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Resilient Earth Radio & Podcast
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. We also let our listeners learn how they can get involved and make a difference.
Hosts are Leigh Anne Lindsey, Producer @ Sea Storm Studios and Founder of Planet Centric Media, along with Scott & Tree Mercer, Founders of Mendonoma Whale & Seal Study which gathers scientific data that is distributed to other organizations like NOAA (National Oceanic & Atmospheric Administration).
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 critical 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 Mendonoma Whale and Sea Study.
Planet Centric Media is Media for a Healthier Planet. Our Resilient Earth Podcast is a project of this 501 (c) (3) non-profit. Planet Centric is developing & producing media to elevate awareness of the interconnectedness of all living things towards the goal of a healthier planet that can sustain us all for generations to come.
The music for the podcast is by Eric Allaman. See more about this international composer, pianist, writer and his ballets, theater, film, and animation works at EricAllaman.com. He lives in the Sea Ranch, North Sonoma County, CA.
Episodes
48 episodes
Kelp, Seagrass, Crabs, and Conservation along California's Coastline with Dr. Brent Hughes, Sonoma State University Professor & Marine Biologist
Dr. Brent Hughes takes us on a fascinating journey through California's coastal ecosystems, revealing the unexpected ways sea otters transform their environments. As an Associate Professor at Sonoma State University with a background spanning f...
Turning Trash into Treasure: How the US-based Non-Profit Long Way Home with its Hero School are Transforming Guatemalan Communities
What if the trash polluting our environment could be transformed into schools, homes, and opportunities? In San Juan Comalapa, Guatemala, that's what's happening thanks to Matt Panaitz and Long Way Home. 20 years ago, Matt was a Peace Corps vol...
Every Second Breath Project-Stories from the Frontlines: Emmy-Award Winning Filmmakers Cynthia Abbott & Andrea Leland from Petaluma, CA
Storytelling has the power to transform how we see our oceans and inspire meaningful action. Two visionary filmmakers, Cynthia Abbott and Andrea Leland, join us to share how they're using documentary filmmaking to spotlight both the crisis faci...
Beyond the UN Ocean Conference: A Captain's Call to Action - Captain Paul Watson, from Paris
Captain Paul Watson speaks with us from Paris about his experiences at the UN Ocean Conference, meetings with global leaders including President Macron, and his continued ocean conservation efforts after his release from a Greenland prison....
Rising Human-Generated Noise Impacts Marine Life (worse if deep sea mining, offshore drilling, & windmills get green lit) We Talk with Michael Stocker, Ocean Conservation Research Founder/Director
The ocean isn't silent—it's a symphony of natural sounds that marine life depends on for survival. But human-generated noise pollution is drowning out this essential communication network with potentially devastating consequences. Michael takes...
Gray Whales in Peril: San Francisco Bay - What is Being Done, or Can Be Done? We Talk with Cetacean Specialist Josie Slaathaug at The Marine Mammal Center in Sausalito
In this episode, we talk about a devastating crisis that unfolded this year in the San Francisco Bay. March to June 2025 saw an unprecedented 36 gray whales enter, and stay for extended periods in one of the West coast's busiest waterways. The ...
Local Voices of Resistance as A Nation Rises Against Presidential Overreach
A powerful wave of peaceful resistance swept across America on June 14, 2025, as over 5 million citizens gathered in 2,100 cities and towns for No Kings Day. From small coastal communities like Wallala to major metropolitan centers, Americans o...
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Deep Sea Mining: Promise or Peril?
Beneath the waves, in the darkness of the deep ocean, lies one of Earth's last pristine wilderness areas – a place we've barely begun to understand. Now, a high-stakes race is underway to mine valuable minerals from the seafloor, with profound ...
Saving Our Seas: Inside the World's Largest Marine Mammal Hospital with Adam Ratner in Sausalito, CA USA
What do marine mammals tell us about the health of our oceans? The answer might surprise you—and it's more urgent than ever as climate change transforms our coastal environments.Adam Ratner, Director of Conservation Engagement at The Ma...
Facing Again Threats to California's Protected Coast, this time by the Trump Administration-Our Talk with the Ocean Foundation's Sr. Fellow, Richard Charter
"Serious issues with offshore oil drilling plan" News Update 12/7/2025 for our podcast episodes on Offshore Drilling with Richard Charter, Sr. Fellow with the Ocean Foundation. https://w...
Living Nature - More Valuable Than Dead Nature: How Seacology is Helping Island Nations & Indigenous People Economically & Ecologically
Seacology is a charitable organization headquartered in Berkeley, CA that works to preserve island ecosystems and cultures around the world, as well as conducting annual educational ecotourism trips. Founded in 1991 with the work of ethnobotani...
SEE Turtles Organization President, Brad Nahill on Ecotourism & protecting Sea Turtles - Leading up to World Sea Turtle Week June 2025
This conversation is a lead up to the annual Sea Turtle Week each June, which kicks off with World Ocean Day June 8th and ends on the 16, Sea Turtle Week. 7 sea turtle species are highlighted each day along with one of the threats they fa...
Reconnecting Markets with Nature Part 2: An Earth Day Talk with Financial Economist Ralph Chami & More About Blue Green Future
Today’s episode is brought to you by Flukes International and is the 2nd half of an Earth Day 2025 conversation we had with Ralph Chami who is Co-Founder/CEO of Blue Green Future, a large team of innovators and thought leaders for natural capit...
Reconnecting Markets with Nature: An Earth Day Talk with Renowned Financial Economist Ralph Chami (part 1 of 2)
What if we could see the invisible? The magnificent blue whale, stretching 110 feet long through ocean depths, remains completely invisible to our economic systems—until it's killed. In this profound Earth Day conversation with Ralph Chami, we ...
From Nigeria, Africa - Ahmed Tiamiyu Sr. Policy Advisor to Nigeria & The United Nations & Exec. Dir. CAPws--Community Action Against Plastic Waste in the Global South
Our guest today is from Nigeria, Africa - a dynamic scientist who is dedicating his life to helping communities in the Global South do something about the enormous amounts of waste, specifically plastic waste, that is being exported by higher i...
Ecotoxicologist Susanne Brander from the Scientists Coalition for the United Nations Global Treaty on Plastics Talks About the Next Session This Fall in Geneva Switzerland
In today’s episode we talk with Susanne Brander, an Ecotoxicologist who is 1 of 12 core steering committee members overseeing 300 international scientific experts within the International Scientists Coalition for an Effective Plastics Treaty wh...
Personhood for Nature & Living Things and Nature-Based Economies - a Look Back & Forward in 2025 "A Bellwether Year for the Ocean" with Resilient Earth Hosts Leigh Anne Lindsey (Producer/Editor), Scott & Tree Mercer (Whale & Seal Study)
This episode includes a radio show we recorded a year ago, April 2024, when we talked about the March 28, 2024 Declaration for the Ocean signed by Indigenous leaders of New Zealand, the Cook Islands, Tahiti, Tonga, Hawaii, and Easter Island. Th...
Exploring Marine Pollution with Dr. Judith Weis Professor Emeritus Biology Rutgers University / Author Marine Pollution "What Everyone Needs to Know" 2nd edition (Oxford University Press)
In this episode of the Resilient Earth podcast, we talk with Dr. Judith Weis, a marine pollution expert and professor emerita at Rutgers University about the critical issues surrounding marine pollution, including the various sources of polluti...
Montreal's O'Land Stations' Founder Rachel Labbe-Bellas On Their Single Use Plastic Solution - Quick, Filtered, Refillable Water Stations for Large Events Helps Companies Go Green While Reducing the Carbon footprint & Simultaneously Providing Economy
Our guest this week is Rachel Labbe-Bellas, founder of Montreal Canada-based O’Land Stations which hydrates the world's largest entertainment events & venues with profit-oriented cylindrical water stations that reduce single use pl...
OpenOceans Global Founder Carl Nettleton on Plastics in our Oceans & the UN Plastics Treaty's Next Session Fall 2025
Carl talks about the pressing issue of ocean plastics and his organization's efforts to combat this global crisis. They discuss the origins of OpenOcean's Global, the facts and myths surrounding ocean plastics, and the innovative solutions bein...
Dr. Josh McInnis Determining the Ecology and Community Structure of West Coast Transient Killer Whales along the Pacific Coast Canada-Baja
Watch the video of his presentation here on YouTube: https://youtu.be/nZ4NgdnmFf8This episode is about Dr. Josh McInnis who presented at our 6th Annual Ocean Life Symposium October 2024. Topic: Determining the Ecology and Community Struc...
'Orca Sociology' with Howie Garrett, President Orca Network, from the 6th Annual Ocean Life Symposium Oct 2024 (Now in Podcast Format. Visual Version on YouTube)
This week, and in the following few weeks, you’ll be hearing speakers from the 6th Annual Ocean Life Symposium that was broadcast on public radio and shown Live on YouTube Oct. 18, 2024. Sea Storm Studios and Planet Centric Media teamed up with...
San Francisco State & Northeastern University Digital Media and Video Art Lecturer Casondra Sobieralski on a new multiplayer game she's developing about climate change
In this episode, we speak with Casondra Sobieralski a lecturer at San Francisco State Universities’ Digital Media and Video Art Departments. She is also a visiting lecturer at Northeastern University (which is where Mills College was in Oakland...
Former EPA Civil Engineer Is Now Sonoma County Poet Laurete (2024-26) Dave Seter Talks Eco-Poetry
Dave Seter has been named Sonoma County Poet Laureate 2024-26. He is a civil engineer, essayist, and poet. He is the author of the full-length poetry collection Don’t Sing to Me of Electric Fences (Cherry Grove Collections, 2021) and the chapbo...
Plastic Pollution Worldwide - What Does One Person Do? & What's Happening on the Global Scale
We talk with former UC Davis Design Professor, Ann Savageau, about her efforts to raise plastic pollution awareness with not only her design students, but with people worldwide through a special project called BAG - Bags Across the Globe. In th...
