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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
2025-01-10

  Leah Stokes: 2024 Schneider Award Winner

Every year we highlight the work of a scientist who excels in communicating their work to the world. Climate One is delighted to present the 2024 Stephen H. Schneider Award for Outstanding Climate Science Communication to political scientist and energy...
  Climate One from The Commonwealth Club author
2025-01-03

  REWIND: Geothermal — So Hot Right Now

When most people hear the phrase renewable energy, they imagine fields full of solar panels or giant spinning wind turbines. But another source may be heating up: geothermal.  Twenty years ago, it was thought that geothermal could provide at most 10% o...
  Climate One from The Commonwealth Club author
2024-12-27

  REFRESH — Big Plastic: The New Big Oil

Plastics are everywhere. And while we’ve known for a long time that plastics and our environment aren’t a good mix, it's becoming apparent that they’re massive climate polluters too. The production of plastics alone produces about 4% of global greenhou...
  Climate One from The Commonwealth Club author
2024-12-20

  This Year in Climate: 2024

2024 set new records for extreme heat around the world in what is already the warmest decade on record. According to the World Meteorological Organization, sea-level rise and ocean heating are accelerating along with the loss of ice from glaciers. We c...
  Climate One from The Commonwealth Club author