HEAL Utah Podcast

HEAL Utah Podcast


Latest Episodes

Episode 114: “This is what love looks like” with Dr. Sandra Steingraber
June 21, 2019

Dr. Sandra Steingraber was there when Tim DeChristopher looked the judge who would sentence him in the eyes and said “This is what hope looks…

Episode #113: Change Starts with Community Conversations with Lara Jones and Billy Palmer
June 21, 2019

For the last 15 years, KRCL’s RadioActive has been a radio show for grassroots activism. This week, we turned the microphone around on the show’s host, Lara Jones, and co-host, Billy Palmer, to interview them on creating a safe place for community conv...

Episode #112: Discovering Climate Change and the Universe with Thomas Quayle
June 21, 2019

Thomas Quayle lives in a place that most people avoid or criticize: science communications. As the Education Program Specialist at the Clark Planetarium and a Solar System Ambassador for NASA/JPL, Thomas uses exploration to educate kids on topics like ...

Episode #111: A Disaster for Utah with Jessica Reimer
June 21, 2019

We call it the Trojan Horse of the nuclear industry and a disaster for Utah, but everyone else calls it depleted uranium (DU). Join us this week as HEAL Utah’s Policy Associate Jessica Reimer tells the story of DU,

Episode #110: Talking With, Not Down To, Each Other with Representative Angela Romero
June 21, 2019

With what lens do legislators look at a bill? Is it through a privileged one or an inclusive one that recognizes disproportionate effects that a bill could have on our communities? Representative Angela Romero (D-26) continually challenges her colleagu...

Episode #109: Being a Doctor & Environmentalist Just Makes Sense with Scott Williams
June 21, 2019

He’s a doctor, a grandfather, a cyclist, and the Bruce Springsteen of HEAL Utah: meet our Executive Director, Dr. Scott Williams. He came to the studio this week to give us a sneak-peak at his pre-HEAL life in the medical world and to explain how the t...

Episode #108: Empowering Utah’s “inconvenient youth” with Piper Christian
June 21, 2019

While some high school seniors were focused on prom, graduation, and spring break, Piper Christian spent a lot of her senior year at the State Capitol advocating for the climate change resolution. She spoke with us during a well-deserved vacation and u...

Episode #107: Climate change, global markets, and being president of the world with Yale’s Dr. Robert Mendelsohn
June 21, 2019

While he was in town to speak at the Clark Planetarium, we managed to grab Dr. Robert Mendelsohn, a professor at Yale University’s Yale School of Forestry and Environmental Studies, for a chat about his (and our own Michael Shea’s) favorite topic: the ...

Episode #106: The simply complex issues in environmental journalism with Emma Penrod
June 21, 2019

Every advocacy group believes, for good reason, that their campaign should be front page news. There’s no front page big enough to cover everyone’s work, unfortunately, so instead, we spoke with Emma Penrod,