The Earthdance Environmental Film Festival in Oakland, CA April 14th and 15th will showcase a bevy of short, "inspiring, quirky, weird, and wonderful" films. Festival Founder Zakary Zide sat down with Betsy to talk about the idea of a festival-as-mix-CD, short films getting longer, and environmental films getting funnier. As in, ‘wrestling Grizzlies in Grizzly proof suits’ funny. At least, Quentin Tarantino liked it. LISTEN (8 min)
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The Earthdance Environmental Film Festival
- Wednesday, 04 April 2007 20:40
- Written by William Craven
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Frank O’Donnell: The Supreme Court sees the Obvious
- Tuesday, 03 April 2007 20:25
- Written by William Craven
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Clean Air Watch President Frank O’Donnell stops by to celebrate this week’s momentous Supreme Court decision in Mass. v. EPA, asserting that the White House is indeed authorized to regulate greenhouse gas emissions under the Clean Air Act. Theoretically, the Bush Administration (or, more concretely, the next administration) could act to regulate emissions without first going through Congress: "Now the Supreme Court has gone on record as saying global warming is indeed not only a problem but is something that can be dealt with even under current law. Now the onus is on the Bush Administration to do something about it." LISTEN (11 min)
Lester Brown: Ethanol is NOT the Answer
- Tuesday, 03 April 2007 20:05
- Written by William Craven
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Earth Policy Institute President (and author of Plan B: 2.0) Lester Brown reacts to the effects of climate change now infecting the cover of Time Magazine, and his thoughts on Ethanol being number one on their list of tools to fight global warming: "What we’re beginning to see is a realization that ethanol is not the answer, despite the ethanol euphoria that one sees and feels here in Washington." LISTEN (12 min)
The Greenest School In America? It’s in Hawaii. Obama went there. It rocks.
- Tuesday, 03 April 2007 19:53
- Written by William Craven
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Punahou School President Jim Scott chats with Betsy about becoming the first school in the US to meet LEED Gold standards (the costs of which were partially financed by a donation from Punahou alumnus Steve Case (of aol fame), and how they are making sure that the lessons are not lost on their students: "We have an obligation to the students to have the buildings become a medium for instruction."
LISTEN (8 min)
Paul Waldman: Media Matters
- Monday, 02 April 2007 21:14
- Written by William Craven
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In this segment Betsy and Paul Waldman of Media Matters swat away those pesky climate change myths that keep buzzing out of the mouths of Hannity, Inhofe, et al. They also address some of the mainstream media’s (including the New York Times’) favorite climate change tropes, and provide us with the tools to deconstruct them, for the benefit of your dear old uncle in denial.
LISTEN (11 min)
Picture: Kyle Cassidy