As long as this absurdly early presidential campaign season is underway, EcoTalk might as well get its two cents in. Simply hearing environmental platitudes on the campaign trail represents progress, but it is our job to tell them what we expect from them on energy policy and climate change. Here Tony Massaro, Political Director for the League of Conservation Voters, talks about how they and other green groups are putting heat on politicians in every single congressional district in the United States. LISTEN (10 min)
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The Heat Is On: Making Global Warming A Presidential Priority
- Thursday, 08 March 2007 20:32
- Written by William Craven
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Robert Borosage: When’s the idea primary?
- Thursday, 08 March 2007 20:30
- Written by William Craven
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Campaign for America’s Future co-Director Robert Borosage laments the petty frivolity of this early presidential campaign season and breaks down Barack, Hillary, (Al?) and John’s positions on energy, sure to be the issue of the post-Bush era: "Hillary has pledged to be governed by the rules of pay-as-you go, not spending any money without a way to pay for it. Republicans will block any effort to increase taxes. So it’s not at all clear how much resources can be freed up to create a bill that will have the scope, and the depth, and the breadth of a multi-layered drive towards energy independence."
LISTEN (8 min)
Dmitry Lisitsyn and the fight for Sakhalin
- Thursday, 08 March 2007 20:21
- Written by William Craven
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In January we invited Pacific Environment to tell us about Shell Oil’s Sakhalin Project, the largest oil project in the world. Unsurprisingly, this project has wreaked havoc on the ecosystem and people of Sakhalin, an island in the Russian Far East. Here local activist Dmitry Lisitsyn and Sara Moore tell Betsy about the citizens of Sakhalin and their fight for the only land that they can call home.
The politics are complicated, the corporate profiteering is staggering, the people of Sakhalin are secure in their human rights, and the game is not yet over. LISTEN (11 min)
Think Outside the Bottle
- Thursday, 08 March 2007 20:14
- Written by William Craven
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Is bottled water "the greatest hoax ever perpetrated on the American people." Corporate Accountability International‘s Ashley Schaeffer tells Betsy that not only is the bottled water (owned by Coca-Cola, Pepsi, and Nestle) nearly identical to the water in your sink, and not only are they somehow convincing us to pay as much for water as we do for oil, but the prevalence of bottled water contributes to the undermining of the concept of water as a universal human right. There are people all over the world who are already paying the price, and emerging global conflicts over water bode ill for the future.
To change course, and to reassert the primacy of water in the lives of every human on Earth, each one of us needs to start thinking outside the bottle. LISTEN (9 min)
Green Entrepeneur Sunil Paul
- Wednesday, 07 March 2007 19:57
- Written by William Craven
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At the recent Greentech Conference in San Francisco, Betsy had a buoyant chat with Silicon Valley mover and shaker Sunil Paul. Sunil is known for putting his money where his mouth is, and going by what he says here, the future for Green (energy!) technology is bright indeed. LISTEN (7 min)