Episodes
April 3, 2015
Special Encore Presentation: Wildlife Advocates Seek Endangered Listing for African Elephants
The African elephant was originally listed as “threatened” by the U.S. Government in 1978. Since then, the species’ population has declined by about 60 percent, primarily due to poaching for the ivory trade. Habitat destructi...
March 27, 2015
McDonald’s Cutting Antibiotics in Chicken
McDonald’s new CEO recently announced that the company is committing to serve chicken raised without antibiotics used in human medicines in all of their U.S. restaurants within two years. As McDonald’s grooms its supply chain...
March 20, 2015
The Need for Food Innovation
Leaders in the culinary arts, business, public health, and environmental sciences are working together to develop business-friendly solutions to today’s most pressing social and environmental concerns, such as: • Obesity, dia...
March 13, 2015
Special Encore Presentation: California’s Drought and Seawater Desalination
For California, 2013 was the driest calendar year ever recorded across virtually the entire state. On January 17, 2014, Governor Jerry Brown proclaimed the drought to be a State of Emergency, directed state officials to take ...
March 6, 2015
Should Pharmaceutical Companies Pay for Local Drug Take-Back Programs?
In June 2012, Alameda County in California became the first local government body to pass a safe drug disposal ordinance that would hold pharmaceutical companies responsible for the safe collection and disposal of unused medi...
Feb. 27, 2015
Why the President Vetoed Keystone XL and What Happens Next
If you think President Obama’s veto of the bill that would allow the construction of the Keystone XL pipeline has put the issue to rest, think again. Congressional leaders have publicly announced that they are just getting st...
Feb. 20, 2015
Wildlife Advocates Seek Endangered Listing for African Elephants
The African elephant was originally listed as “threatened” by the U.S. Government in 1978. Since then, the species’ population has declined by about 60 percent, primarily due to poaching for the ivory trade. Habitat destructi...
Feb. 6, 2015
Special Encore Presentation: CONFESSIONS OF AN ECO-TERRORIST
CONFESSIONS OF AN ECO-TERRORIST is the true, no holds barred story of 30 years of Sea Shepherd Conservation Society (SSCS) campaigns leading up to the hit show Whale Wars. It’s a feature documentary that reveals the true odys...
Jan. 30, 2015
Special Encore Presentation: Ed Begley Talks About How Hollywood is Going Green
Ed Begley, Jr. joins us to discuss an entire day of Earth Day coverage of Hollywood’s efforts to Go Green. Interviews will be covered on www.BiteSize TV.com/live, and will bring together actors, authors, scientists, business ...
Jan. 23, 2015
Special Encore Presentation: Creating Climate Wealth – a new book by SunEdison founder, Jigar Shah
Part autobiography, part treatise, in Creating Climate Wealth, Jigar Shah demonstrates how all of us can participate in the largest wealth creation opportunity of our time. Shah explains that proven, scalable climate solution...
Jan. 16, 2015
SUPERSTORM: Nine Days Inside Hurricane Sandy
In her new book, SUPERSTORM: Nine Days Inside Hurricane Sandy (Dutton), investigative journalist and graduate professor of environmental studies Kathryn Miles discusses how mounting inadequacies of our national weather servic...
Jan. 9, 2015
Special Encore Presentation: Say Goodbye to Apple Pie…The Vital Role of Honeybees and Why We Must Protect Them
The Wall Street Journal reports that U.S. beekeepers lost 1 in 3 honeybees during the winter of 2012, and this is cause for alarm. Declining bee populations have been making news recently, and this is much more than an endang...
Dec. 19, 2014
Special Encore Presentation: The Movement to Divest From Fossil Fuels
Just a few weeks ago, 17 foundations with assets of about $2 billion agreed to divest their portfolios of coal, oil and gas, and reinvest in the clean energy economy. This adds a major tailwind to the movement that is up and ...
Dec. 12, 2014
Special Encore Presentation: Big Oil in American Politics
Today we’re joined by Zoë Carpenter, reporter for The Nation, who will discuss her recent article on the impact of oil contributions in the Louisiana Senate Race between Mary Landrieu and Bill Cassidy, The Invisible Oil in Lo...
Dec. 5, 2014
Special Encore Presentation: A Whole New Engineer – The Coming Revolution in Engineering Education
Go Green Radio listeners know that some of the greatest challenges facing humanity in the 21st century will require innovations in engineering that will continue to supply energy, water, food and *joy* to the world’s burgeoni...
Nov. 7, 2014
A Whole New Engineer – The Coming Revolution in Engineering Education
Go Green Radio listeners know that some of the greatest challenges facing humanity in the 21st century will require innovations in engineering that will continue to supply energy, water, food and *joy* to the world’s burgeoni...
Oct. 31, 2014
Big Oil in American Politics
Today we’re joined by Zoë Carpenter, reporter for The Nation, who will discuss her recent article on the impact of oil contributions in the Louisiana Senate Race between Mary Landrieu and Bill Cassidy, The Invisible Oil in Lo...
Oct. 10, 2014
Special Encore Presentation: Paul Ehrlich and Michael Charles Tobias: Hope On Earth
In 1968, Paul Ehrlich and his wife, Anne, published the book, The Population Bomb, which shook the world as it discussed the connection between environmental degradation and exponential human population growth. Though critics...
Oct. 3, 2014
Special Encore Presentation: Geothermal Helping to Achieve a Clean Power Future in California
Today’s guest is Karl Gawell, Executive Director of the Geothermal Energy Association (GEA). “California has ambitious climate goals. Fortunately, it also has the geothermal resources and potential to access those goals,” say...
Aug. 29, 2014
Special Encore Presentation: California's Drought and Seawater Desalination
For California, 2013 was the driest calendar year ever recorded across virtually the entire state. On January 17, 2014, Governor Jerry Brown proclaimed the drought to be a State of Emergency, directed state officials to take ...
Aug. 22, 2014
Special Encore Presentation: Renewable Energy, Follow the Money
It comes as news to no one that the energy industry is the most profitable on Earth. Based on their rise to prominence in the 20th Century, the annual earnings of the top five oil companies alone (ExxonMobil, BP, Shell, Conoc...
Aug. 15, 2014
Special Encore Presentation: Ed Begley Talks About How Hollywood is Going Green
Ed Begley, Jr. joins us to discuss an entire day of Earth Day coverage of Hollywood’s efforts to Go Green. Interviews will be covered on www.BiteSize TV.com/live, and will bring together actors, authors, scientists, business ...
Aug. 8, 2014
Paul Ehrlich and Michael Charles Tobias: Hope On Earth
In 1968, Paul Ehrlich and his wife, Anne, published the book, The Population Bomb, which shook the world as it discussed the connection between environmental degradation and exponential human population growth. Though critics...
Aug. 1, 2014
California’s Drought and Seawater Desalination
For California, 2013 was the driest calendar year ever recorded across virtually the entire state. On January 17, 2014, Governor Jerry Brown proclaimed the drought to be a State of Emergency, directed state officials to take ...