S5E2: Think climate change is a hoax? Ask the insurance industry

S5E2: Think climate change is a hoax? Ask the insurance industry

The Insurance Information Institute's Chief Economist, Michel Leonard, discusses how the insurance industry is contending with increasingly intense and more frequent extreme weather events that are driving up insurance costs for consumers. While there are a number of factors driving cost increases for insurance, such as inflation, there's no doubt that extreme events driven by human-caused climate disruption is a principal factor, Leonard says. Climate is the one of most critical issues affec...

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S5E9: Dan Becker on the longstanding industry misinformation campaign that has derailed climate action

S5E9: Dan Becker on the longstanding industry misinformation campaign that has derailed climate action

Dan Becker has been a decades-long advocate for policies addressing the climate disruption that is occurring because of the accumulation of man-made greenhouse gases in the atmosphere, first at the Si...

22 Sep 41min

S5E8: Microgrid Maven Elisa Wood discusses state of play for consumer-empowering electricity options

S5E8: Microgrid Maven Elisa Wood discusses state of play for consumer-empowering electricity options

Elisa Wood, founder and editor of the newsletter Energy Changemakers, has covered the evolution of consumer-empowering technologies such as microgrids, demand response, rooftop solar and battery stora...

15 Sep 42min

S5E7: John Farrell, director of ILSR's Energy Democracy Initiative, eyes municipal ownership as an answer to monopoly utility abuses

S5E7: John Farrell, director of ILSR's Energy Democracy Initiative, eyes municipal ownership as an answer to monopoly utility abuses

John Farrell, director of ILSR's Energy Democracy Initiative, sees municipal ownership of utilities as an answer to the abuses consumers suffer at the hands of investor-owned monopoly utility companie...

7 Sep 45min

S5E6: The Nuclear Innovation Alliance is riding the crest of a tsunami of new nuclear technology

S5E6: The Nuclear Innovation Alliance is riding the crest of a tsunami of new nuclear technology

The U.S. nuclear industry is enjoying a robust turnaround, largely driven by interest in emerging new nuclear technologies, such as small modular reactors. Judi Greenwald, president and CEO of the Nuc...

19 Aug 1h

S5E5: Long-time observer Paul Bledsoe opines on the state of the U.S. and global action on climate disruption

S5E5: Long-time observer Paul Bledsoe opines on the state of the U.S. and global action on climate disruption

Despite increasingly catastrophic weather events occurring across the globe, climate change expert Paul Bledsoe is optimistic there is still time to ward off the worst of climate disruption caused by ...

13 Aug 34min

S5E4: Data Center Coalition's Aaron Tinjum discusses the energy and siting challenges the data industry faces in the age of AI

S5E4: Data Center Coalition's Aaron Tinjum discusses the energy and siting challenges the data industry faces in the age of AI

The data industry is in a land rush to develop new data centers to meet projected demand due to artificial intelligence. Rapidly bringing many new, large data centers online translates into a sharp in...

24 Jul 43min

S5E3: Former DOE official William S. Becker discusses the fossil fuel industry 'cartel' that has frustrated climate action

S5E3: Former DOE official William S. Becker discusses the fossil fuel industry 'cartel' that has frustrated climate action

William S. Becker, the executive director of the Presidential Climate Action Project and a former Department of Energy official, discusses the fossil fuel industry "cartel" that has aligned itself wit...

13 Jul 31min

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