terrestrial
Environment
terrestrial explores the choices we make in a world we have changed. Host Ashley Ahearn travels the country to bring listeners stories about people making personal choices in the face of environmental change.
Location:
United States
Description:
terrestrial explores the choices we make in a world we have changed. Host Ashley Ahearn travels the country to bring listeners stories about people making personal choices in the face of environmental change.
Twitter:
@kuow
Language:
English
Contact:
206-543-2710
Email:
webhelp@kuow.org
Episodes
If you gave up flying how would your life change?
12/19/2017
There was a moment when Janisse Ray realized she couldn’t call herself an environmentalist and an activist and keep traveling by airplane.
Duration:00:20:24
If you gave up flying how would your life change?
12/19/2017
There was a moment when Janisse Ray realized she couldn’t call herself an environmentalist and an activist and keep traveling by airplane.
Duration:00:17:05
When climate change makes it hard to breathe | terrestrial
12/5/2017
Climate change isn’t just contributing to drought, super-storms, sea level rise and flooding. It’s also making it harder for many people to breathe,...
Duration:00:17:05
When climate change makes it hard to breathe | terrestrial
12/5/2017
Climate change isn’t just contributing to drought, super-storms, sea level rise and flooding. It’s also making it harder for many people to breathe, like 13-year-old Estefany Velasquez. Her family faced a tough choice because of her asthma.
Duration:00:17:05
The secret history of Biosphere 2 | terrestrial
11/21/2017
What if you looked at the world around you, saw where things are headed on this planet and said to yourself, you know what? I want to start fresh. A...
Duration:00:26:31
What happens if we have to find ways to replicate life on Earth? | terrestrial
11/21/2017
What if you looked at the world around you, saw where things are headed on this planet and said to yourself, you know what? I want to start fresh. A group of scientists did just that — but things didn’t go as planned.
Duration:00:26:31
His fellow conservatives call him a 'green decoy.' Here's why | terrestrial
11/7/2017
Ty Stubblefield self-identifies as a “red blooded conservative,” but he’s also an avid hunter who is frustrated with the Republican party’s efforts to...
Duration:00:25:24
His fellow conservatives call him a 'green decoy.' Here's why
11/7/2017
Ty Stubblefield self-identifies as a “red blooded conservative,” but he’s also an avid hunter who is frustrated with the Republican party’s efforts to transfer public lands out of federal control. So, he’s fighting back.
Duration:00:25:24
For this teenager, rebellion means suing the government over climate change | terrestrial
10/24/2017
Scientists believe that for the planet to continue to safely support life, the level of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere should be kept as close to 350...
Duration:00:17:28
For this teenager, rebellion means suing the government over climate change | terrestrial
10/24/2017
Scientists believe that for the planet to continue to safely support life, the level of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere should be kept as close to 350 parts per million as possible. We haven’t seen that level since the late 1980s - more than a decade before Victoria Barrett was born.
Duration:00:17:28
'I just couldn't do it:' The ambassador who quit over climate change | terrestrial
10/10/2017
When I met Dave Rank, he was just a normal guy on a road trip with his wife in a used Subaru. But not long before that, Dave had a very important job.
Duration:00:15:58
'I just couldn't do it:' The ambassador who quit over climate change | terrestrial
10/10/2017
When I met Dave Rank, he was just a normal guy on a road trip with his wife in a used Subaru. But not long before that, Dave had a very important job.
Duration:00:15:58
How is pollution connected to race and inequality? | terrestrial
7/11/2017
The Trump administration has proposed cutting the EPA's budget by 30 percent. What does that mean for polluted communities in the U.S.?
Duration:00:21:01
Would you trust the feds to make decisions about your land? | terrestrial
6/27/2017
Why would a fourth-generation rancher who doesn't put much trust in the government choose to work with federal agencies to restore salmon runs on her...
Duration:00:16:20
Would you trust the feds to make decisions about your land? | terrestrial
6/27/2017
Why would a fourth-generation rancher who doesn't put much trust in the government choose to work with federal agencies to restore salmon runs on her property?
Duration:00:16:20
Protest is broken, he said. Now he dreams of revolution in Oregon | terrestrial
6/13/2017
It’s a radical idea — that protest as we know it is broken. And a lot of people disagreed with Micah White when he first started talking about it, but...
Duration:00:20:28
Should you have kids if you care about the environment?
6/6/2017
Bill Radke talks with Ashley Ahearn, host of KUOW's terrestrial podcast, about about one of the more personal decisions we make around climate change:...
Duration:00:20:29
Would you have kids, given climate change? | terrestrial
5/30/2017
Should we have kids, given where the planet is headed?
Duration:00:19:12
Would you have kids, given climate change? | terrestrial
5/30/2017
Should we have kids, given where the planet is headed?
Duration:00:19:12
Would you compost your body? | terrestrial
5/16/2017
I was about 12 years old when my great aunt Gilda died.
Duration:00:16:44