Terra Verde – September 25, 2015
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.
Host Michelle Chan discusses the widespread use of drugs and antibiotics in our industrial system of animal agriculture. Featured guests include Steve Roach of Food and Animal Concerns Trust and Cristina Stella of the Center for Food Safety.
There is a new global goldrush afoot, and this time it’s in land. Host Michelle Chan explores the environmental dimensions of the landgrab crisis with Natalie Bridgeman Fields of Accountability Counsel and Ryan Schiff of International Accountability Project. (Image: Rosa Luxemburg Stiftung)
Terra Verde – Masters of Storms
What’s the forecast? Increasingly, scientists, scholars, and technocrats, as well as journalists, are openly speculating about ideas known by ambitious-sounding terms, like solar radiation management, stratospheric aerosol geoengineering, and albedo modification. Could such unorthodox strategies to counteract global warming be underway already, despite official claims suggesting otherwise? Today Terra Verde tackles controversies around climate intervention and weather manipulation. … Continued
Terra Verde – August 21, 2015
A weekly public affairs show that delivers news and views about the most important environmental issues in California and globally.
Terra Verde – August 14, 2015
A weekly public affairs show that delivers news and views about the most important environmental issues in California and globally.
Big philanthropy is all about supporting big organizations. But a handful of environmental funders is having an outsized impact by partnering with small groups. Host Adrienne Fitch Frankel speaks with Yeshica Weerasekara of IDEX and Tim Little of the Rose Foundation for Communities and the Environment about the importance of resourcing the grassroots.
Terra Verde – July 31, 2015
A weekly public affairs show that delivers news and views about the most important environmental issues in California and globally.
Terra Verde – July 24, 2015
A weekly public affairs show that delivers news and views about the most important environmental issues in California and globally.
The participation of non-professionals in scientific research is proving increasingly valuable to environmental studies, management, and policymaking, as well as to the “citizen scientists” themselves. Host Laura Garzon @EarthMediaArts journeys into new frontiers of citizen science with three guests: Greg Newman of the Citizen Science Association, CitSci.org @CitSci, and Colorado State University (Natural Resource Ecology Laboratory); Scott … Continued