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.
Terra Verde explores the scientific knowledge and personal experience of electro-smog, as well as the economics and politics around this invisible and often disregarded type of pollution. We focus on the role of the increasingly commonplace so-called “smart meters,” which transmit data about electricity consumption via electromagnetic pulsed microwave radiation. The guests are Karl Maret, … Continued
Corporations are generally required by law to maximize profits, which can leave environmental concerns by the wayside. Terra Verde explores California’s new benefit corporation law, which creates a new class of companies that are required to have a positive impact on society and the planet.
The UN marks October 31st 2011 as the day when the world human population reaches 7 billion. Terra Verde discusses with the UN Population Fund’s Michael Herrmann.
This special Terra Verde broadcast adds a poetic take to environmental discourse. Poets Kirk Lumpkin and Andrew Schelling, featured in Berkeley’s Watershed Environmental Poetry Festival, join host Adam Greenfield to perform some thought-provoking pieces.
In December 2005, Federal agents conducted a nationwide sweep of radical environmentalists involved with the Earth Liberation Front, a group of autonomous cells founded in 1992 and spread worldwide, characterized by its goal to commit “economic sabotage and guerrilla warfare to stop the exploitation and destruction of the environment”. Filmmakers Sam Cullman and Marshall Curry … Continued
We invite you to listen in on a conversation about how the art of animation and the power of story are helping grow the environmental movement by winning hearts and minds. Some activists are finding that cartooning and storytelling provide a particularly persuasive combo of entertainment and education to help popularize their messages. Discussing how … Continued
The Alberta tar sands is the largest industrial project in human history and one that releases three times the C02 emissions as regular oil production. The existing pipeline running from the tar sands could soon be joined by a second pipeline the Keystone XL pipeline, which would run from Alberta all the way to Texas. … Continued
The East Bay is home to a rich mix of advocacy organizations that promote social change by coordinating stakeholders from across society—from the grassroots to governments. Today we discuss community colleges as a particular kind organization that is apt to connect people from disparate sectors of society and in different stages of their careers, bringing … Continued
