Renewable Energy Boosted in Federal Budget Compromise
Republicans and Democrats passed a federal budget at the end of 2015 which lifted a 40-year-old ban on exports of crude oil and extended tax credits for wind and solar power for 5 years. We assess the climate impact of the budget bargain.
Christmas Candles
Master storyteller Jay O’Callahan shares some tales about his family during the holiday season. He recalls his community’s tradition of Christmas caroling and how it brought hope to his mother in a time of darkness and for Christmases to come.
A Green Message for the Next Generation
Tem Blessed, an environmentally and socially conscious hip-hop artist, discusses how contemporary music can communicate the importance of the environment and sustainability to young audiences. He illustrates this with two of his own pieces: “I am the bee” and “Now is the time.”
The Climate Movement in the Streets
While delegates finalized the language on the Paris Agreement, climate activists descended on the streets of Paris demanding greater efforts to reign in emissions and protect the people most vulnerable to the impacts of climate change.
Historic Climate Agreement Reached in Paris
After working arduously for two weeks, COP21 delegates have adopted the Paris Agreement that ambitiously aims to limit global warming to 1.5 degrees Celsius, and while many agree that the final text is not perfect, leaders say it’s what the world and humanity need now.
Indigenous Peoples Fight for Their Rights at COP21
Indigenous nations and peoples from across the globe converged on Paris for the COP21 to demand climate justice, an end to fossil fuel extraction, and the protection of indigenous rights in the COP21 text. Climate change disproportionately affects indigenous people, and they worry that some climate change solutions will violate their rights.
Migrations Off Schedule
The monarch butterflies are late, the wildebeest have turned around, and the North Atlantic right whales are missing. What’s going on with the world’s great animal migrations?
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Nicaraguan Canal
The first ships sailed down the Panama Canal in 1914. Now, nearly one hundred years later, Nicaragua has an agreement with a Chinese company to build a canal of its own to link the Pacific and Atlantic. (photo: Tim Rogers)
Massive Natural Gas Disaster Hits Los Angeles
Since October, a leaking underground natural gas storage facility near Los Angeles has released vast amounts of methane, its main ingredient, into the atmosphere, to become one of the nation’s worst environmental accidents. Methane starts off 100 times more potent than CO2 as a greenhouse gas. Some believe that this blowout may be a harbinger of what's to come from aging natural gas storage facilities.
Renewable Energy Boosted in Federal Budget Compromise
Republicans and Democrats passed a federal budget at the end of 2015 which lifted a 40-year-old ban on exports of crude oil and extended tax credits for wind and solar power for 5 years. We assess the climate impact of the budget bargain.
Debunking the Myths About Hunger
In their new book, World Hunger: 10 Myths, Frances Moore Lappé and coauthor Joseph Collins make the case that there’s plenty of food to go around, but it’s just not getting to those who need it most. Lappé argues that tackling inequality and expanding democracy are critical steps that can help feed the world.
This Week’s Show
January 8, 2016
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Massive Natural Gas Disaster Hits Los Angeles
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Since October, a leaking underground natural gas storage facility near Los Angeles has released vast amounts of methane, its main ingredient, into the atmosphere, to become one of the nation’s worst environmental accidents. Methane starts off 100 times more potent than CO2 as a greenhouse gas. Some believe that this blowout may be a harbinger of what's to come from aging natural gas storage facilities.
Renewable Energy Boosted in Federal Budget Compromise
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Republicans and Democrats passed a federal budget at the end of 2015 which lifted a 40-year-old ban on exports of crude oil and extended tax credits for wind and solar power for 5 years. We assess the climate impact of the budget bargain.
Cleaning Up A Coal-Fired Power Plant
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Coal-fired power plants must clean up their emissions to comply with expected EPA air rules. The Allegheny Front's Reid Frazier visits the Homer City Generating Station in Indiana County, Pennsylvania as they install upgrades to reduce toxic mercury emissions.
Beyond the Headlines
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In this week’s trip beyond the headlines, we dive into the armed takeover of a wildlife refuge facility in Oregon, discuss a new ban on microbeads, and remember the implementation of the 55-mile per hour speed limit.
Debunking the Myths About Hunger
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In their new book, World Hunger: 10 Myths, Frances Moore Lappé and coauthor Joseph Collins make the case that there’s plenty of food to go around, but it’s just not getting to those who need it most. Lappé argues that tackling inequality and expanding democracy are critical steps that can help feed the world.
Special Features
A River Town in Transition
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Wrangell, Alaska is a small, isolated town at the mouth of the mighty Stikine River and a former a timber capital. But since the saw mills shut down in the ‘90s, the small town has reinvented itself as a tourist destination and a commercial fishing hub. Since both of these industries are dependent on the Stikine, some locals worry that a mining development upriver could put the whole town’s livelihood at risk.
Blog Series: Alaskan River Riches
Cowee, North Carolina
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Living on Earth is giving a voice to Orion magazine’s longtime feature in which people write about the place they call home. In this week’s edition, songwriter Angela-Faye Martin uses her words and music to picture her North Carolina valley on the edge of the Great Smoky Mountains.
Blog Series: The Place Where You Live
...Ultimately, if we are going prevent large parts of this Earth from becoming not only inhospitable but uninhabitable in our lifetimes, we are going to have to keep some fossil fuels in the ground rather than burn them...
-- President Barack Obama, November 6, 2015 on why he declined to approve the Keystone XL Pipeline.
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