Elon Musk is one of the most influential and controversial tech icons in Silicon Valley. He has talked about forward-thinking projects like mind-uploading and space travel, but by far his most bold

Elon Musk is one of the most influential and controversial tech icons in Silicon Valley. He has talked about forward-thinking projects like mind-uploading and space travel, but by far his most bold and effective vision led to Tesla and the creation of a widely available and affordable electric vehicle. Before Tesla was founded in the early 2000s, electric cars were considered novelties. But as many cars were gas guzzlers, there was a great need for a more sustainable mode of transportation. Power Play: Tesla, Elon Musk, and the Bet of the Century explores the Tesla phenomenon. Tim Higgins traces its history of a hellish first 15 years, attacks by rivals, pressure from investors and surprises by whistleblowers. As a Wall Street Journal tech and auto reporter, Higgins had a front-row seat for all the drama. He spent almost a decade reporting on the car business from Detroit before he moved to San Francisco and focused his writing more on Apple, Tesla and other tech companies. Power Play is Tesla’s story of power, recklessness, struggle and triumph coming together to change the future. Join us as Tim Higgins discusses Tesla’s rise and what it means for a tech-driven future. NOTES Higgins photo by K. Fischer. SPEAKERS Tim Higgins Automotive and Technology Reporter, The Wall Street Journal; Author Power Play: Tesla, Elon Musk, and the Bet of the Century In Conversation with Joanna Stern Senior Personal Technology Columnist, The Wall Street Journal 💯SUBSCRIBE for more VIDEOS: https://www.youtube.com/user/commonwealthclub 📆 UPCOMING EVENTS: https://www.commonwealthclub.org/events 🎉 BECOME a MEMBER: https://www.commonwealthclub.org/membership 💰 DONATE NOW: https://support.commonwealthclub.org/sslpage.aspx?pid=298 📺➕📻 Watch & Listen https://www.commonwealthclub.org/watch-listen CWC Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/thecommonwealthclub/ CWC Instagram https://www.instagram.com/cwclub/ CWC Twitter https://twitter.com/cwclub The Commonwealth Club of California is the nation's oldest and largest public affairs forum 📣, bringing together its 20,000 members for more than 400 annual events on topics ranging across politics, culture, society and the economy. Founded in 1903 in San Francisco California 🌉, The Commonwealth Club has played host to a diverse and distinctive array of speakers, from Teddy Roosevelt in 1911 to Hillary Clinton in 2010. Along the way, Martin Luther King, Ronald Reagan and Bill Clinton have all given landmark speeches at the Club.

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How we can efficiently talk about environmental problems and ways to solve them in an age where this subject is so over-discussed that few people seem to really care about it? Maria Tuzova explores

How we can efficiently talk about environmental problems and ways to solve them in an age where this subject is so over-discussed that few people seem to really care about it? Maria Tuzova explores the example of recycling in order to explain how we can break the wall of indifference towards a topic which concerns us all. This talk was given at a TEDx event using the TED conference format but independently organized by a local community. Learn more at https://www.ted.com/tedx

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This episode originally streamed live on September 24, 2020 at 8:30 am Pacific / 10:30 pm Central / 12:30 pm Atlantic. 

Moderator: Dr. Nancy Turner facilitates a dialogue amongst Dr.

This episode originally streamed live on September 24, 2020 at 8:30 am Pacific / 10:30 pm Central / 12:30 pm Atlantic. 

Moderator: Dr. Nancy Turner facilitates a dialogue amongst Dr. Robin Wall Kimmerer, Miles Richardson, O.C., Dr. David Suzuki, and Elder Dr. Dave Courchene, Jr.; on how Indigenous and scientific ways of knowing can be braided together and create better stewardship outcomes.

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This pandemic has been an incredible opportunity to assess the capacity of mankind to behave as one. Thousands of lessons has to be taken seriously out of this because the future global crisis will

This pandemic has been an incredible opportunity to assess the capacity of mankind to behave as one. Thousands of lessons has to be taken seriously out of this because the future global crisis will be the climate and biodiversity wall...a wall no magic vaccine can break apart! Romain Troublé, as an Executive Director of the Tara Ocean Foundation, has organised from 2003 to 2006 polar missions, such as adventure and scientific expeditions at the North Pole, South Pole and Siberia, including the discovery of frozen mammoths in the permafrost. Since 2004 he has managed the Tara schooner expeditions with the founders and became the Executive director of the Tara Ocean Foundation in 2009. The foundation led 12 expeditions – 500 days at the North Pole, 4-years around the world’s marine plankton, unveiling the micro-plastics pollution of our ocean and its origin, 3-years understanding the coral reefs sensitivity to climate change, and a new one now exploring the oceanic microbiome and its services – each mission pushing the boundaries of our knowledge on the Ocean and about the world in which we live. https://oceans.taraexpeditions.org/en/ This talk was given at a TEDx event using the TED conference format but independently organized by a local community. Learn more at https://www.ted.com/tedx

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The Biden administration announced plans to waive 26 of the United States’ most important environmental laws to rush new border wall construction in Texas, damaging fragile habitat near a national

The Biden administration announced plans to waive 26 of the United States’ most important environmental laws to rush new border wall construction in Texas, damaging fragile habitat near a national wildlife refuge — right where the Center was battling Trump’s wall. More border wall cuts off more cougars, bobcats and other wildlife from the Rio Grande, their main water source. And it could mean the bulldozing of endangered plants like prostrate milkweed — crucial for migratory monarch butterflies — with no legal recourse to protect them. Learn more in this PBS interview the Center’s Laiken Jordahl, and in an article that he wrote about the fight in the area from 2019: https://medium.com/center-for-biological-diversity/what-happens-when-you-wall-off-a-river-ff9ba515d0af About the Center: The Center for Biological Diversity is a 501c3 nonprofit headquartered in Tucson, Arizona. At the Center, we believe that the welfare of human beings is deeply linked to nature — to the existence in our world of a vast diversity of wild animals and plants. Because diversity has intrinsic value, and because its loss impoverishes society, we work to secure a future for all species, great and small, hovering on the brink of extinction. We do so through science, law and creative media, with a focus on protecting the lands, waters and climate that species need to survive. We want those who come after us to inherit a world where the wild is still alive. Where to find us: WEBSITE: https://www.biologicaldiversity.org/ TWITTER: https://twitter.com/CenterForBioDiv FACEBOOK: https://www.facebook.com/CenterforBio... INSTAGRAM: https://www.instagram.com/centerforbi... TIKTOK: https://www.tiktok.com/@centerforbiodiv TAKE ACTION: https://www.biologicaldiversity.org/a... For questions or media inquiries, email us at center@biologicaldiversity.org.

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