Episodes

  • This Green Earth | May 7, 2024

    This Green Earth | May 7, 2024
    May 7 2024
    Award-winning environmental journalist, Zoë Schlanger who speaks about her new book, "The Light Eaters," a deep immersion into the drama of plant life and the complexity of this wild and awe-inspiring world that challenges our very understanding of agency, consciousness, and intelligence.Then, Biologist Naira de Gracia walks us through her new book, "The Last Cold Place – A Field Season Studying Penguins in Antarctica," which offers a dramatic and captivating window into Antarctica and a generation of chinstrap penguins.
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    48 mins
  • This Green Earth | April 30, 2024

    This Green Earth | April 30, 2024
    Apr 30 2024
    In the first half of today's show, Chris and Claire revisit a previous episode featuring Peter Alagona and a discussion on the resurgence of wildlife in American cities (01:24)Then, Daniel Lewis, Associate Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering and Earth Sciences at Notre Dame, discusses his new book, "Twelve Trees: The Deep Roots of Our Future" and explores nature and survival told through the lens of twelve remarkable tree species. (31:27)
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    51 mins
  • This Green Earth | April 23, 2024

    This Green Earth | April 23, 2024
    Apr 23 2024
    Cowgirl and conservationist, Heidi Redd, discusses her new book titled, "A Cowgirl’s Conservation Journey: Stories from the Dugout Ranch," which highlights the largest private holding in Bears Ears National Monument. And former U.S. Secretary of the Interior Sally Jewell, who wrote the forward to Redd's book, joins the discussion.Then, Claire and Chris speak with David McGuire from Shark Stewards about the importance of seagrasses and what their decay could mean for our oceans.
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    52 mins
  • This Green Earth | April 16, 2024

    This Green Earth | April 16, 2024
    Apr 16 2024
    Aidan Charron, Director of End Plastic Initiatives with Earthday.org comes on the show to talk about the history of Earth Day and the theme for this year: Planet vs Plastics.Then, author Jade Sasser speaks about her recently released book "Climate Anxiety and the Kid Question: Deciding Whether to Have Children in an Uncertain Future."
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    49 mins
  • This Green Earth | April 9, 2024

    This Green Earth | April 9, 2024
    Apr 9 2024
    Citizens' Climate Lobby Wasatch Back Chapter Co-Leader Lauren Barros shares more on a special event at the Jim Santy Auditorium April 10. The Wasatch Back chapter is set to host an evening of film screenings and a panel discussion. The panel discussion will follow the screening of "Going Greenland" and "Downstream: a Backcountry Ski Film about the Shrinking Great Salt Lake." Each film delves into skiing and the effects of climate change. The event begins at 6pm. (01:33)Then, a rebroadcast from January revisits a discussion with award-winning author, Tony Hiss, on his latest book, "Rescuing the Planet, Protecting Half the Land to Heal the Earth." (8:26)Finishing the show is author and CBS News national correspondent Jonathan Vigliotti who discusses his newly released book, "Before It's Gone: Stories from the Front Lines of Climate Change in Small-Town America." (29:33)
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    52 mins
  • This Green Earth | April 2, 2024

    This Green Earth | April 2, 2024
    Apr 2 2024
    Utah Snow Survey Supervisor Jordan Clayton provides an in-depth report on the 2023/24 snow season and what it means for the months ahead. Then, explore the Endangered Species Act of 1973 from its inception to the key figures who shaped its history with author, attorney and environmental historian Lowell Baier. He discusses his book "Earth’s Emergency Room: Saving Species as the Planet and Politics Get Hotter."
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    50 mins
  • This Green Earth | March 26, 2024

    This Green Earth | March 26, 2024
    Mar 26 2024
    On the next This Green Earth, Claire & Chris speak with author Abrahm Lustgarten who writes about climate change and writes for New York Times Magazine, The Atlantic and PBS Frontline.In his forthcoming book, “On The Move,” Lustgarten explores how climate change is uprooting American lives and where people will go. Lustgarten’s recent reporting focuses on global migration, demographic change and conflict in response to a warming climate. Then, they speak with Alexa Friedman, an environmental epidemiologist interested in reducing exposure to harmful chemicals. Friedman will walk us through a recent study that talks about pesticides and produce.To end the show, Deeda Seed with the Center for Biological Diversity discusses the Endangered Species Act listing petition for Wilson’s phalaropes, and what it means for the Great Salt Lake's ecosystem.
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    52 mins
  • This Green Earth | March 19, 2024

    This Green Earth | March 19, 2024
    Mar 19 2024
    Author and voice for the natural world, Carl Safina explores how humans are changing the living world and what the changes mean for the planet. His work has won a MacArthur “genius” grant as well as Pew and Guggenheim Fellowships.Then, Heal Utah’s Meisei [May-Say] Gonzalez details the 2024 legislative decisions the organization says will impact our state’s environmental health.
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    51 mins