Terra Verde

05.25.07 - 1:00pm

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Dana Dillworth, cofounder of Citizens’ League for Environmental Action and Michael Warburton with the Public Trust Alliance in conversation with Terra Verde on Global Warming and toxic landfills in the Bay Area.

05.04.07 - 1:00pm

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A consumer’s guide to carbon offsets The idea of going "carbon neutral" by purchasing offsets is gaining in popularity, but also raises growing concerns: Are all carbon offset companies created equally? And do offsets just allow consumers to buy down their guilt, while discouraging them from reducing their own emissions? Terre Verde discusses these questions … Continued

04.27.07 - 1:00pm

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Natural gas is touted by industry groups as a cheap, safe, environmentally-friendly fossil fuel. Host Karolo Aparicio speaks with Goldman Environmental Prize winner Willie Corduff and Rory Cox from Pacific Environment on the environmental, health and safety costs of natural gas and the activism to halt new natural gas developments.

04.20.07 - 1:00pm

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Are Northern forests a source of global warming or the solution? Forest Ethics has published a new report on protecting the Great Bear rainforest to prevent climate change while a new study by Lawrence Livermore laboratory scientists says that more trees in the north may actually exacerbate global warming. Pratap Chatterjee hosts a discussion between … Continued

04.13.07 - 1:00pm

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Frog in a Coalmine? These days you hear things sometimes about frogs. Frogs with mutations. Frogs that aren’t developing properly. And you have always wondered what these frogs tell us about ourselves. Well, it turns out that some of the leading people on this issue are right here in the neighborhood, so we have lured … Continued

04.06.07 - 1:00pm

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The Biofuels Boom: Sustainable or Suspicious? Biofuels are becoming big business, but environmentalists are increasingly expressing concern about the environmental impacts of cultivating biofuel feedstocks. From the rainforests of Borneo and the Amazon, to the corn belt of the US, Terre Verde explores the environmental and social impacts of the biofuel boom.

03.30.07 - 1:00pm

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Ever heard of a chemical called Bisphenol-A? Manufacturers use it to make hard, clear, plastics. It’s in Nalgene-brand water bottles. It’s in the resin linings of food cans. It’s in the epoxies dentists use to seal teeth. It’s in most plastic baby bottles. And, according to the centers for disease control, it’s in the bodies … Continued

03.23.07 - 1:00pm

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03.16.07 - 1:00pm

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Host Pratap Chatterjee discusses environmental issues in Indian country with Carrie Dann of the Western Shoshone and Jeff Keohane, an Indian Law attorney. Carrie Dann has, for over forty years, been at the forefront of the Western Shoshone Nation’s struggle for land rights and sovereignty. Together with her late sister, Mary, she led the political … Continued

03.09.07 - 1:00pm

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