Go Green Radio

  • Autor: Vários
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Sinopse

According to the U.S. Census Bureau, the world population is expanding at a mind-boggling rate. The world reached 1 billion people in 1800; 2 billion by 1922; and over 6 billion by 2000. It is estimated that the population will swell to over 9 billion by 2050. That means that if the worlds natural resources were evenly distributed, people in 2050 will only have 25% of the resources per capita that people in 1950 had. If we intend to leave our children and grandchildren with the same standard of living we have enjoyed, we must preserve the foundation of that standard of living. Go Green Radio is the beginning of an important new shift in the way we treat our world. This grassroots program promotes the very best character traits in children and adults: caring for yourself and caring for others. Through simple, responsible behavior shifts, together we can protect human health through environmental stewardship. Go Green Radio airs live every Friday at 9 AM Pacific Time on VoiceAmerica.

Episódios

  • Special Encore Presentation: TOXIN TOXOUT: Getting Harmful Chemicals Out of Our Bodies and Our World

    20/06/2014 Duração: 54min

    How do we remove toxic chemicals from our bodies and homes? Bruce Lourie and Rick Smith, two of Canada’s environmental leaders, have been asked this question on an almost daily basis since the publication of their runaway international bestseller, Slow Death by Rubber Duck: How the Toxic Chemistry of Everyday Life Affects Our Health. Rick joins us today to discuss his practical and often surprising advice. He will also share the truth behind organic foods, which detox methods actually work, if indoor air quality is improving, how we dispose of waste (where do those chemicals go?), and the ins and outs of a greener economy.

  • Special Encore Presentation: Countdown, a new book by Alan Weisman

    13/06/2014 Duração: 57min

    With a million more of us every 4½ days on a planet that's not getting any bigger, prospects for a sustainable human future seem ever more in doubt. Alan Weisman traveled to more than 20 countries to ask what experts agreed were the probably the most important questions on Earth-and also the hardest: How many humans can the planet hold without capsizing? How robust must the Earth's ecosystem be to assure our continued existence? Can we know which other species are essential to our survival? And, how might we actually arrive at a stable, optimum population, and design an economy to allow genuine prosperity without endless growth? Tune in as we talk with Alan about what he encountered on his global search for answers.

  • Special Encore Presentation: Green Schools National Network

    06/06/2014 Duração: 55min

    What will it take to teach the next generation to live sustainably? Can environmental education enhance academic achievement in math, science and social studies? These are among the many important questions that the Green Schools National Network (GSNN) addresses by connecting education professionals from across the U.S. Today we’ll be joined by GSNN CEO, Jim McGrath, and COO, Dr. Jenny Seydel, to discuss the latest trends in the green schools movement, and some best practices for communities that want to provide kids with green, healthy and sustainable schools.

  • Special Encore Presentation: Tusks and Terrorism , Why Wildlife Poaching is More than an Animal Rights Issue

    30/05/2014 Duração: 57min

    Hillary and Chelsea Clinton made protecting wild African elephants the centerpiece of the 2013 Clinton Global Initiative, in part because the elephants are facing extinction in a decade given current poaching rates, but also because their tusks are financing terrorism. Today we are joined by bestselling author and war correspondent, Mike Bond, to discuss the real world threat that is the subject of his new fiction novel, The Last Savanna. The book is based on his participation in military operations with Kenyan rangers against elephant poachers.

  • Special Encore Presentation: Education and the Environment

    23/05/2014 Duração: 57min

    Education is a dynamic institution. Every few years classrooms are introduced to new technologies and reforms that alter the learning experience in many ways. Throughout all these changes, however, two things have remained the same: first, human beings are completely dependent on natural systems, and second, human beings are capable of rendering natural systems incapable of supporting life. To what extent are we teaching students the necessary skills to preserve the natural systems on which they rely? Our guest today is Dr. Jerry Lieberman, who will discuss practical ways to use the environment around any school to create standards-based environmental education programs.

  • Foolproof Shopping for Eco-friendly Products

    16/05/2014 Duração: 56min

    Green labels are popping up on products from clothing to electronics, and it isn’t easy to tell which ones are credible and which ones are misleading. Our guest today is Scot Case, Director, Market Development at UL Environment. UL Environment is the sustainability arm of UL – the independent safety certification company with a 120 year history. As a third-party entity that tests, validates and certifies, UL Environment helps consumers find sustainable products they can trust. This is especially true for technology products as increased consumer demand has driven UL Environment to develop and manufacturers to adopt new sustainability standards for technologies like mobile devices, computers, entertainment electronics and home appliances.

  • TOXIN TOXOUT: Getting Harmful Chemicals Out of Our Bodies and Our World

    09/05/2014 Duração: 54min

    How do we remove toxic chemicals from our bodies and homes? Bruce Lourie and Rick Smith, two of Canada’s environmental leaders, have been asked this question on an almost daily basis since the publication of their runaway international bestseller, Slow Death by Rubber Duck: How the Toxic Chemistry of Everyday Life Affects Our Health. Rick joins us today to discuss his practical and often surprising advice. He will also share the truth behind organic foods, which detox methods actually work, if indoor air quality is improving, how we dispose of waste (where do those chemicals go?), and the ins and outs of a greener economy.

  • Environmental Justice: Race, Class and Environmental Quality

    02/05/2014 Duração: 57min

    Do America’s poor, working-class, and persons of color bear a disproportionate share of the country’s environmental problems? Are environmental hazards to human health more likely to be located near the neighborhoods of those who are the most vulnerable and least powerful in our society? Has the mainstream environmental movement helped –or hurt- the underrepresented segments of our population with NIMBY-ism? Today we’ll explore these sensitive, but essential topics with the “father of Environmental Justice”, Dr. Robert Bullard. Professor Bullard was featured in the July 2007 CNN People You Should Know, in 2008, Newsweek named him one of 13 Environmental Leaders of the Century, and in 2013, he was honored with the Sierra Club John Muir Award, the first African American to win the award.

  • Special Encore Presentation: Countdown, a new book by Alan Weisman

    25/04/2014 Duração: 57min

    With a million more of us every 4½ days on a planet that's not getting any bigger, prospects for a sustainable human future seem ever more in doubt. Alan Weisman traveled to more than 20 countries to ask what experts agreed were the probably the most important questions on Earth-and also the hardest: How many humans can the planet hold without capsizing? How robust must the Earth's ecosystem be to assure our continued existence? Can we know which other species are essential to our survival? And, how might we actually arrive at a stable, optimum population, and design an economy to allow genuine prosperity without endless growth? Tune in as we talk with Alan about what he encountered on his global search for answers.

  • Ed Begley Talks About How Hollywood is Going Green

    18/04/2014 Duração: 58min

    Ed Begley, Jr. joins us to discuss an entire day of Earth Day coverage of Hollywood’s efforts to Go Green. Interviews will be covered on www.BiteSize TV.com/live, and will bring together actors, authors, scientists, business innovators and other celebrities who are out front in the green movement, along with the leading experts on a wide range of environmental issues—from climate change and protecting our oceans to green fashion and sustainable farming. Ed will also discuss the Earth Day launch of Our Green House, the network’s newest reality show documenting Begley and his wife, Rachelle, as they build a brand new, ultra-green home.

  • A Fierce Green Fire

    11/04/2014 Duração: 47min

    Today we’re joined by Lois Gibbs, environmental health advocate made famous by her leadership during the Love Canal crisis in upstate New York, and Academy Award-nominated filmmaker Mark Kitchell (Berkeley in the Sixties) to discuss his new documentary, A Fierce Green Fire, which spans 50 years of grassroots and global activism from the 1960s-2009 and connects the major causes of environmentalism: from the conservation movement and Sierra Club halting dams in the Grand Canyon to battling toxic waste at Love Canal (Niagara, NY); from alternative ecology strands like Greenpeace and its save the whales campaign to the rise of global resource crises like saving the Amazon rainforest; and the ongoing climate change effort. Narrated by Robert Redford, Ashley Judd, Van Jones, Isabel Allende and Meryl Streep. A Fierce Green Fire, premiering nationally on Earth Day, Tuesday, April 22, 2014, 9-10 p.m. on PBS (check local listings).

  • Green Schools National Conference Highlights

    04/04/2014 Duração: 58min

    The Green Schools National Network held its annual conference in Sacramento, CA in late March 2014, and I had the chance to interview some of the leaders on the GSNN Advisory Board. On todays’ episode, you’ll hear from Stephen Ritz, the teacher behind the Green Bronx Machine (http://greenbronxmachine.org) who gained national notoriety after his TED talk (http://youtu.be/RF6qTlgtHU0). Michael Ferraro, CEO of Growums (http://growums.com/), was one of the conference sponsors. You’ll hear from Bill Orr, Executive Director of the Collaborative for High Performance Schools (http://www.chps.net/); Jaimie Cloud, founder of the Cloud Institute (http://cloudinstitute.org/); and Rachel Gutter, Director of the U.S. Green Building Council’s Center for Green Schools (http://www.centerforgreenschools.org).

  • Special Encore Presentation: Green Schools National Network

    28/03/2014 Duração: 55min

    What will it take to teach the next generation to live sustainably? Can environmental education enhance academic achievement in math, science and social studies? These are among the many important questions that the Green Schools National Network (GSNN) addresses by connecting education professionals from across the U.S. Today we’ll be joined by GSNN CEO, Jim McGrath, and COO, Dr. Jenny Seydel, to discuss the latest trends in the green schools movement, and some best practices for communities that want to provide kids with green, healthy and sustainable schools.

  • Countdown, a new book by Alan Weisman

    21/03/2014 Duração: 57min

    With a million more of us every 4½ days on a planet that's not getting any bigger, prospects for a sustainable human future seem ever more in doubt. Alan Weisman traveled to more than 20 countries to ask what experts agreed were the probably the most important questions on Earth-and also the hardest: How many humans can the planet hold without capsizing? How robust must the Earth's ecosystem be to assure our continued existence? Can we know which other species are essential to our survival? And, how might we actually arrive at a stable, optimum population, and design an economy to allow genuine prosperity without endless growth? Tune in as we talk with Alan about what he encountered on his global search for answers.

  • Arctic Oil Drilling: The Risks of Extreme Energy Extraction at the North Pole

    14/03/2014 Duração: 56min

    Climate change isn’t bad news for everyone. As Arctic ice melts at historically rapid rates, some people brace for rising sea levels, and some brace for new opportunities to drill for oil in waters that were once too icy for rigs. Recently, several Greenpeace activists were captured by Russian forces and charged with piracy after protesting one such drill site in the Arctic. Today, Phil Radford, Greenpeace USA’s executive director, joins Go Green Radio to discuss his organization’s concerns about oil exploration in the Arctic Circle, and the plight of the “Artic 30” activists imprisoned in Russia.

  • The Movement to Divest From Fossil Fuels

    07/03/2014 Duração: 56min

    Just a few weeks ago, 17 foundations with assets of about $2 billion agreed to divest their portfolios of coal, oil and gas, and reinvest in the clean energy economy. This adds a major tailwind to the movement that is up and running on 400 college campuses nationwide. Major institutions in San Francisco, including the city itself, have agreed to divest completely. Some of these big names include The Compton Foundation, The Sierra Club Foundation, The San Francisco State University Foundation and more. Four of the leaders of this movement will join us on Go Green Radio to discuss the fossil fuel divestment movement, and its economic implications.

  • Let it Shine: The 6000 Year Story of Solar Energy

    28/02/2014 Duração: 56min

    “Western man has been using the sun’s rays for useful purposes since the days of ancient China, as this comprehensive, carefully researched, clearly written history of solar architecture and technology makes abundantly clear,” says The New York Times about John Perlin’s book, Let it Shine: The 6000-Year Story of Solar Energy. Let it Shine presents the step-by-step development of solar architecture and technology and pertinent energy policies. By providing the background for today’s vibrant solar industry, a deeper understanding emerges of how solar energy applications have evolved and performed and their promise for today’s world

  • Special Encore Presentation: What We Should Learn from the W. Virginia Chemical Spill

    21/02/2014 Duração: 57min

    Toxic chemicals used to wash coal were stored on the banks of a river less than 2 miles from where water entered the public water system for 300,000 people in nine counties of West Virginia. When 7,500 gallons of the chemicals spilled into the river, people not only got sick, but they could not use their water for anything but flushing toilets for several days. No drinking, cooking, bathing, washing clothes, washing hands, no public water for a week. We need to stop and think about the chemicals used to bring us coal, oil and natural gas, and what impact these chemicals could have on our water supply.

  • Green Schools National Network

    14/02/2014 Duração: 55min

    What will it take to teach the next generation to live sustainably? Can environmental education enhance academic achievement in math, science and social studies? These are among the many important questions that the Green Schools National Network (GSNN) addresses by connecting education professionals from across the U.S. Today we’ll be joined by GSNN CEO, Jim McGrath, and COO, Dr. Jenny Seydel, to discuss the latest trends in the green schools movement, and some best practices for communities that want to provide kids with green, healthy and sustainable schools.

  • Special Encore Presentation: Tusks and Terrorism , Why Wildlife Poaching is More than an Animal Rights Issue

    07/02/2014 Duração: 57min

    Hillary and Chelsea Clinton made protecting wild African elephants the centerpiece of the 2013 Clinton Global Initiative, in part because the elephants are facing extinction in a decade given current poaching rates, but also because their tusks are financing terrorism. Today we are joined by bestselling author and war correspondent, Mike Bond, to discuss the real world threat that is the subject of his new fiction novel, The Last Savanna. The book is based on his participation in military operations with Kenyan rangers against elephant poachers.

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