CODE GREEN Articles & Commentary

Did you catch Mitt Romney's quip about Obama trying to do something about rising sea levels while floodwaters rose in Louisiana last week? We'll talk about the disconnect with Iowa State Senator, Rob Hogg whose home town of Cedar Rapids is still recovering from the financial toll four years ago of severe flooding. LISTEN to […]

Here is a report from outside the Democratic Convention in Charlotte on a protest against Duke Energy, a sponsor of the convention. Maura Cowley is the executive director of the Energy Action Coalition. LISTEN to MAURA COWLEY

In his 2009 documentary Capitalism: A Love Story, Michael Moore noted that while the content of President Jimmy Carter’s July 1979 speech about our need to abandon fossil fuels for cleaner forms of energy was accurate, it was something that most Americans didn’t want to hear at the time. Most Americans preferred to hear the […]

The CEO and President of the Evangelical Environmental Network joins us to discuss the group's backing of billboard ads outside the Republican convention featuring Republicans who "believe" that climate change is real. Mitch Hescox says the evangelical community is tired of the issue being politicized. LISTEN to MITCH HESCOX

Dr. Sandra Steingraber, biologist, author, mother and most recently anti-fracking activist shares her concerns about the dangers of natural gas removal. LISTEN to SANDRA

Daniel Kessler, campaign organizer for 350.org describes their latest action against Mitt Romney’s “Conspiracy of Silence“. LISTEN to DANIEL KESSLER

Joseph Romm, a senior fellow at The Center for American Progress and the editor of climateprogress.org, discusses his latest literary contribution, Language Intelligence: Lessons on Persuasion from Jesus, Shakespeare, Lincoln and Lady Gaga. Romm weighs in on this summer's extreme heat, fires and drought as well as the political and media drought in lack of discussion […]

Dr. Michael Mann, author of ‘The Hockey Stick and the Climate Wars”, responds to last week's attacks from Dr. Richard Muller. LISTEN to MICHAEL MANN

Greenpeace has sent a letter to Charles Koch asking whether we can expect a position change  on their longstanding denial of climate science now that one of its fundees, Dr. Richard Muller—as heard on The Green Front last week—has acknowledged global warming is a real threat. Aliya Haq, a research specialist at Greenpeace focused on climate […]