You might not realize it, but we’re already living through the beginnings of climate chaos. In Arizona, laborers now start their day at 3 a.m., because it’s too hot to work past noon. Chinese

You might not realize it, but we’re already living through the beginnings of climate chaos. In Arizona, laborers now start their day at 3 a.m., because it’s too hot to work past noon. Chinese investors are snapping up real estate in Canada. Millennials have evacuation plans. Moguls are building bunkers. Retirees in Miami are moving inland. In How to Prepare for Climate Change, bestselling self-help author David Pogue offers deeply researched advice for how the rest of us should start to ready ourselves for the years ahead. Pogue will walk you through what to grow, what to eat, how to build, how to insure, where to invest, how to prepare your children and pets, and even where to consider relocating when the time comes. (He says two areas of the country, in particular, have the requisite cool temperatures, good hospitals, reliable access to water, and resilient infrastructure to serve as climate havens in the years ahead.) He also provides wise tips for managing your anxiety, as well as action plans for riding out every climate catastrophe, from superstorms and wildfires to ticks and epidemics. Join Pogue and renewable energy expert Wei-Tai Kwok for a look at their practical ways to make smart choices for the upheaval ahead. NOTES SPEAKERS David Pogue Correspondent, "CBS Sunday Morning"; Author, How to Prepare for Climate Change: A Practical Guide to Surviving the Chaos Wei-Tai Kwok Climate Leader, The Climate Reality Project Ahmad Thomas President & CEO, Silicon Valley Leadership Group—Moderator 💯SUBSCRIBE for more VIDEOS: https://www.youtube.com/user/commonwealthclub 📆 UPCOMING EVENTS: https://www.commonwealthclub.org/events 🎉 BECOME a MEMBER: https://www.commonwealthclub.org/membership 💰 DONATE NOW: https://support.commonwealthclub.org/sslpage.aspx?pid=298 📺➕📻 Watch & Listen https://www.commonwealthclub.org/watch-listen CWC Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/thecommonwealthclub/ CWC Instagram https://www.instagram.com/cwclub/ CWC Twitter https://twitter.com/cwclub The Commonwealth Club of California is the nation's oldest and largest public affairs forum 📣, bringing together its 20,000 members for more than 400 annual events on topics ranging across politics, culture, society and the economy. Founded in 1903 in San Francisco California 🌉, The Commonwealth Club has played host to a diverse and distinctive array of speakers, from Teddy Roosevelt in 1911 to Hillary Clinton in 2010. Along the way, Martin Luther King, Ronald Reagan and Bill Clinton have all given landmark speeches at the Club.

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After One Hundred Winters confronts the harsh truth that the United States has thrived on land violently taken away from Indigenous people. Settler historian Margaret Jacobs asks what reconciliation

After One Hundred Winters confronts the harsh truth that the United States has thrived on land violently taken away from Indigenous people. Settler historian Margaret Jacobs asks what reconciliation might mean in light of this haunted history. She argues that we have much to gain by learning from our history instead of denying it, even as she lays out the brutal legacy of systemic racial injustice to Indigenous people. Jacobs also explains how early attempts at reconciliation were only successful in further robbing tribal nations of their already reduced land holdings and forcing their children into abusive boarding schools. True reconciliation, she insists, can only emerge through Indigenous leadership and sustained relationships between Indigenous and non-Indigenous people rooted in specific places and histories. In the absence of an official apology and a federal Truth and Reconciliation Commission, a movement for transformative reconciliation is unofficially underway that puts Indigenous land rights, sovereignty, and values at the forefront. With historical sensitivity and an eye to the future, Jacobs urges people to face the past and learn from it, and once they have done so, to redress past abuses. OCTOBER 6, 2021 SPEAKERS Margaret Jacobs Professor of History and Director, The Center for Great Plains Studies, University of Nebraska–Lincoln; Author, After One Hundred Winters: In Search of Reconciliation on America's Stolen Lands In Conversation with George Hammond Author, Conversations With Socrates 💯SUBSCRIBE for more VIDEOS: https://www.youtube.com/user/commonwealthclub 📆 UPCOMING EVENTS: https://www.commonwealthclub.org/events 🎉 BECOME a MEMBER: https://www.commonwealthclub.org/membership 💰 DONATE NOW: https://support.commonwealthclub.org/sslpage.aspx?pid=298 📺➕📻 Watch & Listen https://www.commonwealthclub.org/watch-listen CWC Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/thecommonwealthclub/ CWC Instagram https://www.instagram.com/cwclub/ CWC Twitter https://twitter.com/cwclub The Commonwealth Club of California is the nation's oldest and largest public affairs forum 📣, bringing together its 20,000 members for more than 400 annual events on topics ranging across politics, culture, society and the economy. Founded in 1903 in San Francisco California 🌉, The Commonwealth Club has played host to a diverse and distinctive array of speakers, from Teddy Roosevelt in 1911 to Hillary Clinton in 2010. Along the way, Martin Luther King, Ronald Reagan and Bill Clinton have all given landmark speeches at the Club.

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Three years after it was signed, are supporters of the Paris Agreement still correct that it’s the first truly global step toward a sustainable future, or are critics right that the pact is not

Three years after it was signed, are supporters of the Paris Agreement still correct that it’s the first truly global step toward a sustainable future, or are critics right that the pact is not nearly ambitious enough? “The Paris agreement in some ways has this top-down, bottom-up relationship,” says Katharine Mach, a Senior Research Scientist at Stanford University and a co-leader of the IPCC working group on impacts, adaptation and vulnerability. “If 30 years from now we look back and say the Paris agreement was successful, largely it will be because it has provided predictability to enable all of the other bottom-up action.” But, she adds, “if you really wanna say are we doing enough, the answer hands down, still is no.” Not enough to meet the ambitious Paris target of limiting post-industrial warming to 1.5°, perhaps. But there are risks to framing the success or failure of Paris as a binary challenge where either the world gets to 1.5° or it’s Armageddon. ”The progress that we've already made in bending the emissions curve down has avoided just a massive amount of future human suffering,” says Trevor Houser, a partner at the Rhodium Group, where his team focuses on analyzing the economic risk of global climate change. “And the progress that is certainly within our reach is another large quantum of benefit that we shouldn’t abandon while continuing to work towards that one 1.5°, 2° target.” And later in the show: Climate change is a global problem that no one country can solve on its own. And when it comes to cutting emissions, some countries are moving quickly. But the absence of U.S. climate leadership is causing others to ease off their goals. “We need to decarbonize the world economy really quickly and at massive scale,” says Joshua Goldstein, co-author of A Bright Future: How Some Countries Have Solved Climate Change and the Rest Can Follow. “The metric that matters here is carbon going into the atmosphere,” he notes. “It's not how many renewables you put in or how many nuclear plants you put in... it’s how much carbon is going up.” Goldstein’s co-author, energy consultant Staffan Qvist, points to his native Sweden as one country that has successfully decarbonized its electricity grid. “In Sweden, for instance, half of the power comes from hydroelectric and half from nuclear,” he explains, “so it's kind of the ideal place in the world to try to do 100% renewables.” But Qvist points to another European country – Germany – as illustrating the perils of pursuing a goal of 100% renewables for its own sake. #letstalkclimate https://climateone.org/ Paris was more successful than Copenhagen 2:33 Is Paris healthy at three? 6:01 The Climate Action Tracker: 9:19 How Some Countries Are Solving Climate Change 13:00 Three Mile Island, Chernobyl and Fukushima 20:16

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In this episode, Indigenous scholar and organizer Nick Estes explores how Indigenous land-based and Earth-centered societies are advancing regenerative solutions and campaigns to transform

In this episode, Indigenous scholar and organizer Nick Estes explores how Indigenous land-based and Earth-centered societies are advancing regenerative solutions and campaigns to transform capitalism. “Eco-nomics” puts Indigenous leadership at the forefront of assuring a habitable planet. Featuring Nick Estes, Ph.D. (Kul Wicasa/Lower Brule Sioux), is a Professor at the University of Minnesota (https://twin-cities.umn.edu/)  and a member of the Oak Lake Writers Society (https://olws.squarespace.com/) , a group of Dakota, Nakota and Lakota writers. In 2014, he was a co-founder of The Red Nation (https://therednation.org/)  in Albuquerque, NM, an organization dedicated to the liberation of Native people from capitalism and colonialism. He serves on its editorial collective and writes its bi-weekly newsletter (https://therednation.org/category/features/newsletter/) . Nick Estes is also the author of: Our History Is the Future: Standing Rock Versus the Dakota Access Pipeline, and the Long Tradition of Indigenous Resistance (https://www.versobooks.com/books/2953-our-history-is-the-future) . Resources Nick Estes – The Age of the Water Protector and Climate Chaos (https://bioneers.org/nick-estes-water-protector-climate-chaos-zstf2206/)  (video) | Bioneers 2022 Keynote Indigenous Pathways to a Regenerative Future (https://bioneers.org/indigenous-pathways-regenerative-future-zstf2112/)  (video) | Bioneers 2021 Panel The Red Deal: Indigenous Action to Save Our Earth (https://www.commonnotions.org/the-red-deal)  | The Red Nation Indigenous Resistance Against Carbon (https://www.ienearth.org/indigenous-resistance-against-carbon/)  | Indigenous Environmental Network Credits • Executive Producer: Kenny Ausubel • Written by: Kenny Ausubel • Senior Producer and Station Relations: Stephanie Welch • Program Engineer and Music Supervisor: Emily Harris • Producer: Teo Grossman • Host and Consulting Producer: Neil Harvey • Production Assistance: Anna Rubanova This is an episode of the Bioneers: Revolution from the Heart of Nature series. Visit the radio and podcast homepage (https://bioneers.org/bioneers-radio/)  to learn more.

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What's the business case for sustainability—and perhaps as importantly, what's the sustainability case for business? In this thought-provoking opening session of our sixth season, we explore

What's the business case for sustainability—and perhaps as importantly, what's the sustainability case for business? In this thought-provoking opening session of our sixth season, we explore fundamental questions about business's relationship with the living world. Moving beyond simple profit metrics, we examine what businesses are truly "good for" and what might be possible if we conducted business as though we actually belonged to the living systems that sustain us. The conversation features Paul Herman of HIP Investor presenting compelling market data, while participants unpack the psychological, cultural, and systemic barriers that keep organizations from seeing and seizing sustainable business opportunities, and explore what a business case actual is—and isn't—and why the business case for sustainability remains "mysterious" despite mounting evidence of its value. Key highlights include: - Challenging the persistent myth that "doing good" must cost more - Understanding "submerged value" - the hidden benefits and risks that traditional business metrics miss - How fragmented thinking prevents companies from seeing systemic opportunities - Reimagining business's role in creating a thriving world - Examples of companies successfully bridging profit and purpose The session brings together business leaders, sustainability practitioners, and change makers in a nuanced exploration of why sustainable business remains elusive for many - and how some organizations are cracking the code. Part of the monthly Living Between Worlds "conversation for possibility" exploring how to live and work together in times of tumultuous change. Let us know in the comments below what this conversation provoked for you. And join us next time, on the third Wednesday of every month from 12:00-1:30pm Pacific time. Register at https://bit.ly/LivingBetweenWorlds. (Also, please "like" and "subscribe"! YouTube is nicer to us when you do.) Who joins these conversations? Executives. Sustainability professionals. Investors. Activists. Entrepreneurs. Seekers. Up-and-comers. A poet or two. And you! "Because people are hungry for meaningful conversations that move worlds. Let’s have some!" -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Connect with Gil: Linkedin: https://www.Linkedin.com/in/gfriend Website: https://pages.natlogic.com/home Coaching: https://pages.natlogic.com/coach The 24/7 GilBot: https://www.delphi.ai/gfriend Connect with Ken: Linkedin: https://www.Linkedin.com/in/kenhomer Website: https://www.kenhomer.net #sustainablebusiness #ESG #BusinessStrategy #Sustainability #SystemicChange #Leadership #RegenerativeBusiness

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This high-level event will explore how trade and trade-related policies could be used to support decarbonisation, focusing specifically on Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanisms (CBAM). Alternatives to

This high-level event will explore how trade and trade-related policies could be used to support decarbonisation, focusing specifically on Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanisms (CBAM). Alternatives to CBAMs, such as the inclusion of climate and environmental conditions in trade agreements and the formation of ‘Carbon clubs’ are also discussed. The event, organised by the Brussels office of CISL, will centre on the launch of a new report ‘On the Borderline: The EU CBAM and its place in the world of trade’. The report presents an independent analysis that provides a systematic and thorough assessment of the opportunities and barriers for implementing CBAMs, and what factors could improve their feasibility. It contributes to the growing debate on the EU’s recent CBAM proposal, which has attracted much discussion and interest around the role of trade in climate policy and the impact of climate policy on trade relations. The research and event have been supported by Microsoft. Speakers include: Antoine Colombani, Member of Cabinet of Frans Timmermans, European Commission Executive Vice-President for the European Green Deal Casper Klynge, Vice President for European Government Affairs, Microsoft Dr Susanne Dröge, Senior Fellow, Stiftung Wissenschaft und Politik Thomas Hörnfeldt, Vice President for Sustainability & Public Affairs, SSAB Dr Alberto Arribas-Herranz, Sustainability Science Lead, Europe, Microsoft Pierre Jérémie, Advisor in charge of heavy industries, energy and the circular economy to Ms Agnès Pannier-Runacher, Minister in charge of Industry Catrina Rorke, Vice President of Policy, Climate Leadership Council Clare Shine, Director and CEO of CISL Dr Sanna Markkanen, Research Lead, Centre for Policy and Industrial transformation, CISL Hosuk Lee-Makiyama, Director of the European Centre for International Political Economy Hector Pollitt, Chief Economist, Chief Economist, Cambridge Econometrics Professor Jorge E. Viñuales, Cambridge Centre for Environment, Energy and Natural Resource Governance

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Communities of color are disproportionately affected by climate change and air pollution. We'll hear from Pastor Tillman about his work in communities of color in Baltimore, MD, and Thais Lopez Vogel

Communities of color are disproportionately affected by climate change and air pollution. We'll hear from Pastor Tillman about his work in communities of color in Baltimore, MD, and Thais Lopez Vogel about environmental justice projects the VoLo foundation supports. Rev. Louis Tillman, Senior Pastor St. Philip's Evangelical Lutheran Church A graduate of Carthage College, the Lutheran School of Theology in Chicago (LSTC), and Air Univ., Rev. Tillman proudly serves as the 16th Senior Pastor of St. Philip’s Evangelical Lutheran Church in Baltimore, MD. The past 10 years he has served as the regional volunteer coordinator for the Mary Lou & Arthur F. Mahone Foundation, whose mission is to provide educational opportunities for economically and academically deserving youth, support healthy lifestyles initiatives in communities of color. Thais Lopez Vogel, Co-Founder/Trustee of VoLo Foundation A native of Caracas, Venezuela, Thais is responsible for setting priorities, approving strategies and allocating resources at VoLo. She envisions VoLo playing a leadership role in expanding awareness of environmental issues. She created Florida Climate Week making it the most important climate focused event in the Southeastern U.S. Her focus includes childhood education and global health care. Full bio: https://volofoundation.org/team/ Patricia Rubio, CCL Diversity and Inclusion Program Coordinator Patricia’s work includes providing effective communications in CCL spaces and nurturing volunteers and staff’s growth in transformative justice. Prior, Patricia spent 5 years as an Interpretive Naturalist and Environmental Educator at various nature centers, including the Mission Butterfly Center, McAllen Nature center, and Edinburg World Birding Center. Her experience helps unite people with nature and fosters deep connections with indigenous flora and fauna.

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