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A World of Possibilities
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World of Possibilites is an award-winning one hour weekly radio
program that penetrates behind the headlines to uncover the deeper
meanings of events. It offers in-depth analysis, informed commentary and
an exploration of new approaches to our most challenging problems. Our
aim is to open minds and inspire new possibilities.
Please go to their webpage to find a complete listing of many high quality audio programs:
http://www.aworldofpossibilities.com/. Also subscribe to the
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Here are descriptions from their website of a few of their Audio Shows related to Water Issues:
====>Click to hear "Surf and Turf" 05-08-07
What do ocean waves and cow manure have in common? What can both
contribute to the survival of the species? Listen in as we plumb the
depths of the sea and dairy barn sludge hoping to emerge with new and
renewable energy to power our homes and lives without imperiling the
planet.
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====>Click to hear "Fished Out" 1-9-07
Fished Out: Draining the Seas of Their Bounty
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====>Click to hear "Sipping Seawater" 8-15-06
Sipping Seawater: Desalination in a Thirsty World
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====>Click to hear "Savoring Swine" 6-27-06
Savoring Swine: The Economics and Politics of Pork
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====>Click to hear "Mired in Mining" 5-16-06
Mired in Mining: Tar Sands and Oil Shale in the North American West
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====>Click to hear "Turning Tides" 1-24-06
Turning Tides: The Growing Threats of Rising Seas
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====>Click to hear "Where the Wind Blows" 12-13-05
Where the Wind Blows: Hurricane Katrina & Global Climate Change
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====>Click to hear "Bridge Over Troubled Waters" 9-21-04
Bridge Over Troubled Waters: Seeking Confluence in the Klamath River Controversy
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====>Click to hear "The Mercury Menace" 8-3-04
Lethal Legacy: The Mercury Menace
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====>Click to hear "The Bottled Water Bonanza" 2-3-04
Sold Down the River: The Bottled Water Bonanza
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====>Click to hear "Private Water, Public Interest" 1-27-04
Private Water, Public Interest
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====>Click to hear "Thirsting for Profits" 6-17-03
Thirsting for Profits
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WGBH Forum Network
WGBH Forum Network Live and Archived Webcasts of Free Public Lectures
in Partnership with Boston's Leading Cultural and Educational Organizations.
Presented by WGBH in association with the Lowell Institute.
Please go to the WGBH Forum Network webpage to find a complete listing of many high quality audio programs:
http://forum.wgbh.org/wgbh/. Also subscribe to the
podcast via their RSS feed: http://feeds.feedburner.com/WgbhForumNetworkPodcast
Here are descriptions from their website of a few of their Audio Shows related to Environmental Issues:
====>Click to hear "Saving Coral Reefs and Communities After the Tsunami"
5 June 2006 {Real Player Only}
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Dr. Deborah Brosnan explains the interdependence of humans and the marine environment as demonstrated by the disaster in Southeast Asia.
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====>Click to hear "Ocean Exploration and Conservation" 30 May 2006
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Dr. Stone relates details of his experiences diving in Antarctica, living in an undersea research station, and doing coral reef research in the remote South Pacific Ocean.
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====>Click to hear "50 Ways to Save the Ocean" 24 April 2006
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David Helvarg presents his new book, 50 Ways to Save the Ocean.
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====>Click to hear "Conservation Medicine: What the Oceans are Telling Us"
23 May 2005
Dr Alonso Aguirre explains the emerging field of conservation medicine and what the ocean can tell us about our health as a species.
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====>Click to hear "Water Wars: Is the Mississippi River Losing the Battle?"
15 Nov 2003{Real Player Only}
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Douglas Dalgle and Jerry Glover talk about the possibility that the Mississippi River is dying.
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Please visit the WGBH Forum Network site: http://forum.wgbh.org/wgbh/ to find many other valuable audio programs.
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National Water Center - Coordinator, Barbara Harmony
====>Click to hear "Water Use, Water Attitudes and Water Conservation
with Emphasis on keeping waste out of water"
This is a look at water use, water attitudes and water conservation.
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Barbara Harmony has been a community organizer for 45 years. In 1979, she became a water advocate and cofounded the National Water Center. http://www.nationalwatercenter.org.
Water Center Publications We All Live Downstream: A Guide to Waste
Treatment that Stops Water Pollution; Aquaterra: Water Concepts for the
Ecological Society; Aquaterra: Meta Ecology and Culture are all
described at the site.
She has served as coordinator for the Water Committee of the Bioregional Movement since 1984.
The complete (60 pages) WaterWorks: Water and Bioregionalism is at the
www.nationalwatercenter.org site.
In 1999, after being invited on a tour of Bolivia and Peru to learn to do ceremony at Sacred Sites. she began to work on the http://www.planetaryhealer.net
website as a way to link people giving thanks to the Water.
As a practicing bioregionalist she lives in a little house in the woods, heats with a woodstove has a compost toilet., collects rainwater, is vegetarian and eats locally grown food.
This is her personal website . http://www.ipa.net/~peace
Copyright © 2007 Barbara Harmony, All Rights Reserved.
Living On Earth
The Living On Earth podcast with Steve Curwood is the weekly environmental news and information
program distributed by Public Radio International. Every week approximately 300 Public Radio stations broadcast Living
on Earth's news, features, interviews and commentary on a broad range of ecological issues. The show airs in 9 of the 10
top radio markets and reaches 80% of the US.
Their webpage offers a complete listing of many quality audio programs:
http://www.loe.org/.
Also subscribe to the
podcast via their RSS feed: http://www.loe.org/podcast.rss
Here are descriptions from their website of their Water Related Audio Programs:
====>Click to hear "Melting Ice" May 11, 2007
====>Click to hear The Entire Show: May 11, 2007
A new study from the National Snow and Ice Data Center in Boulder,
Colorado shows that scientists grossly underestimated the rate of ice
loss due to warming from greenhouse gas emissions. The study claims that
if current trends continue, we could be facing an ice-free Arctic summer
within the next 50 years. (5:15)
Copyright © 2007 Living on Earth, All Rights Reserved.
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====>Click to hear "Riding the Tide" May 11, 2007
====>Click to hear The Entire Show: May 11, 2007
Tidal currents from New York City's East River are being used for
electrical power. The energy is generated by underwater turbines as part
of a demonstration project by Verdant Power. The company must show that
the turbines won't hurt migrating fish. As WNYC's Beth Fertig reports,
Verdant is one of several companies experimenting with tidal power in
coastal regions of the country. (6:45)
Copyright © 2007 Living on Earth, All Rights Reserved.
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====>Click to hear "Pumping Up Controversy" May 11, 2007
====>Click to hear The Entire Show: May 11, 2007
Living on Earth host Steve Curwood talks with Tom Philps, an editorial
writer for the Sacramento Bee, about a court battle that pits
environmentalists and sports fishermen against the California Department
of Water Resources. The dispute is over how to save struggling smelt and
Chinook salmon populations while meeting massive human demands on the
drinking water from the San Joaquin River. (5:45)
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====>Click to hear "Southwest Water Woes" May 04, 2007
====>Click to hear The Entire Show: May 04, 2007
There's been a drought in the Southwestern U.S. since 1998, but that
hasn't stopped the population in the region from rising by a million
people per year. Brian Mann reports on the Colorado River's struggle to
meet growing water demands in the Southwest. (7:30)
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====>Click to hear "Fish Kill" February 16, 2007
====>Click to hear The Entire Show: February 16, 2007
A disease is killing fish in the Great Lakes. Scientists believe the
virus may have first come from Europe on the ballast of a ship and
spread from there. As Lester Graham of the Great Lakes Radio Consortium
reports, biologists and the federal government are trying to figure out
how to prevent the spread of the virus, without causing harm to
businesses that rely on fish shipments. (3:30)
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====>Click to hear "Jakarta Water Woes" February 09, 2007
====>Click to hear The Entire Show: February 09, 2007
Jakarta, the capital city of Indonesia, has been devastated by severe
flooding in recent weeks, and heavy rains aren't the only reason why.
Stephen Fitzpatrick is the Jakarta correspondent for The Australian
newspaper and he joins host Steve Curwood to discuss the crisis and some
of its possible causes. (8:15)
Copyright © 2007 Living on Earth, All Rights Reserved.
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====>Click to hear "Gorilla of Sea Level Rise" February 02, 2007
====>Click to hear The Entire Show: February 02, 2007
The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change released a new report on
the state of scientific knowledge on climate change. But some say the
scientists who wrote the report were overly conservative in their
predictions, particularly those for sea level rise. NASA scientist James
Hansen tells host Steve Curwood why melting ice sheets could lead to
rising sea levels and global catastrophe. (6:45)
Copyright © 2007 Living on Earth, All Rights Reserved.
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====>Click to hear "Tuna in Trouble" January 26, 2007
====>Click to hear The Entire Show: January 26, 2007
Host Steve Curwood talks with Dr. Carl Safina, head of the Blue Ocean
Institute, about the state of the bluefin tuna. Spawning stocks of
bluefin are reportedly down 90 percent, and scientists say the bluefin
may be heading toward commercial extinction. Fishing management groups
from around the world recently met in Japan to come up with a plan to
protect the fish. (6:00)
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====>Click to hear "Pond Scum or Planet Savers?" 11-24-2006
====>Click to hear The Entire Show: 11-24-2006
Pond scum just might be the answer to solving the CO2 woes of the Industrial Age. Host Bruce Gellerman visits with Dr. Isaac Berzin, founder of GreenFuel Technologies Corporation. Berzin is working on a prototype that uses algae to convert power plant emissions into biofuels. (5:15)
Copyright © 2006 Living on Earth, All Rights Reserved.
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====>Click to hear "Trash Vortex" 11-17-2006
====>Click to hear The Entire Show: 11-17-2006
Researchers have discovered a Texas-sized area of trash floating in the Pacific Ocean. Composed primarily of plastic garbage from landlubbers, the area has become both a major threat to marine life and a frightening example of how polluted our oceans are. Living on Earth speaks with Adam Walters, a scientist for Greenpeace who is monitoring the vortex aboard the vessel Esperanza. (5:15)
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====>Click to hear "Banking on Wetlands / Ashley Ahearn" 11-03-2006
====>Click to hear The Entire Show: 11-03-2006
Wetlands are disappearing at an astonishing rate across the United States. Private companies have come up with a profitable solution to counter the loss. Living on Earth's Ashley Ahearn reports on the problems and potential of this booming environmental industry known as "wetland mitigation banking." (6:00)
Copyright © 2006 Living on Earth, All Rights Reserved.
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====>Click to hear "Well"-being 10-27-2006
====>Click to hear The Entire Show: 10-27-2006
When Ryan Hreljac was six years old he learned that many areas around
the world did not have access to clean water. Ryan decided to raise
money to build a well in a village in Uganda. Akana Jimmy lived in that
village and the boys became penpals and fast friends. Ten years later,
Ryan and Jimmy join host Steve Curwood to share their story and to
discuss Ryan's continuing efforts to bring water to other struggling
villages. (7:15)
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====>Click to hear "Foresaken Mermaids / Philippe Cousteau" 10-06-2006
====>Click to hear The Entire Show: 10-06-2006
In 1970, oceanographer Jacques Cousteau visited Blue Spring in Florida
to film a documentary on the manatees that depended on its warm water
for their survival. Boat traffic and harassment had turned their winter
safe haven into a danger zone. Jacques Cousteau's grandson, Philippe,
brings us the story of the manatee's new fight for survival in the face
of development and Florida's rising demand for water. (15:30)
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====>Click to hear "Blue Jeans, Blue Water / Jana Schroeder" 09-22-2006
====>Click to hear The Entire Show: 09-22-2006
In Mexico, the production of worn-out jeans has environmentalists
singing the blues. Manufacturing methods send chemicals into nearby
waterways. Jana Schroeder reports on how environmental authorities do
and don't enforce Mexican environmental laws (10:00)
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====>Click to hear "Problems Underground / Julie Grant" 09-15-2006
====>Click to hear The Entire Show: 09-15-2006
Although we don't pay them much attention, when sewer systems fail the
consequences are far worse than the smell might indicate. Julie Grant of
WKSU in Kent, Ohio, goes underground to find out what's wrong with our
nation's sewage systems. (6:30)
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====>Click to hear "New Orleans Health" 09-08-2006
====>Click to hear The Entire Show: 09-08-2006
A year after Hurricane Katrina, critics of the EPA say the health
hazards in New Orleans are under-researched and under-regulated. Living
on Earth talks with Dr. Gina Solomon, a senior scientist with the
Natural Resources Defense Council, who is on the ground in New Orleans
testing the quality of the air, sediment, and water. (5:30)
Copyright © 2006 Living on Earth, All Rights Reserved.
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====>Click to hear "Wetland Mystery / Ashley Ahearn" 09-08-2006
====>Click to hear The Entire Show: 09-08-2006
Marsh grass is dying in wetlands in the northeastern U.S. and scientists
are having a hard time finding out what's causing this "sudden wetland
dieback." Living on Earth's Ashley Ahearn visited some sick wetlands and
has our story. (5:00)
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====>Click to hear "Saving the Bay / Andrea Kissack" 08-11-2006
====>Click to hear The Entire Show: 08-11-2006
There was a time when the San Francisco Bay was replete with native
oysters. But it's been many years now since they were contaminated and
fished out. As part of efforts to restore the Bay, Andrea Kissack of
KQED reports scientists are trying to bring back these useful and
sought-after mollusks. (6:00)
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====>Click to hear "Water Permeable Concrete / Conrad Fox" 08-04-2006
====>Click to hear The Entire Show: 08-04-2006
Mexico City gets almost 30 inches of rain each year, but most of it runs
out to the ocean through extensive drainage systems. During the summer
rains, the streets flood and the aquifers are not refilling fast enough
to keep the water supply at a constant level. A group of entrepreneurs
believe they have a solution to the city's water problems with a
material called "Ecocreto." Conrad Fox reports. (9:00)
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====>Click to hear "Coral Talk / Allan Coukell" 08-04-2006
====>Click to hear The Entire Show: 08-04-2006
Producer Allan Coukell listens to the sounds of a reef, and tells us how
fish use sound to find their way around. (2:15)
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====>Click to hear "Emerging Science Note/Toxic Breakdown / Allison Smith" 07-14-2006
====>Click to hear The Entire Show: 07-14-2006
Researchers develop a non-toxic catalyst that breaks down potentially
harmful estrogens in water supplies. Living on Earth's Allison Smith
reports. (1:30)
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====>Click to hear "Dead Zones / Mhari Saito" 06-30-2006
====>Click to hear The Entire Show: 06-30-2006
Dead zones--large areas of water with little oxygen--occur when excess
fertilizer and untreated sewage seep into the waters. The dead zones are
usually seasonal and they cause fish and other bottom-dwelling animals
to move outside the area to avoid being suffocated. Much underwater life
also dies. Since the 1960s the number of dead zones worldwide has
doubled with each passing decade. In Lake Erie, a massive multiyear
study is underway to study how the lake's ecosystem is affected by its
dead zone. Producer Mhari Saito has our report. (6:00)
Copyright © 2006 Living on Earth, All Rights Reserved.
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====>Click to hear "A Supreme Look at the Swamp / Jeff Young" 06-23-2006
====>Click to hear The Entire Show: 06-23-2006
The US Supreme Court is split on whether the Clean Water Act protects
all wetlands. Living On Earth's Jeff Young tells us what's next for
wetlands protection and what the decision tells us about the court's
newest members. (7:00)
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====>Click to hear "A Green Legacy?" 06-23-2006
====>Click to hear The Entire Show: 06-23-2006
The Bush Administration has officially limited the use of snowmobiles in
national parks and has created a massive marine protected area as a
national monument off the Hawaiian coast. Are these signals of a new
environmental direction for the administration? Host Steve Curwood talks
with Terry Anderson, executive director of the Property and
Environmental Research Center in Bozeman, Montana.
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====>Click to hear "Fishy Business" 06-23-2006
====>Click to hear The Entire Show: 06-23-2006
Fish stocks crashed in the U.S. in the late 80's, prompting the
government to require rebuilding plans for all overfished species. Host
Steve Curwood turns to Professor Andy Rosenberg, of the University of
New Hampshire, who has just completed a ten-year assessment of fish
population rebuilding efforts in the U.S., to find out how the
recovery's going. (5:00)
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====>Click to hear "Lake Okeechobee At Risk" 06-16-2006
====>Click to hear The Entire Show: 06-16-2006
Lake Okeechobee, the second largest lake in the contiguous US, has been
called the "Liquid Heart" of Florida, and a 143-mile dike keeps it from
spilling over. But new maps from the Army Corps show weaknesses in the
walls that could mean disaster for the communities around the lake if a
massive hurricane were to breach the dike. Host Steve Curwood talks with
Associated Press reporter Brian Skoloff about why the Corps is keeping
the maps under wraps. (7:15)
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====>Click to hear "Remaking the Los Angeles River / Ilsa Setziol" 06-16-2006
====>Click to hear The Entire Show: 06-16-2006
Straightened, lined with concrete, filled with treated sewage, is there
still a river in the Los Angeles River? Angelenos are saying yes, and
demanding that planners and engineers go to lengths, even great lengths,
to bring back a stream Los Angeles can call its own. Ilsa Setziol
reports. (15:25)
Copyright © 2006 Living on Earth, All Rights Reserved.
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====>Click to hear "Stemming Red Tide / Ashley Ahearn" 06-09-2006
====>Click to hear The Entire Show: 06-09-2006
Red tide hits the world's coasts every year when toxic algae bloom
offshore and are swept into coastal waters. But there's a parasite that
destroys red tide algae and could one day be used to fend off the toxic
blooms. Living on Earth's Ashley Ahearn reports. (5:00)
Copyright © 2006 Living on Earth, All Rights Reserved.
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====>Click to hear "Prairie Pothole Wetland" 05-26-2006
====>Click to hear The Entire Show: 05-26-2006
Spring comes alive in central North Dakota, near the Chase Lake National
Wildlife Refuge. Nature recordist and photographer Lang Elliott gives
Living on Earth host Steve Curwood a tour of a cattail marsh and the
birds we're likely to find there. (7:00)
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====>Click to hear "Early Signs: Kilimanjaro / Kate Davidson" 05-19-2006
====>Click to hear The Entire Show: 05-19-2006
You may have heard the snows of Kilimanjaro are fast disappearing. It
turns out, so are the forests. Reporter Kate Davidson spent time with
scientists and local farmers in Tanzania to look at the combined effect
of tree-cutting and climate change in this installment of the series
Early Signs: Reports from a Warming Planet. (14:00)
Copyright © 2006 Living on Earth, All Rights Reserved.
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====>Click to hear "Out to Sea / Ashley Ahearn" 05-12-2006
====>Click to hear The Entire Show: 05-12-2006
The Magnuson-Stevens Fisheries Act is up for renewal and there are
several proposals on the table. U.S. fish stocks have been steadily
recovering since they crashed in the early nineties, and that's leading
some fishermen to ask for reduced fishing regulations. But others
believe that staying the conservation course will ensure robust
fisheries in the future. Living on Earth's Ashley Ahearn reports. (6:00)
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====>Click to hear "Our Fisheries Today by David Helvarg" 05-12-2006
====>Click to hear The Entire Show: 05-12-2006
David Helvarg might be the ocean's biggest fan. He started the
non-profit environmental organization, Blue Frontier, back in 2003 and
he's been working to make blue the new green ever since. Host Bruce
Gellerman spent the afternoon with Helvarg at the New England Aquarium
to talk about the state of America's oceans. (10:30)
Copyright © 2006 Living on Earth, All Rights Reserved.
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====>Click to hear "Early Signs: Bangladesh / Sandhya Somashekhar and
Emilie Raguso" 04-21-2006
====>Click to hear The Entire Show: 04-21-2006
When scientists discuss countries at risk from the potential effects of
climate change, they point to Bangladesh. Just above sea level, and in
the flood plain of the Ganges and Brahmaputra rivers, 144 million people
live in a space the size of Wisconsin. Producers Sandhya Somashekhar and
Emilie Raguso report on what's at stake for Bangladesh. (15:45)
Copyright © 2006 Living on Earth, All Rights Reserved.
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====>Click to hear "Contaminated Water" 04-14-2006
====>Click to hear The Entire Show: 04-14-2006
Reports from some troops and company whistleblowers say Halliburton
subsidiary KBR supplied contaminated water to military camps in Iraq.
Living on Earth's Jeff Young talks with some soldiers who came home sick
and wonder if it's from the dirty water. (5:30)
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====>Click to hear "Early Signs: Water Disappearing / Aaron Selverston" 04-14-2006
====>Click to hear The Entire Show: 04-14-2006
For low-lying coral islands in the South Pacific, the warming of the
planet and its atmosphere is not an abstraction, it's a reality. In the
fifth in a series on early signs of climate change around the globe,
Aaron Selverston reports from the island nation of Kiribati (kiri-bahs).
(12:45)
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====>Click to hear "Early Signs: Melting Ice Caps in Ecuador" 04-07-2006
====>Click to hear The Entire Show: 04-07-2006
This week we travel to the Ecuadorean Andes, to a snow-covered mountain
that has been the source of legend for centuries. Now the glacier has
melted, and the region's native people try to cope with a warmer, drier,
world. (15:25)
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====>Click to hear "Water Dialogues" 03-24-2006
====>Click to hear The Entire Show: 03-24-2006
The fourth international World Water Forum just wrapped up in Mexico
City. Elisabeth Malkin, who covered the forum for the New York Times,
says that with representatives from NGO's, governments, the UN and the
corporate world, it was hard to find common ground. She speaks with host
Bruce Gellerman from Mexico City. (5:10)
Copyright © 2006 Living on Earth, All Rights Reserved.
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====>Click to hear "Quenching Australia’s Thirst" 03-24-2006
====>Click to hear The Entire Show: 03-24-2006
Brad Moggridge is a hydro-geologist with the New South Wales Department
of Environment and Conservation. He's found a way, through cultural
research, to tap his aboriginal heritage for solutions to Australia's
modern day water problems. (4:00)
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====>Click to hear "Early Signs: Reports From a Warming Planet / Jori Lewis" 03-24-2006
====>Click to hear The Entire Show: 03-24-2006
In the second of a series on climate change, Living on Earth travels to
East Africa. The waters of Lake Tanganyika have warmed in recent years.
Now some scientists are worried that that could be affecting a small
fish that's a staple food for Tanzania. Jori Lewis reports. (14:50)
Copyright © 2006 Living on Earth, All Rights Reserved.
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====>Click to hear "Early Signs: Reports From a Warming Planet / Nick Miroff and
Jon Mooalem" 03-17-2006
====>Click to hear The Entire Show: 03-17-2006
Living on Earth kicks off a six-part series of reports from places where
climate change concerns are already bringing change. First stop:
Churchill, Manitoba where Nick Miroff and Jon Mooalem report diminished
polar ice is forcing a town to reexamine whether it has any future as
"The Polar Bear Capital of the World." (15:00)
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====>Click to hear "Whither the Waterways" 02-17-2006
====>Click to hear The Entire Show: 02-17-2006
On Tuesday the Supreme Court will hear two clean water cases. Protection
for more than half the country's wetlands is the issue. Host Jeff Young
speaks with David Savage, a reporter for the Los Angeles Times about
what's at stake. (5:30)
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====>Click to hear "U.S. Indian Tribes Challenge Canadian Company's Legacy of Waste / Ingrid Lobet" 02-10-2006
====>Click to hear The Entire Show: 02-10-2006
Observers say an environmental border dispute 20 years in the making is
likely to set precedent. A Canadian metal smelter dumped 15 million tons
of waste into the Columbia River, which many suspect to be poisonous to
fish and wildlife. Now Indian tribes who live downstream in the U.S.
want the American Superfund law be applied to the Canadian company.
Living on Earth's Ingrid Lobet reports. (16:20)
Copyright © 2006 Living on Earth, All Rights Reserved.
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====>Click to hear "Drought in East Africa Causes Crisis" 01-27-2006
====>Click to hear The Entire Show: 01-27-2006
A severe drought in East Africa has taken a heavy toll on livestock and
now, people are beginning to die from lack of food. Host Steve Curwood
talks with Brendan Cox from Oxfam in Wajir, Northern Kenya about the
crisis. LOE also speaks with Richard Moller, head of Wildlife and
Security at Lewa Wildlife Conservancy in Kenya, about how the drought is
affecting wildlife. (7:15)
Copyright © 2006 Living on Earth, All Rights Reserved.
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====>Click to hear "Mercury in Fish: Casting Caution to the Wind?" 01-13-2006
====>Click to hear The Entire Show: 01-13-2006
An ad campaign called FishScam.com says government mercury advisories
are inaccurate and meant to scare consumers. Host Bruce Gellerman talks
to David Martosko of the Campaign for Consumer Freedom about the
campaign. He also speaks with Dr. Leo Trasande of Mount Sinai Medical
School who says studies show that, in fact, the government safety
threshold for mercury should be even stricter. We also speak with
reporter Sam Roe of the Chicago Tribune. His recent series "The Mercury
Menace" revealed many fish deemed safe by the government contain high
levels of mercury. (12:00)
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====>Click to hear "Pond Scum or Planet Savers? / Bruce Gellerman" 01-13-2006
====>Click to hear The Entire Show: 01-13-2006
Pond scum just might be the answer to solving the CO2 woes of the
industrial age. Host Bruce Gellerman visits with Dr. Isaac Berzin,
founder of GreenFuel Technologies Corporation. Berzin is working on a
prototype that uses algae to convert power plant emissions into
biofuels. (6:00)
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====>Click to hear "Greenland's Ice Melt" 12-09-2005
====>Click to hear The Entire Show: 12-09-2005
Carbon dioxide emissions are causing temperatures to rise and that's
making Greenland glaciers melt at rates faster than previously expected.
Living on Earth host Steve Curwood talks with Richard Alley, professor
of geosciences at Penn State University, about how melting ice sheets
may affect sea levels and global coastlines. (6:15)
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====>Click to hear "Water Warnings" 12-02-2005
====>Click to hear The Entire Show: 12-02-2005
A group of engineering students from MIT have come up with a cheap, yet
effective, flood warning system. Host Steve Curwood talks with Elizabeth
Basha of the Flood Safe Early Warning project about the group's work in
hurricane ravaged Honduras. (4:00)
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====>Click to hear "Maine River Cleanup Spawns Controversy / Susan Sharon" 11-11-2005
====>Click to hear The Entire Show: 11-11-2005
Once on the list of the country's ten most polluted rivers, Maine's
Androscoggin River was one of the inspirations for the Clean Water Act.
But some old mill towns in Maine are at odds over the cleanup of the
Androscoggin. Maine Public Broadcasting Network's Susan Sharon has our
story. (9:00)
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====>Click to hear "Planting Sideways" 11-04-2006
====>Click to hear The Entire Show: 11-04-2005
Host Bruce Gellerman interviews Lindsey Williams, a freshmen at Southern
Methodist University. She won the Gloria Barron Prize for Young Heroes
for inventing a new kind of irrigation system for crops. (3:00)
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====>Click to hear "The Mad Kayaker" 11-04-2005
====>Click to hear The Entire Show: 11-04-2005
Roger Frymire has been patrolling the Charles River watershed in
Massachusetts for over a decade, testing viral and bacterial levels that
have been appearing at alarming highs. Living on Earth's Dennis Foley
has this portrait of an average citizen who's putting the problem of
water pollution on the radar. (7:30)
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====>Click to hear "Environmental Refugees" 10-28-2005
====>Click to hear The Entire Show: 10-28-2005
Scholars predict fifty million people will be displaced within five
years by rising sea levels, desertification, dried up aquifers, and
other serious environmental change. The term "environmental refugees"
has increasingly been invoked over the last two decades to describe
growing waves of people displaced by environmental problems. Host Steve
Curwood talks with Andrew Simms. He's the Policy Director of the New
Economics Foundation in the United Kingdom and the author of a recent
book entitled, "Environmental Refugees: The Case for Recognition".
(6:30)
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"Water Quality" by Dr. Kenneth Reckhow, Ph.D.
Kenneth Reckhow, Ph.D., formerly director of Water Resources Research
Institute of North Carolina and currently professor of water quality at
Duke's Nicholas School of the Environment, will talk about "Water Quality."
February 21, 2007; 7-9 pm, Eno River Unitarian Universalist Fellowship,
Durham, NC.
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====>Click to hear "Water Quality" Part 2
====>Click to hear "Water Quality" Part 3
====>Click to hear "Water Quality" Part 4
Copyright © 2006, 2007 Kenneth Reckhow, All Rights Reserved.
"Water Follies: The Impact of Groundwater Pumping on the Environment"
by Robert Glennon, Ph.D.
====>Click to hear "Water Follies"
The excessive pumping of our aquifers has created an environmental
catastrophe known to only a few scientists, a handful of water
management experts, and those unfortunate enough to have suffered the
direct consequences. As our groundwater use has increased, pumping has
caused rivers, springs, lakes, and wetlands to dry up, ground beneath us
to collapse, and fish, birds, wildlife, trees, and shrubs to die. This
talk will illustrate the scope of the problem with stories from around
the country. These water follies are tales of human foibles including
greed, stubbornness, and, especially, the unlimited human capacity to
ignore reality.
Robert Glennon is the Morris K. Udall Professor of Law and Public Policy
in the Rogers College of Law at the University of Arizona. He has more
than 30 years of professional experience and specializes in
constitutional law, American legal history, and water law. Glennon's
funded research activities have included two National Science Foundation
grants. He had held many administrative positions, such as trustee,
director, or chair for various institutional organizations. His
professional activities include serving as Water Policy Advisor to Pima
County, Arizona; as a member of American Rivers' Science and Technical
Advisory Committee; and as a commentator and analyst for various
television and radio programs. Glennon is the author of many books,
articles, and other writings. His best-known work is Water Follies:
Groundwater Pumping and the Fate of America's Fresh Waters (Island
Press, 2002), the first book ever published to focus on the
environmental problems caused by groundwater pumping. Glennon received
numerous accolades for Water Follies from such publications as
Scientific American, The Washington Post, and The New York Review of
Books. He lectures widely around the United States. He holds a J.D. from
Boston College Law School and an M.A. and Ph.D. in American History from
Brandeis University. He is also a member of the bars of Arizona and
Massachusetts.
Many thanks to the LA Sound Posse for permission to link to their recording of Dr. Robert Glennon's presentation.
Copyright © 2007 Robert Glennon, All Rights Reserved.
EcoTalk
Each day, Monday through Friday, Betsy Rosenberg and her guests bring you environmental news, views and voices from the frontlines of the sustainability movement.
The EcoTalk Blog webpage offers a complete listing of many quality audio programs:
http://www.ecotalkblog.com/.
Please subscribe to the podcast via their RSS feed: http://feeds.feedburner.com/Ecotalk
Here is a very brief example of the many many high quality audio programs that can be found at EcoTalk Blog Webpage:
March 26, 2007
Peter Gleick: The fate of Billions
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Peter Gleick, President of the Pacific Institute talks about the connections between water scarcity, climate change, and the fate of billions: "There are a billion people who don't have access to safe drinking water. There are more than 2.5 billion people who don't have access to adequate sanitation services. There are hundreds of millions of cases of water-related diseases every year. What we have is a failure of governments and organizations to meet these basic human needs."
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March 21, 2007
Tim Flannery: The Weathermakers
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Weathermakers Mammologist, biologist, writer, and 2007 Australian of the Year Tim Flannery tells Betsy about water rationing in a draught-striken Australia, his book for all ages The Weathermakers, and how us Yanks can't afford to wait out Bush's term in office.
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March 20, 2007
Wildlife, Water and the Army Corps of Engineers
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The Army Corps of Engineers was once one of our nation's most reputable military services, using an incredibly accomplished staff to protect us from natural disasters and help plan our nation's industrial infrastructure. But as NWF Senior Water Resource Specialist David Conrad tells us, "This agency is overwhelmed." Is more pork (from both sides of the aisle) the way to return it to its former glory? Post Katrina, I think everyone is hungry for something different.
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March 12, 2007
Jeff Cleary & Blue Water Laundry
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Bluewater1 Jeff Cleary of Blue Water Laundry tells Betsy about the dirty business of dry cleaning, particularly the practice of using perchloroethylene (perc, for short), and the three alternative methods (GreenEarth, CO2, and Wet Cleaning) that do the job without harming groundwater, air, or your body. Ask your dry cleaner for one of these options, and if they respond with a quizzical look, send them our way. If they give you stubborn disdain, let them know what the market demands, and that you'll take your dollar to where you can find the supply.
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March 09, 2007
Deadly Sonar: The U.S. Navy's Assault on Whales and Science
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NRDC's flagship magazine OnEarth features an article by Peter Canby on the Navy's use of Sonar (widely accepted to be harmful and/or fatal to whales), and the Navy's efforts to silence its (often authoritative, science-based) critics. Daniel Hinerfeld follows up on the article with NRDC Senior Policy Analyst Michael Jasny.
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March 09, 2007
Cool The Planet, Save The Arctic
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Alaska Wilderness League Executive Director Cindy Shogan sits down with Betsy to urge all of us to stand up and be counted on March 20th in Washington, DC.
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March 08, 2007
Dmitry Lisitsyn and the fight for Sakhalin
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In January we invited Pacific Environment to tell us about Shell Oil's Sakhalin Project, the largest oil project in the world. Unsurprisingly, this project has wreaked havoc on the ecosystem and people of Sakhalin, an island in the Russian Far East. Here local activist Dmitry Lisitsyn and Sara Moore tell Betsy about the citizens of Sakhalin and their fight for the only land that they can call home.
The politics are complicated, the corporate profiteering is staggering, the people of Sakhalin are secure in their human rights, and the game is not yet over.
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March 08, 2007
Think Outside the Bottle
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Is bottled water "the greatest hoax ever perpetrated on the American people." Corporate Accountability International's Ashley Schaeffer tells Betsy that not only is the bottled water (owned by Coca-Cola, Pepsi, and Nestle) nearly identical to the water in your sink, and not only are they somehow convincing us to pay as much for water as we do for oil, but the prevalence of bottled water contributes to the undermining of the concept of water as a universal human right. There are people all over the world who are already paying the price, and emerging global conflicts over water bode ill for the future.
To change course, and to reassert the primacy of water in the lives of every human on Earth, each one of us needs to start thinking outside the bottle.
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February 19, 2007
Navy Sonar vs. Whales
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NRDC Senior Attorney Cara Horowitz tells Betsy how the US Navy has violated California State Law by using sonar, which is harmful and potentially fatal to whales, in protected waters.
Visit Whales in Danger to watch the video...
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February 07, 2007
Upgrade Morro Bay's Sewage Plant Now!
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Daniel Hinerfeld tells the sad and shocking story of the Morro-Bay Cayucos sewage plant that the city refuses to upgrade asap.
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January 31, 2007
Plumber Ed del Grande on Water Conservation
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Betsy says he sounds like one of the Car Talk guys. Ed says he's a former comedian, and it's pretty clear that Plumber Ed del Grande knows a heck of a lot about water conservation. He's a spokesman for Kohler, and he chats with Betsy from Knoxville, TN, where he's doing his own "Ed" show for HGTV.
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January 25, 2007
Pacific Environment and Petro-Politics in Russia
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Royal Dutch Shell's oil development project on Sakhalin Island in Russia's Far East is the largest such project in the world, and has wrecked havoc on the fragile marine biodiversity of the region and damaged the way of life of Sakhalin's citizens. The Russian government has recently revoked Shell's permit to work on the project, but that's not the whole story.Pacific Environment's Sara Moore has been to Sakhalin, and tells Betsy what she's seen, who she's talked to, and what she knows about Royal Dutch Shell.
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January 25, 2007
Bob Feinbaum & HydroNova
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Bob Feinbaum tells Betsy about the HydroNova water program. The assumption that sewer water is garbage is wrong. It is possible to use 'living machines' that mimic the cleansing properties of natural wetlands. Wastewater should not be wasted water.
Copyright © 2007 Betsy Rosenberg - EcoTalk, All Rights Reserved.
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January 09, 2007
Best Of EcoTalk: Restoring the San Joaquin River
Jared Huffman: Restoring the San Joaquin River
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January 08, 2007
Baikal Watch and Russia's Environmental Challenges
http://www.earthisland.org/project/viewProject.cfm?subSiteID=1
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Baikal Gary Cook, US Project Director for Russian nonprofit Baikal Watch, tells Betsy of the environmental horrors perpetrated in the Soviet era, how many environmentalists in Soviet Russia were exiled to Siberia, the beauty of Lake Baikal, and of what has and has not changed since the fall of the Soviet Union.
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January 04, 2007
lce Collapse in the Arctic
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Last week, as we sipped on cups of cider with family and friends, an ice shelf the size of Manhattan fell into the sea off of Northern Canada. Being that ice shelves, once fallen, tend not to hop back up and reattach themselves, we were left fretting over what such a fall portends. Luke Copland, a bonafide Glaciologist at the University of Ottawa, stopped by to tell us.
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December 26, 2006
Boxing Day and Best of EcoTalk
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Charles Clover: The End of the Line: How Overfishing is Changing the World and What We Eat
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December 13, 2006
Andy Revkin: Arctic will have Ice-free Summers by 2040
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New York Times Climate Reporter and Author of The North Pole Was Here, Andy Revkin tells us about the frightening new study that says Arctic summers could be ice-free by 2040, the earliest date yet prognosticated by scientists.
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December 06, 2006
Stefan Forbes: One More Dead Fish
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Stefan Forbes talks about his immensely moving documentary One More Dead Fish, the story of fishermen in Nova Scotia who took over five federal buildings to protect their way of life, and the earth's sutainable cycles from industrial fishing and the destructive practice of "bottom trawling." If you eat fish, or even if you simply value the sustainable cycles that have kept us alive for all time, you must see this film
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December 05, 2006
Greenpeace: Iceland Harpoons Deep-Sea Protection
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Greenpeace Ocean Policy Expert Karen Sack says that the final UN agreement on the destructive practice of bottom-trawling "has more loopholes in it than a fisherman's sweater." Find out more about this brutal method here.
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November 30, 2006
Patrick McCully: Climate Talks in Nairobi
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Patrick McCully of the International Rivers Network gives us his report from Nairobi, site of the latest round of UN Climate Talks, or as McCully tells us, "Talks about Talks."
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November 29, 2006
Russ George and Planktos
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Russ George, CEO of Planktos, will help you green your carbon footprint. Planktos will help you replant trees. Planktos will help you revive starving seas-- by putting co2 back into the ocean. And it's so easy that it would make a fantastic, world-altering holiday gift for a loved one.
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November 28, 2006
Aspen Skiing Company: Save Snow
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Aspen Skiing Company's Director of Environmental Affairs Auden Schendler tells Betsy how climate change threatens winter skiing, the friend-of-the-court brief they've filed with the Supreme Court and the impressive steps they've taken to become the most eco-conscious ski resort in the industry.
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November 27, 2006
Elizabeth Kolbert: The Darkening Sea: What carbon Emissions Are Doing To The Ocean
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Kolbert Elizabeth Kolbert of the New Yorker Magazine talks about The Darkening Sea: What Carbon Emissions Are Doing To The Ocean.
Check out her book, Field Notes from a Catastrophe for more of her amazing work.
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November 16, 2006
Charles Clover: The End of the Line: How Overfishing is Changing the World and What We Eat
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Daily Telegraph Environmental Editor Charles Clover joins us from London to discuss his comprehensive new book The End of the Line: How Overfishing is Changing the World and What We Eat.
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November 08, 2006
Patrick McCully: Climate Negotiations in Nairobi
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Patrick McCully, Executive Director of International Rivers Network, gives us the inside scoop on what goes on at international climate negotiations before he himself heads to Nairobi for the latest round.
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November 08, 2006
Reservoirs Greenhouse Emissions
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In the second part of his chat with Betsy, Patrick McCully, author of Silenced Rivers discusses a recent report suggesting that tropical hydropower reservoirs produce large amounts of greenhouse gases.
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November 07, 2006
A Future Without Fish
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If we do not act now to reverse trends, we face catastophic loss of marine species, according to last week's report by a group of scientists including Ben Halpern of the University of California at Santa Barbara. The report stunned even the scientists, which means we better get to work.
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October 25, 2006
Protecting the Environment in China
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Daniela Salaverry of Pacific Environment talks about the situation in China.
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October 18, 2006
It's World Rainforest Week Oct 16-22
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Jennifer Krill of Rain Forest Action Network explains World Rainforest Week.
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October 11, 2006
Dietrich Stroeh: The Man Who Made It Rain
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Dietrich Stroeh, subject of the book The Man Who Made It Rain, saved his community from a legendary drought. Can he do it again, this time for the world?
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October 02, 2006
Daniel Nepstad about Amazonian Droughts.
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Amazon Daniel Nepstad from the Woods Hole Research Centre gives us the latest update on Amazonian droughts and how far North they may spread.
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September 28, 2006
David Helvarg: 50 Ways to Save the Ocean
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Surfer, Diver, Environmental Journalist, and President of the Blue Frontier Campaign, David Helvarg talks about his book 50 Ways to Save the Ocean
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September 27, 2006
The Future is in Starch
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Frederic Scheer, CEO of Cereplast, explains what's so bad about petroleum-based nonrecyclable plastic, how cities are banning styrofoam, and how his starch-based biodegradable plastics will make distant memories of both (well, as distant as they can be while we wait hundreds of years for them to biodegrade).
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September 25, 2006
Toiletbowl Conservation
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EcoTalk correspondent Shana Weber gives us the lowdown on the double-flush toilet.
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September 19, 2006
Jared Huffman: Restoring the San Joaquin River
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Jared Huffman, Senior Attorney with NRDC, breaks down the thrilling conclusion to an eighteen year old court battle to restore California’s second largest river.
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September 07, 2006
PVC, the Poison Plastic
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Lois Marie Gibbs, Executive Director, Center for Health, Environment and Justice tells us about the phasing-out of PVC (a major toxin found in our air and our bloodstreams).
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September 07, 2006
Gold Mine Threatens Pristine Waters of Lower Slate Lake
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Demian Schane, Staff Attorney with Earthjustice - Juneau office explains how the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers has authorized the giant Coeur d'Alene Mine corporation to operate the Kensington Project and dump millions of tons of gold mine tailings directly into pristine Lower Slate Lake.
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August 30, 2006
Black Mesa: Coal against Water
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NRDC 's Daniel Hinerfeld reports on efforts to protect the sacred water of Black Mesa.
The main source of water for many Hopi and Navajo in northeastern Arizona is the pristine Navajo aquifer beneath Black Mesa. Its water is so pure that you can drink it straight out of the ground.
But according to a new report by the Natural Resources Defense Council, the aquifer is in trouble.
Decades of pumping by coal mining giant Peabody Energy are taking a toll. And now Peabody wants to pump out 50 percent MORE water to move coal through a pipeline in the desert.
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August 24, 2006
Daniel Imhoff: Paper or Plastic
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Daniel Imhoff, author of the book Paper or Plastic: searching for solutions to an overpackaged world tells us about our daily 300 million coffee cups, 45 million plastic bottles (only 12% are recycled), 50 million palets (most trashed).
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August 17, 2006
Julia Whitty about the Fate of the Ocean
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Julia Whitty has been making nature documentaries for the past twenty-five years specializing in underwater films. Her story in the March/April issue of Mother Jones is entitled The Fate Of The Ocean :"Our oceans are under attack and approaching a point of no return. Can we survive if the seas go silent?"
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August 17, 2006
Against Off-Shore Drilling
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NRDC's Jim Presswood brings us up to date on off-shore drilling. Call and/or write your Senators to ask them to vote against the Domenici-Bingaman bill.
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August 04, 2006
Daniel Nepstad about Amazonian Droughts.
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Daniel Nepstad from the Woods Hole Research Centre gives us the latest update on Amazonian droughts and how far North they may spread
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July 28, 2006
Saving the Coral Reef
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Coral_reef_1 Brian Huse isExecutive Director of the Coral Reef Alliance. He talks about the Northwestern Hawaiian Islands Monument and the threat of commercial overfishing and global warming.
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July 13, 2006
Dioxin = Danger
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Stephen Lester is Science Director for the Center for Health, Environment and Justice. He talks about the new study released by the National Academies about Dioxin. Dioxin causes cancer, developmental problems and birth defects.
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