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The Climate Council was formed in response to the urgency we face regarding global warming, and in recognition of the need for concerted, collective action on a community-wide level to address this crisis. Our goal is to support and expand the important work already happening throughout the world by partnering with individuals, organizations, businesses, legislators and others in taking bold, effective action and assisting others in joining together. We offer free educational programming designed to inspire community action, and support advocacy for meaningful change at the local and regional level.
The Climate Council is a 501(c)3 nonprofit corporation whose mission is, "To educate, partner and advocate for solutions that reverse global warming."
The Climate Council is a 501(c)3 nonprofit corporation whose mission is, "To educate, partner and advocate for solutions that reverse global warming."
Role Of State Government In The Challenge Of Climate Change
CLIMATE HOUR - What is the role of state government in the challenge of Climate Change? The scientific consensus is that global warming of over two degrees Celsius will threaten human life as we know it. The Paris Agreement defines 1.5 degrees as a more desirable goal to limit the worst outcomes. Yet as of October, 2023, the planet’s average surface-temperature increase was already 1.4 degrees Celsius.
There’s many things we can do to reduce our personal carbon footprint. But we also need to engage in collective climate actions. We have to take action with our communities, our national governments, and at the state government level.
Join host, Bob Grove, and Mark Glick, Chief Energy Officer the the State of Hawai’i, to discuss the role of state government in the challenge of climate change.
Mr Glick served as senior advisor to the Texas Land Commissioner in the 1980s, where he helped pass landmark amendments to both the Texas Clean Air Act and the federal Clean Air Act. He then headed up operations and economic development for the Office of Hawaiian Affairs and later served as Hawaii’s Energy Administrator during the formative years of the Hawaii Clean Energy Initiative. And in 2023, Mark was appointed Chief Energy Officer of the Hawaii State Energy Office.
Hawaii’s clean energy initiative is recognized as a national and global policy trendsetter. Hawaii was first in the nation to establish a legally binding commitment to 100% renewable energy. And Hawaii adopted legislation in 2022 that requires the state to sequester more atmospheric carbon than emitted, achieving net-negative emissions no later than 2045.
To learn more, visit …
energy.hawaii.gov/
www.amazon.com/dp/B0C6JPDD24
Listen to other Climate Hour episodes at www.ClimateHour.net.
There’s many things we can do to reduce our personal carbon footprint. But we also need to engage in collective climate actions. We have to take action with our communities, our national governments, and at the state government level.
Join host, Bob Grove, and Mark Glick, Chief Energy Officer the the State of Hawai’i, to discuss the role of state government in the challenge of climate change.
Mr Glick served as senior advisor to the Texas Land Commissioner in the 1980s, where he helped pass landmark amendments to both the Texas Clean Air Act and the federal Clean Air Act. He then headed up operations and economic development for the Office of Hawaiian Affairs and later served as Hawaii’s Energy Administrator during the formative years of the Hawaii Clean Energy Initiative. And in 2023, Mark was appointed Chief Energy Officer of the Hawaii State Energy Office.
Hawaii’s clean energy initiative is recognized as a national and global policy trendsetter. Hawaii was first in the nation to establish a legally binding commitment to 100% renewable energy. And Hawaii adopted legislation in 2022 that requires the state to sequester more atmospheric carbon than emitted, achieving net-negative emissions no later than 2045.
To learn more, visit …
energy.hawaii.gov/
www.amazon.com/dp/B0C6JPDD24
Listen to other Climate Hour episodes at www.ClimateHour.net.
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Surprising Connections Between Humans And The Natural World
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CLIMATE HOUR - Connections between humans and the natural world are often seen as exploitative or destructive. But scientists continue to find surprising ways that the natural world can heal us, both physically and mentally. Join host, Bob Grove, and Florence Williams, science journalist and author, to discuss the surprising connections between humans and the natural world. Florence Williams, a...
Water Wars: Direct Impacts of Water Scarcity on the World
zhlédnutí 100Před 2 měsíci
CLIMATE HOUR - Clean water is essential for life, yet billions of people around the world don’t have enough water. Global warming is increasing the number of water-stressed areas and magnifying the water problems in regions already affected, leading to increased geopolitical conflict and water wars. Scientists with the United Nations report a 20% drop in renewable water resources for every 1° c...
Young Climate
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Pollinators: What Effect They Have on the Earth? Join Young Climate host, Alexia Gillum, and guests to discuss what effect pollinators have on the earth. Guests include: • Miette La Faver • Sonya La Faver Produced by the Climate Council (ClimateGKC.org) in collaboration with the Hickman Mills C-1 Schools.
Climate Equity
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Joy Ellsworth, Clement Waters Learn more at: ClementWaters.org
Marine Mammals: Early Warning For World Climate Survival
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CLIMATE HOUR - Marine mammals are the planet’s canary in a coalmine. For as the ocean goes, so goes the land and all that dwell upon it. Climate change is causing the world’s oceans to become warmer and more acidic, while a constant stream of petrochemicals and microplastics turn then into a toxic wasteland. The study and preservation of marine mammals can provide an early warning system that h...
The Amazing Impacts of the Little Community Orchard
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CLIMATE HOUR - A little community orchard provides an amazing number of benefits. First there’s basic carbon sequestration. Trees take carbon out of the air and reduce global warming. Then there’s food sovereignty. Trees give you control of your own food sources. In today’s corporate farming system, genetically modified foods are picked green, irradiated to prevent spoilage, then shipped half w...
How To Build Climate-Conscious Habits One Month At A Time
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Join Sami Aaron from The Resilient Activist and Elaine Parke with 12 Habits For All of Us to learn simple actions you can take for a more environmentally aware way of living - one month at a time! This event is for all - grade school kids to adults - and is especially helpful for parents and teachers. Come learn some Simple Steps for a Big Impact! This webinar was part of the Kansas City's 2024...
Climate Keynote & Forum
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Kansas City's 2024 Earth Festival was opened by Missouri legislator Emily Weber, Democrat Minority Caucus Vice-Chair, and keynoted by Dr. Wendell Christopher King, U.S. Army Brigadier General (ret.). Festival organizers talked about upcoming events and the organizations behind them. Dr King's keynote was titled, "Climate Change, Water Wars, and Other Scary Stuff." OPENING SPEAKER Emily Weber ...
Value of Teaching Teachers To Be Climate Teachers
zhlédnutí 15Před 5 měsíci
Climate Hour - We’ve talked about climate education before. We’ve discussed how to teach children about climate, and we’ve talked about climate programs in higher education. But all of these programs need teachers who understand and are willing to add climate to their curriculum. How do we go about teaching teachers to teach climate change and how do we form the professional networks needed to ...
Reframing The Climate Conversation Now
zhlédnutí 13Před 6 měsíci
CLIMATE HOUR - When was the last time you talked about climate issues with a friend or family member? Studies find that the majority of people are concerned about climate but don’t talk about it. Why has something as universal as the climate conversation become such a political football that it’s a forbidden topic at family holiday gatherings? In 2002, a prominent republican pollster circulated...
Degrowth: Healthier Food Grown Locally
zhlédnutí 100Před 7 měsíci
This webinar was presented 2/7/2024. The US uses enormous amounts of energy and labor while causing ecological destruction in order to manufacture food that is awful. The worst example is “factory farms” (Confined Animal Feeding Operations) that are spreading like a disease. Alternatives are growing. Agriculture does not need to be complicated. A connection to nature can help heal relationships...
How To Make Higher Education Work for Climate Change
zhlédnutí 12Před 7 měsíci
How do we prepare our college and university graduates to understand, survive and even prosper in this age of climate change? Some of this is expanding science degrees to address climate-related issues. But most of it is incorporating climate-related issues into ALL subjects; cross-cutting education to address the climate change we’re experiencing today and the climate reality that our graduate...
How Climate Change is Impacting World Forest Growth
zhlédnutí 50Před 8 měsíci
We know that deforestation, commercial farming, urban sprawl and other forms of defoliation contribute to climate change. But what about the other way around. What is climate change doing to trees and other plants? Destruction of plants reduce our planet’s ability to sequestor greenhouse gases and increase global warming. But what if global warming itself is effecting the world’s forest and oth...
Food Security, Polyforestry and NOAA’s Climate Dashboard
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For most of the world, food security - having enough to eat - is one of today’s greatest challenges. As climate change continues to disrupt today’s industrial farming systems, world leaders are reevaluating traditional regenerative farming practices which are more resistant to climate change. Practices which work with the environment instead of killing it the way today’s monocrop farming does. ...
Ocean Warming And The Survival Of The World’s Largest Ecosystem
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Ocean Warming And The Survival Of The World’s Largest Ecosystem
India's Perspective on Climate Change
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India's Perspective on Climate Change
Engaging with Black Communities on Climate
zhlédnutí 37Před rokem
Engaging with Black Communities on Climate
Climate Science and Renewable Technology
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Climate Science and Renewable Technology
Developing Emotional Resilience for Climate Change
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Developing Emotional Resilience for Climate Change
Strategic Defence Impacts of Climate Change
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Strategic Defence Impacts of Climate Change
Missouri Coalition for the Environment - Makenna Nickens
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Missouri Coalition for the Environment - Makenna Nickens
Great questions and responses. Thanks guys to share this fact based approach to water use and management.
Very well presented with a lot of good facts and even better ideas. I was also a bit disappointed that it was never pointed out that one of the major problems with factory farms are their gross exploitation of the non-human animals themselves and the obvious neglect of their wishes to remain alive.
nuclear would still be the best source of energy, the cost of removing/recycling nuclear waste compared to the profits would always be magnitudes apart in how cheap and sustainable it would be. I'd also argue if more countries went nuclear, countries would use most of their plutonium/uranium reserves for energy instead of weapons. I believe radioactive materials have a undeserved and tainted reputation because of their potential to be used as weapons and incidents from older nuclear reactors. If people could learn more about them and advocate for them I believe the world would steer towards a brighter future.
Here's a pleasant surprise: A resoundlingly collegial and frank conversation between nuclear proponent Chris King and opponent David Kraft. King, Brigadier General (Ret.), and Dean Emeritus, of the U.S. Army Command and General Staff College, has long been the US military's leading voice on enviornmental engineering, waste management and associated global security threats. Kraft, Director of the Nuclear Energy Information Service, has been a senior campaigner on nuclear, energy and environmental policy issues for decades. They entered the conversation on Pacifica Radio's Climate Hour prepared to do battle, and instead found themselves converging on common ground: * No, nuclear is not a solution to the climate crisis; * No, new nuclear reactor designs will not help with climate, energy costs or other problems, but wll instead contribute to existing delays and crises in most cases rather than sovle them; * Yes, we need rapid phase out of fossil fuels, decentralized resilient grid upgrades, continued rapid renewables and energy efficency buildouts, * We ahould be wary of nuclear export as a solution for countries like Saudi Arabia that have abundant renewable resources or whose nuclear programs pose climate or proliferation risks; * Risk analysis when it comes to climate and nuclear energy and weapons is complex and highly dependent on the assumptions of modellers - nuclear boosterism should be excluded from discussion when genuine risk analysis is performed; * We need stronger, not weaker, anti-proliferation measures applied to domestic and international nuclear waste management and new, unproven nuclear designs (backed by nuclear/AI tech bros like Sam Altman's Oklo, Billl Gates' Tererapower and Rachel Pritzekers Breakthrough bets) that attempt to cut costs by disregarding security and safety measures.. The remaining disagreement? How to manage the phase out of the existing nuclear fleet while bridging to renewables and how to identify the few exceptions where new nuclear might make sense. There were areas left unexamined, as Kraft noted, including the consequences of the inevitable nuclear colonialism that the nuclear power and weapons complex requires. And I wish there had been some discussion of other issues: >how< the industries' current stranglehold on legislative and agency politics might be broken; the looming dangers of new nuclear arms races that accompany the abandonment of much of the non-proliferation and disaarmament agendaof the past 75 years; the related calls for abandoning treaty and safety requirements in the pursuit of imposing new small modular, breeder, fuel and weapons facilities designs and construction; and the necessary roles of roles of global civil society in engaging much more searchingly in deliberative democracy and post-corporate global commons networking towards regenerative energy and sustainability policy. Somehow these two experts worked through complex arguments and potential disagreements in the course of an hour without flinching from the gravity of the issues and with courteous regard for each other's arguments. This consensus building offered a refreshing contrast to the shameful, uncivil proceedings of the Illinois legislature in following the lead of my (former) Representative Mark Walker this year, stampeding through a nuclear boosterism bill by means of jobs, climate and "the lights will go out" fear mongering aimed to "deregulate" the nuclear industry by stripping State EPA oversight of nuclear licensing and related waste regulation. A similar stampede is happening in the US Senate right now as yet another round of Federal nuclear bailout for the nuclear energy and weapns industries looks set to sail through Congress. Legislative leadership could have convened precisely the sort of dialogue offered by Kraft and King to develop consensus on paths towards realistic energy policy to meet the polycrisis. Instead we have legislators falling all over themselves to give the nuclear and utility industries everything they want, rather than what communities, country and the world need. Kraft and King both attempt to end their discussion on hopeful notes, pointing to examples of serious polcy and design work being done to actually understand the magnitude of the problems, avoid the worst risks, detail transition plans and accellerate existing solutions that already work. As the Illinois legistive leadership tries to whip members into overriding the Governors' veto of the nuclear boosterism bill and the US Congress takes up the Senate nuclear bailout bill, maybe someone in leadership will get the message that these are serious issues with hopeful solutions just waiting for authentic political leadership to step up to choose the sort of cautiously hopeful future KIng and Kraft converge on here. Well worth viewing.
Looks like a great time! Compost is a great Mother's Day gift for the garden!!
Really proud of this wonderful work going on!
proud of you cuz this is yuri keep up the good work bro
Fabulous webinar!
WE DO DAILY BEACH CLEAN UPS on OUR DAILY BEACH WALKS , every little bit helps, litter ends up in waterways through weather events.
What was that black car with the yellow stripe? It looked really cool....
It’s a Tesla model 3 with a wrap.
Thank you for sharing
solar panels went from 9% efficiency to 17% . from 10-15 years life to 25-30 years. we shouldn't not throw away all of this because it's not efficient, but I think its obvious that we should focus more on cutting consumption. The film did not make this point clearly enough but lets not act like the mass mining, production, usage, and disposing of these materials are not a huge problem that is not being addressed.
Regarding biomass: There are unproblematic forms of biomass (no competition with food production, high enough EROI). For example: Everything you grow wheat or corn or and other food you get inediable plant matter (biomass). Or if you have a garden you'll also produce biomass (kitchen waste, garden waste etc.). This biomass can be turned into biogas and it can be very usefull and in some cases essential to achieve a 100 percent renewable energy system (replacing all fossil fuels). If you look at northern countries like Germany you generally have a huge energy gap in the winter, but this is the time when you need a lot of energy to heat the homes. Biomass is essential in those places. You can do the same wiht power-to-x, but then you'll need a lot more renewalbe energy, because of the losses and in some countries that's not possible. Also there's nothing wrong with biomass from forest if it's done right i.e. if you don't take more wood than the forest regrows. That way you can keep the size of the forrests. That's not needed in all places, but where it's neede we shouldn't be against it. It's still CO2 neutral and a lot better than fossil fuels. The only real argument against that seems to be that the forests could be used instead as carbon sinks by letting them grow to their full size and then taking out wood to store the carbon (in wooden buildings, wooden furniture, as charcoal etc.). PS: Of course no biofuel should be used in transport. Why not? Too much energy is wasted. The waste heat is just released into the enviroment. Instead biomass should be used with cogeneration of heat and for that it must be a stationary plant.
I agree. I have a background in physics and chemistry and i've been interested in the scientific literautre regarding global warming and regenerative energy systems for over 10 years now. It was imedialtely obvious that there were a lot of mistakes in this movie and that it clearly didn't reflect the current state of the scientific literature. In fact it seemed to not even try to look at the scientific literature, nor did it try to ask leading experts (scientists) in the field of regenerative energy systems to tell them about what's in the scientific literature. A movie about science is only as good as the sources and this movie was largely based on a layman perspective, instead of the scientific literature. It's also interesting how they then tried to make it look as if solar panels, wind and biomass were the idea of capitalists, when these are simply the most important energy sources to replace fossils fuels in the scientific literature. It's very obvious that no other energy sources even come close to wind and solar. What i don't understand is that the producers of the movie don't seem to take any of the criticism seriously. They just see it as being attacked and they defend even the most ridiculous points in the movie. It's quite sad and somewhat surprising. I haven't seen any meaningfull discussion between serious critics (with a scientific background) and the producers of the movie, which is a shame. I guess, in the end they really believe what they've presented. I think the problem is that people like Michael Moore and Jeff Gibbs are mainly political commentators. They are used to seeing everything through an ideological lense and they are used to there being multiple valid points of view on any issue. I think their mistakes and their lack of understanding their mistakes has to do with their inexperience in covering natural sciences. Science deals with facts and opinion A isn't just as valid as opinion B. When you want to stop global warming then there are certain limits and certain ways to achieve this. There are wrong answers in this regard. And to understand what's right and what's wrong or what's not known yet you have to look at the scientific literature. I don't think they understand this. They just approach this like any other political movie. You know, just go to some dramatic looking places, edit footage to get what you wanted, "follow the money" and all that nonsense. You can't approach natural sciences like that.
Is that kimberly birkin, “Tuesday” in here?
Ya it’s her