Every winter, hunters gather across the United States to partake in a uniquely American activity: predator killing contests. These events are pretty much what they sound like — contests to see who can kill the most or biggest coyotes, bobcats, foxes and other native carnivores, often in the name of wildlife management. Those who prevail are awarded significant cash purses and other prizes, including hunting equipment. Thanks to the tireless work of wildlife advocates, the controversial events ha...
Jan 13, 2023•30 min
Global bioenergy interests envision building wood pellet plants in California like this plant in North Carolina. (source and credit Dogwood Alliance) Terra Verde is joined by guests Lucas May and Laura Haight of the civil society organization Partnership for Policy Integrity (PFPI). They report on biomass energy developments at a national and international level, and describe how industry is targeting California forests as feedstock to manufacture and export wood pellets to global energy markets...
Jan 06, 2023•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 – December 30, 2022 appeared first on KPFA.
Dec 30, 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 – December 23, 2022 appeared first on KPFA.
Dec 23, 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 – December 16, 2022 appeared first on KPFA.
Dec 16, 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 – December 9, 2022 appeared first on KPFA.
Dec 09, 2022•30 min
Terra Verde is joined by concerned residents living downwind of the Phillips 66 refinery located on the shores of San Francisco Bay who describe their efforts to hold state agencies and major polluters responsible through grassroots efforts like the Vallejo Citizen Air Monitoring Network. The post Phillips 66 Refinery Source of Acute Concern for Downwind Communities appeared first on KPFA.
Dec 02, 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 – November 25, 2022 appeared first on KPFA.
Nov 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 – November 25, 2022 appeared first on KPFA.
Nov 25, 2022•30 min
The ConcoPhillips oil refinery Rodeo, California. Environmental justice advocates are disappointed with the new plan’s reliance on carbon capture and storage (CCS) for fossil fuel infrastructure like oil refineries and gas-fired power plants. Photo by Thomas Hawk. California’s new climate change strategy aims to make the state carbon neutral by 2045 and slash greenhouse gas emissions 48 percent below 1990 levels by 2030 — a more ambitious target than the existing mandate to reduce emissions 40 p...
Nov 18, 2022•30 min
On this episode of Terra Verde, Annika Weber joins host Fiona McLeod to discuss her work to transition her Seattle high school to carbon neutrality without the use of offsets. Annika was recently recognized for her accomplishments in the environmental movement by the 2022 Brower Youth Awards. The post Youth Climate Leadership and the Brower Youth Awards appeared first on KPFA.
Nov 11, 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 – November 4, 2022 appeared first on KPFA.
Nov 04, 2022•30 min
Clover Flat Landfill is located at the top of the Upper Napa Valley. (source garbageandgreednapavalley.com) This episode of Terra Verde features an interview with Upper Napa Valley resident Geoff Ellsworth, who offers a detailed look at the ins and outs of decades of operation of a problematic waste disposal site in the headwaters of the Napa River. The post Landfill Haunts Napa Watershed and San Francisco Bay appeared first on KPFA.
Nov 04, 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 – October 28, 2022 appeared first on KPFA.
Oct 28, 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 Homelands appeared first on KPFA.
Oct 28, 2022•30 min
Chile faces uncertainty three years after massive protests changed the country. Credit: Gary Hughes Terra Verde host and producer Gary Hughes is joined by reporter and foreign correspondent Boris van der Spek, founder of Chile Today, the only independent English language news platform in Chile. Boris shares insights about the current situation in Chile on the third anniversary of the historic October 2019 social rebellion and recounts his ground breaking work reporting on the land conflicts betw...
Oct 21, 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 – October 14, 2022 appeared first on KPFA.
Oct 14, 2022•30 min
Park(ing) Day, originally created in 2005 by the San Francisco design group ReBar as a fun way to reclaim curbside parking spaces and convert them into public parks and social spaces to advocate for safer, greener, and more equitable streets for people. Photo by iomarch/CC BY-NC-SA. Fifty five percent of humanity lives in cities. By 2050, that number will have gone up to to 70 percent. Our future is urban, yet urbanization in it’s current form is threatening the future of humanity and the natura...
Oct 14, 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 – October 7, 2022 appeared first on KPFA.
Oct 07, 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 – September 30, 2022 appeared first on KPFA.
Sep 30, 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 – September 23, 2022 appeared first on KPFA.
Sep 23, 2022•30 min
The movie Children Of The Vine takes a close look at Roundup, the most widely used herbicide in the world. (source childrenofthevinemovie.com) Napa Valley based film maker Brian Lilla joins Terra Verde to discuss his new feature length project. The movie Children Of The Vine peels back the curtain on the scary science and flawed regulatory framework perpetuating toxic farming practices, while highlighting readily available alternatives and solutions that will better protect public health and the...
Sep 16, 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 – September 9, 2022 appeared first on KPFA.
Sep 09, 2022•30 min
The Central Valley Air Quality Coalition brings together more than 70 organizations to advocate for community rights and environmental justice. Terra Verde is joined by Dr. Catherine Garoupa White of the Central Valley Air Quality Coalition (CVAQ). In this episodes featured interview Dr. Garoupa White describes how CVAQ pursues legislative strategies and grassroots political organizing activities to protect public health and the environment in one of the most pollution burdened regions in the co...
Sep 02, 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 – August 26, 2022 appeared first on KPFA.
Aug 26, 2022•30 min
The DTE biomass facility in Stockton, California. Photo credit: Gary Hughes Terra Verde is joined by Joe Smyth, research and communications manager with the Energy and Policy Institute. Joe has investigated a variety of energy issues in the West, including the federal coal program, restrictions on distributed renewable energy development, and electric cooperatives. His recent article “Livermore Lab carbon capture campaign funded by utility company front group” is the focus of this episode of Ter...
Aug 19, 2022•30 min
Ann Kaneko and Jin Yoo-Kim, the filmmaking team that produced the documentary Manzanar, Diverted: When Water Becomes Dust, join Fiona McLeod to discuss their film. Manzanar is the site of the World War II concentration camp, where over 11,000 Japanese Americans were incarcerated from March 1942 to November 1945. Manzanar sits at the foot of the Sierras in Owens Valley, known to the region’s Indigenous peoples, the Paiute and Shoshone, as Payahuunadü, or the “land of flowing water.” The valley, w...
Aug 12, 2022•30 min
Our plastic pollution is everywhere. It’s in our oceans, in our soil, in our food, and in our bodies. Plastic production is also contributing to the climate crisis, and with production on track to increase, the industry’s climate footprint is set to expand as well. Steven Feit, senior attorney with the Center for International Environmental Law’s Climate and Energy Program joins Terra Verde host and Earth Island Journal Managing Editor Zoe Loftus-Farren to discuss how the plastics boom started, ...
Aug 05, 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 – July 29, 2022 appeared first on KPFA.
Jul 29, 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 – July 22, 2022 appeared first on KPFA.
Jul 22, 2022•30 min
