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Climate California Episode 8: Encapsulated Memory

Our world is changing – and it’s speaking through flavor, color, and nutrition. So we followed the signals: from regenerative wine to indigenous meals, cow feed innovations to labor demonstrations. What is our food trying to tell us? Featuring: Vincent Medina and Louis Trevino (Cafe Ohlone), Cecilia Rodriguez (North Bay Jobs With Justice), Ames Morison, Ermias Kebreab, and Taye Bright

Climate California Episode 7: Machina Ex Deo

Move fast, break things… can tech be more than that? Better than that? From electric airplanes to public transit to a nature app, we explore how to build a future that we actually want to live in. How do we reconcile the machine California… with the sacred California?

Climate California Episode 6: RPG

Play isn’t just for fun — it’s how we’ve always made sense of the world. It’s where we test ourselves – our courage, our ingenuity, and our capacity to cooperate. So we join gamers, influencers, surfers, and economists, who are reimagining the game.

Climate California Episode 5: Run Towards the Fire

Rising seas. Wildfires. Extreme heat: all consequences of a warming planet that threaten our story of home. But what if facing these threats head-on could lead us to something better? This episode dives into what it really takes to confront an uncertain future, find common ground, and imagine a new story of home – together.

Climate California Episode 4: Flow

We go with experts as they search for seagrass, rescue a sea lion, and store water underground. Because water not only connects us to our neighbors, it connects us to ourselves. Take a sip.

Climate California Episode 3: Second Language

Plants are smart. We climb 230 feet up, into one of the world’s most vibrant canopies, to see for ourselves. The climate solutions we’re looking for might be right in front of us, if we learn to understand what plants and trees are really about – intelligent beings making life itself possible by reaching for their fair share of starlight.

Climate California Episode 2: The Songs of Strangers

The sounds of nature give us clues to our ancient origins and to our current ecological challenges. We go looking for animals around California – from whales and birds to elk and newts. And we chat with soundscape ecologists, data scientists, a biologist, and an economist to learn how to give animals a fighting chance. Along the way, we also hear some pretty cool sounds.

Climate California Episode 1: Reclamation

Extracting Earth’s resources got us to where we are today – but it’s led to dire consequences. We follow trailblazers as they help us reimagine our future – from science fiction with Kim Stanley Robinson to the Yurok tribe’s dam removal project, to community organizing in Kern County and a trip through human irrationality.

Watch the Companion Series, Climate California: Explorations

Environmentalist Meg Haywood Sullivan explores climate change across California, from redwood forests to fire-prone mountains, coastal beaches, and industrial urban streets. Meg’s passion empowers viewers to act, showing that the climate crisis is also an opportunity for a resilient, just, and sustainable future.

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