Climate Solutions (Video) Podcast
1) WiFire: Technology to Predict and Prevent the Spread of Wildfires
Researchers at UC San Diego are working on cutting edge technology to combat the constant threat of wildfires in California. The WIFIRE Lab is a collaboration between the Qualcomm Institute and the Sa...Show More
2) What is Geoengineering and Can It Save the Planet
Can geoengineering save the planet? Injecting particles into the atmosphere to counter the warming effects of climate change would do nothing to offset the crop damage from rising global temperatures,...Show More
3) Getting the Smoke Out of Our Eyes: Ashok Gadgil
As we rethink our energy use, we focus on the highest polluters, and at a global scale. But energy use at a much finer scale seriously threatens the health and safety of hundreds of millions of people...Show More
4) Cities Adaptations to Sea Level Rise: Kristina Hill
Since we don’t yet know how fast and how high sea levels are going to rise, Berkeley urban designer Kristina Hill stresses that our strategies must be ready and be adaptive as conditions change. Risin...Show More
5) Stillsuit for a City: David Sedlak
At a time of uncertain water supplies, how can we get the most use of our water? By passing water through a material called a reverse osmosis membrane, adding a small amount of hydrogen peroxide and e...Show More
6) (Re)active Resilience: How to Thrive in a Changing Climate
Drawing on personal experiences of living with the Maasai tribe in east Africa and the Inuit of Greenland – whose cultures and resilience derive from living in constantly changing environments - Jacqu...Show More
7) Kelly Ferguson Director Los Angeles Cleantech Incubator
Kelly Ferguson is the Director of Santa Barbara and Ventura Counties Energize California Program, an initiative of the Los Angeles Cleantech Incubator. She is a lifelong Green Entrepreneur and Eco War...Show More
8) Designing Water Conservation Solutions in Middle Schools
By focusing on a current water issue, students in public schools learn the science behind the problem and then exercise the scientific method in determining a unique solution to the problem with their...Show More
9) Blum Center Drones to Enhance Flood Resilience
Floods are the most destructive of natural disasters, on average affecting 100 million people globally. Drones can be used as very cost effective mapping devices, gathering fine resolution data on a s...Show More
10) Climate Justice in the Age of Trump
We are now at a point in the United States in which, in a range of areas, evidence-based policy making no longer enjoys the degree of even rhetorical support that it once did. Dale Jamieson, Professor...Show More