Josie Iselin, artist and author of the new book, The Curious World of Seaweed, and Tristin McHugh of the international marine conservation group Reef Check, talk with Terra Verde host and Earth Island Journal editor Maureen Nandini Mitra about how scientists, recreational divers, and artists are coming together to save northern California’s ravaged kelp forests.
Terra Verde
2:00 PM Pacific Time: Fridays
A weekly public affairs show that 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.
Terra Verde – May 8, 2020
A weekly public affairs show that delivers news and views about the most important environmental issues in California and globally.
May Day 2020 in Wallmapu – Updates and Insights from Chile’s Grassroots
An interview with a founding member of a Temuco-based grassroots environmental and community rights organization on the current situation for social movements in Chile.
How Covid-19 Is Transforming Our Food System
Within just a few short months, the Covid-19 pandemic has transformed just about every facet of our society. That includes our food system, where the multiple impacts of the crisis are impossible to ignore. It’s changed how we shop for our groceries, how we think about the food we eat, and how we think about … Continued
Staff members of Greenaction for Health and Environmental Justice join Terra Verde to share the new and creative ways they are advancing advocacy campaigns in a time of heightened concern about public health.
Terra Verde – April 10, 2020
A weekly public affairs show that delivers news and views about the most important environmental issues in California and globally.
Mendocino Community Organizes to Protect Public Health from Wood Pellet Plant
An interview with the members of a place based affinity group thrust into a campaign to protect rural and indigenous communities from the pollution of a newly installed wood pellet fuel plant.
Terra Verde – March 27, 2020
A weekly public affairs show that delivers news and views about the most important environmental issues in California and globally.
Utility Justice: From a Rigged System to Democratized Energy
An interview with organizers from the North Bay Organizing Project and the Reclaim Our Power Utility Justice Campaign discussing grassroots campaign efforts to transform utility and emergency management politics in the state.
Saving California’s Iconic Abalone
California’s seven abalone species have all experienced population declines in recent decades due to a variety of stressors, including overharvesting, climate change, and more. Two species are now listed as federally endangered, and three more are species of concern. The mollusks are just barely hanging on. But ecologists and conservationists are not giving up. Up … Continued