Episodes
April 8, 2011
How Green is Your Lifestyle? PracticallyGreen.com can tell you
A lot of us want to live a greener lifestyle, but we’re not sure where to start. By taking a simple quiz on PracticallyGreen.com, you can find out exactly how green you are living today, and receive personalized advice about ...
April 1, 2011
How the Climate Crises Threatens Our Health and What We Can Do About It
The new book, Changing Planet, Changing Health: How the Climate Crisis Threatens Our Health and What We Can Do about It, by Harvard health and disease expert Paul R. Epstein, MD, and award-winning science journalist Dan Ferbe...
March 25, 2011
Straight Talk on Nuclear Energy
In light of the tragedy unfolding in Japan, it is absolutely prudent to take a good, hard look at existing and future nuclear power plants in the United States. The Obama administration is still committed to backing loans for...
March 18, 2011
The Natural Kitchen. Your guide to the sustainable food revolution
Today we’ll be joined by Deborah Eden Tull, author of The Natural Kitchen: Your Guide to the Sustainable Food Revolution. In our convenience-obsessed, oil-addicted world, Deborah Eden Tull shows how greening our kitchens can ...
March 11, 2011
New media trends in environmental education
Social media has opened up new ways to engage kids in environmental education. Today we'll talk about how the best organizations are using new media to take going green to new levels in American schools.
March 4, 2011
Childfree and Proud! Is opting out of parenthood the greenest lifestyle choice?
Today’s guest is Lisa Hymas, senior editor at Grist.org, the nation’s leading environmental news site. She coined the acronym GINK, which stands for green inclinations, no kids, to describe a small but growing group of people...
Feb. 25, 2011
Osprey Orielle Lake – author of Uprisings for the Earth, and Director of the Women’s Earth and Climate Caucus
Uprisings for the Earth: Reconnecting Culture with Nature delves into a new kinship with nature while acknowledging the treasures of urban life and the unique stake each person has in resolving critical and timely challenges....
Feb. 18, 2011
Special Encore Presentation: “Philippe Cousteau…the Family Legend Continues”
There are only a handful of environmentalists who are household names, and Captain Jacques Cousteau ranks among the top. His groundbreaking work to bring the mysteries of the ocean to the television screen made millions of pe...
Feb. 11, 2011
“Philippe Cousteau…the Family Legend Continues”
There are only a handful of environmentalists who are household names, and Captain Jacques Cousteau ranks among the top. His groundbreaking work to bring the mysteries of the ocean to the television screen made millions of pe...
Feb. 4, 2011
Special Encore Presentation: “Can a kid from Atlanta “Green” the World?”
Charles Orgbon is one of those kids who makes you think, “I should probably get his autograph now. He’s going to be famous someday.” At 15 years old, Charles is the President and CEO of Greening Forward (www.greeningforward.o...
Jan. 28, 2011
“Colorado’s Student Energy Ambassadors”
In the fall of 2010, Groundwork Denver (www.groundworkdenver.org) initiated Take Charge: Student Energy Education and Action, through which high school and college students around the state will become Student Energy Ambassad...
Jan. 21, 2011
“Son of a Farmer, Child of the Earth…A Path to Agriculture’s Higher Consciousness”
Eric Herm’s new book examines commercial agriculture’s strain on our natural resources, delicate ecosystems, and the farmer. As a fourth-generation farmer, Eric Herm deals with the harsh economic realities and complicated leg...
Jan. 14, 2011
“Go Green – Earn Green!!! Grants for High School Students and Teachers!”
The National Environmental Education Foundation (NEEF) provides knowledge to trusted professionals who, with their credibility, amplify messages to national audiences to solve everyday environmental problems. NEEF has a progr...
Jan. 7, 2011
Baltimore Planner turned Politico…will a “Greener” City Emerge?
Otis Rolley has already made history. At 29, Rolley was the youngest director of a large city-planning department in America. He shepherded the city’s first Comprehensive Master Plan ever adopted by both the Baltimore Plannin...
Dec. 31, 2010
Special Encore Presentation: “Don’t Mess with Texas!”
Keep Texas Beautiful (KTB) is not messing around when they ask people not to litter in the Lone Star state! In 2010, more than 840 litter cleanup events were held across the state, featuring more than 74,100 volunteers. All t...
Dec. 24, 2010
Special Encore Presentation: Earth Force…empowering young people to improve the environment and their community
The generation of Americans that will soon be called upon to address some of humanity’s greatest environmental challenges—those currently in our schools—have a limited understanding of environmental issues, our civic system a...
Dec. 10, 2010
“Can a kid from Atlanta “Green” the World?”
Charles Orgbon is one of those kids who makes you think, “I should probably get his autograph now. He’s going to be famous someday.” At 15 years old, Charles is the President and CEO of Greening Forward (www.greeningforward.o...
Dec. 3, 2010
Part II: Is it better to bury our trash, or burn it? Pros and cons of landfills vs. other options
Keith Weitz, manager of the Sustainability and Environmental Assessment program at RTI International, will join us for a follow-on discussion regarding technologies that convert waste to clean, renewable energy. The technolog...
Nov. 26, 2010
Special Encore Presentation: “No way to recycle #5 plastic in your town? Turn to “Gimme 5” from Preserve.”
A lot of products we use everyday come in containers made of #5 plastic – margarine, sour cream, yogurt, cottage cheese, etc. The problem is that many communities don’t collect #5 plastic for recycling, because they lack a pu...
Nov. 19, 2010
“Is it better to bury our trash, or burn it? Pros and cons of landfills vs. other options”
A lot of ideologues in the environmental activist community would like to see the U.S. become a “zero waste” society, where nothing is thrown away. It’s a great goal, but realistically, it is unlikely to come to fruition anyt...
Nov. 12, 2010
Special Encore Presentation: Toxins in the Trash...Who is Responsible?
Most people know that when they throw things away, it doesn’t really go “away.” The trash goes somewhere, and a good deal of it doesn’t biodegrade. In fact, some of what goes into the trash could poison our drinking water, ai...
Nov. 5, 2010
Drugs to Energy…a Solution for Unwanted Pharmaceuticals
What do you do with expired medicine in your medicine cabinet? How do you dispose of pharmaceuticals you no longer need? If you’re like most Americans, you’ve been told to flush them, wash them down the sink, or throw them in...
Oct. 29, 2010
Special Encore Presentation: “It’s not about hugging trees…it’s about *planting* them!”
Trees for the Future (TFTF) –www.treesforthefuture.org- is a nonprofit organization that was around long before “going green” was cool. Since their inception in 1988, they have planted 65 million trees in strategic locations ...
Oct. 22, 2010
Special Encore Presentation: “Zerofootprint™ and Dr. Ron Dembo”
Everywhere we turn, there is another news story about carbon emissions and efforts to reduce them. But for the average town, small business, school, home or individual, reducing carbon emissions is a bit of a mystery. How do ...