Ten Across Conversations

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

AI Series: AI-Powered Extreme Weather Modeling is on the Horizon

June 26, 2025 • 37 mins
Over the course of a calendar year ending in May 2025, the United States absorbed nearly $1 trillion in damages due to extreme weather. This amount, representing 3% of U.S. gross domestic product, was driven by rising insurance costs and a series of disasters primarily concentrated in the Ten Across geography, such as Hurricanes Helene and Milton and the fires in Los Angeles.  

More than ever before, timely and detailed forecasts ar...
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AI Series: 10X Cities Are Using Digital Twins to Solve Complex Challenges

June 19, 2025 • 47 mins
This is the second episode in our limited series about artificial intelligence trends shaping life in the I-10 corridor and beyond. In this episode we chat with experts from the Ten Across cities of Phoenix, Houston and Jacksonville on the power of digital twins to more seamlessly convene stakeholders around shared goals.    

As virtual representations of actual places and systems, digital twins at their most advanced can incorporat...
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Why the Ten Across Geography Needs FEMA with Dr. Samantha Montano

June 12, 2025 • 41 mins
As we were publishing this episode, news from The New York Times broke that Jeremy Greenberg, head of the Federal Emergency Management Agency’s (FEMA) disaster command center has left his post, a day after President Trump said he would wind down the federal agency by November. CBS reported that Tony Robinson, regional administrator of FEMA Region 6, which includes Ten Across states New Mexico, Texas, and Louisiana, also intends to ...
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Understanding Groundwater Risks in the Southwest with Jay Famiglietti

June 5, 2025 • 38 mins
Last week, news broke that the depletion of groundwater across the Colorado River Basin has been quietly, rapidly outpacing the more visible decline of the river itself. Even as the seven basin states negotiate reduced consumption of river water—inevitably driving dependence toward local aquifers instead—this newly published research shows that the majority ofmost of the water lost throughout the basin in recent years has been unde...
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A Fight for Better Air Quality in CA's Inland Empire Reveals a Need for American Innovation

May 22, 2025 • 42 mins
Last week, we discussed the emerging digital economy and artificial intelligence sector. Fulfilling the long-term potential of such technological advancements will also require innovation in the ways we anticipate, understand and control their potential consequences.  

Take, for example, the revolutionary success of Amazon and other online and same-day delivery retailers. During the COVID-19 pandemic, demand for these services boome...
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AI Series: The Emerging Digital Economy Has Deep Roots Along 'The 10'

May 15, 2025 • 36 mins
As artificial intelligence capabilities and related infrastructural demands have exploded in recent years, we have been keeping an eye on the implications for the Ten Across region.  To help kick off our summer podcast series on the subject of AI, Arizona State University’s chief information officer Lev Gonick joins us to explore the ways AI is reshaping education, urban development and predictive sciences—as well as its effects on...
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100th Episode: The Importance of Place in U.S. Higher Ed with Michael Crow

May 8, 2025 • 23 mins
If you follow the evolution of American education, you are surely aware of Arizona State University's transformation under the leadership of Michael Crow. In a little over two decades, Crow has grown ASU into one of the largest and most influential public universities, in terms of overall enrollment, research expenditures, and the adoption of new technologies. In doing so, he has become an internationally recognized voice in the fu...
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Carolyn Kousky on Using Insurance Models to Drive Positive Change

April 17, 2025 • 42 mins
The insurance industry's bottom line offers the clearest, least political evidence that a stable economy and livable communities are increasingly dependent on strategies to address extreme weather impacts. California, Louisiana, and Florida have become harbingers of a spreading issue: disaster-related property losses that continuously exceed underwriting profitability. The resulting gaps in affordability and availability are drivin...
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Checking in on Tense Colorado River Negotiations with Anne Castle and John Fleck

April 10, 2025 • 51 mins
Given a looming negotiation deadline and recent changes in federal operations, this is an apt time for us to check back in on how things are going with Colorado River management. Frequent listeners and 10X Summit attendees alike will be well acquainted with how clearly this topic illustrates our collective responsibility to be proactive in the face of the "knowable future".  

A 100-year-old miscalculation of water availability and t...
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Checking in with Dave Jones on California's Insurance Outlook

March 27, 2025 • 40 mins
During an on-stage conversation between insurance industry leaders at the 2023 10X Los Angeles Summit, former California Insurance Commissioner Dave Jones described the need to mitigate the impacts of climate-driven weather in order for the state to remain insurable. His point has been clearly illustrated by news headlines the last couple years since the summit.    

Among the greatest risks to homes in California is the surging freq...
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Catherine Coleman Flowers: A National Voice for Rural and Unincorporated America

March 20, 2025 • 46 mins
Place and personal circumstance can play a decisive role in how one perceives the purpose and effectiveness of government. According to a 2021 study, in 2010 an estimated 37% of the U.S. population lived in an unincorporated area—places without municipal government and the services it might provide.     

Central Alabama’s Lowndes County, for instance, has a population of just under 10,000 people. Sixty-two percent of homes here are ...
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Governing Through Times of Crisis and Opportunity with Mayor Mitch Landrieu - Part Two

March 13, 2025 • 19 mins
Some curse words are used in this discussion.  

In the previous episode, Mitch Landrieu discussed his upbringing, including the impact his father had on race relations in New Orleans and how this informed Mitch’s leadership during some of city’s toughest hours. In the second half of this conversation, we get his unvarnished perspective on changes in the federal approach to the budget, humanitarian aid, and personnel-- matters closel...
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Governing Through Times of Crisis and Opportunity with Mayor Mitch Landrieu - Part One

March 6, 2025 • 38 mins
As a native New Orleanian, Mitch Landrieu knows a thing or two about crisis and recovery. He served as the lieutenant governor of Louisiana through Hurricanes Katrina and Rita in 2005 and the compounding effects of subsequent storms including Ike and Gustav. In 2010, he was sworn in as mayor of New Orleans—just one month after the Deepwater Horizon explosion undermined the region's efforts to recover from five years of depopulation...
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ASU Researchers Tackle Extreme Heat Relief as Phoenix Temps Soar

February 20, 2025 • 43 mins
Phoenix experienced a 113-day streak of temperatures at or over 100 degrees, and an annual average high temperature of 90 degrees in 2024. The city’s extreme heat is the worst in the nation and has equally resulted in staggering increases of climate-related health emergencies and deaths. 

Greater resilience to such rising temperatures requires clear, verifiable information that can guide communities in effective decision-making. Res...
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Investing in New Orleans' Future with GNOF CEO Andy Kopplin

February 13, 2025 • 36 mins
New Orleans is an extraordinary place that has experienced more than its fair share of adversity. Living below sea level where the mouth of the Mississippi River meets the Gulf Coast, residents have become adept at mitigating a variety of water-related challenges, from the inundation of tropical storms and subsidence to the scarcity issues of saltwater intrusion.  

There’s a lot we can learn from the people and leaders of New Orlean...
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Reporting on Climate Change When it's at Your Doorstep with Allison Agsten

February 6, 2025 • 40 mins
Compelling communication about risks and necessary actions is of special interest throughout the Ten Across geography. As we continue to follow the course of recent wildfires in the Los Angeles area, we took a closer look at journalism on the ground-- reporters doing their best to convey urgent information at multiple and sometimes personal scales.  

On the heels the hottest 12 months in recorded history, parts of the Los Angeles me...
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Past and Future Resilience Along the Mississippi with Boyce Upholt

January 30, 2025 • 40 mins
In many ways, modern American engineering was born on the Mississippi. In the early days of westward expansion, the continent’s largest river basin presented both a vital resource for transportation, biodiversity and agricultural production and a complicated barrier.  

The Army Corps of Engineers was founded in 1802, a year before the Louisiana Purchase. By the mid-1800s, Congress charged the Corps with improving transportation on t...
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What We Can Learn from the LA Fires with Char Miller

January 29, 2025 • 34 mins
Our examination of the conditions that exacerbated the Los Angeles wildfires earlier this month continues today with perspective from author and environmental historian Char Miller.  

Southern California received some much-needed rain over this past weekend, allowing firefighters to better contain the Palisades, Eaton, and Hughes fires. At the same time, the burned hillsides now bear much greater risk of mudslides and floods.  

Thes...
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Is Sharing Our Climate Emotions Key to Achieving Climate Action?

January 23, 2025 • 39 mins
In the hottest year in recorded history, extreme heat corresponded to several notable weather events and ongoing public health impacts in the Ten Across geography. Evidence shows warming ocean temperatures were behind an especially destructive Atlantic hurricane season for the Gulf. Nearly all states along this transect saw their rates of private insurance nonrenewal increase among the most at-risk communities, as a result of storm...
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Ten Across Conversations 2024 Major Takeaways

January 16, 2025 • 39 mins
The events of the past year have reinforced the logic of the Ten Across initiative. In the context of the hottest year in recorded history, the Ten Across geography witnessed ongoing drought, a supercharged Atlantic hurricane season, devastating wildfires, and a significant loss of homeownership or insurance safety nets for its residents.  

As we enter 2025, with staggering urban wildfires still raging in the Los Angeles area and a ...
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