Latest Healthy environment Podcast Episodes
Looking Up
PODSHIP EARTH - December 26, 2021 08:00 - 32 minutes ★★★★★ - 278 ratingsPrepping for 2022: We’ve been through a year of climate emergencies. It's been terrifying to witness the Earth’s reaction to the destruction we have wrought upon her. We’re often ill prepared to cope with the resulting chaos and dislocation. When a storm takes out the power lines, or an...
Alex
PODSHIP EARTH - December 12, 2021 08:00 - 35 minutes ★★★★★ - 278 ratingsArt is fundamental to understanding who we are in context to the world. Artists translate and blend physical worlds with emotional landscapes, threading magic into our lives. No one embodies this journey more than Alex Nichols. She works with explosive vision and unparalleled focus to e...
Nalleli
PODSHIP EARTH - November 28, 2021 08:00 - 32 minutes ★★★★★ - 278 ratingsNalleli Cobo grew up in South Central Los Angeles just 30 feet away from a polluting oil well. When Nalleli was nine she and her community started getting nose bleeds, nausea, headaches and asthma. Nalleli began a crusade to shutdown oil drilling in her neighborhood by focusing on the p...
Heterodox
PODSHIP EARTH - November 14, 2021 08:00 - 35 minutes ★★★★★ - 278 ratingsAs world leaders descended on Glasgow to agree on a plan to curb climate pollution, most of the obstacles to inking a deal centered on who pays for what. Not being discussed is the underlying financial framework of capitalism which has played an outsized role in getting us into this mes...
Weather
PODSHIP EARTH - October 31, 2021 08:00 - 33 minutes ★★★★★ - 278 ratingsTalking about the rain, wind, sun, humidity, snow, hail, storms, heat, flooding and everything in between is one of our favorite topics of conversation. That’s now being amped up to a whole new level because of climate change. Today’s extreme weather is causing droughts, wildfires, mega...
Latino Outdoors
PODSHIP EARTH - October 17, 2021 07:00 - 34 minutes ★★★★★ - 278 ratingsOur nation is becoming more diverse thanks to growth among Latinx, Asian and multiracial Americans. Diversity is our nation’s single greatest strength. Nowhere is this more true than in California where the Latinx community is now the largest racial or ethnic group in the Golden State -...
Insulate
PODSHIP EARTH - October 03, 2021 07:00 - 31 minutes ★★★★★ - 278 ratingsIn England, climate protesters walked onto the M25 - the country’s busiest motorway - sat down and glued themselves to the asphalt. Traffic ground to a halt while the police unstuck them. Their demands: insulate all of Britain's public housing to stop more than 8,000 people from dying e...
Denny and Torm
PODSHIP EARTH - September 19, 2021 07:00 - 39 minutes ★★★★★ - 278 ratingsWe embark on an environmental justice tour of Richmond, CA with two Laotian community organizers. Before Torm Nompraseurt managed to escape Laos, 13 members of his family had been killed, the U.S. had dropped 50 million tons of bombs on his country, defoliated the forests with agent or...
Castaway Mountain
PODSHIP EARTH - September 05, 2021 07:00 - 37 minutes ★★★★★ - 278 ratingsSaumya Roy is a journalist and activist from Mumbai India who spent eight years writing: Castaway Mountain: Love and Loss Among the Waste Pickers of Mumbai. The book is so beautifully written, weaving together stories of how we can create something out of nothing with an examination of...
Grantchester
PODSHIP EARTH - August 22, 2021 07:00 - 34 minutes ★★★★★ - 278 ratingsI grew up in this English village just outside the university town of Cambridge. Grantchester is surrounded by flat farmland. Along the narrow river Camb which connects Cambridge to Grantchester are the Meadows which for 800 years have been home to herds of cows and crowds of revelers. ...
Earthseed
PODSHIP EARTH - August 08, 2021 07:00 - 32 minutes ★★★★★ - 278 ratingsEarthseed - is a religion created by Octavia Butler in Parable of the Sower, a sci-fi novel about a California ravaged by climate change and social dislocation in 2024.Last year, with the pandemic raging, the pain of George Floyd’s murder boiling, Pandora Thomas founded her own Earthsee...
Shirley & Will
PODSHIP EARTH - July 25, 2021 07:00 - 37 minutes ★★★★★ - 278 ratingsIn the 1900’s, there were one million Black farmers in America and former slaves and their descendants had amassed 14 million acres of land. In the last 100 years, 90 percent of that land has been lost. Today only 45,000 of the nation’s 3.4 million farmers are Black. Jared Blumenfeld tr...
Captain Jo
PODSHIP EARTH - July 11, 2021 07:00 - 31 minutes ★★★★★ - 278 ratingsSalty captain and environmental champion Jo Royle grew up sailing, raced boats between continents, skippered the Plastiki - a boat made from 12,500 plastic bottles and then founded the groundbreaking organization Common Seas to rid the oceans of plastic. The race to save the oceans and ...
Emotional First Aid
PODSHIP EARTH - June 27, 2021 07:03 - 39 minutes ★★★★★ - 278 ratingsAfter a year we’ve all lived through it's clear we’re emotionally spent. Our collective exhaustion is real and the truth is we can only create a healthy planet if we ourselves are healthy. Luckily help is here! Marianna Sousa is a mental health first aid responder who works to heal lead...
Living on Earth
PODSHIP EARTH - June 13, 2021 07:00 - 28 minutes ★★★★★ - 278 ratingsA long time ago, when very few people had heard the words “climate change,” Steve Curwood, a Pulitzer prize winning journalist began his first broadcast of Living on Earth - a groundbreaking, inspiring and information-packed environmental radio show. That was in 1991. Through more tha...
Fenton
PODSHIP EARTH - May 30, 2021 07:00 - 41 minutes ★★★★★ - 278 ratingsClimate Communications Now! If we are to have a chance of combating climate change it won’t be through publishing more reports or having yet another meeting - what we need is clear actionable mass communications that galvanizes the public and compels bold systemic climate action. If th...
Hanalei
PODSHIP EARTH - May 16, 2021 07:00 - 39 minutes ★★★★★ - 278 ratingsKaua’i is the oldest Hawaiian island, has the most endemic species and is the wettest place in the US. At this island’s northern edge is Hanalei Bay, where Barbara “Maka‘ala” Ka‘aumoana has run the Hanalei River Hui for the past three decades. We talk about indegenous views of nature’s...
Wild City
PODSHIP EARTH - May 02, 2021 08:01 - 33 minutes ★★★★★ - 278 ratingsOur definitions of nature help define us. Lisa Wayne has been on the cutting edge of mediating differing views about nature. Lisa supports a network of natural areas within one of the most urban cities in America. These protected areas represent an incredible success story from bringing...
Uganda Air
PODSHIP EARTH - April 18, 2021 07:02 - 31 minutes ★★★★★ - 278 ratingsIn Uganda air pollution is a big problem. Luckily, Michael Wanyama isn’t taking this fight sitting down. When Michael’s 6 year old son came down with asthma, he wanted it to go away. Little did Mr Wanyama realize the journey it would bring him on. Michael adopted an innovative approach:...
Lamar
PODSHIP EARTH - April 04, 2021 07:13 - 37 minutes ★★★★★ - 278 ratingsLamar Thorpe was born in prison. Days later he was adopted into a Mexican family and christened Martin Hernandez. It was only when joining the Navy that he acknowledged his black identity. Last November, Lamar became Antioch’s mayor. Soon afterwards Angelo Quinto died while in Antioch ...
Reuse
PODSHIP EARTH - March 21, 2021 08:00 - 39 minutes ★★★★★ - 278 ratingsWhat happens when one person no longer has use for an object, and yet that product still has a lot of life left in it? The possibilities are endless: from building materials, to amazing furniture, to a used Hello Kitty clock, to second hand vinyl. We go to Urban Ore, a reuse mecca in B...
Crossing
PODSHIP EARTH - March 07, 2021 08:59 - 36 minutes ★★★★★ - 278 ratingsWe talk with “Jesús Garcia” who at 19 left his home and family to escape violence in Mexico. He crossed into the U.S. by swimming at night into the Pacific ocean for eight hours - first west, then north - with just a wetsuit and change of clothes. Jesús is now three years into his life...
Beyond Words
PODSHIP EARTH - February 21, 2021 08:00 - 30 minutes ★★★★★ - 278 ratingsCarl Safina explores non-human feelings. Dr. Safina an ecologist and author of many best selling books. Safina’s Book, Beyond Words; What Animals Think and Feel, has according to the New York Times Review of Books, “the potential to change our relationship with the natural world.” As Ca...
Chocolate
PODSHIP EARTH - February 07, 2021 08:00 - 29 minutes ★★★★★ - 278 ratingsI meet up with Amelia Gonzalez to find out where our love of chocolate comes from? After a career in radio, Amelia took her savings and founded Casa de Chocolates in Berkeley. By infusing her chocolates with love and culture and the flavors and history of the Americas, taking one small...
Birding
PODSHIP EARTH - January 24, 2021 08:00 - 35 minutes ★★★★★ - 278 ratingsOur human relationship to birds is complex. They’re wellbeing is our wellbeing. Since 1970, US bird populations have plummeted by 3 Billion birds - that’s an insane 30% of all birds - gone forever! Luckily, the 60 million birdwatchers in the US alone are ready to help. Dr. Meredith Will...
Lisa
PODSHIP EARTH - January 10, 2021 08:00 - 38 minutes ★★★★★ - 278 ratingsLisa Jackson grew up in New Orleans, trained and worked as an environmental engineer and was chosen by President Obama to lead EPA from 2009 to 2013. Lisa is now the Vice President for Environmental, policy and social initiatives at Apple. We talk about the influence of Parliament-Funka...
Erwin
PODSHIP EARTH - December 27, 2020 08:03 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 278 ratingsAt 18, my Grandfather was drafted into the German Army, and served as an ambulance driver in World War One. He wrote down the entire truly bizarre story with a great deal of irony and dark humor. Erwin attempts to escape from military service (to meet his Dutch sweetheart), serves as an...
Native Knowledge
PODSHIP EARTH - December 13, 2020 00:00 - 32 minutes ★★★★★ - 278 ratingsThousands of years of tribal ecological practice is the key to reconnecting us to the planet. We talk with Matthew Teutimez, tribal biologist with the Kizh-Gabrieleño Band of Mission Indians, the aboriginal tribe of the Los Angeles basin, about plants, health and spirituality. See Priv...
Youth v Gov
PODSHIP EARTH - November 29, 2020 08:00 - 28 minutes ★★★★★ - 278 ratingsIn 2015, 21 young people filed a climate lawsuit called Juliana v. United States, asserting that the government violated their rights to life, liberty, and property. We talk with plaintiffs Aji Piper and Tia Hatton; and journalists: Christi Cooper and Lee Van Der Voo about the ups and d...
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