Steve Curwood

Steve Curwood is the Executive Producer and Host of National Public Radio's award-winning weekly environmental news program “Living On Earth.”

Curwood's relationship with NPR goes back to 1979 when he began as a reporter and host of "Weekend All Things Considered." Curwood has also worked as a print and television journalist and is the recipient of a shared Pulitzer Prize for his work while at The Boston Globe. He has worked as an editor and reporter for the Bay State Banner and as contributing editor at Black Enterprise Magazine and the Boston Phoenix.

“Living On Earth” is broadcast on over 260 stations nationwide and is heard in Pacific nations over the Armed Forces Radio Network. It has been awarded the Edward R. Murrow Award from the Radio and Television News Directors Association, the New York Festivals Award, a CINDY Award, and the National Federation of Community Broadcasters Community Program Awards.

Curwood is currently at work on a new book, The Good News About Global Warming, which details the economic, social, ecological and national security benefits of facing the carbon emergency that threatens our entire civilization.

Curwood is also the recipient of the 2003 Global Greens Award and the 2003 David Brower Award given by the Sierra Club for his creation of “Living on Earth.” He also received a 1992 New England Environmental Leadership Award for his work on promoting environmental awareness. The President of the World Media Foundation, Inc., he is also a lecturer in Environmental Science and Public Policy at Harvard University.