Resilient Earth Radio & Podcast

Send us Fan Mail We talk in early January 2025 with Captain Paul Watson in this 21st episode about his captivity in Greenland (we covered his July 21, 2024 arrest in episode #1 with the President of Sea Shepherd France Lamya Essemlali). We discuss what happened, why this all came down, how he got the notice December 17 that he'd be freed, and what he and the Sea Shepherd France and Brazil, al...

Send us Fan Mail We speak with DC’s Ocean Foundation Sr. Fellow Richard Charter about the scope, impact, and strength of President Biden’s recent ban. On 1/6/25 Biden took protected the entire U.S. East coast, eastern Gulf of Mexico, & the Pacific off the coasts of WA, OR, & CA, + additional portions of the Northern Bering Sea in Alaska from future oil & natural gas leasing. In protect...

Send us Fan Mail In July of 2024, Robin Greenfield - a man who follows an action-based philosophy of life, service and activism and seeks to be the change he wishes to see in the world through an intentional life design of simple and sustainable living - set out walking on a 1,600 mile journey along the Pacific Coast from the Canada/US border to Los Angeles. We caught up with him as He passed thro...

Send us Fan Mail Dr Carly Kenkel, Biologist/University of Marine and Environmental Biology at the University of Southern California is partnering Dr Stacy-Ann Robinson, Assoc. Prof./Environmental Sciences, Emory University (Ph. D., Global Environmental Change, The Australian National University) to bring attention to the status of Caribbean and worldwide coral reefs, the loopholes in governance an...

Send us Fan Mail This is a conversation with Danielle (Dani) Lipski, Research Coordinator, NOAA's Cordell Bank National Marine Sanctuary, and Jaime Jahncke, founder Point Blue Conservation Science, as they talk about their work off the Northern CA coast studying ocean data aboard NOAA ships. ACCESS (Applied CA Current EcoSystem Studies) is a project formed by Point Blue Conservation Science (...

Send us Fan Mail Jack Barkowski started working with Cascadia Research Collective in September 2021, helping collect data and run surveys to monitor baleen whale presence and behavior near the open and close of the Dungeness Crab Fishery in California. He is working on his MSc at Moss Landing Marine Laboratories, where he studies patterns in song and non-song humpback whale vocalizations along the...

Send us Fan Mail Eric and wife Elizabeth Adrienne Clune live in the Sea Ranch and are friends and neighbors of Resilient Earth host and producer, Leigh Anne Lindsey. It is Eric's music that is used for the theme music and transitions for this podcast. WAKE UP! THE MUSICAL - a production in the works by Eric and partner Bob Garrett - is a humorous, endearing, & inspiring environmental awar...

Send us Fan Mail Increasingly we experience devestating events due to climate change, from wildfires to hurricanes & cyclone bombs, to extreme heat events and floods. The 10 hottest years on record ever, 2014-2024, seriously affected biodiversity in our oceans. CO2 levels indicated in ice core samples show the trapped CO2 levels throughout the millenia, and now we have a "hockey stick&quo...

Send us Fan Mail Recorded late Oct '24, this podcast is a deep dive into the history of whales, dolphins, and porpoises in the San Francisco Bay, and up the Pacific coast.  Keener joined The Marine Mammal Center in the 70s as an animal care volunteer and later served as Exec. Dir. in the early 80s. In his current role as a Research Associate on the Center’s Cetacean Field Research Team, he fo...

Send us Fan Mail “ECOLOGY, BEHAVIOR, AND HABITAT USE OF TRANSIENT KILLER WHALES IN THE CALIFORNIA CURRENT”  We talk with Josh McInnes who is a marine biologist specializing in the ecology of marine mammals and has spent over a decade studying the ecology of killer whales. Hear what he has to say about their sociology and foraging habits. Josh’s work started in British Columbia, where he focused on...

Send us Fan Mail In this episode, we talk about the loss of bull kelp along the Northern California coast and the efforts underway to restore the ecosystem,and about the first annual Kelp Festival May-June 2024 with the Mendocino Film Festival, Above/Below, and the many organizations, chefs, and people who came together to raise awareness about this critical issue and the positive things people ar...

Send us Fan Mail Plastic Pollution in our oceans, and on our planet - what is being done about it? Hear from Dr. Marcus Eriksen, a local Sea Rancher, marine scientist, veteran, and author who co-founded (with life partner Anna Cummings) 5 Gyres Institute which is studying  the impact of plastics on the world's oceans, & Leap Lab, a center for art, science and self-reliance. Marcus lecture...

Send us Fan Mail Superintendent Maria Brown has been with NOAA for more than two decades and shares her background and responsibilities with the Cordell Bank and the Greater Farallones, and how our waters are protected along the Northern California coast, from San Mateo County past the Golden Gate Bridge in the San Francisco Bay Area, all the way North to Manchester Beach in Mendocino County.  She...

Send us Fan Mail The CA Coastal Commission is charged with protection and regulation of the state’s 1,100-mile coastline, and Eben has served for 24 years as the technical expert for the agency, advising state and local governments, non-profit organizations, and members of industry on actions and programs that can reduce the causes of marine debris, especially plastic. He works with hundreds of no...

Send us Fan Mail The mission of the Mendocino Coast Audubon Society is to help people appreciate and enjoy native birds, and to conserve and restore local ecosystems for the benefit of native birds and other wildlife. President Tim Brey talks about the work they do, and the programs they offer for observing birds and other wildlife here on our coast, and the oftentimes negative impact humans can h...

Send us Fan Mail Howie talks with Resilient Earth Radio about how they got started, what their scope is, and to keep an eye out for a new documentary about the Snake River in which he participates. He will be presenting on the next annual Ocean Life Symposium Friday October 18 (airs live 9am-2pm Pacific on both public radio and YouTube) which is produced by the producers and hosts of Resilient Ear...

Send us Fan Mail Aeon Bashir talks with Resilient Earth about how they are helping our planet from inland Minnesota, USA. Recorded live on KGUA public radio July 19, 2024. Aeon for Ocean was founded by Aeon, a 7-year-old, to empower his peers to protect the ocean and this beautiful planet. Aeon has been passionate about marine life since he was 2 years old. He is an avid advocate for the ocean and...

Send us Fan Mail In this episode and radio show, we talk with Ted Cheeseman , founder of Happywhale, an organization that engages citizen scientists to help identify individual marine mammals, for fun and for science. Their mission is to increase global understanding and caring for marine environments and to make it easy and rewarding for the public to participate in marine science through innovat...

Send us Fan Mail In this episode we talk with Michael Stocker about the impact sounds in our oceans have on all marine life (including low to mid-frequency sonar, shipping traffic, and blasting). Michael is founding director of Ocean Conservation Research (Sound Science Serving the Sea), where he uses his fluency in bio-acoustics to explore the impacts of noise on ocean animals to inform ocean pol...

Send us Fan Mail This gives you a short overview of episode 3! https://inlandoceancoalition.org/rising_tide_podcast/ Planet Centric Media (non-profit) Media for a Healthier Planet: Elevating The Interconnectedness of Life & Value of Natural Resources. Mendonoma Whale & Seal Study Founded by Scott & Tree Mercer to document the occurrence, diversity, & behavior of marine mammals. Dis...

Send us Fan Mail In this episode, meet American award-winning journalist David Helvarg & Natasha Benjamin of the Ocean conservation and policy group, Blue Frontier in the San Francisco Bay Area and hosts of Rising Tide, The Ocean Podcast.  David is an Award-winning American journalist, author, and an environmental activist.  Natasha is a Peabody-award winning filmmaker whose documentary Sequoi...

Send us Fan Mail Welcome to the first episode of RER. This is an interview we did on July 26th with the President of the Sea Shepherd Conservation Society in France, Lamya Essemlali about the July 21st arrest in Nuuk Greenland of Captain Paul Watson, Founder of the Sea Shepherd Conservation Society, co-founder of Greenpeace, and star of Whale Wars (who recently has been living in France and this o...

Send us Fan Mail In Episode 2, we talk with Richard Charter about the Ocean Foundation documentary DEFEND THE DEEP about the pending perils of deep sea mining. Deep seabed mining (DSM) is a potential commercial industry attempting to mine mineral deposits from the seafloor, in the hopes of extracting commercially valuable minerals such as manganese, copper, cobalt, and nickel. However, this mining...