Special Fund Drive Programming – Economic Update (part 2)
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Mar 08, 2024•30 min
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Special Fund Drive Programming
This week’s Terre Verde is preempted by special fund drive programming. The post Special Fund Drive Programming appeared first on KPFA.
Mar 01, 2024•30 min
Special Fund Drive Programming
This week’s Terre Verde is preempted by special fund drive programming. The post Special Fund Drive Programming appeared first on KPFA.
Feb 23, 2024•30 min
Terra Verde – February 16, 2024
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 16, 2024 appeared first on KPFA.
Feb 16, 2024•30 min
On the Trail of California’s Hazardous Waste
Contractors load contaminated soil into trailers as part of a restoration project in Barstow, CA. California exports nearly half of its hazardous waste, much of it soil, to neighboring states. Photo courtesy of the Defense Visual Information Distribution Service. When it comes to hazardous waste, California has some of the strictest rules in the country. Specifically, the state has set lower bar than most for what exactly it considers hazardous, triggering greater precautions around in-state dis...
Feb 09, 2024•30 min
Bringing Beaver Back to California
Beaver once thrived across California’s watersheds in the millions, their dams and ponds creating rich wetlands and a mosaic of habitat for biodiversity to flourish. However, by the early 1900s, European colonization and the fur trade had nearly wiped them out of the state. Today, there is growing momentum to return this keystone species to its historic range to help restore degraded waterways and build resilience to climate change. Just recently, California’s top wildlife management agency took...
Feb 02, 2024•30 min
Undamming the Klamath
Standing over 160 feet, the Iron Gate Dam on the Klamath River blocks salmon and steelhead from reaching spawning habitat upstream. Photo by Scott Wright/Flickr. In early January, the Klamath River Renewal Corporation began to deconstruct the Iron Gate dam, the second of four hydroelectric dams on the Klamath River slated to come down by the end of the year. One of the largest dam removal projects in world history, the undamming of the Klamath represents a major milestone in a decades-long strug...
Jan 26, 2024•30 min
Understanding the Ongoing Bird Flu Crisis
So far H5N1 has led to a record loss of some 80 million birds across 47 US states, with California being hit the hardest of all. Photo by Vale CS/Flickr. The new year has started off in crisis mode for poultry farms across California, as a wave of avian influenza sweeps across the state forcing farmers to euthanize several million chickens and ducks. The heartbreaking losses spell financial devastation for farms and also have the potential to trickle down to consumers, as prices for poultry and ...
Jan 19, 2024•30 min
Community-Based Farming in the Age of Commodity-Based Agriculture
Regenerative agriculture is a sustainability-focused approach to farming that critically improves soil health, maintains biodiversity, and helps cultivate agricultural systems that interact with and support their larger ecosystems — including nearby communities. In order to transform food systems by empowering the next generation of sustainability- and community-minded farmers, Pie Ranch in Pescadero, California provides early-career farmers with support and access to resources that will aid the...
Jan 12, 2024•30 min
California’s Budding Lithium Industry
As the green energy transition speeds up, demand for lithium — used in electric car batteries — is skyrocketing. Currently, the bulk of the global lithium supply comes from Australia and Chile, but as demand increases, countries around the world are looking to tap into their reserves. In the United States, the quest for this in-demand metal involves California, which has one of the world’s largest known lithium reserves, located in Southern California’s Imperial County, near the Salton Sea. Thes...
Jan 05, 2024•30 min
Terra Verde – December 29, 2023
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, 2023 appeared first on KPFA.
Dec 29, 2023•30 min
Terra Verde – December 22, 2023
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, 2023 appeared first on KPFA.
Dec 22, 2023•30 min
Special Holiday Fund Drive Programming
Today’s show is preempted by a special holiday fund drive broadcast. Terre Verde will resume its usual schedule on December 22, 2023. The post Special Holiday Fund Drive Programming appeared first on KPFA.
Dec 15, 2023•30 min
Special Holiday Fund Drive Programming
Today’s show is preempted by a special holiday fund drive broadcast. Terre Verde will resume its usual schedule on December 22, 2023. The post Special Holiday Fund Drive Programming appeared first on KPFA.
Dec 08, 2023•30 min
Deep-Sea Mining Standoff in the Pacific
Greenpeace International activists protest around a specialized offshore drilling vessel currently collecting data for The Metals Company, which plans to file the world’s first application to mine the seabed in the Pacific Ocean. Photo by Martin Katz / Greenpeace. Thousands of meters below the ocean surface, there’s a whole world we’ve only just begun to understand. There are massive underwater mountains, hydrothermal vents spewing piping hot water, and bioluminescent creatures that offer pocket...
Dec 01, 2023•30 min
Terra Verde – November 24, 2023
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, 2023 appeared first on KPFA.
Nov 24, 2023•30 min
Terra Verde – November 17, 2023
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, 2023 appeared first on KPFA.
Nov 17, 2023•30 min
Spotlight on Environmental Justice Implications of California Wood Pellet Export Scheme
Louisiana Pacific once ran a lumber mill on the Tuolumne County site where Golden State Natural Resources wants to construct a 300,000 tons a year wood pellet manufacturing plant. (Photo credit: Gary Hughes) For this episode Terra Verde is in the field with Matt Holmes, strategy director with the California Environmental Justice Coalition. In the interview Matt describes taking a close look at the site of a proposed large-scale wood pellet manufacturing facility in Tuolumne County. The episode e...
Nov 10, 2023•30 min
Rethinking Roads: How wildlife crossings can help address the threat roadways pose to animals
Roads fragment ecosystems. They cut off migratory pathways of animals like deer, cougars, and even salmon, they separate animals populations and drain their gene pool. They make it difficult for them to find food and shelter and even mates. Photo by Matteo Botta/Pexels For most of us, roads are a symbol of journeys, of freedom, adventure, opportunity, or more practically speaking, as a means of getting from point A to B. But the 40 million miles of roads that wrap around this Earth have a huge i...
Nov 03, 2023•30 min
Challenging the Bay Area Biofuel Refinery Projects
If the project is approved, the Phillips 66 refinery in Rodeo (pictured) would produce more than a billion gallons per year of biofuel products, making it one of the largest biofuel refineries in the world. Photo by Thomas Hawk. Earlier this month, a Contra Costa County Superior Court ordered the oil company, Phillips 66 to put on hold its Rodeo refinery’s transition from processing crude oil to producing biofuels, until the county had addressed major environmental flaws in its environmental ana...
Oct 27, 2023•30 min
Youth Activists are Leading the Way to Sustainable Schools
Muskan Walia and Angelina Xu, two young environmental leaders who were recently recognized for their accomplishments by the 2023 Brower Youth Awards, join Terra Verde host Fiona McLeod to discuss their work organizing their schools’ transition to clean energy and zero food waste. The post Youth Activists are Leading the Way to Sustainable Schools appeared first on KPFA.
Oct 20, 2023•30 min
Global Climate Politics and the Dangers of Solar Geoengineering
Solar geoengineering presents a whole host of new risks and threats to communities and the environment. Foto Murray Cooper. Terra Verde is joined for this episode by Dr Carl Schleussner, the Head of Science at Climate Analytics. After giving an update on the current state of global climate politics Dr Schleussner takes the time to describe to listeners the recent release of a report by a little known high level climate lobby called The Overshoot Commission, which offers an alarming narrative pro...
Oct 13, 2023•30 min
Terra Verde – October 6, 2023
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, 2023 appeared first on KPFA.
Oct 06, 2023•30 min
Terra Verde – September 29, 2023
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, 2023 appeared first on KPFA.
Sep 29, 2023•30 min
Terra Verde – September 22, 2023
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 22, 2023 appeared first on KPFA.
Sep 22, 2023•30 min
Bluelining – Tackling an Emerging Climate Justice Issue
Artist Shane Grammar painted this mural in a building burned by the 2021 Dixie Fire in Greenville California. Photo by Harold Litwiler. Over the past year, several property insurance companies have pulled out or scaled back coverage in the Golden State in the face of growing risks from catastrophic, climate change-charged wildfires. Other climate vulnerable states like flood-prone Florida and Louisiana too, have experienced insurer pull-outs.But it isn’t just insurance companies that are pulling...
Sep 15, 2023•30 min
The Case for Constitutional Green Amendments
Youth plaintiffs arrive at the courthouse during the Held v. Montana trial. Photo by Robin Loznak / Our Children’s Trust. This summer, the climate movement celebrated a landmark win. Sixteen young people, who sued the state of Montana back in 2020 for promoting fossil fuels, prevailed in their lawsuit against the state, enjoying what has been described as a sweeping win. Their case was the first constitutional climate case and first youth climate case to go to trial in the United States. It rest...
Sep 08, 2023•30 min
Major Carbon Capture and Sequestration Project Unveiled for SF Bay Delta Region
The Montezuma NorCal Carbon Sequestration Hub imagines a new carbon dioxide pipeline system in the Bay Area. Terra Verde is joined by guests Dr Marjaneh Moini of PSR-SF and Kathy Kerridge of 350 Bay Area Action to discuss the public health risks and environmental concerns arising from an emerging proposal to establish a carbon capture and sequestration injection site at Montezuma Hills in Solano County to ostensibly address carbon pollution from the electricity generating facilities, hydrogen pl...
Sep 01, 2023•30 min
Growing Food in an Oil Town
In Richmond, California, fenceline communities near the Chevron oil refinery are impacted daily by the fossil fuel industry’s influence over local politics and the economy, as well as by the environmental and health risks of living in an oil town. But in the face of industry negligence, pollution, food insecurity, and more, community activists in Richmond have stepped up to fight for the place they call home. On this episode of Terra Verde, Doria Robinson, Executive Director of Urban Tilth, and ...
Aug 25, 2023•30 min
Terra Verde – August 18, 2023
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 18, 2023 appeared first on KPFA.
Aug 18, 2023•30 min
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