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terrestrial explores the choices we make in a world we have changed. Host Ashley Ahearn travels the country to bring listeners stories about people making personal choices in the face of env...

Episodes

14 episodes

If you gave up flying how would your life change?

There was a moment when Janisse Ray realized she couldn’t call herself an environmentalist and an activist and keep traveling by airplane.

00:20:24Dec 19, 2017

When climate change makes it hard to breathe | terrestrial

Climate change isn’t just contributing to drought, super-storms, sea level rise and flooding. It’s also making it harder for many people to...

00:17:05Dec 5, 2017

The secret history of Biosphere 2 | terrestrial

What if you looked at the world around you, saw where things are headed on this planet and said to yourself, you know what? I want to start...

00:26:31Nov 21, 2017

His fellow conservatives call him a 'green decoy.' Here's why | terrestrial

Ty Stubblefield self-identifies as a “red blooded conservative,” but he’s also an avid hunter who is frustrated with the Republican party’s...

00:25:24Nov 7, 2017

For this teenager, rebellion means suing the government over climate change | terrestrial

Scientists believe that for the planet to continue to safely support life, the level of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere should be kept as c...

00:17:28Oct 24, 2017

'I just couldn't do it:' The ambassador who quit over climate change | terrestrial

When I met Dave Rank, he was just a normal guy on a road trip with his wife in a used Subaru. But not long before that, Dave had a very impo...

00:15:58Oct 10, 2017

How is pollution connected to race and inequality? | terrestrial

The Trump administration has proposed cutting the EPA's budget by 30 percent. What does that mean for polluted communities in the U.S.?

00:21:02Jul 11, 2017

Would you trust the feds to make decisions about your land? | terrestrial

Why would a fourth-generation rancher who doesn't put much trust in the government choose to work with federal agencies to restore salmon ru...

00:16:20Jun 27, 2017

Programming note: We're working on some cool new stuff.

It’s a radical idea — that protest as we know it is broken. And a lot of people disagreed with Micah White when he first started talking abo...

00:01:34Jun 13, 2017

Should you have kids if you care about the environment?

Bill Radke talks with Ashley Ahearn, host of KUOW's terrestrial podcast, about about one of the more personal decisions we make around clima...

00:08:07Jun 6, 2017

Would you have kids, given climate change? | terrestrial

Should we have kids, given where the planet is headed?

00:19:12May 30, 2017

Would you compost your body? | terrestrial

I was about 12 years old when my great aunt Gilda died.

00:16:44May 16, 2017

You probably have eco anxiety. You just don’t know it | terrestrial

When I first heard the term eco-anxiety — a chronic fear of environmental doom — I brushed it off. It seemed like something for people who s...

00:18:59May 2, 2017

Preview: terrestrial

A new podcast from KUOW explores the choices we make in a world we have changed. Host Ashley Ahearn travels the country — from ranches in Or...

00:02:00Apr 13, 2017