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On the Green Front - 05/15/13
If the planet’s atmosphere hits a milestone of 400 ppm of green house gases and hardly anyone notices, does it still count? Uhhh…..yes says David Turnbull, Campaigns Director for International Oil Change. We’ll hear why this parts-per-millionthreshold better be a pivot point or else. And a wake-up call in the form of a new documentary is [...]
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On the Green Front - 05/01/13
Iowa State Senator Rob Hogg joins us to talk about his new book “America’s Climate Century” addressing what’s at stake and what we can do about it. Next, Shanna Devine, lead investigator at The Government Accountability Project (GAP), shares her findings in an in-depth look at the health and environmental impacts of the BP oil disaster [...]
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On the Green Front - 04/24/13
A big victory for tree-huggers as the world’s largest paper company comes to an agreement with the Dogpatch Alliance. We’ll talk to the head of that forest conservation group. We’ll also chat with the producers of a new film called Bidder 70, about Tim De Cristopher’s courageous stand which landed him in jail…until this week!
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On the Green Front - 04/17/13
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On the Green Front - 04/10/13
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On the Green Front - 04/03/13
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On The Green Front - 03/27/13
If you don’t think our national parks should be littered with empty plastic water bottles, you’re not alone. Hear what the folks at “Think Outside the Bottle” are rolling out from Grace Morris, Campaign Organizer with the watchdog group, Corporate Accountability. Next, two staffers at Boston University’s newspaper share what’s behind the campuses’ first ever series on climate [...]
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On the Green Front - Overheated - 03/20/13
The author of “Overheated; The Human Cost of Climate Change” will join us. UC Berkeley Law professor Andrew Guzman will tell us why global warming is so much more than an environmental problem! Author and longtime eco- activist Jayni Chasewill check in from the U.N. Conference on Happiness and share her green values and visions [...]
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On the Green Front - 03/13/13
There is renewed focus on the possibility of a carbon tax from both sides of the issue. Climate Crock’s Peter Sinclair joins us to share his expert opinion on the chances this win-win-win proposal will actually happen, and what it means that opponents are ramping up their rhetoric. Next Ben Wessel, of 350 Action, explains why the climate [...]
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On the Green Front - 03/06/13
What can we expect from President Obama’s choice to head the EPA? Gina McCarthy is being mostly cheered by environmentalists, including Frank O’Donnell, President of Clean Air Watch, who says we should all be breathing easier soon. Is the political logjam on climate change a serious environmental threat? We’ll talk to a young columnist who says citizens need [...]
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On the Green Front - 02/27/13
Where does the newly energized climate movement go in the wake of last week’s largest ever rally on Washington? We talk to Sarah Hodgdon, National Programs Director for the Sierra Club–one of the event’s organizers–about the successful demonstration and its impact on the nation. Next Michael Green, Executive Director of The Center for Environmental Health reveals the “toxic [...]
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On the Green Front - 02/20/13
originally aired 01/09/13 Meet the 85-year-old Concord, Massachusetts woman who just led her city in becoming the first in the nation to ban the sale of plastic water bottles. Jean Hill says bottled water is the “biggest scam ever” and she put her muscle where her mouth is with persisting against the [...]
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On the Green Front - 02/06/13
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On the Green Front - Climate Cliff - 01/02/13
The new year begins on a sad note for the environmental community mourning the tragic drowning last week of Rebecca Tarbotton in Mexico. The Executive Director of The Rainforest Action Network is remembered by RAN’s Forest Program Director, Lindsay Allen. Next Peter Kelley joins us to share America’s Wind Energy Association’s response to the 11th hour congressional passage of [...]
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On the Green Front - The Hottest Year - 12/19/12
It looks as though the year of extreme weather we are wrapping up is going to go down as the hottest year on record.We’ll get more on that and discuss the implications with Andrew Freedman, senior science writer at Climate Central.In our next segment we’ll chat with Marty Essen, author of the award-winning book,Cool Creatures [...]
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On the Green Front - Climate Ethics - 12/12/12
On The Green Front today we’ll meet the man behind a move to get President Obama to hold an emergency climate summit during his first 100 days in office—Bob Doppelt is Coordinator of the National Climate Ethics Campaign. That as Senator Barbara Boxer announces she’ll convene a Climate Caucus in 2013. We’ll hear what climate change is [...]
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On the Green Front - Fallout of the Super Storm -...
Author and climate advocate Chris Mooney–The Republican Brain: The Science of Why They Deny Science and Reality– joins Climate Crock’s Peter Sinclair to discuss the political fallout of Super Storm Sandy and prospects for moving the Congressional conversation forward to include the prospect of a carbon tax. Next a scientist who has turned to sciencefiction to spread an [...]
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On the Green Front - Eco-preneurs - 11/28/12
Two young eco-preneurs who are changing our world for the better on today’s show. They are Natalie Fleming ofEcoScraps and Nikhil Arora ofBack To The Roots. Be inspired by what each is doing to reduce food waste and take food that would otherwisebe thrown away and turn it into fertile compost and edible plants. Next [...]
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On The Green Front - Sandy - 11/14/12
Paul Barrett, the Bloomberg BusinessWeek writer whose cover story,It’s Global Warming Stupid!, helped get climate change on the minds of more Americans in the wake of Hurricane Sandy, will join us. He discusses impact of Mayor Bloomberg’s endorsement of Barack Obama as well as the President’s comments on climate change in today’s news conference. Next Susan Mazur-Stohman talks [...]
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On the Green Front - Dr. Joseph Romm and Dr. Michael...
Two giants from the world of climate science join me on The Green Front. Dr. Joseph Romm, editor ofclimateprogress.org and author of seven books, discusses his latest literary contribution; Language Intelligence: Lessons on Persuasion from Jesus, Shakespeare, Lincoln and Lady Gaga. Romm weighs in on this summer’s extreme heat, fires and drought as well as the political and [...]
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On the Green Front - Shriveling Ponds And Streams -...
Greenpeace has sent a letter to the infamous Koch Brothers asking whether we can expect a position change on their longstanding denial of climate science now that one of its fundees, Dr. Richard Muller—as heard on The Green Front last week—has acknowledged global warming is a real threat.Aliya Haq, a research specialist at Greenpeace focused [...]
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On the Green Front - Dr. Richard Muller - 08/01/12
The “man of the moment” on climate change will join us–Dr. Richard Muller of BEST (Berkeley Earth Surface Temperature) and a physics professor at UC Berkeley has made headlines this week with his op-ed acknowledging that not only is climate change real, but that humans are “almost entirely the cause”. Muller’s research is funded in [...]
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On the Green Front - Who Speaks for the Climate? -...
Who Speaks for the Climate? That’s the name of a book by Max Boykoff, a professor at University of Colorado, Boulder. He joins us to talk about “Making Sense of Media Reporting on Climate Change”, a topic near and dear to my green heart. Next, Jennifer Krill with Earthworks, gives us a preview of this [...]
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On The Green Front - From Denier to Believer - 07/18/12
A just-launched initiative to promote climate change solutions to conservative voters is the focus of our first segment. Republican Representative Bob Inglis, defeated by a Tea Partier after serving six terms in South Carolina,will talk about his conversion from denier to believer on global warming, and why he thinks ignoring scientific realities is a losing [...]
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On the Green Front - Epic Weather and Lying Bastards -...
With a wave of epic weather events across the country over the past few days and weeks could this be the turning point on climate change awareness and action? We’ll talk to Dr. Amanda Staudt, climate and energy scientist with The National Wildlife Federation about the carbon connection to wildfires, droughts and violent storms, oh [...]
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On The Green Front - 07/04/12
Discussion on conservative think tanks stepping up their attack on Obama’s clean energy strategy, by actively planning a campaign to discredit wind and solar power.
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On the Green Front - 06/27/12
Solo ocean rower Roz Savage joins us with an ironic update on her most recent crossing, this one aborted due to melting glaciers. The National Geographic Adventurer of the Year will once again inspire! NextGrist.org’s David Roberts on this week’s US Circuit Court ruling upholding EPA regs on pollution and his fellow senior writer,Greg Hanscom, just back from Rio to [...]
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On The Green Front - 06/20/12
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On the Green Front - 06/13/12
Just in time for the Rio+20 Earth Summit, CodeREDD has announced a new campaign - “a radical market driven” - effort to save the world’s threatened forests. Code REDD Founder, Mike Korchinsky explains what’s at stake and why this approach is needed. Next, climate activist and college student, Geneva Boyer, joins us to grace us [...]
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On The Green Front - 06/06/12
How can America hope to reach consensus on pressing issues of the day - like climate change - if political polarization and legislative logjams rule the day, and are getting worse? We’ll tap into the wisdom of author and columnist for The Washington Post, E.J. Dionne Jr. His new book, Our Divided Political Heart: The [...]
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On The Green Front - 05/30/12
Once again climate change is our focus but with new and compelling angles (never a shortage!). First up, Drew Grande returns to The Green Front to discuss a recent report from the NRDC aboutpredicted U.S. deaths from climate-related heat waves. The Sierra Club’s Beyond Coal Campaignorganizer offered some encouraging news; America is now getting about 38% [...]
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On the Green Front - 05/23/12
Thomas Mann, co-author of “It’s Even Worse Than It Looks: How the American Constitutional System collided With the New Politics of Extremism” will join D.R. Tucker and me for a lively conversation on the self-destructing Republican machine, especially as it relates to climate change denial! The Brookings Institution Senior Fellow does not hold back in putting [...]
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On The Green Front - 05/16/12
With guest Alec Loorz.
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On the Green Front - 05/09/12
The wind industry is the target of a well-funded smear campaign ramping up - just in time for the election - by ultra conservative “think tanks”. As the Koch Bros. and their band of merry thieves, sinks to an all time low, we’ll get reaction from Peter Kelley of The American Wind Energy Association. Next, [...]
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On The Green Front - 05/02/12
Jonathan Koomey, Consulting Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering at Stanford University, talks about his new book, “Cold Cash, Cool Climate: Science Based Advice for Ecological Entrepreneurs”. Dr. Koomey says computer efficiency technology is improving rapidly but will continue only if we invest more today to reduce greenhouse gas emissions tomorrow. Next, Janet Nudelman, [...]
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On The Green Front - 04/25/12
Rachel Lincoln Sarnoff, Founder and Executive Director of Healthy Child, Healthy World - the organization dedicated to empowering parents to protect children from harmful chemicals - is kicking off a round of House Parties across the nation next month. Next up, ocean rower and friend of The Green Front, Roz Savage! Roz will explain why [...]
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On The Green Front - 04/18/12
We talk to the lead author on a study released today showing a majority of Americans starting to connect the dots between extreme weather events and climate change. Dr. Anthony Leiserowitz of Yale’s Dept of Environmental Studies joins D.R. Tucker and I to discuss. If that link is strengthening it’s no thanks tomainstream media; new [...]
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On The Green Front - 04/11/12
Dr. Michael Mann, scientist and author of ‘The Hockey Stick and the Climate Wars”, fights back against special interests and their paid mouthpieces. Mann says when it comes to battling global warming there is no time to waste on debate.
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On The Green Front - 04/04/12
Our first guest is reverendPaul Mayer, co-founder of the Climate Crisis Coalition and an activist for many noble causes over the past fifty years. Along with religious and interfaith groups, he is organizing an earth week rally in DC to say “enough is enough” to a Congress that just doesn’t get it. Next guest is [...]
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On The Green Front - 03/28/12
A bona fide presidential candidate joins me on the show - Dr. Jill Stein, presumptive nominee of America’s Green Party (the other one!), will share her platform which includes The Green New Deal. D.R. Tucker and I learn more about REAL Green Party and we like what we hear!. See what you think about the [...]
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On The Green Front - 03/21/12
As Chicago and much of the east coast sweats out the effects of climate change this week — 80+ in March (and Arizona gets snowed on) — a new report on oceans shows sea levels are predicted to rise as much as much as 20 - 80 inches this century. Surf’s up! We’ll chat with [...]
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The Green Front - repeat program - 02/01/12
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The Green Front - 03/07/12
Climate convert D.R. Tucker joins me to interview the author of a brilliant new column called “GOP Stuck In A Conservative Wonderland”. Michael Stafford is a Republican with some tough questions about his party’s decline into extreme distortions of the facts, most notably in questioning the science of evolution and climate change. His insights are especially timely and [...]
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Meet Todd Tanner, a hunter and sportsman who is offering to give up his gun to anyone who can prove that climate change is not real. The founder and chairman of “Conservation Hawks” joins D.R. Tucker and myself to discuss why deniers are shooting themselves in the foot by hanging onto their “belief” that they [...]
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One of the authors of recent research demonstrating a clear connection betweenmedia coverage, political statements and public concern about climate change will be our guest. Dr. Craig Jenkins is Professor of Sociology, Environmental and PoliticalScience at Ohio State University. Climate convert and blogger, D.R. Tucker joins me aswe get the highlights of this important study. [...]
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Greg Craven, the high school science teacher whose YouTube video went “enviral”a few years ago, joins me to discuss his book, “What’s The Worst That Could Happen?”.His straight forward approach, served up with a dash of humor, make him a most appealingcommunicator on climate change. Next Jackie Savitz joins us from Oceana where theyare championing [...]
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A day after The League of Conservation Voters declared this Congress the most anti-environment of any before it, we’ll get reaction from David Jenkins of Republicans For Environmental Progress. My favorite Republican climate convert, DR Tucker, will join me for that interview. Next, today is Tu B’Shevat, the Jewish celebration of trees. One of Israel’s [...]
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It’s the morning after the President’s State of the Union address - do we now have a better idea where he stands on climate change? We’ll talk to two climate activists who give Obama a low grade, but not quite flunking since he did mention the word once, which is once more than last year! Green Front [...]
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Good breaking news on The Green Front - President Obama has put a hold on the Keystone KL pipeline, offering hope for an eventual stop to the misguided project - and snow is coming to dry Colorado and California at last! First up, Auden Schendler, VP of Sustainability at Aspen Ski Company and author of “Getting [...]
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Just how much clout do the oil and gas industry lobbyists wield? How about 12 million dollars worth, over the last two years alone! No wonder the head of the American Petroleum Institute is threatening “huge political consequences” if President Obama does not approve the Keystone XL pipeline. We’ll talk to the researcher who heads an organization [...]
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What is missing from the national conversation (or lack thereof) about climate change and other impending eco-disasters? According to our first guest, it’s the morality piece that’s absent from the equation. Kathleen Dean Moore is a Distinguished Professor of Philosophy at Oregon State University at Corvallis and co-editor of “Moral Ground -Ethical Action For A [...]
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After a check-in from D.R. Tucker with a year-end view of the latest eco shenanigans, we turn from politics to ‘pillow talk’. Learn what Hilton Hotels is doing to green their properties, using a model in the Bay Area as a pilot program. Hilton’s Matt Hohenstreet says their new practice of refurbishing pillows is saving [...]
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Two eco activists from Canada will join me on the Green Front. Lynn Palmer and Scot Kyle are both from Ontario where environmental issues center around preserving forests and fighting threats from extractive industries, primarily mining. Lynn - who has participated in UN confrences - and Scot - a Green Party candidate in Canada - [...]
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My trashiest green friend, Annie Leonard, joins me on The Green Frontto talk about The Story of Stuff and her latest (en)viral video, The Story of Broke. Annie has it all; talent, brains, heart of green, humor and passion so don’t miss this interview with my she-ro! Next we’ll meet Brad Friedman of Brad Blog [...]
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Green Front friends, Susan and Roger Shamel talk about the latest efforts and accomplishments of GWEN, their Global Warming Education Network, on the climate beat. This dynamic duo has come come up with an idea that’s gotten the attention of uber-activist Bill McKibben; a State of the Climate Speech that President Obama would deliver to get [...]
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Betsy’s favorite climate activists grace this edition of The Green Front. Up first is Dr. Peter Joseph of The Climate Project, just back from the DC tar sands protest. He’ll share his interpretations of the current temperature of climate politics as well as what’s at stake for President Obama on tar sands decision. Then, Alec Loorz [...]
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Four years after the film “Who Killed The Electric Car?” answered a lot of questions about the premature demise of gas-free vehicles, Director Chris Paine is back with “Revenge of the Electric Car!”. Chris tells us about the challenges and excitement in making a sequel signaling return of the “car of the future.” And [...]
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On today’s Green Front, leading climate writer Stephen Lacey, ofclimateprogress.org, joins me to talk about the week’s top storiesincluding a fake solar scandal from “Faux News” and a call to government leaders to take action on climate change from managersof some 20 trillion dollars in global investment funds. He’ll also weigh in on the Republican [...]
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California Governor Jerry Brown has signed legislation to ban the sale, possession and trade of shark fins, hoping to slow the consumption of shark fins soup and slaughter of an estimated 73 million sharks per year. We’ll savor that victory with Peter Knights, Executive Director of WildAid, one of the global organizations leading that legislative [...]
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The anti GMO factions are out in force this week with a two-pronged attack on the need for proper labeling of food products made with genetically modified organisms. The “Just Label It” campaign is demanding “GMO” appear on product packages as is the “Right2Know” March, a two week walk from New York to The White [...]
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Today’s show is dedicated to the life and legacy of Wangari Maathai, of Africa, and the world. The pioneer who planted seeds - and trees - for the benefit of environmental and womens transformation, died this week of ovarian cancer at the age of 71 in Nairobi. We’ll speak to the Director of Greenbelt Alliance [...]
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Are you ready for 24 Hours of Climate Reality? I know most of U.S. could sure use a dose, especially down in Texas where the Governor is still flames deep in denial! We’ll talk to Kevin Curtis, Al Gore’s Program Director for The Climate Reality Project, which is launching a global, 24-hour effort today, [...]
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Fresh from the success of the two-week Tar Sands protest outside The White House, 350.org Founder Bill Mckibben is catching his breath before gearing up for his next mega-event; Moving Planet, a worldwide day of action to combat climate change apathy! 350.org’s U.S. coordinator, Molly Haigh, joins me on The Green Front to discuss what’s [...]
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Nasa’s climate scientist, James Hansen, and actor-activist Darryl Hannah are among the latest demonstrators to be arrested outside the White House where the Keystone tar sands protest is in its second week. We’ll talk to two other notable arrestees about the importance of President Obama’s upcoming decision on the Canada-to-Texas pipeline; CREDO’s CEO, Michael Kieschnick [...]
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