Bruce Blanning is Executive Director of Professional Engineers In California Government, the sponsor behind a great new documentary called The Next Frontier: Engineering The Golden Age Of Green that depicts what’s possible with clean energy.
View a short trailer on YouTube
Paul Ehrlich remembers Stephen Schneider: “I don’t think anybody has worked harder and longer to
educate the public on climate issues in particular and science issues in
general.”
Rachel Finlay Ginis is a LEED-accredited building contractor, designer and founder of the Citizen's Climate Lobby in Marin County, California. She is just back from Washington DC where she met with dozens of legislators to lobby for a strong energy bill that includes a new carbon policy concept known as “fees and dividends”, a better alternative to “cap and trade”, from a practical and political perspective.
Julia Whitty, just back from the Gulf Coast and just in time to launch her new book Deep Blue Home. Whitty is passionate about our need to wake up to the gifts of our seas and to ‘seize’ the moment of this oil catastrophe to make a sea change!
Eric Pooley, author of the just-released book The Climate War is also Deputy Editor of Bloomberg Business Week Magazine and former Managing Editor of Fortune Magazine. With a very strong financial and political perspective, as well as ecological, his book is one of Betsy’s Best Bets!
Frances Moore Lappé, the best-selling author of Diet For A Small Planet, Hope’s Edge and most recently Getting A Grip 2 shares what inspires her in dark times to preserve, prevail and prosper!
Green Front Radio made a rare visit to NYC and the PRN Studios from which this show was broadcast. I snagged the network’s other green host – Steve Barnett – as Paradise Parking Lot was ending – and we chatted about recent environmental news and views.
Joseph Romm of The Center for American Progress writes the blog Climate Progress. He joined me to discuss his riveting talk at Al Gore’s Climate Conference this weekend. Joe tells it likes it is, Come Hell Or High Water, which happens to be the name of one of his books – check it out
Link to Winston Churchill's The Scaffolding of Rethoric mentioned in the interview.
As the worsening ‘sp-oiler’ (oil plus spill) catastrophe continues to unfold in the Gulf, Gillian Caldwell, Campaign Director for 1Sky, joins us with her views on the continuing disaster, as well as Obama’s speech, pending climate legislation, and this weekend’s action “Hands Across The Sand” and how you can participate in the event.
Ted Glick, Policy Director for Chesapeake Climate Action Network talks about his recent arrest and conviction for civil disobedience on pending global warming legislation.