Latest Episodes
194
The Spark Community Utility: A City-Led Path to Clean, Resilient, Affordable Energy, with Bob Krause
Electricity prices in California are on the rise and they are forecast to go much, much higher in the future. Climate change is wreaking...
184
Here Comes El Niño! with Dr. Daniel Swain, UCANR and NCAR
Summer is over and the rainy season looms ahead. We are being promised a wild, wet and wooly winter, with a “Super” El Niño....
192
Fire and Ice on the Roof of the World, with Jonathan Mingle, Independent journalist and science writer
We’ve all heard about the terrible Himalayan flash flood that traveled nearly 100 km down the Lende Kholā and Trishuli̇̄ Kholā rivers on the...
191
Rancho Coyote Viejo--A Pilot Land Access Project for Farmers, with Josefina Lara Chavez, Executive Director of RegenerationLA
Local food systems are of great importance to the Monterey Bay Region and, indeed, to California, and there is a growing number of small...
190
Speculations on Conjunctural Futures: What Might We Expect, What Must We Do? With Kim Stanley Robinson, author of The Ministry for the Future
There are lots of dystopian futures floating around in the air and on the air. Imagining the future is never really about the future;...
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Plutonium Pit Production--The Risks and Costs of US Plans to Build New Nuclear Weapons with Dr. Dylan K. Spaulding of the Union of Concerned Scientists
Nuclear weapons have been with us for 80 years. There are fewer today than was the case at the height of the Cold War,...