Ana Unruh Cohen, Director of Environmental Policy with the Center for American Progress, gave us her take on the President’s trip to the Capitol: "Recognition of the challenge is not enough. We need action." LISTEN (8 min)
Category Archives: climate change
Ana Unruh Cohen’s take on the State of the Union
- Wednesday, 24 January 2007 21:19
- Written by William Craven
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Richard Cizik: Evangelicals and Scientists
- Tuesday, 23 January 2007 21:56
- Written by William Craven
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The coalition of 28 Evangelicals and Scientists that the National Association of Evangelicals Richard Cizik and Dr. Eric Chivian of Harvard University assembled do not agree about everything in the world (or in the heavens, presumably), but they do agree that climate change is a problem requiring urgent action on everyone’s part. Here Richard tells Betsy about his initial skepticism, his climate change revelation, and the common ground that will keep all of us on firm ecological footing. LISTEN (11 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."
LISTEN (7 min)
Bill McKibben: Step It Up 2007
- Friday, 19 January 2007 20:28
- Written by William Craven
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Leading environmental thinker Bill McKibben calls in from Sundance and urges us all to get involved in Step It Up 2007, a call to every one of us to organize climate change rallies in our own communities (and in our own styles!) on April 14th. April Power will launch a Spring flowering of creative solutions and united optimism in the face of Climate Change. Bill also talks about his new book Deep Economy: The Wealth of Communities and the Durable Future due out in March.
PART 1 (11 min) PART 2 (7 min)
Catch Bill in the new film Everything’s Cool, which had its premiere this week at the Sundance Film Festival.