The original Green Patriot David Steinman tells Betsy about watching Green Patriotism enter the mainstream, the often overlooked fact of petroleum in all of our plastic products, and his new book Safe Trip to Eden: 10 Steps to Save Planet Earth from the Global Warming Meltdown.
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Danny Seo talks about his books, from Generation React to the Simply Green series.
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Jane Kirkland joins Betsy to reminisce about attending Al Gore’s Climate Training Conference, and to tell the funny story of the accident that led to her writing an award-winning series of educational books designed to increase our children’s exposure and consciousness of the outdoors. LISTEN (9 min)
Is gardening a political act? In a very thoughtful interview, Heather Flores, author of the new book Food Not Lawns: How to Turn Your Yard into a Garden and your Neighborhood into a Community, makes the case that the garden is the key to re-cultivating our communities, our diets, and our urban spaces.
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Joseph Romm, former Assistant Secretary at the US Department of Energy under President Clinton and current Senior Fellow at the Center for American Progress talks about last week’s landmark IPCC report. Dr. Romm’s new book is Hell and High Water: Global Warming—the Solution and the Politics
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In Lost Mountain: A Year in the Vanishing Wilderness, Erik Reece chronicled the year he spent witnessing the systematic decimation of a single mountain. He and Betsy chat about the price West Virginians have paid for being stereotyped and ignored by the rest of the US, the latest quixotic Bush energy statement ("There’s nothing clean about clean coal"), and our national identity.
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Earthbound Farm co-founder Myra Goodman tells Betsy about being Big and Organic, she and her husband’s innocent business ‘instincts’, her new cookbook that takes advantage of the organic world we’re all living in, and how, no matter what happened during the E.Coli scare, we should feel utterly safe eating Earthbound Farm products. LISTEN (10 min)
Syracuse University Professor of Political Science Sarah B. Pralle shares with Betsy her new book Branching Out, Digging In: Environmental Advocacy and Agenda Setting, which explores why some environmental issues succeed, and some don’t. LISTEN (10 min)
Mark Harris, author of Grave Matters: A Journey through the Modern Funeral Industry to a Natural Way of Burial", comes back to finish his and Betsy enlightening conversation about returning to burials that honor our place in the earth’s biological cycles. He also addresses recent allegations that cremations are connected to mercury pollution– through dental fillings. LISTEN (8 min)
Author Melissa Holbrook Pierson laments the disappearance of a magical place called "the woods" from our children’s lives, and "the fetishization of personal property." Her book, new in paperback, is titled The Place You Love is Gone. LISTEN (8 min)