Open Source with Christopher Lydon

California windmills [Ron’s Log / Flickr] The Danes are doing it (to the tune of 20% of their electricity needs), so why can’t we? Wind power comes in two basic...

Click to Listen to the Show (24 MB MP3) The U.S. Supreme Court ruled yesterday that the Environmental Protection Agency can regulate the carbon emissions that cause global warming. In...

Modern art?…Or global warming? [Rob Lee / Flickr] It’s been a busy, acronym-filled — SOTU, USCAP, WEF, IPCC — fortnight in the global-warming world (and in the warming, global world)....

Click to Listen to the Show (24 MB MP3) Will they survive? [the pink sip / Flickr] Drowning polar bears and balmy Christmases are just the tip of the (melting?)...

Click to Listen to the Show (24 MB MP3) [Thanks to Ben for nudging us to think hard about this case.] Will SCOTUS alert the fire department? [rscottjones / Flickr]...

Poised to save the world [Hot Meteor / Flickr] If we are in fact at a public-opinion tipping point on global warming, and if a see-saw is a blunt metaphor...

  40% of our CO2 emissions…and counting [detritus / Flickr] If you’re worried about global warming, coal is almost paralyzingly scary. The statistics, lifted from Jeff Goodell and Erik Reece,...

Click to Listen to the Show (24 MB MP3) 10, 9, 8, 7… [william.ward / Flickr] The science is incontrovertible: if we don’t act now to curb global warming, we’re...

[With respect to global warming]: I look at Al Gore like he’s Paul Revere. I am grateful for the hours this guy has logged in, the miles he has logged,...

Everything we eat is a species, every disease vector is a species, every bacteria is a species. Everything in our biological world is a species. How are they all going...

Click to Listen to the Show (24 MB MP3) New Beginnings [mscaprikell / Flickr] Or so say two young environmentalists — Michael Shellenberger and Ted Nordhaus — who, a year...

Click to Listen to the Show (24 MB MP3) Where’s the Ice? [The Cats Jungle / Flickr] The New Year in the depth of winter seems like a good time...

Click to Listen to the Show (24 MB MP3) Beyond Petroleum? [Penumbra / Flickr] Post-Katrina seems like the right moment to resume our intermittent climate change miniseries. This time, we’re...

24 MB MP3 After last night’s show about the politics of climate change, we got an email from the Watson Institute’s Geoffrey Kirkman, suggesting we take a look at China...

24 MB MP3 Tonight we’re launching into the first of the climate change shows by looking at the politics of it in the US. This means following the money trail...