Guest Host Joe DeMare talks about strategies to avoid "Eco-Despair." It's easy to become so depressed about the state of the environment. Joe talks about how to prevent that depression from paralyzing you. Next he interviews Michael Keegan of Don't Waste Michigan about the accident at the Palisades nuclear plant in Michigan. The effort to resurrect that zombie nuke have crashed to a halt because a fuel assembly containing deadly partially spent fuel rods has fallen over and is lying horizontally on the base of the reactor. Rebecca Wood talks about Chinese mint jelly grass. Note: Discussion of the traditional medicinal uses of Mesona are for educational purposes only. Ecological News includes dangerous deregulation masquerading as an attempt to speed up wind and solar development.

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Guest Host Joe DeMare looks at the lack of environmental issues in the 2026 elections, and what eco-groups like the League of Conservation Voters are doing to try to put the environment in front of the voters. Next Joe and Rebecca Wood dive into the ecological principle of Mutualism. Then Rebecca talks about the hummingbird mint plant. Ecological News includes government approval of a genetically modified American Chestnut that resists Chestnut Blight, elimination of the endangered species act protection against "takings," and the Catholic Church declaring harming the environment a sin.


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Guest Host Joe DeMare talks about how the "normalization" of ecological catastrophes is wiping the idea of a truly "normal" healthy biosphere from the public's consciousness. Next he interviews Brian Rogers about a new ad campaign to try to force Charmin to stop using virgin timber from the Canadian Boreal Forest to make toilet paper. It's the "Charmin Wipes Bears" campaign. Rebecca Wood tells us about "The Walking Treaty" which cheated the Lenape out of a million acres of land in Pennsylvania. Ecological News includes Canada fighting water chestnuts by hand, Japan burning Indonesia's forests for fuel, and algal toxins floating hundreds of miles on the air.