In 2007, Greg Dalton and a group of Commonwealth Club members visited the Arctic Circle aboard...
- Dear Governor Cuomo: Screening and Discussion
- The New York state fracking moratorium has been in place since the early days of the fracking boom on the Marcellus Shale. But just past state lines in Pennsylvania and in states across the country, hydraulic fracturing has been moving full steam ahead, leaving regulators to play catch-up.
- Eric Schmidt & Jared Cohen
- In the next decade, most people on Earth should be able to access most of the world’s information through a mobile device. We also will see widespread adoption of driverless cars, thought-controlled robotic motion and augmented reality. Identity may possibly be the most valuable commodity for citizens and it will exist primarily online. In 2008 Eric Schmidt introduced the Google 2030 Energy Plan at Climate One, The Commonwealth Club's sustainability project. While this 2013...
- Rebels with a Cause: Film Screening and Discussion
- The documentary Rebels with a Cause follows “ordinary citizens who did extraordinary things” in the second half of the 20th century to preserve the natural landscape of Point Reyes from urbanization. Focusing a lens on conservation, ecology and activism, the post-screening conversation will take a look at where these causes are today. How does conservation of green space reduce greenhouse gas in the atmosphere?
- Sea Surge
- With more than 40 percent of the world’s population living in coastal areas, the impacts of climate change and human exploitation on the world’s oceans are becoming increasingly hard to ignore. Sea levels are rising and endangering important infrastructure and homes.
- Governors Ritter and Whitman: Risk and Resilience
- Hurricane Sandy and the devastating Colorado fires of 2012 underscore the idea that climate disruption is amplifying natural disasters, if not causing them. Sandy and other disasters last year caused more than $100 billion in damage. Politicians are grappling with who bears those costs and whether and how areas such as the Jersey Shore should be rebuilt.
- Overheated
- With the Earth running a fever, people in the United States and around the world are vulnerable to climate-driven disease, famine, war and migration. Many scientists warn that a temperature rise of two degrees Celsius -- which is now highly likely -- would result in catastrophe, and four degrees would be incompatible with organized society as we know it. Many costs of carbon pollution are showing up now in the form of extreme weather, water and resource scarcity and other stresses.
