In our first episode in our new series on the climate crisis, I talk to Dan Sherrell about his book, Warmth: Coming of Age at the End of Our World. Dan is a climate organizer – he has led successful campaigns to phase out coal-fired power plants, divest millions of dollars from the fossil fuel…
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The climate crisis has hovered in the background of many of my episodes – and sometimes burst to the fore – but now I’m ready to take it on head-on. Really, the decision was made for me if you factor in 1) the UN climate report that came out this summer with its “code red…
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This is the last episode before the summer, folks! And it’s a good one. For one thing, if you have some lazy indoor time you need to fill over the summer, this can be an excuse to take up a new obsession with mountaineering – the armchair kind – by watching some of the documentaries…
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If you’re lucky enough to have an oak tree in your yard or nearby, Doug Tallamy will teach you that therein lies an entire David Attenborough film just waiting to be made. That’s because, among native plants, oaks are the biggest feeders of wildlife. Nationwide, oaks support 950 species of caterpillars and those, in turn,…
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