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CLIMATE ONE: Naomi Klein and Carolyn Beeler: Covering Big Ideas and Personal Stories
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 …
3 years, 1 month ago
Bringing Back the Bay Lights with Ben Davis
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 dr…
3 years, 1 month ago
CLIMATE ONE: The Nuclear Option
Fourteen years after receiving its permit, the nation’s first new nuclear reactors in decades just fired up in Georgia. Massive, traditional nuclear …
3 years, 1 month ago
Civics Across the Curriculum: Educating for Democracy
In recent years, political and social turbulence have given rise to a new urgency around civics education in the United States. Civic leaders, educat…
3 years, 1 month ago
Robert Wachter and Katie Hafner: Creating the Science, Covering the Science
Join us for a discussion with journalist Katie Hafner, who covers scientific advances, especially those by women, and her husband, Dr. Robert Wachter…
3 years, 1 month ago
Rethinking Economic Growth, Wealth, and Health
Since the industrial revolution, the global north has seen massive economic growth. Yet that growth has been linked to increasing greenhouse gas emis…
3 years, 1 month ago
Avi Loeb's Search for Extraterrestrial Life
Famed astronomer Avi Loeb returns to The Commonwealth Club to answer some of the biggest questions facing humankind: How do we prepare ourselves for …
3 years, 1 month ago
Week to Week Political Roundtable: August 30, 2023
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 p…
3 years, 2 months ago
Mauro F. Guillén: Perennials and the Megatrends Creating a Postgenerational Society
In today’s world, the acceleration of megatrends—increasing longevity and the explosion of technology, among many others—is transforming life as we k…
3 years, 2 months ago
Fairytales and Fear: Stories Of Our Future
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 d…
3 years, 2 months ago