April Reese is an environmental journalist based in Santa Fe, New Mexico, though her reporting has taken her all over the US and for a long stint in Australia, where she traveled clear around the continent. Her writing has been published in Nature, Scientific American, Smithsonian, Discover, and she recently published a massive piece covering the top science policy issue in every state (plus Puerto Rico and Washington, DC) for Popular Science.
Among many topics discussed, April explains the challenges of maintaining professional distance when reporting on issues that impact all life on earth, and we discuss why it seems to be so difficult to get people to care about the one issue that matters more than anything else... the environment.
Plus her aunt's 1970’s nature show for kids, Hodgepodge Lodge.
April’s Recommended Reading: Things you can do right now about Climate Change…
“What You Can Do About Climate Change”, by Josh Katz and Jennifer Daniel
“Top Ten Things You Can Do About Climate Change", David Suzuki Foundation
“Overwhelmed By Climate Change? Here’s What You Can Do”, Matthew Taylor and Adam Vaughan