CODE GREEN Articles & Commentary

Film maker Jeff Barrie talks about Kilowatt Ours,a plan to reenergize America.LISTEN (10 min)

Treehugger Correspondent Simran Sethi interviews Heidi Cullen of the Weather Channel.LISTEN (7 min)

Will Steger has journeyed by dogsled to the North Pole, Greenland and Antarctica. He has witnessed Global Warming firsthand from the top of the world, and for his next trip he’s taking us all to see it, and to meet the Inuit people whose way of life is irrevocably changing. It is all part of […]

In Lost Mountain: A Year in the Vanishing Wilderness, Erik Reece chronicled the year he spent witnessing the systematic decimation of a single mountain. He and Betsy chat about the price West Virginians have paid for being stereotyped and ignored by the rest of the US, the latest quixotic Bush energy statement ("There’s nothing clean […]

Earthbound Farm co-founder Myra Goodman tells Betsy about being Big and Organic, she and her husband’s innocent business ‘instincts’, her new cookbook that takes advantage of the organic world we’re all living in, and how, no matter what happened during the E.Coli scare, we should feel utterly safe eating Earthbound Farm products. LISTEN (10 min)

Yesterday Dr. Francesca Grifo of the Union of Concerned Scientists testified before the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform on systematic and widespread suppression of climate science by the upper echelons of our government. If true, such suppression of the public service performed by government scientists amounts to reckless endangerment of public health and […]

Betsy says he sounds like one of the Car Talk guys. Ed says he’s a former comedian, and it’s pretty clear that Plumber Ed del Grande knows  a heck of a lot about water conservation. He’s a spokesman for Kohler, and he chats with Betsy from Knoxville, TN, where he’s doing his own "Ed" show […]

NRDC‘s Daniel Hinerfeld reports from the Sundance Film Festival on the Film Your Issue contest, a competition to get young auteurs to put their hopes, fears, and creativity on film. FYI judges included John Cusack, Wolf Blitzer, and Mandy Moore. Here Moore tells Daniel about the responsibility she feels for her planet. LISTEN (8 min)

Stephanie Boyd of Williams College talks about their top grade on a recent campus sustainability report card, and how, true to its reputation, Williams is modest but unsatisfied: last week the college pledged to reduce their greenhouse gas emissions to 10 percent below 1991 levels by 2020. LISTEN (11 min)