This Climate One podcast is sponsored by General Motors.

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, and my guest today is Julian Castro, U.S. Secretary of Housing and Urban Development.

People wanting to go solar no longer need a stack of $100 bills in their hand.

Companies selling solar rooftops will now install

the systems with zero cash down, and some owners can start saving money on their electric bills

on day one. But stalled incomes are making it hard for first-time buyers to get into the housing

market, and clean energy is still considered by many to be a luxury

for the comfortable classes. Over the next hour, we will talk with Secretary Castro about how

all Americans can participate in a clean energy economy that creates jobs in healthy and

resilient communities. We also will talk about the American dream in the era of climate change

and what cities can

do to build a cleaner form of capitalism.

In 2009, Julian Castro was elected mayor of San Antonio at the age of 34, becoming the youngest

mayor of a top 50 American city.

...