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Nepal Floods, Code Pink (opens the original)
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Rasuwa, Nepal – Prakash Dahal On today’s show: catastrophic floods on the Nepal–Tibet border. Kathmandu-based journalist Prakash Dahal joins us with the latest from the disaster zone—and a look at who bears responsibility, who should pay, and what can be done to protect Himalayan communities. Then, CODEPINK co-founder Jodie Evans joins us to talk about the campaign to cut the Pentagon budget, and why peace activists say that fight is also about protecting the planet. The post Nepal Floods, Code
20 Years of Failure (opens the original)
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Mutinta Nketani – National Coordinator Zambia Alliance for Agroecology and Biodiversity 20 Years of Failure: On today’s show, after nearly two decades and billions in backing, has Africa’s so-called Green Revolution delivered on its promises—or deepened hunger and dependency? We take a look at the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, AGRA, and the fight for food sovereignty across Africa. Timothy A. Wise – senior research fellow at Tufts University’s Global Development and Environment Institute I’ll
Oakland Institute’s Annual Report Highlights (opens the original)
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Oakland Institute – Report Cover 2026 Rubaya Mines On today’s show, Greenfaith’s development director and strategist Anna Wagner will be here promoting their interfaith event in San Jose on August 23rd. We’ll switch gears and have a conversation with the Oakland Institute’s policy director Frederic Mousseau about the highlights of their annual impact report. Greenfaith Event Info: More Than 75 Faith Leaders and Community Members Expected to Gather to Launch Week of Action for Climate Justice, Co
Carbon Capture & Storage for California? (opens the original)
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Pic of CCS plant in MississippiNina Robertson, Ileana Navarro, Thom Hersbach On today’s show, carbon capture and storage for California? That is the question. I’ll speak to Ileana Navarro policy associate with the Central California Environmental Justice Network, Stanford University Woods Institute for the Environment policy fellow and scientist Thom Hersbach and Nina Robertson, deputy managing attorney for Earthjustice to get some answers. Response from California Air Resource Board (CARB)’s Li
‘Clean’ Natural Gas (opens the original)
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Report Cover with Authors R. Leber and R. John On today’s show, the Center for Climate Integrity has released a new report titled “The Fraud of ‘Clean’ Natural Gas: How Big Oil and Gas Created the Myth that Natural Gas is a Climate Solution”. I’ll speak with the report’s authors, investigative journalists Rebecca Leber and Rebecca John, about how the oil and gas industry helped build the image of natural gas as clean and climate-friendly — despite decades of evidence about air pollution, methane
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