Terra Verde delivers news and views about the most critical environmental issues across California and globally. From agriculture and wildlife to energy and climate change, industrial pollution to design solutions, Terra Verde brings you stories of struggle and triumph that will determine the future of our planet.
Lifelong trade unionist, environmental activist, and musician Joe Uehlein realized pretty early on how climate change was going to be, what he calls, a “jobs killer.” Founding president of Labor Network for Sustainability, an organization dedicated to driving urgent, science-based climate action by building a powerful labor-climate movement, Uehlein’s new memoir — Three Roads, Labor, Music, Ecology — offers us a blueprint for how we can build bridges across movements. In this episode of Terra Verde, Earth Island Journal editor-in-chief and cohost Maureen Nandini Mitra talks with Uehlein about his life learnings and about critical role of music in movement building.
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16 Oct 2026
Balcony Solar Comes to California
A balcony solar installation at a home in a town in Baden-Württemberg, Germany. Photo by Triplec85 / Wikimedia Commons.
A new law allows California residents to use plug-in solar, or what’s better known as “balcony solar,” setups that can power home devices such as fridges, computers, and air conditioners for several hours. The idea of balcony solar is catching on fast — bills to legalize it have been introduced in more than half of US states, and 10 states, including California, have already adopted them.
Earth Island Journal editor-in-chief and Terra Verde co-host Maureen Nandini Mitra talks with two veteran solar advocates — Bernadette Del Chiaro, the California head of the Environmental Working Group, which co-sponsored the state’s new bill, and Dave Rosenfeld, executive director of Solar Rights Alliance, a statewide network of solar power users that champions the right to generate solar energy without utility interference. They share how California residents can plug in and reap the benefits of this technology, and discuss the larger political landscape in which the push for balcony solar is playing out.
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2 Oct 2026
Terra Verde – October 2, 2026
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