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A Rude Awakening
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A Rude Awakening is an award-winning climate crisis and environmental justice radio show with interviews and commentary – hosted and produced by Sabrina Jacobs.
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On today’s show, a new report from the Oakland Institute entitled, “Meet the Investors Behind the PHC Oil Palm Plantations in the DRC” exposes the financiers of the perpetual colonization of the DRC. I’ll speak to GRAIN researcher Devlin Kuyek and the Oakland Institutes Policy Director Frederic Mousseau. photo: Juan Fernández Originally aired 2/18/22
Shaye Wolf Climate Science Director, Center for Biological Diversity www.biologicaldiversity.org and Janet Johnson, Sunflower Alliance on Feb 12th event to bring awareness to the use of wood pellets as renewable energy www.sunflower-alliance.org/webinar-ca-biomass-plan-threatens-climate-and-environmental-justice-february-12/ image from the Center for Biological Diversity site extinction map https://extinctionmap.org/index.html
Join me in conversation with Evlondo Cooper, Senior Researcher for the Climate and Energy Program at Media Matters on America on mainstream medias reporting on the climate crisis on A Rude Awakening Read more by Evlondo Cooper here www.mediamatters.org/author/evlondo-cooper
I’ll be in conversation with Michael Furniss on the ongoing storms in California THE ECONEWS REPORT: Climate Change Supercharging Winter Storms https://lostcoastoutpost.com/2023/jan/14/econews-report-climate-change-supercharging-winter/ Plus Sejal Choksi-Chugh, Executive Director and SF Baykeeper on pollutants released by Bay Area oil refineries https://www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/article/new-study-catalogs-water-pollutants-released-by-17746996.php
On today’s show Tom Wheeler, Executive Director of EPIC (Environmental Protection Information Center) with an update on the Eagle Nest Tree Read more https://www.wildcalifornia.org/post/eagle-nest-tree-saved-long-term-solutions-being-discussed Plus Ryan Schleeter, Communications Director of The Climate Center Read more https://theclimatecenter.org/clean-energy/6-billion-cut-from-climate-programs-in-california-state-budget-the-climate-center-response/
On today’s show, I’ll speak to Maurice Carney executive director of Friends of the Congo on the M23 conflict in the Congo Basin and it’s affect on the environment We’ll switch gears and roll a clip from the Project Drawdown’s Neighborhood Atlanta and the good folks that are creating solutions to the climate crisis
Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy Senior Analyst Timothy A. Wise is back with an update on the ban of GM corn in Mexico Distorting Markets in the Name of Free Trade Overestimating the costs of Mexico’s proposed phaseout of GM corn imports www.iatp.org/distorting-markets-name-free-trade Read more from Timothy A. Wise www.timothyawise.com *due to technical issues that … Continued