Ten Across Conversations
Ten Across Conversations examines pressing issues impacting communities along the U.S. Interstate 10 corridor. From Jacksonville, Florida to Los Angeles, California, this region provides a compelling and comprehensive window into the major challenges and opportunities of the 21st century in their most extreme. Join founder and executive director, Wellington “Duke” Reiter, as he chats with subject experts bringing unique insights and new ways of thinking to reveal our collective capacity to create a more resilient future. For more information about the Ten Across Initiative visit www.10across.com.
Episodes
September 21, 2023 • 45 mins
The first eight months of 2023 brought $23 billion in damages from weather-related events, a new record at this point in the year. Those events included unique flooding from atmospheric rivers in California; an extended heat dome over Arizona, Texas, Louisiana, and other parts of the US; the Category 3 Hurricane Idalia in Florida; and of course, the horrific wildfires in Maui. The human and physical toll of these disasters cannot b...
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August 24, 2023 • 30 mins
As our summers become hotter and longer, droughts become more likely, foliage dies at a faster rate, and the likelihood of personal exposure to a wildfire inevitably increases. According to The Washington Post, one in six Americans now live in a wildfire prone area. And as the transpiring events of this particularly devastating fire season for Canada have demonstrated— even if a community is not considered to be in the direct path ...
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August 17, 2023 • 47 mins
As private sector leaders look to locate or expand their businesses—especially within the Ten Across region—they are asking questions that now far exceed the traditional real estate matters of land, space, and cost. In addition to this checklist, they are asking about water availability, energy sources, transportation, resilient public infrastructure and how climate change will impact or influence all the above. To better serve the...
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August 10, 2023 • 34 mins
In a warming world, we are becoming increasingly reliant on air conditioning to keep our biological, economic, and health systems functioning. But this cooling technology has not come without its costs. According to the Clean Cooling Collaborative, this action of cooling our homes, businesses, medicine, goods, and more contributes to more than 7% of overall greenhouse gas emissions. Factoring in projected population and economic gr...
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August 3, 2023 • 35 mins
The 20th Century city was made possible by inventions such as the automobile and air conditioning. But as temperatures rise and cities continue to grow in both size and population, we are quickly approaching the sustainable threshold of use of these polluting technologies. The historic ways we have gone about AC unit construction; city and building design, and the traditional combustion vehicle, have all contributed to the urban he...
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July 27, 2023 • 47 mins
When the ESG framework— standing for Environment, Social and Governance— was first introduced among investors and business leaders, it was intended to inspire or demonstrate a greater concern for the environment and society upon which major corporations depend. It has most often been a vehicle for influencing organizational decisions around resource consumption, staff diversity, and overall carbon footprint.
Over the past year, the...
Over the past year, the...
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July 20, 2023 • 51 mins
We are entering a new climate— One that looks very different from the one we’ve known, Jeff Goodell concludes in his latest book, “The Heat Will Kill You First: Life and Death on a Scorched Planet.”
This summer has produced record-breaking temperatures in nearly every corner of the world, including even the deepest parts of our oceans. Sea ice around Antarctica is at a record-low for the satellite era. July Fourth was the hottest da...
This summer has produced record-breaking temperatures in nearly every corner of the world, including even the deepest parts of our oceans. Sea ice around Antarctica is at a record-low for the satellite era. July Fourth was the hottest da...
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June 15, 2023 • 46 mins
Warning: This episode contains some curse words and a mention of sexual assault.
For those that live in border cities — most often those with binational families, businesses, and personal cultures; images of the U.S.-Mexico border that are conjured up in nightly news segments or political debates can be drastically different from their lived reality. This is similarly true for those who study or work on the physical and metaphysica...
For those that live in border cities — most often those with binational families, businesses, and personal cultures; images of the U.S.-Mexico border that are conjured up in nightly news segments or political debates can be drastically different from their lived reality. This is similarly true for those who study or work on the physical and metaphysica...
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June 8, 2023 • 46 mins
Cities and states along the I-10 are having to consider many existential questions as the climate warms. Looking to the future, the question is whether these communities can adequately respond and adapt to intensifying storm patterns, rising sea levels and extreme drought.
It’s a radical shift in thought, given that earlier centuries of American settlement were primarily focused on developing technologies to bend nature to our will....
It’s a radical shift in thought, given that earlier centuries of American settlement were primarily focused on developing technologies to bend nature to our will....
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May 25, 2023 • 49 mins
It is a moment of climate extremes in California. While the state still grapples with a shrinking Colorado River from megadrought, more snowpack accumulated on the Sierra Nevada this winter than is currently stored in one of the river’s main tributaries, Lake Mead. It was a winter season many have called unpredictable and unprecedented, resulting in a series of deadly floods and the reemergence of two infamous ghost lakes — Tulare ...
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April 6, 2023 • 45 mins
As cities continue to grow in population and cultural influence within our Ten Across region, tensions between local and state governments appear to have exploded in the last few years over various socioeconomic, public safety, electoral and cultural issues.
Though preemptive action from the state or federal government has at times, been organic or useful in the past, a more concerning form of preemption has recently emerged — one w...
Though preemptive action from the state or federal government has at times, been organic or useful in the past, a more concerning form of preemption has recently emerged — one w...
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March 9, 2023 • 62 mins
Even as the threat of dead pool on Lakes Powell and Mead and loss of hydropower at Glen Canyon Dam now looms mere acre-feet away, another federal deadline came to pass this January with no consensus on allocation or conservation among the Colorado River basin states.
Ten Across has been following the negotiations and challenges of the drying Colorado River over the last few years, hosting engaging and illustrative dialogues among va...
Ten Across has been following the negotiations and challenges of the drying Colorado River over the last few years, hosting engaging and illustrative dialogues among va...
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December 29, 2022 • 42 mins
Houston, Texas is a definitive city for the Ten Across initiative. It is now the fourth largest city in the United States and is often called the energy capital of the world. Houston is also known for its vast highway infrastructure—a system that both fractures and connects its communities and continues to breed controversy today.
Listen in as Ten Across founder Duke Reiter talks with history and transportation expert Kyle Shelton ...
Listen in as Ten Across founder Duke Reiter talks with history and transportation expert Kyle Shelton ...
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December 15, 2022 • 40 mins
Between August 2020 and May 2021, Lake Charles, Louisiana experienced two hurricanes, a historic flood, and an ice storm—leaving the community in dire straits as it tried to get back on its feet.
Listen in as Ten Across founder Duke Reiter talks with journalist and podcast host Lauren Rosenthal about her experience on the ground in Lake Charles and putting disasters in human terms that can help us better prepare for more frequent ...
Listen in as Ten Across founder Duke Reiter talks with journalist and podcast host Lauren Rosenthal about her experience on the ground in Lake Charles and putting disasters in human terms that can help us better prepare for more frequent ...
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December 8, 2022 • 40 mins
Homelessness affects every urban community in the country one way or another. Not only is it a hot button political issue, but it is also one of the most complex and intractable challenges we face as a modern society—not solvable by any single policy, group, or person. How did we get here and what can we do about it?
Listen in as Ten Across founder Duke Reiter discusses the issue with author and real estate professor Gregg Colburn....
Listen in as Ten Across founder Duke Reiter discusses the issue with author and real estate professor Gregg Colburn....
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December 1, 2022 • 40 mins
The decarbonization and electrification of the transportation sector is essential to mitigating the effects of climate change as we hurdle through the 21st century. Such a feat requires reimagining and rethinking how we move ourselves and our goods around the country, especially regarding highways.
Listen in as Ten Across founder Duke Reiter discusses how we can bring highways into the 21st century with Allie Kelly, Executive Direct...
Listen in as Ten Across founder Duke Reiter discusses how we can bring highways into the 21st century with Allie Kelly, Executive Direct...
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November 17, 2022 • 36 mins
Los Angeles is one of the most complex and fascinating cities in the country. Much like the rest of California and the Ten Across region more broadly, LA is on the leading edge of climate change—battling increasingly intense wildfires and water shortages, as well as socioeconomic divides that have resulted in a significant homeless population. The city also renders a compelling depiction of the American Dream tied with issues of im...
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November 10, 2022 • 35 mins
The southern tier of the United States faces unique risk of natural and made-man disasters—from hurricanes along the Gulf Coast to drought in the Southwest. Such events are not only likely, but inevitable and predictable. The question then becomes what to do with that knowledge.
Listen in as Ten Across founder Duke Reiter talks with national security and risk expert Juliette Kayyem about rethinking how we prepare for and respond to ...
Listen in as Ten Across founder Duke Reiter talks with national security and risk expert Juliette Kayyem about rethinking how we prepare for and respond to ...
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October 27, 2022 • 37 mins
The most significant challenges of our time, notably the effects of climate change, do not confine themselves within existing country, state, county, city, or community borders. Given the enormity of such issues, are our present geographies adequate to properly address these issues at the scale required?
Listen in as Ten Across founder Duke Reiter explores new ways of thinking and problem solving with the authors of Megaregions and ...
Listen in as Ten Across founder Duke Reiter explores new ways of thinking and problem solving with the authors of Megaregions and ...
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October 20, 2022 • 37 mins
As flows on the Colorado River continues to dwindle, Southern California is facing dire questions about the sustainability of its water supply. Water managers across jurisdictions are having to work together to find innovative solutions to reduce reliance on the river and also find new sources, such as water recycling and desalination.
Listen in as Ten Across founder Duke Reiter talks with Adel Hagekhalil, general manager and CEO o...
Listen in as Ten Across founder Duke Reiter talks with Adel Hagekhalil, general manager and CEO o...
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