Earth to Humans

As many know, the March for Science is a grassroots, all volunteer-organized event, celebrating science across the nation and it serves as a call to support and safeguard the scientific community. Recent policy suggestions and changes have caused heightened worry among scientists, and the incredible and immediate outpouring of support has made clear that these concerns are also shared by countless...

When he launched Conservation International in 1987, Peter Seligmann recognized that the conservation movement had yet to genuinely consider people as an integral part of ecosystems. Along with his team their thinking was on jobs and health and the health of a family, the health of the community and how these are all impacted by the conservation of nature. This seemingly intuitive approach was nov...

Hurricane Maria was the worst storm to hit Puerto Rico in over 80 years, arriving only two weeks after Hurricane Irma passed just north of the island. The effects of these storms on Puerto Rican families — and the island’s infrastructure — will take many years to heal. The effect on the wildlife inhabiting this island was also, not surprisingly, equally devastated. When the Peregrine Fund’s team o...

Making a documentary involves learning a lot of information and then condensing it into a very short format. For Sea of Life Julia Barnes, filmmaker and ocean activist, interviewed over 50 experts and only about 20 of them were featured in the movie; sometimes only for a few minutes. With a depth of information sitting on her hard drives, today she shares with listeners some never before heard cli...

At 16 years old, Julia Barnes learned that the world's coral reefs, rainforests and fisheries are expected to disappear within her lifetime. For her, action became a necessity and the journey to make a feature-length film to inspire and engage others in these issues began. She bought a couple of cameras, learned to dive, and set out on a mission to expose the biggest threats facing the ocean....

Technical outdoor gear can make all the difference in the world when you are traveling in wild places and enduring whatever weather nature tosses out. But, the trade-off is too often, ironically,  a negative environmental impact with an excess of non-biodegradable pieces sitting in the land-fill. The outdoor apparel industry, with their history of championing environmental conservation efforts can...

Greg Luther is an avid hunter, living in Montana. As a sportsmen and a gun owner, he supports stricter gun control. In a recent op-ed piece published in High Country News, Luther stated: We hunters pride ourselves on self-sufficiency, so let’s work from the ground up. That means looking at the facts, talking about it around the campfire, voting for candidates that aren’t in the NRA’s pocket, and d...

Matt podolsky and Sean Bogle are down in San Felipe filming another installment of the Vaquita story. They take you to the marina, sharing a snippet of the scene at the and provide updates on the project. We'll add updates to the diary as they become available, so stay tuned for more installments. Join private conversations with top authors and access exclusive bonus content! Hosted on Acast....

Hunters have historically been leading conservation efforts, going back to Teddy Roosevelt, who was himself an avid hunter and huge proponent of the protection of wildlife and wildlife habitat. This merger of hunting and conservation persists today. Matt Podolsky spoke with Rocky Mountain Elk Foundation’s Chief Conservation Officer Blake Henning about the organizations efforts to maintain the Nort...

Matt Podolsky and Sean Bogle are down in Mexico filming another installment of the Vaquita story and want to take listeners with them to hear what's happening in San Felipe in real time. And, a lot is happening. In this first entry, Matt and Sean tell you more about what they anticipate is in store for this adventure. We'll add updates to the diary as they become available, so stay tuned f...

Lily Raff McCaulou was raised on the East coast as an environmentalist and an animal lover. Although she was a meat-eater, she’d grown up learning that harming animals was wrong. After moving to central Oregon for a reporting job in her early twenties, she began spending weekends fly-fishing and weekdays interviewing hunters for articles and realizing her perception of hunters wasn’t accurate. She...

Today, we pause for a moment, to talk directly to you, our listeners. Matt podolsky and I are working on developing new shows and new show ideas and these discussions always find their way back to one very basic, but crucially important question: “What do listeners want?” Rather than continue talking among ourselves, we wanted to include you in on these discussions, fill you in on our thinking abo...

Although other states have proposed removing controversial topics, such as climate change, from their state science standards, Idaho is the only state in the country whose legislature has actually voted in favor of such an action. The debate over what kids in Idaho should be taught has been going on for 3 years now and will likely come to a head this week as the Idaho Senate Education Committee is...

Valentine’s Day. A day where we celebrate love in all its many forms. In keeping with the holiday's theme of romantic love and the art of courtship, complete with candy hearts and flying babies slinging arrows, we take a moment to celebrate a slightly different version of this same story. After all, much of the brilliant beauty in nature exists because attracting another is a critical componen...

Today’s guest is river explorer and conservationist Mike Fiebig, who is the Associate Director of the Northern Rockies Office of American Rivers. The lines of Mike’s personal and professional passion for wild rivers and wild places have blurred and he is about to embark on an adventure in advocacy. He and his wife Jenny are taking a human-powered, source-to-sea river trip on the Green and Colorado...

On today's episode we discuss a truly unique swath of public land - the Morley Nelson Snake River Birds of Prey National Conservation Area.  This jewel of the National Conservation Lands system is just south of Boise, and this year it’s celebrating 25 years since it’s designation. We talked with two individuals who are playing crucial roles in the continued management and conservation of the N...

Amy Martin is the Founder and Producer of Threshold, one of the most binge-worthy podcasts of 2017. In its first season, listeners were taken to the intersection of nature and humanity on the complex issue of re-wilding bison in the West, diving in deep and revealing the issue in entirely new ways. With Season 2 in the works, EOC producer Matt Podolsky, caught up with Amy to discuss the inspiratio...

We have covered the events of Standing Rock in many ways, interviewing filmmakers, historians rally marchers, and water protectors on the front lines. But today you will hear from a woman who’s music has cemented a moment in history and created a reverberation of action on a global scale. Raye Zaragoza is a young, multi-talented activist at the forefront of the movement for indigenous rights and e...

Today, our host Matt Podolsky interviews CEO and founder of ReAgency Science Communication, Jayde Lovell. Jayde and her team host the YouTube series, SciQ, where they try and bridge the gap between difficult science and the public by making their content engaging, informative and relatable. Their belief in spreading scientific literacy has led them to a partnership with The Young Turks Network and...

This week’s guest is Laird Lucas, the executive director for Advocates for the West, a non-profit environmental law firm that has dedicated itself to protecting our most valuable and vulnerable natural resource: Mother Nature. Their team is a roaring voice and strong ally in the environmental movement, and their strides in land and wildlife protections across the country and beyond, have paved the...

So I’m guessing that folks have started to notice that we’ve been lagging behind on our typical weekly release schedule with the show.  We are going through a bit of a transition period with the show, and with Wild Lens as a whole - in fact one facet of this transition will be discussed in detail on today’s episode.  But regarding the podcast - I just want to assure you that we aren’t going anywhe...

Katelyn Spradley and Kat Cannell recently undertook a fascinating journey - all in the name of protecting endangered salmon. These two women tracked the path of salmon migration on horseback, traveling from the Pacific coast all the way to the remote mountains of central Idaho. Join private conversations with top authors and access exclusive bonus content! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy fo...

Today’s guest, Marcus Eriksen, founded an organization tasked with addressing the many pervasive threats that plastics pose to wildlife and ecosystems all around the globe. The issue of plastic pollution in our oceans has been getting more and more attention recently, and the 5 Gyres Institute has been at the forefront of this movement for almost a decade.  This unique organization was launched ba...

Today we are discussing a truly unique and fascinating project that has been implemented in Scotland, called Project Wolf. Now despite the title, this is not an actual wolf re-introduction project. Although the organization managing the project, Trees for Life, is interested in eventually re-introducing wolves in Scotland, they recognize this to be a long-term goal. So in the meantime, they have o...

Many of our listeners are likely aware that this past Saturday was International Save the Vaquita Day, and we spent a lot of time putting together a very special city-wide event here in Boise, ID where I reside.  Our partners for this event included the Mexican Consulate Office here in Boise, the Discovery Center of Idaho, JUMP Boise, the Aquarium of Boise, and local Mexican restaurant El Gallo Gi...