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Gregor Siebock tells about his hiking around the world for the Blue planet footprint campaign.

LISTEN (11 min)

Betsy’s guests today are Ronald Wright, Joel Gershon and Gregor Siebock
Ronald Wright is the author of "A Short History of Progress"

Joel Gershon reports on eco-celebs.

Gregor Siebock tells about his hiking around the world for the Blue planet footprint campaign.    LISTEN

Ray Anderson is the founder of Interface Carpets, the largest commercial carpet manufacturer in the world. He tells how he had to answer the question – what is your company doing for the environment?- how he read Paul Hawken‘s book The ecology of commerce and went from
"plunderer of the earth" to being voted "the greenest CEO in America".  LISTEN

Navis Bermudez, Clean Water Advocate with the Sierra Club in Washington explains how the new mercury regulations are going backwards allowing power plants to continue polluting.  LISTEN (7 min)

Maybe some of you prefer to listen to the show more selectively.
That’s why we now also offer you a separate recording for each of the 4 segments:

Our guests for our
show include:

1. Chris Plaushin – National Manager of Regulatory
Affairs for AAA to discuss their new finding re the EPA’s descrepancies with gas
mileage. Listen (10 min)

2. Emily Figdor – Clean Air Advocate for USPirg will explain how the Senate’s Environment and Public Works Committee defeated S 131, the President’s Air Pollution Plan and refused to weaken the  Clean Air Act. Listen (6 min)

3. Dave Barthamus, Manager — Public Policy,
Environment & Technology Communications for General Motors Corp. will talk about their project of hydrogen car and present GM’s point of view on crushing the electric vehicles, EV1s.
No info about that issue (yet?) on the GM’s executive blog, the fastlane blog, but you can post a comment. Listen (12 min)

4. Chelsea Sexton , former GM employee questions GM
crushing the EV1s she loves and wants to keep running. In Burbank where GM keeps a few remaining EV1s she is part of a Vigil protest.
More info about the EV1s with the EV1 Club and the death of the electric car (PBS program). Listen (7 min)