CODE GREEN Articles & Commentary

On New Year’s Day 2007, The New York Times published an article by Andrew Revkin titled "A New Middle Stance Emerges in Debate over Climate", setting off a firestorm on enviro-blogs and highly-critical editorials written by, among others, Grist Magazine staff writer David Roberts. Just where exactly is this ‘middle’? Does this ‘middle’ really find […]

Michael Dietrick, MD, Executive Director for the Water Planet Environmental Broadcast Service, chats with Betsy about their experience sharpening their climate expertise at Al Gore’s climate training camp last week. LISTEN (13 min)

Betsy dials in from Al Gore’s Climate Training Conference in Tennessee where she is one of 200 Climate Messengers learning the Gore slide show from An Inconvenient Truth and preparing to take it back to their townships and communities around the nation. Here Betsy chats with Resident Scientist Dr. Michael McCracken, who first testified to […]

NRDC‘s Daniel Hinerfeld  reports on a study that concludes that no matter what you may have heard, owning a hybrid does indeed save you a substantial amount of money– perhaps as much as $13,000. Hear all about it, and new concepts like the Chevy Volt. LISTEN (6 min) Picture The Hybrid Guy

Treehugger Correspondent Simran Sethi tells us how many calories it takes to fuel your car, the co2 cemissions of hamburgers, and cloned food. LISTEN (6 min)

Among the most important rituals that we take part in, the funeral’s true emotional and cultural impact has been compromised by the enormously profitable funeral industry. Mark Harris joins Betsy to discuss his new book "Grave Matters: A Journey through the Modern Funeral Industry to a Natural Way of Burial". It’s one of the most […]

The Washington Post called Lester Brown of the Earth Policy Institute "one of the world’s most  influential thinkers." In 1986, the Library of Congress requested his personal papers noting that his writings “have already strongly affected thinking about problems of world population and resources.” We all know that Plan A has brought us to our […]

Lester Brown founded the World Watch Institute in 1974, and since 1975 they have been publishing the most comprehensive and instructive policy environmental reports in the world. This year’s State of the World Report was released yesterday, and the report’s over-arching theme is Our Urban Future. State of the World Project Director Molly O’Meara Sheehan […]

Sue Whitney and Ki Nassauer– the JunkMasters— have combined good taste, an unabashed love for the discarded gems found at garage sales and the spirit of conservation in their new book Decorating JunkMarket Style. There’s beauty in the texture and tactile sense of so many of the things we throw out. Junk, Vintage, Shabby Chic, […]