Earth to Humans

Happy Earth Day! Talk to us! What's your favorite quarantine activity? Call the voicemail! 208-917-3786 Join Wild Lens Collective members and EOC producers for a Covid-19 Roundtable on Earth Day roundtable talking about how the Coronavirus has affected all of our lives, our work, and most importantly - the environment. For a full list of show notes including web links, articles, and MEMES disc...

It’s Startup meets YouTube meets Twitch meets National Geographic. You know what? To really understand you’re just going to have to check it out yourself! www.mammalz.com .   Co-founders Rob Whitehair and Alex Finden (Happy birthday!) tell the story of how this brand new tech startup began, and what truly makes it a one-in-a-million platform.   From the Mammalz Website: “Founded by wildlife filmma...

Turn down the lights, pour yourself a beverage, and tune your ears to the smooth offerings of Ayana Young, host and author of the podcast and book, For the Wild . Ayana visits with Matthew Podolsky about how she got started in activism going all the way back to her childhood poetry. Ayana is no stranger to speaking truth to power. A graduate of the Occupy movement, she went on to live the camper l...

When we think of wetlands, most of us see them as ghostly swamps where spiders have huge webs that look like banshee in veils, or the dangerous Dead Marshes through which Gollum led Frodo in the Lord of the Rings. However, wetlands are not at all these dangerous, murky, smelly, marshy areas. In fact they are the most cheerful places full of life and activity. It’s where life gravitates to, where h...

https://www.patreon.com/WildLensCollective Send us a voice note or even a regular ole email to info@wildlensinc.org !   On this episode of EOC, I spoke with author and environmental historian, Bathsheba Demuth. Demuth is an Assistant Professor at Brown University who specializes in the intersection between humans, ecosystems, ideas, and history. We talked over Skype while Demuth was in Fairbanks a...

In this era of climate crisis and extinction crisis, it’s not hard to feel like there’s nothing we can do to stop these cascading and devastating global environmental trends. Some activists have taken the motto "Think globally, act locally" to heart. In this episode, Kristin Tieche talks to Ildiko Polony, an environmental activist who is the founder of a new organization called Wildfires t...

Common Land is a new radio documentary-style podcast series produced by the Wild Lens Collective. The series takes a deep dive into the history, science and politics behind the creation of one particular patch of protected land. Season one tells the creation story behind a unique stretch of the Snake River Canyon in Idaho, that is home to the highest nesting densities of birds of prey anywhere in...

When Lambs Become Lions   If you haven't already, please head over to www.patreon.com/wildlenscollective and make a donation to expand the work we’re doing here. As one of the longest running conservation podcasts around, we are uniquely positioned to do some incredible work in the future, but it will require additional funding. So, if you can manage even a buck a show – your donation will fue...

Happy Holidays from the EOC team!   Tune in to listen to a very light, candid, fun installment of the award winning Eyes on Conservation podcast with hosts Sarinah Simons, Kristin Tieche, Matthew Podolsky, and Gregory Haddock as we talk space-bound dinosaurs, whales, recycling, fundraising, and brushfires. It’s a tornado of holiday cheer!   lease, if you can, consider a gift donation to the cause...

In an article dated August 7, 2019, GQ magazine defined ecofascism as “a belief that the only way to deal with climate change is through eugenics and the brutal suppression of migrants.” It’s a philosophy that has roots in the American environmental movement dating back to the 1800s, right down to the creation of our national parks system . Let’s start off with the recent events that inspired me t...

Zeima Kassahun and I have been friends for a really long time - pretty much most of our lives. You wouldn't know it then, but we've somehow managed to not only stay best friends, but we've both ended up in environmental professions as adults. Zeima works as a community planting manager for a non-profit organization in the Presidio of San Francisco called Friends of the Urban Forest or...

Have you ever been listening to the EOC podcast and thought, "My goodness, EOC is like butter in my ears"? And then a second thought quickly came across your mind, "Good grief, I need to tell them this"? Now you can! In fact, we wish you would! Let the floodgates open to breaking down the wall between all of us. Send us your thoughts to info@wildlensinc.org and we might air your vo...

Today’s episode is all about goat grazing. Not only are goats absolutely adorable, they also reduce fire hazard, support native plant growth and soil health, and their poop is an amazing aid in carbon sequestration. Here in San Francisco, if you think you have a growing fire hazard in your backyard, an organization called City Grazing will bring a herd of goats to you, to chomp away at the invasiv...

For one week each year the tiny island of St. Paul holds its annual Bering Sea Days. It’s a celebration of the local biology and ecology, and a week of experimental learning and activities for the k-12 students on the island. Scientists from the Alaska Fisheries Science Center and Regional Office come to the region known as the Pribilof Islands. The program, developed by the Aleut Community of St....

This September, the United Nation’s annual Climate Action Summit met, and as usual, the chance to make real, lasting inter-governmental response to climate change came – and went. In response, youth are hitting the streets, following the lead of young people like Sweden’s Greta Thunberg, and promising to strike every Friday until Green New Deal demands are met. The fury and passion are self-eviden...

EOC's guest on this installation of the Eyes on Conservation podcast has not only seen the profit-driven side of death, but was able to break free of something she saw as misleading, opportunistic, and ultimately serving the needs of neither the mourners, nor the deceased. Elizabeth Fournier is the owner and Funeral Director of Cornerstone Funeral Services, an institution dedicated to reducing...

Ted Howard is the chairman of the Shoshone-Paiute tribe. These tribes once freely occupied the land in the tri-state area of what is now Idaho, Nevada and Oregon, and Ted Howard, who was the cultural resources director for the tribal government before becoming the chairman, is steeped in this history. This interview was recorded as a part of an oral history series on the Morley Nelson Snake River...

Today’s guest is a filmmaker working to document the complex situation unfolding in Denali National Park surrounding the management of this area’s wolf population. Ramey Newell is the documentary filmmaker behind the new film “A Good Wolf”. Join private conversations with top authors and access exclusive bonus content! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. Get full access to...

Locals and tourists marvel at the yearly northward migration of the Gray Whales, which occurs every spring. But 2019 has been a year that has confused both locals and scientists. Not only did more gray whales than usual enter the highly trafficked San Francisco Bay in search of food, but 13 gray whales were found dead, washed up on our beaches or found floating in the water. Scientists and researc...

Can you count to 1 trillion? Sure, it sounds like an overwhelming number, but according to Plant for the Planet and the Crowther Lab, we already have 3 trillion. So 1 trillion more should be a breeze, right? Right? Sagar Aryal, global chairman for Plant for the Planet, and EOC producer, Gregory Haddock visit about what it means to plant 1 trillion trees across the globe. Please consider making a d...

Julia Barnes is the young filmmaker behind the award-winning feature documentary Sea of Life.  Julia has been working on a new film project for the past two years, and she just launched a crowdfunding campaign – which means you can become a part of this new film, called Bright Green Lies. Join private conversations with top authors and access exclusive bonus content! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com...

Crima Pogge is a professor of Biology and Ecology at City College of San Francisco. In this episode, Kristin Tieche lets you be a student again, as she takes you along on her class with Crima: Ecology of the Mendocino Coast. You’ll visit a harbor seal rookery, a dune ecosystem, and a redwood forest. In 2016, San Francisco voters made City College of San Francisco free for residents, providing life...

Welcome to Northern Colorado. Ehret Nottingham loves Colorado. He loves the wilderness, and he wants everybody to have a piece of it. He's also one incredibly driven 18 year old. Ehret, with the help of some gifted, talented, and passionate friends organized and launched Northern Colorado's Youth Climate Strike, and offshoot of the international group, Youth Climate Strike. In this episode...

Larry Larocco spent his political career working on public lands issues in the Western US.  He began his career working for Senator Frank Church and played a key role in the establishment of the River of No Return Wilderness in central Idaho.  As a congressman he introduced the legislation that created the Morley Nelson Snake River Birds of Prey NCA, an area just south of Boise, ID that is home to...

Podcast producer Kristin Tieche was at the California Youth Climate Strike on March 15th, documenting this growing youth movement in support of the Green New Deal and immediate action to solve our climate crisis. To learn more check out Youth vs. Apocalypse:   http://youthvsapocalypse.org/ Join private conversations with top authors and access exclusive bonus content! Hosted on Acast. See acast.co...