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CODE GREEN Articles & Commentary

| William Craven |
Frances Beinecke, President of the Natural Resources Defense Council, visited Denmark to learn more about that country’s commitment to renewable sources of electricity. Daniel Hinerfeld interviews Frances to find out how Denmark has been so successful at developing wind power. LISTEN (7: 50 min)
| William Craven |
Frederic Scheer, CEO of Cereplast, explains what’s so bad about petroleum-based nonrecyclable plastic, how cities are banning styrofoam, and how his starch-based biodegradable plastics will make distant memories of both (well, as distant as they can be while we wait hundreds of years for them to biodegrade).LISTEN (7 min)
| William Craven |
Naomi Oreskes is an Associate Professor in the Department of History and the Program in Science Studies at the University Of California San Diego. Her work was used in a Wall Street Journal article arguing that there is no consensus that global warming exists. The problem? Her work says just the opposite. LISTEN (11 min.)
| William Craven |
Peter Doran is Associate Professor of Earth and Environmental Sciences with the University of Illinois at Chicago. His findings on the climate in Antarctica were cited by Michael Crichton and Ann Coulter as support against global warming. The problem? Well, he’s a scientist, and they write fiction.LISTEN (7 min.)