Be the Voice of Reality

Social Media Corner: Calum Worthy

Host: Sam Champion

Featured Guest: Governor Jerry Brown

Performing Live : Ryan Tedder

Across the US, the transition to a clean energy economy is underway and accelerating by the day. Even as the White House publicly clings to fossil fuels, more and more states, cities, companies, and colleges are doing the math for themselves and making the switch to renewables. They’re doing it to protect not just our planet, but also the health of their constituents – and the health of their bottom lines. Hour highlights include a conversation with longtime climate champion and California Governor Jerry Brown and a special appearance by Ryan Tedder of One Republic performing live in the studio.

Host: Jonathan Scott Social Media Corner: Calum Worthy and Allie Simpson Featured Guests

• Governor Kate Brown
• Mayor Carmen Cruz
• Téa Leoni

Performing Live: Jason Mraz With President Trump beginning the process to withdraw the US from the Paris Agreement and the federal government abandoning its responsibility to act on climate, towns, cities, and states across the US have stepped up to lead the fight for solutions. In this hour, we’ll tell the story of local leaders taking the country forward to a sustainable future and working to ensure the US meets its Paris commitments, with or without the White House. Featured guests include Oregon Governor Kate Brown, San Juan Mayor Carmen Cruz, and actress and activist Téa Leoni along with a live studio performance by Jason Mraz.

 

Host: Vanessa Hauc Social Media Corner: Calum Worthy and Katherine Herzer Featured Guests

• Senator Silvia Garza
• Astrid Puentes Riano

Featured Artist: Spencer Ludwig With the passage of the General Climate Law in 2012 and the Energy Transition Law in 2015, Mexico launched a series of bold reforms aiming to take the country to 35 percent clean energy by 2024. Now, with this new framework in place, the country is moving quickly to develop the systems and infrastructure to reach this goal and take advantage of its abundant sun, wind, and other renewable resources. We’ll tell the story of this exciting transition, speaking with civil society activists like Astrid Puentes Riañio, co-executive director of the Interamerican Association for Environmental Defense, who are driving this change. We’ll also explore the creative solutions innovative engineers and entrepreneurs are developing to help the country reach its clean energy goals. We’ll also hear music from sensational trumpeter, singer, and dancer Spencer Ludwig.

Host: Sarah Backhouse Social Media Corner: Calum Worthy and Katherine Herzer Featured Guests

• Matt Adams
• Sharan Burrow
• Peter Garrett

Featured Artist: Midnight Oil Australia’s federal government may be dragging its feet on climate action, but that hasn’t stopped local leaders and everyday Australians of all ages and walks of life from jumping into the fight in all kinds of ways. In this hour, we’ll travel Down Under to see a growing climate movement that is as diverse as it is, visiting a primary school where climate action is on the agenda and hearing from Sharan Burrow, general secretary, International Trade Union Confederation, about labor’s vital role in the climate fight. We’ll also speak with longtime environmental campaigner and Midnight Oil singer Peter Garrett and National Geographic Your Shot producer Matt Adams.

Host: Sarah Backhouse

Social Media Corner: Calum Worthy

Featured Guests

• Patrick Adams
• Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern

Featured Artist: Belinda Carlisle

Performing Live: Young Paris

The world is full of regular men and women, girls and boys who never set out to be climate activists. But as so many of us discover, when the climate crisis threatens your world and the very ground you walk on, you have to take a stand.

In this hour, we’ll document the citizen movement rising up in islands across the Pacific in the face of rising sea levels swallowing land and transforming lives from Fiji to Kiribati and beyond. Featured guests include New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Arden and actor Patrick Adams, as well as music from Belinda Carlisle and a special live performance from hip-hop prodigy Young Paris.

Host: Jamil Smith

Featured Artists

• Jay Park
• Minzy with Eric Nam

Performing Live: Phe Reds

Cities make up only 2 percent of our planet’s surface, yet account for more than half of the world’s population. They’re also responsible for 70 to 80 percent of global greenhouse gas emissions, making them a critical battleground in the fight for a sustainable future.

In South Korea and Japan, cities are seeing this opportunity and stepping up to lead. In this hour, we’ll see how cities like Seoul have become forces for real change by embracing real, practical, and downright ordinary solutions. We’ll also celebrate the incredible culture of the region with the premiere of K-pop superstar Jay Park’s newest video as well as music from Minzy and a live studio performance from Phe Reds.

Host: Jamil Smith

Social Media Corner: Calum Worthy and Vanness Wu

Featured Guests

• Antonio La Viña
• Senator Loren Legarda
• Jassen Todorov

Featured Artist: The Killers

After Typhoon Haiyan (or as it’s known locally, Yolanda) became the strongest tropical typhoon to ever make landfall and ripped through the Philippines in 2013, taking the lives of thousands and inflicting billions in damage, there was no question about the reality of climate change. The only question was what to do.

Four years on, we’ll explore the growing movement for action in the Philippines as faith communities and citizens alike call out for justice and bold steps to confront the crisis and help prevent another tragedy. In this hour, we’ll speak with celebrated scientist and Philippines climate negotiator Antonio La Viña and Senator Loren Legarda as well as violinist and award-winning photographer Jassen Todorov. Plus, Las Vegas alt-rock heavyweights the Killers ask the timeless question, “Are we human or are we dancer?”

Host: Jamil Smith

Social Media Corner: Calum Worthy and Vanness Wu

Featured Guests

• Togu Manurung
• Jeff Orlowski
• Dr. Hayu Prabowo

In a nation comprised of over 17,000 islands, fossil fuel energy isn’t just dirty and expensive – often requiring extensive infrastructure to reach remote communities – it can be deeply impractical. In contrast, renewables like wind and solar offer many island communities the chance to generate affordable energy locally and finally bring electricity to villages long without it.

In this hour, we’ll explore how leaders in Indonesia are increasingly turning to clean energy as a path to leapfrog fossil fuels and modernize communities, with islands like Sumba leading the way. We’ll speak with Forest Watch Indonesia Chairman Togu Manurung and Dr. Hayu Prabowo, head of environment and natural resources at the Indonesian Ulema Council. We’ll also hear what it means to capture and tell the story of our changing climate from award-winning filmmaker Jeff Orlowski, the man behind the camera in socially relevant works like Chasing Ice and Chasing Coral.

Host: Sarah Backhouse

Social Media Corner: Calum Worthy and Vanness Wu

Featured Guest: Yeb Sano

Featured Artists: Nile Rodgers and CHIC

It’s a simple truth that the sun provides more energy in an hour than humanity uses in a year. Driven by a spirit of self-sufficiency, activists of all shapes in Southeast Asia are starting to turn to solar to modernize communities, create jobs, and jumpstart their economies.

In this hour, we’ll explore this exciting movement by visiting schools where the next generation of solar workers in Malaysia train for new careers and Thai students learn how to seize the power right above their heads. We’ll also speak with former climate negotiator for the Philippines and current Greenpeace Southeast Asia Executive Director Yeb Sano. The hour also features music from funk legends Nile Rodgers and CHIC.

Host: Yingqian Chen

Social Media Corner: Calum Worthy and Vanness Wu

Featured Guests

• Xin Liu

• Leehom Wang

• Li Junfeng

Featured Artist: G.E.M.

As the line goes, as China goes, so goes the world. In the global climate fight, that’s a huge – even planet-sized – deal.

The good news is that while the White House has stepped back from the climate fight, China has stepped up in a big way. And of all the sectors together pushing the world’s second-largest economy toward a sustainable future, perhaps none is more critical than the country’s powerful business community.

In this hour, we’ll explore how China’s business sector is rising to the moment, becoming a force for change around the world, and how Chinese culture itself is evolving in response to the crisis. We’ll speak with clean energy expert and National Center of Climate Change Strategy Research Director General Li Jungfeng and actor, director, and singer-songwriter Leehom Wang. Chinese pop phenomenon G.E.M. will also get everyone moving with “Survive.”

Host: Namrata Brar

Social Media Corner: Calum Worthy

Featured Guests

• Naina Lal Kidwai
• Rakesh Sharma
• Upendra Tripathy

Featured Artist: Shaan

Thanks to a fast-developing economy and rapidly growing population, India now faces a series of energy choices whose consequences will ripple across the planet.

In this hour, we’ll explore how India can choose – and is choosing – to shift from a fossil fuel path to sustainable development, witnessing leadership in action from the country’s role in the International Solar Alliance to its efforts to replace the dirty conventional cars polluting its cities with 6-7 million electric and hybrid vehicles by 2020. We’ll speak with global finance legend and Max Financial Services chair Naina Lal Kidwai, astronaut Rakesh Sharma, and International Solar Alliance Director-General Upendra Tripathy. We’ll also hear from the sensational actor and singer Shaan.

Host: Sam Champion

Social Media Corner: Calum Worthy

Featured Guests

• Adnan Amin
• Patricia Espinosa

Featured Artists: Shye Ben Tzur and The Rajasthan Express

Oil may have defined the past in Middle East nations like the United Arab Emirates, Saudi Arabia, and Egypt, but young activists across the region are imagining a new type of future.

In this hour, we’ll explore this movement for change taking root and flourishing right in the heart of the fossil fuel industry’s home turf and speak with leaders like International Renewable Energy Agency Director-General Adnan Amin and UNFCCC Executive Secretary Patricia Espinosa. We’ll also hear the incredible collaboration between Israeli composer and singer Shye Ben Tzur and the 19 Indian performers who form the Rajasthan Express.

Host: Sam Champion

Social Media Corner: Calum Worthy

Featured Guests

• Richard Munang
• Erik Solheim

Featured Artist: Rag’n’ Bone Man

For many farmers and families living in Sub-Saharan Africa, climate change is a crisis they had little role in causing. But with seas rising, deserts spreading, and droughts hitting harder, they’ve had to act to protect their ways of life. We’ll showcase these everyday activists getting to work on practical solutions in their communities, cutting emissions and increasing resiliency at every turn. We’ll also speak with key figures at the United Nation Environment Programme, including Executive Director Erik Solheim and Africa Regional Climate Change Programme Coordinator Dr. Richard Munan. The hour closes with music from breakout British singer-songwriter Rag’n’ Bone Man. 

Host: Jamil Smith

Social Media Corner: Calum Worthy

Featured Guests

• Ellie Goulding
• Thabo Makgoba
• Solly Msimanga

Featured Artist: Ellie Goulding

In South Africa, the frontlines of the fight for climate solutions are often the frontlines of the fight for greater equality and opportunity, energy access, and good governance.

In this hour, we’ll explore how activists driving progress on climate and pushing the state utility to scale back coal are also helping create a more fair and just South Africa. We’ll talk to leaders at the forefront of this movement, such as the Most Reverend Dr. Thabo Cecil Makgoba, the archbishop of Cape Town and metropolitan of the Anglican Church of Southern Africa, and Solly Msimanga, executive mayor of Tshwane. The hour will also feature music and an appearance from multi-platinum singer Ellie Goulding, sharing her perspectives on the global climate fight.

Host: Jonathan Scott

Social Media Corner: Calum Worthy

Featured Guests

• Mayor Hanna Gronkiewicz-Waltz
• Katie Orlinsky
• Klaus Schwab

EU nations like Spain, Greece, and the Netherlands may vary widely in culture and language, but they all share a common commitment to confronting the climate crisis head on.

In this hour, we’ll meet thinkers and government activists like World Economic Forum Founder and Chairman Dr. Klaus Schwab and Warsaw Mayor Hanna Gronkiewicz-Waltz, leaders who are facing reality and creating innovative clean energy solutions that build thriving businesses and communities alike. We’ll also speak with award-winning photographer Katie Orlinsky of National Geographic about her work documenting the climate crisis around the world.

Host: Jonathan Scott

Social Media Corner: Calum Worthy

Featured Guests

• Nikolaj Coster Waldau
• Vladimir Djurdjevic
• Achim Steiner

Featured Artist: Sheryl Crow

European countries outside the EU like Iceland and Norway were among the first in the world to prove bold initiatives like carbon pricing and state-level coal divestment could not only help cut emissions, but drive economic growth. In this hour, we’ll explore the legacy of activism in non-EU countries and look to Eastern Europe as an exciting new battleground in the fight for a sustainable future. Along the way, we’ll speak with actor and activist Nikolaj Coster Waldau of Game of Thrones, meteorologist Dr. Vladimir Djurdjevic, and United Nations Development Programme Administrator Achim Steiner to hear their perspectives on the challenge ahead. We’ll also hear music from the incredible Sheryl Crow with a premiere of her new video.

Host: Sarah Backhouse

Social Media Corner: Calum Worthy

Featured Guests

• Roland Busch
• Lise Kingo
• Mayor Ashok-Alexander Sridharan

Featured Artist; Alli Simpson

Since beginning the great Energiewende transition from fossil fuels and nuclear energy, Germany has gone from strength to strength, leading the EU in both economic growth and emissions reduction as it moves toward a clean energy future.

In this hour, we’ll explore the country’s shift to renewables and greater sustainability everywhere from the power sector to Bavaria’s celebrated breweries. We’ll speak to some of the business, policy, and government names working to accelerate the shift, including Siemens Chief Technology Officer Dr. Roland Busch, United Nations Global Compact CEO and Executive Director Lise Kingo, and Bonn Mayor Ashok-Alexander Sridharan. The hour will also feature music from Australian singer Alli Simpson.

 

Host: Helen Hunt

Social Media Corner: Calum Worthy

Featured Guests

• Ed Begley Jr.
• Jean-Michel Jarre
• Laurence Tubiana
• Shailene Woodley

Featured Artist: Jean-Michel Jarre

When new American President Donald Trump began undercutting climate action in the US, new French President Emmanuel Macron’s response was immediate and unequivocal, inviting US clean energy researchers and scientists discouraged at home to join him and France’s clean energy revolution.

It was a bold statement from a bold nation that not only hosted negotiations leading to the landmark Paris Agreement in 2015, but has continued to push other countries to become even more ambitious in tackling the crisis in the years since. In this hour, we’ll see this commitment to action firsthand, speaking with legendary composer Jean- Michel Jarre and European Climate Foundation CEO Laurence Tubiana, and proudly saying, “Allez les bleus!”

 

Showtime: December 5, 2017 @1PM EST / 6PM WET

Host: Sarah Backhouse

Social Media Corner: Calum Worthy

Featured Guests

• Sir Richard Branson
• George Monbiot

Featured Artist: Annie Lennox

For a nation with such a storied history, the UK has been all about the future of energy in recent years, cutting power sector carbon emissions almost 50 percent from 2010-2016 alone and announcing a phase out of coal power by 2025. In this hour, we’ll explore the trends behind this shift, hearing from iconic names like Virgin Group Founder Sir Richard Branson and Guardian journalist George Monbiot. The hour will also feature more music from the great singer-songwriter Annie Lennox.

Host: Helen Hunt

Social Media Corner: Calum Worthy

Featured Guests

• Marina Silva
• Alfredo Sirkis
• Ken Berlin
• Camilo Pinhero

Performing Live: Levi Hummon

Even as the headlines have been filled with stories of political crises and transitions in recent years, Brazil has also been introducing some practical steps to fight climate change and incentivize renewable energy. In this hour, we’ll feature activists working for a clean energy future and show how renewables like solar can not only cut emissions, but open the door to a happier and healthier tomorrow for all Brazilians. We’ll also speak with some of the most influential voices for change in Brazil, including former Minister of Environment Marina Silva and Brazilian Climate Change Forum Executive Secretary Alfredo Sirkis. Plus, young American country sensation Levi Hummon performs live.

Host: Vanessa Hauc

Social Media Corner: Calum Worthy

Featured Guests

• Juan Pablo Bonilla
• Edgar Gutierrez
• Leila Salazar-López

Performing Live: Christy Altomare – “Journey to the Past” from Anastasia

Without the deep fossil fuel reserves of their neighbors to the north and south, many Central American countries have learned to be resourceful when it comes to energy. Witness Costa Rica’s success in harnessing its abundant natural resources and running completely on renewable electricity for 250 days in 2016. Or how in Nicaragua, families are lighting their homes with solar panels and turning away from traditional stoves that pollute the air in favor of innovative cooking with the power of the sun.

In this hour, we’ll explore these DIY approaches to clean energy solutions across Central America and more, highlighting the grassroots movement where daily climate action is a way of life and drawing lessons for countries around the world. We’ll hear insight and perspectives from prominent figures like long-time climate and finance expert Dr. Juan Pablo Bonilla, Amazon Watch Executive Director Leila Salazar-López, and Costa Rica Minister of Energy and Environment Edgar Gutierrez. Adding some music to the hour, we’ll also see a special performance by Christy Altomare of “Journey to the Past” from Anastasia. 

Host: Vanessa Hauc

Social Media Corner: Calum Worthy

Featured Guests

• Courtney Cecale
• President Michelle Bachelet
• Manuel Pulgar-Vidal

Featured Artist: Maná

Bold solutions start with a bold vision. In South America, the vision of a clean energy economy is starting to come to life as countries like Chile are seeing the reality of the climate crisis and choosing bold policy solutions, replacing dirty fossil fuels with wind, solar, and geothermal at every turn. In this hour, we’ll tell the story of this evolution and  meet some of the names driving and capturing it, including Chilean President Michelle Bachelet, World Wildlife Fund International Global Lead of Climate and Energy Manuel Pulgar-Vidal, and National Geographic photographer Courtney Cecale. The hour closes with music from legendary rockers Maná.

Host: Sam Champion

Featured Guests

• Mustafa Ali
• Tim Daly

Featured Artist

• Tall Heights
• Now United

The broadcast returns to the United States to take stock of where the world stands in combatting the climate crisis today, looking at the challenges ahead and celebrating the millions rising up to speak truth to power.

In this hour, we’ll speak to influential voices in this movement, including longtime environmental justice activist and former EPA Senior Advisor Mustafa Santiago Ali and actor and activist Tim Daly. We’ll hear music from pop supergroup Now United and progressive folk duo Tall Heights. We’ll conclude the program with a signature presentation from former Vice President Gore, addressing what’s happening to our planet and calling on all of us to be the voice of reality at this critical time.