Radio Broadcast Archives

Got your calendar for next year? Miss August Lindsay Hassett talks about the 2007 EcoBabes Calendar, challenging PC Environmentalism, and her alter-ego, Betty Biodiesel. LISTEN (8 min)

Joel C. Hunter was offered and then accepted the presidency of the Christian Coalition of America, one of the most politically powerful evangelical organizations in American history. But last week, Dr. Hunter resigned. Were his concerns about climate change and poverty not moral enough for the Christian Coalition? PART 1 (11 min), PART 2 (7 min)

Rainforest Action Network founder and current Senior Fellow for the International Forum on Globalization Randy Hayes talks about Ecologizing the Economy, Ethical Shoplifting, and how, though he’s a shy, nice guy, "it doesn’t always get you where you want to go. So if we have to turn up the temperature, we turn up the temperature." More in IFG’s book Paradigm Wars: Indigenous Peoples’ Resistance to Globalization PART ONE , PART TWO

MoveOn founder Joan Blades tells Betsy how her new organization, Mom’s Rising, pools the power of Women and Mothers as natural stewards of the Earth and all people. As Moms envision the world that their children will inhabit, global warming emerges as an urgent concern.
LISTEN (12 min)

For Anna Walker, founder of Anna Sova Luxury Organics, quality organic products and sustainable practices are  intrinsically woven into the fabric of the company. Anna Sova’s fabrics feel amazing, their candles fill rooms with the most relaxing natural fragrance, and their paints are made of…food?  LISTEN (8 min)

Anchorage Mayor Mark Begich was a skeptic, but is now a passionate convert to the cause of environmental conservation. He says that sound energy and emissions policies make for sound economics, and has even housed environmental issues under the city’s department of community and economic development. LISTEN (7 min)

Russ George, CEO of Planktos, will help you green your carbon footprint. Planktos will help you replant trees. Planktos will help you revive starving seas– by putting co2 back into the ocean. And it’s so easy that it would make a fantastic, world-altering holiday gift for a loved one. LISTEN (12 min)

Is it the season of kindness, consideration, and giving, or the season of heedless and wasteful consumption? Greening all the holiday parties we go to could make a difference. Nicole Sillapere of Sillapere Events and Environments tells us how to throw and elegant, stylish, and personalized party that leaves a slightly smaller foot (or high-heel) print. LISTEN (8 min)

Home Depot’s Vice President of Environmental Innovation Ron Jarvis talks about Home Depot’s Solar partnership with BP, their "Smart Home" at Duke University, and bringing environmental groups such as NRDC and Rainforest Action Network to the bargaining table: "If you have concerns coming from different interest groups, bring them in, sit down, and hear what the issues are."
PART 1 (11 min)  PART 2 (7 min)

Best news we’ve heard all day: You can change the world by having a beer. Or three. Chris O’Brien, author of Fermenting Revolution:
How to Drink Beer and Save the World (see, we told you) explains how. LISTEN (11 min)