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Lisa Margonelli: Oil on the Brain

An antidote to sometimes wonkish energy books, Lisa Margonelli‘s Oil on the Brain takes the reader from Margonelli’s local gas station to an Iranian oil platform in a refreshing up-close and personal style. Here she sits down with Betsy to highlight some of her most revealing journeys. LISTEN (10 min)
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Heather Flores & Food Not Lawns

Is gardening a political act? In a very thoughtful interview, Heather Flores, author of the new book  Food Not Lawns: How to Turn Your Yard into a Garden and your Neighborhood into a Community, makes the case that the garden is the key to re-cultivating our communities, our diets, and our urban spaces.LISTEN (10 min)
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Charles Lockwood and Green Building

Environmental and Real Estate Consultant Charles Lockwood shares with Betsy both the broad trends and nuanced particulars of the Green Building movement, and the influential municipalities across the United States that are the early-adopters of what will become the future of construction. LISTEN (12 min)
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Joseph Romm & the IPCC Report

Joseph Romm, former Assistant Secretary at the US Department of Energy under President Clinton and current Senior Fellow at the Center for American Progress talks about last week’s landmark IPCC report. Dr. Romm’s new book is Hell and High Water: Global Warming—the Solution and the Politics LISTEN (12 min) Read his blog