Radio Broadcast Archives

With
the Thanksgiving holiday comes thoughts of holiday gift buying – so
what’s a greenie to do in the season of consumption? We’ll speak with Paul McRandle, Senior Research Editor for The Green Guide about some eco-friendly options including bamboo shirts, recycled metal
jewelry and even less toxic cell phones for the tree-hugger on your
list!  LISTEN to the whole show (37 min) 

We’ll find out about gift baskets stuffed with everything from
organic fruits and cheeses to natural personal care products from Eco-Express founder, Tamara Raphael.

LISTEN (11 min)
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In our second segment we’ll meet Lee Welles, the author of a new book – Gaia Girls –
a fantasy adventure with an environmental message perfect for the 9-13
year old on your list. We’ll get an enthusiastic review from
fifth-grader Jenna Zimmerman (picture on the left).

LISTEN (7 min)

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And then we’ll turn to air
pollution caused by cargo and container ships and why it’s a major
health concern. We’ll get a report from NRDC’s Daniel Hinerfeld and in-studio guest, Teri Shore, with Bluewater Network. 

LISTEN (12 min)

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In our last segment we’ll chat with Robbin Marks, of American Rivers,
and learn why the hydroelectric industry is so pleased with the new
Bush inspired energy policy and how environmental protection is getting
sold down the river.

LISTEN (8 min)

Another victory in Congress, at least the opening round
– Last week drilling in ANWR was blocked in a budget vote and Wednesday,
in a rare bipartisan move, senators from both sides of the aisle teamed up with
religious leaders and environmentalists to introduce legislation that would
jump start cleaner car technology and promote development of alternative fuels.
We’ll get reaction from Deron Lovaas,
Vehicles Campaign director for the NRDC, on the significance of this
drive. Now that drilling prospects in Alaska
have been thwarted – at least for the time being – there’s a
new push to open up more coastal drilling. What’s at stake and what can
be done?  Lisa Speer, with the
NRDC’s Ocean Protection Initiative, will weigh in.  And
how is China’s
changing landscape, and growing footprint, putting global pressure on resources
from oil and water to steel?  We’ll
speak with Chinese eco-activist, Wen Bo, of Pacific Environment, for
a first hand report.  And speaking of china, what’s on your dinner
table this Thanksgiving and where did it come from?  We’ll meet Theresa Marquez, catalyst for The Earth Dinner,
a festive new way to celebrate food, farms and our bountiful planet.
Also, the author of a new book that celebrates organic farming called Fields That Dream – A Journey To The Roots of
Our Food – Jenny Kurzweil will check in. Last, but not least,
are our national forests under fire from Bush and Co. and are your tax dollars
contributing to the destruction? What you should know, and why you should care,
from Carl Ross, Founder of Save America’s
Forests.
LISTEN to the whole show (37 min) 

Betsy’s guests this week are:

Wen Bo, is a Beijing based consultant for Pacific Environment.

Listen (11 min)

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Carl Ross is Director of Save America’s Forests

Listen (7 min)

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Theresa Marquez is Chief Marketing Executive for Organic Valley Cooperative.

Learn more about the Earth Dinner.

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Jenny Kurzweil is the author of "Fields that dream: a journey to the roots of our food"

Listen (2 min)

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In our NRDC partner segment:
Deron Lovaas, Vehicle campaign director, responsible for the "Break the chain" oil security campaign talks about a new bipartisan effort in the Senate to save oil.

Also more about Katrina and Oil, NeoCons driving Priuses and the Set America Free Coalition.   Listen (4 min)
 

Lisa Speer, Co-director of the Ocean Protection Initiative, about coastal oil drilling.

Listen (3 min)

This week end, just
when you thought the EPA might be busy protecting our embattled
environment we’ll tell you about attempts to loosen toxic pollution
reporting requirements for corporations…a move intiated by the
EPA…we’ll hear from Sean Moulton with OMB Watch.
We’ll get an update from Sierra Club’s Daryl Malek-Wiley
in New Orleans where hurricane debris, some of it toxic, is being
dumped in marshy wetlands and then we’ll really get down and dirty with
Heather Rogers who just released a book on "The Hidden Life of Garbage".
And Arnold Schwartzenegger, is he greening the Golden state or is his
image as an eco-friendly Governor being tarnished? The NRDC’s
California legislative anaylist, Ann Nothoff,  will weigh in….talkin’ trash this weekend on EcoTalk. LISTEN to the whole show (37 min)

SEAN MOULTON – Senior Policy Analyist for OMB Watch

The Environmental Protection Agency has announced plans to significantly roll back reporting of toxic pollution under the agency’s Toxics Release Inventory (TRI).

LISTEN (9min)

DARRYL MALEK-WILEY – Environmental Justice Organizer with the Sierra Club New OrleansThe Louisiana Environmental Action Network filed a petition appealing a decision by state environmental officials to allow once-closed Old Gentilly Landfill to receive construction and demolition wastes from Hurricane Katrina.
LISTEN (6 min)

HEATHER ROGERS – author of GONE TOMORROW talks about her new book and the hidden life of garbage.

LISTEN (12 min)

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ANN NOTTHOFF – California Advocacy Director of the Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC) about Arnold and his environmentalism (or not).
LISTEN (7 min)

Read the article by Wade Graham in OnEarth.

Here is our program.

The Alliance To Save
Energy’s Lowell Unger will tell us  why W’s recent request for Americans to drive less is
not going to get us where we need to go, and what you can do about getting CAFÉ
standards out of “stall” mode in the legislature.
Listen (8 min)

Author Jacques
Leslie will talk about his new book, Deep Water, about the destructive power of
dams. Listen (6 min)

Three young eco-activists, recipients of the David
Brower Youth Awards
talk about their projects.
Listen (11 min)

We’ll let you know what your
favorite hotel chain is doing, or should be doing, to lighten their impact on
our environment.
From hybrid displays in the lobby to eco-chic celebrity suites,
we’ll learn which players in the hospitality industry are beating a path to
sustainability.

Rosario Marin and Bill Orr with California’s Green Lodging
program will tell us about the new “four palms” rating system. Listen  (11 min)
Steve Pinetti
with the Kimpton Hotel Collection will discuss why, for them, sustainability is
not just a marketing gimmick
Listen (13 min)
Anne White with the Fairmont chain will weigh in  Listen (4 min)

As will Kathy Shepard with the Hilton hotels  Listen (7 min)

Listen to the whole show (37 min)

We’ll get the latest on environmental health threats left in the wake of Katrina…what the EPA won’t tell
you about lingering risks to human health in the disaster zone. We’ll
also get an update from Washington on the embattled Endangered Species
Act and meet a St. Louis man who packed up his family to head to DC for
last week’s protest against drilling in ANWR.
His story – and what he
learned from Americans along the way, will inspire you.

Listen to the whole show (37 min)

Our guests are:
Maurice Coman, Conservation Chair, Sierra Club Delta Chapter in Louisiana, Chair of
the Sierra Club National Toxics Committee,  and a resident of Metairie, LA.
Together with Christy
Leavitt, U.S PIRG Clean Water Advocate

Brad Black who came with his family to Washington DC for Arctic Refuge Day.

Final segment, Bart
Semsir, who is in charge of Wildlife Programs for the Sierra Club

At last the climate chaos long predicted by scientists and
environmentalists has hit U.S. shores in the form of high velocity Hurricane
Katrina – but it’s only a sign of whats to come, according to our guests.
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John Rennie is editor-in-chief of Scientific American, which predicted
the devastation in a 2001 article, Drowning New Orleans.
Listen (10 min) via radio.indymedia (it is the first segment)
And don’t miss their September issue, Crossroads for Planet Earth.

Tom Knudson with NOAA speaks about his research about the impact of climate change on hurricanes.

Listen (7 min) via radio.indymedia

Mike
Tidwell, author of the prophetic 2003 book, Bayou Farewell tells us
why this cataclysmic event is another September 11th event that will either
make, or break, this country.

Listen (12 min) via radio.indymedia

Carl Mc Daniel is the author of Wisdom for a livable planet : it encapsulates what we need to learn to survive. Enjoy!

Listen (7 min) via radio.indymedia

LISTEN to the whole program (37 min) hosted as usual by airamericaplace.

Our guests are:

Marshall Ganz, Lecturer at the Kennedy School of Government

Larry Fahn  who recently stepped down as President of the Sierra Club

Listen (15 min)

Architect William McDonough, co-author of Cradle to cradle

Listen (19 min)

Listen to the whole program (37 min)

And, be sure to tune in next week as we focus on Hurricane Katrina as
the first national manifestation of climate chaos and why this is only
the beginning of what scientists and environmentalists have been
predicting, mostly onto deaf ears. Is America ready to listen, connect
the dots and take action or are we dooming and damning our children to
endure the results of our fuelishness?

This week’s program is again from "The best of EcoTalk" series: it was originally aired on May 22nd, 2005.

Betsy’s guests to discuss how safe or unsafe are the cosmetics and other personal products we use are:

Judi Shils, Founder and Director of the Marin Cancer Project that promotes knowing about the ingredients, phasing out dangerous components (like phtalates) and teen organizing.  Listen (10 min)

Sasha Hoffman is Miss Teen World USA and an advocate for safe cosmetics.  Listen (6 min)

Bruce Ackers is Director of Research and Development for EO products a company that creates natural personal care products.
Listen (11 min)

Heather Sarantis is program manager with the Breast Cancer Fund that is a member of the safe cosmetics campaign.
Listen (7 min)

For more info, read the Environmental Working Group’s Skin Deep report and find out what ingredients are in the products you or your children use.

LISTEN to the whole program (37 min)

The Sierra Club, the nation’s
largest environmental organization is holding a conference and expo in San
Francisco next month, the "Sierra Summit", to launch "the third phase of the environmental movement".
Our guests include Lisa Renstrom, the newly inducted 51st president of the
Sierra Club, and two Summit speakers.  LISTEN (11 min)

Chad Pregracke, founder and president of
Living Lands and Waters, will tell us how he went from pulling garbage from the
Mississippi River ten years ago to creating a model for cleaning up rivers across
America.
LISTEN (14 min)

We’ll also hear from Sarah Craven who runs the Washington DC office of the
United Nations Population Fund (a department defunded by Bush Jr.) to learn about
"The Population Balm".

LISTEN (13 min)

LISTEN to the whole program (37 min)