This week NRDC OnEarth magazine senior editor Laura Wright and journalist Lisa Selin Davis bring us environmental activism in virtual space, or if you prefer, Massive. Multiplayer. Online. Roleplaying. Games. Got it? OK. But whereas most games of this sort allow you to behave violently in the most unthinkably violent civilizations, Second Life houses virtual ecosystems, clean water systems, and visions of post-global warming tragedy. While it is a virtual pastime in a world of rather concrete problems, Second Life offers the opportunity to envision many of the various futures still available to us. LISTEN (7 min)
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Click Here to Create a Better World
- Saturday, 24 March 2007 10:12
- Written by William Craven
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Liza Dalby: East Wind Melts the Ice
- Saturday, 24 March 2007 09:57
- Written by William Craven
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An authority on Japanese culture, Liza Dalby has written a memoir that delves into the deepest rhythms of East Asian thought and sensitivity towards nature’s cycles. Structured according to the seasonal units of an ancient Chinese almanac, East Wind Melts the Ice is the perfect antidote to a world which has substituted 24-hour news cycles, fiscal quarters, and March Madness for the natural seasons which have sustained us for all time. LISTEN (12 min)
Treehugger: Parsing Gore, Praying for Rain, Saving Skiing, and “The Happening”
- Saturday, 24 March 2007 09:52
- Written by William Craven
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Treehugger Correspondent Simran Sethi looks at allegations that An Inconvenient Truth oversold the threat of climate change, how the environment offers common ground upon which all faiths can pray, the fate all winter recreation, and finally, the new movie "The Happening", a sort of ‘two days after tomorrow’.
LISTEN (8 min)
Al Gore Before Congress
- Thursday, 22 March 2007 19:08
- Written by William Craven
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Center for American Progress Senior Fellow (and author of Hell and High Water) Joseph Romm tells Betsy how impressed he was by Al Gore’s performance before the House and the Senate Wednesday. In many ways Gore’s testimony was like a sequel to An Inconvenient Truth— You wanted solutions? Gore gave Congress ten, from mundane to brand-spanking new. Imagine if this guy had been president. LISTEN (11 min)
See Al on YouTube as mentioned on Joseph’s blog.
Bill McKibben: Step It Up 07!
- Thursday, 22 March 2007 18:58
- Written by William Craven
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Bill McKibben stops by EcoTalk’s Green Street studio to tell Betsy about his new book Deep Economy: The Wealth of Communities and the Durable Future and urges you to Step It Up in your own unqiue way as part of the Step It Up global gathering on April 14th. You’ve got about three weeks to read up on how others are stepping it up, and to think about the coolest way possible you can open the public’s eyes to climate change. PART ONE (7 min) PART TWO (12 min)
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