Ashley Ahearn
Stories
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If you gave up flying how would your life change?
There was a moment when Janisse Ray realized she couldn’t call herself an environmentalist and an activist and keep traveling by airplane.
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terrestrial
terrestrial explores the choices we make in a world we have changed. Host Ashley Ahearn travels the country — from ranches in Oregon to churches in Colorado — to bring listeners stories about people making personal choices in the face of environmental change.
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Can you have kids and care about climate change? Listeners respond
Should we have kids, given where the planet is headed? It's a deeply personal question that my husband and I are struggling with right now.
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How is pollution connected to race and inequality? | terrestrial
The Trump administration has proposed cutting the EPA's budget by 30 percent. What does that mean for polluted communities in the U.S.?
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Would you trust the feds to make decisions about your land? | terrestrial
Why would a fourth-generation rancher who doesn't put much trust in the government choose to work with federal agencies to restore salmon runs on her...
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Protest is broken, he said. Now he dreams of revolution in Oregon | terrestrial
It’s a radical idea — that protest as we know it is broken. And a lot of people disagreed with Micah White when he first started talking about it, but...
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Would you compost your body? | terrestrial
I was about 12 years old when my great aunt Gilda died.
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You probably have eco anxiety. You just don’t know it | terrestrial
When I first heard the term eco-anxiety — a chronic fear of environmental doom — I brushed it off. It seemed like something for people who sit on yoga...
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Preview: terrestrial
A new podcast from KUOW explores the choices we make in a world we have changed. Host Ashley Ahearn travels the country — from ranches in Oregon to...
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Why are there so many rats in Seattle?
Seattle has a rat problem. Rat sightings in Seattle are double the national average. Population growth is part of the problem; so is the weather. That’s...