Episodes
May 11, 2018
Why Glass Recycling is Such a Big Deal
Today we’ll be talking with an innovative CEO that is looking to change the way glass is recycled in the U.S. George Valiotis is the Founder and CEO of Pace Glass Recycling. They will soon have the largest facility for recycl...
April 27, 2018
10 Billion - What's On Your Plate?
10 BILLION - WHAT’S ON YOUR PLATE?, a new film by Valentin Thurn, and Winner of the Social Justice Award for Documentary at the Santa Barbara Film Festival. In 2050, the population of the world is set to hit a staggering 10 b...
April 20, 2018
Simple Acts to Save Our Planet - 500 Ways to Make a Difference
In her new book, Simple Acts to Save Our Planet, Michelle Neff shows us how to be more active in saving our planet every day by performing some “Simple Acts of Kindness”—for the Earth. Treat the environment with kindness with...
April 13, 2018
Science-based Solutions to Drought in California
On March 20, 2018, the U.S. Green Building Council Northern California community held the annual Water Conservation Showcase to discuss how builders, researchers, business leaders, product manufacturers, scientists and govern...
April 6, 2018
Zero Waste - Simple Life Hacks to Drastically Reduce Your Trash
We have a worldwide trash epidemic. The average American disposes of 4.4 pounds of garbage per day, and our landfills hold 254 million tons of waste. What if there were a simple—and fun—way for you to make a difference? What ...
March 30, 2018
Green Schools National Network and Center for Green Schools
A one-of-a-kind gathering of leaders in the Green Schools movement is about to take place in Denver. The Green Schools Conference & Expo is the only national event to bring together all the players involved in making green sc...
March 2, 2018
'Cod Is Dead': Netflix Series Shows Plight of U.S. Fishermen
The challenges facing American fishermen, ranging from declining quotas to disputed science to fleet consolidation, are highlighted in a new Netflix documentary series. Rotten, “travels deep into the heart of the food supply ...
Feb. 23, 2018
New Report Criticizes Validity Of EIA Projections
Post Carbon Institute recently released a report authored by earth scientist J. David Hughes raising critical doubts about the U.S. Energy Information Administration’s (EIA) projections for domestic oil and shale gas producti...
Feb. 9, 2018
National Sword: How China's Crackdown is Affecting U.S. Recycling
Recycling in the U.S. is highly dependent on the ability to export our recycling overseas. In California alone, 62 percent of the states’ recycling is exported to China. However, in July 2017, China announced a policy called ...
Feb. 2, 2018
Is Our Relationship with Our Coasts Sustainable?
On November 13-14, 2017, the Aquarium of the Pacific and the Honda Marine Science Foundation convened and facilitated a forum on “Sato-umi in the Anthropocene.” The forum was designed to explore a number of approaches to “int...
Jan. 19, 2018
Life Without Plastic
By removing plastic from your home, you can reduce your environmental footprint, minimize threats to wildlife, support local businesses and live a healthier, simpler life. In their new book, Life Without Plastic, Jay Sinha an...
Jan. 5, 2018
New Research Finds Common Herbicides Cause Antibiotic Resistance
Herbicides are chemicals used to control weeds. As their primary purpose is to kill plants, their effects on some non-target organisms are not as well studied. New University of Canterbury research confirms that the active in...
Dec. 22, 2017
Duke Energy Acquires REC Solar
Duke Energy, one of the largest energy companies in the country, has acquired full ownership of California-based REC Solar, a provider of renewable energy solutions for commercial customers throughout the U.S. Duke Energy fir...
Dec. 15, 2017
Re-Store It: Green America Launches Campaign On World Soil Day
Green America has launched the Re(store) It campaign to educate the public and U.S. corporations about the benefits of regenerative agriculture, an approach to farming which uses methods that rejuvenate the soil and trap gree...
Dec. 8, 2017
Cleantech San Diego - Global Leadership in the Cleantech Economy
Cleantech San Diego is a nonprofit member organization that positions the greater San Diego region, including Imperial County, as a global leader in the cleantech economy. Cleantech San Diego’s members include more than 100 l...
Nov. 10, 2017
Kiss the Ground - A New Book by Josh Tickell
This new book describes how the food you eat can reverse climate change, heal your body, and ultimately, save our world. Throughout this revolutionary book, Tickell teaches how to become an agent in humanity’s single most imp...
Oct. 27, 2017
The Greenpeace Guide to Greener Electronics
The 2017 Guide to Greener Electronics (the Guide) was recently released by Greenpeace USA, with rankings of seventeen of the world's leading consumer electronics companies on sustainable manufacturing and design of IT product...
Oct. 20, 2017
Drink Up Offers Innovative Solution for Clean Drinking Water
Our guest today is Faber Dewar, the CEO of Drink Up, a California-based company that offers a new option in clean, healthy drinking water. Tune in to learn how Drink Up’s proprietary system not only purifies tap water, but ca...
Sept. 29, 2017
Millennials Less Likely to Recycle, But More Likely to Buy From Companies Making a Positive Impact
Millennials are less likely to recycle than other generations, but more likely to buy from companies making a positive impact on the world, a new survey finds. The reason, according to the new survey and report from The Shelt...
Sept. 22, 2017
This Blessed Earth - A Year in the Life of an American Family Farm
Ted Genoways – award-winning author of The Chain (2014) – follows a family through a year in the life of their farm. Genoways catalogs the day-to-day struggles of the Hammond farm in a pivotal time frame: in 2014-2015, mild w...
Sept. 15, 2017
Four Ways a Plant-Based Diet Helps Save The Planet
Did you know what we put on our plates has a major impact on our planet's health? The kinds of foods we grow, produce, and eat have the biggest environmental impact of any human activity. Tune in today as we talk with Meg Don...
Aug. 18, 2017
Two Paddlers Clean Litter from 1,200 Miles of Minnesota Rivers
This summer, two Granite Gear sponsored Minnesotan adventurers, Paul Twedt and Michael Anderson, aim to remove trash from 1200 miles of Minnesota rivers: the Namekagon/St. Croix, Minnesota and Mississippi. Twedt and Anderson ...
Aug. 11, 2017
Controversy Explodes over Renewable Energy
Sometimes the most heated debates are among people who almost agree. That seems to be the case with the recent Jacobson-Clack controversy, in which two groups of well-intentioned, renewable energy advocates bitterly spar over...
July 21, 2017
Chasing Coral - A Netflix Original on Perils Facing Coral Reefs
Coral reefs are the nursery for all life in the oceans, a remarkable ecosystem that sustains us. Yet with carbon emissions warming the seas, a phenomenon called “coral bleaching”—a sign of mass coral death—has been accelerati...