For A Green Future

Host Joe DeMare talks about global warming and rolling a giant Earth ball in the Bowling Green Holiday Parade. This is the 300th Episode of our show, and also our special Thanksgiving episode. We talk with Philip Yenyo head of the American Indian Movement of Ohio about gratitude and humans relations with the natural world and each other. Next, Rebecca Wood talks about Haifa and the Bahai faith. Ec...

Host Joe DeMare talks about the bizarre weather happening around the world and in NW Ohio because of global warming, and the latest projections about what will happen if the Atlantic current collapses, hint, it's NOT like in the movie "The Day After Tomorrow." Next he plays a press conference held by anti-nuclear organizations from around the world at COP 29 that explain why nukes are no solution...

Host Joe DeMare talks about his lilacs and other flowers blooming in November. Then he interviews Stephany Seay from Roam Free Nation about Yellowstone's plans to slaughter 1/4 of the Yellowstone herd this winter. Rebecca Wood tells us about cicada killer wasps, Ecological News includes Algeria going solar and wildfires in California and Pennsylvania. 

Host Joe DeMare talks about the upcoming election and why global warming denial should be a "poison pill" for any candidate. Next he interviews Rick Bailey about TARTA's plans to become carbon neutral by 2040. Rebecca Wood describes the highs and lows of sugar. Ecological News includes a huge loss for oil companies in the UK and super effective protests in the Netherlands.

Host Joe DeMare reviews the environmental policies of the four major presidential candidates. Next he interviews Dr. Eliot Jacobson, retired math professor and expert in making amazing graphs and charts that illustrate global warming with incredible precision and which have gained him more than 80,000 X followers. Rebecca Wood talks about bats. Ecological News includes records being broken in Aust...

Joe DeMare talks about his observations of this "fall" that's includes 80 degree temperatures and birds starting new broods in October. Next he interviews Randi Podladnik, a Dr. of Environmental Science who reports on fracking developments in overly fracked eastern part of Ohio, including the ARCH2 "clean" hydrogen hub. Ecological News includes Japan turning towards more renewables and less nukes,...

Host Joe DeMare talks about his observations at Maumee Bay State Park where he went to see the Northern Lights. Next he talks with Vickie Askins from Lake Erie Advocates about the continuing scandal of CAFOS being allowed to contaminate Lake Erie with sewage. Rebecca Wood tells us about the Taino people who were brutalized by Columbus. Ecological News includes advances in Sodium Chloride battery p...

Host Joe DeMare talks about the connection between diet and ecological destruction, singing the praises of vegans, even though he's not one himself. Next he interviews  Kevin Kamps from Beyond Nuclear about the latest discoveries of corrosion in the steam tubes of the Palisades nuclear power plant, and what that means for the crooked company Holtec, claiming to be able to restart the plant for a f...

Host Joe DeMare talks about harvesting delicious puffballs. Then he describes the incredible Hurricane Helene and its environmental impact. Next, he interviews Chase Oliver, Presidential Candidate for the Libertarian Party, asking how Libertarians who oppose government regulations could protect the environment. Rebecca Wood describes the Toledo hydrogen fire, and then talks about hydrogen in gener...

Joe DeMare talks about the drought gripping most of Ohio causing crop losses and draining rivers and ponds. Then he reminisces about the 2014 People's Climate March, the largest environmental protest in US history with 400,000 people! Next he interviews Dylan Gomes, marine biologist who talks about the ecological impact of marine heat waves including huge surges of Pyrosomes, colonial tubes up to...

Host Joe DeMare answers a listener's question about why wind and solar companies don't advertise more to counter the disinformation being spread about them. He also talks about the fate of the NASA astronauts trapped on the ISS and compares their fate to ours. Next he interviews Richard Steiner of PEER about Alaska's misguided and ineffective policy of slaughtering bears and wolves. Then Rebecca W...

Host Joe DeMare talks about his experiences doing clean up and recycling at the Black Swamp Arts Festival, and Ohio's ban on single use plastics bans that are preventing us from moving away from plastics. Next he interviews Dr. Mark Z. Jacobson from Stanford about countries that have already essentially switched to 100% renewables and busting myths like carbon capture and storage. Rebecca Wood div...

Host Joe DeMare talks about the early fall bird migration that seems to be going on in North America. Next, he interviews Linda Seeley with Mothers for Peace about a rare point of hope in their battle to protect California from the Diablo Canyon nuclear plant, poised for disaster on thrust faults. Rebecca Wood tells us all about armadillos. Ecological News includes: new shocking levels of plutoniu...

Host Joe DeMare talks about his home being carbon negative in July with only 6 kW of solar. Then he dives into controversies in NW Ohio where some are advocating the extermination of nature. Next, he interviews organic farmer Kristy Buskirk about the challenges and victories involved in going organic. Co-host Rebecca Wood tells us about cicadas. Ecological News includes renewables outgrowing fossi...

Host Joe DeMare talks about the "Trapped in Maumee" movement. Homeowners have been hit with bills of $30,000 or more to replace their sewer lines, and been given only 90 days to do it. Joe talks about some financial strategies that could be used to soften the blow, but focuses on the necessity of stopping the flow of sewage into the Maumee. Then he reviews the new movie, "My Friend the Penguin." I...

Joe talks about watching the stars with the Toledo Astronomical Society in Beavercreek Park. Then he describes his battle with the Tree of Heaven plants threatening to take over his whole yard. He interviews Leona Morgan with Haul No about the illegal transport of uranium ore across Navajo territory. Ecological News includes the carless 2028 Olympics in LA, Sucralose contributing to algae blooms,...

Host Joe DeMare talks about experiences at the Wood County Fair, then reviews a congressional report on the oil companies that have used their billions to spread disinformation about the climate. Rebecca Wood remembers the 10 year anniversary of the Toledo Water Crisis caused by the poisoning of Lake Erie by an algal bloom. Ecological News includes great news from Taiwan which closed its penultima...

 Joe returns from his adventures around the globe, comparing and contrasting his experiences in the City of Chennai, India and Garden Island, Michigan. Rebecca Wood tries to figure out what happened to the mason bees that had been living in her porch. Ecological News includes the horrible pro-nuclear ADVANCE act and Florida becoming too hot for swimming. 

Joe DeMare introduces this Best Of Episode which initially aired in February, 2024. It includes a speech from Marcy Kaptur about HB6 and an interview with the inventor of a particulate storage energy system that will revolutionize energy storage. 

Joe replays an episode that originally aired in February of 2019, talking about electric cars and Trump's deregulations, one that lead directly to the E. Palestine Train disaster in 2024.

Joe DeMare talks about his upcoming trip to Tamil Nadu, India. Then he plays speeches given by Governor DeWine and the ODNR heads at the the Governor's Fish Day in Port Clinton. Rebecca Wood talks about blueberries. Ecological Nesw includes hope for ash triees, the great barrier reef dying, and Germnay's success without nukes. 

Joe DeMare and Rebecca Wood co-Host For A Green Future. This week, Joe talks about his experience surveying Lake Erie during the Ohio Governor's Fishing Day, we hear from Rebecca about the Goliath Tigerfish, and Joe discusses the recent string of Supreme Court rulings and how they are just as bad for the environment as they are for the constituents.  Ecological news includes updates on the Diablo...

Host Joe DeMare talks about heat waves in Ohio and around the world, and how increased heat makes people stupider. This leads to bad decisions like Congress's ADVANCE act, which turns the Nuclear Regulatory Commission into a nuclear promotion agency. Like we need another one of those. Then he interviews Stephany Seay about another bad government decision, the choice of "Option 2" in the bison mana...

Host Joe DeMare talks about the growing movement to throw out the ideas of personal responsibility making a difference in the war to save the planet. Then Kevin Kamps of Beyond Nuclear tells us about the criminal history of Holtec, the company the Biden administration trusts to restart the dead Palisades nuclear reactor. Rebecca Wood talks about radiation contamination in Toledo. Ecological News i...

 Host Joe DeMare talks about the invasive Joro spider and the misinformation campaign trying to convince people that invasive spiders the size of dinner plates with a painful bite and an appetite for humming birds is no big deal. Next he interview Deepa Pedmanabha, Deputy General Counsel for Greenpeace USA about the $300 million SLAPP lawsuit that is threatening to bankrupt one of the most importa...