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Climate One: How Climate Broke California’s Biggest Utility and The Land of Dreams and Drought

In the past few years, massive wildfires have devastated California, destroying thousands of homes and killing more than a hundred people. Experts say droughts and other conditions amplified by

In the past few years, massive wildfires have devastated California, destroying thousands of homes and killing more than a hundred people. Experts say droughts and other conditions amplified by climate change are one factor. But there is more to the story. "No matter what happens we have to hold PG&E, and whatever successor there is, accountable for negligent acts,” says Mark Toney of the Utility Reform Network. “PG&E was not put into bankruptcy by climate change,” he continues. “PG&E was put into bankruptcy through their own criminal negligence. And we’ve got to hold them accountable and come up with a way of stopping wildfires from happening in the first place. PG&E has admitted that faulty power lines, combined with drought conditions and dying trees worsened by climate change, lit the spark for California’s most deadly wildfire ever. But as far back as the 1990s, PG&E was ignoring the fire danger posed by aging equipment and overgrown trees. Not even hefty fines from the California Public Utilities Commission could get them to clean up their act. In 2000, “We fined them over hundred million dollars,” says Loretta Lynch, who was a commissioner with the CPUC at the time. “That was chump change to them. They continued to pocket necessary maintenance monies and profit from it while the system deteriorated.” In 2010, the San Bruno pipeline explosion killed eight people and injured dozens more; PG&E was later convicted of six felony counts. And last year’s Camp Fire, the deadliest, most destructive in California history, killed 85 people and decimated the town of Paradise. The company now faces a slew of lawsuits from fire victims. “Essentially what our lawsuit is demanding or asking for from PG&E is that the fire victims’ lives are made whole again,” says Patty Garrison, whose home was destroyed in the fire. “It’s just infuriating that that kind of negligence has decimated a town and is continuing to kill people.” This mounting series of transgressions has saddled California’s biggest utility into $30 billion in liabilities and propelled it into bankruptcy. Some have called for a government takeover, or a breakup of the power behemoth into smaller, community-run energy providers. What’s next for PG&E – and for California’s energy future? And in the second half of the show: Cycles of drought and rain have shaped California life since John Steinbeck’s writing seared the state’s water woes into national consciousness. Amplified by climate change, California and other western states now experience regular weather whiplash, careening between record drought and rainfall every few years. In his new book The Dreamt Land: Chasing Water and Dust Across California, author Mark Arax reveals the tumultuous history behind the myth of abundance in the Golden State. LA Times reporter Diana Marcum and water expert Faith Kearns explore the complex intersections between drought, climate change, and life in rural California. Can a decades-old distribution system meet the water needs of the future? Will redirecting rivers, drilling deeper wells, and building higher dams quench California’s demand for water? How will the state's robust agricultural economy — one that produces two-thirds of the country’s produce and nuts year-round — survive the next record-breaking drought? A conversation about living the California dream in a drought-prone state. #letstalkclimate https://climateone.org/ PG&E Bankrupt 3:45 Strict Liability 6:33 California Power Outages 10:17 Land Of Dreams and Drought 13:56 Stories of Drought 11:46 How Much is Climate Contributing? 19:01 Dystopian Water War 21:55

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Date 10/30/2019 Format Length unknown Keywords Sustainability More Details

Mapping the Worldâ€™s Trees in Unprecedented Detail with AI

Forests are vital ecosystems for fighting climate change, supporting livelihoods and protecting biodiversity.

Yet critical gaps remain in the scientific understanding of the structure

Forests are vital ecosystems for fighting climate change, supporting livelihoods and protecting biodiversity.

Yet critical gaps remain in the scientific understanding of the structure and extent of forests around the globe. While satellite data has made it possible to visualize and analyze timely, globally consistent information about the world’s forests, the majority of existing data has resolutions of 10 or 30 meters, which is not granular enough to see the details of more dispersed forest systems such as agroforestry, drylands forests and alpine forests, which together constitute more than a third of the world's forests.

But now, WRI’s Global Restoration Initiative and researchers from Land & Carbon Lab have partnered with Meta to develop a groundbreaking AI foundation model that we’ve used to produce the world’s first global map of tree canopy height at a 1-meter resolution, allowing the detection of single trees at a global scale.

This new high-resolution data sets a baseline for remotely monitoring changes at the level of individual trees, making it a critical advancement for measuring land use emissions and tracking progress on conservation and restoration projects, which are essential for achieving the world’s goals for climate, nature and people. While this initial data set has limitations, it demonstrates the power of foundation models — a type of AI model that can serve as the “foundation” for a variety of tasks — to pave a new path toward AI-driven earth monitoring.

How was the 1-meter tree canopy height data developed?
The accelerating pace of breakthroughs in AI and foundation models are changing the ways in which we all interact with the world around us. In recent years, mapping forests through remote sensing has made rapid improvements in terms of scale, resolution and refresh rate (how often an area is imaged).

This new 1-meter tree canopy height data set creates a global baseline of where trees are located, including individual trees and forests with open canopies.

To create the maps at this resolution, both a globally robust model and the computational resources to generate 100 trillion pixels of data were needed. To do this, we used a state-of-the-art AI model called DiNOv2 based on methods developed by AI at Meta Research. The model was trained on 18 million satellite images encompassing more than a trillion pixels from across the globe.

To learn more visit: https://www.landcarbonlab.org/news-updates/mapping-trees-unprecedented-detail-ai

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Commodity or Human Right? How Community Wealth Building Can Address the Housing Crisis

Housing is a human right, or so says the International Declaration of Human Rights. But could we organize our economies with that in mind? Across the country, communities have land and properties and

Housing is a human right, or so says the International Declaration of Human Rights. But could we organize our economies with that in mind? Across the country, communities have land and properties and people who need homes. What’s stopping us bringing them together in a way that increases community wealth and wellbeing for everyone? That’s the question we explore in this episode of our special series on community wealth building, produced in collaboration with the radio and tv show, Laura Flanders & Friends. Featuring Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor, Writer; Saoirse Gowan, Policy Associate with the Democracy Collaborative; Noni D. Session, Co-Founder and Executive Director of the East Bay Permanent Real Estate Cooperative. This episode is part 1 of a 4-part series exploring how communities are working to transform their local economies by harnessing their assets, anchoring capital and resources locally to directly invest in that place and its people – from land to money and finance. Explore the full series here. (https://bioneers.org/CWBSeries) Resources Democracy Collaborative (https://democracycollaborative.org/) East Bay Permanent Real Estate Cooperative (https://ebprec.org/) Race for Profit: How Banks and the Real Estate Industry Undermined Black Homeownership (https://uncpress.org/book/9781469663883/race-for-profit/) Our Economic Future: Achieving a More Equitable Society by Radically Rethinking Our Guiding Economic Ideas (https://bioneers.org/bioneers-reader-our-economic-future/) | Bioneers Reader Guest Host Laura Flanders is the host and executive producer of Laura Flanders & Friends (https://lauraflanders.org/) , which airs on PBS stations nationwide. She is an Izzy-Award winning independent journalist, a New York Times bestselling author and the recipient of the Pat Mitchell Lifetime Achievement Award from the Women’s Media Center. Credits This series is co-produced by Bioneers and Laura Flanders & Friends Laura Flanders & Friends Producers: Laura Flanders and Abigail Handel Production Assistance: Jeannie Hopper and David Neumann Bioneers Executive Producer: Kenny Ausubel Senior Producer: Stephanie Welch Producer: Teo Grossman Host and Consulting Producer: Neil Harvey Program Engineer and Music Supervisor: Emily Harris

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Date 8/29/2024 Format Length unknown Keywords Sustainability More Details

Saving Life on Earth: Meat Production and the Extinction Crisis

Meat production is a key driver of global wildlife extinctions and the climate crisis. Meat and dairy production, along with associated activities, take up an astounding 30% of the Earth’s surface

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Date 5/22/2020 Format Length unknown Keywords Sustainability More Details

The Sinkhole That's Swallowing Louisiana by Ben Depp

In an industrial strip of land in Louisiana known as Bayou Corne, a 25-acre sinkhole has formed. As earth sinks into the ground, toxic pollutants are being released into the air.

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EarthSayer Ben Depp
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Davos Annual Meeting 2011 Economic Outlook

The following dimensions are addressed:Macroeconomic imbalances, Currency instability, Global governance (G20) and International financial system
• Montek Singh Ahluwalia, Deputy

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EarthSayer Martin Wolf
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Kayapo leader Megaron Txukaramae

Kayapó leader Megaron Txukaramae talks about the draft Bills That Threaten to Weaken indigenous people's control over land Their. Find out more at Survival International

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EarthSayer Megaron Txukaramae
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Solidarity Economics: Taking It to the Bank to Build Community Wealth

In this episode on community wealth building, we look at how communities are working to transform their local economies by harnessing the assets that exist in their place. It’s the Kryptonite to

In this episode on community wealth building, we look at how communities are working to transform their local economies by harnessing the assets that exist in their place. It’s the Kryptonite to the corporate model that extracts wealth from communities. Instead, they’re anchoring capital and resources locally to directly invest in that place and its people - from land to money and finance. We hear from Nicole Ndumele from the Center for American Progress; Mike Strode, from The Kola Nut Collaborative; and Deyanira del Río of the New Economy Project. Resources Center for American Progress (https://www.americanprogress.org/) New Economy Project (https://www.neweconomynyc.org/) O (https://opencollective.com/foundation) pen Collective Foundation (https://kolanutcollab.org/) The Kola Nut Collaborative (https://kolanutcollab.org/) Our Economic Future: Achieving a More Equitable Society by Radically Rethinking Our Guiding Economic Ideas (https://bioneers.org/bioneers-reader-our-economic-future/) | Bioneers Reader This episode is part 1 of a 4-part series exploring how communities are working to transform their local economies by harnessing their assets, anchoring capital and resources locally to directly invest in that place and its people – from land to money and finance. Explore the full series here. (https://bioneers.org/CWBSeries) Guest Host Laura Flanders is the host and executive producer of Laura Flanders & Friends (https://lauraflanders.org/) , which airs on PBS stations nationwide. She is an Izzy-Award winning independent journalist, a New York Times bestselling author and the recipient of the Pat Mitchell Lifetime Achievement Award from the Women’s Media Center. Credits This series is co-produced by Bioneers and Laura Flanders & Friends Laura Flanders & Friends Producers: Laura Flanders and Abigail Handel Production Assistance: Jeannie Hopper and David Neumann Bioneers Executive Producer: Kenny Ausubel Senior Producer: Stephanie Welch Producer: Teo Grossman Host and Consulting Producer: Neil Harvey Program Engineer and Music Supervisor: Emily Harris

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Date 8/29/2024 Format Length unknown Keywords Sustainability More Details

Creating National Parks - The Essentials by Doug Tompkins

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Uplifting Women Human Rights Defenders and Advancing the Escazu Agreement

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Uplifting Women Human Rights Defenders and Advancing the Escazu Agreement

During this virtual event, women environmental and human rights defenders,

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