This Green Earth

This week on This Green Earth, author Mark Kurlansky joins the show to talk about his new book, " Salmon - A Fish, The Earth, and a History of Their Common Fate ".

Today on This Green Earth , Carly Ferro, Director of the Utah Chapter of the Sierra Club provides a summary of legislation the Sierra Club was tracking along with an update on the events that they may have to cancel around Earth Day.

Today on This Green Earth , Douglas Tallamy talks about his new book "Nature's Best Hope - A New Approach to Conservation that Starts in Your Yard".

During today's show, Nell and Chris learned about the Repeatedly Flooded Communities Preparation Act from Laura Lightbody with the Pew Charitable Trust. Repetitive-loss properties have historically accounted for 1% of National Flood Insurance Program policies, but represent 25 - 30% of claims, putting the program 20 billion dollars into the red. This Act encourages the 20,000 participating communities to plan ahead to avoid repeating history and being forced to rebuild time and time again. Utah

In this episode of This Green Earth we re-broadcast two interviews. One with author and journalist Eugene Linden on his New York Times Op Ed titled: How Scientists Got Climate Change So Wrong . And the second with biologist James Wolfin on the multiple benefits of replacing ecologically-sterile kentucky blue grass with pollinator and mower-friendly forms of cover like clover. That plus news on January 2020 being the warmest January ever recorded and why it has nothing to do with either El Nino

On Today's program an interview with Alice Hill about her new book: Building a Resilient Tomorrow - How to Prepare for the Coming Climate Disruption.

On today's show author Jon Gertner talks about his book about Greenland titled: The Ice at the End of the World.

Today on This Green Earth, environmental writer, UCLA Institute fellow, and author of Rambunctious garden Emma Marris talks about what "nature" means in a changing world, what counts as nature and what it means to protect it. In addition, Professor Marris will discuss her recent New York Times op ed on her five-step plan on how to tackle climate change calmly once and for all. Professor Marris will address all this in a talk she is giving at The Natural History Museum of Utah Tuesday night. It's

Over the 20 days of Christmas and New Years Recycle Utah took in approximately a 500,000 plastic bags and 250,000 cardboard boxes. Carolyn Wawra, Executive Director with RU shares some additional numbers on the other things they processed and how much it cost them to do so.

The U.S. EPA's Environmental Justice program announced it is providing $120,000 to Utah Physicians for a Healthy Environment for a local partnership to improve air quality in Summit County . The bulk of the money will go to a program intended to reduce exposure to wood smoke pollution, by helping low and moderate-income residents obtain sources of heat cleaner and healthier than wood-burning stoves. Jonny Vasic, Executive Director for the UPHE and Shellie Barrus, Executive Director for Summit