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On today’s show, host Sabrina Jacobs speaks to Austrian based freelance environmental reporter Bob Berwyn on his latest article for Inside Climate News entitled, “Many Scientists Now Say Global Warming Could Stop Relatively Quickly After Emissions Go to Zero.” Jacob also speaks to activist LaDonna Williams on the push back on the appointment of California … Continued
Happy New Year! We made it to 2021. Thanks to all our listeners for helping KPFA meet its winter-fund raising goals. On today’s show, we feature an interview with Flannery Winchester, the communications director of Citizen’s Climate Lobby, which is a non-partisan grassroots non-profit which has chapters and volunteers across the US, and is involved … Continued
In an effort to demystify the Green New Deal, on this episode of A Rude Awakening, we speak with Ethan Elkind, the Director of the Climate Program Center for Law, Energy & the Environment at UC Berkeley, the author of Railtown and host of City Visions Radio. We are also joined with Betony Jones, the … Continued
On today’s show, Sabrina Jacobs hosts a fund-drive special event, featuring a conversation with Sam Calish of Rewiring America. Calish discusses Rewiring America’s vision of solving the climate crisis by utilizing technology to de-carbonization the way that Americans live and through the creation of green jobs. We also are joined by a special KPFA guest! … Continued
On today’s show, we have some breaking news, as we speak with Shoshana Wechsler of the Sunflower Alliance about the recent victory in the fight against the dredging of the bay for the purpose of deepening shipping channels in order to better transport fossil fuels. We also speak with artist and environmentalist Obi Kaufmann. photo: … Continued
On this episode, we feature and interview with Steve Horn, investigative climate reporter with the Real News Network, were were touch on California Governor Gavin Newsome and fracking. We then speak with Michelle Passero, about how to get through climate change, naturally, as well as reading some new reports. PHOTO: NOAA
An in-depth look at community affairs on a local, national and international level, with interviews and commentary. Hosted by Sabrina Jacobs.
On today’s show, we speak with environmental and human-rights attorney, Steven Donziger, who has been placed on house arrest for over a year by a judge tied to the fossil fuel industry, after representing indigenous people in Ecuador fighting against life threatening pollution from Chevron. Also joining us is the associate director of Amazon Watch, … Continued
On today’s episode of A Rude Awakening, host Sabrina Jacobs speaks with Gary Hughes of Biofuel Watch about decolonization, the Mapuche struggle against neoliberalism and industrial resource extraction, and Chile’s constitutional reset after months of unrest. Hughes also speaks to what it means that the US is switching from the climate denialism of Trump to … Continued
On today’s program, we speak with two leaders of the Mycelium Youth Network, including the founder and director of the project, Lil Milagro Henriquez, and its educational director, Marylin Zuniga. About the group: Mycelium Youth Network (MYN) prepares youth in the East Bay Area — who are most vulnerable to and already feeling the effects … Continued
