This episode of Terra Verde features field interviews with Contra Costa County residents with decades of collective experience in responding to the public health and safety threats of the Phillips 66 refinery in Rodeo, one of two San Francisco Bay Area refineries pursuing permits to convert their operations to high deforestation risk soy feedstock biofuels.

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Professors Fred Cohan and Bill Johnston join the show to discuss some of the broader environmental and historical lessons to be learned from the Covid-19 pandemic, as well as the implications this pandemic (and others) may have in the future.

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Across the world, more and more youth are taking to build more sustainable communities. On this show, hosted by Earth Island Journal editor Maureen Nandini Mitra, we hear from two such young people, who recently received the 2021 Brower Youth Awards for their work — Peter Pham, who organizes for Turnout4Transit, a coalition of environmental advocacy groups, labor unions, and social justice organizations,  and Alexia Leclercq, co-founder of Start:Empowerment (S:E), an environmental justice nonprofit focused on bridging the gap between education and action.

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This episode of Terra Verde features interviews with Ann Alexander, an attorney with the Natural Resources Defense Council, and Greg Karras, energy systems scientist and founder of Community Energy Re-Source, describing the environmental review of the proposed conversion of the Phillips 66 Rodeo and Marathon Martinez SF Bay Area refineries to fossil gas intensive and high deforestation risk soy feedstock based biofuels.

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