PG&E’s VP of Environmental and Federal Affairs Steve Kline describes the evolution that brought California energy giant PG&E into the coalition of corporations demanding federal action on climate change: "We decided that we had to be a solution to this problem."
LISTEN (7 min)
Joel Makower of GreenBiz.com sits down with Betsy to chat about Michael Dell’s emerging ‘green gene’, and the ‘race to the top’ that many of the world’s largest computer companies are engaged in. He also champions the E-Peat Green Computer Standards. LISTEN (12 min)
Author Melissa Holbrook Pierson laments the disappearance of a magical place called "the woods" from our children’s lives, and "the fetishization of personal property." Her book, new in paperback, is titled The Place You Love is Gone. LISTEN (8 min)
Leading environmental thinker Bill McKibben calls in from Sundance and urges us all to get involved in Step It Up 2007, a call to every one of us to organize climate change rallies in our own communities (and in our own styles!) on April 14th. April Power will launch a Spring flowering of creative solutions and united optimism in the face of Climate Change. Bill also talks about his new book Deep Economy: The Wealth of Communities and the Durable Future due out in March.
PART 1 (11 min) PART 2 (7 min)
Catch Bill in the new film Everything’s Cool, which had its premiere this week at the Sundance Film Festival.
Former Scientist with the US Climate Change Science Program Rick Piltz tells Betsy about leaving his post after a decade in of public service due to his refusal to work under the Bush Administration’s definitions of "science." He now runs climatesciencewatch.org, a site dedicated to keeping tabs on how our government handles the science of climate change. LISTEN (12 min)
Also, see Rick in the new film Everything’s Cool, which premiered this week at the Sundance Film Festival.
NRDC‘s Daniel Hinerfeld tours the house of our dreams: the first home given a Platinum rating by the US Green Building Council. It’s a Zero Energy, Zero Water, Zero Waste, Zero Carbon, Zero Emissions residence. Wow. LISTEN (8 min)
Renowned Economist, pan-Media Personality, and producer of the Ethical Markets TV show, Hazel Henderson is one of the most high-profile proponents of replacing the GDP with an economic indicator that measures the true health of our society. After all, what good is GDP growth if it includes the costs of cleaning up pollution or building prisons? Her new book is called Ethical Markets: Growing the Green Economy.
PART 1 (11 min) PART 2 (7 min)
In Plug-In Hybrids: The Cars that Will Recharge America Sherry Boschert chronicles the coming together of Americans of all political stripes, from "left greenies" like herself to neoconservative hawks like James Woolsey, to call for 100mpg (100mpg!) Plug-In Hybrids as a solution to our environmental, energy, national security, and pocketbook problems. Let’s do it! LISTEN (12 min)
Speaking of Plug-In Hybrids, Treehugger Correspondent Simran Sethi reports on the 150 mpg GM Volt, the plug-in that was the jolt of last week’s Detoit Auto Show. She also checks in on Al Gore’s climate training in Tennessee, and gives you all the details of Treehugger’s video contest Convenient Truths. Find your inner auteur and crank out a 1-2 minute video about small but substantive solutions to climate change! LISTEN (8 min)
Even if it’s just political football, it is refreshing for environmental and energy issues to be in play as the 110th Congress wraps up its first 100 hours. Jeremy Symons, Manager of the Climate Change Program for the National WIldlife Federation, chats with Betsy about Thursday’s big Congressional vote to make Big Oil pay taxes like other Americans.
They also review the ambitious McCain/Lieberman/Obama bill to cut greenhouse gas emissions by 2% every year. That’s exciting– but can it pass? You’d almost think those guys were running for president or something…..
PART 1 (11 min) PART 2 (7 min)
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