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Looking for pictures about the cornfield segment in LA, I have found in Flickr the ones taken by hexod-us : great shots… Thank you for your patience and understanding. Listen Part (1) and Part (2) (interview with Andrew Rivkin)
Segment 3 (ABC home furnishings) and Segment 4 Daniel Hinerfeld about the LA cornfield.
A special New York edition of our show, in honor of Earth Day and the release of Vanity Fair’s ‘Green Issue’. In our first half, Andrew Revkin, environment reporter for the NY Times, will join us to discuss his new book, The North Pole Was Here – Puzzles and Perils At The Top Of The World. He’ll share his impressions of the Arctic and some early manifestations of global warming.You’ll actually hear the sound of ice cracking below his feet! Listen Part (1) and Part (2)
In our third segment we’ll meet the green gals behind ABC Home, a family-owned, Manhattan-based former carpet company that has expanded its product line and color range – getting deep into green! Founder Paulette Cole joins us, along with ABC’s Director of Social Responsibility, Amy Chender, to discuss what goes into an eco-friendly couch, carpet and company. LISTEN (14 min)
And in our partner’s corner, NRDC’s Daniel Hinerfeld reports on an L.A. restoration project: from Brownfields to Cornfields.
Gavin Newsom, Mayor of San Francisco, details several ongoing local programs: going from paper and plastic bags to cloth, curbside composting, solar panels, alternative fuels and the upcoming An Inconvenient Truth with Al Gore.
LISTEN (11 min)
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). LISTEN (7 min)
Peggy Lauer (picture) and Annette Gellert join us from the WELL Network (Women’s Environmental Leadership) a bi-partisan
network of citizen leaders offering green solutions for environmental
and health crises. They also discuss the California Chemical Policy Reform to emulate what’s happening in the European Union. LISTEN (12 min)