Down To Earth on Newstalk

In February 2018, I joined Ivan Yates in Dublin's Newstalk FM studio to present a new "Down To Earth" slot, which aired every Wednesday evening at 6:45 pm. You can listen back to previous podcasts below or read complementary blogs on "The Verdant Yank" by clicking on the episode titles.

In 2021, my favorite contrarian Ivan retired and I went on a solo run with a 12-part series "Down to Earth with Cara Augsutenborg" sponsored by Amundi airing Saturday nights on Newstalk and via podcast. You can listen back to all the shows from Season 1 here. Season 2 of "Down to Earth with Cara Augustenborg" starts again in 2022!

Episode 114: Covid-19 and Plastic (June 30, 2020)

Episode 113: Hemp (June 16, 2020)

Episode 112: Green Party, Programme for Government Negotiations (June 9, 2020)

Episode 111: Climate Records (June 2, 2020)

Episode 110: Agribusiness (May 26, 2020)

Episode 109: Black Summer Turned Green, Covid (May 19,2020)

Episode 108: Climate, Biodiversity, The Irish Government (May 12, 2020)

Episode 107: Programme for Government, Green Party (May 5, 2020)

Episode 106: Covid-19 and Oceans (April 28, 2020)

Episode 105: Earth Day Turns 50 (April 21, 2020)

Episode 104: UCD Forestry Project (April 14, 2020)

Episode 103: Palm Oil (April 7, 2020)

Episode 102: Covid v. Climate (March 31, 2020)

Episode 101: Veganuary Reveal (March 24, 2020)

Episode 100: Covid-19 and Healthcare (March 10, 2020) 

Episode 99: 2 Year Anniversary Quiz for Ivan (February 11, 2020)

Episode 98: General Election 2020 (February 4, 2020)

Episode 97: Wine Calling (January 28, 2020)

Episode 96: Wind Energy (January 21, 2020)

Episode 95: Vehicle Pollution (January 14, 2020)

Episode 94: Veganuary Week 1 (January 7, 2020)

Episode 93: United Nations COP (December 17, 2019)

Episode 92: Beef Protests (December 10, 2019)

Episode 91: Green Christmas (December 3, 2019)

Episode 90: Insect Apocalypse (November 26,2019)

Episode 89: Eco Tourism (November 19, 2019)

Episode 88: Foods We Love in 2050 with Mark Cagney (November 12, 2019)

Episode 81: Climate Refugees (November 5, 2019)

Episode 80: Sites and Monuments (October 29, 2019)

Episode 79: Electric Vehicles (October 22, 2019)

Episode 78: Not So Great Gas (October 15, 2019)

Episode 77: Happy Budget Day (October 8, 2019)

Episode 76: National Reuse Month (October 1, 2019)

Episode 75: Pumping Iron (September 29, 2019)

Episode 74: Home Sweet Home (September 10, 2019)

Episode 73: Electric Picnic (September 3, 2019)

Episode 72: Amazon Fires and Irish Beef (August 27, 2019)

Episode 71: A Great Buzz (August 20, 2019)

Episode 70: Invasive Species (July 23, 2019) 

Episode 69: Carbon Footprinting (July 16, 2019)

Episode 68: Climate Protestors (July 9, 2019)

Episode 67: Staycations in Ireland (July 2, 2019)

Episode 66: Coillte Nature (June 26, 2019)

Episode 65: Climate Action Plan (June 19, 2019)

Episode 64: Kresna Gorge, Bulgaria (June 12, 2019)

Episode 63: World Environment Day (June 5, 2019)

Episode 62: Bus-ted (May 29, 2019)

Episode 61: Green Prince (May 22, 2019)

Episode 60: Who's the Greenest of them all? (May 16, 2019)

Episode 59: Digging in the Dirt (May 9, 2019)

Episode 58: Forestry (April 24, 2019)

Episode 57: Egg-cellent Easter (April 17, 2019)

Episode 56: Nature Health Benefits (April 10, 2019)

 Episode 55: Killarney National Park Wildfires (April 3, 2019)

Episode 54: Plant Based Milk (March 27, 2019)

Episode 53: Toxic Planet (March 20, 2019)

Episode 52: Something Fishy (March 13, 2019)

Episode 51: Topsy Turvy Weather (March 6, 2019)

Episode 50: Seeds of Change (February 27, 2019)

Episode 49: Plight of Polar Bears (February 20, 2019)

Episode 48: The Dark Side of Valentines

​Episode 47: Ivan and I celebrate one year getting Down To Earth! (February 6, 2019)

Episode 46:  Garbage Tales (January 30, 2019)

Episode 45:  Slowing down Fast Fashion (January 23, 2019)

Episode 44: Under the sea (January 16, 2019)

Episode 43: Get real about carbon tax (January 9, 2019)

Episode 42: Japan-uary Blubber with Jonathan Healy (January 2, 2019)

Episode 41: How is Santa coping with climate change? (December 19, 2018)

Episode 40: Dreaming of a Green Christmas! (December 12, 2018)

Episode 39: The Conference of Parties has started! (December 5, 2018)

Episode 38: Where's me jumper? (November 28, 2018)

Episode 37: A whale of a time (November 21, 2018)

Episode 36: Met Eireann forecasts more snow! (November 14, 2018)

Episode 35: Sharing is Caring (November 7, 2018)

Episode 34: When you gotta go, go green (October 31, 2018)

Episode 33: Creative Response to Climate Change (October 24, 2018)

Episode 32: Dumpster Diving (October 17 , 2018)

Episode 31: Keeping Cool with special guest Cool Planet Champion Eoin Hamilton (October 3, 2018)

Episode 29: All the fuss about glyphosate  (September 26, 2018)

Episode 28: Greenway Mania  (September 5, 2018)

Episode 27: Pollution Dumbs You Down  (August 29, 2018)

Episode 26: The Pope goes Green  (August 22, 2018)

Episode 25: The Bofin goes to Bofin  (August 15, 2018)

Episode 24: California Wildfires (August 15, 2018)

Episode 23: State of the USA - Live from America (July 18, 2018)

Episode 20: A Dam Shame (June 27, 2018)

Episode 19: Cash for Cups (June 20, 2018)

Episode 18: Foods Affected by Climate (June 13, 2018)

Episode 17: I Scream, You Scream (June 6, 2018)

Episode 16: Blooming in the Park (May 30, 2018)

Episode 15: The Birds and The Bees  (May 16, 2018)

Episode 14: Climate Courts (May 9, 2018)

Episode 13: Recycling (May 2, 2018)

Episode 12: In Praise of Trees  (April 25, 2018)

Episode 11: Sporting Woes (April 18, 2018)

 Episode 10: Breaking up with fossil fuels, Cara's gone Electric!  (April 11, 2018)

Episode 9: Sick of Plastic (April 4, 2018)

Episode 8: Put A Price on Nature (March 28, 2018)

 Episode 7: Glow in the Dark Nuclear (March 21, 2018)

 Episode 6: Smarter Living and Super Homes (March 14, 2018)

 Episode 5: Wacky Weather with Kieran Cuddihy (March 7, 2018)

 Episode 4: Getting Personal on the impact of Personal Care Products (February 27, 2018)

 Episode 3: For the Love of Hedgehogs (February 21, 2018)

 Episode 2:  Good-bye, Gasoline Blues (February 14, 2018)

Episode 1: Fly Me To the Moon (February 8, 2018)

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