Climate
October 2025 • Climate
BIG CARS – at what cost?
Big cars dominate our lives and we just love the personal comfort and distraction afforded by the gadgets behind the wheel. But for how long can we ignore the true costs of our driving habits on others and the planet, without paying the price?
May 2025 • Climate
Carbon: The Book of Life
Paul Hawken’s latest book, Carbon: The Book of Life illuminates the subtle connections between carbon and our collective human experience and suggests we see nature, carbon, and ourselves as exquisitely intertwined -inseparably connected.
September 2024 • Climate
OUR GREEN HEART: The Soul & Science of Forests
Botanist, medical biochemist, and author DIANA BERESFORD-KROEGER possesses a unique combination of western scientific training and a deep knowledge of ancient Celtic wisdom.
February 2024 • Climate
Saving Ourselves: From Climate Shocks to Climate Action
A conversation with Dana R. Fisher, renowned climate researcher. This self-proclaimed ‘apocalyptic optimist’ will discuss her belief that we can no longer wait for governments to pass the laws we need or technological silver bullets to maintain a livable planet.
September 2023 • Climate
Living on Borrowed Time
Jeff Goodell’s latest book, The Heat Will Kill You First looks at the impact that rising temperatures will have on our lives and on our planet.
May 2023 • Climate
Plastic: Our Toxic Addiction
What can be done to break our toxic addiction to plastic, and to terminate its lethal global legacy?
March 2023 • Climate
Fragile But Resilient
Daily we hear more dire news about the future of the planet. Christopher Preston believes all is not lost; there are some fragments of good news to note.
February 2023 • Climate
The 64-Year Climate Change Cover-Up
Big oil knew about greenhouse gases and their impact on climate change more than half a century ago – but instead of sharing the information, they lied and undermined its veracity.
May 2022 • Climate
Harnessing the Power of Seaweed
An increasing number of marine scientists, ecologists, entrepreneurs and foodies are beginning to appreciate seaweed’s remarkable properties.
January 2022 • Climate
The Soundtrack of the World
For over 50 years, naturalist Bernie Krause has witnessed evidence of multiple environments being radically altered by human influence, and the resultant soundtracks or “biophonies” reflect chaotic alterations due to stress.
December 2021 • Climate
Eco-Anxiety
Does the future plight of the planet keep you up at night? You’re not alone. Journalist Arno Kopecky and Professor Theresa Marteau discuss some of the options we have available to us
October 2021 • Climate
The Day the World Stops Shopping
What are we willing to give up in order to save the planet? And what would happen to our economies and our lives if we seriously committed to consuming fewer of the Earth’s resources?
March 2021 • Climate
Green Growth: A Guide to Post-Pandemic Economic Sustainability
Can we achieve healthy growth that is more regenerative than wasteful, more equitable than unjust? Per Espen Stoknes and L. Hunter Lovins offer blueprints for an inspiring regenerative economy.
June 2020 • Climate
Farming for the Future
This forum features three uniquely different farmers who are all equally passionate about smart and sustainable ways of growing our food.
April 2020 • Climate
In Search of Meadowlarks
John Marzluff outlines a personal approach to sustainable agriculture. Through an ornithologist’s lens, he observes current farming practices to see if we can broker a more harmonious relationship between our birds, farms, food and land.
December 2019 • Climate
How to Start a Revolution
Writers Lauren Duca and Martin Lukacs, author of The Trudeau Formula, discuss collective action and non-violent protest with members of the climate action group, Extinction Rebellion.
October 2019 • Climate
On Fire: The (Burning) Case for a Green New Deal
Naomi Klein makes the case that we will rise to the existential challenge of climate change only if we are willing to transform the systems that produced this crisis.
September 2019 • Climate
The End of Meat?
Can Americans survive without their hamburgers? This juicy question raises many fundamental issues: nutritional, moral and environmental.
October 2018 • Climate
Whitewash
Carey Gillam won the Rachel Carson Book Award from the Society of Environmental Journalists for her book, Whitewash, which follows the first historic verdict against Monsanto in the San Francisco courts.
September 2018 • Climate
Grand Canyon for Sale
Stephen Nash, renowned author of books about science and the environment, warns that America’s public lands will “tumble away” unless people act.
January 2017 • Climate
Normalizing Denial
The climate science debate is heating up.
April 2016 • Climate
All About Bees
Bees don’t just make honey, they pollinate a third of our food supply. But bee colonies are disappearing at an alarming rate in the US.
March 2016 • Climate
The Future of Food, an Urban Answer?
Climate change has forced us to rethink our options about many things, including how and where we grow our food.
October 2015 • Climate
Dispatches from the Front Lines of Climate Justice
Journalist and author Wen Stephenson provides a candid look at some of the “new American radicals” who are risking everything to build a stronger climate justice movement.
October 2014 • Climate
Carbon Tax to Combat Climate Change
A panel including Massachusetts State Senator Mike Barrett, activist Dr. Gary Rucinski, and Anne Kelly, director of public policy at CERES, discusses a carbon tax to combat global warming and create a sustainable economic future.
October 2014 • Climate
This Changes Everything
Naomi Klein’s new book provides a far-reaching explanation of why the climate crisis challenges us to abandon the core “free market” ideology of our time, restructure the global economy, and remake our political systems.
October 2013 • Climate
Breaking New Ground: A Personal History
Internationally renowned environmental “guru” Lester Brown recounts his life story. What paths did he follow to become the powerful and respected voice for environmental issues that he is today?
September 2011 • Climate
Wildness and Reason
In this Cambridge Forum Classic, David Abram, author of The Spell of the Sensuous, tells a story that reveals the dependence of human cognition on the natural environment.
October 2011 • Climate
Writing and Civil Disobedience
Poet and environmentalist Wendell Berry is joined by journalist Bill McKibben in a conversation about writing and civil disobedience.
May 2011 • Climate
Climate Change: Is Green Consumption a Solution?
Heather Rogers, author of Green Gone Wrong, kicks off Climate Change Week in Cambridge, eight days of events about facing and reducing the escalating threats of a changing climate.
April 2011 • Climate
Empires of Food
Author Andrew Rimas discusses his latest book Empires of Food: Feast, Famine, and the Rise and Fall of Civilizations.
February 2011 • Climate
World on the Edge
In his new book World On The Edge, Lester Brown attempts to illuminate a path toward preventing environmental and economic collapse.