We feature a lecture by Mike Davis about his book Planet of Slums, which investigates the increasing inequality of the urban world. According to the U.N., more than one billion people now live in extreme poverty in mega-cities facing environmental and social collapse from perpetual and worsening climate disruptions.
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Charleston: Race, Water, and the Coming Storm
Harvard Law Prof and Author Susan Crawford tells the story of a city that has played a central role in this country’s painful racial history and now, as sea levels rise, it stands at the intersection of climate and race.
Wheat Belly, Restoring Gut Microbiomes, and Planetary Health
Dr. William Davis, Cardiologist and Author of the books Wheat Belly, Undoctored, and Super Gut, exposes the problem with our wheat addiction and has connected the dots between wheat consumption, gut health, and common modern ailments and complaints.
Toxic Exposure: The Monsanto Roundup Trials & The Search For Justice
Dr. Chadi Nabhan’s book, Toxic Exposure, tells the true story of his role as an expert physician witness who testified in multiple state and federal trials against biotechnology giant Monsanto, now owned by Bayer.
The Land Back Movement, Indigenous Revitalization & World Renewal
Radical imagination for the Land Back Movement is required to forge a new, and also perhaps ancient way out of the injustices and destruction inherent in settler colonialism. As our EcoJustice Radio guest Dr. Cutcha Risling Baldy, Associate Professor and Department Chair of Native American Studies at Cal Poly Humboldt, […]
Debunking the Skeptics: Real Solutions For A Clean, Renewable Energy Future
Is a 100% clean, renewable energy future by the year 2050 possible? On EcoJustice Radio, Stanford Professor Mark Z. Jacobson went into the details on why the most efficient and socially and environmentally just way is to transition away from fossil fuels and nuclear to Wind, Water, and Solar energy solutions.
Sacred Sueños Reforestation Project: Off-Grid and Off-Road in the Andes
Yves Zehnder tells EcoJustice Radio how he ended up off-grid, off-road and offline in a quest to live simply as a homesteader with a far smaller than average footprint. He co-founded Sacred Sueños in 2004, a mountain regeneration project, close to Vilcabamba in the Andes mountains of southern Ecuador.