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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 8, 2024 appeared first on KPFA.

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 1, 2024 appeared first on KPFA.

In September, Western Rivers Conservancy conveyed the 466-acre Dillon Beach Ranch to the Federated Indians of Graton Rancheria for permanent conservation and stewardship. With this historic land-back conservation deal, the Tribe (comprised of Coast Miwok and Southern Pomo Indians) regains ownership and stewardship of lands within their aboriginal territory, spanning across Sonoma and Marin Counties. The property includes 1.5 miles of the Estero de San Antonio, home to critical habitat for a vast array of plants and wildlife, including the federally listed northern tidewater goby.  Western Rivers Conservancy’s (WRC) Conservation Director, Josh Kling, joins host and producer Hannah Wilton on this week’s Terra Verde episode to discuss this historic land-back ownership transfer and other riverland conservation initiatives in the West. Among them, Blue Creek Salmon Sanctuary and Yurok Tribal Community Forest in collaboration with the Yurok Tribe, and an ongoing partnership with the Esselen Tribe in Big Sur to protect and repatriate a mile of the Little Sur River. The post Making History in Riverland Conservation appeared first on KPFA.

Clockwise from top: Amelia Southern-Uribe, Austin Picinich, and Asa Miller. Photos courtesy of BYA. Three young activists from across the US — Asa Miller, Amelia Southern-Uribe, and Austin Picinich, who received the 2024 Brower Youth Awards at a ceremony in Berkeley last week talk with Earth Island Journal editor-in-chief and Terra Verde cohost Maureen Nandini Mitra about their outstanding efforts to promote ecological sustainability and environmental justice, what inspires them, the challenges they have had to overcome, and more. The post Young Climate Activists Inspire Hope appeared first on KPFA.

Photo by Cassandra Nelson / UNSOM. Plastics are pretty much inescapable these days, and that’s no mistake. The plastics industry has flooded our lives with countless single-use product, from bags, to food packaging, to drink bottles. This plastic now fills our landfills, litters our coastlines, and permeates our bodies. And still, the plastics industry creates more, pointing to plastics recyclability as the solution to our mounting plastic pollution crisis. Of course, recycling isn’t the solution they claim it is. Only 9 percent of the plastic that has been pumped into the world since 1950 has been recycled. And here in the US, only about 5 percent of the single-use plastic products we use today are recycled. As the scale of the crisis grows, environmental advocates have started taking plastic producers and distributors to court for their role in deceiving the the public and driving the crisis we now find ourselves in. Sumona Majumdar, Chief Executive Officer of Earth Island Institute, and Dianna Cohen, Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer of Plastic Pollution Coalition, join Terra Verde Host and Earth Island Journal Managing Editor Zoe Loftus-Farren to talk about these efforts The post Taking Big Plastic to Court appeared first on KPFA.

The Rights of Nature is one of the fastest-growing environmental justice movements in the world. Based on traditional Indigenous knowledge, the legal framework recognizes nature and ecosystems as inherently rights-bearing entities with legal standing in court, rather than treating nature as property. On this episode of Terra Verde, Shannon Biggs and Isabella Zizi, from the Bay Area-based organization Movement Rights, and Crystal Cavalier-Keck, Co-Founder of Seven Directions of Service, join host Fiona McLeod to talk about the interconnectedness between the movements for Rights of Nature, Indigenous rights, and climate justice. The post Recognizing the Rights of Nature appeared first on KPFA.

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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 20, 2024 appeared first on KPFA.

Today’s episode of Terre Verde is preempted by a 2024 fall fund drive special: Professor Richard Wolff (from Economic Update) discusses the true impact of tariffs.     The post Special Fall Fund Drive Programming: Richard Wolff appeared first on KPFA.

On this week’s Terra Verde episode, host and producer Hannah Wilton interviews author Manjula Martin about her recently-published memoir, The Last Fire Season; A Personal and Pyronatural History, out now from Pantheon Books. Set during the catastrophic 2020 wildfire season and the compounding crises of the pandemic and political upheaval, Martin tells the story of evacuating from her home in West Sonoma County and her journey of healing from a personal health crisis. Tracing the contours of hope, healing, and despair, The Last Fire Season explores what it means to live on a dynamic, changing planet and how we might shift our relationship to the keystone process of fire. Manjula Martin is coauthor, with her father, Orin Martin, of Fruit Trees for Every Garden, which won the 2020 American Horticultural Society Book Award. Her nonfiction has appeared in The New Yorker, Virginia Quarterly Review, The Cut, Pacific Standard, Modern Farmer, and Hazlitt. She edited the anthology Scratch: Writers, Money, and the Art of Making a Living; was managing editor of Francis Ford Coppola’s literary magazine, Zoetrope: All-Story; and has worked in varied editorial capacities in the nonprofit and publishing sectors. She lives in West Sonoma County, California. The post A Personal Chronicle of California’s Wildfire Crisis appeared first on KPFA.

When it comes to clothing, we live in a system that tends to prioritizes quantity over quality; that favors items that can be worn a few times and discarded above those that are cared for and mended over time. This system disconnects us from the materials our clothes are made from, the people who make them, and places they are made. And it contributes to significant environmental and social harm. But it doesn’t have to be this way. In California, a network of fiber activists and producers are modeling a different textile future. One that emphasizes quality, natural fibers, and local production. That helps build community and regional economies. That has a lighter touch on the Earth. Rebecca Burgess, founder and director of the Point Reyes-based nonprofit Fibershed, and Alisha Bright, creator and owner of the Petaluma-based workshop and yarn shop Fiber Circle Studio, join Terra Verde host and Earth Island Journal managing editor Zoe Loftus-Farren to discuss what this future might look like. The post Envisioning an Alternative Fiber Future appeared first on KPFA.

Today’s show is preempted by the second hour of a special 2-hour Democracy Now, broadcasting from the Democratic National Convention in Chicago. Audio for the first hour of Democracy Now can be found here. Information about the topics covered on today’s Democracy Now plus the audio for the entire second hour can be found here.   The post Special Event Programming: Democracy Now at the DNC (hour 2 of 2-hour special) appeared first on KPFA.

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This week’s Terra Verde episode lifts the hood on America’s disaster recovery and climate resilience workforce. While these workers are the ones rebuilding our homes after hurricanes or harvesting food during extreme wildfires, they often face inordinate exploitation in these unstable and invisibilized sectors. Pressure to change industry standards is growing with support from organizations like North Bay Jobs with Justice and Resilience Force that are advocating for family-sustaining wages and safe working conditions.  Host and producer Hannah Wilton speaks with Max Alper, the Executive Director at North Bay Jobs with Justice (NBJwJ), a growing, grassroots coalition of more than 30 labor and community organizations in Sonoma, Napa, and Marin Counties. Just recently, NBJwJ linked arms with hundreds of farmworks and other allies in a march over Healdsburg Memorial Bridge to demand higher wages and disaster pay. Also joining is Josh Cox who runs Resilience Works, a for-profit national labor brokerage focused on climate change adaptation. That company is owned by Resilience Force, a national nonprofit working to strengthen America’s resilience workforce – the millions of people across the country who help communities prepare for, respond to, and rebuild after disasters.  We discuss the importance of training and support for workers to transition into sustainable “green” jobs and the road ahead to building an equitable economy that honors the dignity and expertise of those who are essential to our recovery efforts.  The post The Frontlines of Climate Adaptation and Disaster Recovery appeared first on KPFA.

PFAS are a class of about 15,000 chemicals known as “forever chemicals” (because they don’t naturally break down). Exposure to these harmful chemicals — which are often found in clothing and textiles, cosmetics, food packaging, and even menstrual products — has been linked to a range of critical health problems.  While cleaning up environmental PFAS pollution has been a priority of the Biden administration, there has not been a significant federal strategy to regulate the chemicals’ use in consumer goods. Meanwhile, the body of research about the chemicals used in menstrual hygiene products — and the impact they have on reproductive health — remains limited. On this episode of Terra Verde, host Fiona McLeod is joined by Alexa Friedman, PhD, and Kaley Beins, MPH, to discuss the health impacts of toxic chemicals found in menstrual products, and the need for increased awareness and regulation of PFAS and other harmful substances in consumer goods. Learn more: – Multiple metals detected in tampons, new study finds – New research: PFAS detected in some menstrual and incontinence products – EWG Tap Water Database – EWG Skin Deep Database – EWG’s Guide to Healthy Cleaning The post Understanding the Forever Chemicals Found in Menstrual Products appeared first on KPFA.

Photo by AFGE/Wikimedia. Forty years ago, the Supreme Court established what would become a bedrock principle in administrative law. Known as Chevron deference, the principle required that courts defer to the expertise of federal agencies when interpreting any ambiguities in the laws they were tasked with implementing. In late June, six of the nine supreme court justices joined the majority opinion in a case overturning Chevron deference. Under the decision issued in Loper Bright Enterprises, the Court says it should be judges, not agency experts at, say, the Environmental Protection Agency, who should make the call when interpreting statutory ambiguities. It may seem mundane, but the decision represents a sea change for the United States regulatory system. And it could have far-reaching implications for everything from environmental protection, to food safety, to disability rights. David Doniger, Senior Advisor to the NRDC Action Fund, joins Terra Verde host and Earth Island Journal Managing Editor Zoe Loftus-Farren to discuss the new legal landscape and what it means for efforts to protect the environment. The post Environmental Protection in a Post-Chevron World appeared first on KPFA.

Today’s show is preempted by the second hour of Democracy Now, broadcasting from the RNC in Milwaukee. The first hour can be found here.   The post Special Event Programming: Democracy Now at the RNC appeared first on KPFA.

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 12, 2024 appeared first on KPFA.

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 5, 2024 appeared first on KPFA.

Bioregional regeneration is a land stewardship approach focused on undoing past harms and reversing environmental degradation, while bringing back biodiversity and cultivating ecological resilience. Solar Punk Farms is a queer-led climate hub dedicated to bioregional regeneration in Guerneville, CA. Through a radically inclusive approach that incorporates science, art, and collaboration, the farm engages queer folks, youth, and local community members to create a more ecologically-minded society — while also creating a safe space designed for queer people to explore farming and cultivate a strong sense of identity in a rural, land-focused environment. Spencer Scott co-founded Solar Punk Farms with his husband, Nick Schwanz. On this episode, Spencer joins Terra Verde host Fiona McLeod to talk about the vision and philosophy behind the climate hub, and about their work to create resilient ecosystems and thriving, sustainable communities. The post Making Sustainable Living Practical (and Irresistible) appeared first on KPFA.

Photo courtesy of Tingey Injury Law Firm/Unsplash Energy Transfer – the company behind the Dakota Access Pipeline or DAPL – is suing Greenpeace USA for $300 million, claiming that the environmental group and not the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe, organized the resistance against DAPL at Standing Rock in 2016-17. The suit is another Big Oil strategy to shut down opposition to its climate-damaging activities. If successful, it could have far-reaching implications. The brains behind the lawsuit — the international law firm, Gibson, Dunn, and Crutcher — has a long history of helping fossil fuel and other polluting industry silence their opponents. Earth Island Journal editor-in-chief Maureen Nandini Mitra and Terra Verde cohost talks with Emily Sanders, a reporter and investigator with Exxon Knews, and Haley Czarnek, National Director of Law Students for Climate Accountability, a  student-led organization, about big law firms that are part of an ecosystem of enablers helping fossil fuel companies to keep doing business as usual and the growing effort by activists to hold them accountable.     The post The Law Firms Propping Up Big Oil appeared first on KPFA.

California plans to rely in part on carbon capture and storage to meet its climate goals. Environmental groups say it won’t work, and that the strategy will perpetuate environmental injustices. Photo of a oil and gas development in California by John Ciccarelli / BLM. Carbon capture and storage, often referred to by insiders as CCS, isn’t exactly a new concept — the first carbon capture plan was proposed back in the 1930s. But recently, as the stark reality of the climate crisis has set in, interest in the idea has ticked up considerably, particularly among government and industry actors. Many frontline activists, environmental groups, and scientists say that’s a problem, pointing to the ways in which carbon capture and storage throws a lifeline to the fossil fuel industry, perpetuates environmental injustices, and diverts attention and resources from true climate solutions. Maricruz Ramiriz, a Community Organizer with the Center on Race Poverty and the Environment in California’s Central Valley, and Victoria Bogdan Tejeda, a Staff Attorney at the Center for Biological Diversity’s Climate Law program, join Terra Verde host and Earth Island Journal Managing Editor Zoe Loftus-Farren to discuss carbon capture and storage in California, and the ways in which its deployment could pose a risk to both people and planet. The post Digging into California’s Carbon Capture Plans appeared first on KPFA.

Garbage “waste-to-energy” incineration has long been sold to the public as a technologically-advanced solution to the waste crisis and a source of renewable energy. In reality, incineration poses significant environmental, human health, and climate risks, while disproportionately impacting communities of color and low-income communities that already face high pollution burdens. Anti-incineration advocates also point to the high costs needed to keep this declining industry afloat in the U.S., siphoning public money away from more just and sustainable waste management solutions.  This week on Terra Verde, host and producer Hannah Wilton invites Denaya Shorter, Senior Director for the US and Canada Region of the Global Alliance for Incinerator Alternatives (GAIA), to discuss the anti-incineration movement and zero waste alternatives to burning. Denaya sheds light on the industry’s connections to the plastic and petrochemical complex, the concept of “waste colonialism,” zero waste as a strategy rooted in justice, and the recent closure of California’s second to last waste incinerator, representing a major win for grassroots community activists and environmental groups. The post Starving the Incinerators appeared first on KPFA.

In October, the Teesta III dam in Northeast India was destroyed when torrential rains caused an upstream glacial lake to overflow and burst. Indigenous activists in the region have protested against the Teesta III and other major hydropower projects for decades, warning of the catastrophic impacts that dams, railway tunnels, and industry activities have on the fragile and sacred ecosystem that is especially prone to seismic activity, landslides, and climate change-related events.  On this episode of Terra Verde, Mayalmit Lepcha and Minket Lepcha join host Fiona McLeod, to discuss how they have worked to protect their ancestral homelands in Sikkim and Darjeeling, and to advocate for indigenous communities most impacted by disasters like the Teesta III dam break. They share important insights about how the tragedy in Northeast India offers important lessons that decision-makers, community members, and individuals around the world can learn from.  To learn more about Minket Lepcha and her film, Voices of Teesta, click here: https://talkingrivers.org/minket-lepcha. To learn more about Mayalmit Lepcha and her work with Affected Citizens of Teesta (ACT) and International Rivers, click here: https://www.internationalrivers.org/news/women-river-defender-highlight-marmit-lepcha/ The post Voices of the River Teesta appeared first on KPFA.

This week’s episode of Terre Verde is preempted by part 2 of a special edition of Professor Richard Wolff’s Economic Update.   The post Special Spring Fund Drive Programming appeared first on KPFA.

This week’s episode of Terre Verde is preempted by part 2 of a special edition of Professor Richard Wolff’s Economic Update.   The post Special Spring Fund Drive Programming appeared first on KPFA.

This week’s episode is preempted by part 2 of Professor Richard Wolff’s Economic Update. Click here for part 1.   The post Special Spring Fund Drive Programming appeared first on KPFA.

With one of the largest and most diverse agricultural sectors in the United States, California is encouraging its producers to adopt sustainable farming practices to help mitigate climate change. While many state incentive programs have been introduced in recent years, we have a long way to go in order to fully understand the potential benefits of climate smart farming and to implement these regenerative practices on a wider scale. This episode of Terra Verde explores the growing field of climate smart agriculture, shedding light on research gaps, policy barriers and the most pressing challenges confronting California’s producers today as they strive to invest in long-term sustainable land stewardship. Tune in as host and producer Hannah Wilton speaks with Jamie Fanous, Policy Director at Community Alliance with Family Farmers (CAFF), and Jessica Chiartas, a Project Scientist at University of California, Davis and Founder of Soil Life, whose research focuses on the long-term impacts of agriculture on soil carbon, soil health and ecosystem services. Together, Jessica and CAFF recently published a scientific literature review titled, Understanding the Science Behind Climate Smart Agriculture in California, which explores key climate smart practices within a California context while identifying knowledge gaps in the field. The post Farming for the Future appeared first on KPFA.

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Not only do restaurant workers comprise at least half of the country’s 22 million food industry workers, they also happen to be among the lowest paid — the minimum wage for tipped workers is still just $2.13 an hour at the federal level. Photo by Andreas Brændhaugen. Saru Jayaraman, President of  One Fair Wage and Director of the Food Labor Research Center at University of California, Berkeley, speaks with Earth Island Journal editor Maureen Nandini Mitra and Terra Verde cohost about why the environmental movement should work in solidarity with restaurant workers as well how the ongoing restaurant worker revolt in the country could have enormous implications for labor and environmental justice and for our democracy as well. The post Serving Justice All Along the Food Chain appeared first on KPFA.

Dolores Huerta is a giant within the labor movement. She got her start in the movement early, pivoting from her work as a young teacher in California’s Central Valley community organizing when she saw how her students and their families were struggling. She hasn’t stopped since, and has spent the last seven decades fighting for farmworkers rights, including for fair wages, safer working conditions, and the very right for workers to collectively organize. She’s helped shape the environmental justice movement in the United States, and has proven a tireless advocate for civil rights and women’s rights. She is perhaps best known for co-founding what would become the United Farm Workers Association with Cesar Chavez in 1962s, and currently, she serves as the founder and president of the Dolores Huerta Foundation, which advocates for social justice by empowering marginalized communities through grassroots organizing, civic engagement, and education initiatives. Journal Managing Editor Zoe Loftus-Farren spoke with Huerta in late March just ahead of the Bioneers conference Berkeley, and ahead of her 94th birthday, which was on April 10. The post In Conversation with Dolores Huerta appeared first on KPFA.

Like many of North America’s top apex predators — wolves, mountain lions, and bears — coyotes have faced a long history of persecution and extermination. Yet, unlike these nearly-disappeared species, coyote populations responded by tripling their range. Found across urban and rural landscapes, this resilient species plays a vital role in maintaining balance and enriching biodiversity in California’s ecosystems. While coyotes have demonstrated a remarkable ability to adapt to our human world, we still have a long way to go to coexist with coyotes. Nearly 500,000 coyotes are killed each year through hunting, wildlife killing contests, and other lethal control methods, despite decades of scientific research that shows killing coyotes doesn’t “work” to manage populations nor minimize conflict. Founder and executive director of Project Coyote Camilla Fox joins Terra Verde host and producer Hannah Wilton to discuss the life cycle of coyotes (as we enter spring pup rearing season!) and sustainable solutions to coexist with our wild neighbors. Drawing on Project Coyote’s longtime work to protect North America’s wild carnivores, Camilla offers her perspective on radicalizing compassion for our native Song Dog and respecting the inherent value of coyotes in California’s ecosystems. The post Coexisting with Coyotes appeared first on KPFA.

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After years of struggle, Indigenous activists and allies rejoiced last week, as the Berkeley City Council announced a global settlement to purchase West Berkeley’s historic Ohlone Shellmound village site and pass title of the land to the Sogorea Te’ Land Trust. The 2.2-acre parcel is the last undeveloped portion of the first human settlement in the Bay Area where, more than 5,000 years ago, ancestors of today’s Ohlone people created a unique way of life at the mouth of Strawberry Creek. It is believed this deal will be the largest and most expensive urban #LandBack victory in California history — and perhaps in U.S. history. On this episode of Terra Verde, Fiona McLeod speaks with Corrina Gould, Chairperson of the Confederated Villages of Lisjan Nation, and co-founder of the Sogorea Te’ Land Trust, about what it took to secure this historic victory, and what’s next for the West Berkeley Shellmound village site.  The post West Berkeley Shellmound Returns to Lisjan Nation in Historic #LandBack Victory appeared first on KPFA.

A boy plays basketball in front of an oil well that is covered with large colorful flowers and is located next to Beverly Hills High School. Wells like this are hidden throughout Los Angeles. Photo by Sarah Craig / Faces of Fracking. In February, California’s Geologic Energy Management Division (CalGEM), the agency that manages oil and gas extraction in the state, formally announced its plan to phase out fracking in the state. The move came after years of campaigning by environmental and social justice groups and three years after CalGEM had essentially stopped issuing new fracking permits. While the move is an environmental justice and climate win, as always, there are some devils hiding in the details. To shine a light on those details, Earth Island Journal editor and Terra Verde-cohost Maureen Nandini Mitra speaks with Kobi Naseck, coalition director of VISION (Voices in Solidarity Against Oil in Neighborhoods). Learn more about the Big Oil-sponsored referendum that will allow drilling to continue near homes and schools. To find out if there’s a neighborhood drilling site of any kind near you, visit vision-ca.org A public hearing on the fracking rulemaking will be held at 5:30 p.m. on March 26. To offer your opinion you can register here or join by telephone: 404-443-6397 (English), ​877-336-1831 (English), Conf Code: 148676 888-455-1820 (Español), Código: 3167375 You can also email your comment to CalGEMRegulations@conservation.ca.gov The post Is California Really Ending Fracking? appeared first on KPFA.

This week’s Terre Verde is preempted by special fund drive programming.     The post Special Fund Drive Programming – Economic Update (part 2) appeared first on KPFA.

This week’s Terre Verde is preempted by special fund drive programming.   The post Special Fund Drive Programming appeared first on KPFA.

This week’s Terre Verde is preempted by special fund drive programming.   The post Special Fund Drive Programming appeared first on KPFA.

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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 disposal. But that doesn’t mean California is always disposing of toxic materials more carefully than its neighbors. That’s because nearly half of the the Golden State’s hazardous waste is disposed of across state lines, much of it is contaminated soil. CalMatters investigative reporter Robert Lewis joins Terra Verde host and Earth Island Journal managing editor Zoe Loftus-Farren to discuss his long-term investigation into California’s hazardous waste rules, how they are impacting communities both inside and outside state, and where we might go from here. The post On the Trail of California’s Hazardous Waste appeared first on KPFA.

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 a major step forward, partnering with the Maidu Summit Consortium to release beaver back into the wild for the first time in nearly 75 years. On this week’s episode, Terra Verde host and producer Hannah Wilton speaks with two of California’s leading beaver advocates: Kate Lundquist from the WATER Institute’s Bring Back the Beaver Campaign and Kevin Swift from Swift Water Design, a process-based restoration company focused on beaver mimicry and coexistence alternatives. Together, they unpack the history and ecosystem benefits of beaver and share how we can partner with these wetland engineers to help heal California’s waterways. The post Bringing Beaver Back to California appeared first on KPFA.

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 struggle to restore this key salmon-bearing river. For the Yurok, Karuk and other tribal communities that live and depend on the Klamath, dam removal also represents a moment of continued healing from colonialism and an opportunity to restore traditional lifeways. On this week’s episode, Terra Verde’s new host and producer Hannah Wilton is joined by Annelia Hillman from the Yurok Tribe, a longtime #UnDamtheKlamath activist and Food Village Coordinator for the Tribe’s Food Sovereignty Program. Annelia shares her first-hand experience watching Iron Gate come down and her vision for long-term healing and food sovereignty in the Klamath watershed. The post Undamming the Klamath appeared first on KPFA.

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 eggs go up due to supply chain disruptions. But the impact of the H5N1 virus has been far worse for wildlife. In recent months it has jumped from bird to many mammals as well and is now killing off species in every continent except Australia and Antarctica. To understand more about this unprecedented panzootic — pandemic among animals — that could potentially spillover into the human world as well, Earth Island Journal editor and Terra Verde-cohost Maureen Nandini Mitra speaks with two avian influenza experts from the University of California, Davis’ School for Veterinary Medicine — Dr Marcela Uhart and Maurice Pitesky. The post Understanding the Ongoing Bird Flu Crisis appeared first on KPFA.

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 them in establishing their own climate-resilient and economically viable regenerative farms. On this episode of Terra Verde, Leonard Diggs, Director of Farmer and Rancher Opportunities at Pie Ranch, joins Terra Verde host Fiona McLeod to talk about the power of these community-based farming practices in an age when agriculture systems are overwhelmingly commodity-based and profit-driven. The post Community-Based Farming in the Age of Commodity-Based Agriculture appeared first on KPFA.

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. These reserves have yet to be commercially developed, but companies are itching to start. In California’s Imperial County, lithium extraction proposals are tied to geothermal plants that produce low-carbon electricity by extracting brine from geothermal wells. Photo by Chuck Holland. The lithium in Imperial County is located in hot brine. If done right, extraction from hot brine might be less damaging than other forms of extraction, namely that from bedrock and salt flats. But the technology involved remains unproven, and the industry comes with real risks to the air, water, and more. Locals are pushing to make sure potential costs are factored into decisions around extraction in the region, which already experiences far more than its fair share of environmental pollution; that community members have a voice in the decision-making process; and that any extraction in the region ultimately benefits the local community. Christian Torres, special projects manager with Comite Civico Del Valle, Inc, and Jared Naimark, California mining organizer with Earthworks, join Terra Verde host and managing editor Zoe Loftus-Farren to discuss the state of lithium extraction in Imperial County, the possible environmental and health impacts, and the fight to give community members a seat at the table. The post California’s Budding Lithium Industry appeared first on KPFA.

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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.

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.

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 pockets of light in an otherwise pitch-black ecosystem. There are also trillions of dollars worth of minerals like copper, cobalt, nickel, and manganese, minerals that are increasingly in demand for green technologies like the lithium-ion batteries used in electric cars. These minerals have landed certain seabed regions on the radar of a nascent deep-sea mining industry. That industry includes The Metals Company, which is currently conducting exploratory work in a part of the Pacific known as the Clarion Clipperton zone and which hopes to begin commercial mining activities in 2025, despite growing concern by scientists and environmental advocates about the threats such mining poses. Given those threats, last week, Greenpeace activists began a protest at a ship the company is using to conduct research, boarding the ship and using kayaks to thwart equipment use. Arlo Hemphill, project lead for Ocean Sanctuaries and Stop Deep Sea Mining with Greenpeace USA, joins Terra Verde host and Earth Island Journal managing editor Zoe Loftus-Farren to discuss the risks of deep-sea mining, the status of international seabed mining regulations, the ongoing protest in the Pacific, and more. The post Deep-Sea Mining Standoff in the Pacific appeared first on KPFA.

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.

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.

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 explores the environmental impacts, public health risks and social justice legacies of an extractive forest product industry model in California. The post Spotlight on Environmental Justice Implications of California Wood Pellet Export Scheme appeared first on KPFA.

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 impact on the other than human world. Not only do they pollute our soils and waters and degrade habitats, they kill hundreds of millions of animals world over. In the United States alone, one million animals are killed by cars every day. Earth Island Journal editor and Terra Verde host Maureen Nandini Mitra discusses the impact of our massive network of roads on wildlife and humans and how we can reconfigure our roadways to be a more benign presence on the land with conservation journalist Ben Goldfarb, author of the new book Crossings: How Road Ecology is Shaping the Future of Our Planet and Beth Pratt, California regional executive director for the National Wildlife Federation and director of The Wildlife Crossing Fund, who has played a pivotal role in realizing the Wallis Annenberg Wildlife Crossing — an unprecedented overpass that would allow wildlife of the Santa Monica mountains to safely cross a dangerous 10-lane stretch of highway 101 in Los Angeles. The post Rethinking Roads: How wildlife crossings can help address the threat roadways pose to animals appeared first on KPFA.

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 analysis of the project. The court ruling was in response to one of two lawsuits filed by environmental groups in 2022, challenging Contra Costa County’s approval of two proposed biofuel refinery conversions — the Phillips 66 one in Rodeo that would produce more than a billion gallons per year of biofuel products, making it one of the largest biofuel refineries in the world, and the Marathon-Tesoro refinery in nearby Martinez that could eventually produce more than 700,000 gallons per year of biofuel products. To understand what lies ahead in the legal battle against these two projects, as well at the local and global implications of California’s push toward biofuels, Earth Island Journal editor and Terra Verde host Maureen Nandini Mitra talks with Shana Lazerow, legal director of Communities for a Better Environment, which, along with the Center for Biological Diversity, is suing the county over the two projects, Ben Clark a student attorney from the Stanford Environmental Law Clinic, which is representing the litigants in court, and Stephanie Safdi, a supervising attorney and lecturer at the law clinic. NOTE: The revised EIR for the Phillips 66 Rodeo Renewed Project is currently open for public comment. The post Challenging the Bay Area Biofuel Refinery Projects appeared first on KPFA.

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.

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 promoting solar geoengineering as a response to climate change. The post Global Climate Politics and the Dangers of Solar Geoengineering appeared first on KPFA.

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.

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.

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.

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 out. Other financial institutions like banks, too, are beginning to increase prices or withdraw services altogether from regions they perceive to be at high environmental risk. This emerging phenomenon in the financial services industry, known as bluelining, is expected to impact marginalized communities the worst and deepen existing economic and racial inequities. To understand this new environmental justice issue and learn about the ways we can address it, Earth Island Journal editor and Terra Verde host Maureen Nandini Mitra talks with two climate finance strategists — Monica Palmeira of the Oakland-based Greenlining Institute, who co-authored a report called Bluelining: Climate Financial Discrimination on the Horizon, and Caroline Nagy, senior policy counsel for Housing, Corporate Power, and Climate Justice at Americans for Financial Reform. The post Bluelining – Tackling an Emerging Climate Justice Issue appeared first on KPFA.

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 rested on several constitutional guarantees, including the plaintiffs’ rights to equal protection, liberty, health and safety, and notably, to a clean and healthy environment. That last one is a relatively unique constitutional protection: Montana is one of only three states in the country with a so-called green amendment, putting the right to a clean and healthful environment on par with other fundamental rights in the state. But a growing movement seeks to embed similar rights in state constitutions across the country. Maya van Rossum, founder of Green Amendments for the Generations, joins Earth Island Journal Managing Editor Zoe Loftus-Farren to discuss the green amendment movement, the Held case, and why self-executing constitutional environmental rights could be an especially powerful tool for climate activists. The post The Case for Constitutional Green Amendments appeared first on KPFA.

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 plants and refineries operating in the San Francisco Bay Delta area. The post Major Carbon Capture and Sequestration Project Unveiled for SF Bay Delta Region appeared first on KPFA.

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 Madeline Ostrander, author of the new book At Home on an Unruly Planet: Finding Refuge on a Changed Earth, join host Fiona McLeod to discuss how community members in Richmond are transforming local food systems through urban farms, holding oil companies and elected officials accountable, and building a blueprint for a just transition away from fossil fuels. The post Growing Food in an Oil Town appeared first on KPFA.

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, 2016 appeared first on KPFA.

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, 2016 appeared first on KPFA.

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, 2016 appeared first on KPFA.

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 2, 2016 appeared first on KPFA.

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, 2016 appeared first on KPFA.

It’s been a week and three days since election night and we already know difficult times lie ahead for the environmental movement. Many of the environmental protections we have fought so hard for over decades might get rolled back by the new administration. The coming years are likely to bring increased federal leasing of lands for fossil fuel exploration, cuts to climate and clean energy research programs, and fewer protections for critical lands and ecosystems. The one big advantage we have in what’s going to be a long and hard fight to protect our land and waters  is local governments. Cities, towns and local municipalities across the US have been already been voting for community, for diversity and for a healthy environment. Show host and Earth Island Journal editor, Maureen Nandini Mitra, talks Berkeley Mayor-elect Jesse Arreguin and Richmond councilmember Gayle McLaughlin about environmental issues they will be tackling in their cities in coming years.   The post Locally, We Are Strong – November 18, 2016 appeared first on KPFA.

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 11, 2016 appeared first on KPFA.

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, 2016 appeared first on KPFA.

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, 2016 appeared first on KPFA.

Over the past 17 years the Brower Youth Awards, given out Earth Island Institute’s New Leaders Initiative, have become the top prize for young environmental leaders in North America. The awards, which honor six youth every year, have recognized some 104 young activists for their leadership and creative efforts in tackling our many pressing environmental problems — everything from fighting extractive industries, pushing for action on climate change, wildlife and lands conservation, and exploring new pathways in green technology. Show host and Earth Island Journal editor, Maureen Nandini Mitra, talks two of this year’s winners, Erica Davis from Knoxville, Tennessee and Karina Gonzales from Flagstaff, Arizona, about the lessons all environmentalists can learn from these young folks on how to build power, and strategy, and ultimately a better living world. The post Learning from Young Environmental Leaders appeared first on KPFA.

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, 2016 appeared first on KPFA.

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, 2016 appeared first on KPFA.

Since late August, Indigenous people and their allies descended on camps along Cannonball River at the northern boundary of the Standing Rock Sioux reservation in North Dakota, to decry the construction of the Dakota Access pipeline. The pipeline, if built, would stretch one thousand one hundred and seventy-two miles (1,172) miles and carry half a million barrels of crude oil per day from the Bakken oilfields — right through lands held sacred by Native groups. While the movement at Standing Rock has reinvigorated the larger climate change movement, it’s also indicative of a emerging Indigenous movement of resistance and restoration of their lands, waters and other natural resources that’s sweeping across North America. Show host and Earth Island Journal editor, Maureen Nandini Mitra, talks about what this growing movement means with award-winning filmmaker, journalist and photographer, Christopher (Toby) McLeod, director of Sacred Land Film Project, who has been working with Indigenous communities for more than 35 years.   The post Standing Rock and the Flowering of Native Resistance appeared first on KPFA.

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 2, 2016 appeared first on KPFA.

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, 2016 appeared first on KPFA.

Wildfires, large and small, have been an essential part of Western landscapes for millennia. And now a growing body of research is showing how most of the traditional fire-control methods we have been employing for nearly a century — like logging dense forests to thin them and removing dead trees so that the fire can’t spread — can actually be counterproductive and ecologically damaging. How so? To explain that and to talk about how we can, and must, learn to coexist better with wildfires, Show host and Earth Island Journal editor, Maureen Nandini Mitra, talks with Chad Hanson, wildfire ecologist and director of John Muir Project – a nonprofit that that uses science and legal means to push for ecological management of federal forestlands and Maya Khosla, a biologist and environmental filmmaker who has been documenting birds in the California Rim Fire Area since 2014. The post Living With Wildfires appeared first on KPFA.

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 12, 2016 appeared first on KPFA.

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, 2016 appeared first on KPFA.

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, 2016 appeared first on KPFA.

A new report by the Pacific Institute and The Environmental Justice Coalition for Water has found that low-income communities in the San Francisco Bay Area are being hit especially hard by the prolonged dry spell in the state. Show host and Earth Island Journal editor, Maureen Nandini Mitra, discusses the reports’ findings and possible solutions that can address the inherent inequities in our state’s drought responses with Heather Cooley — director of the Oakland-based Pacific Institute’s Water Program and lead author of the report, and Max Gomberg — environmental scientist and climate and conservation manager of the California State Water Resources Control Board. The post Bay Area’s Low Income Communities Hard Hit by Drought appeared first on KPFA.

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 8, 2016 appeared first on KPFA.

Last week PG&E announced an agreement with several environmental and labor groups to close down California’s last remaining nuclear power plant in Diablo Canyon by 2025. How did this agreement come about? What does this mean for California’s energy future and for the future of nuclear power in the United States? Show host and Earth Island Journal editor, Maureen Nandini Mitra, discusses these questions with two veteran environmentalists who were involved in the historic two-week civil disobedience action against the plant back in 1981 — Rochelle Becker executive director of the Alliance for Nuclear Responsibility and Tom Athanasiou of EcoEquity. The post End of Nuclear in California? appeared first on KPFA.

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 24, 2016 appeared first on KPFA.

Sápara leader Gloria Ushigua As the pressure on natural resources grows across the world, land, grassroots environment rights defenders are increasingly under fire — on average two people are killed every week defending their land and environment. Leila Salazar-López of Amazon Watch and Jaron Browne of Grassroots Global Justice Alliance, will talk with show host and Earth Island Journal editor, Maureen Nandini Mitra, about the recent, tragic murder of Berta Cáceres, the current threat to the life of indigenous Sápara leader Gloria Ushigua, who is fighting to protect her tribe’s land in Ecuadorian Amazon from oil drilling, and the highly dangerous conditions under which many of our frontline defenders operate on a daily basis. The post In the Line of Fire appeared first on KPFA.

Sápara leader Gloria Ushigua As the pressure on natural resources grows across the world, land, grassroots environment rights defenders are increasingly under fire — on average two people are killed every week defending their land and environment. Leila Salazar-López of Amazon Watch and Jaron Browne of Grassroots Global Justice Alliance, will talk with show host and Earth Island Journal editor, Maureen Nandini Mitra, about the recent, tragic murder of Berta Cáceres, the current threat to the life of indigenous Sápara leader Gloria Ushigua, who is fighting to protect her tribe’s land in Ecuadorian Amazon from oil drilling, and the highly dangerous conditions under which many of our frontline defenders operate on a daily basis. The post Terra Verde — June 17, 2016 In the Line of Fire (upcoming) appeared first on KPFA.

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 10, 2016 appeared first on KPFA.

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 3, 2016 appeared first on KPFA.

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 13, 2016 appeared first on KPFA.

As what may prove to be one of the most historic weeks in American politics draws to a close, host Antonia Juhasz leads a discussion on energy, climate, and election year politics with guests Tyson Slocum, the Energy Program Director at Public Citizen in Washington, DC and Kelly Mitchell, Energy Campaign Director for Greenpeace, from Chicago. This week, Senator Sanders won an upset victory in Indiana, ensuring an energized race with Secretary Clinton straight through the convention, while Donald Trump became the presumptive Republican nominee for President of the United States. There are stark differences between all remaining Presidential candidates on these issues.  But the election is not just about the Presidency, it is also about Congress, state and local contests, all with critical outcomes for energy, climate, and the planet. Our expert guests help steer us through a confusing web of policy and pomp to get to exactly what you need to know during this historic election year.   The post Energy, Climate & Election Year Politics appeared first on KPFA.

Ever wondered if that chemical coating on your nonstick pan was safe for your health? Tune in on Friday, April 29 to learn more about the toxic chemicals present in the nonstick and waterproof products we use everyday. Dr Arlene Blum of the Green Policy Institute and Melanie Benesh, legislative attorney with the Environmental Working Group will talk with show host and Earth Island Journal editor, Maureen Nandini Mitra, about the health impacts of a family of chemicals known as PFCs that are used in these products, and efforts to reform the inadequate laws regulating chemical use in this country. The post A Sticky Issue: The Toxic Truth About Teflon Pans and Other Nonstick and Waterproof Products appeared first on KPFA.

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 22, 2016 appeared first on KPFA.

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 15, 2016 appeared first on KPFA.

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 8, 2016 appeared first on KPFA.

Host Antonia Juhasz is joined by Ariel Ross with Stop Fracking Payne County from Stillwater, Oklahoma, home to one of the larger recent bursts of fossil fuel production spawned by fracking, and the state with the highest number of earthquakes in the lower 48–a result of the fracking process. And Rossmery Zayas of Youth for Environmental Justice with Communities for a Better Environment from South East LA. Rossmery lives in a community in which fossil fuels are refined, burned, shipped, and waste products were – prior to a major victory on the part of local organizers, including her — dumped. Ariel has described these elements as points in the “constellation of problems associated with oil and gas production and fossil fuel dependence.” Two new polls released this week by Gallup find that 73% of Americans now support alternative energy over oil and gas production; including a whopping 89% of Democrats and, for the first time, a majority of Republicans and Republican-leaning Independents. The poll also found that, for the first time, a majority of Americans oppose fracking. Juhasz visited Stillwater last year and followed both Ariel and Rossmery in Paris during the COP21 United Nations climate negotiations in December. She wrote about their experiences and stories, as well as those of two other women from Bahrain and Ethiopia, in her recent feature article in Ms. Magazine just out on newsstands this week entitled, “Women take on Climate Change.” Visit Ariel’s blog, “Living with Induced Seismicity in Oklahoma.” And Rossmery’s blog, “I am here to echo the voice of my community.” The post Women Take On “The Constellation of Problems of Fossil Fuel Dependence.” appeared first on KPFA.

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 25, 2016 appeared first on KPFA.