An antidote to sometimes wonkish energy books, Lisa Margonelli‘s Oil on the Brain takes the reader from Margonelli’s local gas station to an Iranian oil platform in a refreshing up-close and personal style. Here she sits down with Betsy to highlight some of her most revealing journeys. LISTEN (10 min)
Author Archives: William Craven
Lisa Margonelli: Oil on the Brain
- Thursday, 08 February 2007 20:50
- Written by William Craven
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Heather Flores & Food Not Lawns
- Thursday, 08 February 2007 20:32
- Written by William Craven
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Is gardening a political act? In a very thoughtful interview, Heather Flores, author of the new book Food Not Lawns: How to Turn Your Yard into a Garden and your Neighborhood into a Community, makes the case that the garden is the key to re-cultivating our communities, our diets, and our urban spaces.
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Charles Lockwood and Green Building
- Thursday, 08 February 2007 17:45
- Written by William Craven
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Environmental and Real Estate Consultant Charles Lockwood shares with Betsy both the broad trends and nuanced particulars of the Green Building movement, and the influential municipalities across the United States that are the early-adopters of what will become the future of construction. LISTEN (12 min)
Planet Tran: The Green Airport Shuttle
- Thursday, 08 February 2007 17:39
- Written by William Craven
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Planet Tran Founder and CEO Seth Riney hopes his fleet of hybrid vehicles will shuttle you back and forth to the airport in cities across America. LISTEN (8 min)
Gil Friend at Capitalism 3.0
- Tuesday, 06 February 2007 20:18
- Written by William Craven
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How can the economy serve us, rather than us serving the economy, as we have done ever more desperately for the last twenty years. Last week the Commonwealth Club in San Francisco hosted a forum entitled Capitalism 3.0 on the very question.
We caught up with Gil Friend, President and CEO of Naturalogic "Strategic Advisors to a Sustainable Economy" about the current supply of good ideas and consumer’s demand for them. LISTEN (11 min)