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2025-03-21

  Justice and Faith: Catherine Coleman Flowers and Justin J. Pearson

Catherine Coleman Flowers has dedicated her life to fighting for the most vulnerable communities — people who have been deprived of the basic civil right to a clean, safe and sustainable environment.  When she was first on Climate One in 2021, Flowers ...
  Climate One from The Commonwealth Club author
2025-03-14

  Making Cents Out of Watts: What’s Driving Up Your Energy Bills?

A third of Americans say that they've skipped food, medicine, or something else to be able to afford their energy bills. Much of the increase in the cost of electricity is driven by rising demand from artificial intelligence and data centers, industria...
  Climate One from The Commonwealth Club author
2025-03-07

  Is ESG BS?

Who’s responsible for climate change? Fossil fuel companies would like us to believe it’s all of us as individuals (after all, BP invented the idea of the personal carbon footprint). But many large corporations bear at least as much of the blame. And f...
  Climate One from The Commonwealth Club author
2025-02-28

  The $300M Lawsuit That Could Crush Dissent

Energy Transfer Partners, the company behind the Dakota Access Pipeline, is suing Greenpeace for $300 million. The pipeline company accuses Greenpeace of criminal behavior — trespassing, vandalism, and assault of construction workers — and inciting rio...
  Climate One from The Commonwealth Club author
2025-02-21

  Disasterology: Navigating Fossil-Fueled Chaos

From hurricanes on the East Coast to wildfires in LA, to floods in Vermont and storms in Texas, communities across the U.S. are facing a growing number of intense and devastating disasters. There are significant disparities in who has the means to evac...
  Climate One from The Commonwealth Club author
2025-02-14

  Solar Power to the People

At this moment, the cheapest way to create electricity is by pointing a solar panel at the sun. That’s good news for the climate. It’s also good news for communities who want to take control of their own electricity generation. In the heart of Brooklyn...
  Climate One from The Commonwealth Club author
2025-02-07

  Drag Queen Pattie Gonia: Bringing Joy to Climate Action

When individuals want to take action on climate, it’s often in the form of electrifying a home, voting, or maybe even traditional activism. Those are very important, but we often overlook how individual skills and talents can also make a difference.  T...
  Climate One from The Commonwealth Club author
2025-01-31

  What Climate Progress Is Possible Now?

The second Trump administration has hit the ground running. The president has signed a flurry of executive orders targeting everything from birthright citizenship to pulling out of the Paris Climate Accords. This is a far different moment from the firs...
  Climate One from The Commonwealth Club author
2025-01-24

  LA Wildfires: Loss, Recovery and Resilience

The wildfires ravaging Los Angeles have caused incredible destruction — loss of life, thousands of homes and businesses gone or damaged and hundreds of thousands of people displaced. While the scale and speed of these fires may feel unprecedented, the ...
  Climate One from The Commonwealth Club author
2025-01-17

  Even Old Houses Can Learn New Elec-Tricks

If we include personal cars, along with appliances like water heaters, stoves and furnaces, more than 40 percent of U.S. greenhouse gas emissions come from individuals at the home level. The good news: no matter where you live, there are steps you can ...
  Climate One from The Commonwealth Club author