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The World on Fire Sep 22, 2018

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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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Farm to Table 2.0: Chefs Cutting Carbon Sep 14, 2018

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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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Let's Talk Solutions: Global Climate Action Summit Sep 14, 2018

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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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Climate Gentrification Sep 07, 2018

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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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Carbon Captives: The Human Experience Sep 01, 2018

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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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Permanently Temporary: Living with Rising Seas Aug 25, 2018

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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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National Security and Climate Change Aug 17, 2018

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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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California Greenin': Shaping America’s Environment Aug 10, 2018

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California. Land of sunshine and seashore. In an effort to protect the state’s magnificent landscape, California has led the country in environmental action. It established strong automobile emission standards. It preserved fragile lands from development. But as climate change fuels megafires across the state and sea level rise threatens the coast, is California doing enough, fast enough?

Huey Johnson
Chair, Resource Renewal Institute

Jason Mark
Editor, Sierra Magazine

David Vogel
Author, California Greenin’: How the Golden State Became an Environmental Leader

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The New Surf and Turf Aug 03, 2018

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Production of animal protein is producing vast amounts of climate-eating gases. But a new generation of companies are creating innovative food products that mimic meat and have much smaller environmental impacts. Some of this mock meat is derived from plants with ingredients designed to replicate the taste and pleasure of chomping into a beef hamburger. Others are growing meat cells that come from a laboratory and not a cow. Will those options wean enough people from burgers and chicken wings to go mainstream?

Guests

Patrick O. Brown
CEO and Founder, Impossible Foods

Carolyn Jung
Journalist/Blogger, FoodGal.com

Mike Selden
CEO and Co-founder, Finless Foods

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We're Doomed. Now What? Jul 27, 2018

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Can changing our consciousness hold off the climate apocalypse? When we think about the enormity of climate change and what it’s doing to our planet, it’s easy to get overwhelmed, even shut down, by despair.

But is despair such a bad place to be? Or could it be the one thing that finally spurs us to action? A conversation about climate change, spirituality and the human condition in unsettling times.

Guests:

Roy Scranton, Author, "We're Doomed. Now What?" (Soho Press, 2018)

Matthew Fox, Co-Author, "Order of the Sacred Earth" (with Skylar Wilson, Monkfish, 2018)

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