All episodes
The Spark Community Utility: A City-Led Path to Clean, Resilient, Affordable Energy, with Bob Krause
Here Comes El Niño! with Dr. Daniel Swain, UCANR and NCAR
Fire and Ice on the Roof of the World, with Jonathan Mingle, Independent journalist and science writer
Rancho Coyote Viejo--A Pilot Land Access Project for Farmers, with Josefina Lara Chavez, Executive Director of RegenerationLA
Speculations on Conjunctural Futures: What Might We Expect, What Must We Do? With Kim Stanley Robinson, author of The Ministry for the Future
Plutonium Pit Production--The Risks and Costs of US Plans to Build New Nuclear Weapons, with Dr. Dylan K. Spaulding of the Union of Concerned Scientists
Trump’s War on California’s Environment, with Jason Rylander and Hollin Kretzmann from the Center for Biological Diversity
The Santa Cruz Mountains Stewardship Network With Dylan Skybrook, Network Manager
The San Francisco Bay Area—An Environmental History With David D. Schmidt
Secret Sounds of Ponds and Other Animal Music with Professor David Rothenberg, NJ Institute of Technology
Extractive Frontiers: Critical Minerals and Green Capitalism, with Professor Thea Riofrancos, Providence College
Is that Teflon in your food and water? Good for eggs, maybe, but probably not for you! with Dr. Faith Kibuye, Penn State University
Microplastics: invisible, insidious, and...fixable with Dr. Myra Finkelstein and Dr. Steven Mentor
"We think they'll kill someone" indigenous resistance in Oaxaca, Mexico, with Anjan Sundaram, The Stringer Foundation
Transformative Climate Communities in California With Nancy Faulstitch and Eloy Ortiz, Regeneración Pajaro Valley
The Past and Future of Sustainable Communities with Peter Calthorpe, Architect & Urban Designer
Biologists Unite! The Rise and Fall of Ecosystem Services with Professor Daniel Suarez, Middlebury College
The Water Remembers—My Indigenous Family’s Fight to Save a River and a Way of Life with Amy Bowers Cordalis Ridges to Riffles Indigenous Conservation Group
The Living Green Myth: The Promise and Limits of Lifestyle Environmentalism with Dr. Michael Maniates
Microplastics in Lake Tahoe: What are They Doing There? What are they Doing? With Madison “Madio” Wallner
The Norris Center for Natural History at UCSC: What is it? Why is it there? With Professor Ingrid Parker and Center Director Chris Lay
The ABCs of California Native Bees with Krystle Hickman, Conservation Photographer and National Geographic Explorer
The Omnivore’s Deception--What We get wrong about meat, animals and ourselves, with Professor John Sabonmatsu, Worcester Polytechnic Institute
The Enduring Fantasy of ‘Feeding the World’ with Professors Adam Calo and Maywa Montenego
An Hour Wasted with Tom Lehrer: A Tribute to the Man and His Music
Conserving California’s Lands and Coastal Waters: A Progress Report with Meghan Hertel, Deputy Secretary for Biodiversity and Habitat at the California Natural Resources Agency
What's Happening with Climate Law across the World, the United States and California? with Professor Alice Kaswan, University of San Francisco School of Law
Save the Valley Dragons! Restoring the Blunt-Notes Leopard Lizard to the San Joaquin Desert with Dr. Michael Telemeco and Dr. Michael Westphal
"What's in Those Plastics, Anyway?" with Professor Susannah Scott of UC Santa Barbara
After the Floods--The Search for Resilience in Ellicott City, with Professor Ken Conca, American University
The False Promise of Deep-Sea Mining, with Professors D.G. Webster and Susan Park
Cull of the Wild: Killing in the Name of Conservation, with Hugh Warwick (rerun)
Out, Out, Damned Carbon! with Dr. Barbara Haya & Dr. Stephen Lezak, Berkeley Carbon Trading Project
What's the Matter with California's Electricity System? with Loretta Lynch
The Return of Wolves to California with Amaroq Weiss, Center for Biological Diversity
Food Apartheid and Food Hubs A Visit with Saba Grocers and co-founder Lina Ghanem
Are Tariffs Good for the Environment? Bad? Or What? With Ronnie Lipschutz and Christine Barrington
Titans of Industrial Agriculture With Professor Jennifer Clapp, University of Waterloo
Getting Back to the (Alan Chadwick) Garden, with Orin Martin, Master Gardener, Horticulturalist and Teacher
“To Say Nothing of the Dog”* Understanding connections between culture and nature in environmental art
As long as grass grows: The indigenous fight for environmental justice
Give Me Land, Lots of Land in the Santa Clara Valley with Andrea Mackenzie of the Santa Clara Valley Open Space Authority
History of UC Santa Cruz
Sustainability & Politics after Annus Horriblis 2020, with Kim Stanley Robinson
Urchins in the Storm
Climate Change, Heat & Birth Impacts
An SN! Revisit with Dr. Rupa Basu. Climate Change and Public Health
Fighting Fires with Fire, with Dr. Sasha Berleman, Wildland Fire Scientist
What Do You Do About a Problem Like PG&E?
Here Comes the Sun!
Let's Go Ride our Bikes!
Fighting Fires with Fire with Dr. Sasha Berleman, Wildland Fire Scientist
Let the Salmon Swim Freely--The Klamath Dam Removal project with Brook Thompson
Fire, Fire at Moss Landing--Why the batteries burned and what that means
American Environmentalism, Then and Now (1965-2025) With Mark Dowie
Life and Death Decision-making through Algorithms, with Professor David Rehkopf and Derek Ouyang, Stanford University
From the Ground Up: The Women Revolutionizing Regenerative Agriculture with Stephanie Anderson
Will the U.S. Environment Survive Trump 2.0? With Dr. Andrew Rosenberg, University of New Hampshire
Eco-utopia or eco-catastrophe?
A Just Transition for All: Workers and Communities for a Carbon-Free Future with Dr. J. Mijin Cha
What Does the Chicken Know? And other Animal Stories with Sy Montgomery
Disabled Ecologies--Lessons from a Wounded Desert, with Professor Sunaura Taylor, UC Berkeley
Can Protection of Forests, Farms & Waters be Reconciled with Economic Development? with Larry Selzer of The Conservation Fund
Dust to Dust or Earth to Earth? Composting as an Alternative after Death with Katrina Spade of Recompose
How should we speak with children about climate change? with Dr. Elizabeth Bagley of Project Drawdown
Protect San Benito County!
Is it Curtains for Glaciers? Slowing Down Polar Melting, with Professor John Moore, University of Lapland
Let’s go Fishin’! with Melissa Mahoney of the Monterey Bay Fisheries Trust
Bast from the Past! Nature's Best Hope with Professor Douglas Tallamy A New Approach to Conservation that Starts in Your Yard
Reading and Interpreting Your Electricity Bill--A Talmudic Exegesis
Do We Dominate Nature because We Fear Death? with Professor James Rowe, University of Victoria
Is Solar Energy a Commons Belonging to Everyone or Private Property only for the Well-off? with Professor Kathryn Milun of the Solar Commons Project
What do students eat? Salads! with staff and students from Esperanza Community Farms and Pajaro Valley High School
Being in the World with Bees (or, What is it to Be a Bee?) with Professor Eve Bratman
The Green Energy Resource Rush and the American West with Professor Dustin Mulvaney
The Climate Change Resilient Vegetable Garden With Kim Stoddart
Can we square our need to consume with sustainability? with Dr. Jean Boucher, James Hutton Institute, Scotland
The Elephant Seals are Back! with Dr. Theresa Keates
California Against the Sea With Rosanna Xia of the LA Times
The Path to an Energy Efficient, Electric Future, with Amory Lovins
What's in Your Water? Nitrate Pollution on California's Central Coast, with Chelsea Tu of Monterey Waterkeeper
Firepower and Global Security: Past, Present and Future, with Professor Simon Dalby
Will Small Modular Reactors Save the Nuclear Industry? with Prof. Allison Macfarlane, former chair of the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission
Would the world beat a path to your door for a fully compostable plastic? with Raegen Kelly of Better for All
Replanting Burned over Sequoia Groves in the Sierras, with Dr. Christy Brigham, National Park Service, and Dr. Chad Hanson, John Muir Project
The Life Beneath Our Feet, with Dr. Chelsea Carey, Point Blue Conservation Science
“You’re going to have to change the priorities of your life if you love this planet” With Dr. Helen Caldicott
Hitman for the Kindness Club with Captain Paul Watson
Why are some people so up in arms about CEQA? with Professor Deborah Sivas, Stanford Law School
How Kinship Practices Could Foster New Relations between Humans and Nature, with Prof. Rosalind Warner
Does Nature have Rights? with Katie Surma of Inside Climate News
When Public Works is Homeland Security, with Jackie McCloud
Can Green Manure Cover Crops End Drought in Africa? With Roland Bunch
Innovation and Entrepreneurship at UC Santa Cruz, With Nada Miljkovic
Under a White Sky: The Nature of the Future--Elizabeth Kolbert and Ezra Klein in Conversation
Electrification of California & the Battle over Solar Farms in the Deserts with Professor Dustin Mulvaney
The Ideal River: How control of nature shaped the international order, with Dr. Joanne Yao
W(h)ither UCSC’s East Meadow? with Nadia Peralta and Bob Majzler
Songs for Earth Day, with Dr. Peter Weiss, the Singing Scientist, and His Guitar
A Visit to the SC Museum of Natural History, with Marisa Gomez