Best Commonwealth Club Of California Podcasts (2023)

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CLIMATE ONE: Naomi Klein and Carolyn Beeler: Covering Big Ideas and Personal Stories 54:46

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The climate crisis can be difficult to cover in a way that most people can relate to. The mechanism of harm goes from a person's gas car or stove to the Earth's atmosphere and back again in the form of floods and fires. That's why true stories of individuals and families experiencing the fallout of the climate crisis can be so impactful. They help …

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Bringing Back the Bay Lights with Ben Davis 1:07:44

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The Bay Lights by artist Leo Villareal first went live on March 5, 2013. Exactly one decade later, the beloved artwork went dark. Ben Davis is the driving force behind The Bay Lights and the effort to bring the artwork back with twice the number of LEDs in a radically accessible new configuration. With the project 75 percent funded—and $2.5 million…

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CLIMATE ONE: The Nuclear Option 58:28

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Fourteen years after receiving its permit, the nation’s first new nuclear reactors in decades just fired up in Georgia. Massive, traditional nuclear reactors like this have faced so many cost overruns and construction delays that the investment market for them all but vanished. Despite a handful of recent technical breakthroughs in fusion power, it…

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Civics Across the Curriculum: Educating for Democracy 1:08:15

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In recent years, political and social turbulence have given rise to a new urgency around civics education in the United States. Civic leaders, educators and politicians across the ideological spectrum claim that reviving civics in schools will compensate for decades of neglect and ensure the future of our fragile democracy. But more civics learning…

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Robert Wachter and Katie Hafner: Creating the Science, Covering the Science 1:11:19

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Join us for a discussion with journalist Katie Hafner, who covers scientific advances, especially those by women, and her husband, Dr. Robert Wachter of UCSF, who is on the forefront of the digital transformation of health care and has been influential in advancing public understanding of the COVID crisis. Dr. Wachter coined the term “hospitalist” …

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CLIMATE ONE: Rethinking Economic Growth, Wealth, and Health 54:43

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Since the industrial revolution, the global north has seen massive economic growth. Yet that growth has been linked to increasing greenhouse gas emissions. We also live on a planet with finite resources, so it's hard to believe that we can continue to consume resources and release emissions and not sail right past our collective climate goals. That…

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Avi Loeb's Search for Extraterrestrial Life 1:20:18

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Famed astronomer Avi Loeb returns to The Commonwealth Club to answer some of the biggest questions facing humankind: How do we prepare ourselves for interaction with interstellar extraterrestrial life? And can our species itself become interstellar? Loeb, the longest-serving chair of Harvard's Astronomy Department, shook the scientific community wh…

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Week to Week Political Roundtable: August 30, 2023 1:04:34

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Summer's over and fall is about to begin. Come on out to our beautiful headquarters on San Francisco's waterfront for an end-of-summer Week to Week political roundtable! At Week to Week, we're dedicated to the lively and informed discussion of politics—with a good sense of humor—as a platform for healthy involvement in the issues that drive our soc…

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Mauro F. Guillén: Perennials and the Megatrends Creating a Postgenerational Society 1:07:33

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In today’s world, the acceleration of megatrends—increasing longevity and the explosion of technology, among many others—is transforming life as we know it. Leading sociologist and business economist Mauro F. Guillén explains that a new postgenerational workforce known as “perennials”—individuals who are not pitted against each other either by thei…

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CLIMATE ONE: Fairytales and Fear: Stories Of Our Future 57:48

21d ago57:48

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Stories are the way we remember, the way we share knowledge, the way we play out possible outcomes. Climate fiction imagines dark or bright futures depending on how we address the climate crisis. And there’s a healthy debate about what kind of stories move more people to act: dark tales of a scary climate future or positive versions of a greener, m…

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Andrew Fraknoi: Two Eclipses of the Sun 1:03:50

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Two eclipses of the sun are coming to North America during the 2023–24 school year—an annular (“ring of fire”) eclipse on October 14, 2023 and a total eclipse on April 8, 2024. People in two narrow paths will have the full eclipse experience each time. Everyone else (an estimated 500 million people, including all of us in the Bay Area) will see a n…

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CLIMATE ONE: The Road to Zero Emissions Trucking 55:06

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As the build out of infrastructure for electric passenger vehicles gets underway, another segment of transportation is just starting down the road to electrification: heavy duty trucks. It’s one of the hard-to-decarbonize parts of our economy. Right now, nearly all long-haul trucks run on fossil fuels. And if we continue with business as usual, fre…

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Telling Trans Stories with Shakina 46:43

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Michelle Meow will sit down with American actress and transgender activist Shakina, to discuss the current state and future of the transgender arts and how we can uplift and support their community. Join us for this free program in Palo Alto! This program is part of a collaboration with TheatreWorks New Works Festival: Songs and Stories with Shakin…

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California, A Slave State 1:17:21

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By looking west to California, Jean Pfaelzer shifts our understanding of slavery as a North-South struggle and focuses on how those who were enslaved in California fought, fled, and resisted human bondage. In unyielding research and vivid interviews, Pfaelzer exposes how California's appetite for slavery persists today in the trafficking in human b…

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Legislating Hate: The Legislative Assault on Transgender and LGBTQ+ Americans 1:02:37

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With unprecedented numbers of anti-trans and anti-LBTQ+ bills being presented in state legislatures across the country, Tiffany Woods says it is critical that we stand up and fight for trans, nonbinary, and LGBTQ+ people now more than ever. In 2023, more than 500 anti-trans bills have been introduced in 36 states across the country, rolling back de…

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CLIMATE ONE: Navigating Science and Feelings on a Destabilized Planet 1:01:21

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This year is shaping up to be the hottest year in 125,000 years. It may also be the coolest year a child born today will ever see. In “The Quickening,” science writer Elizabeth Rush documents her journey to Antarctica’s infamous “doomsday” glacier as she contemplates what it would mean for her to have a child at this time of radical change. In “Hum…

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Barbara Lee: Road to the Senate 2024 1:13:54

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Nationally, Democratic Rep. Barbara Lee is perhaps best known for being the only member of Congress to vote against war authorization after the Sept. 11 attacks, a decision that led to death threats and hate mail. But her willingness to take tough, progressive stands has endeared her to East Bay voters—who have re-elected her 13 times—and liberal D…

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CLIMATE ONE: Naomi Klein and Carolyn Beeler: Covering Big Ideas and Personal Stories 54:46

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Bringing Back the Bay Lights with Ben Davis 1:07:44

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CLIMATE ONE: The Nuclear Option 58:28

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Civics Across the Curriculum: Educating for Democracy 1:08:15

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Robert Wachter and Katie Hafner: Creating the Science, Covering the Science 1:11:19

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CLIMATE ONE: Rethinking Economic Growth, Wealth, and Health 54:43

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Avi Loeb's Search for Extraterrestrial Life 1:20:18

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Week to Week Political Roundtable: August 30, 2023 1:04:34

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Mauro F. Guillén: Perennials and the Megatrends Creating a Postgenerational Society 1:07:33

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CLIMATE ONE: Fairytales and Fear: Stories Of Our Future 57:48

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Andrew Fraknoi: Two Eclipses of the Sun 1:03:50

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CLIMATE ONE: The Road to Zero Emissions Trucking 55:06

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Telling Trans Stories with Shakina 46:43

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California, A Slave State 1:17:21

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Legislating Hate: The Legislative Assault on Transgender and LGBTQ+ Americans 1:02:37

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CLIMATE ONE: Navigating Science and Feelings on a Destabilized Planet 1:01:21

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Barbara Lee: Road to the Senate 2024 1:13:54

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