Radio Broadcast Archives

After ten years interviewing the best and the brightest in the environmental and climate community,time to say farewell to “The Green Front” on PRN with Dr. James Hansen, the pioneering former NASA scientist who has become one of the world’s most powerful voices urging action to confront the calamity of carbon pollution.

We also speak with another leader in the climate movement–Michael Brune. The Executive Director of The Sierra Club joins us with his thoughts on where we need to go next.

Senator Tom Udall joins us, virtually via video, with his moving comments on how climate change is impacting his state of New Mexico. Udall’s speech was made during last week’s dramatic overnight session in the senate, one of a few dozen given on the climate crisis.

Linda Marsa, scientist and author of “Fevered: Why A Hotter Planet Will Hurt Our Health and How We Can Save Ourselves” shares how unabated climate damage will have an adverse impact on everything from dengue fever to depression.

Just when we thought we’d covered every possible angle to climate change, a new one to consider: how college mascots may be endangered by a warming planet. NWF’s Josh Saks explains that connection.

Our first guest is an unlikely “fractivist”…Lou Allstadt is a longtime former Executive Vice President of Mobil Oil and he shares the roots of his post-career activism and what led him to write an angry open letter to Exxon head Rex Tillerson.

Noted environmental writer for the New Yorker and author of three books, Elizabeth Kolbert talks about her latest work…”The Sixth Extinction, An Unnatural History“. She discusses what humans are doing, knowingly or otherwise, to doom life on our blue planet.

The second annual World Ocean Summit is wrapping up in California with John Kerry and HSH Prince Albert among the featured presenters. We get a summary of high points and key areas of concern from Laura Parker Roerden, Executive Director and Founder of Ocean Matters.

A new study puts the brakes on the rush to fuel vehicles with natural gas. Asst. Professor Adam Brandt, with Stanford’s Department of Energy Resources, joins us with takeaway points from his research on extractive methane leaks negating the benefits of natural gas and climate change.

Despite the Obama administration’s insistence that natural gas must be a part of United States energy policy, it’s increasingly clear that natural gas is not all that it’s “fracked” up to be–and that it has already inflicted harm upon communities, our country, and climate. Jim Morris of the Center for Public Integrity discusses a new report on how the fracking industry has messed with, and messed up, Texas.