Michael Dietrick, MD, Executive Director for the Water Planet Environmental Broadcast Service, chats with Betsy about their experience sharpening their climate expertise at Al Gore’s climate training camp last week. LISTEN (13 min)
Author Archives: William Craven
Michael Dietrick, MD on Climate Training with Gore (and Betsy!)
- Tuesday, 16 January 2007 07:14
- Written by William Craven
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Dr. Michael McCracken at Al Gore U.
- Friday, 12 January 2007 20:08
- Written by William Craven
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Betsy dials in from Al Gore’s Climate Training Conference in Tennessee where she is one of 200 Climate Messengers learning the Gore slide show from An Inconvenient Truth and preparing to take it back to their townships and communities around the nation. Here Betsy chats with Resident Scientist Dr. Michael McCracken, who first testified to Congress on climate change in 1975. If anybody knows how to present this issue in laymen’s terms, it’s Dr. McCracken, who has some very interesting things to say about the different type of snowfall slamming Denver this winter.
Hybrid Savings
- Friday, 12 January 2007 20:04
- Written by William Craven
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NRDC‘s Daniel Hinerfeld reports on a study that concludes that no matter what you may have heard, owning a hybrid does indeed save you a substantial amount of money– perhaps as much as $13,000. Hear all about it, and new concepts like the Chevy Volt. LISTEN (6 min)
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Mark Harris and Grave Matters
- Friday, 12 January 2007 19:47
- Written by William Craven
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Among the most important rituals that we take part in, the funeral’s true emotional and cultural impact has been compromised by the enormously profitable funeral industry. Mark Harris joins Betsy to discuss his new book "Grave Matters: A Journey through the Modern Funeral Industry to a Natural Way of Burial". It’s one of the most interesting books we’ve come across in a long time. LISTEN (8 min)
Lester Brown: Plan B 2.0
- Thursday, 11 January 2007 16:33
- Written by William Craven
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The Washington Post called Lester Brown of the Earth Policy Institute "one of the world’s most influential thinkers." In
1986, the Library of Congress requested his personal papers noting that
his writings “have already strongly affected thinking about problems of
world population and resources.” We all know that Plan A has brought us to our current state. Now it’s time for Plan B 2.0.
PART 1 (11 min) PART 2 (7 min)