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Sierra Quitiquit talks about her role as a NATO US Youth Protect the Future representative and her organization Plastic Free Fridays.

On today's This Green Earth, Nell and Chris discuss the results of the recent Intermountain West Shorebird Survey with Sageland Collaborative Conservation Ecologist, Janice Gardener, and the Saline Lake Outreach Associate from Audubon, Max Malmquist.

Patrick Lamers with the National Energy Laboratory comes on to discuss a global research effort to remove carbon dioxide from the atmosphere utilizing new technologies that could be critical in achieving a net-zero greenhouse gas emissions economy by 2050. Patrick is a Senior Topic and Team Lead in the Strategic Energy Analysis Center where he focuses on cross-cutting questions around carbon management and resource use efficiency. He leads many interdisciplinary analyses that bridge life cycle and integrated system assessments, such as the quantification of benefits and tradeoffs for carbon dioxide removal strategies and their integration into the future energy system. He provides program support to several U.S. Department of Energy and U.S. Environmental Protection Agency offices, and currently serves as the U.S. representative for the IEA Bioenergy Task 45 on Climate and Sustainability Effects of Bioenergy within the Broader Bioeconomy.

Madeline Ostrander who has written At Home on an Unruly Planet: Finding Refuge on a Changed Earth. From rural Alaska to coastal Florida, a vivid account of Americans working to protect the places they call home in an era of climate crisis.In At Home on an Unruly Planet, Madeline Ostrander reflects on the climate crisis not as an abstract scientific or political problem but as a palpable force that is now affecting all of us at home. She offers vivid accounts of people fighting to protect places they love from increasingly dangerous circumstances. Ostrander pairs deeply reported stories of hard-won optimism with lyrical essays on the strengths we need in an era of crisis.

Dr. Mario Juric, an associate professor of Astronomy and the director of the Data-Intensive Research in Astronomy and Cosmology at the University of Washington. Mario works with large data sets and algorithms designed to discover undetected near-earth asteroids in our solar system.He has worked on topics ranging from asteroids in the Solar System, Galactic structure, to the scale structure of the universe. His current focus is using survey data to understand the structure and evolution of the Milky Way. He is the leader of the Data Management team for the Large Synoptic Survey Telescope, a project to build the largest sky survey ever undertaken.

Moriah Mason, development manager with the Utah Alzheimer's Association, and Steve Spaulding, chair of the Summit County Walk to End Alzheimer's, have details about the annual walk this Saturday.

Chris Larkin, Chief Technology Officer at Concord Technologies. Chris will discuss security and privacy concerns and implications in a post-Roe v. Wade world, including how the data and information people put into technologies like period tracker apps be accessed and used against them if they seek abortions.

Not Basketball! This is the real Utah jazz music!

Park City Chamber of Commerce & Visitors Bureau CEO Jennifer Wesselhoff speaks about the revised strategic plan for Park City. She also speaks about the upcoming Park City Business University August 10th.

Kimball Art Center Executive Director Aldy Milliken and Meisha Ross Marketing and PR Director with details on the upcoming 53rd annual Arts Festival, the current exhibition and artist in residence ongoing now at the center.