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How will we power our future? Can we create a healthy and clean economy?

Climate One at the Commonwealth Club is at the forefront of the global debate about energy, economy, and the environment.

Bringing together the brightest and most provocative leaders of our time,

Climate One is the place where big ideas get heard.

With thoughtful and insightful discussions on policy, business, science, and culture,

Climate One founder Greg Dalton, gets to the heart of the matter.

It's our future. It's time to come together.

From the Commonwealth Club of California, this is Climate One, changing the conversation

about America's energy, economy, and environment.

I'm Greg Dalton.

One of the main arguments against switching to cleaner energy is that it will hurt your pocketbook

or the economy overall.

But the cost of solar power is dropping quickly, and in many parts of the country, sun power is competitive with fossil fuels.

What about jobs? Last year, jobs in the American solar industry surpassed employment in oil and gas extraction for the first time.

That means more Americans work tapping the sun than oil and gas under our feet.

Worldwide, more than 8 million people

have clean energy jobs, according to the International Renewable Energy Agency. That's an industry

group based in, get this, Abu Dhabi. On the show today, we will travel the west coast of

North America home to some of the greenest economies in the world, will learn what they are doing to create

jobs while moving away from extraction industries toward cleaner businesses. We're pleased to

welcome with us three distinguished guests. Kate Brown is governor of Oregon, a Democrat. She

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