Richmond, CA is no stranger to industry. It’s home to the infamous Chevron oil refinery, one of the Bay Area’s two ports, massive distribution centers, scrap metal yards, and much more. This industrial feel is nothing new. What is new, however, is the amount of coal moving through the city on its way to distant ports. Last year, community activists learned that the quantity of coal being shipped out of one private terminal in particular, the Richmond-Levin Terminal, had skyrocketed recently, fro...
Jun 08, 2018•9 min
A weekly public affairs show that delivers news and views about the most important environmental issues in California and globally. The post Terra Verde – June 1, 2018 appeared first on KPFA.
Jun 01, 2018•9 min
A weekly public affairs show that delivers news and views about the most important environmental issues in California and globally. The post Terra Verde – May 11, 2018 appeared first on KPFA.
May 11, 2018•18 min
A weekly public affairs show that delivers news and views about the most important environmental issues in California and globally. The post Terra Verde – May 4, 2018 appeared first on KPFA.
May 04, 2018•9 min
A weekly public affairs show that delivers news and views about the most important environmental issues in California and globally. The post Terra Verde – April 27, 2018 appeared first on KPFA.
Apr 27, 2018•9 min
Terra Verde is joined by Karuna Jaggar of Breast Cancer Action to discuss the toxic legacy of the fossil fuel industry and how health justice and climate justice are closely intertwined. The post Terra Verde – Fossil Fuels, Environmental Justice and Protecting Women’s Health appeared first on KPFA.
Apr 20, 2018•9 min
A weekly public affairs show that delivers news and views about the most important environmental issues in California and globally. The post Terra Verde – April 6, 2018 appeared first on KPFA.
Apr 06, 2018•18 min
A weekly public affairs show that delivers news and views about the most important environmental issues in California and globally. The post Terra Verde – March 30, 2018 appeared first on KPFA.
Mar 30, 2018•16 min
A weekly public affairs show that delivers news and views about the most important environmental issues in California and globally. The post Terra Verde – March 23, 2018 appeared first on KPFA.
Mar 23, 2018•16 min
In January, China banned the import of 24 categories of solid waste, including recyclable plastics, sending shock waves through the international waste processing industry. The country has been the main importer of half of the world’s metal, plastic and paper recyclables, document shredding, – if you need to destroy documents, consider Document Destruction Melbourne Company – Some 40 percent of American’s recycled waste usually ends up in China.Now waste collectors across the US and other nation...
Mar 16, 2018•17 min
Paul Hawken Special The post Terra Verde – February 23, 2018 appeared first on KPFA.
Feb 23, 2018•33 min
Photo by Mohamed Lammah Mary Ellen Hannibal,author of Citizen Scientist: Searching for Heroes and Hope in an Age of Extinction and Dan Rademacher, executive director of the nonprofit mapmaker GreenInfo Network who’s helped organize more than a dozen grassroots bioblitzes in the Bay Area, talk withTerra Verde host and Earth Island Journal Editor Maureen Nandini Mitra about citizen science, it’s growing popularity, and how it’s changing established ideas about who can do science and how it is done...
Feb 16, 2018•18 min
A weekly public affairs show that delivers news and views about the most important environmental issues in California and globally. The post Terra Verde – February 9, 2018 appeared first on KPFA.
Feb 09, 2018•21 min
A weekly public affairs show that delivers news and views about the most important environmental issues in California and globally. The post Terra Verde – February 2, 2018 appeared first on KPFA.
Feb 02, 2018•20 min
A weekly public affairs show that delivers news and views about the most important environmental issues in California and globally. The post Terra Verde – January 26, 2018 appeared first on KPFA.
Jan 26, 2018•17 min
A weekly public affairs show that delivers news and views about the most important environmental issues in California and globally. The post Terra Verde – January 19, 2018 appeared first on KPFA.
Jan 19, 2018•20 min
A weekly public affairs show that delivers news and views about the most important environmental issues in California and globally. The post Terra Verde – January 12, 2018 appeared first on KPFA.
Jan 12, 2018•9 min
Last November, an nonprofit called the Nonhuman Rights Project filed a suit seeking legal personhood for three elephants — Minnie, Beulah, and Karen — who are being kept at a Connecticut zoo. It’s world’s first lawsuit on behalf of captive elephants that asks they be recognized as persons with the right to bodily liberty. The Connecticut Superior Court where the case was filed dismissed the petition in December, but NhRP plans to re-file the case with some amendments. Host and Earth Island Journ...
Jan 05, 2018•9 min
A weekly public affairs show that delivers news and views about the most important environmental issues in California and globally. The post Terra Verde – December 29, 2017 appeared first on KPFA.
Dec 29, 2017•9 min
A weekly public affairs show that delivers news and views about the most important environmental issues in California and globally. The post Terra Verde – December 22, 2017 appeared first on KPFA.
Dec 22, 2017•9 min
A weekly public affairs show that delivers news and views about the most important environmental issues in California and globally. The post Terra Verde – December 1, 2017 appeared first on KPFA.
Dec 01, 2017•9 min
A weekly public affairs show that delivers news and views about the most important environmental issues in California and globally. The post Terra Verde – November 24, 2017 appeared first on KPFA.
Nov 24, 2017•9 min
A weekly public affairs show that delivers news and views about the most important environmental issues in California and globally. The post Terra Verde – November 17, 2017 appeared first on KPFA.
Nov 17, 2017•9 min
A weekly public affairs show that delivers news and views about the most important environmental issues in California and globally. The post Terra Verde – November 10, 2017 appeared first on KPFA.
Nov 10, 2017•9 min
A weekly public affairs show that delivers news and views about the most important environmental issues in California and globally. The post Terra Verde – November 3, 2017 appeared first on KPFA.
Nov 03, 2017•9 min
A weekly public affairs show that delivers news and views about the most important environmental issues in California and globally. The post Terra Verde – October 27, 2017 appeared first on KPFA.
Oct 27, 2017•9 min
A weekly public affairs show that delivers news and views about the most important environmental issues in California and globally. The post Terra Verde – October 20, 2017 appeared first on KPFA.
Oct 20, 2017•9 min
A weekly public affairs show that delivers news and views about the most important environmental issues in California and globally. The post Terra Verde – October 13, 2017 appeared first on KPFA.
Oct 13, 2017•9 min
A weekly public affairs show that delivers news and views about the most important environmental issues in California and globally. The post Terra Verde – October 6, 2017 appeared first on KPFA.
Oct 06, 2017•9 min
A weekly public affairs show that delivers news and views about the most important environmental issues in California and globally. The post Terra Verde – September 29, 2017 appeared first on KPFA.
Sep 29, 2017•9 min