Radio Broadcast Archives

Betsy talks about the lack of green radio programs, the recent folding of the magazine Plenty while there is so much to report about. LISTEN (9 minutes)

Zem Joaquin,
CEO and founder of Eco-Fabulous and author of Zem’s List talks about the latest in sustainable style. LISTEN (21 min)

This might be EcoTalk’s last hurrah as a daily show, but we’ll be damned if we won’t go out with yet another jam-packed hour of news that will inform the future that us optimists are determined to see through.
If the mainstream media were a little more concerned with concrete plans for our energy future than the cost of somebody’s haircut, presidential outside shot Governor Bill Richardson (NM) might have a reasonable shot at the White House this upcoming silly season. David Sandretti of the League of Conservation Voters joins Betsy to outline the big guy’s plan to combat climate change. LISTEN (10 min)

Richard Heinberg performs his role as EcoTalk’s final (for now) guest with aplomb, discussing Exxon’s latest shenanigans as well as his books The Party’s Over and The Oil Depletion Protocol.

And finally, Betsy sees us out with a brand new Madonna tune, released as part of the LiveEarth series of concerts to combat climate change: "Hey You." Download it here! LISTEN (12 min)

Paul Ehrlich has been both authoritative and controversial for forty years, so that fact that to this day his  still somewhat taboo advocacy of population control and his other work are cited in newspaper editorials no longer shocks him: "I am an outsider from the point of view of the media. I am an insider from the point of view of science. Scientists don’t care what Jerry Falwell, or Limbaugh, or Coulter say. They care about what other scientists say." Join us for a special interview that is as compelling as it is freewheeling.
PART ONE (7 min)  PART TWO (12 min)

Greg & Connie Mattison of the "GreenByDesign", the creative and frisky Green Building TV show that’s taking the state of the New Jersey (and beyond) by storm. Connie: "I think there are many out there who don’t know where to begin. We thought, ‘Well, you can watch us while we learn.’" Greg: "We call ourselves newlygreens." Check it out! LISTEN (8 min)

It’s not just Fox News anymore. When you see media degradation on the level that’s being seen on shows like CNN’s Glenn Beck, who do you call? Media Matters, of course. Betsy alluded the other day to Beck’s desperate linkage of Al Gore to Nazis, and here Media Matters Senior Fellow Paul Waldman joins us to give his reaction to the veracity and audacity of such statements, and such newsman as Mr. Glenn Beck. Has CNN hit a new low? "I think they stooped to a new low when they hired Glenn Beck in the first place."
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Vanity Fair Editor-at-Large Cullen Murphy tells Betsy how much fun it was putting together Vanity Fair’s 2nd Annual Green Issue. Kudos for a magazine of that reach and diversity to invest their talents in an issue that is sure to persuade the skeptical, and compel the concerned. LISTEN (8 min)

And this great cartoon 🙂

Professor of Eco-Psychology and Executive Director of the Foundation for Mythological Studies, Lori Pye offers her thoughts on "eco-suicide": "We’re destroying the very planet that we need for survival. And we’re treating the planet as we’re treating ourselves." LISTEN (8 min)

Mathis Wackernagel of the Global Footprint Network talks about how an organization as young as his wins a multimillion dollar Skoll Award for Social Entrepreneurship, and how they will use the money to institutionalize the Ecological Footprint in at least ten key nations by 2015: "The first nation was Switzerland, now we’re working with Japan, the next ones will be the United Arab Emirates, Belgium, and Mozambique." LISTEN (12 min)