On this morning’s 10am edition of Your Call’s One Planet Series, we’ll mark Indigenous People’s Day by discussing how Native American traditional knowledge can help find solutions to our modern climate crisis.
We’ll discuss the Yurok Tribe’s decision to grant personhood to the troubled Klamath River in Northern California. The river and its salmon runs near the Oregon border have been greatly affected by climate change and adverse policy decisions, leading to a mass salmon die-off.
We’ll also discuss the Karuk Tribe’s use of traditional land management practices to help California fight mega fires during these times of ever-drier forests and less reliable rainfall.
Joining me to discuss these issues are:
- Lisa Hilman, a Karuk tribal member and program director for the Píkyav Field Institute, a unit of the Karuk Tribe’s Department of Natural Resources (DNR) dedicated to environmental education and protection; and
- Amy Cordalis, general counsel for the Yurok Tribe and a tribal member, life-long fisher and ceremonial practitioner.
You can stream it live at 10am today or listen to 91.7 FM in the San Francisco Bay Area. Call 866-798-TALK with questions or comments!
On this morning’s 10am edition of Your Call’s Media Roundtable, I’ll interview Emmy-winning correspondent and 25-year producer for PBS’ Frontline Martin Smith about his new PBS documentary “The Crown Prince of Saudi Arabia.”
The film coincides with the one-year anniversary of the brutal murder of the Washington Post’s Jamal Khashoggi at the Saudi Consulate in Istanbul, Turkey. It examines the rise of Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman to power, as well as his ties to the murder, handling of dissent, and relationship with the Trump administration. You can watch the two-hour documentary on PBS.
I’ll also discuss this Tuesday’s D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals decision which reaffirmed the Trump administration’s repeal of Obama-era net neutrality rules. These rules were meant to ensure we can all access content and applications on the web regardless of the source. Joining me will be April Glaser, a Slate technology writer and co-hosts the podcast “If Then” who will help unpack the ruling and how it will affect the internet going forward.
You can stream it live at 10am today or listen to 91.7 FM in the San Francisco Bay Area. Call 866-798-TALK with questions or comments!
On this morning’s 10am edition of Your Call’s Media Roundtable, I’ll be hosting a discussion of the coverage of the recent presidential elections in Guatemala. Alejandro Giammattei, a right-wing former prison chief, won the election with nearly 60% of the vote, with implications for immigration to the U.S. from that country.
We’ll also talk about the impacts of a new federal regulation that would make it easier for the U.S. government to deny entry or green cards to immigrants based on their use of social services. Guests include:
- Sandra Cuffe, freelance journalist based in Guatemala
- Arthur Delaney, reporter with the HuffPost covering politics and the economy
- Obed Manuel, reporter for the Dallas Morning News covering immigration and Latino issues
You can stream it live at 10am today or listen to 91.7 FM in San Francisco. Call 866-798-TALK with questions or comments!
EPA’s proposed rollback of federal clean car mileage standards would be crippling to U.S. efforts to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. And its unprecedented proposed revocation of California’s ability to set stricter standards would specifically harm our state’s climate efforts.
I’ll be discussing the latest on this proposal this morning at 10am on KALW radio’s “Your Call” at 10am. I’ll be joined on the panel by Dr. Daniel Sperling, professor of civil engineering and environmental science and policy at UC Davis and member of the California Air Resources Board. It will be a follow-up to our recent KQED Forum appearance.
Tune in and call with questions!
As countries around the world, and now California, contemplate banning gasoline-powered cars by sometime mid-century, how can electric vehicles fill the need? How “green” are electric vehicles? And how are we going to get the charging stations we need to meet future demand?
I’ll be discussing these issues this morning on KALW radio’s “Your Call” at 10am. I’ll be joined on the panel by Dr. David Reichmuth, senior engineer for Clean Vehicles Program at Union of Concerned Scientists. Tune in and call with your questions!
