Terra Verde
10:30 AM Pacific Time: Fridays
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, Terra Verde brings you stories of struggle and triumph that will determine the future of our planet.
7 billion people, 1 planet – October 28, 2011
The UN marks October 31st 2011 as the day when the world human population reaches 7 billion. Terra Verde discusses with the UN Population Fund’s Michael Herrmann.
A Poetic Take on the Environment – September 30, 2011
This special Terra Verde broadcast adds a poetic take to environmental discourse. Poets Kirk Lumpkin and Andrew Schelling, featured in Berkeley’s Watershed Environmental Poetry Festival, join host Adam Greenfield to perform some thought-provoking pieces.
A Story of the Earth Liberation Front – September 23, 2011
In December 2005, Federal agents conducted a nationwide sweep of radical environmentalists involved with the Earth Liberation Front, a group of autonomous cells founded in 1992 and spread worldwide, characterized by its goal to commit “economic sabotage and guerrilla warfare to stop the exploitation and destruction of the environment”. Filmmakers Sam Cullman and Marshall Curry … Continued
Terra Verde – September 16, 2011
We invite you to listen in on a conversation about how the art of animation and the power of story are helping grow the environmental movement by winning hearts and minds. Some activists are finding that cartooning and storytelling provide a particularly persuasive combo of entertainment and education to help popularize their messages. Discussing how … Continued
Showtime for the Alberta Tar Sands Pipeline – August 26, 2011
The Alberta tar sands is the largest industrial project in human history and one that releases three times the C02 emissions as regular oil production. The existing pipeline running from the tar sands could soon be joined by a second pipeline the Keystone XL pipeline, which would run from Alberta all the way to Texas. … Continued
Terra Verde – August 19, 2011
The East Bay is home to a rich mix of advocacy organizations that promote social change by coordinating stakeholders from across society—from the grassroots to governments. Today we discuss community colleges as a particular kind organization that is apt to connect people from disparate sectors of society and in different stages of their careers, bringing … Continued