Fast fashion. It’s a term used to describe the relatively new bent of the fashion industry towards cheap, trendy, disposable clothes. These clothes come with a low price tag at checkout, but at a high cost to people and the environment.

Terra Verde host and Earth Island Journal Managing Editor Zoe Loftus-Farren discusses these costs, and what advocates are doing to address them, with Samantha Hartsock, Director of Education with Remake.

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Rachel Fazio, an attorney with the John Muir Project, joins Terra Verde with news about recent developments in public lands stewardship and wildfire law and policy, with a particular focus on fire ecology and the protection of human communities.

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The communications manager of Wild Earth Guardians joins Terra Verde to decipher and debunk industry driven media narratives about wildfire in California and across the Western United States.

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The climate crisis has come into sharp relief in recent years. Ice sheets are melting, sea levels are rising, and extreme temperatures are becoming more common. Here in California, the crisis has become impossible to ignore. This year, more acreage has burned than any year on record, tens of thousands of people have been evacuated from their homes, and residents are suffering horrible air quality as fires roar across the West.

We know we must transition away from fossil fuels if we want to mitigate these symptoms of the climate crisis. So far, that has proven challenging. But could the tide be turning? Could changes brought about by the pandemic, which follow years of organizing by activists, be the beginning of the end for Big Oil?

Terra Verde host and Earth Island Journal Managing Editor Zoe Loftus-Farren discusses the oil industry’s decline with energy analyst, author, and investigative journalist Antonia Juhasz, who recently wrote about the issue for Sierra magazine.

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