CODE GREEN Articles & Commentary

This is a rerun of our April 20 program: Earth Day co-founder Pete McCloskey   PART ONE (11 min)  PART TWO (7 min) Treehugger: Eco America’s Bob Perkowitz  LISTEN (12 min)Home Depot’s New Eco Options  LISTEN (8 min)

This is a rerun of our April 19 program:Senator Barbara Boxer gives a damn  LISTEN  (12 min) Matt Peterson and Global Green USA   PART ONE (6 min)  PART TWO (12 min)     Orbitz Travel & EcoTourism  LISTEN (8 min)

We here at EcoTalk are so taken with California Lieutenant Governor John Garamendi‘s leadership on energy, public health, and smart (re-)use of resources that we hope that one day he can simply drop the "Lieutenant" from "Lieutenant Governor". He checked in with EcoTalk today to discuss the new e-waste recycling center opening in San Jose, […]

The latest issue of Mother Jones Magazine features an incredible (and ominous) article by Julia Whitty on the astonishing loss of biodiversity that this Earth has endured in the last century, and the precipitous increase to come, if we don’t change: "It’s the interaction of lifeforms that make our planet habitable. If we subtract 50% […]

On this week’s Treehugger Simran Sethi sits down with Alisa Smith and JB MacKinnon to talk about 100milediet.org and its position at the forefront of the "Locavore" revolution, their book Plenty: One Man, One Woman, and a Raucous Year of Eating Locally, and the ongoing organic versus local (non-)debate: "Really the system to shoot for […]

This is where the IPCC (Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change) stuff gets really interesting: whereas the first to parts, released earlier this year, documented the global scientific consensus on climate change and forecast several possible effects, Part 3, to be released tomorrow, offers an array of solutions to minimize the impacts of climate change, and […]

Stanford University Climatologist Stephen Schneider is on the Synthesis Committee for the IPCC report: "IPCC doesn’t tell the world what to do. That’s the job of decision makers, ranging from everybody out there deciding what car or refrigerator to buy, to government officials trying to figure out what industries to support and what industries to […]

Care about Wild Salmon’s future? Grab a fork and eat one. So says renowned chef Alice Waters and the 200 chefs nationwide who are asking Congress to protect wild salmon habitats, and the delicious, natural nourishment that sustains mammals like us. Greg Higgins, Chef and Owner of Higgins’ Restaurant and Bar in Portland, Oregon tells […]

The Bush Administration has been a bit skittish about peddling their weird science on Capitol Hill since the Democrats have started asking the questions. This week, Julie MacDonald, a deputy assistant secretary who manipulated the work of federal scientists, resigned a week ahead of yet more Congressional hearings on the politicization of science. The Union […]