Chris O'Connor interviews Peter Byck

Peter Byck is an award-winning documentary filmmaker and professor at Arizona State University, where he teaches in both the School of Sustainability and the Walter Cronkite School of Journalism. He is best known for using film to explore urgent environmental issues through engaging, human-centred storytelling.

Peter directed and produced the acclaimed documentaries Carbon Nation, Garbage, Carbon Cowboys, and more recently, the four-part series *Roots So Deep (You Can See the Devil Down There).

His work bridges science, policy, and storytelling, often bringing together diverse voices to find common ground. Through his films, Peter invites audiences to see not just the problems, but also the potential solutions rooted in collaboration, innovation, and care for the land.

• Roots So Deep is a $10 million research project comparing Adaptive Multi-Paddock (AMP) grazing with conventional grazing; collaborating with 20 scientists and 10 farm families, focused on soil health & soil carbon storage, microbial/bug/bird biodiversity, water cycling and much more.