Trail Rated Outdoors Podcasts

In-depth discussion on how pesticides are effecting the health and welfare of our environment, our food and water supplies, our wildlife and the health of our children concludes.

Discussion on the threat glyphosate and neonic pesticides pose to the health of our children and wildlife continues.

Discussion on the threats posed by pesticides on our pollinators and wildlife continues.

Learn the relationships between pesticide use, GMOs, and the health of humans, wildlife, and the environment. Special emphasis is paid to our pollinators and their importance to our very existence.

Discussion on wildlife diseases concludes.

Learn what new and nasty diseases are effecting the fish and wildlife we put in our fridge and feed our families! Stay safe by staying informed!

Discussion on hydraulic fracturing and its risks to our environment concludes.

Discussion on fracking and risks to the environment continues.

Big Oil and Big Profits spell BIG trouble for outdoors recreation! Learn what fracking is and what it does to our environment and the threat it poses to our water supply.

Wrapping up our in-depth look at governmental losses affecting our outdoors interests, we look at some of the budgetary issues facing our outdoors. We also provide a very broad view of the invaluable information that the Outdoors Industry Association provides to the outdoors recreation industry. We review the staggering numbers that show how outdoors interests are an economic powerhouse!!! And we wrap up our discussion with how the outdoors industry has responded to the Trump Administration’s all out denial toward the environment and the outdoors and his giveaways to the fossil fuels industry.

Continuing our investigation of our government’s threats toward our outdoors interests. We expose the men in our current government that are threatening our public lands and, most importantly, "why".

We take a very close and in-depth look at the VITAL governmental regulations that protected outdoors recreation interests, and why those regulations were rescinded, suspended, or being reviewed.

We finish up Part 2 with a look at how the financial investment brokerages are starting to divest from fossil fuel projects due to climate change and corporate responsibilities toward green energy. And we look at the resounding support that the Paris Accord receives, both globally and here at home. The move to improve our world is far from dead.

Picking up where we left off, we look at the socioeconomic impacts of leaving the Paris Accord, and more importantly, how renewable energy stacks up as a jobs creating supercharged engine compared to the fossil fuel industry. And a look at the INSANE government subsidies that the fossil fuels STILL gets!!

Keeping this investigation going, we talk about the fossil fuels industry billionaires that have financed the misinformation campaign against climate change science and are buying your elected officials in order to insure their interests remain unscathed by regulations. We expose the political puppets that the fossil fuels billionaires have bought, placing their interests ahead of their constituents. And we look at the Paris Climate Accord once more. Looking at the misinformation the Trump Administration is issuing on behalf of the fossil fuel lobby. And the geopolitical impact of the United States backing out of the Paris Accord and a look at what the European Union, China, and India have planned in the years ahead, and the investment dollars they’re collecting in private investment to do things.

Starting off Part 2 in this multipart series, we examine the decades long misinformation campaign that the fossil fuels industry exposed the world to in denying climate change. Fossil fuels industry lobby groups are exposed and a look at what and how they’ve operated.

Climate Change 101, Part 1, Segment 4 – In order to wrap this up, we examine the Paris Climate Accord and dispel the misinformation that has been widely publicized about it. We also go over an extensive summary over everything covered and how it all ties together to work against our climate. We also discuss how it affects the outdoors recreation enthusiast, their families, and what they can do about climate change at home or at work.

Climate Change 101, Part 1, Segment 3 – Picking right back up on things, we dive right into some serious stuff!! How forest fires effect climate change due to total carbon emissions and the high volume of trees lost that help remove CO2 from the atmosphere, drought length and severity, total global sea ice loss and sea level rise, the frequency and types of extreme weather events ahead in our future, the effect on public health and even our insurance rates are looked at. And we discuss the Anthropocene epoch, or sixth extinction event, that we are currently experiencing here in our present day.

Climate Change 101, Part 1, Segment 2 – Getting right back to it, we go in to atmospheric CO2 levels, CO2’s effects on plants, humans, and animals is discussed in depth, CO2’s effect on freshwater and saltwater is also examined. We also look closely at coral bleaching, inland and coastal algae blooms, CO2’s effect on soil erosion and degradation, and how deforestation adds to the climate change problem.

Climate Change 101, Part 1, Segment 1 – So what is Climate Change? An overview of some science refreshers, the difference between weather and climate, the effect of human population on the planet, our atmosphere and greenhouse gases, and the carbon cycle and how carbon dioxide (CO2) is affected. All to start things off on our introductory podcast to climate change!