TSL:SFN – Into The Clear Blue Sky w/ Rob Jackson

TSL:SFN – Into The Clear Blue Sky w/ Rob Jackson

Rob Jackson is the Chair of the Global Carbon Project, a Senior Fellow at Stanford’s Woods Institute for the Environment and Precourt Institute for Energy, and a professor of earth science at Stanford University. Through global scientific leadership and groundbreaking research, communications, and policy activities, Jackson’s work has reduced millions of tons of greenhouse gas emissions and improved human health, […]

TSL:SFN – The Parrot and The Igloo w/ David Lipsky

TSL:SFN – The Parrot and The Igloo w/ David Lipsky

David Lipsky is the author of the New York Times bestsellers Absolutely American and Although of Course You End Up Becoming Yourself, the basis for the acclaimed movie The End of the Tour. He has written for The New Yorker, The New York Times, Harper’s, Rolling Stone, This American Life, All Things Considered, and New York, and is the recipient […]

TSL:SFN – A River Divided w/ George Paxinos

TSL:SFN – A River Divided w/ George Paxinos

Environmental activist and renowned neuroscientist, George Paxinos has identified and named more brain areas than anyone in history and published 57 books. His atlases and concepts of brain organization are used by most scientists working on the relationship between the brain and cognition, emotion, motivation and thought, including neurologic or psychiatric diseases such as Alzheimer’s and depression. His latest book […]

TSL:SFN – Am I Too Old To Save The Planet? w/ Lawrence MacDonald

TSL:SFN – Am I Too Old To Save The Planet? w/ Lawrence MacDonald

Alarmed by the surge in climate-related disasters, a growing number of Americans are asking “What can I do to help?” Lawrence MacDonald’s new book, Am I Too Old to Save the Planet? A Boomer’s Guide to Climate Action offers unexpected answers for the 70 million boomers–people born from 1946-1963–who are still America’s most powerful generation. A former foreign correspondent and […]

TSL:SFN – Follow-Up w/ Sara Turner (Nexii)

TSL:SFN – Follow-Up w/ Sara Turner (Nexii)

Sara Turner, Sustainability Manager at Nexii Building Solutions is back to talk about how her challenge went that she decided to take on during our first recording. Was she able to take the plunge? Listen in and find out! Find Sara Turner and Nexii online: Donate to This Sustainable Life: Solve For Nature Click here to support the podcast, so […]

TSL:SFN – Restoring Eden w/ Dr. Elizabeth Hilborn

TSL:SFN – Restoring Eden w/ Dr. Elizabeth Hilborn

First, the tadpoles and frogs disappeared; then the bats and the songbirds left. Dr. Elizabeth Hilborn, a honey bee veterinarian and environmental health scientist, soon realized the bees—the vital pollinators of fruits, plants, and vegetables—were dying. Everything was still and silent. In 2017, after a large flood, most of the teeming life on her beloved family farm in North Carolina […]

TSL:SFN – Return of Wolves w/ Eli Francovich

TSL:SFN – Return of Wolves w/ Eli Francovich

Following a February 10, 2022, court order, gray wolves in the contiguous 48 states and Mexico – with the exception of the Northern Rocky Mountain population – are now protected under the Endangered Species Act (ESA) and listed as threatened in Minnesota and endangered in the remaining states. After being nearly eradicated in the 1990s, the gray wolf has made […]

TSL:SFN – Innovating Sustainable Building w/ Sara Turner (Nexii)

TSL:SFN – Innovating Sustainable Building w/ Sara Turner (Nexii)

Sara Turner is a Sustainability Analyst at Nexii Building Solutions, a company dedicated to innovating and creating breakthrough building systems that prove that planet-friendly solutions aren’t a sacrifice — they’re an improvement in every way over the status quo. Sara has been contributing to the green building industry since 2017, through previous roles that include building science engineering, energy modeling, and renewable […]

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