Search this show’s transcripts

Climate One

en us
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. Subscribe to Climate One on Patreon for access to ad-free episodes.
Sources
Website Apple RSS

Episodes

Page 19 · 50 per page
Published 2008-05-02

Rick Wagoner, Chairman and CEO, General Motors

65 min
View
Rick Wagoner, Chairman and CEO, General Motors

Can GM Really Be Green Motors?


“We are looking forward to hearing what Rick Wagoner has to say on energy diversity and security,” comments Greg Dalton, Club VP and Director of The Club’s new Climate One Program, who orchestrated the program. “A lot of Californians want to know if US automakers are finally turning the corner on the role of cars as a major source of global warming.”


Wagoner has held numerous high level posts at General Motors. Before becoming its CEO and Chairman in 2003, he was president and chief executive officer of what? A division?. Prior to this, he was its executive vice president of North American operations and chief financial officer. In his early years at GM, Wagoner helped bring the company back from a $30 billion loss over a three year period in 90’s. He is GM’s youngest CEO in history and was named executive of the year by Automotive Industries in 2001. He landed his first job at GM straight out of Harvard Business School as an analyst in their treasury department.


Wagoner holds an economics degree from Duke University and an MBA from Harvard Business School.

This program was recorded in front of a live audience on May 1, 2008

Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Extract Knowledge
Listen on
Audio Web
Published 2008-04-24

Fred Krupp, President of Environmental Defese Fund

67 min
View

Fred Krupp, President of Environmental Defese Fund


Fred Krupp discusses his new book Earth: The Sequel - The Race to Reinvent Energy and Stop Global Warming.



The Environmental Defense Fund helped reduce acid rain in the 1990s by using market forces, and last year it played a role in the buyout of Texas utility TXU that reduced the number of planned coal-fired power plants. The advocacy group's president, Fred Krupp, believes business-friendly approaches such as carbon cap-and-trade systems are the best way to fight global warning.



His new book, Earth: The Sequel, highlights the entrepreneurs, scientists, and even a former bus driver on the Trans-Alaska pipeline, who are betting on the free market to create new wealth and build a post-carbon economy.


This program was recorded in front of a live audience on April 23, 2008

Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Extract Knowledge
Listen on
Audio Web
Published 2008-04-11

Adam Werbach, CEO, Saatchi & Saatchi; Former President, Sierra Club; Commissioner, San Francisco Public Utilities Commission

65 min
View

Adam Werbach CEO, Saatchi & Saatchi; Former President, Sierra Club; Commissioner, San Francisco Public Utilities Commission


A lot has happened since Adam Werbach declared environmentalism dead in a speech to The Commonwealth Club three years ago. In 2007, Werbach's sustainability agency Act Now helped Wal-Mart engage its 1.3 million employees in one of the largest grassroots sustainability movements to date - the Personal Sustainability Project. In January 2008, Act Now was acquired by Saatchi & Saatchi, a hothouse for world-changing ideas with over 7,000 employees in 84 countries. Together they aim to become the sustainability agency of record for the world's leading corporations. Their purpose: help companies grow their businesses and preserve the planet through strategy, product and supply-chain innovation, workforce engagement and marketing. The mission: create a consumer revolution for social change.

This program was recorded in front of a live audience on April 10, 2008

Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Extract Knowledge
Listen on
Audio Web
Published 2008-02-07

Panel: Climate Change after Bali

71 min
View
Ambassador RENO L. HARNISH III, Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary of State, Bureau of Oceans and International Environmental and Scientific
Affairs

DIANA FARRELL, Director, McKinsey Global Institute

KEN CALDEIRA, Scientist, Carnegie Institution Department of Global Ecology

Bush Administration Assistant Secretary of State and Climate Change authority Ambassador RENO L. HARNISH III headlines a panel of experts who will examine the next steps in addressing the crisis. This comes on the heels of last week’s conference in Honolulu that made global headlines. Later this year, Harnish will lead the Washington International Renewable Energy Conference (WIREC 2008), which will bring together government, civil society and private business leaders to deliberate the benefits and costs of a major and rapid scale-up in the global deployment of renewable energy technology. WIREC will specifically look at developing an overall policy towards reducing greenhouse gas intensity globally. The Honolulu event followed the much-publicized negotiations in Bali in December, which ended with an 11th hour, worldwide consensus on a roadmap for reducing carbon emissions. What happens next? Many tough issues are at stake, including which countries should reduce carbon emissions the most and how much they should rely on either market forces or government regulation.



Commonwealth Club V.P Greg Dalton who orchestrated this event said, “We are honored to assemble such a high profile and esteemed group to explore these critical and timely issues. Our hope is that this discussion will generate some viable solutions in this ongoing global dialogue.”



Ambassador Harnish previously led U.S. policy on scientific and environmental cooperation with the new independent states of the Soviet Union and was Environment, Science and Technology Counselor for the U.S. Embassy in Rome. Diana Farrell directs the McKinsey Global Institute (MGI), an economics research arm of the international consulting giant. Ken Caldeira does extensive research on climate change at the Carnegie Institution Dept. of Global Ecology and is an op-ed contributor for the New York Times.

This program was recorded in front of a live audience on February 7, 2008

Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Extract Knowledge
Listen on
Audio Web
Published 2007-11-28

Fighting Climate Change: Sinking Carbon and Raising Living Standards

64 min
View
FIGHTING CLIMATE CHANGE

LARRY BRILLIANT, Executive Director, Google.org
ANDREA GARDNER, Sustainable Solutions Manager, CH2M Hill
AD MELKERT, Undersecretary of the United Nations, Associate Administrator, United Nations Development Programme
NANCY PFUND, Managing Director, JPMorgan
GREG DALTON, Vice President, Commonwealth Club-Moderator

SINKING CARBON AND RAISING LIVING STANDARDS

While many Californians consider buying hybrid cars and unplugging
their computer, most of the world's 6 billion people covet having any
kind of car and can only dream of having a laptop one day. Yet
fighting global climate change will require lifestyle changes by
everyone. How can that happen without slamming the world's poor, who
are most vulnerable to the health and weather effects of global
warming? How can California's innovation in climate policy and
technologies help by decoupling carbon emissions from GDP growth?


This program was recorded live on November 27, 2007

Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Extract Knowledge
Listen on
Audio Web
Published 2007-05-02

Panel: How Green is Your City? The SustainLane U.S. City Rankings

62 min
View

How Green is Your City? The SustainLane U.S. City Rankings.


Appearing with me will be the ever-entertaining Director of the Department of the Environment for San Francisco, Jared Blumenfeld--abandon your notions of a staid city bureaucrat--and Ian Kim from the Ella Baker Center for Human Rights in Oakland, which is leading up a "green collar" jobs program for the city.


This panel talks about the future of green cities, local jobs, economic development and clean tech in the 21st century, with representatives from the #2 city (San Francisco) and #5 city (Oakland) out of the largest 50 US cities profiled in How Green is Your City?

This program was recorded in front of a live audience at The Commonwealth Club on May 2, 2009

Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Extract Knowledge
Listen on
Audio Web
Published 2007-03-27

Panel: Climate Change and Government-Local Policy Directions For Addressing Climate Change

70 min
View
LOCAL POLICY DIRECTIONS FOR ADDRESSING CLIMATE CHANGE

Panel:
MICHEL GELOBTER, President, Redefining Progress; Board Member, Natural Resources Defense Council

DAVID R. BAKER, Markets and Energy Writer, San Francisco Chronicle

SEVERIN BORENSTEIN, Director, UC Energy Institute;

This program was recorded in front of a live audience at The Commonwealth Club on March 27, 2007

Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Extract Knowledge
Listen on
Audio Web
Published 2007-03-21

Panel: Solar Power Update-California's Moment In The Sun

68 min
View
SOLAR POWER UPDATE: CALIFORNIA'S MOMENT IN THE SUN

DAVID EDWARDS, Managing Director, ThinkEquity Partners LLC
MICHAEL HALL, Chief Marketing Officer, Borrego Solar
MARTIN ROSCHEISEN, CEO, Nanosolar, Inc., J.P. ROSS, Director of Programs, Vote Solar
ARNO HARRIS, CEO, Recurrent Energy, Inc. – Moderator,

This program was recorded in front of a live audience at The Commonwealth Club on March 21, 2007

Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Extract Knowledge
Listen on
Audio Web
Show details
Episodes
915
Transcripts
4
0% coverage
Missing transcripts
911
With chapters
0