This Green Earth

Mary Closser, the Green Business Coordinator with Recycle Utah, provides education, awareness and insight to local businesses who want to operate their shops in a more environmentally mindful way. This includes their consumption of energy, water, fuel and raw materials as well as looking into ways they can reduce the waste they generate.

Brian McInerney, Senior Hydrologist with the National Weather Service, summarizes this past springs temperature, precipitation data and trends.

Phil Bondurant, Environmental Health Director with Summit County, talks about an algal bloom recently observed at Rockport Reservoir.

Mark Adams is the author of the new book, Tip Of The Iceberg: My 3,000 Mile Journey around Wild Alaska, The Last Great American Frontier . Adams retraces the famous 1899 expedition sponsored by railroad magnate Edward Harriman which included John Muir and George Bird Grinnell, founder of the Audubon Society. Adams describes the changes both man and climate have made on the Alaskan wilderness since that famous trip.

For nearly 20-years, TRAX light rail trains have shuttled riders up and down the Salt Lake Valley, saving countless car trips and sparing Salt Lake’s air tons of petroleum-based pollutants. But for the past four years the trains have done even more for Utah’s air. Researchers have been sniffing and mapping out where and when different air pollutants are present along the train’s route. University of Utah scientists recently published the findings of this study in the Journal Atmospheric

The film, Wasted, The Story of Food Waste , will be airing Wednesday, June 20 at the Santy Auditorium. It’s a documentary produced by the late Anthony Bourdain and focuses on what needs to be done to reduce and re-direct food that is lost to landfills. Josh Hobson, a member of the Park City Leadership Class 24 discusses this film and a class project focusing on food waste and composting.

Senator Orrin Hatch and Congressman John Curtis have co-authored a bill entitled, The Emery County Public Land Management Act of 2018. Emery County is home to world class wilderness landscapes such as San Rafael Swell, Desolation Canyon and Goblin Valley State Park. Dave Pacheco, grassroots organizer from the Southern Utah Wilderness Association, joins Chris and Nell to give us SUWA'S thoughts and positions on this proposed bill.

Micah Kagan from the non-profit , Leaders for Clean Air, joins Chris and Nell to discuss their organizations efforts to improve Utah’s air quality by providing - among other things – free electric vehicle charging stations to Utah Businesses.

Dr. Joe Romm is a physicist, climate scientist and one of the early and leading voices on human-caused global warming and climate change. He is also the author of the book, Climate Change - What Everyone Needs to Know. This book offers the most up to date examination of climate change’s foundational science, it’s implications for the future, and the critical clean energy solutions necessary to stem the climbing levels of carbon dioxide being emitted into the atmosphere.

Daisy Fair, chief agricultural engineer at Copper Moose Farm joins Chris and Nell to discuss the growing season and what’s available at the garden stand.