PODSHIP EARTH
In the next decade, the scale and scope of environmental change will test our ingenuity and strength. The fight for a livable planet is one that we must win. Each week we will meet people who can help us navigate this dynamic world and get us on a path to health. Hosted by Jared Blumenfeld, Podship Earth is a call to action.
Jared Blumenfeld was the regional administrator of the US Environmental Protection Agency from 2009-2016 (appointed by President Obama). He also served as the Director of the San Francisco Department of the Environment, chaired the first United Nations World Environment Day held in the US, and founded the Business Council on Climate Change and Green Cities California. He worked for non-profits including the Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC) and the International Fund for Animal Welfare (IFAW) where he helped protect millions of acres for wildlife and held corporations accountable. He thru-hiked the Pacific Crest Trail from Mexico to Canada. He is a trusted source for environmental stories and appears frequently in the New York Times, BBC, Economist, Los Angeles Times, NPR and other media outlets.
- Update frequency
- every 12 days
- Average duration
- 34 minutes
- Episodes
- 124
- Years Active
- 2018 - 2021
Looking Up
Prepping for 2022: We’ve been through a year of climate emergencies. It's been terrifying to witness the Earth’s reaction to the destruction we have wrought upon her. We’re often ill prepared to cope…
00:32:35 |
Sun 26 Dec 2021
Alex
Art is fundamental to understanding who we are in context to the world. Artists translate and blend physical worlds with emotional landscapes, threading magic into our lives. No one embodies this jou…
00:35:06 |
Sun 12 Dec 2021
Nalleli
Nalleli Cobo grew up in South Central Los Angeles just 30 feet away from a polluting oil well. When Nalleli was nine she and her community started getting nose bleeds, nausea, headaches and asthma. N…
00:32:08 |
Sun 28 Nov 2021
Heterodox
As world leaders descended on Glasgow to agree on a plan to curb climate pollution, most of the obstacles to inking a deal centered on who pays for what. Not being discussed is the underlying financi…
00:35:59 |
Sun 14 Nov 2021
Weather
Talking about the rain, wind, sun, humidity, snow, hail, storms, heat, flooding and everything in between is one of our favorite topics of conversation. That’s now being amped up to a whole new level…
00:33:27 |
Sun 31 Oct 2021
Latino Outdoors
Our nation is becoming more diverse thanks to growth among Latinx, Asian and multiracial Americans. Diversity is our nation’s single greatest strength. Nowhere is this more true than in California wh…
00:34:04 |
Sun 17 Oct 2021
Insulate
In England, climate protesters walked onto the M25 - the country’s busiest motorway - sat down and glued themselves to the asphalt. Traffic ground to a halt while the police unstuck them. Their deman…
00:31:47 |
Sun 03 Oct 2021
Denny and Torm
We embark on an environmental justice tour of Richmond, CA with two Laotian community organizers. Before Torm Nompraseurt managed to escape Laos, 13 members of his family had been killed, the U.S. h…
00:39:36 |
Sun 19 Sep 2021
Castaway Mountain
Saumya Roy is a journalist and activist from Mumbai India who spent eight years writing: Castaway Mountain: Love and Loss Among the Waste Pickers of Mumbai. The book is so beautifully written, weavi…
00:37:11 |
Sun 05 Sep 2021
Grantchester
I grew up in this English village just outside the university town of Cambridge. Grantchester is surrounded by flat farmland. Along the narrow river Camb which connects Cambridge to Grantchester are …
00:34:11 |
Sun 22 Aug 2021
Earthseed
Earthseed - is a religion created by Octavia Butler in Parable of the Sower, a sci-fi novel about a California ravaged by climate change and social dislocation in 2024.Last year, with the pandemic ra…
00:32:59 |
Sun 08 Aug 2021
Shirley & Will
In the 1900’s, there were one million Black farmers in America and former slaves and their descendants had amassed 14 million acres of land. In the last 100 years, 90 percent of that land has been lo…
00:37:37 |
Sun 25 Jul 2021
Captain Jo
Salty captain and environmental champion Jo Royle grew up sailing, raced boats between continents, skippered the Plastiki - a boat made from 12,500 plastic bottles and then founded the groundbreaking…
00:31:42 |
Sun 11 Jul 2021
Emotional First Aid
After a year we’ve all lived through it's clear we’re emotionally spent. Our collective exhaustion is real and the truth is we can only create a healthy planet if we ourselves are healthy. Luckily he…
00:39:13 |
Sun 27 Jun 2021
Living on Earth
A long time ago, when very few people had heard the words “climate change,” Steve Curwood, a Pulitzer prize winning journalist began his first broadcast of Living on Earth - a groundbreaking, inspiri…
00:28:19 |
Sun 13 Jun 2021
Fenton
Climate Communications Now! If we are to have a chance of combating climate change it won’t be through publishing more reports or having yet another meeting - what we need is clear actionable mass c…
00:41:20 |
Sun 30 May 2021
Hanalei
Kaua’i is the oldest Hawaiian island, has the most endemic species and is the wettest place in the US. At this island’s northern edge is Hanalei Bay, where Barbara “Maka‘ala” Ka‘aumoana has run the …
00:39:49 |
Sun 16 May 2021
Wild City
Our definitions of nature help define us. Lisa Wayne has been on the cutting edge of mediating differing views about nature. Lisa supports a network of natural areas within one of the most urban citi…
00:33:27 |
Sun 02 May 2021
Uganda Air
In Uganda air pollution is a big problem. Luckily, Michael Wanyama isn’t taking this fight sitting down. When Michael’s 6 year old son came down with asthma, he wanted it to go away. Little did Mr Wa…
00:31:07 |
Sun 18 Apr 2021
Lamar
Lamar Thorpe was born in prison. Days later he was adopted into a Mexican family and christened Martin Hernandez. It was only when joining the Navy that he acknowledged his black identity. Last Nove…
00:37:26 |
Sun 04 Apr 2021
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