CODE GREEN Articles & Commentary

Ana Unruh Cohen, Director of Environmental Policy with the Center for American Progress, gave us her take on the President’s trip to the Capitol: "Recognition of the challenge is not enough. We need action." LISTEN (8 min)

Syracuse University Professor of Political Science Sarah B. Pralle shares with Betsy her new book Branching Out, Digging In: Environmental Advocacy and Agenda Setting, which explores why some environmental issues succeed, and some don’t. LISTEN (10 min)

The coalition of 28 Evangelicals and Scientists that the National Association of Evangelicals Richard Cizik and Dr. Eric Chivian of Harvard University assembled do not agree about everything in the world (or in the heavens, presumably), but they do agree that climate change is a problem requiring urgent action on everyone’s part. Here Richard tells […]

NRDC‘s Daniel Hinerfeld checks in from the Sundance Film Festival, where he’s checking out the Film Your Issue international film contest for 15- and 16-year-olds. At the FYI party he chatted with actor Kevin Bacon, and later he spoke with some college students on the street to find out what was on their minds. LISTEN […]

BMW’s Andreas Klugescheid stopped by EcoTalk’s Green Street Studios and went for a ride with Betsy in the new BMW Hydrogen 7, answering all the pertinent questions about this new technology along the way. LISTEN (12 min)On YouTube

Mark Harris, author of Grave Matters: A Journey through the Modern Funeral Industry to a Natural Way of Burial", comes back to finish his and Betsy enlightening conversation about returning to burials that honor our place in the earth’s biological cycles. He also addresses recent allegations that cremations are connected to mercury pollution– through dental […]

NRDC President Frances Beinecke tells Betsy about the coalition of large corporations, including Duke Energy, DuPont, General Electric, and PG&E, who are demanding strong leadership on climate change from the Federal Government, just in time for tomorrow’s State of the Union speech: "The most important thing we’d like to see the president to do is […]

PG&E’s VP of Environmental and Federal Affairs Steve Kline describes the evolution that brought California energy giant PG&E into the coalition of corporations demanding federal action on climate change: "We decided that we had to be a solution to this problem."LISTEN (7 min)  

Joel Makower of GreenBiz.com sits down with Betsy to chat about Michael Dell’s emerging ‘green gene’, and the ‘race to the top’ that many of the world’s largest computer companies are engaged in. He also champions the E-Peat Green Computer Standards. LISTEN (12 min)