Author Archives: William Craven

Russ George and Planktos

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Russ George, CEO of Planktos, will help you green your carbon footprint. Planktos will help you replant trees. Planktos will help you revive starving seas– by putting co2 back into the ocean. And it’s so easy that it would make a fantastic, world-altering holiday gift for a loved one. LISTEN (12 min)

Nicole Sillapere: Greening The Party

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Is it the season of kindness, consideration, and giving, or the season of heedless and wasteful consumption? Greening all the holiday parties we go to could make a difference. Nicole Sillapere of Sillapere Events and Environments tells us how to throw and elegant, stylish, and personalized party that leaves a slightly smaller foot (or high-heel) print. LISTEN (8 min)

Ross Gelbspan: Boiling Points and Practical Reactions

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Renowned Journalist and former Boston Globe editor Ross Gelbspan specializes in practical, economically sound, macro-level ideas to confront climate change. In a special three-part interview, he lays out ideas he brainstormed with energy companies, economists, and policy wonks, and which formed the core of his 2004 book Boiling Point: How Politicians, Big Oil and Coal,
Journalists and Activists Are Fueling the Climate Crisis–And What We
Can Do to Avert Disaster
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PART 1, PART 2 , PART 3

Aspen Skiing Company: Save Snow

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Aspen Skiing Company’s Director of Environmental Affairs Auden Schendler tells Betsy how climate change threatens winter skiing, the friend-of-the-court brief they’ve filed with the Supreme Court and the impressive steps they’ve taken to become the most eco-conscious ski resort in the industry.
LISTEN (12 min)
Also see Save Snow.

Elizabeth Kolbert: The Darkening Sea: What carbon Emissions Are Doing To The Ocean

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Elizabeth Kolbert of the New Yorker Magazine talks about The Darkening Sea: What Carbon Emissions Are Doing To The Ocean.
PART 1
(11 min), PART 2 (7 min)

Check out her book, Field Notes from a Catastrophe for more of her amazing work.

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