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Acting like a responsible adult can be challenging at the best of times. Add dealing with climate chaos to the mix, and keeping it all together can feel like an outright miracle. 
Let’s start by acknowledging that all does not feel fine in the world at the present moment. But living through extreme intensity isn’t a completely unique experience. Generations before us have endured existential crises of unimaginable magnitudes. 
So how do we navigate this period of uncertainty — regardless of our age? And what tools can we use to build resilience in the midst of what feels like a lot?
Guests: 
Emily Raboteau, Author, “Lessons for Survival: Mothering Against ‘The Apocalypse’”
Ana Alanis, Founder, Hungry for Climate Action
Andrew Bryant, Co-Director, North Seattle Therapy & Counseling
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More than 7% of California has burned in the last five years. Clearly, past methods of wildfire prevention haven’t worked. Now, California is embracing a variety of new approaches to land management in an effort to beat back the flames. California Natural Resources Secretary Wade Crowfoot oversees the state's public lands, parks, wildlife and its firefighting agency, CalFire.
As part of our slate of SF Climate Week events, Secretary Crowfoot spoke with KQED Science Reporter Danielle Venton about his work leading efforts to better adapt the state to the risk of wildfires. 
Guests:
Wade Crowfoot, California Secretary for Natural Resources
Danielle Venton, Science reporter, KQED
This conversation was recorded live on April 23, 2024 and supported in part by the Resources Legacy Fund.
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Summer means peak wildfire season. And recently, we’ve seen some of the most destructive wildfires in recorded history. For years the message around fire has been: no fire is good. 
But increasingly, we’re starting to fight fire with fire. Prescribed burns may help prevent large, catastrophic wildfires. While using fire as a tool to manage the forest may be a relatively new concept to some, Indigenous communities have used fire to manage their environment for thousands of years. Is it time to rethink our relationship with wildfire? 
Guests: 
Susan Prichard, Fire Ecologist, University of Washington School of Environmental and Forest Sciences
Ana Alanis, Founder, Hungry for Climate Action
Nick Mott, Multimedia journalist 
Frank Kanawha Lake, Research Ecologist and Tribal Liaison, USDA Forest Service
This episode was supported by the Resources Legacy Fund.
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Globally, one-third of food produced every year is wasted. That’s enough to feed about 2 billion people — twice the number of people who are undernourished. The global food system also accounts for a whopping one-third of the world’s greenhouse gas emissions. These two problems — waste and emissions — are intricately linked: Climate disruption exacerbates food insecurity. And industrial food production contributes to the climate crisis. When food is wasted, it’s also a waste of land, water and energy.
In this episode, we talk with experts about how to fix the broken system and hear from some of the people on the ground recovering food before it goes to waste. How can we address both climate and food insecurity at the same time?
Guests:
Dawn King, Senior Lecturer, Brown University
Lisa Moon, CEO, The Global FoodBanking Network
Norma Alonso, ABACO, Cooperation Manager 
James Leyson, Managing Director for Global Impact and Operations, Scholars of Sustenance
This episode also features a news story produced by Harvest Public Media contributor Peter Medlin, a reporter with WNIJ Northern Public Radio.
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Summer is coming soon, and for many that means vacation. While traveling far and wide can be an amazing experience, the carbon cost of traveling is significant. But what if we could rekindle a sense of awe in our own neighborhoods?
After years of extreme expeditions all over the world, adventurer Alastair Humphreys spent a year exploring the detailed local map around his home. His new book “Local” is an ode to slowing down, as well as a rallying cry to protect the wild places on our doorstep.
This episode also features field reporting from Producers Austin Colón and Megan Biscieglia.
Guest: 
Alastair Humphreys, Author, adventurer
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At age 9, Nalleli Cobo, suffering headaches, heart palpitations, nosebleeds, and body spasms, became an activist, driven to fighting to close the local oil well responsible for her ailments. In 2022, at age 20, she won the prestigious Goldman Environmental Prize for her work shutting down toxic wells throughout the Los Angeles region. The same year, California Gov. Gavin Newsom signed a law prohibiting such neighborhood wells. Then Big Oil bankrolled a referendum on the matter for the November 2024 ballot, putting the restrictions Cobo fought so hard for on hold.
Also in California, State Attorney General Rob Bonta has filed a lawsuit against five of the world’s largest oil and gas companies, along with the lobbying organization American Petroleum Institute, for willfully misleading the public about climate change. This week we explore two methods of challenging fossil fuels: in the courts and on the ballot.
Guests:
Nalleli Cobo, Cofounder, People Not Pozos
Rob Bonta, California Attorney General
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