just efforts to combat climate change is california's secretary for environmental protection, jared blumenfeld. secretary blumenfeld, thank you for joining us. >> thank you, and happy earth day. >> happy birthday. where are you right now? >> am in the eastern sierra on my way to mono lake, which is one of the cases affected by what you said in the prior story. it is a beautiful day after a storm. i drove to the snow last night to get here. no one thought it would be snowing in april. with that that preservation had ended. we are getting weird, wacky weather, extreme weather because of climate change. no better place to find the evidence of that than california. >> you are the top brass in california when it comes to the environment. how would you say we are doing? what grade would you give our efforts to protect mother earth? >> so, when we think about the environment, often, we bring in politics and all those things like how much we can do. i am feeling both positive and frustrated. the pace of change is not meeting the environmental need of the planet. so, california is being battered by cli

people talk with the head of california's environment protection agency, jared blumenfeld, about hownd, why are we so often teetering on the edge of drought? our climate reporters explain where our water comes from and how it is used. >>> plus, we go to sonoma county to meet carissa cruz, who leads the region's sustainable vineyards effort, where wine, both red and white, is going green. coming to you from kqed