The Sustainability Segment presents one-on-one interviews with inspiring leaders and grass roots activists on a variety of environmental, social, and economic issues affecting life and the future of our planet. 628142
Guest Thor Hanson speaks with Diane Horn about his book “Buzz: The Nature and Necessity of Bees.” Originally published 10/15/18. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Guest Lisa Margonelli speaks with Diane Horn about her most recent book “Underbug: An Obsessive Tale of Termites and Technology.” See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Guest Marshall Rosenberg, Founder, Center for Nonviolent Communication, speaks with Diane Horn about how nonviolent communication can be used to bring about positive social change. Originally broadcast 1/7/19. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Guest Marshall Rosenberg, Founder, Center for Nonviolent Communication, speaks with Diane Horn about how nonviolent communication can be used to bring about positive social change.
Guest Nick Norton, Executive Director, Washington Association of Land Trusts, speaks with Diane Horn about the work of Washington Land trusts to conserve land and help address climate change. Originally broadcast 12/31/18. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Guest Nick Norton, Executive Director, Washington Association of Land Trusts, speaks with Diane Horn about the work of Washington Land trusts to conserve land and help address climate change.
Guest Ivy Sager-Rosenthal, Communications Director, Toxic- Free Future, speaks with Diane Horn about progress towards a toxic-free future during 2018. Originally published 12/24/18. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Guest Ivy Sager-Rosenthal, Communications Director, Toxic-Free Future, speaks with Diane Horn about progress towards a toxic-free future during 2018.
Guest Rebecca Ponzio, Climate and Fossil Fuel Program Director, Washington Environmental Council, speaks with Diane Horn about priorities for environmental legislation in the 2019 Washington State Legislative Session. Originally published 12/17/18. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Guest Rebecca Ponzio, Climate and Fossil Fuel Program Director, Washington Environmental Council, speaks with Diane Horn about priorities for environmental legislation in the 2019 Washington State Legislative Session.
Guest Lisa Margonelli speaks with Diane Horn about her book “Underbug: An Obsessive Tale of Termites and Technology.”
Guest Leah Missik, Program Manager, Built Green, speaks with Diane Horn about the work of Built Green to encourage environmentally sound design, construction, and development practices in Washington's cities and communities.
Guest Rebecca Monteleone, Chair, Sierra Club Seattle Group, speaks with Diane Horn about the Move All Seattle Sustainably Coalition and their recommendations to improve transportation for Seattle pedestrians, bicyclists and transit riders. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Guest Rebecca Monteleone, Chair, Sierra Club Seattle Group, speaks with Diane Horn about the Move All Seattle Sustainably Coalition and their recommendations to improve transportation for Seattle pedestrians, bicyclists and transit riders.
Guest Mike Lufkin, Local Food Economy Manager, King County Department of Natural Resources and Parks, speaks with Diane Horn about King County's Local Food Initiative. Originally published 11/5/18. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Guest Mike Lufkin, Local Food Economy Manager, King County Department of Natural Resources and Parks, speaks with Diane Horn about King County's Local Food Initiative
Guest Patti Goldman. Managing Attorney, Northwest Office, Earthjustice. speaks with Diane Horn about efforts to ban chlorpyrifos, a pesticide widely used in agriculture associated with both pesticide poisoning and chronic health effects. Originally published 10/29/18. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Guest Patti Goldman. Managing Attorney, Northwest Office, Earthjustice. speaks with Diane Horn about efforts to ban chlorpyrifos, a pesticide widely used in agriculture associated with both pesticide poisoning and chronic health effects.
Guest Mindy Roberts, People for Puget Sound Program Director, Washington Environmental Council, and Member, Governor Inslee's Orca Recovery Task Force, speaks with Diane Horn about Task Force draft recommendations to help aid orca recovery and promote their future sustainability. Originally published 10/22/18. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Guest Mindy Roberts, People for Puget Sound Program Director, Washington Environmental Council, and Member, Governor Inslee's Orca Recovery Task Force, speaks with Diane Horn about Task Force draft recommendations to help aid orca recovery and promote their future sustainability.
Guest Thor Hanson speaks with Diane Horn about his book “Buzz: The Nature and Necessity of Bees.”
Guest Marcia Bjornerud, Professor of Geology and Environmental Studies at Lawrence University, speaks with Diane Horn about her most recent book “Timefulness: How Thinking Like a Geologist Can Help Save the World.”
Guest Ahmed Gaya, Field Director, Yes on 1631, speaks with Diane Horn about Initiative 1631, which would charge pollution fees on sources of greenhouse gas pollutants and use the revenue to reduce pollution, promote clean energy, and address climate impacts.
Guest Kate Melges, Ocean Plastics Campaigner, Greenpeace USA, speaks with Diane Horn about the Greenpeace Ocean Plastics Campaign.
Guest Margaret Morales, Senior Research Associate, Sightline Institute, speaks with Diane Horn about how backyard cottages could help close the affordable housing gap and provide homes for extremely low income individuals.
Guests Alberto Rodriguez, Duwamish Valley Advisor, Office of Sustainability and Environment, City of Seattle, and Paulina Lopez, South Park resident and Manager, Duwamish Valley Youth Corps, speak with Diane Horn about the Duwamish Valley Action Plan: Advancing Environmental Justice & Equitable Development in Seattle.
Guest Bruce Speight, Executive Director at Environment Washington, and State Director at Environment Washington Research & Policy Center, speaks with about the report “Electric Buses: Clean Transportation for Healthier Neighborhoods and Cleaner Air."
Guest Kirstin Mueller. Election Security Chair, League of Women Voters of Washington, speaks with Diane Horn about the security of Washington State elections and how election security can be improved.
Guest Lisa Remlinger, Evergreen Forests Program Director, Washington Environmental Council, speaks with Diane Horn about the 2018 State of our Forests and Public Lands Report: An Evaluation of Public Lands Commissioner Hilary Franz's Results.
Guest Liz Hitchcock, Acting Director at Safer Chemicals, Healthy Families, speaks with Diane Horn about implementation of the Lautenberg Chemical Safety Act.
Guest Gordon Padelford, Executive Director of Seattle Neighborhood Greenways, speaks with Diane Horn about the work of Seattle Neighborhood Greenways to advocate for biking and walking in Seattle and to create safer streets.
Guest Irit Tamir, Director, Private Sector Department, Oxfam America, speaks with Diane Horn about Oxfam's Behind the Barcodes Campaign.
Guest Bruce Herbert, Founder and Chief Executive of Newground Social Investment, speaks with Diane Horn about progress made by shareholder advocacy in creating positive change in publicly traded corporations during 2018.
Guest Eric de Place, Programs Director at Sightline Institute, speaks with Diane Horn about the status of fossil fuel development projects in the Pacific Northwest and the environmental implications for Northwest and global communities.
Guest Elizabeth Fournier speaks with Diane Horn about her book “The Green Burial Guidebook : Everything You Need to Plan an Affordable, Environmentally Friendly Burial.”
Guest Wyking Garrett, President and CEO, Africatown Community Land Trust, speaks with Diane Horn about efforts to maintain the identity of and prevent displacement in the Central District.
Guests Danielle Shaw, Local Government Affairs Manager of the Washington Environmental Council, and Sophia Ressler, Staff Attorney at Puget Soundkeeper Alliance, speak with Diane Horn about Nature's Scorecard.
Guest Amy Carey, Executive Director at Sound Action, speaks with Diane Horn about the work of Sound Action to protect Puget Sound's vital nearshore habitat and species.
Guest Rich Hatfield, Senior Conservation Biologist at the Xerces Society for Invertebrate Conservation, speaks with Diane Horn about bumble bee conservation and the Pacific Northwest Bumblebee Atlas Project
Guest Alicia Daniels Uhlig, Living Community Challenge and Policy Director, International Living Future Institute, speaks with Diane Horn about the Living Community Challenge.
Guest Ellen Brown, Founder & Chair, Public Banking Institute, speaks with Diane Horn about the current status of efforts to create public banks in the U.S.
Guests Cuquis Robledo, Coordinator at Storytellers Series, and Clark Matthews, Lead Producer at Rooted in Rights, a program of Disability Rights Washington, speak with Diane Horn about the Rooted in Rights project and the Rooted in Rights Storytellers Film Festival.
Guests Sharon London of National Wildlife Federation, and Michelle Wainstein, Field Conservation Associate at Woodland Park Zoo, speak with Diane Horn about supporting wildlife in the city and the 2018 Wildlife in the City Week.
Guest Morgan Simon speaks with Diane Horn about her book, “Real Impact: The New Economics of Social Change”.
Guest Nick Abraham, Communications and Accountability Manager of Washington Environmental Council and Washington Conservation Voters, speaks with Diane Horn about how environmental legislation fared in the 2018 Washington State Legislative Session.
Guest Melissa Hoover, Executive Director of Democracy at Work Institute, speaks with Diane Horn about building better jobs and a fairer economy with worker cooperatives.
Guest Jennifer Chang, Acting Director of Puyallup Watershed Initiative, speaks with Diane Horn about the Puyallup Watershed Initiative, a new model for community-centered change.
Guest Stephen Jones, Director of The Washington State University Bread Lab, speaks with Diane Horn, about the work of the Bread Lab to to breed and develop publicly available varieties of grains and other crops that will benefit farmers, processors, and end-users while enhancing access to affordable and nutritious food for all members of our communities
Guest Kathy Sakahara, Democracy Issue Chair of the League of Women Voters of Washington, speaks with Diane Horn about bills that support democracy in the 2018 Washington State Legislative Session.
Guest Katherine Strange, Technical Analysis Manager at Puget Sound Clean Air Agency, speaks with Diane Horn about health implications of PM 2.5 particulate pollution and steps being taken to reduce PM 2.5 in the Puget Sound region.
Guest Chase Gunnell, Communications Director of the Conservation Northwest. speaks with Diane Horn about the work of Conservation Northwest to to protect, connect, and restore wildlands and wildlife from the Washington Coast to the British Columbia Rockies for the benefit of people and wildlife.