Terra Verde – July 5, 2019
A weekly public affairs show that delivers news and views about the most important environmental issues in California and globally.
Terra Verde
10:30 AM Pacific Time: Fridays
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.
Why We Need to Stop Using AntiCoagulant Rat Poisons – June 28, 2019
Earth Island Journal editor Maureen Nandini Mitra talks with Allen Fish, Director of the Golden Gate Raptor Observatory and Lisa Owens Viani, Director of Raptors Are the Solution, about how anticoagulant rat poisons are harming our wildlife and what legal efforts, including a state bill, AB 1788, are underway to save our wildlife from rat poisons.
Climate Change in the 2020 Presidential Race
In 2016, climate change wasn’t a hot topic. In fact, candidates dedicated a total of just 5 minutes and 27 seconds to climate change in the last presidential debates. In the build up to 2020, things are playing out a lot differently. Polls have indicated that climate change is among the most important issues to … Continued
Towards a Fur-Free Future
Fur has been a hot button topic for some time now. Most people have probably read about a fur-clad celebrity getting doused in paint, or seen a provocative PETA ad with a photo of a nude actress proclaiming she would rather go naked than wear fur. Still, the industry has managed hang on. Recently, though, … Continued
Utility Scale Wind Project Threatens Iconic Lost Coast
Terra Verde explores the current status and the probable impacts of a utility scale wind energy project that is proposed for the iconic prairie ridges of Northern California’s Lost Coast.
Terra Verde – May 31, 2019
A weekly public affairs show that delivers news and views about the most important environmental issues in California and globally.
Community Radio and Forest Defense
A Judi Bari Day special edition of Terra Verde featuring Global Justice Ecology Project and Karen Pickett of Bay Area Coalition for Headwaters.
Are Trees The New Coal?
The makers of the documentary movie Burned: Are Trees The New Coal? join Terra Verde to describe the environmental and economic dangers of the ongoing destruction of forests for industrial fuels to feed the biomass energy industry.
Banking on Climate Chaos – April 26, 2019
Climate and finance campaigners from the Rainforest Action Network join Terra Verde host Gary Hughes to discuss the 10th edition of the annual fossil fuel finance report card “Banking on Climate Change.”
Speaking to the Heart – Eco-Poetry and Environmentalism
Terra Verde host and Earth Island Journal Editor, Maureen Nandini Mitra, talks two award-winning Bay Area eco-poets and authors, who also happen to be scientists — have Sonoma County Poet Laureate Maya Khosla and Lucille Lang Day founder of Scarlet Tanager Books, about eco-poetry and the power of ideas and words, to change minds. Maya Khosla, … Continued