My Guests today are Susan Hassol and Patrick Michaels.
Susan Hassol is a key author of the recently released Impacts of a Warming Arctic who also testified last week at the Senate’s hearings on global warming.
Also see her article A Change of Climate.
Patrick Michaels is Senior Fellow on Environmental Issues with the Cato Institute.
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The program as resumed by EVWorld
Our guests today are Annie Petsonk of Environmental Defense and Marlow Lewis with the Competitive Enterprise Institute. With additional comments by Johnny Steel.
Annie Petsonk is International Counsel with EDF: she tells us about the latest research of 300 scientists showing a rise in Arctic Warming.
Marlow Lewis is a senior fellow at CEI: he expresses another point of view that calls moderate Republican John McCain an "alarmist" for convening an urgent Senate hearing on the subject this week. Listen
My guests today are Deb Callahan and Dale Djerassi.
Deb Callahan is President of the League of Conservation Voters: she tells us why she is not discouraged since there was some good green news at the state and ballot levels.
Dale Djerassi is the producer and director of the documentary film Oil on ice: it begins with an
intimate view of the natural history and indigenous cultures of
northeastern Alaska, then looks at the role of oil in Alaska’s history
and culminates with the national battle over plans to drill for oil in
the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge. Listen
My g
uests today are Carl Pope and David Helvarg, plus ecomedian Johnny Steele on Pre-Election Anxiety Disorder and other ills.
Carl Pope is Executive Director of the Sierra Club. He talks about how the environment is factoring into the presidential campaign and about his book Strategic ignorance, why the Bush administration is recklessly destroying a century of environmental progress.
David Helvarg is President of the Blue Frontier Campaign. He wrote in 1993 The war against the greens and in 2001 Blue Frontier, saving America’s living seas. He speaks about the Bush-whacking of trees and other natural resources. Listen
My guests today are T.A Barron, Andre Heinz and Jim Lyons.
T.A Barron is the author of The great tree of Avalon and the five book epic The lost years of Merlin.
He is challenging both presidential candidates to voice their views on a varitey of environmental issues.
Andre Heinz (34) is the middleson of Teresa Heinz and the stepson of John Kerry. He has worked with Paul Hawken, Amory Lovins and The Natural Step in the "industrial ecology" movement. He explains the differences between George W Bush and John Kerry.
Jim Lyons was Undersecretary for Natural resources and the Environment in the Clinton administration. He is Executive Director of the Casey Trees Endowment Fund in washington DC and the author of Red, White, Blue and Green, politics and the environment in the 2004 election. Listen
The content of the book is downloadable from the site and can be accessed for free.
Interview with George Lakoff, professor of linguistics at UC Berkeley and recent author of Don’t think of an elephant, the essential guide for progressives.
Know your values and frame the debats are his key recommendations.
Today our hour is dedicated to David Brower.
We’ll talk about the Brower Youth awards and with filmmaker Kelly Duane about her film:
Monumental: David Brower’s fight for wild America. See the trailer
Our guests today are: Rex Weyler and environmental comedian Johny Steele.
Rex Weyler author of Greenpeace, how a group of ecologists, journalists and visionaries changed the world, published by Raincoast Books (on recycled paper) talks about how it all started:
The
founding of Greenpeace, from the late-1960s to the formation of
Greenpeace International in 1979, including intimate personal stories,
sea voyages, triumphs and failures, internal clashes, and the influence
of Quakers, Buddhism, Gandhi, the civil rights movement, political
street theatre, media theory, and other cultural inspiration.
My guests today are Robert .F Kennedy Jr and Anita Roddick. Robert Kennedy speaks about crimes against nature the article he wrote for Rollingstone in 2003 and the book that was published with the same title in september 2004 and the subtitle: How George W.Bush and his corporate pals are plundering the country and hikacking our democracy. You can also listen to him weekly on Air America’s Ring of fire.
Anita Roddick founder of the Body Shop published in 2004 Troubled water
Our guests today are:
Karen Roberts, author of Passions and Patience: fostering Earth’s future through unlikely partnership
Paul Loeb, author of The impossible will take a little while: a citizen’s guide to hope in a time of fear
