CODE GREEN Articles & Commentary

Today we are airing a rerun of our February 15 program:Hunter Lovins & Natural Capitalism  PART ONE (11 min) PART TWO (7 min)  Tikkun’s Rabbi Michael Lerner  PART ONE (12 min) PART TWO (8 min)

Renowned nutritionist Marion Nestle, author of Foods Politics and What to Eat tells Betsy why she eats organic, why our government cannot do anything to guide us nutritionally, why a healthy diet is not as complex as it is made out to be ("Eat less, and eat more fruits and vegetables!"), and why it’s common […]

The original Green Patriot David Steinman tells Betsy about watching Green Patriotism enter the mainstream, the often overlooked fact of petroleum in all of our plastic products, and his new book Safe Trip to Eden: 10 Steps to Save Planet Earth from the Global Warming Meltdown. LISTEN (12 min)

Men are from Mars, Women are from Venus author John Gray talks to Betsy about how best to communicate our differences with eachother, overmedicating ourselves out of ourselves, and the battle between toxics and nutrients in our food.LISTEN (8 min)

Good news! NRDC’s Climate Center Director David Hawkins tells Betsy how the two private equity firms who are in talks to buy energy giant TXU wanted to talk to Environmental Defense and NRDC about how they could satisfy rising public opposition to proposed coal power plants in Texas.This is a major victory for grassroots organizing, […]

Congratulations. Every single one of you who saw the movie and were moved by the movie, made "An Inconvenient Truth" simply too influential for the Academy to ignore. NRDC’s Allen Hershkowitz gives props to Al, the producers, and the Academy itself, which did about a thousand little things to green this year’s awards. Yay! LISTEN […]

Just when you think California has been as ambitious and unequivocal as it can be in the face of a looming energy crisis and climate change, the state steps on the gas: Dan Kalb, California Policy Analyst for the Union of Concerned Scientists, tells us about the latest bill in the California legislature, proposing a […]

It’s pretty darn clear that the chocolate eater is not an endangered species, and so it would only make sense that the growing population of chocoholics would help those species who are a key part of our ecosystem, and need our support. Kill two birds wi– no, wait, save the birds!…<sigh>…Just eat chocolate and support […]

Pulp Fiction, Kill Bill, Good Will Hunting, and An Inconvenient Truth Producer Lawrence Bender stops by to talk about his 21st nomination for an Academy Award, and why his global warming movie was more controversial than the ultra-violent flicks he’s made in the past. Lawrence is also one of the prime movers and shakers behind […]