The Watershed Poetry Festival in downtown Berkeley is an annual event that explores the connection between the American literary imagination and our landscape, natural history, and sense of environmental urgency. Maya Khosla and Kirk Lumpkin, two Bay area poets, join host Pratap Chatterjee, to discuss the the 2007 event and read from their work. The post Terra Verde – August 17, 2007 appeared first on KPFA.
Getting the lead out. When murder rates go down, politicians are quick to claim credit for being tough on crime. When they go up, many on the left blame unemployment. But Economist Rick Nevin has published research suggesting one of the most important factors affecting crime rates may be… pollution. Nevins is a senior advisor to the National Center for Healthy Housing, and author of an ambitious study looking at crime trends and childhood lead exposure around the world. He speaks with Brian Edwa...
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Jeffrey Weidenhamer and Michael Clement, chemists at Ashland University in Ohio, have examined the composition of children’s jewelry and key chains made in China and determined that some contained toxics that probably originated in e-waste from the U.S. We are joined by Sarah Westervelt of Basel Action Network and Steve Lautze, of the city of Oakland, to talk about Bay Area toxics returning to the sender. Pratap Chatterjee hosts. The post Terra Verde – July 20, 2007 appeared first on KPFA.
Toxic Fire Retardants This week, an important bill is moving through the California Senate which would ban cancer-causing chlorinated and brominated flame retardants from furniture and bedding. Terre Verde discusses this ground-breaking bill, as well as the future of green chemistry in California, with guests Arlene Blum, a biochemist and visiting scholar at UC Berkeley; and Tony Stefani of the San Francisco Firefighters Cancer Prevention Foundation. The post Terra Verde – July 13, 2007 appeared...
Livewires: Youth Take Action on Energy Youth from California Youth Energy Services and the Stanford American Indian Organization, a participant in the Energy Action Coalition, will discuss how Bay Area youth, faced with the prospect of future energy scarcity, are taking matters into their own hands to reduce consumption at households and universities, and to change energy policy. The post Terra Verde – July 6, 2007 appeared first on KPFA.
A new coalition is taking on pollution from California’s booming ports–by connecting the labor rights of truckers to the environmental rights of port communities. Brian Edwards-Tiekert interviews Doug Bloch of the Coalition for Clean and Safe Ports and Ali Rafiat, a Port of Oakland driver. California’s Ports are magnets for diesel pollution from ships, trains, trucks, and heavy machinery. And as transnational trade grows, the problem’s gotten worse: levels of diesel soot are already 5 times high...
James Alamillo from Heal the Bay talks about his group’s report card on California beaches and lets us know which are safe and which are contaminated and Kristan Markey from the Environmental Working Group who will share his group’s recent findings on which sunscreens are safe and effective and which ones come up short. The post Terra Verde – June 22, 2007 appeared first on KPFA.
Last fall, California committed to cutting its greenhouse gas emissions 80% by 2050 – Now, it just has to figure out how. Governor Schwarzenegger is backing a market-based approach that may divide the environmental community. Brian Edwards-Tiekert moderates a discussion with Dale Bryck, an attorney for the Natural Resources Defense Council who sits on the Governor’s Market Advisory Committee, and Jane Williams, director of California Communities Against Toxics, who co-chairs the state’s environm...
Green Your Money! Join Terra Verde to learn the "nuts and bolts" of how to make your finances green, whether you just have a checking account or you have sizable financial investments. The post Terra Verde – June 8, 2007 appeared first on KPFA.
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Dana Dillworth, cofounder of Citizens’ League for Environmental Action and Michael Warburton with the Public Trust Alliance in conversation with Terra Verde on Global Warming and toxic landfills in the Bay Area. The post Terra Verde – May 25, 2007 appeared first on KPFA.
A consumer’s guide to carbon offsets The idea of going "carbon neutral" by purchasing offsets is gaining in popularity, but also raises growing concerns: Are all carbon offset companies created equally? And do offsets just allow consumers to buy down their guilt, while discouraging them from reducing their own emissions? Terre Verde discusses these questions with experts from Drive Neutral and Clean Air-Cool Planet. The post Terra Verde – May 4, 2007 appeared first on KPFA.
Natural gas is touted by industry groups as a cheap, safe, environmentally-friendly fossil fuel. Host Karolo Aparicio speaks with Goldman Environmental Prize winner Willie Corduff and Rory Cox from Pacific Environment on the environmental, health and safety costs of natural gas and the activism to halt new natural gas developments. The post Terra Verde – April 27, 2007 appeared first on KPFA.
Are Northern forests a source of global warming or the solution? Forest Ethics has published a new report on protecting the Great Bear rainforest to prevent climate change while a new study by Lawrence Livermore laboratory scientists says that more trees in the north may actually exacerbate global warming. Pratap Chatterjee hosts a discussion between the report authors, Tzeporah Berman of Forest Ethics and Govindasamy Bala of Lawrence Livermore. The post Terra Verde – April 20, 2007 appeared fir...
Frog in a Coalmine? These days you hear things sometimes about frogs. Frogs with mutations. Frogs that aren’t developing properly. And you have always wondered what these frogs tell us about ourselves. Well, it turns out that some of the leading people on this issue are right here in the neighborhood, so we have lured them into the studio to tell us the latest on endocrine disruptors, the chemicals behind some of these frog mutations… including an EPA docket that has just been reopened on one pr...
The Biofuels Boom: Sustainable or Suspicious? Biofuels are becoming big business, but environmentalists are increasingly expressing concern about the environmental impacts of cultivating biofuel feedstocks. From the rainforests of Borneo and the Amazon, to the corn belt of the US, Terre Verde explores the environmental and social impacts of the biofuel boom. The post Terra Verde – April 6, 2007 appeared first on KPFA.
Ever heard of a chemical called Bisphenol-A? Manufacturers use it to make hard, clear, plastics. It’s in Nalgene-brand water bottles. It’s in the resin linings of food cans. It’s in the epoxies dentists use to seal teeth. It’s in most plastic baby bottles. And, according to the centers for disease control, it’s in the bodies of 19 out of 20 Americans. Visit the Global Chemical Website. Manufacturers of the chemical say that’s safe; environmental health advocates say it could be causing developme...
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Host Pratap Chatterjee discusses environmental issues in Indian country with Carrie Dann of the Western Shoshone and Jeff Keohane, an Indian Law attorney. Carrie Dann has, for over forty years, been at the forefront of the Western Shoshone Nation’s struggle for land rights and sovereignty. Together with her late sister, Mary, she led the political and legal battle to retain ancestral lands in Nevada, California, Idaho and Utah. Dann has squared off against international gold mining corporations,...
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Pratap Chatterjee discusses the settlement between West Berkeley residents and Pacific Steel Casting Corporation, the country’s third-largest steel foundry, to bring about pollution reduction. The post Terra Verde – February 16, 2007 appeared first on KPFA.
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The battle over water in the Central and San Joaquin valleys. Guests: Antonio Rossman, a professor of water law at UC Berkeley, Tom Stokeley, an advocate for the California Water Impact Network from the Trinity Alps, and Kieran Suckling, the founder of the Center for Biological Diversity in Tucson, Arizona. The post Terra Verde – January 19, 2007 appeared first on KPFA.
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Terra Verde takes you on an audio tour through the environmental stories behind a few stops on California’s Interstate 5. The post Terra Verde – December 22, 2006 appeared first on KPFA.
