Resilient Earth Radio

Welcome to RESILIENT EARTH RADIO where we host speakers from the United States and around the world to talk about critical issues facing our planet and the positive actions people are taking. Less Doom and Gloom, more Sunshine and Hope! We also let our listeners learn how they can get involved and make a difference.

Hosts are Leigh Anne Lindsey, filmmaker and GM of KGUA 88.3FM (an independent public radio station on the Northern California coast), and Scott & Tree Mercer, Founders, Mendonoma Whale & Seal Study.

A focus of this podcast series are Nature-Based Economies that help rebalance the Earth and raise awareness about the value of whales, elephants, mangroves, seagrass, the deep seas, waterways and forests - our natural world - towards that rebalancing. This addresses the effects of our own human-caused climate change, and what we can do about it - from simple steps to grand gestures!

Global experts, citizen scientists, activists, fisher folk, and educators examine and explain ciritical issues facing our planet and actions people are taking to mitigate and rebalance climate. We discuss the critical role of carbon storage, and how it is essential for all life forms on earth.

This awareness could lead to new laws, policies and procedures to help protect these valuable resources, and encourage economies around them to replace the existing exploitation of oceans, forests, and animals.

Taking positive action, and getting people involved, that's our goal.

Production companies / Planet Centric Media Inc. (a 501 c) 3) non-profit), Sea Storm Studios, Inc. (a media production company), and KGUA public radio (Gualala, Mendocino County, CA), a project of NMRC, Native Media Resource Center (a 501 c) 3) non-profit.)

Guest

Ocean Conservation Research, Sound Science Serving the Sea, Lagunitas, CA

Fifty years ago Jacques Cousteau introduced the public to the submerged visual splendor of the sea in his book and film “The Silent World.” Unfortunately his title also introduced the public to the misconception that all of the oceans’ stunning and majestic beauty occurred in a world of somber silence. Now the ocean is being increasingly industrialized and the major byproduct of the growth is ocean noise. The public is still learning and coming to terms with the interference and damage that can be done to the natural ecosystem in the ocean by a proliferation of man-made noise.

Anything but Silent

We know now that the Sea is anything but silent. Given that sunlight does not penetrate more than a few hundred feet below the surface, and at any time more than half of the world oceans are under the dark veil of night, the ocean is actually an acoustic realm. Sound travels almost five times faster and much more efficiently underwater than it does in air.

https://ocr.org/

Guest appearance on:

"Sounds in the Sea" Michael Stocker (Ocean Conservation Research) The Impact of "Human Generated" Sound on Marine Life