Author Archives: William Craven

Green Tags and Energy Offsets

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Have you ever purchased renewable energy credits to offset your fossil fuel use? Steven McDougal of 3 Phases Energy explains the logic, procedures, and potential behind green tags and energy offsets.
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Major Beverage Companies Lack Fizz in Recycling

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Nishita Bakshi and Conrad MacKerron of As You Sow, have written a report on beverage companies’ recycling habits. Do leading bottled and canned drinks use 30% recycled content? 20%? You may want to crack open a cold one before you hear the news.
LISTEN (9 min)

Ken Cook & the Environmental Working Group

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Ken Cook
explains that The Environmental Working Group does what the EPA should be doing: Working. To Protect Us. And to Protect the Earth.
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A Future Without Fish

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If we do not act now to reverse trends, we face catastophic loss of marine species, according to last week’s report by a group of scientists including Ben Halpern of the University of California at Santa Barbara. The report stunned even the scientists, which means we better get to work.
LISTEN (7 min)

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Perry Garfinkel: Buddha or Bust

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New York Times and National Geographic Correspondent Perry Garfinkel
chats with Betsy about his new book Buddha or Bust, and how social
and ecological progress is a state of mind.
LISTEN (12 min)

 

 

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