Podcast

In this episode we speak with Francesca Koe, Board Member of the Greater Farallones Association of California.  She’ll talk about how she became a dive instructor and free diver and her love of the kelp forest that got her nicknamed ‘Kelp princess.’  Unfortunately kelp is the new coral in terms of being endangered.  With 95 […]

We hear from activist Hilton Kelley.  Raised in the segregated west side African-American community of Port Arthur Texas, the most polluted coastal town in America, he went on to join the Navy and become a successful actor.  But at 39 he returned to help restore his community and fight pollution becoming a leading environmental warrior, […]

We talk with Marine evolutionary biologist Les Kaufman about his decades of study of ocean and freshwater fish, coral reefs, human behavior and natural systems and the possibility of restoration and hope for heavily polluted and climate-impacted ecosystems from Florida’s coral reefs to Africa’s massive Lake Victoria.  Plus he used to teach our Blue Frontier Associate Director Natasha […]

We talk with Wahine Project director Dionne Ybarra who, raised in an inland Mexican American Farm worker family, discovered surfing at 38.  Stoked but concerned the sport did not have a lot of people like her, she launched the Wahine – surfer girl – Project that has taught thousands of young girls – and some […]

We talk with world-renowned science fiction author Kim Stanley Robinson about his life and his novels, including his last, ‘The Ministry for the Future’ that’s been widely hailed as both a riveting story and a plan for how we survive and transcend the climate emergency.  We also talk about Ocean themes in his works from […]