CODE GREEN Articles & Commentary

This is a rerun of our April 30 program: Greenpeace Canada Targets Prime Minister Harper   LISTEN (10 min)Vanity Fair’s 2nd Annual Green Issue   LISTEN ( 8 min)Kim McKay: True Green   LISTEN (12  min)Lori Pye, Eco-Psychology, and Eco-Suicide   LISTEN (8  min)

Dear Friends of EcoTalk

“EcoTalk’s Inconvenient Truth":

If Green is the new Black why are we in the Red? 

The nearly three years of broadcasting our groundbreaking program on Air America have come with nearly constant turbulence. As the nation’s first progressive network with ambitious expansion plans experienced growing pains, EcoTalk weathered them all – but not without significant cost. Selling advertising and partnerships was our only means to cover production costs and that task was made difficult for many reasons.

Paul Hawken talks about his most recent book Blessed Unrest : How the Largest Movement in the World Came in to Being and Why No One Saw it Coming.Part 1  (11 min)  Part 2 (7 min)

Kevin Contreras talks about his new PBS program Building Green.
LISTEN ( 10 min)
You can also read his blog.

This week, correspondent Jeff McIntire Strasburg sheds some light on the murky question of ethanol versus biodiesel. We speak with Mark Oberholzer, a runner-up in the 2006 Metropolis Next Generation Design Competition, whose plan for roadside turbines aims at getting something back from the flow of traffic. We also speak with the designer of World […]

This is a rerun of our program of April 27:Schwarzenegger tells the EPA to shape up  LISTEN (10 min)Treehugger: Earth Day Hangover Edition  LISTEN (8 min)PG&E’s Nancy McFadden  LISTEN  (11 min)Clif Bars GreenNotes Program  LISTEN  (8 min)

As the Dead Sea shrinks three feet per year, can Israel, Jordan, and the Palestinian territories find common ground in these common waters to build a more lasting peace? Oregon State professor and author of Hydropolitics along the Jordan River: the impact of scarce water resources on the Arab-Israeli conflict Aaron Wolf offers his thoughts […]

Think only inorganic, GMO, pesticide-laden agriculture can feed the world’s poor, and that organic is merely an indugence of the elite? While certain parties have a vested interest in having us believe that, University of Michigan researcher Catherine Badgley tells Betsy about some new studies that suggest that organic agriculture can feed the world. LISTEN […]

Brad College Environmental Studies Chair Mark H. Lytle checks in to discuss his new book The Gentle Subversive: Rachel Carson, Silent Spring, and the Rise of the Environmental Movement: "[Carson] really believed that the right to endure gave us a right to know. She felt that unless the public had the facts necessary to make […]