Episodes
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. 29, 2017
Encore: 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...
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...
June 30, 2017
From the Ashes - A NatGeo Documentary on the Future of Coal in America
From National Geographic Documentary Films, From the Ashes captures Americans in communities across the country as they wrestle with the legacy of the coal industry and what its future should be under the Trump Administration...
June 16, 2017
The Power of a Plant - A Teacher's Odyssey to Grow Healthy Minds and Schools
Globally acclaimed teacher Stephen Ritz shows readers how, in one of the nation’s poorest communities, his students thrive in school and in life by growing, cooking, eating, and sharing the bounty of their green classroom. Hi...
June 2, 2017
Keep Your Cool This Summer With Energy Efficiency
With summer on the way, it’s time to take steps to make homes and businesses are comfortable without wasting energy—or overheating anyone's wallet—as the temperature rises. The Natural Resources Defense Council is working to ...
May 26, 2017
Business Transformation and The Circular Economy
Can profit and sustainability go hand in hand? A new report by The Conference Board proves they can. Released today, Business Transformation and The Circular Economy details how companies are moving from the linear economy to...
April 28, 2017
The Clean Money Revolution - Reinventing Power, Purpose and Capitalism
By 2050, $40 trillion will change hands in North America alone. The largest intergenerational wealth transfer in history is underway and the ramifications will remake the world. The dirty money of business as usual is on the ...
April 14, 2017
The Vegetarian's Guide to Eating Meat
The Vegetarian’s Guide to Eating Meat chronicles a young woman’s journey from vegetarian PETA activist to blood-and-guts-eating omnivore. Marissa Landrigan, journalist, professor and author, discovered that eating ethically w...
March 31, 2017
Sustainability Made Simple
Lauded by Booklist as “an essential guidebook for anyone who wants to make a difference,” Sustainability Made Simple: Small Changes for Big Impact (April 2017, Rowman & Littlefield) walks readers through small, actionable ste...