For A Green Future
280 episodes - English - Latest episode: 2 days ago - ★★★★ - 5 ratingsIntelligent, Compelling Talk on a wide range of environmental and ecological issues. From global warming to nuclear power, we take on environmental issues by cutting through all the disinformation to get at the truth. Our focus is on how to get to the pollution-free, nuclear-free, carbon-free future, and how much better life will be for all of us once we get there.
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Episode 126: For A Green Future "Chinese Nuke Plant Leak!" 062021 Episode 128
June 23, 2021 00:00 - 56 minutes - 38.5 MBJoe DeMare interviews Paul Gunter of Beyond Nuclear about a nuclear power plant in China which is leaking radioactive gasses. Joe talks about fathers and solstice. Rebecca Wood tells us about cotton. Eco news about Larry Householder, Danish nuclear barges, and more!
Episode 125: For A Green Future "The Microscopic Underwater Universe!" 061321 Episode 127
June 15, 2021 00:00 - 56 minutes - 38.5 MBJoe DeMare spends a pleasant morning with some solitary bees, then interviews Dr. George Bullerjahn about the microscopic worlds in the waters of Lake Erie. Rebecca Wood introduces us to the copepods, the animal that makes up more biomass than any other on earth! Ecological news, and more!
Episode 124: For A Green Future "Biden's Radioactive Budget!" 060621 Episode 126
June 09, 2021 00:00 - 52 minutes - 36 MBJoe DeMare interviews Diane D'Arrigo of NIRS about Biden's disappointing obsession with nuclear energy. He plans to throw hundreds of billions of dollars at an outdated technology. Rebecca Wood takes us on a tour of the wilds of Macedonia. Ecological News about Fairy Creek, California's evaporating reservoirs, and more!
Episode 123: For A Green Future "The Last Stand!" 053021 Episode 125
June 03, 2021 00:00 - 53 minutes - 37.1 MBJoe DeMare interviews Josh Wright about the ongoing blockade on Victoria Island in British Columbia. People from all walks of life are putting their lives on the line to protect the last stands of old growth forest on the Island. Rebecca Wood talks about Asian and Pacific Islander environmentalists. Then it's the return of the airship, California's plan to outlaw rooftop solar, and more!
Episode 122: For A Green Future "Stop SB52 Save Wind and Solar!" 052321 Episode 124
May 25, 2021 00:00 - 56 minutes - 38.5 MBJoe DeMare interviews Rachel Belz of Ohio Citizen Action about SB52, the proposal to burden future wind and solar projects with impossible to win referenda. Next he interviews Norbert Suchanek, founder of the International Uranium Film Festival. Then, with Rebecca Wood, it's around the world with ecological news plus one fantasy interview!
Episode 121: For A Green Future Bonus Material
May 22, 2021 00:00 - 4 minutes - 4.2 MBJoe DeMare interviews Thomas Taylor, Resident Inspector of the Fermi 2 nuclear power plant for the NRC. In this dramatic presentation, Joe tries to find out why Fermi is currently shut down and what the consequences are. (Identified voices are impersonations)
Episode 120: For A Green Future "How Does Your Garden Grow?" 051621 Episode 123
May 17, 2021 00:00 - 59 minutes - 41.1 MBJoe DeMare talks with Master Gardener Karen Wood about gardening in the time of global warming. Rebecca Wood answers the urgent question, "What's the difference between woodchucks and groundhogs?" Ecological News including Chernobyl getting hot again, and more!
Episode 119: For A Green Future "Happy Mothers' Day!" Episode 122
May 12, 2021 00:00 - 55 minutes - 38.2 MBJoe DeMare welcomes new listeners at the program's new time (Sunday 10AM) and new channel (100.7 FM)! He talks about his new puppy and the City of Bowling Green's efforts to quash rooftop solar. Rebecca Wood takes us on a tour of Mother Goddesses through the whole of human history. Discussion of China's carbon footprint, and More!
Episode 118: For A Green Future "Save Idaho's Wolves!" 050221 Episode 121
May 05, 2021 00:00 - 55 minutes - 37.9 MBJoe DeMare welcomes listeners to our new channel 100.7 FM and talks about his adventures on the Slippery Elm Trail. Then he interviews Andrea Zaccardi about the Idaho legislature's plan to wipe out the wolves. Rebecca Wood talks us about the Oak Openings Bioregion, ecological news, and more!
Episode 117: For A Green Future "Living With Chernobyl" 042521 Episode 120
April 27, 2021 00:00 - 55 minutes - 38.2 MBJoseph DeMare interviews Linda Gunter about Beyond Nuclear's commemoration of the 35th anniversary of the Chernobyl nuclear disaster. She describes what it's like for people living with the stigma of increased birth defects and congenital disease. Rebecca Wood talks about Parkinson's. Some good news from California where wind, water and sun are powering more and more of the State. Ecological news and more!
Episode 116: For A Green Future "Happy Earth Day!" 041822 Episode 119 Episode
April 20, 2021 00:00 - 55 minutes - 38.2 MBJoe DeMare talks about how some parts of the Green Future require going back to the past. Rebecca Wood tells us about why pollen is always trying to get up your nose. Ecological news about bald eagles and methane levels. Joe hosts the first "For A Green Future Earth Day Telethon" and more!
Episode 116: For A Green Future "Happy Earth Day!" 041822 Episode 119
April 20, 2021 00:00 - 55 minutes - 38.2 MBJoe DeMare talks about how some parts of the Green Future require going back to the past. Rebecca Wood tells us about why pollen is always trying to get up your nose. Ecological news about bald eagles and methane levels. Joe hosts the first "For A Green Future Earth Day Telethon" and more!
Episode 115: For A Green Future "Stand With Standing Rock!" 041121 Episode 118
April 14, 2021 00:00 - 2 hours - 38.2 MBMarking the fifth anniversary of the start of the Standing Rock encampment, Joe DeMare interviews Joseph White Eyes and Maya Runnels, two indigenous Water Keepers who were part of the protest that captured the world's imagination. Rebecca Wood and her co-co-host Koga put in their comments. Joe talks about record CO2 levels, and more!
Episode 114: For A Green Future "Easter Special!" 040421 Episode 117
April 05, 2021 00:00 - 57 minutes - 39.8 MBJoe DeMare interviews Dr. Timothy Mousseau, one of the foremost experts on the effect of ionizing radiation on ecosystems in the world. He talks about his 20+ years of experience researching the effects of radiation in places like Fukushima and Chernobyl, and focuses on his recent study that proves increasing radiation levels decreases mammal populations. Rebecca Wood talks about what those Easter chicks and bunnies really require. Joe talks about another twist in the HB6 tale and ot...
Episode 113: For A Green Future "Keep Wayne Wild!" 032821 Episode 116
March 30, 2021 00:00 - 56 minutes - 39 MBJoseph DeMare talks about "regulatory capture" of the Bowling Green municipal utilities board. Then he interviews Valarie Middleton about a recent court victory protecting parts of the Wayne National Forest. Rebecca Wood reports on the NBA and environmental issues. Ecological News including partial HB6 repeal, record high temperatures in Russia, and more!
Episode 112: For A Green Future "Record Breaking Walleye!" 032121 Episode 115
March 23, 2021 16:16 - 56 minutes - 77.9 MBODNR biologist Eric Weimer is Joe DeMare's guest as they discuss Walleye in Lake Erie. Rebecca Wood lists the Top 5 Women Environmentalists. SB 52 presents fresh threats to wind and solar in Ohio. Dramatic news about HB6 and more!!
Episode 111: For A Green Future "35 Years Fighting Nukes!!" 031421 Episode 114
March 18, 2021 00:00 - 59 minutes - 40.9 MBDiane D'Arrigo is our guest, looking back over a 35 year history of fighting the nuclear industry. Joe DeMare discusses the evils of daylight savings time, sea star wasting disease, and more! Rebecca Wood talks about the Irish potato famine on this special "podcast version" of For A Green Future!
Episode 110: For A Green Future "Fukushima Disaster!" 030721 Episode 113
March 10, 2021 00:00 - 56 minutes - 38.8 MBJoe walks us through the timeline of the Fukushima nuclear disaster to mark the 10th year of that 1,000,000 year catastrophe. Rebecca Wood tells us about Irish environmentalist and human rights campaigner, Sister Majella McCarron who helped Ken Saro-Wiwa as he fought to save the Niger Delta from Royal Dutch Shell, and more!
Episode 109: For A Green Future "Solar Supports You!" 022821 Episode 112
March 02, 2021 00:00 - 56 minutes - 38.7 MBJoe DeMare tells the story of Charles Young, born a slave but becoming the first black superintendent of our national parks. Then he interviews Joshua Pearce about how rooftop solar benefits the whole community. Rebecca Wood tells us about Theodore Roosevelt's park and memorial, environmental news, and more!
Episode 108: For A Green Future "Subpolar Gyre!" 022121 Episode 111
February 23, 2021 00:00 - 56 minutes - 38.9 MBJoe DeMare talks about the joys of cross country skiing, his battle with the city of Bowling Green over their plan to fine solar panels out of existence, how the Texas winter weather is connected to a giant whirlpool off the coast of Greenland, and more! Rebecca Wood and Koga tell us about the song "Galveston," Bad news for wolves in Wisconson and more!
Episode 107: For A Green Future "Valentine Trains!" 021421 Episode 110
February 16, 2021 22:54 - 56 minutes - 77.1 MBTim Porter is our guest as Joe DeMare talks with him about trains, and the hopes for improvements in train travel in the Biden administration. Rebecca Wood talks about the wonders of sexual reproduction in nature. Eco-news about Europe's accelerating switch to renewables, how skinks protect people from lyme disease, and more!
Episode 106: For A Green Future "George Washington Carver!" 020721 Episode 109
February 09, 2021 00:00 - 56 minutes - 38.7 MBGeorge Washington Carver is our guest, despite having died in 1943 as Joe DeMare talks about the story of this famous scientist in honor of Black History Month. Rebecca Wood introduces us to the blind swamp eel. In Eco-news: more nuclear industry corruption in Illinois and Ohio; Trump gets caught trying to sterilize the Chicago River and fined, and more!
Episode 105: For A Green Future "Roadmap for 100% Renewables!" 013121 Episode 108
February 03, 2021 00:00 - 56 minutes - 78.1 MBJoe DeMare talks about Bowling Green's outlawing of solar panels, then interviews Dr. Mark Jacobson about his 50 state roadmap for supplying 100% of our energy needs with wind, solar, geothermal, and existing hydro. Rebecca Wood tells us about funeral homes offering human composting, eco-news and much more! CORRECTION: In this episode, Joe says twice that BG's solar panel fine is "$4 per kilowatt hour." The fine is actually $4 per installed kilowatt. So, Joe's 6 kW system would be fi...
Episode 105: For A Green Future "100 Year Old Nukes!?!" 012421 Episode 107
January 29, 2021 19:28 - 56 minutes - 77.2 MBJoseph DeMare interviews Kevin Kamps about the NRC's insane plan to extend nuclear plant licenses out to a full century. Rebecca Wood finally addresses the difference between Redwoods and Sequoia. Eco news about Bill Gates and Biden's executive orders, and more!
Episode 104: For A Green Future "Solar, NOT Tar Sands!" 011721 Episode 106
January 20, 2021 00:00 - 54 minutes - 37.6 MBNot one but TWO guests as Joe DeMare interviews John Witte about utility scale solar projects in Indiana and Illinois, then interviews a representative of the Giniw Collective about the ongoing confrontation between Enbridge and protesters over the Line 3 project.
Episode 103: For A Green Future "Save the Nation!" 011021 Episode 105
January 12, 2021 00:00 - 56 minutes - 38.8 MBJoe DeMare and Rebecca Wood talk about the attacks on US Capitol and call on everyone, especially Republicans, to prevent more violence. They also cover extinction of monarchs in California, the circumpolar tiaga forest, the Earth spinning faster, and many other things.
Episode 102: For A Green Future "Clip Show!" 010321 Episode 104
January 05, 2021 00:00 - 1 hour - 42.9 MBJoe narrates a show reviewing some of the best interviews of 2020. Highlights of interviews with Dr. Helen Caldicott, Diane D'Arrigo, Lois Gibbs, Andrew Tobias, John Witte, and Ricklef Beutin, and more!
Episode 101: For A Green Future "Radium Girls!" 122720 Episode 103
December 31, 2020 00:00 - 59 minutes - 41.1 MBJoe DeMare finds part of a bluefin tuna on the shores of Massachusetts. Next he interviews Lydia Dean Pilcher and Ginny Mohler, co-directors of the new move "Radium Girls." Rebecca Wood tells us the real story about reindeer. Good and bad environmental news, the very last Letter From the Future, and more!
Episode 100: For A Green Future "Nukes In Space!" 122020 Episode 102
December 29, 2020 00:00 - 57 minutes - 39.5 MBJoe DeMare goes mussel hunting, then interviews Dr. Karl Grossman about the renewed threat of nukes in space. Joe blasts PBS's Nova program "Can we cool the planet?" Also some GREAT news in the fight against nuclear wastes. The letter from the future, and more!
Episode 99: For A Green Future "Remembering Neocles" 121320 Episode 101
December 16, 2020 00:00 - 57 minutes - 39.3 MBWe remember friend of the show, Neocles Leontis. Then Joe DeMare interviews Stephany Seay with the Buffalo Field campaign about the Yellowstone Park's plan to slaughter almost 1,000 bison this winter. Rebecca Wood sings the praises of ginger. Good and bad eco-news, the letter from the future, and more!
Episode 98: For A Green Future "100!" 120620 Episode 100!
December 10, 2020 00:00 - 56 minutes - 38.5 MBJoe DeMare celebrates the 100th Episode of For A Green Future! Pat Marida joins us to talk about HB104, the proposed law that would turn Ohio into a nuclear waste dump. Rebecca Wood answers the question "Are Poinsetta's poisonous?" The Letter From the Future and more!
Episode 97: For A Green Future "Deception" 112920 Episode 99
December 01, 2020 00:00 - 56 minutes - 39 MBWe delve deep into some of the ways deception is used in Nature. Joe DeMare and Rebecca Wood clear up details of what really happened on Thanksgiving. Joe reports on open rebellion at the EPA, Tasmania trashes the United States in the race for clean energy, the letter from the future, and more!
Episode 97: For A Green Future "Thanksgiving 2020!" 112220 Episode 98
November 25, 2020 03:32 - 56 minutes - 78.3 MBPhilip Yenyo is our guest again as we talk about the real history of Thanksgiving, the role of gratitude in western and native cultures as well as in saving the world. Rebecca gives us some details on the first Thanksgiving. More HB6 scandals and resignations, the letter from the futrue, and MORE!
For A Green Future "Virus is us?" 111520 Episode 97
November 17, 2020 00:00 - 56 minutes - 38.5 MBDr. Julia Halo joins Joe DeMare for a discussion about viruses, both the ones that threaten us now, and the ones that have incorporated themselves into our bodies. Humans are 8% virus, and that 8% does some weird and amazing things in our bodies. Rebecca Wood talks about why there are so many black squirrels this year. Ecological news from today, a postcard from the future, and more!
For A Green Future "100% Now!!" 110820 Episode 96
November 11, 2020 00:00 - 57 minutes - 52.5 MBJoe DeMare talks with Cathy Cowan-Becker about the successful ballot measures that will put Columbus and Grove City on the way to 100% wind and solar power! Joe has a little meeting with a deer. Rebecca Wood talks about corn, lots of good eco-news, the letter from the future, and more!
For A Green Future "Election 2020!" 110120 Episode 95
November 05, 2020 00:00 - 56 minutes - 51.9 MBJoe DeMare talks about his experiences with the Delaware Bay oil spill. Then it's a review of the environmental positions of all four presidential candidates. Some real shockers in our HB6 update. Cloned Mutant Crayfish attack Belgium (really), the letter form the future, and more!!!
For A Green Future "Life in the Clouds" 102520 Episode 94
October 30, 2020 00:00 - 57 minutes - 39.5 MBJoe DeMare pays a visit to Toledo's Camp Miakanda where generations of Northwest Ohio's youth have learned to appreciate nature. Then he interviews NASA's David J Smith about aeroplankton or bioaerosols. The atmosphere above us turns out to be a seething soup of living things. Then there's eco-news and information, the letter from the future and more!
For A Green Future "Cancerland" 101820 Episode 93
October 21, 2020 00:00 - 56 minutes - 38.9 MBJoe DeMare takes us on a tour of the weird world inside a cancer tumor. Diane D'Arrigo joins the show to talk about the NRC's plan to reclassify radioactive waste so it can be dumped in your local municipal dump. Rebecca Wood tells us the spooky story of Stingy Jack, the letter from the future and more!
For A Green Future "LEBOR Returns?" 101120 Episode 92
October 14, 2020 00:00 - 57 minutes - 39.1 MBJoe DeMare interviews Mike Ferner about a recent favorable court decision defending the Lake Erie Bill of Rights. Joe reviews David Attenborough's "A Life on Our Planet." Rebecca talks about marsh lands in Great Britain; the letter from the Future and more!
For A Green Future "Eutierria!" 100420 Episode 91
October 06, 2020 00:00 - 56 minutes - 38.9 MBJJ Bechhold is our guest, talking about his environmental website for the Deaf named Eutierria. Joe DeMare gives an HB6 update and explains what's wrong with Michigan's Proposal 1. Rebecca Wood reports on California communities running out of funds to fight wildfires. Flow batteries may help us eliminate carbon, the letter from the future, and more!
For A Green Future "Repeal HB6!!!" 092720 Episode 90
September 28, 2020 00:00 - 55 minutes - 38.4 MBJoe DeMare interviews OH House Representative David Leland about HB6 and the hearings, which Rep. Leland calls "a joke," That the Republicans are using to block repeal of "the most corrupt bill in Ohio's history." Joe talks about the Adirondack State Park and. Rebecca Wood talks about Slovenian medicinal herbs. There's mostly good environmental news, the letter from the future, and more!
For A Green Future "Fire!!!" 092020 Episode 89
September 22, 2020 00:00 - 54 minutes - 37.7 MBJoe DeMare talks about the positive role of fire in nature. Also, how he predicted life about Venus that scientists are just now beginning to suspect. Rebecca Wood tells us about the Ashio mine incident and how it birthed Japan's environmental movement. We ask the question is Koga really a rotund puppy or maybe something else? Environmental news, the letter from the future, and more!
For A Green Future "Save ANWR!!" 091320 Episode 88
September 15, 2020 00:00 - 53 minutes - 36.6 MBKarlin Itchoak with the Wilderness Society returns to talk with Joe DeMare about the Administration's latest threat to the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, but first Joe explains why human nature is NOT > Nature. Rebecca Wood takes us on a tour of Slovenian glaciers. Mother Nature destroys a nuke plant in Iowa, an HB6 update, letter from the future, and MORE!
For A Green Future "Greenland Glaciers Melting!!" 090620 Episode 87
September 09, 2020 00:00 - 52 minutes - 35.8 MBJoe DeMare interviews Michaela King, glaciologist from OSU, who talks about her research on Greenland's glaciers and what it means for us here in Ohio. Pat Marida calls in with an HB6 update; Rebecca Wood talks about wilderness in Slovenia; a simple trick for reducing wind turbine/bird deaths; the letter from the future; and More!
For A Green Future "Energiewiende!!!" 083020 Episode 86
September 02, 2020 00:00 - 57 minutes - 39.3 MBJoe interviews Ricklef Beutin, Deputy Ambassador to the United States from Germany about Germany's hugely successful energy policy, Energiewiende, which the country is using to transition to wind, solar, and other renewable energy sources and away from nuclear and fossil fuels. Twenty states team up to stop the Trump administration's attack on NEPA. Rebecca Wood talks about "Grandma Gunmetal," a Toledo eco-artist, the letter from the future and more!
For A Green Future "Save the Predators!!" 082320 Episode 85
August 26, 2020 00:00 - 56 minutes - 38.6 MBJoe DeMare talks with Collette Adkins from the Center for Biological Diversity about the Trump administration's decision to allow predator hunting in the last few remaining "safe" areas in National Wildlife Refuges. Joe also talks about the Greenland glaciers, wolverines in Mt Rainier, and the fires in the West. There's a letter from the future, and more!
For A Green Future "Hurricane Isaias!!" 081620 Episode 84
August 18, 2020 00:00 - 56 minutes - 38.9 MBDr. Heidi Hutner returns to tell us her story of being hit by Hurricane Isaias, the hurricane nobody talked about that did $4 billion damage to the US. Some good and bad news, Trump loses big in a migratory bird case. Joe DeMare talks about making ink from pokeweed, and takes Paula Hicks-Hudson to task for her part in HB6. Rebecca Wood joins the fun and more!
For A Green Future "Repeal HB6!" 080920 Episode 83
August 11, 2020 00:00 - 57 minutes - 39.3 MBRachel Belz of Ohio Citizen Action is our guest as we look back at the debacle that was HB6 and look ahead at the proposals to repeal it. Joe DeMare talks about the collapse of the Milne Ice Shelf in Nunavut other eco-news. Rebecca Wood talks about a cool park in Wyoming, the letter from the future, and more!
For A Green Future "20 Billion Years of Radioactive Wastes!" 080220 Episode 82
August 05, 2020 00:00 - 54 minutes - 37.7 MBJoe DeMare talks about the superfund site in Luckey, Ohio where they are spending a quarter of a billion dollars to remove radioactive wastes like thorium, radium, and uranium. Rebecca Wood reads her very nice poem, "Tundra." HB6, the letter from the future with a dire warning about "Sweet Caroline," and more!
For A Green Future "Solar Power Vs. HB6!" 072620 Episode 81
July 29, 2020 00:00 - 54 minutes - 37.5 MBJohn Witte is our guest, sharing over 40 years experience in the solar power industry. He is owner of a solar power installation company and talks about how the solar industry has evolved over the years. Joe DeMare rakes the Ohio Legislature over the coals about HB6. Rebecca Wood talks about wild rice, a very brief letter from the future, and more!