Meghan Murphy is a writer and journalist from Vancouver, B.C. She founded Feminist Current in 2012, which has since grown to be the leading feminist website in Canada, as well as a global presence. Meghan is currently working on a book that critiques third wave feminism as a modern anti-feminist backlash.

Alice Friedemann is the author of When Trucks Stop Running: Energy and the Future of Transportation. She is also the author of articles such as “The Hydrogen Economy: Savior of Humanity or an Economic Black Hole,” and “Peak Soil: Why Biofuels Destroy Ecosystems and Civilizations.” Her website is energyskeptic.com

Paul Bogard is the author of The Ground Beneath Us: From the Oldest Cities to the Last Wilderness, What Dirt Tells Us About Who We Are, published by Little, Brown on 21 March 2017. He is also the author of The End of Night: Searching for Natural Darkness in an Age of Artificial Light, published in North America by Little, Brown, and in the UK and around the world by 4th Estate/Harper Collins. A native Minnesotan, Paul grew up exploring the forest and watching the stars near a lake in the northern part of the state. Today we talk about the environmental effects of light pollution.

After years of observing how social entrepreneurs harness the power of communities worldwide, Charlie Brown created a network methodology and practice for all organizations growing their brand or cause. His network strategies, customized for an organization’s unique context, identify and activate communities, uniting the communities and organization in a shared purpose. A network strategy is essential for any organization responding to tectonic shifts in identity, information and power. Charlie’s approach, Community Centered Design, has been featured in Harvard Business Review, Forbes, FastCoExist.com, and Stanford Social Innovation Review. Previously the executive director of Ashoka’s Changemakers, Charlie led his team in pioneering open innovation for social change­developinng a new paradigm for prizes and building a global online community of 100,000 innovators that has garnered more than $500 million in philanthropic funding.

Deanna Meyer is a long time environmental activist and is a member of Deep Green Resistance and is also the founder and executive director of Prairie Protection Colorado. Meyer's work currently centers on the protection and preservation of prairie dog communities up and down Colorado's Front Range.

Richard York is Director and Professor of Environmental Studies and Professor of Sociology at the University of Oregon. His research focuses on environmental sociology, ecological economics, animal studies, and the sociology of science. He has published three books and dozens of articles. Today we talk about his crucial article “Do Alternative Energy Sources Displace Fossil Fuels” 

Jesse Lasky is currently assistant professor at Penn State University. His work explores how the environment and human modifications of the environment affect biodiversity at the level of genetics and ecological communities.  Today we talk about how a wall between the US and Mexico would harm wildlife and natural communities. Here is a link to some of his work on this subject: http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1472-4642.2011.00765.x/abstract 

Vincent Emanuele is a writer, radio host and community organizer. He's currently opening a cultural center called P.A.R.C. (Politics Art Roots Culture) in Michigan City, Indiana, where he lives.

Joshua Frank is co-editor, along with Jeffrey St. Clair, of the radical magazine and website CounterPunch, found online at CounterPunch.org. His most recent book, Hopeless: Barack Obama and the Politics of Illusion was published by AK Press and co-edited with Jeffrey St. Clair. Their forthcoming book, due out next fall, is Heatstroke: Earth of the Brink. Today we talk about the role of Democrats in giving this country Bush and Trump.

Katharyn Boyer's work is focused on the ecology and restoration of coastal habitats, primarily salt marshes and seagrass beds. She is particularly interested in how species interact to structure their environments and influence fundamental ecosystem processes such as nutrient cycling. Such basic ecological research has important implications for the restoration of damaged habitats. Today we talk about seagrasses.