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October 12, 2018 Climate Press Pool: Robert Gibbs and Jeff Nesbit
Climate used to have bipartisan support. Now that the Republican party is skeptical about fighting climate, companies are moving into a leadership void. On the show today we'll hear from two former white house spokesmen in Republican and Democratic administrations now working on climate from different angles. Robert Gibbs addresses what McDonald's is doing to cut its carbon emissions and environmental impact. Jeff Nesbit heads a communications organization trying to get the climate story covered more prominently in the mainstream news media.
Guests

Robert Gibbs, Executive Vice President and Global Chief Communications Officer, McDonald's Corporation

Jeff Nesbit, Author and Executive Director, Climate Nexus

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53 min
October 05, 2018 Christiana Figueres: A Conversation on Mindfulness and Climate
Former UN climate negotiator Christiana Figueres credits Buddhist teachings both for helping her through a personal crisis, and for providing a source of inner strength that sustained her through negotiations at the 2015 Paris Climate Accord, and helped contribute to its success. “I realized my commitment and my task here is to change that global mood,” Figueres remembers. “And of course I can't change the global mood before I change myself, because as we know all change starts with self.” Can mindfulness practice help us cope with the realities of climate change?

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50 min
September 28, 2018 Let's Talk Solutions: Global Climate Action Summit
The Paris Climate Accord was successful in bringing together the entire world around a common goal, but the focus was on what could be done at the national level. In light of the U.S. abdicating their own leadership role, there is a growing chorus demanding that subnational leaders take on the issue of climate change. The goal of GCAS is to inspire and elevate the solutions from those leaders.
This event is in partnership with Cool Effect, Capital Public Radio and in affiliation with the Global Climate Action Summit.

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53 min
September 22, 2018 The World on Fire
Wildfires have always been part of the landscape in the western states. But the size and intensity of fires over the last several years is something new.
They are being called “megafires;” wildfires covering over 100,000 acres each. The higher temperatures and lower humidity, brought on by climate change, are whipping up these hotter and bigger wildfires. And people’s lives are being upended by the flames.
Today we’re exploring the damage megafires are unleashing on life, property and natural ecosystems – and forest management solutions.
Guests

Rich Gordon

President of the California Forestry Association
Lizzie Johnson

Staff Writer for the San Francisco Chronicle
Scott Stephens

Professor of Fire Science at University of California, Berkeley

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51 min
September 14, 2018 Farm to Table 2.0: Chefs Cutting Carbon
Can a menu at a fancy restaurant be a map for solving the climate challenge? A handful of high-end chefs are using their restaurants to show how innovative grazing and growing practices can cut carbon pollution. Anthony Myint, asks “What would it look like if you had ... environmentalism right up there with deliciousness, as your top priorities?” Dominique Crenn, a two Michelin star chef, pushes to move beyond the restaurateurs who she says only pay lip service to responsibly sourcing their food. Theirs is an uncompromising approach to cutting carbon while maintaining the best of the best.
Gwyneth Borden

Executive Director, Golden Gate Restaurant Association
Dominique Crenn

Chef and Owner, Atelier Crenn
Anthony Myint

Chef and Co-owner, The Perennial

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52 min
September 14, 2018 Let's Talk Solutions: Global Climate Action Summit
On the eve of the Global Climate Action Summit (GCAS), we started the conversation about how solutions could be led by states, cities, businesses and NGOs.
The Paris Climate Accord was successful in bringing together the entire world around a common goal. But as Gina McCarthy points out, “We need to get together and figure out how you address and drive solutions to climate that actually end up in not just a cleaner and healthier and more sustainable world, but one that’s more just.”
This event is in partnership with Cool Effect, Capital Public Radio and the Global Climate Action Summit.
Guests

Marisa de Belloy

CEO, Cool Effect; Executive Director, Overlook International Foundation
Gina McCarthy

Director, The Center for Climate, Health, and the Global Environment, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health
Bill McKibben

Founder, 350.org
Tom Steyer

Founder and President, NextGen America
Gloria Walton

President and CEO, Strategic Concepts in Organizing and Policy Education

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1 hr 8 min
September 07, 2018 Climate Gentrification
Solutions to the climate crisis include driving cleaner cars, planting more trees, eating less meat. But how do our housing choices factor into this?
Where we build housing and how close it is to mass transit has a big impact on our carbon footprint. Plans to green our cities should include new, urban housing that’s convenient to transportation. But this runs the risk of boosting the real estate market and gentrifying the neighborhood out of the reach of all but the wealthy. Can we build smart and affordable at the same time?
Guests

Ann Cheng

Transportation expert at TransForm
Isela Gracian

President of the East LA Community Corporation
Rachel Swan

City Hall reporter with the San Francisco Chronicle
Scott Wiener

State senator representing San Francisco, Daly City and Colma

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51 min
September 01, 2018 Carbon Captives: The Human Experience
Fossil fuels have helped bring people out of poverty around the world, and many people working in the industry are proud of their contribution. William Vollmann writes about the lives of laborers and executives in different parts of the vast fossil fuel system. Discussing an alternative path for these communities, National Director of Green for All Michelle Romero advocates, “for some, retraining is a viable option and for others nearing retirement...maybe providing a benefit package that will help.” Explore the lives of those who remain captives of an economy run on carbon.
Guests

Michelle Romero

National Director, Green For All
William Vollmann

Author, No Good Alternative: Volume 2 of Carbon Ideologies

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52 min
August 25, 2018 Permanently Temporary: Living with Rising Seas
The reality of permanent change along the shoreline is starting to slowly sink in. Recent studies indicate that vulnerability to changing tides is starting to be reflected in property markets around the country. And now cities are grappling with how to build roads, airports and other infrastructure for a very uncertain future. How fast and how high will the tides rise? No one knows for sure but every new forecast tends to be faster and higher than scientists predicted just a few years ago.
Elaine Forbes

Executive Director, Port of San Francisco
Nahal Ghoghaie

Bay Area Program Lead, The Environmental Justice Coalition for Water
Larry Goldzband

Executive Director, Bay Conservation and Development Commission

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51 min
August 17, 2018 National Security and Climate Change
What’s the connection between climate change and national security? “Military commanders don't operate on the basis of fiction,” says Leon Panetta, who served as Secretary of Defense and Director of the CIA under President Obama. “Understanding climate change and what was happening had to be part and parcel of our effort to protect our security.” The military has long seen climate as critical to readiness, as Rear Admiral David Titley (Ret) explains. “If you’re directly connecting renewable energy to increasing our combat effectiveness,” explains Titley, “the military is all in.”
Leon Panetta,
Former Secretary of Defense
Rear Admiral David W. Titley, USN (Ret)
Director, Center for Solutions to Weather and Climate Risk, Penn State University

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53 min

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We’re living through a climate emergency; addressing this crisis begins by talking about it. Co-Hosts Greg Dalton, Ariana Brocious and Kousha Navidar bring you empowering conversations that connect all aspects of the challenge — the scary and the exciting, the individual and the systemic. Join us.