Insider Podcast

Saving Sharks: EDF Supports Cuba-Mexico-U.S. Partnership

Featuring:
Dan Grossman, Regional Director, EDF Rocky Mountain Office
Diane Regas, Vice President, EDF Oceans Program
Pam Baker, Director, Gulf of Mexico Strategic Conservation Initiatives
Dr. Robert H. Hueter, Director, Center for Shark Research, Mote Marine Laboratory

Sharks are essential to healthy marine ecosystems and coastal economies in the U.S., Cuba, and Mexico, yet their numbers are dwindling to dangerously low levels.

Listen to EDF experts Diane Regas and Pam Baker, and Dr. Robert H. Hueter from Mote Marine Laboratory, as they discuss the new tri-national alliance to restore these highly migratory animals using catch shares, EDF’s proven approach that provides incentives for fishermen to work toward conservation.

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EDF Champions an Economic Solution for Safeguarding Rainforests

Featuring:
Dan Grossman Regional Director, EDF Rocky Mountain Office
Stephan Schwartzman, Director, EDF Tropical Forest Policy
Derek Walker, Director, EDF California Climate Initiative
Osvaldo Stella, Director of climate change, the Amazon Institute for Environmental Research (IPAM)

The destruction of tropical forests causes up to 20% of the world’s annual global warming emissions, and creates economic hardship for the indigenous people who depend on those forests to survive. Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation (REDD) is an approach championed by EDF that can establish economic incentives for tropical forest conservation.

Discover how REDD is not only safeguarding the environment and the livelihood of people in Brazil and Indonesia, but why it’s good news for the economy of California and other places closer to home.

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EDF Partnering with Farmers to Green Working Lands

Featuring:
Dan Grossman Regional Director, EDF Rocky Mountain Office
David Festa Vice President – Land, Water, Wildlife
Suzy Friedman Deputy Director, Center for Conservation Incentives – Land, Water, Wildlife
Tracy Blackmer, Director of Research, Iowa Soybean Association
Denny Friest, Iowa Farmer

The invention of synthetic fertilizer in the early 20th century transformed the way the world feeds itself. But this life-giving revolution in agricultural productivity has become too much of a good thing. Excess fertilizer not absorbed by crops runs off farm fields and pollutes our rivers, contaminates our drinking water and creates oxygen-deprived “dead zones” in oceans and bays.

EDF is working with farmers and the Iowa Soybean Association to slash pollution in key waterways. What are EDF’s science-based strategies for cleaning our waters, boosting farmers’ income and maintaining agricultural yield?

Find out directly from a farmer why he and thousands of other farmers, normally wary of environmental groups, are embracing this work with open arms.

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New Opportunities for Progress on Climate

Featuring:
Dan Grossman Regional Director, EDF Rocky Mountain Office
Steve Cochran Vice President, EDF Climate & Air
Vickie Patton EDF General Counsel

It’s been a year of dramatic ups and downs. The U.S. Senate’s failure to pass climate and energy legislation was a serious setback. But Environmental Defense Fund (EDF) and our coalition partners successfully defended California’s landmark climate law against Big Oil’s ballot initiative attack this fall.

Another bright spot to celebrate is the 40th anniversary of the Clean Air Act, a bipartisan triumph that continues to deliver cleaner, healthier air. We’re gearing up to protect and toughen the Clean Air Act with new regulations aimed at reducing greenhouse gas emissions and other air pollution.

What are the biggest opportunities to make progress on climate at the state, national and international levels? Listen to the discussion to find out.

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Restoring the Ocean to Abundance: Ending Overfishing with Catch Shares

Featuring:

Dan Grossman, Regional Director, EDF Rocky Mountain Office
Diane Regas,
Vice President, EDF Oceans Program
Bill (Bubba) Cochrane, Fisherman

Decades of overfishing have emptied the ocean of fish — jeopardizing seafood supplies and the livelihoods of local fishing communities, and fundamentally altering the health of ocean ecosystems.  EDF has done pioneering work on an innovative market-based approach to managing fisheries called catch shares, which is yielding dramatic increases in fish populations, reductions in wasted fish, and more stable fishing jobs.

Join EDF’s vice president for oceans and one of the many fishermen we work with as they discuss the transformative change we’re accomplishing in U.S. waters — and how we’re beginning to spread the benefits of catch shares to Latin America and the Caribbean.

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