Betsy’s guests in the first part of the program are Redwood Mary co-founder of the Women’s Global Green Network and Marta Benavides ecoactivist from El Salvador,
Celebrating Women’s leadership in sustainable development
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In the second part of the program, Betsy’s guest is Teddy Roosevelt IV talking about climate change, business and jobs.
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LISTEN to the whole program (37 min)
In the first part of the program Betsy talks about how according to the Government Accountability Project the scientific reports concerning climate change were "edited" to increase the perception of uncertainty, as reported in the New York Times. Betsy’s guests are Brenda Ekwurzel of the Union of Concerned Scientists and Myron Ebell of the Competitive Enterprise Institute.
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On June 10 Philip Cooney has resigned from his position.
Science Academies of Britain, France, Russia, Germany, the U.S., Japan, Italy and Canada,
along with those of Brazil, China and India, called on G-8 countries to
"identify cost-effective steps that can be taken now to contribute to
substantial and long-term reductions in net global greenhouse gas
emissions."
In the second part of the show Betsy’s guest is Richard Louv author of Last Child in the woods, Saving our Children from Nature Deficit disorder. LISTEN (18 min)
If you want to LISTEN to both segments (36 min)
Al Gore delivered in San Francisco an energizing speech about the planetary emergency.
This is a very short part of it (4 min) but we think you’ll like it. Strangely the recording erased the beginning is terrorism the only threat… sorry about that.
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Even shorter, 9 seconds of Mayor Gavin Newsom LISTEN
Betsy got up very early this morning to talk with Mark Maron and Mark Riley on Air America Morning Sedition.
She spoke about World Environment Week in San Francisco, the absence of any representative of the US goverment, the Mayor’s initiative to combat global warming and Al Gore’s presentation.
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Warren Kelvenzig, Chief Strategy Officer of Sustainlane speaks about the most sustainable cities. They came up with ranking 25 US cities on a sustainability scale.
Betsy mentions the US mayors climate protection agreement proposed by Seattle Mayor Greg Nickels. Look at the cities involved and their mayors.
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Top Ten Cities
1 San Francisco
2 Portland
3 Berkeley
4 Seattle
5 Santa Monica
6 Austin
7 New York
8 Chicago
9 Oakland
10 (tie) Minneapolis
10 (tie) Denver