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.
Today we discuss ways we can empower ourselves as water activists in the face of drought and fracking, including by attending Bless the Lake in Oakland on World Water Day (Sunday, March 22 blessthelake.com). Host Laura Garzon Chica (@EarthMediaArts) talks with spiritual guide and Bless the Lake organizer Amelía Aeon Karris (knowtheself.com), David Nicol of the Gaiafield Project (gaiafield.net), and … Continued
We go to occupied Baghdad where our special correspondent met with Iraqi government officials and witnessed more US attacks on holy sites; a look at Donald Rumsfeld the impeachable war criminal; the education hunger strikers in Oakland continue their battle against the Governator; a conversation with Gore Vidal and Laura Flanders on the eve of … Continued
The first part in a two-part series, host Adrienne Fitch Frankel explores how to deepen your green by starting your own environmental initiative. Featured guests include Carrie Carlisle of Acta Non Verba, Lynnea Schuk of Don Edwards SF National Wildlife Refuge Junior Rangers, Lisa Owens-Viani of Raptors are the Solution. (Image: International Dialogue for Environmental … Continued
A look at the play The Doll Hospital which takes on the war in Iraq, the oppression of women, and migration, with award-winning Australian playwright Christine Evans and actors from the Day Laborers’ Theater.
Given the Bakken and Tar Sands oil booms, the transportation of crude by rail in the US has spiked by 4000% since 2008. Much of the oil being moved by trains across the States is destined for overseas markets, via our local refineries. So, what’s in it for us? Today Laura Garzon Chica (@EarthMediaArts) discusses … Continued
A conversation about nannies, maids and other migrant women workers in the global economy, with Arlie Hochschild, Joy Zarembka and Michele Gamburd.
A live public affairs program focusing on investigating and analyzing environmental issues from a global perspective. Our hope is both to bring key international perspectives to listeners, as well as make the issues relevant to northern California listeners.
On this special pledge drive edition of Terra Verde, host Michelle Chan explores the legacy of ChevronTexaco’s oil pollution in the Ecuadoran Amazon. Highlights include clips from the documentary Oil and Water and interviews with Paul Paz y Mino of Amazon Watch, and Hugo Lucitante, a young indigenous leader featured in the film. (Image: still from documentary Oil … Continued
Take a tour down the grocery store aisle with Terra Verde, and find out what cleaning products to avoid, what buy and what you can make at home. Host Michelle Chan speaks with Samara Geller of the Environmental Working Group and Janet Nudelman of the Breast Cancer Fund.
