John Stauber is the founder and Executive Director of the Center for Media and Democracy.
Since 1993 he reports about the PR industry.
Sheldon Rampton joined the Center as research Director in 1995. LISTEN (38 min)
Stauber and Rampton have coauthored 5 books:
Toxic sluge is good for you: Lies, damn lies of the PR industry.
Author Archives: Philippe Boucher
The polluted information environment, interview with John Stauber and Sheldon Rampton
- Sunday, 15 May 2005 07:43
- Written by Philippe Boucher
- 0 Comments
The answer is in the wind (and the sun)
- Sunday, 08 May 2005 07:57
- Written by Philippe Boucher
- 1 Comment
Betsy’s guests talk about alternative energies.
Dan Carol of the Apollo Alliance expands on his previous conversation last week about how to develop clean energy and independence from oil while creating jobs. Listen (15 min)
Troy Helming is the CEO of Krystal Planet Energy: he wants to enroll 1 million homes on clean energy via grassroots marketing. Listen (14 min)
Jared Blumenfeld is Director of San Francisco’s Department of the Environment: he explains the city’s programs to promote solar energy.
Listen (7 min)
More on San Francisco solar power while you can also read the nice piece he wrote about tidal power 🙂
Here is the link if you want to listen to the whole show (37 min)
How to use this site
- Tuesday, 03 May 2005 10:04
- Written by Philippe Boucher
- 2 Comments
As we enter our second year of programming the site has grown so here are a few tips to help you navigate and easily find what you are looking for:
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Environmentalism is not dead: criticizing the critics
- Sunday, 01 May 2005 01:32
- Written by Philippe Boucher
- 3 Comments
Betsy talks with 4 guests who disagree with the arguments developed last week about the death of environmentalism.
Jim Motavalli is the editor of E-the Environmental magazine Listen (10 min)
Dan Carol of the Apollo Alliance Listen (6 min)
Dan Coifman is Director of Media Relations for NRDC. Listen (10 min)
T A Barron‘ s most recent book is The great tree of Avalon Listen (7 min)
LISTEN to the whole program (37 min)
Interview with Michael Shellenberger and Adam Werbach
- Sunday, 24 April 2005 22:36
- Written by Philippe Boucher
- 3 Comments
Michael Shellenberger and Adam Werbach talk with Betsy about
the controversial essay The Death of Environmentalism , Global Warming politics in a post environmental world, that was released on October 2004 at a meeting of the Environmental Grantmakers Association. LISTEN
How to revitalize the American dream? What works and what does not work politically?
See also initiatives like the New Apollo Project.