CODE GREEN Articles & Commentary

Just in time for Halloween – and these ARE scary times – we’ll debut "The Climate Mash", a scathing version of  Bobby Puckett’s classic, The Monster Mash…global warming has burned him out of retirement to record the song, complete with hysterical graphics (at climatemash.org).. We’ll talk to Angela Ledford, executive director of Clear The Air, […]

With Wilma taking aim at the Florida coast and the hurricane center quickly running out of names we’ll speak with global warming guru Ross Gelbspan about "Katrina’s True Name". The author, journalist and lecturer tells us why we should prepare for more extreme weather. We’ll also be chatting with Laurie David, eco-activist and wife of […]

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Congresswoman Hilda Solis (D-CA East LA) will tell us about the so called Gas Act, the raucous GOP (Getting Outrageously Pushy) House vote on legislation to relax restrictions on oil refineries. She led a drive for an alternative bill. 

Listen (11 min)

A solar decathlon underway near the Washington mall will also also be a focus – college students from around the country competing to build the greenest house to show the public, and politicians, what’s possible – we’ll speak with Tor Allen of the Rahus Institute and Cal Poly student Robert Johnson. Listen (6 min)

Our third segment is devoted to solar pioneers Joyce Mason, Vice-President Marketing for Pardee Homes building the nation’s first 100% solar-powered housing development and developer Jack Fleming creating the first solar-powered seniors home.  Listen (11 min)

Finally Wendy Reed, Communications Manager for Change a light, change the world  wil ltalk about this campaign of the EPA’s Energy Star program.  Listen (7 min)

LISTEN to the whole show (37 min)

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Serving more than ten years in the public interest sector, John Passacantando has been Executive Director of Greenpeace USA since September 2000.  From the headquarters office in Washington, D.C., John leads a team of 72 and oversees an organization with 300,000 members in the U.S. and a budget of $20 million. Since 1971, Greenpeace has […]

Betsy got up very early this morning to speak on New York based AAR Morning Sedition about the abysmal energy policies promoted by Bush and co.Listen (12 min)

Betsy is taking a well deserved short vacation so we’ll be airing programs from "The Best of EcoTalk" archives for the next few weeks. This sunday we’ll replay the interview with Dr. Riki Ott on her new book about the human impacts of the Exxon Valdez disaster more than a decade later. Interview with Riki […]

We’ll drill down and see what’s really in store for America’s energy future now that the long delayed, much debated energy bill has been signed. Were the oil and coal industries the only winners or is there something in there for the rest of us? In signing the legislation Bush said nuclear power offers great […]

This week-end we look at the G-8 interrupted and how the London tragedy has once again knocked the environment off the agenda. We’ll speak first with  Michael Dorsey, a professor of environmental studies at Dartmouth and former Sierra Club Director who held a "G-8 Alternative" conference (see the pictures). LISTEN (18 min) Our second guest […]

We’ll look at cars of the future (and a few exotic prototypes of today) – Are We There Yet? Are hybrids part of the answer to America’s oil predicament and, if so, why aren’t they making more of them? And what about hydrogen – are we two, or twenty, years away from a fuel cell […]