Episodes
June 10, 2016
Candid Creatures: How Camera Traps Reveal the Mysteries of Nature
The world is alive with animals that we virtually never glimpse with our own eyes. Many of the most fascinating and significant wildlife discoveries in recent years have been made thanks to the explosion of non-invasive, moti...
June 3, 2016
When Cities and Schools Work Together Toward Zero Waste
Oceanside, CA is on the Road to Zero Waste with a goal is of reaching a 75-90 percent diversion-recycling rate by 2020.
May 13, 2016
In Response to Ted Koppel's New Book, 'Lights Out,' on the Cyber Security of our Power Grid
Ted Koppel's new book, "Lights Out," he asserts that a major cyberattack on America's power grid is not only possible but likely, that it would be devastating, and that the United States is shockingly unprepared. Koppel warns...
May 6, 2016
Guerrilla Marketing to Heal the World
Imagine your business making a big impact solving problems like hunger, poverty, war, violence, and catastrophic climate change while making a healthy profit. A new book by Shel Horowitz and Jay Conrad Levinson, Guerrilla Mar...
April 29, 2016
'Catching The Sun' Documentary Explores Whether Solar Can Solve Our Economic And Climate Crises
Can we build a green economy and fight pollution at the same time? Is energy policy also social policy? Through the stories of workers and entrepreneurs in the U.S. and China, Catching the Sun explores the global race to lead...
April 15, 2016
Getting to Green - A Bipartisan Solution to Saving Nature
Frederic C. Rich – one of the world’s leading corporate lawyers who is at the same time a prominent environmental leader - has written a book which diagnoses why the American environmental movement has stalled. He argues that...
March 25, 2016
Rainforest Action Network Calls on Citigroup to Stop Financing Coal
On March 3, activists led by Rainforest Action Network held simultaneous protests in front of Citigroup’s New York City and San Francisco offices on to demand the company stop funding coal mining.
March 18, 2016
Seeking A Life After Coal In Ohio
Ohio’s coal workers are hanging up their hard hats and learning new trades as layoffs pile up in Appalachia’s coal mines. International Business Times Energy and Environment Reporter, Maria Gallucci, examines the human side o...
March 4, 2016
'Keep It in the Ground Bill' in the U.S. House of Representatives
On Feb. 11, 2016, 350.org Co-Founder Bill McKibben and grassroots leaders joined Congressman Jared Huffman (D-CA) and 16 other members of Congress to introduce the “Keep It In the Ground Bill,” in the U.S. House of Representa...
Feb. 26, 2016
What Does it Mean to be a 'Climate Resilient City?'
In his Jan. 2015 State of the City address, Long Beach Mayor Robert Garcia announced that he wanted to make Long Beach a model of a climate resilient city. He asked the Aquarium of the Pacific to take a lead in assessing the ...
Feb. 12, 2016
Insights from the Frontlines of the COP21 Paris Climate Talks
Today we’re joined by Osprey Orielle Lake, Co-Founder and Executive Director of the Women’s Earth and Climate Action Network (WECAN), who held events and conducted advocacy work in Paris during COP21. She will share her persp...
Feb. 5, 2016
Zika Virus Update: Mosquito-borne Illness Present in the U.S.
Zika virus, a pathogen transmitted by mosquitoes, has seemingly established itself in South America and the Caribbean and is now threatening the U.S. Cases have been reported in Florida, Illinois, Texas and Hawaii in patients...
Jan. 29, 2016
The New 'F' Word in Water Public Policy: Flint
On today’s episode of Go Green Radio, we will talk to Marc Yaggi, Executive Director of Waterkeeper Alliance (www.waterkeeper.org), about how- in 21st century America- a town of 100,000 people in Flint, Michigan was exposed t...
Jan. 22, 2016
Antarctica - The Climate Change Multiplier
In her recent article for Newsweek, “The Big Melt: The Last Antarctic Explorers Are Seeking Answers Inside The Continent's Ice” (http://bit.ly/1RcuVpp), Nina Burleigh writes: “The history of the planet is held in frozen suspe...
Jan. 8, 2016
Encore: Electric Vehicle Charging Association - Innovation for Clean Mobility
Transitioning our nation's transportation infrastructure to support electric vehicles won't happen overnight, but it may happen quite rapidly thanks to a new not-for-profit trade association, the Electric Vehicle Charging Ass...
Dec. 18, 2015
FEMA and NOAA Talk About Getting Your Home and Business Ready for El Nino
El Niño produces extreme consequences for weather around the globe. The National Weather Service (NWS) has forecast a strong El Niño for the winter of 2015-16. As a result, the NOAA Winter Outlook shows probabilities for abov...
Dec. 11, 2015
National Geographic Channel's 'Water Apocalypse'
Executive Producers Ron Howard and Brian Grazer have partnered with National Geographic Channel and GE to present BREAKTHROUGH, a revolutionary new series about scientific explorers from leading universities and institutions ...
Dec. 4, 2015
Electric Vehicle Charging Association - Innovation for Clean Mobility
Transitioning our nation’s transportation infrastructure to support electric vehicles won’t happen overnight, but it may happen quite rapidly thanks to a new not-for-profit trade association, the Electric Vehicle Charging Ass...
Nov. 20, 2015
How 'Green' are Your Cleaning Products?
The American Cleaning Institute’s ® (ACI) 2015 Sustainability Report showcases the cleaning products industry’s progress toward sustainable development and unveils ACI’s first-ever industry “materiality assessment,” which map...
Nov. 6, 2015
Slick Water: Fracking and One Insider's Stand Against the World's Most Powerful Industry
Andrew Nikiforuk’s new book, Slick Water: Fracking and One Insider’s Stand Against the World’s Most Powerful Industry, is the shocking story of an oil and gas industry insider’s determined stand to hold government and industr...
Oct. 23, 2015
Encore: 147 Days on the Appalachian Trail - Life Lessons from Expert Hiker, Jeff Alt
What better way to appreciate the environment than to walk 2,160 miles through some of the most beautiful vistas in North America? That is precisely what Jeff Alt did in 1998, and has gone on to hike the 218-mile John Muir Tr...
Oct. 16, 2015
How Businesses Can, and Should, Prepare for Natural Disasters
Our guest today is to Chloe Demrovsky, Executive Director of DRI International. She’s widely regarded as one of the foremost authorities on disaster recovery and preparedness, and has been featured in USA Today, and Bloomberg...
Oct. 9, 2015
San Francisco Bay Ill-Prepared for Rising Waters
Crumbling flood control infrastructure, rising sea levels and lack of natural barriers leave the Bay Area open to devastating flood events. Many critical elements of the Bay Area’s infrastructure, including airports, hospital...
Oct. 2, 2015
Special Encore Presentation: Research Shows Nearly Everyone Could Eat Local, Fresh Food
New farmland-mapping research published this week shows that up to 90 percent of Americans could be fed entirely by food grown or raised within 100 miles of their homes. Professor Elliott Campbell, with the University of Cali...