Climate Hour

The industrial sector accounts for 21% of greenhouse gas emissions, and a single industry – the fashion industry – accounts for 39% of all industrial emissions and an even larger amount of industrial pollution.

Join host, Bob Grove, and guests to learn how fast fashions are devastating our environment, our workforce, and how you can make simple choices to protect the environment and your pocketbook, while staying on trend and in style.

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How do we prepare our children to live in a world filled with extreme temperatures, life-threatening storms, and collapsing food systems? How do we provide the skills our children will need to create the next generation of built environments that can withstand new temperature and weather extremes, and new food systems that can survive a world of constant flooding and drought?

Join host, Bob Grove, and guests to discuss teaching children about climate change.

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Plastics are made out of crude oil and natural gas, the same fossil fuels used in our homes and cars. And, because plastics can never fully disintegrate, they overflow our landfills, rivers and oceans. Plastics are now found in every step of our food chain and throughout our bodies.

While climate activists focus on reducing fossil fuel usage in the power and transportation sectors, big oil is quietly redirecting billions of dollars into petrochemical plants to produce more and more plastics … drilling for the same amount of oil & gas, just redirecting these fossil fuels into plastics.

Join host, Bob Grove, and guests to discuss plastics and their effect on climate change.

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The Inflation Reduction Act of 2022 is the successor to the House-passed Build Back Better Act and is the largest piece of federal climate legislation ever to be enacted in the United States. Is it climate salvation, better than nothing or a fossil fuel lifeline?

Join host, Bob Grove, and guests to discuss the Inflation Reduction Act.

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Over the past few months, we’ve seen a massive realignment of global alliances and supply chains caused by Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. How is this impacting the U.S. labor movement and how does it effect the movement’s ability to focus on climate issues?

Join host, Bob Grove, and guests as they discuss Labor’s Climate Movement and the impacts of the Russo-Ukranian War.

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Food systems are responsible for 24% of global greenhouse gas emissions and is the world’s largest consumer of land and fresh water. Personal food choices impact our health & longevity, our pocket books and the planet.

Join host, Bob Grove, and guests as they discuss sustainable food choices and the environmental impact of what we eat.

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The clothing you are wearing right now has a surprisingly large impact on our environment and climate systems. The fashion industry is responsible for 8.1% of global greenhouse gas emissions. Today’s combination of petroleum-based textiles and cheap, abusive labor practices has given rise to what is called Fast Fashion, an industry of poorly-made, throw-away clothing, that in turn has led to a massive environmental deluge of micropollutants and overflowing landfills.

Join host, Bob Grove, and guests from the U.S., Chile and Columbia to discuss the International Sustainable Fashion Movement.

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The New Deal enacted by President Franklin D. Roosevelt pulled the U.S. out of the Great Depression and led to decades of American prosperity. That New Deal combined economic reforms with lots of new jobs in emerging sectors. And 90 years later we’re still reaping the benefits; from our interstate highway system to our monthly Social Security checks. Roosevelt’s New Deal led to what is arguably the most prosperous era in U.S. history.

Today, economists are envisioning a Green New Deal that would combine Roosevelt’s economic approach with today’s emerging technologies. In Roosevelt’s time, the emerging technologies were mass-produced autos and an interstate highway system to drive them on. Today’s emerging technologies are renewable energy and a nationwide electric grid to move that energy around.

Join Climate Hour host, Bob Grove, and guests to discuss the Green New Deal.

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Permaculture is an approach to land management that incorporates principles found in healthy ecosystems. Urban Permaculture applies these principles to our backyards and vacant lots, giving us access to economical, healthy food; the natural stress-relief of interacting with nature, and the community resilience of local food sources; all while saving the planet by sequestering carbon in our yards and lowering the climate impact of industrialized farming.

Join host, Bob Grove, and guests to discuss Urban Permaculture. Guests include:

Join Climate Hour host, Bob Grove, and guests as they discuss Earth Day 2022.

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