For A Green Future

Guest Host Joe DeMare talks about tactics for living in a house without heat as his household's furnace dies. Next he interviews Diane D'Arrigo from NIRS about the NRC's plan to allow nuclear wastes to go unlabeled and unregulated, putting radiation into the regular waste streams to be recycled or buried in regular leaky garbage dumps. The NRC is trying to sneak https://www.regulations.gov/document/NRC-2025-1568-0002
through that would allow "low level" radioactive wastes to be dumped on the public, they're trying to cut the public out of the process by claiming dumping radiation on people is "not controversial." Then, Rebecca Wood explores the worlds of Mantises. Ecological News includes a simulation of what solar geoengineering would look like which does not end well for the Earth, and a huge Eco-Victory in Ohio where community rights to monitor air pollution and sue polluters has been restored. 

Rebecca Wood starts the show off with a discussion of San Salvador island. She talks about what happened at the place where Columbus first stepped on the "New World." Then, guest host Joe DeMare responds to a listener text explaining why For A Green Future officially opposes nuclear energy. Next he talks about attending an outdoor wedding with absolutely beautiful weather, but goes into the terrible price the Earth has to pay for 75 degree weather in October in Indiana. Interview is with Joshua Wright, old growth forest defender. Ecological News includes the return of the endangered Bogong moth in Australia and a huge win by the Center for Biological Diversity protecting Big Bend from Trump's wall. 

Guest Host Joe DeMare talks about strategies to avoid "Eco-Despair." It's easy to become so depressed about the state of the environment. Joe talks about how to prevent that depression from paralyzing you. Next he interviews Michael Keegan of Don't Waste Michigan about the accident at the Palisades nuclear plant in Michigan. The effort to resurrect that zombie nuke have crashed to a halt because a fuel assembly containing deadly partially spent fuel rods has fallen over and is lying horizontally on the base of the reactor. Rebecca Wood talks about Chinese mint jelly grass. Note: Discussion of the traditional medicinal uses of Mesona are for educational purposes only.  Ecological News includes dangerous deregulation masquerading as an attempt to speed up wind and solar development. 

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Guest Host Joe DeMare looks at the lack of environmental issues in the 2026 elections, and what eco-groups like the League of Conservation Voters are doing to try to put the environment in front of the voters. Next Joe and Rebecca Wood dive into the ecological principle of Mutualism. Then Rebecca talks about the hummingbird mint plant. Ecological News includes government approval of a genetically modified American Chestnut that resists Chestnut Blight, elimination of the endangered species act protection against "takings," and the Catholic Church declaring harming the environment a sin.


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Guest Host Joe DeMare talks about how the "normalization" of ecological catastrophes is wiping the idea of a truly "normal" healthy biosphere from the public's consciousness. Next he interviews Brian Rogers about a new ad campaign to try to force Charmin to stop using virgin timber from the Canadian Boreal Forest to make toilet paper. It's the "Charmin Wipes Bears" campaign. Rebecca Wood tells us about "The Walking Treaty" which cheated the Lenape out of a million acres of land in Pennsylvania. Ecological News includes Canada fighting water chestnuts by hand, Japan burning Indonesia's forests for fuel, and algal toxins floating hundreds of miles on the air.

Guest Host Joe DeMare talks about NW Ohio's Black Swamp Festival, it's attempts to be eco-friendly and how such events would be different in a truly sustainable Green future. Next he interviews Diane D'Arrigo from NIRS about the massive assaults on our health and safety that the Trump Administration is foisting on the American public through its "wholesale revision" of nuclear regulations. Rebecca Wood tells a cautionary tale about poison ivy. Ecological News includes a rare approval of a solar project in Ohio, peat fires in Indonesia, and a ban on uranium mining in New Mexico.

Guest Host Joe DeMare talks about how NW Ohio was actually hotter than Mumbai, India at the start of September. India is losing hundreds of billions of productivity hours and dollars every year to deadly heat. Next he interviews Professor Eliot Jacobson, creator of the Climate Casino website, about 2026's huge, record breaking leaps in global heating. Rebecca Wood tells us all about pomegranates. Ecological News includes cuttlefish disaster off the coast of Australia, natural meadow regrowth in the UK, and orangutans threatened by fire in Borneo.

Guest Host Joe DeMare talks about his trip to Florida which is becoming uninhabitable without AC, and the victories and defeats in turning his yard into a haven for native species. Next he interviews Rob Kraine with the Black Swamp Conservancy about the challenges and rewards of trying to preserve, protect, and restore the ecology of NW Ohio. Rebecca Wood talks about the wetlands of Michigan. Ecological News includes Trump's plan to clearcut 45 million acres of pristine roadless wilderness and then drench them in millions of gallons of pesticides, French nuke plants crashing in heat, 35,000 excess heat deaths in Europe so far this summer. 

Guest Host Joe DeMare talks about seeing wildlife while traveling including a personal encounter with a prairie dog. Then he looks at the practice of "doubling down," and how Trump  uses the technique to get the press to accept outrageous lies while he destroys the planet. Next we interview Todd Duvall with Partnership for Clean Streams about the September 26th waterways cleaning event. It's the 30th year for this annual cleanup in NW Ohio. Rebecca Wood tells us about giant puffballs. Ecological News includes: Electricity bills going through the roof in Ohio because the state is outlawing wind and solar; Hydroelectric Dams in the West drying up; and a study showing Diablo nuclear plant does more harm than good, knocking wind and solar off the grid. 

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Guest Host Joe DeMare talks about the Wood County Fair and brings up issues of animal cruelty, and how our society hasn't caught up with the information that  animals have the same feelings and emotions humans do. Next he interviews Ralph Bloemers, creator of the movie "Elemental!" about the fires in the Pacific Northwest and why they've been so destructive of homes and businesses. Rebecca Wood talks about the Indian Ocean and dugongs. Ecological News includes the Trump administration allowing toxic sewage sludge which includes PFAS to be spread on prime farmland; more evidence we're in a global positive feedback heating loop, and solar installations hit their third Terawatt.