Climate One At The Commonwealth Club

FIGHTING CLIMATE CHANGE LARRY BRILLIANT, Executive Director, Google.org ANDREA GARDNER, Sustainable Solutions Manager, CH2M Hill AD MELKERT, Undersecretary of the United Nations, Associate Administrator, United Nations Development Programme NANCY PFUND, Managing Director, JPMorgan GREG DALTON, Vice President, Commonwealth Club-Moderator SINKING CARBON AND RAISING LIVING STANDARDS While many Californians consider buying hybrid cars and unplugging their computer, most of the world's 6 billion people covet having any kind of car and can only dream of having a laptop one day. Yet fighting global climate change will require lifestyle changes by everyone. How can that happen without slamming the world's poor, who are most vulnerable to the health and weather effects of global warming? How can California's innovation in climate policy and technologies help by decoupling carbon emissions from GDP growth? This program was recorded live on November 27, 2007 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.

How Green is Your City? The SustainLane U.S. City Rankings. Appearing with me will be the ever-entertaining Director of the Department of the Environment for San Francisco, Jared Blumenfeld--abandon your notions of a staid city bureaucrat--and Ian Kim from the Ella Baker Center for Human Rights in Oakland, which is leading up a "green collar" jobs program for the city. This panel talks about the future of green cities, local jobs, economic development and clean tech in the 21st century, with representatives from the #2 city (San Francisco) and #5 city (Oakland) out of the largest 50 US cities profiled in How Green is Your City? This program was recorded in front of a live audience at The Commonwealth Club on May 2, 2009 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Todd Paglia Executive Director, ForestEthics, THE NEW ENVIRONMENTALISM: USING CORPORATE POWER FOR SOCIAL CHANGE This program was recorded in front of a live audience at The Commonwealth Club on March 29, 2007 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

LOCAL POLICY DIRECTIONS FOR ADDRESSING CLIMATE CHANGE Panel: MICHEL GELOBTER, President, Redefining Progress; Board Member, Natural Resources Defense Council DAVID R. BAKER, Markets and Energy Writer, San Francisco Chronicle SEVERIN BORENSTEIN, Director, UC Energy Institute; This program was recorded in front of a live audience at The Commonwealth Club on March 27, 2007 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

SOLAR POWER UPDATE: CALIFORNIA'S MOMENT IN THE SUN DAVID EDWARDS, Managing Director, ThinkEquity Partners LLC MICHAEL HALL, Chief Marketing Officer, Borrego Solar MARTIN ROSCHEISEN, CEO, Nanosolar, Inc., J.P. ROSS, Director of Programs, Vote Solar ARNO HARRIS, CEO, Recurrent Energy, Inc. – Moderator, This program was recorded in front of a live audience at The Commonwealth Club on March 21, 2007 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Sherry Boshert, Author of "PLUG-IN CARS: HOW TO GET ONE AND WHY" Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices