Terra Verde delivers news and views about the most critical environmental issues across California and globally. From agriculture and wildlife to energy and climate change, industrial pollution to design solutions, TerraVerde brings you stories of struggle and triumph that will determine the future of our planet.
Host Michelle Chan explores the in’s and out’s of California’s new ground-breaking climate law, SB 350, with guests Michelle Kinman of Environment California Research & Policy Center and Janice Lin of the California Energy Storage Alliance. (image: Ecology Center)
Host Michelle Chan discusses the widespread use of drugs and antibiotics in our industrial system of animal agriculture. Featured guests include Steve Roach of Food and Animal Concerns Trust and Cristina Stella of the Center for Food Safety.
There is a new global goldrush afoot, and this time it’s in land. Host Michelle Chan explores the environmental dimensions of the landgrab crisis with Natalie Bridgeman Fields of Accountability Counsel and Ryan Schiff of International Accountability Project. (Image: Rosa Luxemburg Stiftung)
What’s the forecast? Increasingly, scientists, scholars, and technocrats, as well as journalists, are openly speculating about ideas known by ambitious-sounding terms, like solar radiation management, stratospheric aerosol geoengineering, and albedo modification. Could such unorthodox strategies to counteract global warming be underway already, despite official claims suggesting otherwise? Today Terra Verde tackles controversies around climate intervention and weather manipulation. … Continued
Big philanthropy is all about supporting big organizations. But a handful of environmental funders is having an outsized impact by partnering with small groups. Host Adrienne Fitch Frankel speaks with Yeshica Weerasekara of IDEX and Tim Little of the Rose Foundation for Communities and the Environment about the importance of resourcing the grassroots.