TransFair USA Executive Director Paul Rice was one of the panel speakers at the Commonwealth Club’s Capitalism 3.0. He talks about his fifth year at the World Economic Forum in Davos, why the Economist is wrong on Fair Trade, and his 11 years working with farmers in Nicaragua. LISTEN (7 min)
Author Archives: William Craven
Paul Rice & TransFair USA
- Tuesday, 06 February 2007 20:15
- Written by William Craven
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Joseph Romm & the IPCC Report
- Tuesday, 06 February 2007 20:13
- Written by William Craven
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Joseph Romm, former Assistant Secretary at the US Department of Energy under President Clinton and current Senior Fellow at the Center for American Progress talks about last week’s landmark IPCC report. Dr. Romm’s new book is Hell and High Water: Global Warming—the Solution and the Politics
LISTEN (12 min) Read his blog
Tackling Climate Change in the US
- Tuesday, 06 February 2007 20:10
- Written by William Craven
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Can we convert from an economy based on coal to a new energy future? New research out of Washington State says "Absolutely". Patti Glick, Senior Global Warming Specialist with the National Wildlife Federation, gives Betsy the rundown on this notably optimistic report. LISTEN (8 min)
Will Steger: Expedition Global Warming 101
- Thursday, 01 February 2007 19:40
- Written by William Craven
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Will Steger has journeyed by dogsled to the North Pole, Greenland and Antarctica. He has witnessed Global Warming firsthand from the top of the world, and for his next trip he’s taking us all to see it, and to meet the Inuit people whose way of life is irrevocably changing. It is all part of Steger’s Global Warming 101— through his blog, webcasts, and photos we all can learn about climate change as it is currently happening. So bundle up and hop on the sled.
PART ONE (11 min) PART TWO (7 min)
Erik Reece: Lost Mountain: A Year in the Vanishing Wilderness
- Thursday, 01 February 2007 19:34
- Written by William Craven
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In Lost Mountain: A Year in the Vanishing Wilderness, Erik Reece chronicled the year he spent witnessing the systematic decimation of a single mountain. He and Betsy chat about the price West Virginians have paid for being stereotyped and ignored by the rest of the US, the latest quixotic Bush energy statement ("There’s nothing clean about clean coal"), and our national identity.
LISTEN (10 min)