Everything Has to Change - with Kyla Bennett

We can't continue on our current lifestyle trajectory and expect the human race to survive.

This week on Green Street, Patti and Doug talk about white roofs and how they reduce urban heat, and a new study showing that chemicals from tires are ending up in our food supply. Then Kyla Bennett, Science Policy Director for PEER talks about the fate of humans in a world challenged by climate change, plastic pollution, and chemical toxins.

Green Street - Everything Has to Change!

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Links from the interview:

• Kyla Bennet and PEER:https://peer.org/author/kyla-bennett/

• Sewage sludge carrying PFAS:https://www.foodandwaterwatch.org/2024/02/08/pfas-sewage-sludge/

• Wild mammals only make up 4% of mammals on earth:https://ourworldindata.org/wild-mammals-birds-biomass

  
  

Links from the news:

• Saving cities from extreme heat:https://www.route-fifty.com/infrastructure/2024/07/surprisingly-simple-way-cities-could-save-people-extreme-heat/398073/:~:text=So%20scientists%20and%20urban%20designers,more%20passive,%20simple%20cooling%20techniques.

• Car tires shedding dangerous chemicals and plastics:https://civileats.com/2024/07/16/tracking-tire-plastics-and-chemicals-from-road-to-plate/#:~:text=Tire%2Dderived%20microplastics%20are%20a,the%20environment%20via%20tire%20microplastics.

Big Oil's Dirty Little Secret - with Justin Nobel

Drilling for natural gas brings highly radioactive waste up from deep underground. Now its our problem.

This week on Green Street, Patti & Doug discuss the failure of the FDA to regulate chemicals in food, and how new language in the farm bill will prohibit states from regulating pesticides. Then author and investigative reporter Justin Nobel talks about the extremely high levels of radiation from fracking and how the industry is trying to keep it quiet.

Green Street - Big Oil's Dirty Little Secret

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Links from the interview:

• Justin Noble: Big Oil's Dangerous Radioactive Secret:https://www.desmog.com/2024/04/24/petroleum-238-fracking-big-oil-dangerous-secret-justin-noble-ohio-west-virginia-toxic-waste/

• Family takes two corporations to court over fracking concerns:https://www.cbsnews.com/pittsburgh/news/washington-county-family-fracking-court-case/

Links from the news:

• Open letter to the FDA:https://www.ehn.org/fda-food-safety-chemicals-2668282848.html#:~:text=A%20recent%20hearing%20in%20front,tobacco%20scandals%20in%20recent%20years.

• Farm bill could reduce pesticide regulation:https://www.ehn.org/farm-bill-could-reduce-state-pesticide-regulations-and-legal-protections-2668407318.html#:~:text=The%20bill%20includes%20provisions%20that,and%20environmental%20groups%20oppose%20them.

  
  

The Unsolvable Nuclear Problem

On this edition of Green Street, Patti and Doug speak with Drs. Heid Hutner and Aaron Datesman about the nuclear accident at Three Mile Island forty three years ago, what went wrong, and how the local citizens were impacted.

Interview starts - 15:29