NRDC Legislative Director Karen Wayland talks about the Senate’s decision to allow oil drilling in the National Arctic Refuge. Also read Orion and look at the pictures of Subhankar Barenjee. Listen (11 min)
Our guests today are:
NRDC Legislative Director Karen Wayland talks about the Senate’s decision to allow oil drilling in the National Arctic Refuge. Also read Orion.
David Friedman, Research Director for the Clean Vehicles Program of the Union of Concerned Scientists explains why they are protesting a new ad campaign by the Auto Alliance (a trade group of 9 manufacturers) that claims that "autos manufactured today are virtually emission free". Meanwhile the manufacturers have filed a lawsuit to prevent California to promote stricter pollution standards.
Chelsea Sexton tells how GM has requested police protection to been rush the EV1s they still had in Burbank and move them to Arizona to crush them as fast as possible.
Feel free to post your comment on GM’s blog.
Navis Bermudez, Clean Water Advocate with the Sierra Club
in Washington explains how the new mercury regulations are going backwards allowing power plants to continue polluting. LISTEN to the whole program
Our guests for our
show include:
1. Chris Plaushin – National Manager of Regulatory
Affairs for AAA to discuss their new finding re the EPA’s descrepancies with gas
mileage.
2. Emily Figdor – Clean Air Advocate for USPirg will explain how the Senate’s Environment and Public Works Committee defeated S 131, the President’s Air Pollution Plan and refused to weaken the Clean Air Act.
3. Dave Barthamus, Manager — Public Policy,
Environment & Technology Communications for General Motors Corp. will talk about their project of
hydrogen car and present GM’s point of view on crushing the electric vehicles, EV1s.
No info about that issue (yet?) on the GM’s executive blog, the fastlane blog, but you can post a comment.
4. Chelsea Sexton , former GM employee questions GM
crushing the EV1s she loves and wants to keep running. In Burbank where GM keeps a few remaining EV1s she is part of a Vigil protest.
More info about the EV1s with the EV1 Club and the death of the electric car (PBS program). Listen
Ever wanted to ask top-level U.S. automakers why
they’ve been ‘dragging their wheels’ when it comes to taking the fast lane to a
cleaner car future? And what’s up with Bill Ford Jr., the once great green hope
of enviros? Is he a true believer and if so why is he and other in the auto
industry spending millions to defeat California’s emission-reduction laws?
Everything you ever wanted to ask Ford’s top two environmental execs this
weekend, plus a report on the Red Carpet – Green Cars initiative at this week’s
Academy Awards and a meeting with the Editor of The Natural Home and Garden Magazine.
Listen
First let me report for full disclosure that I am a founding member of Don’t be fueled! Mothers for clean and safe vehicles.
My
guests are Neil Golightly, Director of Ford’s
Sustainable Business Strategies and Andy Acho, Worldwide Director for
Ford’s Environmental Outreach Strategies.
They talk about the new hybrid SUV, the other alternative cars Ford has developed and what’s next.
We have also invited Robyn Griggs Lawrence, Editor-in Chief of the Natural Home and Garden Magazine, 
a bi-montly about green living with quality and style.
She is the author of Wabi-Sabi House, finding beauty in things simple, humble and well used.
Our guests today are Kevin Doyle, Marie Kerpan and Joel Gershon:
Kevin Doyle is one of the two national program directors of Eco, Environmental Careers Organization and co-author of The ECO guide to careers that matter.
Marie Kerpan is the founder of Green Careers a consulting practice "designed to help people find jobs that support ecological, social and economic sustainability." She is the author of When the canary stops singing. Listen (11 min)
Our new correspondent on the East Coast, Joel Gershon reports about Verdopolis, the conference about the future green city that took place in New York. Listen to the wole show (37 min) 
www.verdopolis.org is the official site of the conference but it has been off (maybe back on when you click).
Our first guest today is Wesley Warren, Director of Advocacy for NRDC who will comment about the 2005 federal budget with drastic cuts in the funding for the EPA and many environment programs.
The second segment is devoted to Al Gore‘s comment about the Kyoto protocol and the fact the US is not part of this treaty.
Lisa Hymas senior editor with Grist Magazine explains the importance of the new technologies and how the rest of the world will go ahead. She mentions Ross Gelbspan‘s initiative, Kyoto and beyond, the people’s ratification. Sign the petition today!
Sarah from Oil Addicts Anonymous talks about their protest tour in the heartland of America to help break the country’s oil addiction. Listen
Join the Union of Concerned Scientists protests against the Japanese car makers lawsuit in California.
Another on line campaign against global warming is the cut the emissions petition initiated by the Environmental Defense Fund.
Our guests today are two magazine editors and a cartoonist.
Bob
is a teacher and a musician who recorded "Let’s Take Our Heads Out of
the Sand and Open Up Our Eyes" with Ecotalk in mind.
Tell us how you
like it.
Interview with Hunter Lovins about her work in sustainable redevelopment in the regions hit by the tsunami and in Afghanistan in cooperation with Engineers without borders.
She also talks about how sustainability principles are necessary and profitable as explained in the book Natural capitalism, creating the next industrial revolution, she coauthored in 1999.
More information on Natural Capitalism Inc , The natural capitalism group and Natcapsolutions.
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Betsy also referred to the interview of Hunter with Grist Magazine
Also mentioned by Hunter in the interview with Betsy is the creation by Richard Sandor of the Chicago Climate Exchange and the European Climate Exchange.
Last but not least Hunter is a Faculty member of the MBA in sustainability management program at the Presidio World College in San Francisco.
Here is a presentation Hunter gave in Seattle at the Profitable Sustainability Conference (recording courtesy of Voice of Bainbridge)
This weekend’s show is devoted to the
ecological impact of the Tsunami, both in terms of damage and mitigation
role. Our first guest is Drew Weiner, Executive Director of Reef Protection
International who discusses coral reefs and mangroves
native to the coastal regions hit.
Andi Peri with the Sea Turtle Restoration
Project will tell us what’s happening to endangered sea turtles, in both the Tsunami region and worldwide. In the last segment he talks about mercury in fish
(and there’s a connection to sea turtles).
More info on www.gotmercury.org
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We’ll take a break from talking about
Bush and switch to trees…In honor of Tu B’Shevat, the Jewish
celebration of trees this week, we’ll meet Andy Lipkis, founder and
president of Tree People in Los Angeles.
Learn
the hidden value of the trees we take for granted and what they’ve done
to dramatically reduce water waste in Southern California. 
Our second
guest is an Atlanta housewife who went out on a limb -and nearly went
to jail – to save a great oak that a neighbor wanted removed.
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