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Plenty Magazine Editor-in-Chief Mark Spellun joins Betsy to talk about what color the environment is, and the latest issue of "bright, showy" Plenty. LISTEN (8 min)

Joe Dickson, Quality Control Coordinator for Whole Foods Markets, talks about their decision to phase out all products containing toxic chemical Bisphenal A, offsetting their emissions with wind credits, and their plans to use biodiesel in their distribution fleets. LISTEN (12 min)

Majora Carter, founder and Executive Director of Sustainable South Bronx, talks about winning the MacArthur "Genius" Grant, why the people in her community have abnormally high asthma rates, why she’ll never leave the neighborhhod she grew up in, and the B.E.S.T. ideas for getting young people in the South Bronx employed in the Green Economy. LISTEN

The Leopold Conservation Award, as Sand County Foundation VP David Allen tells Betsy, honors outstanding environmental stewardship  by private landowners, and inspires  other farmers and ranchers to play a vital role in environmental conservation: "When land does well for its owner, and the owner does well for his land, and both end up better by reason of their partnership, we have conservation." LISTEN (10 min)

Got your calendar for next year? Miss August Lindsay Hassett talks about the 2007 EcoBabes Calendar, challenging PC Environmentalism, and her alter-ego, Betty Biodiesel. LISTEN (8 min)