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Vladislav Davidzon, Founder and Executive Director of Sustainable
Energy in Motion Bicycle Tours
Shaun Murphy, Founder of Coolfuel Roadtrip USA  Listen (11 min)

Kristin Patten, Outreach Coordinator for ONESKY, the Canadian Institute for Sustainable Living talks about the dirty side of diamond mining. Listen (3 min) 
Matthew White, President of GreenKarat Recycled Gold Jewelry explains ecofriendly alternatives to standard jewelry. Listen (3 min)

Former Republican representative Pete McCloskey is coming out of retirement to challenge "Pombo the Plunderer" in
California’s June primary. Could it be that Richard Pombo, a 6-term
Central Valley congressman is attempting to roll back every
environmental law that McCloskey championed back in the 70’s and 80’s,
including the Endangered Species Act?  McCloskey also talks about why
this race is a battle for the "soul of the Republican Party" (Pombo has
also been the recipient of $40,000 in donations from one Jack Abramoff). Listen (7 min)

This week on EcoTalk you’ll
hear first about the "Kleercut" protest organized by Greenpeace  and NRDC. The
target is Kimberly Clark. Pamela Wellner, Senior Forest Campaigner with
Greenpeace, says the Kleenex maker is using environmentally unfriendly
practices to make tissue, and that’s nothing to sneeze at. Listen (8 min)

Then we’ll
talk to a former global warming skeptic-turned-believer about what role
climate change may or may not have played in last year’s killer storms.
Tim Barnett, a Research Marine Physicist at Scripps Institution of
Oceanography in San Diego, will tell us why he’s mad as hell at the
Bush administration. Listen (6 min)

In our last two segments the focus will be on
the good news about global warming with Union of Concerned Scientists President, Kevin Knobloch.
Have the cataclysmic events of 2005 forced a tipping point in climate
consciousness, and if so, how can that be used to inform and inspire in
06? Listen (19 min)

Listen to the whole program (37 min)

By Thomas Friedman in the New York Times as quoted by the Rainforest action Network.

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The Top Five Environmental Stories Of The Year with David Roberts, Assistant Editor for our favorite green news website, Grist magazine.

Listen (10 min)

Amy Warren, of the Puget Sound Clean Air Agency – tells us about a model anti-idling program getting revved up in the Seattle area.  Listen (7 min)

The End of Suburbia with Julian Darley, founder and director of the Post-Carbon Institute
Listen (11 min)

NRDC‘s Daniel Hinerfeld  critiques Syriana this geo-political thriller, starring George Clooney.The movie is also an opportunity to participate in the Oil Change campaign to reduce our dependance on oil, inspired by the film and organized by NRDC and the Sierra Club.
Listen (7 min)

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On Saturday December 31 we are going to rerun the program aired on October 21.
Happy new year and all our best wishes for a greener 2006!
LISTEN to the whole show (37 min)

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 Curb Your
Enthusiasm’s Larry David. Laurie discusses why she’s so enthusiastic
about curbing global warming as is Steve Cochran, with Environmental
Defense’s Undo It campaign. We’ll also hear why a change in the climate
is impacting trout habitat in Montana – and what it means to you – from
NRDC’s George Black.

An international conference has taken place in Dakar (dec 12-16) to discuss the phasing out of ozone-depleting substances. NRDC’s  Amanda Leiter tells us about methyl-bromide, a pesticide still widely used in the US when safer alternatives exist.

Listen (9 min)

The US government is failing to uphold provisions of
the Clean Water Act concerning emissions of mercury from coal fired
power plants, and thus is in violation of both United States and
international law. Scott Edwards, Waterkeeper Alliance Legal Director explains. Listen (7 min)

Microsoft, Hewlett-Packard, major Bay Area hospitals
and other companies are phasing out  PVC, “the Poison Plastic” in consumer packaging
and products. Mike Schade, PVC Campaign Coordinator for the Center for Health and Environmental Justice explains this growing trend.  Listen (12 min)

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Dupont was fined $16.5 million for covering up company studies about toxic contamination linked to Teflon. The
chemical is now in the blood of over 95 percent of Americans.
EWG Senior Vice President Richard Wiles tells the story.
LISTEN (8 min)

What’s up in Montreal?
Just the future of the planet being determined by representatives from
156 countries that ratified the Kyoto Protocol, coming together  to
hammer out specifics on how to slow damage from greenhouse gases. All
that’s missing is US, the largest contributor to global warming!  We’ll
hear from Michele Perrault, VP of Sierra Club International, as well as Jennifer Layke, with the World Resources Institute’s Climate Program, both checking in from the Conference of Parties.
Assuming they make the right decisions – and Christmas comes this year
– we’ll get  some ideas for a greener, more gratifying, holiday season
from Betsy Taylor at the Center For A New American Dream, as well as tips for kicking the holiday junkie habit from EcoTalk’s Science Editor, Shana Weber. And there’s bad news for bears – why the administration is taking aim at the endangered Yellowstone Grizzly. The NRDC’s Louisa Wilcox will tell us why we should care if the bear is de-listed. Global warming, green holidays and grizzlies, oh my!
LISTEN to the whole show (37 min)

Michele Perrault, Sierra Club Vice-President, describes the NGOs participation at the Climate Conference in Montreal.
LISTEN (10 min)

Read the blog of Sierra  Club’s Fred Huette.

About cool cities.
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Jennifer Layke explains how the Green Power Marketing Group brings together companies that want to reduce their ecological footprint.
Ted Glick of the Climate Crisis Coalition talks about catastrophic climate change and the international day of action happening on December 3.

LISTEN (7 min)

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Shana Weber (left)  tells us about ways to reduce waste while Betsy Taylor of the Center for a New American Dream shares sustainable and meaningful ideas to celebrate the holidays.
Listen (12 min)

More about Holiday waste prevention

Louisa Willox who heads NRDC’s Wild Bears project,explains why it would be detrimental to remove the Grizzly Bears
from the endangered species list while there are only about 600
individuals left in Yellowstone and Glacier.

Listen (7 min)
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