Show Guests
June 28, 2009
Being an author is more of a side project for Diane Wilson
a fourth-generation Texas fisher(wo)man and co-founder
of Code Pink. Diane has made headlines as an environmental
activist, keen on hunger strikes and nonviolent disobedience
(she1s been arrested around 29 times). Diane has also
inspired the award-winning documentary "Texas Gold".
The Bardessono is a 62 room hotel, spa and restaurant
that opened its doors in California's Napa Valley in February.
Cristina Salas-Porras is with us to talk about the aim
of becoming the greenest luxury hotel in AmericaSŧ www.bardessono.com
In 2004, Scott Harrison was a photojournalist on a Mercy
Ship in Liberia, West Africa. He saw the life-threatening
effects of contaminated water in the area and upon moving
back to New York in 2006, he founded 3Charity Water2.
www.charitywater.org
June 14, 2009
Gershon Cohen is CSAW's director, an Alaska-based project
of the Earth Island Institute, dedicated to keeping public
waters free from pollution. He has applied his background
in molecular biology and water quality policy to protect
public waters since 1990.earthisland.org/csaw/cruisepollution.htm
Regina Spallone is a Fishery Management Specialist at
the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's
Marine Fisheries Service, also known as 3NOAA2. She is
trained as a marine biologist and has worked for the fisheries
service for 18 years on a range of topics. Regina has
been tracking and reporting on the status of the U.S.
stocks of fish which is our discussion today - how are
they doing? www.nmfs.noaa.gov
The University of New Hampshire is the first University
to engage in an exciting project, Paul Chamberlin, the
assistant vice president for energy and campus development
has been one of the key leaders of the project.
sustainableunh.unh.edu/climate_ed/cogen_landfillgas.html
June 7, 2009
We have talked a lot about climate change on our program
and we have followed experts in their research about different
species and how they are adapting to the changes. Today
we have yet another connoisseur with us and he specializes
on plant species, Doctor Jim Thorne,
researcher at UC Davis will enlighten us on the subject.
Steven Donziger is a US attorney working
on the case against Chevron Oil company. Some recent developments
have occurred in the lawsuit that1s been going on for
15 years with Ecuador and we'll get caught up on the events.
William Olson is the Senior Vice President
of Business Development for ElectraTherm. From a background
of various entrepreneurial endeavors, William helped launch
a San Francisco energy company in 2001 selling and installing
residential and commercial solar PV systems. This gave
him a hands-on understanding of distributed energy and
on the path that led to ElectraTherm, a company that has
taken waste heat to another level.
May 31, 2009
Andy Kunz is an urban designer and town
planner, and the director of the websites www.NewUrbanism.org
and www.NewTrains.org.
A veteran member of the Congress for the New Urbanism,
Kunz's work focuses on the importance of green transportation
and trains as a solution to climate change and peak oil.
Rebecca Sutton is an environmental chemist
and senior scientist, working with the Environmental Working
Group (EWG), She has authored many publications in peer-reviewed
journals. Rebecca will be talking about our rivers and
what sort of state we find them in today, while we live
in a polluted world, there is growing awareness of the
importance of healthy waterways. www.ewg.org
May 24, 2009
DANIEL GOLEMAN is the acclaimed author
of the international bestsellers Emotional Intelligence,
Working with Emotional Intelligence, Social Intelligence,
and the coauthor of the business bestseller Primal Leadership.
A former science reporter for the New York Times, twice
nominated for the Pulitzer Prize, and having received
the highest accolades over the years, including the American
Psychological Association1s Lifetime Achievement Award
for his journalism, he now turns his attention to one
of the foremost issues of our time‹our deteriorating
environment with his new book Ecological Intelligence.
Maria Gunnoe was awarded the Goldman
Environmental prize for North America. Every year, six
awards are given for outstanding environmental work, to
recipients that have taken issues in to their own hands
to make a change. Maria is one of those people.. West
Virginia is known for its beautiful mountain range of
the Appalachians, but what is not so much talked about
is its largest industry - coal mining. Maria is with us
to talk about her uproar against the destruction of her
homeland that has come at a price..
Gillian Caldwell is the Campaign Director
for One Sky. Gillian is a film maker and an attorney with
thirty years of experience advocating for social justice
in the United States and around the world. Now she works
with 1Sky which has over 420 allied organizations. Their
slogan; One climate, One future, One chance - echoes across
the nation as they move to beat back global warming. www.1sky.org
May 17, 2009
Derek Walker is the Director of California
Climate Campaign, for the Environmental Defense Fund where
he helps manage state-based programs to pass and implement
legislation and regulations addressing global warming,
energy efficiency, renewable energy and alternative fuels.
Derek works with state-level stakeholder groups to build
strategic consensus and leverage resources.
Jim Sumich is talking to us about the
effects of global warming on the whales around the globe.
Jim is a Marine biologist, text book author and whale
researcher.
There is a No GMO Challenge on the rise. Being called
the greatest man-made environmental threat to our planet
in human history - genetically modified organisms (GMOs).
The No GMO Challenge is a way to organize, educate and
build awareness around the issue of genetically modified
food. We have Anne-Marie Michaels with us to talk more
on the subject, she is the founder of the Real Food Media
Blog Network. www.realfoodmedia.com
May 10, 2009
Tim Appenzeller is National Geographic Magazinešs award winning science
journalist and executive editor. In this months May edition of National
Geographic, the spotlight is on to the largest turtle on Earth, the
leatherback. Tim has followed them up close and talks to us about the future
of these ancient reptiles.
Michael Degnan is the Associate Washington Representative working on
National Forests and Wildlife for the Sierra Club. Michael talks to us about
the borders being built between the US and Mexico and the environmental
issues that are created with such a divider.
Brita Belli has talked to us before on the show and we have invited her back
to talk about the "small house movement" that is in fact taking place around
the nation and hopefully around the world. Brita is the managing editor of
E/The Environmental Magazine, Americašs largest independent nonprofit
environmental magazine
May 3, 2009
The northward and inland movement of North American birds,
confirmed by thousands of citizen-observations, provides
new and powerful evidence that global warming is having
a serious impact on natural systems, according to new
analyses by Audubon scientists. Here to give us better
insight is Greg Butcher, Director of
Bird Conservation for the National Audobon society.
Photographers Benjamin Drummond and
Sara Joy Steele have been working for
several year, documenting climate change with the aim
to understand global change through local people. They
have photographed semi-nomadic reindeer herders in Norway
and firefighters of the American West.
John Berkyto is the CTO and Managing
Director of ZED engines. As a former field technical manager
for both Ford and Honda, John has extensive power-train
expertise from compact cars to tractor-trailer trucks.
We'll hear about the ZED engine and what makes it different
from fuel cells, hybrids, biofuel or electric power.
April 24, 2009
Laurel Neme is an international consultant
that specializes in natural resource management. She has
written numerous pieces for World Wildlife Fund, Environmental
Defense Fund and other environmental organizations. She
reveals what forensic labs are finding about the crimes
around endangered species trade. Her book "Animal
Investigators" is now found on book shelves.
Mark Simmonds, International Director
of Science at WDCS (Whale and Dolphin Conservation Society).
Chair of the UK's Marine Animal Rescue Coalition since
1994, and author and co-authored of almost 200 reports
& articles about marine conservation. The author of
3Whales and Dolphins of the World2, available in several
languages, Mark is based in Wiltshire UK.
Brita Belli is the managing editor of
E / The Environmental Magazine, the largest independent
magazine dedicated to green issues... We have invited
Brita to talk about baseball and how sporting arenas have
turned to a much more green way of doing business.
April 4, 2009
A leading spokesperson on the health dangers of Genetically
Modified Organisms (GMOs), Jeffrey Smith is a globally
respected researcher, having exposed Industry and Government
Lies about the Safety of the Genetically Engineered Foods.
His book 3Seeds of Deception was a world best- selling
book, credited to changes in consumer buying habits to
safer, non-GMO foods. In his second book, Genetic Roulette,
he reveals insider documents about GMO safety trials and
how the world1s most powerful biotech companies bluff
and mislead critics, Congress and the FDA about food safety,
products Americans buy everyday.
Established in 1997, The Lewa Wildlife Conservancy is
a catalyst for wildlife conservation in northern Kenya.
It protects 12% of the worlds black rhino and the largest
single population of Grevy's zebra in the world, as well
as hundreds of other animals. Lewa is also the catalyst
for education, health care, fresh water and micro finance
initiatives in the region. Lewa's US representative Linda
Millard talks to us about the organization. www.lewa.org
March 29, 2009
Greg Reitman was one of the producers
for the movie "Fields of Fuel" which was last
years Sundance Film Festival 3audience award- film2. This
movie told a less known tale of the biodiesel engine,
how it is used but mostly where it could be used and isn1t..
It1s a story of petroleum, it1s a story of the car companies
and it is a hopeful, but frustrating tale of how bio-fuels
could replace oil while minimizing pollution and all of
the many, very bad things that come with the burning of
petroleum.
Andrew Nikiforuk is a journalist focusing
in on economics and the environment. He has written several
books prior to his current 3Tar Sands2 - a wake-up call
to Canada1s major export of oil, which the US consumes
much of. But the oils coming out of Alberta, Canada is
attached to an assault of its own..
Elizabeth Grossman has been on our show
before, she is an environmental journalist and dives in
to various topics. Today she speaks to us about the threat
that lies in the melting ice in the arctic.
March 15, 2009
The Army has operated with the assumption that low cost
energy would be readily available when needed. But times
have changed and reliable/affordable, energy has become
a significant challenge for the Army and the nation. Mr
Paul Bollinger is the Army's Senior Energy Executive,
and he will talk to us more in detail about the recently
approved Energy Security Implementation Plan and initiatives.
Recycling Network, Inc. is a worldwide
leader in plastic commerce with 80 years in the plastic
recycling industry. Jon Marks is with us to educate us
about what happens to plastic once you put it in your
recycling bin.. He has 35 years of knowledge in this department.
SunRidge Farms was founded in 1977 and
is a leading family owned and operated manufacturer and
distributor of natural and organic foods. Built on the
mission of promoting healthy living for all beings through
the quality, integrity and environmental sensibility of
the products they create. The company runs its plants
on solar energy and powers its shipping and sales fleet
with biodiesel and hybrid vehicles, sustainability and
environmental preservation is 2nd nature to this company.
Mark Devencenzi will talk to us about SunRidge.
February 22, 2009
CSAW (Campaign to Safeguard America's
Waters) is an Alaska-based project of the Earth Island
Institute, dedicated to keeping public waters free from
pollution. Gershon Cohen is CSAW1s director, he has applied
his background in molecular biology and water quality
policy to protect public waters since 1990. www.eii.org/csaw
Bonnie Nixon is the Director of Environmental
Sustainability for Hewlett Packard. Her green team of
dedicated sustainability experts are responsible for the
short and long term vision, strategy, marketing, messaging
and stakeholder relations program for the company. hp.com/hpinfo/globalcitizenship/environment
Better Energy System is based in London
and was founded in 2001. They envisioned a massive shift
in energy delivery and infrastructure to combat global
warming and wanted to make renewable technology available
to the average person to help speed this shift. From this
grew the Solio, a portable device that anyone can purchase
and carry with them everywhere or, simply use at home.
www.Solio.com/solar-power
February 15, 2009
Ben Prentice has an immense passion
for sustainability and all-things-green, he serves on
the Green Team of the Massachusetts Restaurant Association
and owns the first Certified Green Fast Food Restaurant
in the United States. Recently Ben was brought on as the
VP of sales for Massachusetts -based Owl Power Company,
manufacturer of Vegawatt. www.vegawatt.com
The Qteros team has made remarkable
progress enhancing strains of the Q Microbe. And what
that means we1ll find out from Jef Sharp who is one of
the co-founders of the company. www.qteros.com
The American Rainwater Catchment Systems Association
was founded in 1994 and involves about 500 professionals
interested in rainwater harvesting. Tim Pope is the president
of the association and he tells us more about how they
help our environment. www.arc.org
February 8, 2009
Elizabeth Grossman is a journalist and
author and an 3eco-speaker2 on many topics concerning
our environment. Her articles have appeared in The Washington
Post, Salon, The Nation, Orion and Grist, and Elizabeth
is also working on her 2nd book. She is with us today
to dive in to talk about the problems with dangerous wildlife
in on our neighborhoods.
Marcus Eriksen sailed from Santa Monica
to Hawaii on a raft made from 15.000 plastic bottles.
Their mission was to raise awareness about the plastic
debris that ends up in our oceans. www.junkraft.com
Jon Symes is the Outreach Director for
3Pachamama Alliance2. An organization that involves the
indigenous people of Ecuador and Peru in helping them
preserve their rain forests. Jon is working to support
their 3Awakening the Dreamer Initiative2 worldwide and
is here to tell us about it. www.pachamama.org
February 1, 2009
The California Ocean Protection Council (OPC) has called
on legislators and local governments to adopt measures
to reduce plastic marine debris pollution. With us on
the show to talk about what the OPC is doing is Drew Bohan
who is with the Executive Policy Office. resources.ca.gov/copc/
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cawrecycles.org/issues/marine_debris
Bill Kern is the CEO of Green Bull,
an environmental hygiene company. They have developed
a line of non-toxic, authentically green and 100% natural
solutions that deliver industrial strength cleaning power
while being environmentally beneficial. www.greenbullproducts.com
Mitch Rofsky is our last guest, from "The Better
World Club", they provide Nationwide Roadside Assistance
and are the Nation's Only environmentally friendly auto
club. We'll hear what makes them so. www.betterworldclub.com
January 25, 2009
Paper products can be made from various materials but what
you may not be aware of is that it can be made from dung..
and to be specific, elephant dung - and who would come up
with such an idea and why? Here to tell the story is Karl
Wald who once upon a time decided to go to Sri Lanka to
try and help preserve the Asian elephants. www.mrelliepooh.com
Kris Osborn comes from a wealth of journalism
with CNN and Fox news and is also a staff Writer for Defense
News where he covers Land War trends, developments, technologies
and weapons. He is our guest today to speak of recent green
developments within the army, specifically on a commitment
from the army's to switch some of their vehicles to be electric.
www.army.mil/-newsreleases/2009/01/12/15707-army-announces-historic-
electric-vehicle-lease/
January 18, 2009
Emily Rush talks to us from CALPIRG -
California Public Interest Research Group. Proposition 1A
was a California ballot proposition and a bond measure that
allocated funds for the California High-Speed Rail Authority.
It was approved by voters in the recent November 4 election.
A huge win for the future of California.. Emily will talk
to us about the proposition and what it means. www.calpirg.org/issues/world-class-public-transit/high-speed-rail
Proctor and Gamble representatives Chris Vuturo,
External Relations and Patrick Blair, Manager
for Sustainability joins us to talk about Procter &
Gamble's Environmental Stewardship Award that they won for
their new Detergents. Their 3Design For Environment program2
awarded the Procter & Gamble Company its highest level
of recognition for their work in developing safer detergents
under the Safer Detergents Stewardship Initiative. www.pg.com
Jason Del Gandio works as an assistant professor, teaching
public communication. But much of his earlier years were
spent as an activist in fair trade and globalization issues.
Jason has taken his previous activism years, combining them
with his knowledge today and written a guide-book for the
21st century activist called 3Rhetoric for Radicals2. jasondelgandio.com
January 11, 2009
Dave Chameides went to throw something
out in late December last year and it was at this point
that he started to really think about what happens to items
that we "throw away" - but what is away? How much
do we really toss out every year and how responsible are
we about our actions? Since then, he1s been featured on
Martha Stewart, CNN and talked on NPR about what happened
and the results that came along with it. sustainabledave.squarespace.com
David McLain is a photographer for National
Geographic and has recently done a piece on the Klamath
in Oregon. A river that runs a 250 mile span and is the
life source for farmers to native Indians and fishermen..
It also supplies most of the power to the region through
its four dams. With snow packs lessening in recent years,
it creates issues along the way, one of them is for the
salmon...Article was feature in the December issue of National
Geographic.
John Berkyto is the CTO and Managing Director
of ZED engines. He comes from a previous background as a
field technical manager for both Ford and Honda, John has
extensive power-train expertise from compact cars to tractor-trailer
trucks and is on the show to talk about the ZED engine,
a possible solution to both new and existing cars with zero
emissions. www.zedpower.com
December 28, 2008
John Walke is an attorney from NRDC (Natural
Resource Defense council) who is trying to challenge the
midnight environmental de-regulations that the current administration
is trying to push through before the next president takes
office. www.nrdc.org
Jon Slangerup is the CEO and President
of ClearEdge Power since March 2007. Jon has been engaged
in cleantech for the past 8 years, previously coming from
the Solar and hydrogen industry. He has also been active
in a wide range of government, industry and climate initiatives,
but here today to talk to us about Clear Edge, fuel cell
power for homes and buildings. www.clearedgepower.com
Christine Champe is a Wildlife Biologist
and Principal with Stillwater Sciences, an organization
specializing in science-based, technical approaches to environmental
issues. Christine conducts ecological research, wildlife
habitat planning and environmental impact assessments. www.stillwatersci.com
December 21, 2008
Doctor Sylvia Earle is an oceanographer
honored as a 3living legend2 by the Library of Congress.
She has led more than 60 expeditions worldwide, is the author
of more than 100 publications concerning marine science
and technology, and is the founder of Deep Ocean Exploration
and Research to design and operate manned and robotic sub
sea systems. Based on her wealth of experience and numerous
studies, she has released Ocean: An Illustrated Atlas.
Bryan Welch is a publisher and editorial
director, leading Ogden Publications, a diversified magazine
and marketing company focusing on sustainable and rural
lifestyles. www.ogdenpubs.com
Joey Shepp is a social entrepreneur,
sustainable business expert, and green-lifestyles speaker.
He is the founder and Editor in Chief of GreenMaven.com
- the world's most comprehensive search engine that focuses
on environmental and social values. www.greenmaven.com
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