CODE GREEN Articles & Commentary

Lexie Schultz of the Union of Concerned Scientists says that in its latest maneuvers the EPA is attempting to circumvent any science that doesn’t fit pre-determined policies: "The EPA has cut science out of all climate decisions." What does science have to do with climate anyway? LISTEN (10 min)

In our next installment from the Student Environmental Communication Network, students hip us to different approaches to  green fashion. LISTEN (8 min)

As Berkeley Professor Daniel Kammen tells Betsy, it’s great that the Chinese government is considering a tax on industrial polluters. Less great, though, is that a coal-fired power plant opens there every ten days. As for the Republic of Texas…. LISTEN (11 MIN)

Rick Hinds, legislative Director for the Greenpeace Toxics Campaign, runs down their latest rankings of Computer and Cellphone companies. How did Apple do? Well, they must be a red apple, because they sure aren’t that green. LISTEN (7 min)

"Victoria’s Dirty Secret" has been cleaned up as Victoria’s Secret agrees to produce catalogs that do not come from endangered forests, that use more recycled content, and that are the product of sustainable logging practices. ForestEthics Paper Campaign Director Dan Howells stops by to celebrate a big victory for Victoria’s Secret, ForestEthics, women who like […]

Lyn Miller Lachmann, author of the eco-thriller Dirt Cheap , talks fiction vs. nonfiction, her characters’ complex motivations, and how she came to write the story of a professor hot on the trail of the chemical company that gave him cancer. LISTEN (10 min)

On this week’s Treehugger Thursday, Simran Sethi (who you may have seen on Oprah the other day) tells us that more and more countires are re-foresting, Pandas in China are re-populating, co2 emissions can be reduced in your closet, and martial arts legend Jackie Chan has a new organic skin care line. LISTEN (6 min)

NRDC Correspondent Daniel Hinerfeld introduces us to the Preble mouse, a species of jumping mouse nearly doomed  when its Western habitat was targeted by developers. Does the Preble mouse warrant protection under the Endangered Species Act? Also: Betsy Rosenberg and EcoTalk Producer Will Craven have a chat about their show, the inspiring guests and listeners […]

Stefan Forbes talks about his immensely moving documentary One More Dead Fish, the story of fishermen in Nova Scotia who took over five federal buildings to protect their way of life, and the earth’s sutainable cycles from industrial fishing and the destructive practice of "bottom trawling." If you eat fish, or even if you simply […]