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“Everything’s Cool” Premieres at Sundance

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Directors Judith Helfand and Daniel Gold are set to premiere their toxic comedy Everything’s Cool at the Sundance Film Festival next week. You’ll laugh until you cry. Or vice versa. In the film, Helfand and Gold follow some of Global Warming’s highest-profile messengers like Bill McKibben, Heidi Cullen, and Ross Gelbspan to see if they can bridge the almost comical chasm between the threat and our response to it. LISTEN (12 min)

Mia Hanak & the Natural World Museum

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We in the Environmental Movement spend so much of our time focused only on the very literal: soil quality, CAFE standards, international agreements, etc. But what insights might be gleaned from a more artistic perspective on the earth and our place in it? Mia Hanak, Executive Director of the Natural World Museum, tells Betsy how she connected a love for art with her care for the planet, and putting on an exhibit on the world’s biggest stage: The 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing. LISTEN (11 min)

Baikal Watch and Russia’s Environmental Challenges

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Gary Cook, US Project Director for Russian nonprofit Baikal Watch, tells Betsy of the environmental horrors perpetrated in the Soviet era, how many environmentalists in Soviet Russia were exiled to Siberia, the beauty of Lake Baikal, and of what has and has not changed since the fall of the Soviet Union. LISTEN (10 min)

Diaper-Free Baby

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Christine Gross-Lo, author of The Diaper-Free Baby, suggests that raising a diaperless baby  is not an inevitable caatstrophe for your house, and that we can develop a bond with our children, using the tried and true techniques of "elimination communication" perfected in East Asia. "This is a practice that encourages parents to tune into all the subtle things that your child is telling you nonverbally, so that you can understand your child better, and she can learn to trust that you are there to meet her needs." LISTEN

The New Resource Bank

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In an era of bank mergers and consolidation, it can be difficult to find a bank that values the sustainability of the planet over limitless, indiscriminate growth. Peter Liu, founder and vice chairman of New Resource Bank, says that NRB is a bank for the 21st Century, one that values customer service and that little planet where its customers live. Bank efficiently, bank wisely, and be part of the New Resource Community. LISTEN (12 min)

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