From Sierra Magazine: The Low-Carbon Diet
Seth Zuckerman explains in Sierra Magazine about his Low Carbon Diet: From gas gluttony to fuel fitness in three weeks.
LISTEN (12 min)
Go and See An Inconvenient Truth!
NRDC’s Daniel Hinerfeld presents An Inconvenient Truth with Al Gore and co-producer Laurie David. LISTEN (8 min)
More up to date information in the blog. You can also read the book.
100+MPG
Shana Weber reflects on an ongoing disinformation campaign by the Competitive Institute and Felix
Kramer, Founder
of CalCars talks about Plug-In-Hybrids.
LISTEN (7:50 min)
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Meet the coal cow-boy
Montana Democratic Governor Brian Schweitzer is in favor of using his state’s abundant coal reserves in an environment friendly way. Are synthetic fuels part of the solution to reduce global warming? NRDC’s Dave Hawkins chips in. LISTEN (12 min)
James Speth about global warming
James Speth, Dean of the Yale School of Forestry and Environmental Studies and author of Red Sky at Morning, America and the Crisis of the Global Evironment (2004),
joined us in studio to talk about global warming and his call for action in a
recent letter to the Editor of the NY Times.
LISTEN (part 1: 11 min)
LISTEN (part 2: 7 min)
Sun’s cool threads
Greg Papadopoulos, Executive VP and Chief Technology Officer for
Sun Microsystems discusses Sun’s Eco-Responsibility Initiative and the new "cool threads technology" that saves energy and space . Listen (10 min)
1000 barrels a second (part 2)
Peter Tertzakian, energy economist and author of a just released book, A Thousand Barrels A Second – The Coming of the Oil Break Point and the Challenges Facing An Energy Dependent World continues his discussion with Betsy about how to get our society into fuel detox. Listen (7 min).
Betsy also mentioned Richard Heinberg’s "The Party’s Over". His mot recent book is "Power Down".
1000 barrels a second
Commentary on
this week’s State of the Union is provided by Peter Tertzakian, energy economist and author of a just released book, A Thousand Barrels A Second – The Coming of the Oil Break Point and the Challenges Facing An Energy Dependent World. Listen (3 min)
A renewable energy plan for Hawaii
We’ll then take a carbon-free trip to Hawaii and learn about plans underway to make the 50th state first
in comprehensive development and use of renewable energy (the islands
get a lot of sun power!). We’ll get the story direct from Kyle Datta, with the Rocky Mountain Institute ,
which helped inspire the Aloha State’s Republican governor to go green! Listen (7 min)