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.
A new coalition is taking on pollution from California’s booming ports–by connecting the labor rights of truckers to the environmental rights of port communities. Brian Edwards-Tiekert interviews Doug Bloch of the Coalition for Clean and Safe Ports and Ali Rafiat, a Port of Oakland driver. California’s Ports are magnets for diesel pollution from ships, trains, … Continued
James Alamillo from Heal the Bay talks about his group’s report card on California beaches and lets us know which are safe and which are contaminated and Kristan Markey from the Environmental Working Group who will share his group’s recent findings on which sunscreens are safe and effective and which ones come up short.
Last fall, California committed to cutting its greenhouse gas emissions 80% by 2050 – Now, it just has to figure out how. Governor Schwarzenegger is backing a market-based approach that may divide the environmental community. Brian Edwards-Tiekert moderates a discussion with Dale Bryck, an attorney for the Natural Resources Defense Council who sits on the … Continued
Green Your Money! Join Terra Verde to learn the "nuts and bolts" of how to make your finances green, whether you just have a checking account or you have sizable financial investments.
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.
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
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.
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
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
