The One Oh One

This is The One Oh One — a podcast where we journey up and down highway 101 along California’s central and south coasts sharing discoveries, stories and conversations. From Ventura to Santa Barbara to San Luis Obispo and beyond. Our second season launches April 1. In it we'll tell stories of struggle, perseverance, grit and triumph.

On a mountain top ranch, a seaside strawberry farm and an organic farm along a busy freeway, farmers are practicing carbon capture. We look at if it’s making a big enough difference in the fight against climate change.

We follow some local scientists as they set out to discover how polluted the natural environment is with microfibers.

The impact of exceptional drought on one county’s water supply and how drought and climate change will require big changes in water infrastructure.

Santa Barbara County has to create almost 25,000 new homes over eight years to address the housing crisis in the county. The City of Santa Barbara has to create around 8,000 homes. Can they do it? Historic data says no.

For more than a month every year residents along California’s Central, South coast are breathing in toxic wildfire smoke. The new Dangerous Air investigation also shows California’s Central Coast has recently seen the biggest increase in hospitalizations for respiratory and cardiac conditions.

By the end of 2021, the number of yearly overdose deaths in Ventura County could be as high as 270, if the current trend continues. That’s a 132 percent increase over five years. In the very first episode of The One Oh One, we cover the crisis of fentanyl in Ventura County. You’ll hear from a doctor treating homeless people with addiction on a sandy river bed, among makeshift tents; and a medical...

Launching November 5, The One Oh One will include local discoveries, in-depth conversations and informative stories from the communities that hug Highway 101 along California’s Central, South Coast. From Thousand Oaks to Ventura to Santa Barbara and beyond!