Guests: Forestry Expert Kevin Bladon, Sage Mountain Sanctuary Founder Lauren Lockey, and Encaustic Artist Bridgette Meinhold

Guests: Bart Elmore, an award-winning professor and writer who recently penned SEED MONEY, Monsanto’s past and our food future. And, author of Empire of Rubber, Gregg Mitman, an award-winning environmental historian, filmmaker and professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

On this episode, Park City Mayor-elect Nann Worel and, Jake Schmidt from the Natural Resources Defense Council.

Guests: Mike Halpert, deputy director of NOAA’s Climate Prediction Center and Greg Peters, author of Our National Forests: Stories from America’s Most Important Public Lands.

Guests: Austin Whitman, CEO of Climate Neutral and National Geographic Explorer and author Brian Buma

Zhaoxia Pu, a researcher from the University of Utah talks about the study of fog and Dennis Baldocchi, Professor of Biometeorology at the University of California, Berkeley share how to determine the health of an ecosystem.

This week on This Green Earth, Christy Leavitt, Plastics Campaign Director for Oceana and Jordan Clayton, Data Collection Officer for Utah Snow Survey.

On This Green Earth, James Johnston comes on the show to speak about prescribed forest burns. Johnston is a research associate at Oregon State University and the co-author of a paper about the benefits to forest health when mechanical thinning is combined with prescribed burns. Findings of this study are important becuase reducing accumulated fuels on federal forestland has been a congressional priority for nearly two decades; research such as this helps determine which techniques work.

On This Green Earth , Nell Larson and Chris Cherniak welcome Dr. Fritjof Capra. Capra is one of the most prominent thought leaders in the study of systems theory, which is the study of how complex, interrelated groups are affected by their environment and affected by each other. Dr. Capra is also the founding director of the Center for EcoLiteracy located in Berkeley, CA., which promotes ecology and systems thinking in primary and secondary education. He will be discussing the concepts behind

As fire and drought rage across the West, and severe hurricanes and flooding hammer the south and east coast, climate change is front and center, yet still remains a divisive issue.