Today's interview is with Lois Robin, producer of The Dirt on Climate Change, a film about ecological and biological approaches to climate change. Lois has been an author, filmmaker, and environmental activist for thirty years.

#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 as oc...

How does what we're learning about the great apes teach us about our humanity and hopes for survival on planet earth? - Our guest on this week's Planet Watch is Michelle Merrill. She is currently an independent consultant (perplexedprimate.

On the podcast we hear an interview with deep sea researcher Linda Snook whose work takes her 1500 feet down underwater in a tiny submersible. The creatures she sees few people lay eyes on in a lifetime; giant sea bass, strange worms,

David Clague is our guest on Planet Watch. He is a senior scientist and volcanologist at MBARI, the Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute. He talks about how Kilauea and other large active volcanoes help us learn more about our planet.

At 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 and with the argument supporting...

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 and robotic systems for space explorat...

Stan 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 with this innovative solution...

Ever 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,

A 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 our basic institutions by the c...