Dr. Riki Ott returns to Terra Verde, joining host Fiona McLeod to discuss recent updates in the ongoing fight to regulate the use of toxic dispersant chemicals in the event of an oil spill. Dr. Ott is a marine toxicologist and an activist, and joined the show last year to discuss the long-term impacts of oil spills and the dangers of using chemical dispersants in oil spill responses. In this, Dr. Ott shares an update about where the regulatory process stands today. The post Regulating the Toxic ...
Jul 15, 2022•30 min
Josephine Ferorelli (left) and Meghan Kallman, co-founders of Conceivable Future. Photos by Christopher Salveter and Stephanie Alvarez Ewens. In the second installment of a two-part series, Terra Verde host and Earth Island Journal editor Maureen Nandini Mitra speaks climate activists Josephine Ferorelli and Meghan Kallman about Conceivable Future, their initiative to unravel the complex connections between climate justice and reproductive rights and change the narrative of what construes as cli...
Jul 08, 2022•30 min
Josephine Ferorelli (left) and Meghan Kallman, co-founders of Conceivable Future. In the first of a two-part series, Terra Verde host and Earth Island Journal editor Maureen Nandini Mitra speaks climate activists Josephine Ferorelli and Meghan Kallman about Conceivable Future, their initiative to unravel the complex connections between climate justice and reproductive rights and change the narrative of what construes as climate action. The post Having Kids Amid Climate Chaos – Part 1 appeared fi...
Jul 01, 2022•30 min
Thomas Helme of the Stanislaus County based environmental justice organization Valley Improvement Projects joins Terra Verde for an in-depth interview discussing efforts to raise awareness and demand accountability at one of the most significant waste to energy facilities in the state, and to share with listeners updates about the development of the new climate Scoping Plan at the California Air Resources Board. The post A Profile of Environmental Justice Organizing in the Northern San Joaquin V...
Jun 24, 2022•30 min
Thomas Helme of the Stanislaus County based environmental justice organization Valley Improvement Projects joins Terra Verde for an in-depth interview discussing efforts to raise awareness and demand accountability at one of the most significant waste to energy facilities in the state, and to share with listeners updates about the development of the new climate Scoping Plan at the California Air Resources Board. The post A Profile of Environmental Justice Organizing in the Northern San Joaquin V...
Jun 17, 2022•30 min
Photo of the village of Novoselivka, Ukraine by Oleksandr Ratushniak / UNDP Ukraine. The costs of war are devastating and far reaching. There is the loss of life. The displacement of families. The impact to physical and mental health. There are the financial costs. And though it may not always be the first to come to mind, there is also the steep cost to the environment. Andrea Mazzarino, a political writer for the publication TomDispatch, joins Terra Verde host and Earth Island Journal Managing...
Jun 10, 2022•30 min
Theresa Harlan launched the Alliance for Felix Cove in 2021 to restore and represent the history, culture, and ecological wisdom of the Coast Miwok. Theresa joins Terra Verde host Fiona McLeod to discuss the rematriation, re-indigenization, and restoration of the Coast Miwok’s ancestral homeland in Point Reyes National Seashore. The post The Rematriation of Coast Miwok Ancestral Homelands appeared first on KPFA.
Jun 03, 2022•30 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 27, 2022 appeared first on KPFA.
May 27, 2022•1 hr
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 20, 2022 appeared first on KPFA.
May 20, 2022•1 hr
The Marathon refinery in Martinez gets greenlight for producing high emissions biofuels. (image source: Contra Costa County) To open this week’s episode an attorney from Communities for a Better Environment joins Terra Verde to describe the rubber stamp permitting of the conversion of refineries in the SF Bay Area to high deforestation risk liquid biofuels. The second featured interview is with an organizer from the Indigenous Environmental Network who tells listeners how a delegation of indigen...
May 06, 2022•30 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 29, 2022 appeared first on KPFA.
Apr 29, 2022•30 min
The planned conversion of two Bay Area refineries into biofuel processing plants is being opposed by many local residents and environmentalists. Photo by Peg Hunter. On May 3, the Contra Costa Board of Supervisors will hold a hearing on the proposals by Phillips 66 in Rodeo and Marathon in Martinez to turn their refineries into ones that process biofuels from high deforestation risk soy feedstock. Local residents and environmental groups have appealed county approvals of these projects. Today, w...
Apr 22, 2022•30 min
Photo of an Arizona copper mine by drburtoni / Flickr. This year marks the 150th anniversary of the United States’ hardrock mining law. The law, signed by President Ulysses S. Grant in 1872, regulates mining of metals like gold, copper, uranium, lithium, and more on some 350 million acres of federal public land. The law hasn’t changed much in the past 150 years. Meanwhile, the mining industry has changed significantly. And it is operating at great expense to the environment, local communities, a...
Apr 08, 2022•30 min
A rally sign from March 25 at the state capitol in Sacramento. (photo Gary Hughes) There is a bright light of grassroots environmental activism that is shaking up the status quo from the redwood region to the state capitol. The Save Our Pomo Homeland campaign is redefining forest and climate activism in California. This episode of Terra Verde highlights the March 25 rally in Sacramento to protect the Jackson Demonstration State Forest (JDSF, also known as “the Jackson”), a nearly 50,000 acre pub...
Apr 01, 2022•30 min
California currently has over 1.4 million small-scale rooftop solar systems installed, and California leads the nation in the number of households that have solar panels. Key to California’s relatively swift rise to being a leader in solar energy production is a solar incentive program called net-energy metering, which credits homes, businesses, all types of buildings that are powered by solar energy for the electricity they export to the utility grid. But in recent months, reacting to pressure ...
Mar 25, 2022•30 min
A Lidar-derived digital elevation model image of the dry Colorado River Delta in Mexico. Photo by Daniel Coe. As the cycles of flood and drought intensify across the world, we are quickly learning that our water infrastructure — think dams, levees, sea walls, reservoirs, wells — are either not holding up or are actually making the problems we face much worse. So what can we do to build and maintain a healthier relationship with water? Earth Island Journal editor and Terra Verde host, Maureen Nan...
Mar 18, 2022•30 min
One of the greatest climate challenges for Californians is coming to grips with the perverse outcomes of the states markets-based mechanisms for managing emissions. Public interest attorney Brent Newell joins Terra Verde to describe efforts to address the harms from factory farm pollution and the environmental injustice embedded in the false climate solution of biogas from industrial animal agriculture. In the second half of this hour long fund drive special of Terra Verde we hear from J Jordan,...
Mar 04, 2022•1 hr
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 25, 2022 appeared first on KPFA.
Feb 25, 2022•30 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 18, 2022 appeared first on KPFA.
Feb 18, 2022•30 min
Burnout has been getting a lot of attention lately, and for good reason. As the pandemic drags on, many people continue to face evolving workplaces, navigate uncertainty around childcare and school schedules, and confront difficult choices about acceptable risk in practically everything they do. It’s no wonder that so many are feeling stressed and exhausted. Those working in the environmental sector face yet another source of stress: a deep sense of urgency around the climate crisis, and the kno...
Feb 11, 2022•30 min
What if one of California’s most highly celebrated pathways for achieving ‘decarbonization’ could actually increase pressure on increasingly rare tropical forests? To look into this contradiction Terra Verde welcomes Dr Chris Malins, the founder of the private consultancy Cerulogy. In the interview we learn of his research on the global land use impacts resulting from providing feedstocks for the increased production of liquid biofuels across the United States, including at refineries in the San...
Feb 04, 2022•5 min
Gas appliances (like stoves and heaters) produce over 50 million tons of greenhouse gas emissions in California annually. In this episode, Berkeley Vice Mayor Kate Harrison and Matt Gough join Terra Verde host Fiona McLeod to discuss California’s progress towards building electrification. Berkeley was the first city in the US to pass legislation to move new buildings off of dirty fossil fuels by banning gas hookups in new buildings and requiring them to be powered by all-electric power — and oth...
Jan 28, 2022•30 min
Paean to the California Peony / Everyday is Earth Day. Artist: Barnali Ghosh. (Peony photo by Teddy Llovet.) An exploration of nature, art, and California’s native flowers with artist, landscape architect, community historian, and storyteller Barnali Ghosh. Over the past year, Ghosh has been creating a series of self-portraits dressed as various California native flowers. The recreations feature sarees and the poses she holds in each of these images are based on an Indian classical dance form, O...
Jan 21, 2022•29 min
As the climate crisis manifests itself all around us, you may have begun hearing terms like climate anxiety, ecological grief, and climate depression. You may even have felt your own form of grief, or anxiety, or anger about global heating. A recent survey found that some 70 percent of Americans are worried about climate change, and that many feel anxiety or depression related to that concern. Some groups — including youth, environmental activists, and farmers — can be particularly vulnerable to...
Jan 14, 2022•30 min
Mural at Universidad Santiago de Chile (photo credit Gary Hughes) After an unprecedented street protest movement against inequality put Chile in the global media spotlight in 2019, the recent election of a former radical student leader to the countries presidency has once again turned all eyes to this South American country. As a process continues to write a new constitution that many are hoping will secure better protections of the environment, the extraction of minerals like lithium explodes, ...
Jan 07, 2022•30 min
Humane Education is a field of study and an approach to teaching that draws connections between human rights, environmental sustainability, and animal protection. Zoe Weil, Co-founder and President of the Institute for Humane Education, and Andra Yeghoian, Environmental and Sustainability Literacy Coordinator for the San Mateo County Office of Education, join the show to discuss the theory behind humane education and how “solutionary frameworks” can be implemented in our education systems. The p...
Dec 31, 2021•30 min
Burnout has been getting a lot of attention lately, and for good reason. As the pandemic drags on, many people continue to face evolving workplaces, navigate uncertainty around childcare and school schedules, and confront difficult choices about acceptable risk in practically everything they do. It’s no wonder that so many are feeling stressed and exhausted. Those working in the environmental sector face yet another source of stress: a deep sense of urgency around the climate crisis, and the kno...
Dec 24, 2021•30 min
Phillips 66 Refinery in Rodeo, California. Image credit Gary Hughes. This episode of Terra Verde features field interviews with Contra Costa County residents with decades of collective experience in responding to the public health and safety threats of the Phillips 66 refinery in Rodeo, one of two San Francisco Bay Area refineries pursuing permits to convert their operations to high deforestation risk soy feedstock biofuels. photo: via Pixabay The post Fenceline Tour of Phillips 66 Refinery in R...
Dec 03, 2021•30 min
Professors Fred Cohan and Bill Johnston join the show to discuss some of the broader environmental and historical lessons to be learned from the Covid-19 pandemic, as well as the implications this pandemic (and others) may have in the future. The post Climate Change and the Covid-19 Pandemic appeared first on KPFA.
Nov 26, 2021•30 min
2021 Brower Youth Award winners Alexia Leclercq and Peter Pham. Photo courtesy of BYA. Across the world, more and more youth are taking to build more sustainable communities. On this show, hosted by Earth Island Journal editor Maureen Nandini Mitra, we hear from two such young people, who recently received the 2021 Brower Youth Awards for their work — Peter Pham, who organizes for Turnout4Transit, a coalition of environmental advocacy groups, labor unions, and social justice organizations, and A...
Nov 19, 2021•30 min
