This is A Sustainable Mind, episode 24.

What I found was that the local media was just failing miserably at telling people what's going on.

If the local media reported on what was going on with fracking, the same way they reported sports. Fracking would have ended years ago.

Welcome to a Sustainable Mind podcast where we delve into the minds behind today's most

impactful environmental campaigns, organizations, and startups, inspiring the

environmental change makers of tomorrow. I'm your host, Marjorie Alexander.

Ron Placone is a comedian, college speaker, and media and radio personality. Armed with

oddball stories, observations, and social commentary, Ron tours nationally as a stand-up appearing at

clubs, colleges, theaters, and everything

in between. He also speaks for colleges and advocacy groups with his one-man performance lecture

on battling political apathy. He's a network partner of the Young Turks on YouTube,

hosts a syndicated radio show and podcast called Indy Bohemians and has been featured on

Sirius XM and TMZ. Ron completed his graduate school degree in media ecology on the topic

of fracking in his hometown of Pittsburgh. So welcome to the show, Ron. I am so excited to have you on.

You know something about fracking,

which is a topic that we have yet to discuss so far on a sustainable mind. And you're a comedian.

So you can help explain this to us in a way that's not totally boring.

I'm going to do what I can. Yeah. I'm going to do what I can.

Really appreciate it. So before we get started, can you tell us a little bit about how nature, the environment,

and sustainability might have played a role in your life growing up?

Sure.

Yeah, I mean, I grew up in Pennsylvania.

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