PODSHIP EARTH

We travel to Tel Aviv to meet with innovators monitoring the health of bees, creating home energy from food scraps, conserving water and building electric roads. We learn from environmentalists how Israelis' love nature and littering.

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For the past 2000 years, religion has been the dominant moral force in society.  Nowhere is this more evident

than our relationship with nature. Today, religion may be the last best hope to help our planet recover. We talk with Catholics, Brahma Kumaris, Muslims and Pagans healing the earth.

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Washing machines release up to 750,000 lbs of plastic microfibers into rivers, lakes and oceans each day. These tiny strands of plastic are now found in fish, the Arctic and our drinking water. We examine how to stem the tide!

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We talk with the directors and stars behind the environmental movies: Warrior Women, Complicit, Symphony for Nature, and Point of No Return.

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Behind the bold climate commitments at Jerry Brown’s global summit in San Francisco, the voices of indigenous leaders, women, artists, chefs, mayors and adventurers could be heard rising above the din of old men in suits.  A positive agenda for climate action has finally emerged from the ashes of national environmental intransigence.

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This alpine lake is cobalt blue, deep and until recently, very clear. I discover that everything from invasive species to 22 million tourists are impacting this stunning resource. Luckily, plans are underway to keep Tahoe blue. 

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We board a small fishing boat to go in search of King salmon in the Pacific and discover that dams, agriculture and politics are imperiling this beautiful species.

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Noise pollution causes stress, loss of hearing, heart attacks, strokes and depression. I talk with San Francisco noise officials June Weintraub and Jonathan Piakis to find out if life will ever be quiet again and discover that silence is now a luxury.  

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I talk with Pandora Thomas about building community by observing and following the ecological patterns that connect us all. 

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We talk with Kim Stanley Robinson about his novel 2140, which depicts New York after 60 feet of sea level rise. Science Fiction helps us see a world just beyond the horizon. Stan Robinson does what a generation of environmental advocacy has failed to do: make climate change personal.

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