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Terra Verde delivers news and views about the most critical environmental issues across California and globally. From agriculture and wildlife to energy and climate change, industrial pollution to design solutions, Terra Verde brings you stories of struggle and triumph that will determine the future of our planet.
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, … Continued
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.
A weekly public affairs show that delivers news and views about the most important environmental issues in California and globally.
A weekly public affairs show that delivers news and views about the most important environmental issues in California and globally.
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 … Continued
A weekly public affairs show that delivers news and views about the most important environmental issues in California and globally.
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, we are … Continued
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 … Continued
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 … Continued
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 … Continued
