Sierra Club Executive Director Carl Pope (pictured right) tells us how the roundtable discussion last week with Al Gore, Senator Barabara Boxer, venture capitalist Vinod Khosla, and Duke Energy Chairman and CEO Paul Anderson came about, and the surprising, exciting things that they all agreed on: "These are the people wrestling with the reality of how we’re going to lick global warming." LISTEN (7 min)
At October’s AASHE (Association for the Advancement of Sustainability in Higher Education) Conference, Betsy sat down for a chat with Eban Goodstein, a passionate advocate for a coordinated response on behalf of the public to address Global Warming. His solution? We won’t succeed unless we Focus the Nation. LISTEN (12 min)
Ted Glick and Paul Burman stood atop the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Association and unfurled a banner that read Bush: Let NOAA tell the Truth. Who do you think should face jail time for reckless endangerment: Bush, or Glick? LISTEN (8 min)
New York Times Climate Reporter and Author of The North Pole Was Here, Andy Revkin tells us about the frightening new study that says Arctic summers could be ice-free by 2040, the earliest date yet prognosticated by scientists. PART ONE (11 min) PART TWO (7 min)
Increasingly severe climate challenges require economic plans that will integrate new and daring ideas. MIT Economist John Reilly from the Joint Program on the Science and Policy of Global Change discusses the variety of economic perscriptions out there, and a rather surprising about-face on the topic of federal emissions caps. LISTEN (11 min)
As Berkeley Professor Daniel Kammen tells Betsy, it’s great that the Chinese government is considering a tax on industrial polluters. Less great, though, is that a coal-fired power plant opens there every ten days. As for the Republic of Texas…. LISTEN (11 MIN)
Patrick McCully of the International Rivers Network gives us his report from Nairobi, site of the latest round of UN Climate Talks, or as McCully tells us, "Talks about Talks." LISTEN (11 min)
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Salt Lake City Mayor Rocky Anderson leads one of the most environmentally progressive municipal governments in the world, and has gone global to show other mayors how to act locally. Two weeks ago he co-hosted with Robert Redford and ICLEI (the International Council for Local Environmental Initiatives) the Sundance Summit, gathering 60 mayors from all over the country to tackle climate change. LISTEN (11 min)
Renowned Journalist and former Boston Globe editor Ross Gelbspan specializes in practical, economically sound, macro-level ideas to confront climate change. In a special three-part interview, he lays out ideas he brainstormed with energy companies, economists, and policy wonks, and which formed the core of his 2004 book Boiling Point: How Politicians, Big Oil and Coal,
Journalists and Activists Are Fueling the Climate Crisis–And What We
Can Do to Avert Disaster.
Aspen Skiing Company’s Director of Environmental Affairs Auden Schendler tells Betsy how climate change threatens winter skiing, the friend-of-the-court brief they’ve filed with the Supreme Court and the impressive steps they’ve taken to become the most eco-conscious ski resort in the industry.
LISTEN (12 min)
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