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2018–2019 Year in Review Let’s Talk Climate

If you don’t talk about climate, why would you care? And if you don’t care, why would you act?

3 Let’s Talk Climate So action really starts with conversation.

—Dr. , 2018 Schneider Award Winner 4 Program Highlights

8 Shows and Guests When I founded Climate One in 2007, climate was a distant concern rarely mentioned in the national media. 14 By the Numbers Seeing a void and an opportunity, I created a thought 15 Supporters and Team leadership dialogue to elevate critical issues.

I am often asked about the impact of “just talk” when urgent action is needed. My response? I believe leading this conversation is the most important thing I could be doing, despite the fact that it is impossible to draw a direct line from our microphone to carbon removed from the sky.

Our results manifest in the minds and actions of people who hear our discussions. Climate One listeners learned about children suing the federal government five years before Juliana v. made headlines. And our listeners were some of the very few who had heard of public safety power outages months before the Bay Area Right Top L–R: Mike Selden, Carolyn Jung, Pat Brown went dark. and Greg Dalton; Mónica María Fimbrez; Greg Dalton. At Climate One, we know that raising awareness and Middle L–R: Gloria Walton; motivating action begins with a conversation. Thank you guests at Climate One for joining our conversation. reception; food made by Anthony Myint, featuring Warm Regards, the perennial grain Kernza; Aris Petersen. Bottom L–R: Greg Dalton; Dominique Crenn; Daniela Fernandez.

Cover A wildfire burns in the Greg Dalton hills of . Founder and Host, Climate One at The Commonwealth Club

Let’s Talk Climate 3 Program Highlights

2018 Schneider Award About the Award About Stephen H. Schneider Past Awardees

Dr. Katharine Hayhoe Dr. Stephen H. Schneider was the first A pioneering communicator of climate 2107 member of the Climate One Advisory change science, Dr. Stephen H. Schneider Dr. Michael Mann Dr. Katharine Hayhoe is an atmospheric Distinguished Professor Council and planned to attend a Climate is considered one of the founders of of Atmospheric Science, scientist whose research focuses on One event on the day he died in 2010. climatology. Clearly explaining the effects Penn State University developing and applying high-resolution Shortly thereafter, Climate One founded of climate disruption in many influential 2016 climate projections to understand what the annual Stephen H. Schneider Award papers and forums, he contributed much Dr. means for people and Professor of History of for Outstanding Climate Science of the empirically based science that Science and Affiliated the natural environment. She is a Communication, which recognizes a proves climate change is real. Schneider Professor of Earth and professor and director of the Climate natural or social scientist who has made received his Ph.D. in mechanical Planetary Sciences, Science Center at Tech extraordinary scientific contributions and engineering and physics from University, and has a B.Sc. in physics 2015 communicated that knowledge to the in 1971. He also Dr. Chris Field from the University of and an public in a clear and compelling fashion. studied the role of greenhouse gases Director Emeritus, M.S. and Ph.D. in atmospheric science and suspended particulate material on Department of Global from the University of Illinois at The 2018 award jurors were Naomi Ecology, Carnegie climate as a postdoctoral fellow at NASA’s Institution for Science Urbana-Champagne. Oreskes (history of science professor, Goddard Institute for Space Studies. Harvard University), Ben Santer (climate 2014 Hayhoe served as a lead author for the The recipient of multiple fellowships, Dr. , researcher, Lawrence Livermore National Distinguished Professor, Second, Third and Fourth U.S. National Schneider was elected to the National Laboratory) and Cristine Russell (senior Oregon State University Climate Assessments. She has also Academy of Sciences in 2002. fellow, Environment and Natural 2013 published more than 125 peer-reviewed Resources Program, Harvard University). Dr. Nicholas Stern papers and produces a PBS Digital Chair, Grantham Research The jury solicited nominations from a Institute on Climate Studios short series, “Global Weirding: broad spectrum of anonymous experts in Change, The Climate, Politics and Religion.” the fields of science and communication. School of Economics and Political Science Opposite Top: Dr. Katharine Hayhoe has been named one of TIME’s The jurors decided that Hayhoe Hayhoe accepts the 2018 2012 100 Most Influential People, Foreign exemplifies the rare ability to be both a Schneider Award at Climate Dr. Policy’s 100 Leading Global Thinkers superb scientist and powerful One. Middle: , Director, NASA Goddard Katharine Hayhoe, Greg Institute for Space Studies and Fortune’s 50 World’s Greatest communicator in the mold of Stephen Dalton and Ben Santer. 2011 Leaders. She has also received the Schneider. Bottom: Stephen H. Schneider Dr. at the Global Solutions/ American Geophysical Union’s Climate Professor of Geosciences, Climate Change Pavley- Communication Prize. Penn State University Waxman Hearing, University of California, Los Angeles, August 21, 2009.

4 Climate One 2018–2019 Year in Review Program Highlights 5 Since 2007, Climate One has been talking about the most important issues of our time.

September 2007 Greg Dalton returns from Arctic expedition to found Climate One.

October 2009 KRCB picks up the Climate One monthly television show in addition to its weekly radio show.

December 2009 Climate One goes to Copenhagen for U.N. climate summit (COP 15).

Secretary of State appears at Climate One to talk about public diplomacy and the interconnections November 2010 between energy, the economy and the environment.

December 2011 Dr. Richard Alley is awarded the first Award.

April 2012 Climate One podcast launches.

July 2012 First Climate One scholarship winner travels to Arctic with Students On Ice.

Environmental activist Bill McKibben sits down with former Shell Oil President John Hofmeister at Climate One November 2012 to talk about the future of fossil fuels and the companies that produce them.

Texas Governor Rick Perry visits Climate One to discuss energy production and independence, citing June 2014 Texas’ leadership.

Former Treasury Secretary Hank Paulson visits Climate One and explicitly connects the dots between climate April 2015 change and the economy.

December 2015 Climate One goes to Paris for U.N. climate summit (COP 21).

April 2017 Dr. Jane Goodall celebrates her 83rd birthday at Climate One.

April 2017 Climate One covers the People’s Climate March in Washington, D.C., and hosts a show at Newseum.

Marisa de Belloy, Gina McCarthy, Bill McKibben, Tom Steyer and Gloria Watson come to Climate One to kick off September 2018 the Global Climate Action Summit.

Climate One examines a future with a never-ending fire season in “A World on Fire,” and a few weeks later the November 2018 Camp Fire hits Paradise, California.

Youth movements around the world explode, and Climate One produces a special program featuring the leaders May 2019 from #FridaysForFuture, Sunrise Movement and Youth vs. Apocalypse.

6 Climate One 2018–2019 Year in Review Program Highlights 7 19 Aug 2018 nAtional Security and Climate Change Shows and Guests Leon Panetta, Chairman, Panetta Institute for Public Policy David Titley, Professor and Founding Director, Center for Solutions to Weather and Climate Rise, Penn State University

26 AUG 2018 Permanently Temporary: Living With Rising Seas 1 Jul 2018 Summer Films on Corn, Coal, Lights and Flights Elaine Forbes, Executive Director, Port of San Francisco Rita Baghdadi, Co-Director, My Country No More Nahal Ghoghaie, Bay Area Program Lead, The Environmental Justice Coalition for Water Noel Dockstader, Co-Director, Point of No Return Larry Goldzband, Executive Director, Bay Conservation and Development Commission Jeremiah Hammerling, Co-Director, My Country No More 2 SEP 2018 Carbon Captives: The Human Experience Quinn Kanaly, Co-Director, Point of No Return Michelle Romero, National Director, Green For All Sriram Murali, Director/Producer, Saving the Dark William Vollmann, Author, No Immediate Danger: Volume One of Carbon Ideologies Sally Rubin, Co-Director, Hillbilly 9 SeP 2018 Climate Gentrification 8 Jul 2018 Making the Grade: Corporations and the Paris Climate Accord Ann Cheng, Program Director, GreenTRIP, TransForm Betty Cremmins, Director, Carbon Disclosure Project West Isela Gracian, President, East LA Community Corporation Danielle Fugere, President, As You Sow Rachel Swan, Reporter, San Francisco Chronicle John Streur, President and CEO, Calvert Research and Investment Scott Wiener, California State Senator 15 Jul 2018 New Wheels in Town 12 SeP 2018 Let’s Talk Solutions: Global Climate Action Summit Stuart Cohen, Co-Founder and Former Executive Director, TransForm Marisa de Belloy, CEO, Cool Effect Sanjay Dastoor, Co-Founder and CEO, Boosted Boards and Skip Scooters Gina McCarthy, Director, Center for Climate, Health and the Global Environment, Harvard T.H. Chan Megan Rose Dickey, Senior Reporter, TechCrunch School of Public Health; Former Administrator, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency 22 Jul 2018 Climate Storytellers Bill McKibben, Founder, 350.org , Staff Writer, Tom Steyer, Co-Founder and President, NextGen America Andrew Revkin, Founding Director, Initiative on Communication and Sustainability, Gloria Walton, President and CEO, Strategic Concepts in Organizing and Education The Earth Institute, Columbia University 16 SeP 2018 Farm to Table 2.0: Chefs Cutting Carbon David Roberts, Staff Writer, Vox Gwyneth Borden, Executive Director, Golden Gate Restaurant Association 29 Jul 2018 we’re Doomed Now What? Dominique Crenn, Chef, Atelier Crenn Matthew Fox, Author, Order of the Sacred Earth Anthony Myint, Founder and Chef, The Perennial, Mission Chinese Roy Scranton, Author, We’re Doomed. Now What? 23 SeP 2018 the World on Fire 5 Aug 2018 The New Surf and Turf Rich Gordon, CEO, California Forestry Association Pat Brown, Founder and CEO, Impossible Foods Lizzie Johnson, Reporter, San Francisco Chronicle Carolyn Jung, Journalist/Blogger, FoodGal.com Scott Stephens, Professor of Fire Science, University of California, Berkeley Mike Selden, Co-Founder and CEO, Finless Foods 7 Oct 2018 Christiana Figueres: A Conversation on Mindfulness and Climate 12 Aug 2018 California Greenin’: Shaping America’s Environment Christiana Figueres, Former Executive Secretary, UN Framework Convention on Climate Change Huey Johnson, Chair, Resource Renewal Institute Joshua Freedman, CEO, Six Seconds; Author, Inside Change Jason Mark, Editor, Sierra Magazine Meg Levie, Senior Teacher, Search Inside Yourself Leadership Institute David Vogel, Author, California Greenin’: How the Golden State Became an Environmental Leader

8 Climate One 2018–2019 Year in Review Shows and Guests 9 14 Oct 2018 Climate Press Pool Arlie Hochschild, Professor Emerita, University of California, Berkeley Robert Gibbs, Former White House Press Secretary, President Obama; Chief Communications Lizzie Johnson, Reporter, San Francisco Chronicle Officer, McDonald’s Gabriel Kra, Managing Director, Prelude Ventures Jeff Nesbit, Former White House Press Secretary for Vice President Quayle; Author, This Is the Katharine Mach, Senior Research Scientist, Way the World Ends Christine Pelosi, Executive Committeewoman, Democratic National Committee

21 Oct 2018 wILL China Save the Planet? Roy Scranton, Author, We’re Doomed. Now What? Barbara Finamore, Author, Will China Save the Planet? Mike Selden, Co-Founder and CEO, Finless Foods Carter Roberts, President and CEO, World Wildlife Fund Scott Stephens, Professor of Fire Science, University California, Berkeley Francis Suarez, Mayor, Miami, Florida 28 Oct 2018 Climate Silence: Why Aren’t There More Votes? Sylvester Turner, Mayor, Houston, Texas Sam Arons, Director of Sustainability, Lyft Trip Gabriel, National Correspondent, New York Times 16 Dec 2018 mInd Over Chatter: Exploring Climate Psychology Nathaniel Stinnett, Founder and Executive Director, Environmental Voter Project Leslie Davenport, Psychotherapist Renee Lertzman, Climate Engagement Strategist, Author and Speaker 4 Nov 2018 Prosperity and Paradox Bryant Welch, Clinical Psychologist Eliza Griswold, Journalist, The New Yorker Arlie Hochschild, Professor Emerita, University of California, Berkeley 23 Dec 2018 the Big Climate Stories of 2018 Maggi Kelly, Professor, Environmental Science, Policy and Management, University of California, Berkeley 11 Nov 2018 Saudi America Thom Porter, Director, California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection Severin Borenstein, E.T. Grether Professor, Haas School of Business, University of California, Berkeley David Roberts, Staff Writer, Vox Bethany McLean, Author, Saudi America: The Truth about Fracking and How It’s Changing the World Kassie Siegel, Director, Climate Law Institute, Center for Biological Diversity 30 Dec 2018 going Carbon Negative Mike Biddle, Managing Director, Evok Innovations 18 Nov 2018 Are Human Lives Improving? Noah Deich, Executive Director, Carbon180 Paul Ehrlich, President, Center for Conservation Biology, Stanford University Diana Donlon, Director, Soil Centric Steven Pinker, Johnstone Family Professor, Department of Psychology, Harvard University; Author, Enlightenment Now: The Case for Reason, Science, Humanism and Progress 4 Jan 2019 The at Three: Floundering or Flourishing? Trevor Houser, Partner, Rhodium Group 2 Dec 2018 A Four-Zero Solution Katharine Mach, Senior Research Scientist, Stanford University Kate Gordon, Fellow, Center on Global Energy Policy, Columbia University Hal Harvey, CEO, Energy Innovation 1 Feb 2019 How Some Countries Are Solving Climate Change Arun Majumdar, Co-Director, Precourt Institute for Energy, Stanford University Sonia Aggarwal, Vice President, Energy Innovation Joshua Goldstein, Professor Emeritus of International Relations, American University 9 Dec 2018 Fire and Water: A Year of Climate Conversations Staffan Qvist, Consultant, Qvist Consulting Limited Steve Benjamin, Mayor, Columbia, South Carolina Patrick O. Brown, Founder and CEO, Impossible Foods 8 Feb 2019 The Schneider Award: KathArine Hayhoe Sanjay Dastoor, Co-Founder and CEO, Boosted Boards and Skip Scooters Noah Diffenbaugh, Kara J Foundation Professor and Kimmelman Family Senior Fellow, Woods Megan Rose Dickey, Senior Reporter, TechCrunch Institute for the Environment, Stanford University Debbie Dooley, President, Conservatives for Energy Freedom; Co-Founder, Tea Party Movement Katharine Hayhoe, Professor and Director, Climate Science Center,

Christiana Figueres, Former Executive Secretary, UN Framework Convention on Climate Change 15 Feb 2019 Can California Go Carbon Neutral? Eliza Griswold, Journalist, The New Yorker John Hofmeister, Founder and CEO, Citizens for Affordable Energy; Former President, Shell Oil Company Davida Herzl, Co-Founder and CEO, Aclima Bob Holycross, Global Director, Sustainability, Homologation and Compliance, Ford Motor Company Solomon Hsiang, Chancellor’s Associate Professor of Public Policy, University of California, Berkeley Mary Nichols, Chair, California Air Resources Board

10 Climate One 2018–2019 Year in Review Shows and Guests 11 22 Feb 2019 Donor Power: The Influence of Climate Philanthropy J.D. Morris, Energy Reporter, San Francisco Chronicle Dan Chu, Executive Director, Sierra Club Foundation Hunter Stern, Business Representative, International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers Local 1245 Farhad Ebrahimi, Founder and President, Chorus Foundation Mark Toney, Executive Director, The Utility Reform Network Sarah Shanley Hope, Executive Director, The Solutions Project Laura Wisland, Senior Manager, Western States Energy, Union of Concerned Scientists Larry Kramer, President, William and Flora Hewlett Foundation 10 May 2019 Sea Changes: Why Oceans Play a Bigger Role in Climate Change Than You Think Joe Speicher, Executive Director, Autodesk Foundation Sara Aminzadeh, Commissioner, California Coastal Commission Tate Williams, Science and Environment Editor, Inside Philanthropy Ken Caldeira, Climate Scientist, Department of Global Ecology, Carnegie Institution for Science 8 Mar 2019 If Global Warming Exists, Why Is It So Cold Outside? Daniela Fernandez, Founder and CEO, Sustainable Ocean Alliance David Fenton, Founder and Chairman, Fenton Communications 17 May 2019 republicans and a Democrat on Climate Katharine Mach, Senior Research Scientist, Stanford University Ryan Costello, Former U.S. Representative (R-PA) Ann Reid, Executive Director, National Center for Science Education Carlos Curbelo, Former U.S. Representative (R-FL) Ben Santer, Climate Scientist, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory Christine Pelosi, Executive Committeewoman, Democratic National Committee 15 Mar 2019 ePA Chief Andrew Wheeler on Cars, Coal and Climate 24 May 2019 David Gergen: Climate Politics and Public Opinion Albert Cheung, Head of Global Analysis, Bloomberg New Energy Finance David Gergen, Professor of Public Service and Founding Director, Center for Public Leadership, Hellen Clarkson, CEO, Climate Group Harvard Kennedy School Mary Nichols, Chair, California Air Resources Board Marianne Lavelle, Reporter, Inside Climate News Andrew Wheeler, Administrator, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Lori Weigel, Partner, Public Opinion Strategies 22 Mar 2019 nAturally Wired: Getting Outside in the Digital Age 31 May 2019 If You Won’t We Will: Youth Action on Climate Phil Ginsburg, General Manager, San Francisco Recreation and Parks Isha Clarke, Student Activist Rebecca Johnson, Co-Director, , California Academy of Sciences Sarah Goody, Student Activist Nooshin Razani, Pediatrician and Founder/Director, Center for Nature and Health, UCSF Benioff Julia Olson, Executive Director, Our Children’s Trust; Chief Legal Counsel for Plaintiffs, Juliana v. U.S. Children’s Hospital Oakland Ben Wessel, Director, NextGen America 29 Mar 2019 Insane Mode: Tesla’s Wild Ride Morissa Zuckerman, Bay Area Chapter Coordinator, Sunrise Movement Katie Fehrenbacher, Senior Writer and Analyst, GreenBiz 14 Jun 2019 Jay Inslee: The Climate Candidate Lora Kolodny, Tech Reporter, CNBC Jay Inslee, 2020 Presidential Candidate; Governor, Washington Hamish McKenzie, Independent Journalist; Author, Insane Mode: How Elon Musk’s Tesla Sparked an 21 Jun 2019 Can a Circular Economy Salvage the Climate? Electric Revolution to End the Age of Oil John Lanier, Co-Author, Mid-Course Correction Revisited: The Story and Legacy of a Radical 12 Apr 2019 Climate One at Harvard With Obama’s Climate Team Industrialist and his Quest for Authentic Change John Holdren, Former Science Advisor to President Obama; Former Teresa and John Heinz Beth Rattner, Executive Director, Biomimicry Institute Professor of Environmental Policy at Harvard Kennedy School of Government Peter Templeton, President and CEO, Cradle to Cradle Gina McCarthy, Director, Center for Climate, Health and the Global Environment, Harvard T.H. Chan Mike Sangiacomo, President and CEO, Recology School of Public Health; Former Administrator, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency 28 Jun 2019 the Uninhabitable Earth 3 May 2019 How Climate Broke California’s Biggest Utility David Wallace-Wells, Deputy Editor, New York Magazine; Author, The Uninhabitable Earth: Alex Ghenis, Policy and Research Specialist, World Institute on Disability Life After Warming Dian Grueneich, Former Commissioner, California Public Utilities Commission Katharine Hayhoe, Professor and Director, Climate Science Center, Texas Tech University Loretta Lynch, Former U.S. Attorney General

12 Climate One 2018–2019 Year in Review Shows and Guests 13 By the Numbers Supporters and Team

2018–2019 Fiscal Year STEWARDS ADVISORY Council TEAM Climate One at The Commonwealth Club Larry Birenbaum Terry Gamble Boyer Climate One Peter Boyer Writer and Philanthropist Sara-Katherine Coxon Tom Burns Susie Tompkins Buell Content and Strategy Manager Al Davis Founder, Susie Tompkins Buell Foundation Greg Dalton Live Shows Bill Duhamel 33 Climate One Founder and Host Mark Ferron William Ford Jr. John Hofmeister Executive Chairman, Ford Motor Company Steve Fox Climate One Episodes 44 Jeff Horowitz Mike Haas Director of Advancement Mike Krautkramer Founder and Chairman of the Board, Alliance Kelli Pennington 1,628 Radio Broadcasts Mark Kriss for Climate Education Director of Audience Engagement Nora Machado Toni Rembe Tyler Reed Noel Perry President, Van Loben Sels Rembe Rock Director of Operations Live Show Attendance William Reilly 4,065 Foundation Tony Stayner The Commonwealth CLub Arthur Rock Dr. Gloria Duffy Podcast Downloads 1,097,989 SUPPORTERS Principal, Arthur Rock & Co. The Commonwealth Club of California CEO Contributors Archie and Viola Meinerz Foundation Founding ADVISORs Caldera Foundation Adam Anderson Income ClimateWorks Foundation Rev. Sally Bingham Amit Botadkar Greater Milwaukee Foundation Founder and President, Regeneration Project Jen Burke Seed Fund John Hofmeister Marnie Burke de Guzman Spencer Campbell Sempercor Foundation Former President, Shell Oil Company Anny Celsi Sidney E. Frank Foundation A.G. Kawamura The Wallace Alexander Gerbode Joe Dwyer Former Secretary, California Department of Foundation Arnav Gupta Food and Agriculture Anthony Hall William K. Reilly Lindsey Hower Senior Advisor, TPG Mark Kirchner Expense Forrest Sawyer Bryan Massa Justin Norton Former Anchor, ABC World News Sunday Lena Shabanova Andrew Stelzer Devon Strolovitch Matt Webber Gary Yip

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