Episode 7

Bayou Dave: Cleaning Up Trash to Save the World

Bayou Dave, aka David Rivers, has a calling. It involves a whole lot of trash and a vision for a clean, healthy, vibrant world that his kids can grow up in. So every day, he goes out on Houston’s Buffalo Bayou on a big makeshift barge and picks up trash—167 dump truck loads every year. He’s been called King of the Bayou, and he notices every little shift in the ecosystem. To hear him talk about the return of the snakes, or the bald eagles—his delight is contagious and his commitment, compelling. 


To see Bayou Dave take on rivers of trash visit BuffaloBayou.org


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Hope Is My Middle Name
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Storyteller and artist Kate (Hope) Tucker first saw America from the passenger side of her grandparents’ eighteen-wheeler. She would hit the road again touring the country with her rock band, and now she’s on a different kind of tour, a listening tour in search of hope.