Ten Across Conversations

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  • 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.
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  • ASU Researchers Tackle Extreme Heat Relief as Phoenix Temps Soar

    ASU Researchers Tackle Extreme Heat Relief as Phoenix Temps Soar
    Feb 21 2025
    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. Researchers at Arizona State University are working to fill this gap, using the Phoenix metro as a laboratory in which to measure, study and document the complex variables that determine thermal risk or safety for humans.

    Using novel technologies—like ANDI, the only thermal manikin in the world customized for testing outdoor environments—these scientists are building a detailed understanding of how heat affects the human body under a variety of real-world conditions. The results inform local governments' urgent heat risk mitigation work, identifying and prioritizing high-impact opportunities for public cooling center facilities and augmented built or natural shade.

    Listen in as Ten Across founder Duke Reiter the award-winning climatologist Jennifer Vanos and human thermoregulation expert Konrad Rykaczewski about progress and direction in this groundbreaking heat research at ASU, and how its results may help other heat-vulnerable cities in the I-10 corridor and beyond.

    Related articles and resources

    National Centers for Environmental Information Billion-Dollar Weather and Climate Disasters 2024 tally

    Phoenix Shade Action Plan

    “Phoenix closed popular hiking trails for 45 days in 2024. That could rise in 2025.” (Arizona Republic, Jan. 2025)

    “Meet ANDI, the world’s first outdoor sweating, breathing and walking manikin” (ASU News, May 2023)

    “What Some of the Hottest Cities on The 10 Are Doing to Address Deadly Heat” (Ten Across Conversations podcast, Aug. 2024)

    “Local Experts Answer: Why Are People Still Moving to Phoenix?” (Ten Across Conversations podcast, Feb. 2024)

    “Why do Bedouins wear black in the desert?” (The Guardian, Aug. 2012)
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    44 mins
  • Investing in New Orleans' Future with GNOF CEO Andy Kopplin

    Investing in New Orleans' Future with GNOF CEO Andy Kopplin
    Feb 13 2025
    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 Orleans. The city's pride in its wealth of culture was on display to the nation recently in the pageantry of Super Bowl LIX. But the spirit of New Orleans may be most evident in the way the city has pioneered a model of urban resilience that addresses future social, economic, and environmental risks.

    Future-oriented action, with all its challenges, is the core focus of Ten Across and the focus of today’s episode with Greater New Orleans Foundation CEO Andy Kopplin.

    To commemorate their 100-year anniversary, the Foundation recently hosted a “Next 100 Years Challenge,” offering a $1.2 million investment in 10 different resilience project proposals across Southern Louisiana. The community has already seen significant returns on this initial investment, offering a compelling example for local and regional support of stronger communities in a changing climate.

    Related articles and resources:

    “New Orleans Was Called Resilient After Attack. It Didn’t Need the Reminder” (The New York Times, January 2025)

    “Ideas: Stop Telling New Orleans To Shut Up and Be Resilient” (Time Magazine, January 2025)

    “Past and Future Resilience Along the Mississippi with Boyce Upholt” (Ten Across Conversations podcast, January 2025)

    “Want to Understand the Future of U.S. Climate Resilience? Look to the Gulf Coast” (Ten Across Conversations podcast, December 2024)

    “Sunk Costs, Sunken City: The Story of New Orleans with Richard Campanella” (Ten Across Conversations podcast, June 2023)

    “Responding to Inevitable Disasters with Juliette Kayyem” (Ten Across Conversations podcast, November 2022)
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    36 mins
  • Reporting on Climate Change When it's at Your Doorstep with Allison Agsten

    Reporting on Climate Change When it's at Your Doorstep with Allison Agsten
    Feb 6 2025
    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 metro burned during most of January. Ten months of abnormally dry conditions in the city were preceded by two very wet winters. Scientists refer to this increasingly common phenomenon as hydroclimate volatility or whiplash. It has been shown to be aggravated by climate change, and in Southern California, it creates the essential ingredients for large-scale wildfire. As inaugural director of the Annenberg Center for Climate Journalism and Communication at the University of Southern California, Allison Agsten’s job is to study how the news media and other communication professionals are informing audiences of climate change risks and impacts. In 2023, we invited her to share this important work and to lead our Climate Communications workshop at our Ten Across Summit in Los Angeles. Allison is, unfortunately, also a recent survivor of the Palisades Fire conflagration. As her neighborhood burned and the media converged around her home last month, she conducted some research in real time by asking them whether their reports would cover the ways climate change influenced the disaster. In this episode, we’ll hear what they had to say and what Allison believes this means for the future of climate journalism in the U.S. Related articles and resources: “What I Learned from LA Reporters Covering the Fires” (Allison Agsten, USC Annenberg Center for Climate Journalism and Communication blog) “The media needs to show how the climate crisis is fueling the LA wildfires” (The Guardian Opinion, January 16, 2025)“US Speaker suggests withholding disaster aid over California immigration policies” (9 News, January 23, 2025) “How partisan news outlets frame vested interests in climate change” (Journal of Environmental Management, February 2025) “Consuming cross-cutting media causes learning and moderates attitudes: A field experiment with Fox News viewers” (Center for Open Science, 2023) “What We Can Learn from the LA Fires with Char Miller” (Ten Across Conversations podcast, January 30, 2025) “Urban Expert Bill Fulton’s Perspective of How LA Can Rebuild Following the Fires” (Ten Across Conversations podcast, January 15, 2025) “NOAA Meteorologists Reflect on This Year’s Historic Atlantic Hurricane Season” (Ten Across Conversations podcast, November 22, 2024)
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    40 mins

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