Latest River Earth Sciences Podcast Episodes
A Conversation With Felicia Marcus
What About Water? with Jay Famiglietti - January 26, 2021 22:06 - 24 minutes ★★★★★ - 19 ratingsIn this episode, Jay talks with an old friend about hope: hope for cleaner and safer water in America. Felicia Marcus is an attorney/consultant who has served in government, the non-profit world, and the private sector. She's been a board member on numerous national and international bodies, incl...
Plastics Are Forever
What About Water? with Jay Famiglietti - January 11, 2021 22:05 - 23 minutes ★★★★★ - 19 ratingsDr. Chelsea Rochman, an associate professor at the University of Toronto, says plastic, everyone's favourite cheap and easy resource, comes with a high price. Microscopic pieces of plastic flake off every time we wield a disposable bag, or wash a polyester sweater, or any number of things. They p...
Slippery Slopes: Canadian Recreation Meets Climate Change
What About Water? with Jay Famiglietti - December 14, 2020 16:21 - 31 minutes ★★★★★ - 19 ratingsThis week climatologist Micah Hewer and economist Pat Lloyd-Smith tell Jay about the good, the bad, and the ugly effects of global warming on Canada's outdoor recreation sector. On the bad side of the ledger: shorter downhill skiing and skating seasons and slime-covered lakes in the summer. On th...
Brother Ocean, Sister Lake: Why Water Deserves Respect and Human Rights
What About Water? with Jay Famiglietti - December 01, 2020 16:47 - 25 minutes ★★★★★ - 19 ratingsDr. Kelsey Leonard, an associate professor at the University of Waterloo and member of the Shinnecock Nation, discusses how Indigenous views on the personhood of water can save that water. More and more bodies of water around the world are being granted legal personhood status, which gives them t...
Season 2 of Let's Talk About Water
What About Water? with Jay Famiglietti - November 20, 2020 00:16 - 1 minute ★★★★★ - 19 ratingsThis season, host Jay Famiglietti sits down with some of the world's leading experts to once again talk about water and learns why some marginalized communities are denied safe water access, how flooding and droughts may end up forcing billions of climate refugees to flee their homes, which regu...
Season 2 Trailer
What About Water? with Jay Famiglietti - November 20, 2020 00:16 - 1 minute ★★★★★ - 19 ratingsThis season, host Jay Famiglietti sits down with some of the world's leading experts to once again talk about water and learns why some marginalized communities are denied safe water access, how flooding and droughts may end up forcing billions of climate refugees to flee their homes, which regu...
Bide(n) time for America’s Water Resources with Peter Gleick
What About Water? with Jay Famiglietti - November 18, 2020 09:34 - 27 minutes ★★★★★ - 19 ratingsDr. Peter Gleick, co-founder and president emeritus of the Pacific Institute, believes Joe Biden could be the man to save American water policy, which has been foundering under Donald Trump. In his co-authored policy brief, Water Recommendations to the Next President, Gleick and his colleagues la...
Groundwater: 'Go Deep or Go Dry’ is Unsustainable
What About Water? with Jay Famiglietti - November 03, 2020 20:23 - 28 minutes ★★★★★ - 19 ratingsDebra Perrone, Assistant Professor UC Santa Barbara, discusses the dwindling groundwater supply affecting 12 million US wells caused by global warming and over-consumption. The world relies on groundwater, which is getting harder and harder to find. With groundwater close to the surface vanishin...
The Great Climate Migration with Abrahm Lustgarten
What About Water? with Jay Famiglietti - October 21, 2020 09:37 - 27 minutes ★★★★★ - 19 ratingsAbrahm Lustgarten, a Pulitzer Prize-nominated environmental reporter, talks to us about climate migration, one of climate change's biggest looming threats. Rising temperatures, rising sea levels, and ever-increasing natural disasters are forcing people to abandon their homes and their ways of lif...
How Environmental Racism Pollutes Marginalized Communities
What About Water? with Jay Famiglietti - October 07, 2020 09:30 - 27 minutes ★★★★★ - 19 ratingsDr. Ingrid Waldron is a sociology professor at Dalhousie University who argues that African Nova Scotian and Indigenous communities are victims of environmental racism, forced to drink tainted water, breathe polluted air and live next to waste dumps. Now these concerns are reaching national and e...
California Drying, California Burning
What About Water? with Jay Famiglietti - September 22, 2020 15:06 - 29 minutes ★★★★★ - 19 ratingsIn this episode of "Let's Talk About Water," California is burning. And Oregon. And Washington State. And not only are mega wildfires in the U.S. threatening – and sometimes taking -- lives and property there, they're pumping smoke and fallout high into the atmosphere that has spread to Canada an...
COVID-19 and Our Water Supply
What About Water? with Jay Famiglietti - September 15, 2020 15:31 - 32 minutes ★★★★★ - 19 ratingsWhat is the impact of COVID-19 on our water supply? As we learn on the Season 2 debut of "Let's Talk About Water" scientists' initial fears the virus could be a waterborne as well as airborne have lessened. But as it has in just about every other aspect of our lives, COVID has affected how we un...
Food preservation - Digging deeper into food security
54 degrees North - July 06, 2020 22:00 - 9 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 ratingIn this episode of 54 degrees North, we hear tips and preferences for putting food away that avoids spoilage and extends local food security through the year. Interviews and insights from Shannon McPhail, Laurie Gallant, Gwininit (Yvonne Lattie), Jennifer Zyp, and Emily Bulmer. Music than...
Food Security in the Northwest - Digging deeper into barriers and solutions
54 degrees North - July 03, 2020 23:00 - 41 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 ratingIn this episode of 54 degrees North, we hear directly from food producers in the wider Bulkley Valley region about their farms and businesses, and their suggestions for overcoming barriers to be a more food secure region. Interviews and insights from Jacob Beaton, Laurie Gallant, Mark Fisher, ...
Gardening in the North - Digging deeper into food security
54 degrees North - June 30, 2020 05:00 - 30 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 ratingIn this episode of 54 degrees North, we hear tips and tricks from gardeners and harvesters in the Bulkley Valley region. Interviews with Gwininit (Yvonne Lattie), Jennifer Zyp, Shannon McPhail, Emily Bulmer, Crystal Nelligan, Mark Fisher, Felix and Lucia Gastiazoro. Music thanks to the regi...
Origin Stories - Digging deeper into how food producers got started
54 degrees North - June 30, 2020 05:00 - 23 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 ratingIn this episode of 54 degrees North, we hear origin stories of how food producers from the Bulkley Valley region got started - their motivations behind where and what they grow. Interviews with Laurie Gallant, Jacob Beaton, Crystal Nelligan and Mark Fisher. Music thanks to the regionally ta...
Training and Gardening Programs: Digging deeper into food security
54 degrees North - June 30, 2020 05:00 - 29 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 ratingIn this episode of 54 degrees North, we hear about training and gardening programs in the wider Bulkley Valley region that help make growing food more accessible. Interviews with Helene Fleury, Gwininit (Yvonne Lattie), Jennifer Zyp, Jacob Beaton, Dmitri Cody, Scott McMillan, and Lucia Gastiaz...
Want to handle floods? Leave it to the Dutch.
What About Water? with Jay Famiglietti - March 15, 2020 16:00 - 32 minutes ★★★★★ - 19 ratingsHost Jay Famiglietti speaks with globe-trotting water expert Henk Ovink about the Dutch approach to water, particularly in comparison to North America. They explore the difference between how humans react to disaster versus how they react to climate change. Both are fraught with danger. Fina...
From building rockets to top U.S. water diplomat
What About Water? with Jay Famiglietti - March 01, 2020 17:00 - 31 minutes ★★★★★ - 19 ratingsPresident Barack Obama. Hillary Clinton. Aaron Salzberg. One of these 3 people regularly wears a pretty sick ponytail and has sat down to talk water policy with the other 2. That person is our guest this week: Aaron Salzberg is Director of the Water Institute at the University of North Carol...
Pained communities, dry wells in Arizona: Ian James Part 2
What About Water? with Jay Famiglietti - February 16, 2020 17:00 - 23 minutes ★★★★★ - 19 ratingsA brief trip down memory lane for host Jay Famiglietti on a jaw-dropping moment in 2015 with the CEO of Nestle Waters North America. Then, back into the thick of it with guest Ian James, a reporter with the Arizona Republic newspaper in Phoenix. Jay and Ian dig into James' 6-part investigati...
Big Bottled Water Battle: Ian James Part 1
What About Water? with Jay Famiglietti - February 02, 2020 17:00 - 22 minutes ★★★★★ - 19 ratingsGuest Ian James is a reporter with the Arizona Republic newspaper in Phoenix. He and host Jay Famiglietti reflect on their roles in the big bottled water battle that gripped California in 2015 as Nestle Waters North America refused to stop drawing water from a national forest during a drough...
Zoning in on water shortages in California
What About Water? with Jay Famiglietti - January 19, 2020 17:00 - 30 minutes ★★★★★ - 19 ratingsBig topic: what's the state of drought in California these days? Plus host Jay Famiglietti talks about that one time he almost got fired from NASA, guest Newsha Ajami and Jay ponder what made people start using less water in California.
Big bad Texas storms and more
What About Water? with Jay Famiglietti - January 05, 2020 17:00 - 20 minutes ★★★★★ - 19 ratingsRecorded at the American Geophysical Union's annual fall meeting in San Francisco. Host Jay Famiglietti sits down with old friend Bridget Scanlon, head of the Sustainable Water Resources Program at the University of Texas in Austin. They discuss big bad Texas storms, why flood waters are not...
Water, peace and the Middle East: Part 2
What About Water? with Jay Famiglietti - December 22, 2019 17:00 - 28 minutes ★★★★★ - 19 ratingsPart 2 of our interview in Tel Aviv, Israel where host Jay Famiglietti sits down with Gidon Bromberg, co-founder and Israeli Director of EcoPeace Middle East. Gidon talks about his leap from attorney to non-profit founder. Jay and Gidon discuss how the holy site of the Jordan River has been ...
Water, peace and the Middle East: Part 1
What About Water? with Jay Famiglietti - December 15, 2019 17:00 - 26 minutes ★★★★★ - 19 ratingsThis episode, host Jay Famiglietti sits down with Gidon Bromberg, co-founder and Israeli Director of EcoPeace Middle East. Gidon comes from the most water-scarce region in the planet, where basic facts and science are so heavily politicized that it's hard to agree on them. He lays out the la...
Calling out scientists for not helping water-troubled communities
What About Water? with Jay Famiglietti - November 23, 2019 20:49 - 26 minutes ★★★★★ - 19 ratingsOur guests this week haven't always seen eye to eye when looking at a river delta that acts as a breeding ground for massive numbers of wildlife and waterfowl. Gary Carriere lives in a community that relies on the Saskatchewan River Delta for its culture and livelihood. Graham Strickert, Assis...
5. Uprooted: Climate impacts to forests and their role in mitigation
54 degrees North - November 20, 2019 00:00 - 35 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 ratingIn this episode of 54 degrees North, we hear how forests around the Bulkley Valley have been impacted by pathogens and droughts (bugs and wildfires are in another episode), and stories on how these changes are affecting the people and ecology. We also hear how trees suck, in a good way. Interv...
6. Act and Adapt: Ideas and initiatives during the climate crisis
54 degrees North - November 20, 2019 00:00 - 33 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 ratingIn this episode of 54 degrees North, we hear politics and policies, and initiatives and ideas for taking action and adapting to the climate crisis in the Bulkley Valley. Interviews with Chief Namoks (John Ridsdale), Gladys Atrill, Taylor Bachrach, Tina Portman, Kevin Pegg, Nathan Cullen, and S...
3. Up in Smoke: Wildfires and extreme weather
54 degrees North - November 20, 2019 00:00 - 16 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 ratingIt has always been predicted that climate change would bring more extreme and less predictable weather events. In this episode of 54 degrees North, we hear the science and stories behind wildfires and other extreme weather events in the Bulkley Valley. These impact not only our ecology, but our ...
5. Uprooted: Climate impacts to forests and their role in mitigation
54 degrees North - November 20, 2019 00:00 - 35 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 ratingIn this episode of 54 degrees North, we hear how forests around the Bulkley Valley have been impacted by pathogens and droughts (bugs and wildfires are in another episode), and stories on how these changes are affecting the people and ecology. We also hear how trees suck, in a good way. Interv...
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