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Kyle Datta of the Rocky Mountain Institute explains how corporations can profit from a saving energy strategy as offered by Amory Lovins in his article "More profit with less carbon" (Scientific American, abstract only for free). LISTEN (12 min)

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Looking for pictures about the cornfield segment in LA, I have found in Flickr the ones taken by hexod-us : great shots… Thank you for your patience and understanding. Listen Part (1) and Part (2)  (interview with Andrew Rivkin)

Segment 3 (ABC home furnishings) and Segment 4 Daniel Hinerfeld about the LA cornfield.

A special New York edition of our show, in honor of Earth Day and the release of Vanity Fair’s ‘Green Issue’. In our first half, Andrew Revkin, environment reporter for the NY Times, will join us to discuss his new book, The North Pole Was Here – Puzzles and Perils At The Top Of The World. He’ll share his impressions of the Arctic and some early manifestations of global warming.You’ll actually hear the sound of ice cracking below his feet! Listen Part (1) and Part (2) 

In our third segment we’ll meet the green gals behind ABC Home, a family-owned, Manhattan-based former carpet company that has expanded its product line and color range – getting deep into green! Founder Paulette Cole joins us, along with ABC’s Director of Social Responsibility, Amy Chender, to discuss what goes into an eco-friendly couch, carpet and company. LISTEN (14 min)

And in our partner’s corner, NRDC’s Daniel Hinerfeld reports on an L.A. restoration project: from Brownfields to Cornfields. 

LISTEN (4 min) (picture by hexod-us, thank you)

Gavin Newsom, Mayor of San Francisco, details several ongoing local programs: going from paper and plastic bags to cloth, curbside composting, solar panels, alternative fuels and the upcoming An Inconvenient Truth with Al Gore.
 LISTEN (11 min)

Daniel Imhoff, author of the book
Paper or Plastic: searching for solutions to an overpackaged world
tells us about our daily 300 million coffee cups, 45 million plastic
bottles (only 12% are recycled), 50 million palets (most trashed). LISTEN (7 min)

Peggy Lauer (picture) and Annette Gellert join us from the WELL Network (Women’s Environmental Leadership) a bi-partisan
network of citizen leaders offering green solutions for environmental
and health crises. They also discuss the California Chemical Policy Reform to emulate what’s happening in the European Union. LISTEN (12 min)

Remember Bhopal? Diana Ruiz is is the U.S. based Coordinator for the International Dow Accountability Campaign and Rajan Sharman is an attorney working with survivors.
LISTEN (11 min)

For more pictures and information, read the blog , visit the Bhopal Information Project and here are 20 things you can do. How Union Carbide sees it vs The Truth about Dow

In this
time of global warming, can we afford hunting practices that are based
on bad science? The Alaska Board of Game has just opened a hunting season
on a small mammal that is off-limits in the lower 48. It is called the
collared pika, or rock rabbit, and is already threatened by global warming.
Shana Weber, EcoTalk’s science advisor and a pika’s fan reports…

LISTEN (7 min)

Jack Robinson, CEO of the Winslow Management Company, discusses
green investment options.

LISTEN (12 min)

Betsy is starting the production of one minute daily messages. This new blog is just one click away here or click the picture of the earth on the right side.
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