Show Guests
October 5, 2008
Ellis Jones has put together a guide for
all of us consumers out here that will give us better guidance
when shopping, to be environmentally and socially responsible
shoppers. www.betterworldshopper.org
Ford Motor company is always looking
for ways to create a more eco-friendly car. Something that
people may not be thinking about is what goes in to Ford
vehicles that could potentially help out to green the industry.
With us is Ellen Lee who is the Plastic Research Technical
Expert for Ford. www.fordvehicles.com
Photographers Benjamin Drummond and Sara
Joy Steele have been working for several years,
documenting climate change with the aim to understand global
change through local people. From semi-nomadic reindeer
herders in Norway to firefighters of the American West.
Their work has been taken on by the Blue Earth Alliance
as a recognized project. www.bendrum.com/facing_climate_change
September 28, 2008
Robert Chatwani is the general manger
of WorldofGood.com which is a new webventure from the auctioneers
of the world wide web, Ebay. As General Manager of WorldofGood.com,
Robert Chatwani oversees strategic planning, operations,
marketing and business development for eBay1s newest community
focused on socially responsible shopping. WorldofGood.com
is dedicated to providing a trusted platform where individuals
can create positive change through commerce, as part of
a global community. www.worldofgood.com
Chris Ryan is the Chief Technology Officer
with NatureWorks. NatureWorks is an innovative company that
makes packaging and service-wear from bio-plastics, or plant
based materials. www.natureworksllc.com
SHARON ASTYK is a former academic who
farms in upstate New York with her husband and four children.
She raises livestock, grows vegetables and writes about
food, climate change and peak oil. Sharon is with us to
talk about her perspective on 3Depletion and abundance2
- which is also the title of her new book.
September 21, 2008 - "Greening Las Vegas"
This show is dedicated to Las Vegas and efforts made to
help make this city more sustainable. The greening of Las
Vegas is one of Meet The Planets signature campaigns and
future shows will follow up and touch on other programs
going on in this city. Las Vegas has been recognized as
a world leader and the American City of the year for its
commitment to improving the quality of life for its residents
through innovative leadership. In London at the World Leadership
Awards, the city was named American City of the Year, and
was recognized for its commitment to sustainability through
its Alternative Fuel Program and the Centennial Hills Master
Planned Campus.
Our first guest is the Deputy Director of Planning and
development, Tom Perrigo. He will tell
us about the future plans and current activities taking
place in Las Vegas. Contrary to what people may think, there
are numerous plans to make this city a much more sustainable
place to live. www.lasvegasnevada.gov
Chuck Wilson is the President and CEO
of A1 Organics - a leader in the organic recycling industry.
A1 has diverted millions of cubic yards of waste from landfills
in Colorado and continue to do so in the city of Las Vegas
where the company has now been in business for two years.
With the help of A1, several hotels have signed up for composting
of their food waste, yard waste is being diverted to the
composting facility as well. www.a1organics.com
Marc Verbruggen is the president and CEO
of NatureWorks LLC. NatureWorks is the first company to
offer commercially available, low carbon footprint polymers
derived from 100-percent annually renewable resources =
plants. We'll hear about the benefits, how it can be used
and why it is high time to introduce new materials like
"Ingeo" in the market place. www.natureworksllc.com
September 14, 2008
David Festa works for EDF (Environmental
Defense Fund) where he directs the Oceans Program leading
over 40 professionals in five regional offices in the mission
to restore ocean ecosystems. Under David's leadership, the
Ocean Program has achieved several key milestones, the latest
being the "Catch Shares Program".
Tim Kenyon is a Senior Market Analyst
for GFK Roper Consulting, a unit of GFK Custom Research
North America. Amongst many roles, Tim is the Product Manager
on Roper1s Green Gauge Study, which is a yearly look into
the environmental consciousness of Americans.
Marlene Williamson is the VP of Global
Marketing at Redback Networks, an Ericsson Company. She
is responsible for leading global marketing initiatives,
with a specific focus on developing world-class demand generation,
brand building, product marketing and field marketing activities.
We'll be talking to her about how the tele-communications
industries are pushing to become more "green".
September 7, 2008
Michael Jasny joins us from NRDC talking
about the new agreement between the Navy and their use of
sonar. Negotiations have taken place to limit the times
when sonar can be used in order to protect the whales that
often migrate in waters where sonar is practiced.
Special agent Daniel Leclair is from the
Department of fish and wildlife services. Leclair was the
lead agent in an investigation of a large scale sophisticated
ivory smuggling ring that smuggled ivory from Cameroon through
Canada and finally to the U.S.
Kimon Onuma is the principal of Onuma
and Associates and the president of Webscape. With a background
in architecture as well as technology, he has been a proponent
of Building Information Modeling for over 10 years. He is
leading what is called 3BIMstorms2 around the world, revolutionizing
the building industry. www.ecobuildamerica.com
August 31, 2008
Michael Degnan, is the Associate Washington
Representative for National Forests and Wildlife, here to
talk to us about the latest proposed regulation from the
Bush administration. The newly proposed regulations would
strike at the core of the Endangered Species Act, largely
by removing science. www.sierraclub.org
John Michael Greer is a certified Master
Conserver, organic gardener and scholar of ecological history.
In his recent book called “The Long Descent”,
John takes us through the history of empires won and lost
and compares them to today’s industrial society. John
Michael’s book can be found through New Society Publishers
and in bookstores.
Jeff Oberdorfer is the Executive Director
of First Community Housing, a non-profit Housing Corporation
acknowledged as a pioneer in “greening” affordable
housing. Jeff was named “Environmentalist of the Year”
by the Santa Clara County League of Conservation Voters
for his leadership at First Community Housing. www.first
housing.org
August 24, 2008
Steven Bessette is the founder and president
of EcoSMART, an alternative to dangerous pesticides. Steven
comes from a back-ground in private law practice. The EPA
approved 60 pesticides that could threaten endangered wildlife
and be a health risk to many. We ask how something like
this could happen. Question is – are we adequately
informed about the risks or the alternatives to these chemicals?
www.ecosmart.com
Paul Dickinson joins us from “The
Carbon Disclosure Project” (CDP), talking about the
new carbon reporting pilot program that is taking place
across the U.S. The CDP provides a secretariat for the world's
largest institutional investor collaboration on the business
implications of climate change. CDP represents an efficient
process whereby many institutional investors collectively
sign a single global request for disclosure of information
on Greenhouse Gas Emissions from the largest publicly quoted
companies. www.cdproject.net
Daniel Beltrá is a Spanish photographer
based in Seattle. He brings the background of a news photographer
to the fields of nature and the environment. Daniel has
documented Greenpeace expeditions to the Amazon, the Arctic,
the Southern Oceans and Patagonia's ice fields, and has
received numerous awards for his work. He was recently admitted
to the prestigious International League of Conservation
Photographers.
August 17, 2008
Frances Moore-Lappe lead the Cambridge-based Small Planet
Institute, a collaborative network for research and popular
education to bring democracy to life. She is also co-founder
of the Small Planet Fund, channeling resources to democratic
social movements worldwide. Her bestseller "Diet for
a Small Planet" continues to awaken readers to the
human-made causes of hunger and the power of our everyday
choices to create the world we want. www.smallplanet.org
The GO2 Water Team is comprised of Ph.D. scientists, engineers,
and entrepreneurs sharing several decades of experience
in the wastewater, environmental and renewable energy fields.
GO2 Water1s technology is very much unlike the conventional
wastewater treatment, which is extremely capital- and energy-intensive,
with high construction, maintenance, and operation budgets,
large labor requirements, high carbon emissions etc. Go2
water has created a carbon-negative method that recovers
energy through a methane fermentation and biogas collection.
There is no sludge accumulation or disposal necessary. www.go2waterinc.com
SG Blocks is the foremost and premier provider of code
engineered cargo shipping containers specifically "ValueCycled"
to meet the growing demand of Safe and Green Construction.
David Cross tells us how SG Blocks philosophy empowers developers,
architects, builders, and home owners to achieve Greener
Construction, Faster Execution, Stronger Buildings, and
Higher Value by building shipping container houses and other
buildings. www.sgblocks.com
July 5, 2008
David Doubilet is one of National Geographic's
most famous (and frequently used) photographers. He specializes
in underwater photography and has photographed everything
from Great White Sharks to stingrays to sea turtles to coral
reefs, and more. We invited David to talk to us about the
oceans and what he has seen as far as changes under water
in his many years of shooting below the surface.
Tina Ramme has 11 years experience working
with lion, leopard, and cheetah projects in Africa. She
has conducted biological research and conservation work
all over the world. Her list of animal-research related
credentials is impressive. Today, Tina is the director of
the Center for Lion Conservation and Research in Kenya.
Jonathan Marks is personally and professionally
committed to the sustainable bottom line - professionally
he is dedicated to Green Real Estate. Jonathan is an EcoBroker
who1s earned numerous environmental certifications and is
a leader in his field.
June 28, 2008
In April 2007, Congresswoman Nancy Pelosi,
the Speaker of the House of Representatives, spoke out about
environmental challenges – pointing out that they
are as local as our neighborhoods -- and as global as our
planet. Pelosi went further than that, saying, “It’s
time for Congress to act on its own carbon footprint.”
To help turn words into action, Pelosi turned to Daniel
Beard, the Chief Administrative Officer of the House of
Representatives. Beard now leads the Green the Capitol initiative”
he has three decades of policy affairs in the Senate, White
House, Interior department and Library of Congress.
Sally Bingham is a priest in the Episcopal
Diocese church of California and also the environmental
minister at Grace Cathedral of San Francisco where she also
works as the director of The Regeneration Project. Www.theregenerationproject.org
John Ivanko is one of the authors of “Eco-Preneuring”,
a book that shows how we can harness our country’s
entrepreneurial spirit to avert global catastrophe and profit
from doing so. Social trends are moving in the direction
of green living and we are seeing a shift in purpose over
profits. www.newsociety.com
Green Builders, Inc. were recently awarded
the 2008 Single Family Affordable Home of the Year by the
National Association of Home Builders, With us is the CEO
of the company, Clark Wilson to talk about the future of
green buildings.
June 21, 2008
Lester Brown is the founder and president
of Earth Policy Institute. The Institute1s aim is to provide
a vision of what a sustainable economy will look like and
a plan for how to get from here to there. Brown also wrote
3Plan B 3.0: Mobilizing to Save Civilization. www.earth-policy.org
Andy Kunz is a veteran member of the Congress
for the New Urbanism and works as a town planner and designer.
As the director of NewUrbanism.org and NewTrains.org,
Andy Kunz focuses on the importance of green transportation
and trains as a solution to climate change and peak oil.
NewUrbanism.org and www.NewTrains.org Samir Patel is with
us to talk about the findings from prehistoric farming,
uncovered through archeological findings.
Samir works as the associate editor for
Archeology Magazine. Can we learn from an ancient past how
to make our land flourish with a sustainable agriculture?
There is a growing number of people that believe so.
Fred Standish is the director of communications
for Nissan North America and he is talking to Meet the Planet
about the company1s plans to shift towards a more environmentally
friendly practice. www.nissan-usa.com
June 14, 2008
Wes Bolsen is the Chief Marketing Officer
and VP of Business Development for Coskata. He1s been responsible
for launching the company, developing strategic partnerships
and managing relationships in Washington, D.C. Previously,
Wes was the Chief Financial Officer of ICM, the leading
U.S. ethanol plant engineering where he gained critical
exposure to the ethanol industry.
Jeff Peri is the president of Lucky Earth
3Waterless2 Carwash, a green and non-toxic product committed
to saving water, eliminating run-off and protecting the
health of the planet. The company was recently featured
in The Los Angeles Times, The Wall Street Journal &
The New York Times.
Chris Maser has co-authored a book for
kids in grades 6-12 called 3Teaching kids to change the
world2 - the hope for this book is to inspire social responsibility
and activate youth to take part of what is unfolding in
our societies. Chris has authored 30 books and is an international
lecturer in environmental conflicts.
June 7, 2008
"One Planet Communities" is
the governing body which endorses, measures, and provides
global networking for communities which meet the ten rigorous
principles of sustainability crafted by BioRegional UK.
Sonoma Mountain Village is the first community in North
America and fourth in the world to receive this prestigious
endorsement. Geof Syphers who's the Chief
Sustainability officer joins us to talk about the village.
www.sonomamountainvillage.com
The National Geographic Society and the
international polling firm GlobeScan unveiled a new mechanism
for measuring and comparing individual consumer behavior
as it relates to the environment. This first-of-its-kind
study reveals surprising differences between consumers in
developed and developing countries in terms of environmentally
friendly actions. Terry Garcia is our guest
and will tell us about the findings. To learn more about
the study: nationalgeographic.com/greendex To take the test
for yourself: www.globescan.com/news_archives/greendex/
Freight transportation is a leading source of greenhouse
gas emissions. What can a shipping company do to ease the
burden on the environment? With us is Mike Ellis,
the President of EA Logistics to tell us what they are doing
to green their transportation methods. www.ealogistics.com
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