NRDC‘s Daniel Hinerfeld checks in from the Sundance Film Festival, where he’s checking out the Film Your Issue international film contest for 15- and 16-year-olds. At the FYI party he chatted with actor Kevin Bacon, and later he spoke with some college students on the street to find out what was on their minds. LISTEN (8 min)
Author Archives: William Craven
NRDC and Kevin Bacon: Film Your Issue
- Tuesday, 23 January 2007 21:55
- Written by William Craven
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The BMW Hydrogen 7
- Tuesday, 23 January 2007 21:53
- Written by William Craven
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BMW’s Andreas Klugescheid stopped by EcoTalk’s Green Street Studios and went for a ride with Betsy in the new BMW Hydrogen 7, answering all the pertinent questions about this new technology along the way. LISTEN (12 min)
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Grave Matters Redux
- Tuesday, 23 January 2007 21:51
- Written by William Craven
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Mark Harris, author of Grave Matters: A Journey through the Modern Funeral Industry to a Natural Way of Burial", comes back to finish his and Betsy enlightening conversation about returning to burials that honor our place in the earth’s biological cycles. He also addresses recent allegations that cremations are connected to mercury pollution– through dental fillings. LISTEN (8 min)
NRDC Prez Frances Beinecke and not the Usual Suspects
- Monday, 22 January 2007 23:05
- Written by William Craven
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NRDC President Frances Beinecke tells Betsy about the coalition of large corporations, including Duke Energy, DuPont, General Electric, and PG&E, who are demanding strong leadership on climate change from the Federal Government, just in time for tomorrow’s State of the Union speech: "The most important thing we’d like to see the president to do is commit to a cap-and-trade proposal that reduces our carbon emissions. But we’re not that optimistic." LISTEN (11 min)
PG&E on joining the U.S. Climate Action Partnership (USCAP)
- Monday, 22 January 2007 23:03
- Written by William Craven
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PG&E’s VP of Environmental and Federal Affairs Steve Kline describes the evolution that brought California energy giant PG&E into the coalition of corporations demanding federal action on climate change: "We decided that we had to be a solution to this problem."
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