Climate justice from the ground up.
EcoJustice Radio treats environmental crisis as a story of power, place, and repair. Episodes move from Port Arthur fossil fuel resistance to soil biology, watershed restoration, degrowth, Indigenous regenerative intelligence, and Central American land defense.
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EcoJustice Radio is environmental journalism with an organizing spine. It treats climate change, land use, water, soil, public health, and empire as connected subjects, not separate beats. The show’s episodes are built around interviews, tributes, and extended conversations with people who bring lived stakes to ecological issues. Some arrive from frontline conflict. John Beard Jr. speaks from Port Arthur, Texas, where fossil fuel expansion and community resistance meet directly. Graham Russell frames Honduras and Central America through human rights, land defense, mining, dams, plantation economies, sweatshops, sanctions, and U.S. imperialism. Other episodes turn toward repair. Dr. Elaine Ingham’s soil food web work is presented as a practical path for restoring ecological function. Zach Weiss explains water-cycle restoration through retention landscapes, recharged springs, aquifers, wells, and examples from Oregon, India, Portugal, and Rajasthan. The show is willing to be technical. It is also willing to be bluntly political. Stan Cox’s degrowth episode links ecological limits to consumption, rationing, air conditioning, and the larger shape of an economy built for expansion. A tribute to Mike Davis brings urban theory, labor, class, Southern California, and political history into the environmental frame. The land is never just scenery here. It is territory, memory, watershed, food system, fire ecology, and community. Episodes on James Skeet, Spirit Farm, and Navajo Diné knowledge place soil health, nutrient-rich food, human health, and biocosmology in the same field of concern. Los Angeles episodes bring the focus home through The Birdhouse, Hollywood Orchard, Soil Sponge Collective, the L.A. Permaculture Academy, and regenerative work near the Santa Clara River. The pacing is formal and explanatory, with careful guest introductions and a public-radio cadence. EcoJustice Radio suits listeners who want environmental coverage that follows the money, honors place, and still asks what can be regenerated.
Made for: For listeners who want environmental coverage with politics, history, ecology, and community voices in the same frame. It especially suits climate organizers, land stewards, students, educators, and public-radio listeners who prefer depth over quick tips.
What sets it apart: EcoJustice Radio stands apart by pairing frontline resistance with restoration practice: sacrifice zones, imperialism, and extractive economies sit beside soil biology, water retention, permaculture, and Indigenous regenerative intelligence.
EcoJustice Radio presents environmental and climate stories from a social justice frame, featuring voices not necessarily heard on mainstream media.Our purpose is to amplify community voices, broaden the reach of grassroots-based movements, and inspire action. We investigate solutions for social, environmental, and climate issues with an eye to advance human health, steward wild landscapes, and solve the climate crisis across the USA and the world.Featured weekly on KPFK Los Angeles and KPFT Houston, and found on all major podcast apps. We are nationally syndicated through the Pacifica Network and PRX and heard on public radio stations across the US and downloaded in over 25 countries.Co-hos…
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A grounded case for healing damaged land by watching where water goes and helping it stay.
Water is treated as planetary infrastructure: something people can slow, redirect, and return to dry ground. Carrie Kim's conversation with watershed practitioner Zach Weiss connects transpiration and rainfall with a practical habit: watching runoff during a storm, then finding…
A clear interview connects San Francisco Bay risk with the plastic fibers moving through household air.
Microplastics feel most troubling when the discussion moves from San Francisco Bay into the home. Jessica Aldridge's conversation with Dr. Scott Coffin, an environmental toxicologist and research scientist at the California State Water Resource Control Board, links Bay samples…
A thoughtful episode on water as kin, responsibility, and a living source of collective well-being.
The Maori Way of Water frames environmental responsibility as a living relationship, not a policy abstraction. Heni Unwin, a marine scientist with the Cawthron Institute's Maori Research Team, discusses how science and Maturanga Maori, the Maori worldview, can meet in research…
Documentary storytelling on ecology and Indigenous land stewardship, hosted by Mendel and Adam.
BBC World Service reporters explain climate mechanisms and policy from the Amazon to Delhi to the Alps.
Books, systems, and the questions that unlock them.
Soil life, climate repair, practical regeneration.
Coastal science, patiently and beautifully reported.
Jodie Evans from CODEPINK discusses the need to transition from a war-based economy to a sustainable peace economy, linking U.S.
This episode features excerpts from talks by oceanographer Sylvia Earle on ocean conservation and sustainable solutions.
EcoJustice Radio hosts Carrie Kim in conversation with Heni Unwin, a Māori marine scientist from the Cawthron Institute.
Host Jessica Aldridge interviews Dr.
John Beard Jr.
An interview with Graham Russell discussing U.S.
A conversation with author Stan Cox about degrowth and the ecological future, featuring commentary from scholars.
An interview with Dr.
EcoJustice Radio presents Jack Ait's tribute to Mike Davis, a Southern California urbanist, historian, activist, MacArthur Fellow, and author of more than 20 books.
EcoJustice Radio host Carrie Kim interviews Zach Weiss, founder of Water Stories, about restoring watersheds by keeping rainfall in landscapes longer.
EcoJustice Radio examines proposed AI data centers through Stephen J.
EcoJustice Radio features host Jack Ait presenting Paul Stamets’s talks on medicinal mushrooms, psilocybin, mycology, and ecological restoration.
EcoJustice Radio host Carrie Kim interviews Don David Wiley, a teacher, elder, and founder of the Sacred Fire community, about fire as a social and spiritual force connecting people with nature.
Jack Eyde interviews novelist Max Talley about Peace, Love, and Hate (Three Rooms Press), set in Haight-Ashbury during the last six months of 1969.
Host Carrie Kim interviews James Skeet about integrating Native Navajo wisdom and biocosmology into regenerative agriculture and community building.
John Allen discusses permaculture, community building, and regenerative practices in Los Angeles, including his work with The Birdhouse and plans for a regenerative farm.
An interview with Dastan Khalili about CalEarth's mission to promote sustainable, fire-resistant earth architecture for affordable housing.