Ecologistics Podcast

What type of political activism can nonprofit organizations engage in without running afoul of the IRS?  Joel Diringer of Diringer & Associates will lead us through the types of lobbying and promotio…

City Repair is a Portland-based nonprofit that facilitates artistic and ecologically-oriented placemaking through projects that honor the interconnection of human communities and the natural world.  …

Stanford Professor Mark Z. Jacobson discusses his roadmaps to convert 139 countries to 100% wind, water and sunlight for all energy purposes.  Prof. Jacobson has testified before Congress and governm…

Known as the “upside-down river,” the Salinas River has its source in San Luis Obispo County and runs north to empty into Monterey Bay.   The river and its two tributaries are dammed by three dams, c…

Eileen Crist, author and associate professor in the Department of Science, Technology and Society at Virginia Tech, discusses her latest book, "Abundant Earth."  Crist calls for a profound shift in t…

Grassroots environmental activism is hard work.  Monitoring local media, writing op ed pieces and letters to the editor, attending city council and county supervisors meetings, supervising targeted l…

The Wildlands Conservancy is California’s largest nonprofit nature preserve system, offering free admission to nature lovers and families.  Biologist Landon Peppel will tell us about the mission and …

Environmental and science author Mary Ellen Hannibal describes her life and work and how the sixth extinction brought her to this work.  Mary Ellen is the author of Citizen Scientist, The Spine of th…

Cool Block is a how-to guide for communities to tackle climate change one neighborhood at a time. Meet David Gershon, CEO of Empowerment Institute and create of Cool Block.

Bhutan is a fairly new democracy.  Its constitution requires 60% of the country be kept in national forests, and measures Gross National Happiness instead of Gross Domestic Product.  Kinga Tshering o…