane Fonda going strong? Revisit our discussion with this activist icon today.
Guest:
Jane Fonda, actor, activist
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REWIND: Jane Fonda: A Lifetime of Activism

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 their resources extracted and exploited to further the wealth of others for centuries. Now renewable energy is looking to expand to Indigenous land. 
How can renewable energy help Tribes leapfrog the twentieth century technologies that put them at the end of the line for corporate-controlled electricity? How can we, as Chéri Smith, Founder of the Alliance for Tribal Clean Energy, says, “make sure that Tribes are not only having a seat at the table, but they're building the table and inviting everyone else to it?”
Guests:
Chéri Smith, President & CEO, Founder at Alliance for Tribal Clean Energy
Steven Wadsworth, Vice Chairman, Pyramid Lake Paiute Tribe
Raylene Whitford, Founder, Canative Energy
Maui Solomon, Executive Chairman, Moriaori Imi Settlement Trust
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This episode was produced in collaboration with On Shifting Ground with Ray Suarez, featuring Suarez as a guest host. Additionally, Sarah Howard provides field reporting.
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Indigenous Perspectives: What Makes a Just Transition?

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 fashion, with major consequences for our climate and environment. From mechanized farming and pesticides to grow fiber crops, to energy for manufacturing and transportation, fossil fuels are embedded in the clothing industry at every step of the process. 
Companies large and small are working against this trend, with some setting lofty goals for reducing carbon emissions and water use. But achieving those goals is hard. So what are the solutions? Buy less? Design new fibers and materials? Thrifting and repurposing existing clothing? New business models? How can we make low-impact clothing?
This episode was supported by BMO.
Guests: 
Aja Barber, Author, “Consumed: The Need for Collective Change: Colonialism, Climate Change and Consumerism”
Jason Kibbey, President and Founder, Worldly
Molly Morse, CEO, Mango Materials
Jonathan Chapman, Professor, Carnegie Mellon University School of Design
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Wardrobe Malfunction: The Climate Impact of Clothing

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 struggling to pay electricity bills as the summers get hotter. Figuring out the specifics of how a region is vulnerable to climate impacts can be the difference between adaptation or disaster, especially for communities that don’t have a lot of climate or environmental expertise among their members. 
Community science — defined as communities and scientists working together to address climate and environmental threats — can protect local communities before disaster strikes.
Guests: 
Natasha Udu-gama, Director, Thriving Earth Exchange
Daniel Wildcat, Professor, Haskell Indian Nations University; Rising Voices Steering Committee 
Angela M. Chalk, Executive Director, Healthy Community Services 
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This episode was produced in collaboration with the American Geophysical Union (AGU) and features a segment from Contributing Producer Graycen Wheeler.
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Pairing Scientists with Community Advocates

From the climate movement’s earliest days, young people have been at the forefront of activism. But the first major international climate conferences took place 30 years ago. The first cohort of youth activists are now adults, some with children of their own. The emotional cost of seeing so little payoff for years spent fighting can be agonizing at any age, but perhaps more so for young people who put so much of themselves into the effort. 
Many youth activists burned out along the way, frustrated by participating in actions that rarely led to meaningful and lasting change. How do former youth activists now view the work of their younger selves? And what advice do they have for the next generation?
Guests:
Alec Loorz, Writer, Photographer, former youth climate activist
Slater Jewell-Kemker, Director, “Youth Unstoppable;” former youth climate activist
Victoria Loorz, Founder, Center for Wild Spirituality; Author, “Church of the Wild: How Nature Invites Us into the Sacred” 
Abrar Anwar, Chief Technology Officer, Rebel Force Tech Solutions; former youth climate activist
Kyle Gracey, Strategy Consultant, Future Matters; former youth climate activist
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REWIND: Youth Activists 15 Years Later

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 for an old idea. Reducing the need for cars cuts emissions and gets autos off of the roads, which is a boon for safety, air quality and the climate.
 But, as is often the case, good ideas become a lot more difficult when you have to implement them in real places, with real people, who don’t always share the enthusiasm for the idea. What will it take to make compact, walkable cities a reality in the U.S., where the car is king?
Guests: 
Beth Osborne, Director, Transportation for America
David Miller, Former Mayor of Toronto
Justin Bibb, Mayor of Cleveland
Henry Grabar, Author of Paved Paradise: How Parking Explains the World.
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REWIND: Just a Walk or Bike Ride Away: The 15-Minute City

Ben Santer has spent decades researching and identifying the human fingerprints on the climate system changes we’re now all seeing. He was lead author on the historic 1995 conclusion of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, which proclaimed that “the balance of evidence suggests a discernible human influence on global climate.” That was the first time the IPCC authoritatively stated humans are causing climate change. 
At the time, Stephen Schneider told Ben Santer that the sentence he wrote would change the world. Santer’s foundational work also laid the groundwork for the expanding field of attribution science, which enables activists and lawyers to ascribe proportionate blame to specific polluters in lawsuits demanding damages for climate-disrupting emissions. Climate One is delighted to present the 2023 Stephen H. Schneider Award for Outstanding Climate Science Communication to atmospheric scientist Ben Santer.
Guests:
Ben Santer, Fowler Distinguished Scholar in Residence, Woods Hole; Visiting Researcher, UCLA
Kassie Siegel, Director, Climate Law Institute, Center for Biological Diversity
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Ben Santer: 2023 Schneider Award Winner

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 international climate conference held in the oil-rich Middle East, Climate One hosts Greg Dalton and Ariana Brocious review major climate stories of the year, both lows and highs.
This special episode features excerpts from some of Climate One’s most surprising, moving and compelling interviews of 2023, including conversations with luminaries Rev. Lennox Yearwood and Rebecca Solnit, White House Climate Advisor Ali Zaidi, climate activist Nalleli Cobo and U.S. Sen. Cory Booker.
A previous version of this episode incorrectly stated that the COP28 agreement includes a transition from fossil fuels this decade. While the deal calls for the transition to happen in “a just, orderly and equitable manner,” it does not include a timeframe. We regret the error.
Guests: 
Rev. Lennox Yearwood, Jr., CEO, Hip Hop Caucus 
Kathy Baughman-McLeod, Director, Adrienne Arsht-Rockefeller Foundation Resilience Center; Senior VP, Atlantic Council 
Ali Zaidi, White House Climate Advisor
Jane Fonda, Activist, Actor
Nalleli Cobo, Cofounder, People Not Pozos
Ralph Chami, Assistant Director, Western Hemisphere Division, Institute for Capacity Development, IMF
Bernie Krause, Soundscape Ecologist
Paolo Bacigalupi, author
John Curtis, U.S. Representative (R-UT)
Cory Booker, United States Senator, New Jersey
Rebecca Solnit, Writer, Historian, Activist
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This Year in Climate: 2023

This week, we’re reporting from Dubai, where the 28th UN climate change conference (COP28) is now underway. Ever since the Paris Agreement was signed at COP21, the central issue has remained the same: How do the nations of the world keep global heating to 1.5 degrees Celsius above pre-industrial levels? 
This year marks the first “global stocktake,” where the data on how well we’re collectively doing on meeting the Paris targets are front and center. Across the board, countries are failing. How much will this harsh dose of reality affect the negotiations? Perhaps more importantly, how does what happens at these international summits affect the people most at risk for flooding and extreme heat?
Guests:
Claire Stockwell, Senior Climate Policy Analyst, Climate Analytics
Nisreen Elsaim, Sudanese Climate Activist; Former Chair, UN Secretary General’s Youth Advisory Group
Abigael Kima, Host and Producer, Hali Hewa Podcast
Chautuileo Tranamil, Co-Founder, Indigenous Liberation and Aralez
Myrna Cunningham, Chair, Guiding Committee, Pawanka Fund
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Reporting from COP28: The People at the Heart of It All

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 progress they can make on addressing the increasingly global climate crisis. It’s fair to wonder why, after three decades, we still haven’t taken the collective action necessary. And it’s equally fair to wonder why diplomats continue to bother with what Greta Thunberg famously called “blah, blah, blah.” 
This year’s COP marks the first “Global Stocktake,” an assessment of how the nations of the world are doing compared to the emissions-cutting commitments they made in Paris. The answer? Not well. And with COP28 being hosted by a major oil and gas producing nation and led by an industry executive, what hope is there for progress?
Guests:
Daniel Esty, Professor of Environmental Law & Policy, Yale Law School
Ben Stockton, Investigative Reporter
Aisha Khan, Chief Executive, Civil Society Coalition for Climate Change 
This episode features a segment from Contributing Reporter Rabiya Jaffrey.
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On the Ground at COP28: What’s at Stake with the Global Stocktake?

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 and the right experience the same devastating floods, the same life-threatening heatwaves and the same catastrophic wildfires. Yet individuals tend to socialize within insulated political tribes, operate in completely different information bubbles and see the problems and solutions through different lenses.
How can we learn to bridge ideological divides, develop trust, and find the common ground needed to rebuild respectful civil discourse?
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Guests:
John Curtis, U.S. Rep., Utah (R)
Joan Blades, Co-founder, LivingRoomConversations.org
John Gable, Co-founder, AllSides.com
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REFRESH: Another Look at Bridging the Great American Divide

From The Coolest Show:
The City of Atlanta has leased 381-acres of Weelaunee Forest, stolen Muscogee land, to the Atlanta Police Foundation for a police military facility funded by corporations. This would be the largest police training facility in the US in a primarily Black community who overwhelmingly oppose the project. Despite over fifteen hours of public comments against the project, the City Council has approved $67 million in public funding for Cop City. The plans include military-grade training facilities, a mock city to practice urban warfare, dozens of shooting ranges, and a Black Hawk helicopter landing pad.
Residents have petitioned the municipal court of Atlanta to gather signatures for a binding referendum. With enough signatures, this would put whether or not Cop City gets built up for a vote on November’s ballot box. In this 2 part episode of The Coolest Show, Rev Yearwood speaks with community organizer Rev. Keyanna Jones, economist Dr. Gloria Bromell Tinubu, and community advocate Shar Bates. They discuss the history of the area surrounding the Weelaunee forest, the legacy of environmental racism, the community’s work to get signatures, and “the Atlanta Way.”
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The Coolest Show: The Referendum — Stop Cop City with Rev. Keyanna Jones

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 much of our time at work – changing jobs may be the most effective individual climate action a person can take. Those changes could be big or small: Leaving the oil and gas industry for geothermal, or helping to bring down the emissions where you already work. The truth is, almost any job can be a climate job. But how do people actually make the transition from dirty jobs to clean? What do climate positive job transitions really entail? 
Guests: 
Caroline Dennett, Director, CLOUT Ltd
Arvind Ravikumar, Co-Director, Energy Emissions Modeling and Data Lab, University of Texas, Austin
Jennifer Anderson, Carbon Removal Geologist, Charm Industrial
Emma McConville, Development Geoscience Lead at Fervo Energy
Nathanael Johnson, Electrician
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Six People Who’ve Changed Jobs for Climate

Climate affects everyone, but not equally. Those affected first and worst are often the same communities that suffer from housing and income inequality, and climate and societal injustice. Rev. Lennox Yearwood, Jr. has made striving for social, economic, and climate justice his lifelong pursuit. Rising to prominence in the Hip Hop community, Yearwood brought like-minded artists and creatives together to advocate for justice with the Hip Hop Caucus by harnessing the power of film, podcasts and comedy.
We discuss the role of his faith, his partnership with billionaire Michael Bloomberg, and the underlying belief in our human ability to keep improving that drives his activism.
Guests: 
Rev. Lennox Yearwood, Jr., CEO, Hip Hop Caucus
Jacqueline Patterson, Executive Director, Chisholm Legacy Project
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Putting It All on the Line with Rev. Lennox Yearwood, Jr. and Jacqueline Patterson

Writer, historian, and activist Rebecca Solnit has been examining hope and the unpredictability of change for over 20 years. In 2023 she co-edited an anthology called, “It’s Not Too Late,” which serves as a guidebook for changing the climate narrative from despair to possibility. How can we find hope on a warming planet?
Guests: 
Rebecca Solnit, Writer, Historian, Activist

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Rebecca Solnit on Why It’s Not Too Late

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 information that otherwise might not be retained. A snappy punchline can be a powerful way to get a message through to an audience. Comedy can also be a way for performers and audiences alike to cope with a shared societal problem, like climate or social justice. Humor has a way of slipping through our perceived biases and giving us a new way of looking at challenges. How can we all learn to use humor both as a coping tool and a tool for change? 

Guests: 
Rollie Williams, Comedian, Host, Climate Town
Caty Borum, Provost Assoc. Professor, American University

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