Climate Change

The Butt Stops Here: Reducing Cigarette Waste-PW080

https://media.blubrry.com/planet_watch_radio/content.blubrry.com/planet_watch_radio/CigaretteWasteTaraLeonard.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 53:41 — 49.2MB) | EmbedSubscribe: Apple Podcasts | Email | RSS | More In 2015 ,the Ocean Conservancy’s annual coastal cleanup found a total of 2,127,666 cigarette butts, over twice as many as the next most common form of litter. About half of these cigarette butts were • Read More »


Wind Turbines and the Forest Fires of August-PW079

https://media.blubrry.com/planet_watch_radio/content.blubrry.com/planet_watch_radio/WindTurbines.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 54:00 — 49.4MB) | EmbedSubscribe: Apple Podcasts | Email | RSS | MoreReport on last summer’s forest fires in British Columbia, Canada, as well as a rebroadcast of an interview with solar and wind expert Chris Bley. Find out what’s new in the wind turbine industry that • Read More »


Sea Level Rise & Coastal Environmental Policy Expert Will Travis-PW078

https://media.blubrry.com/planet_watch_radio/content.blubrry.com/planet_watch_radio/SeaLevelRise.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 54:00 — 49.4MB) | EmbedSubscribe: Apple Podcasts | Email | RSS | MoreRebroadcast of our interview with Will Travis, expert on environmental policy implications of sea level rise due to out-of-control climate. Former California Coastal Commissioner and sea-level-rise expert Will Travis talks about revolutionary ways cities can • Read More »


No More Mermaid Tears-PW077

https://media.blubrry.com/planet_watch_radio/content.blubrry.com/planet_watch_radio/MermaidTears077.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 54:00 — 49.4MB) | EmbedSubscribe: Apple Podcasts | Email | RSS | More#KidsGetIt !  Today, July 1, 2018, on Planet Watch, our guest is Ruby Rorty who, at age 14, founded the Santa Cruz Environmental Alliance http://santacruzenvironme.wixsite.com/scea a youth-led organization with the goal of empowering young people • Read More »


Fossil Free UC: A Divestment Movement with Momentum-PW073

https://media.blubrry.com/planet_watch_radio/content.blubrry.com/planet_watch_radio/UCFossilFree.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 53:37 — 49.2MB) | EmbedSubscribe: Apple Podcasts | Email | RSS | MoreAt the University of California, students and faculty are engaged in a campaign to get one of the country’s largest public university systems to divest their financial interests in fossil fuel companies on moral grounds • Read More »


Mars-The Red Planet: NASA Scientist Carol Stoker talks about her research-PW072

https://media.blubrry.com/planet_watch_radio/content.blubrry.com/planet_watch_radio/LifeonMars016.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 52:07 — 71.6MB) | EmbedSubscribe: Apple Podcasts | Email | RSS | More An interview with NASA scientist Carol Stoker, an expert on Mars, the Red Planet. Carol Stoker is a staff planetary scientist at NASA Ames Research Center. Her most recent work is focused on developing instruments • Read More »


Bus Rapid Transit: A Cleaner Alternative-PW071

https://media.blubrry.com/planet_watch_radio/content.blubrry.com/planet_watch_radio/BusRapidTransitStanSokolow.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 53:49 — 49.3MB) | EmbedSubscribe: Apple Podcasts | Email | RSS | MoreStan Sokolow trained and practiced as an orthodontist most of his life. But his interest in solving the world’s transportation problems became an obsession when he got inspired by reading about successes in other countries • Read More »


Micro-Hydro Power Guru Don Harris – PW070

https://media.blubrry.com/planet_watch_radio/content.blubrry.com/planet_watch_radio/Microhydrogenerators011.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 54:01 — 49.5MB) | EmbedSubscribe: Apple Podcasts | Email | RSS | MoreEver thought of making your own electricity in a nearby stream? We’ll talk with Don Harris, world-class guru on micro-hydropower and inventor of the Harris Hydroelectric Permanent Magnet Turbine about his experiences with these low-cost, • Read More »


Saving American Democracy and the Planet -PW069

https://media.blubrry.com/planet_watch_radio/content.blubrry.com/planet_watch_radio/DavidOrrSavingAmericanDemocracy.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 50:45 — 116.2MB) | EmbedSubscribe: Apple Podcasts | Email | RSS | MoreA conversation with David Orr, writer and professor emeritus of environmental studies and political science from Oberlin College about the future of American democracy. What do we do to repair the damage being done to • Read More »


Finding Planet B: Exoplanet Hunter Jonathan Fortney-PW068

https://media.blubrry.com/planet_watch_radio/content.blubrry.com/planet_watch_radio/ExoplanethunterJonathanFortney.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 36:43 — 33.7MB) | EmbedSubscribe: Apple Podcasts | Email | RSS | MoreJonathan Fortney is a planet hunter. His job as head of UC Santa Cruz’s Astronomy Department is to look for exoplanets, planets orbiting other solar systems. He talks about what it would mean to find • Read More »