A weekly public affairs show that delivers news and views about the most important environmental issues in California and globally.

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Terra Verde is joined by concerned residents living downwind of the Phillips 66 refinery located on the shores of San Francisco Bay who describe their efforts to hold state agencies and major polluters responsible through grassroots efforts like the Vallejo Citizen Air Monitoring Network.

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A weekly public affairs show that delivers news and views about the most important environmental issues in California and globally.

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A weekly public affairs show that delivers news and views about the most important environmental issues in California and globally.

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California’s new climate change strategy aims to make the state carbon neutral by 2045 and slash greenhouse gas emissions 48 percent below 1990 levels by 2030 — a more ambitious target than the existing mandate to reduce emissions 40 percent by 2030. While the new plan has some significant improvements, many climate advocates and policy experts say it still has some major issue, including an over-reliance on controversial technofixes that also have environmental justice implications.

Terra Verde host and Earth Island Journal editor Maureen Nandini Mitra, discusses the high points and low points of the plan with Ryan Schleeter, Communications Director of The Climate Center and Faraz Rizvi of  the Asian Pacific Environmental Network.

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On this episode of Terra Verde, Annika Weber joins host Fiona McLeod to discuss her work to transition her Seattle high school to carbon neutrality without the use of offsets. Annika was recently recognized for her accomplishments in the environmental movement by the 2022 Brower Youth Awards. 

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A weekly public affairs show that delivers news and views about the most important environmental issues in California and globally.

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This episode of Terra Verde features an interview with Upper Napa Valley resident Geoff Ellsworth, who offers a detailed look at the ins and outs of decades of operation of a problematic waste disposal site in the headwaters of the Napa River.

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A weekly public affairs show that delivers news and views about the most important environmental issues in California and globally.

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Theresa Harlan launched the Alliance for Felix Cove in 2021 to restore and represent the history, culture, and ecological wisdom of the Coast Miwok. Theresa joins Terra Verde host Fiona McLeod to discuss the rematriation, re-indigenization, and restoration of the Coast Miwok’s ancestral homeland in Point Reyes National Seashore.

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