Daniel Kessler is communications manager for the Rain Forest Action Network. He reports from the civil disobedience protest against the Keystone XL Pipeline in D.C., where more than 270 green activists and not-the-usual-suspects, have been arrested for a cause they/we believe in!
Richard Heinberg, Senior Fellow in Residence at the Post Carbon Institute talks about his new book The End of Growth. He explains why GDP is dead and what should replace it for a more sustainable future.
Joseph Romm is a senior fellow at The Center for American Progress and the author of Hell Or High Water. He joins Betsy for insights on the latest crop of Republican deny-o-saurs, led by Rick Perry, the Governor of a state that’s literally burning up!
Joseph blogs at climateprogress.org.
Conservative blogger, climate convert and content aggregator extraordinaire, D.R. Tucker joins me to discuss the latest schemes and tactics of denialists. From a faux controversy over light bulb choice to Michelle Bachman's sanity, the inanity of it all will be our focus.
Inspired by Rachel Carson, Ellie Rogers brought the first in the world carbon neutral program to the Shaklee Corporation a decade ago. Ellie and I are in the nation's capitol for the Shaklee Convention, which is all about green impact, and opportunities.
The Citizens Climate Lobby is in the forefront of solutions to address CO2 emissions with a “fee and dividend” approach. We’ll get an update on their progress after meeting with legislators from Executive Director, Mark Reynolds.
Here are some good news from from Alan Front, CEO of Conservation Pathways. He says his group finds strong bipartisan support for conserving public land and water resources but that could be threatened by the debt ceiling stalemate, still unfolding in Washington.
A bright spot from the folks at Empowered by light, a non-profit group providing solar power and lighting to poor families in Zambia. Marcos Kaprels shares the inspiration, and innovation, behind the project that could be expanded around the world.
Climate Project educator and Emergency Room Doc, Peter Joseph, is just back from the Arctic and shares what he saw – and didn't see – in the ice fields above Norway.
Among Joseph's takeaway messages is that "at the rate things are changing, polar bears don't stand a chance of surviving this century". But Peter is not one to whine, so instead he'll opine, on what can – and must – be done to reverse course.
Let us go down in the dumps, literally, with Jeremy Seifert, Director of the new documentary Dive. We'll hear what this dumpster diver turned food waste activist is doing to make sure his little movie has BIG impact!