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| Philippe Boucher |

Best of EcoTalk

This is a rerun of our March 8th program.The Heat Is On: Making Global Warming A Presidential Priority  LISTEN (10 min)Robert Borosage: When’s the idea primary?  LISTEN (8 min)Dmitry Lisitsyn and the fight for Sakhalin  LISTEN 11 min)Think Outside the Bottle  LISTEN  (9 min)
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| Philippe Boucher |

Best of EcoTalk

This is a rerun of our March 9th program.Sports Illustrated: Time to Pay Attention  LISTEN (11 min)Deadly Sonar: The U.S. Navy’s Assault on Whales and Science  LISTEN (7 min)Cool The Planet, Save The Arctic  LISTEN (11 min)TreehuggerRadio  LISTEN (9 min)
| William Craven |

Peter Gleick: The fate of Billions

Peter Gleick, President of the Pacific Institute talks about the connections between water scarcity, climate change, and the fate of billions: "There are a billion people who don’t have access to safe drinking water. There are more than 2.5 billion people who don’t have access to adequate sanitation services. There are hundreds of millions of […]
| William Craven |

Jeff Gearheart: Toxic At Any Speed

There are certain smells that have become a part of our modern environment, including the oft-celebrated "new car smell." But…what the heck is that? Jeff Gearheart of HealthyCar.org stops by to list the toxic chemicals that together form that odor, and what harmful effects may accompany it. LISTEN (7 min)
| William Craven |

Henry Waxman: Washington’s Climate (finally) Changes

California Congressman Henry Waxman reflects on a week which saw Rep. Waxman himself presiding over hearings on the Bush Administration’s brazen politicization of science; the largest yet (OK, 3,000 is not Dr. King-size, but still) citizen rally in Washington for action against climate change; and the triumphant return of Albert Gore, the man who would […]
| William Craven | | 3 Comments on Click Here to Create a Better World

Click Here to Create a Better World

This week NRDC OnEarth magazine senior editor Laura Wright and journalist Lisa Selin Davis bring us environmental activism in virtual space, or if you prefer, Massive. Multiplayer. Online. Roleplaying. Games. Got it? OK. But whereas most games of this sort allow you to behave violently in the most unthinkably violent civilizations, Second Life houses virtual […]
| William Craven |

Liza Dalby: East Wind Melts the Ice

An authority on Japanese culture, Liza Dalby has written a memoir that delves into the deepest rhythms of East Asian thought and sensitivity towards nature’s cycles. Structured according to the seasonal units of an ancient Chinese almanac, East Wind Melts the Ice is the perfect antidote to a world which has substituted 24-hour news cycles, […]
| William Craven | | 1 Comment on Treehugger: Parsing Gore, Praying for Rain, Saving Skiing, and “The Happening”

Treehugger: Parsing Gore, Praying for Rain, Saving Skiing, and “The Happening”

Thradio368Treehugger Correspondent Simran Sethi looks at allegations that An Inconvenient Truth oversold the threat of climate change, how the environment offers common ground upon which all faiths can pray, the fate all winter recreation, and finally, the new movie "The Happening", a sort of ‘two days after tomorrow’.
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| William Craven | | 1 Comment on Al Gore Before Congress

Al Gore Before Congress

Center for American Progress Senior Fellow (and author of Hell and High Water) Joseph Romm tells Betsy how impressed he was by Al Gore’s performance before the House and the Senate Wednesday. In many ways Gore’s testimony was like a sequel to An Inconvenient Truth— You wanted solutions? Gore gave Congress ten, from mundane to […]
| William Craven |

Bill McKibben: Step It Up 07!

Bill McKibben stops by EcoTalk’s Green Street studio to tell Betsy about his new book Deep Economy: The Wealth of Communities and the Durable Future and urges you to Step It Up in your own unqiue way as part of the Step It Up global gathering on April 14th. You’ve got about three weeks to […]