Because we all contribute
to global warming, be co-dependent no more:
1st Step: Admit
you are powerless over your addiction to using energy
and that your high energy use has become unmanageable, and then
change 10 light bulbs in your house to
compact florescent bulbs. Taking this first step
saves 1,795 lbs of carbon dioxide per year!
Continue reading "EcoTalk’s 12 Step Program for “Warm-a-holics*”" »
Want to hear what engaging, positive voices EcoTalk could bring to your radio station? Check out Betsy Rosenberg's inspiring mix of green ideas, trends, and personalities, and call your local affiliate to demand that EcoTalk be heard on your patch of this great green Earth. LISTEN
Powering the planet (pdf) is the title of the inaugural speech given by Nathan Lewis at the California Clean Innovation Conference. At this point we don't have a recording.
This might be EcoTalk's last hurrah as a daily show, but we'll be damned if we won't go out with yet another jam-packed hour of news that will inform the future that us optimists are determined to see through.
If the mainstream media were a little more concerned with concrete plans for our energy future than the cost of somebody's haircut, presidential outside shot Governor Bill Richardson (NM) might have a reasonable shot at the White House this upcoming silly season. David Sandretti of the League of Conservation Voters joins Betsy to outline the big guy's plan to combat climate change. LISTEN (10 min)
Treehugger Correspondent Simran Sethi
reports on France's request that the US show more leadership on reducing emissions, the green rebuilding of tornado-devastated Greensburg, Kansas, the unusual challenge of making the Burning Man festival sustainable, and Paul Hawken's incisive new book "Blessed Unrest." LISTEN (8 min)
Shawnee Hoover of Exxpose Exxon comments on reports that say that despite their ongoing insistence that they've severed ties with the Competitive Enterprise Institute and renounced smearing the science of climate change, Exxon "is still funding more than $2 million to the majority of climate skeptic groups" closely linked to CEI and their ilk. LISTEN (8 min)
Richard Heinberg performs his role as EcoTalk's final (for now) guest with aplomb, discussing Exxon's latest shenanigans as well as his books The Party's Over and The Oil Depletion Protocol.
And finally, Betsy sees us out with a brand new Madonna tune, released as part of the LiveEarth series of concerts to combat climate change: "Hey You." Download it here! LISTEN (12 min)
Toronto Mayor David Miller talks about representing one of the sixteen major world cities (plus five major banking institutions) to cut carbon emissions by renovating city-owned buildings with the Greenest of practices and the Clinton Climate Initiative: "This is a win win win win win win." This what it takes! Teamwork, optimism, and practical business. LISTEN (11 min)
Paul Ehrlich has been both authoritative and controversial for forty years, so that fact that to this day his still somewhat taboo advocacy of population control and his other work are cited in newspaper editorials no longer shocks him: "I am an outsider from the point of view of the media. I am an insider from the point of view of science. Scientists don't care what Jerry Falwell, or Limbaugh, or Coulter say. They care about what other scientists say." Join us for a special interview that is as compelling as it is freewheeling.
PART ONE (7 min) PART TWO (12 min)
Greg & Connie Mattison of the "GreenByDesign", the creative and frisky Green Building TV show that's taking the state of the New Jersey (and beyond) by storm. Connie: "I think there are many out there who don't know where to begin. We thought, 'Well, you can watch us while we learn.'" Greg: "We call ourselves newlygreens." Check it out! LISTEN (8 min)
Beantrees Organic Coffee founder Barrie Gromala tells us about the coffee that has won over celebrities like Oprah's chef and Aerosmith, and announces a great deal for all of us and our planet: order coffee from Beantrees.com, and Beantrees will donate one dollar per bag to keep EcoTalk on the air!
LISTEN (9 min)
In the growing Green Building Community, Andres Edwards of EduTracks and author of The Sustainability Revolution is among the most thoughtful. Here he opines on Tibet, Deep Ecology, and helping companies like Whole Foods, Pfizer, small non profits, and government agencies make the practical decisions that we will look back on and call wisdom: "When I started, it was a huge learning curve for folks to begin to understand, 'What is Green building?' As it's very rapidly been mainstreamed people are a lot more familiar." LISTEN (11 min)
Green Building Initiative's Ward Hubbell checks in with EcoTalk following his Senate testimony on how the Federal Government makes Green Building an implicit part of a smart, forward-thinking government: "I think what [the Senate] were trying to do was get educated on the various rating systems out there and the different approaches." Find out about GBI's Green Globes rating system here. LISTEN (8 min)
Clean Air Watch President (and EcoTalk favorite) Frank O'Donnell weighs in on the President Bush's pledge to abide by the Clean Air Act (or at least mouth words to that effect). "I think that the president has come up with a strategy to stall off any kind of action, and essentially put the US EPA into a straitjacket of bureauracratic process," Frank tells Betsy. Does this have to be "a long process", as the President says? LISTEN (10 min)
This is a rerun of our April 30 program:
Greenpeace Canada Targets Prime Minister Harper LISTEN (10 min)
Vanity Fair's 2nd Annual Green Issue LISTEN ( 8 min)
Kim McKay: True Green LISTEN (12 min)
Lori Pye, Eco-Psychology, and Eco-Suicide LISTEN (8 min)
Dear Friends of EcoTalk
“EcoTalk’s Inconvenient
Truth":
If Green is the new Black why are we in the Red?
The nearly three years of broadcasting our groundbreaking program on Air America have come with nearly constant turbulence. As the nation's first progressive network with ambitious expansion plans experienced growing pains, EcoTalk weathered them all - but not without significant cost. Selling advertising and partnerships was our only means to cover production costs and that task was made difficult for many reasons.
Paul Hawken talks about his most recent book Blessed Unrest : How the Largest Movement in the World Came in to Being and Why No One Saw it Coming.
Part 1 (11 min) Part 2 (7 min)
Kevin Contreras talks about his new PBS program Building Green.
LISTEN ( 10 min)
You can also read his blog.
This week, correspondent Jeff McIntire Strasburg
sheds some light on the murky question of ethanol versus biodiesel. We
speak with Mark Oberholzer, a runner-up in the 2006 Metropolis Next
Generation Design Competition, whose plan for roadside turbines aims at
getting something back from the flow of traffic. We also speak with the
designer of World Without Oil, an online alternate reality game that simulates a world in the throes of an oil shock. LISTEN (9 min)
This is a rerun of our program of April 27:
Schwarzenegger tells the EPA to shape up LISTEN (10 min)
Treehugger: Earth Day Hangover Edition LISTEN (8 min)
PG&E's Nancy McFadden LISTEN (11 min)
Clif Bars GreenNotes Program LISTEN (8 min)
As the Dead Sea shrinks three feet per year, can Israel, Jordan, and the Palestinian territories find common ground in these common waters to build a more lasting peace? Oregon State professor and author of Hydropolitics along the Jordan River: the impact of scarce water resources on the Arab-Israeli conflict Aaron Wolf offers his thoughts on the solutions, and the political will necessary to save the Dead Sea. LISTEN (11 min)
Think only inorganic, GMO, pesticide-laden agriculture can feed the world's poor, and that organic is merely an indugence of the elite? While certain parties have a vested interest in having us believe that, University of Michigan researcher Catherine Badgley tells Betsy about some new studies that suggest that organic agriculture can feed the world. LISTEN (7 min)
Brad College Environmental Studies Chair Mark H. Lytle checks in to discuss his new book The Gentle Subversive: Rachel Carson, Silent Spring, and the Rise of the Environmental Movement: "[Carson] really believed that the right to endure gave us a right to know. She felt that unless the public had the facts necessary to make an informed decision, they were going to be unwitting victims." We take such citizen advocacy for granted today, but as multinational coporations and the chemical revolution created a brave new world of potential dangers to human beings, Carson was one of the first people to stick her neck out for all of us. LISTEN (12 min)
The city of Boston has cut its PC energy use by an astonishing 44 percent with the help of power management software company Verdiem. With power management something we need in every city, Verdiem Vice President of Business Development Dave Harvey tells Betsy what they can offer to any City or Company in the land. LISTEN (8 min)
This is a rerun of our April 20 program:
Earth Day co-founder Pete McCloskey PART ONE (11 min) PART TWO (7 min)
Treehugger: Eco America's Bob Perkowitz LISTEN (12 min)
Home Depot's New Eco Options LISTEN (8 min)
Husband and wife team Matt and Stacy Williams enjoy each other’s company. It’s hand that this is the case because they live, sleep, eat, relax and work together, all in the same house. The Williams’ home based business is based in Atlanta, Georgia and has been running successfully since 2001.
Their home based business has gone from strength to strength and the couple now employ six additional staff. All staff work on the same terms as Matt and Stacy: the work from home on what is essentially their own home based business. This flexibility allowed by Matt and Stacy means that more people can take their jobs than would otherwise be possible. “Most of our account manager employees are women who have chosen to leave the corporate rat race in order to spend more time with their children,” says Stacy.
This kind of approach to a home based business does take a lot of work. It’s a good job Matt and Stacy enjoy each other!
Want a legal drug? Want it to be as potent as LSD? Want it to be widely available on the Internet? Look no further than Salvia Divinorum.
The Salvia plant has long been used as a hallucinogenic by native Americans. No modern Americans are using a specially concentrated version of the plant; users become very dissociated, they have out of body experiences, and they merge with the floor or a piece of furniture.
But you’d better get there quickly, since the lawmakers of the country are going to try their hardest to ban Salvia in the very near future. California are the latest state to try and snub out the trend, as a bill in the state Senate will make it illegal to sell Salvia to minors. The bill is the love child of Assemblyman Anthony Adams who thinks that, despite cries from medical staff who want to use the drug in experiments, the risks posed by salvia are too great to postpone the legislation.
LifePath Unlimited is the latest big player on the Canadian home business market, offering a product which capitalizes on the booming personal development industry whilst catering for, and offering excellent opportunities to, budding Canadian home businesses.
Liberty League International was one of the first successful Internet based ventures in this field, coming onto the scene in 2004. The Internet fuelled their arrival and, with the widespread availability of VoIP and other technologies making international calls cheaper and easier, Canadians were able to become players on an international stage.
Wealth Masters International – which entered the market in about 2006 – concentrated on Direct Sales but offering primarily financial education. This financial education gave Canadians moderate success, but the bulk of the information is centered on U.S. financial structure. LifePath were able to offer more.
What next? With an estimated 79 million people starting home businesses in the next three years (according to Forbes magazine), there is sure to be stiff competition in the Canadian home business market.
So you want a new iPhone? Fine. So do most of the other people in the world! Wait, though. Wait until summer when, it is rumored, Apple will release its 3g iPhone. This model is sexier than the old one in many ways (not least of which because it is 3g compatible) but, importantly, it is also going to be cheaper. The price cut will come from AT&T subsidies to new customers if they agree to a two year contract with the firm.
The 3g iPhone is expected to be released on the one-year anniversary of the original model. This puts it to the 27th of June or thereabouts. Apple, sneaky swines that they are, plan to cut the supply of the old iPhone downloads a few week before this date so that the release of the new 3g iPhone model will coincide with a marked shortfall in supply. The new 3g iPhone will meet this shortfall and many will pick it up.
There is a new drug in town; this one is different, this one is legal. Salvia Divinorum is a member of the lowly sage family and originates from Mexico, but thanks to the Internet it is becoming one of the most popular legal drugs. Salvia Divinorum is as potent as (highly illegal) LSD and is the most potent naturally occurring hallucinogenic known.
Salvia Divinorum, or “Magic Mint,” “Ska Maria Pastora” or “Sally D”, is popular with users both young and old and is legal almost all States across the US. Its popularity is assisted greatly by virtue of its legality but also because of how truly easy it is to get hold of, and how inexpensive it is.
Legislators are donning their amour, though, and we should expect to see more news articles condemning Salvia Divinorum and its users in the near future. Legislation, many say would be an overreaction.
Sony’s approach to its business in the past has been one of assertion and force. With the ‘ownership’ of rights to music comes a guaranteed emolument. People aren’t too sure what it means to ‘own’ music, however, and recent years has seen a dramatic climb in people enjoying music downloads, for free. Sony’s previous tactic has been to bully the small person into submission. Now it is joining forces with Nokia and We7 to offer unlimited music downloads to those very same small people. Amazed? So are we.
This comes at the same time as a whole raft of other agreements between suitors to offer music downloads to users or customers of companies such as Napster, O2, Vodafone and 24-7 Entertainment. O2 and Vodafone are hot on the heels of Nokia’s example and will, it is predicted, offer unlimited music downloads to their customers with the help of Napster’s technology.
What others are saying:
Music downloads will surpass CD sales in four years
Music downloads with Sony
European Apple fans and detractors alike: clear your desk. The ultimate in fashion accessories is here! Make way for the download apps on iPhone!
This may not sound very exciting to the Americans out there who have been lovingly cradling your devices for some time now, but to us Europeans who have been able to do nothing but watch this is earth shattering. Deals Germany, the UK and France have been wrapped up and Apple has allegedly signed contracts to put a number of carriers on the iPhone books. Details are scant at this stage. This isn’t the Europe-wide rollout of the iPhone music downloads that we were hoping for but certainly it’s a promising start. You will start to see more free iPhone music downloads…
Something else to be excited about (as if the iPhone music downloads is now in plethora and wasn’t enough!): pictures of the new iPod Nano appeared on the web, albeit briefly. The pictures were of poor quality and it was difficult to see just what we are in for here. Predictably though it has sent the Apple fans and conspiracy theorists positively frothing at their gaping mouths. The iPhone download on the rise….
Your home business needs you, and you need to be as productive and as useful as possible. This is why you need the right equipment and the right conditions in which to work.
A faulty or poor quality phone may lead to lost calls, unheard instructions or frustration: any of which can lead to you losing a client for your startup home business. A good quality phone might cost your home business a little more at the outset but it should be value for money that you are looking for rather than cheapest cost. Check out like something from Plantronics.
Your computer too can have a marked effect on your home business. Imagine having to format the hard drive every few weeks, recovering from a virus, from adware, or just from poorly operating software: that’s Windows for you. Consider a good quality system and especially consider something from the often overlooked Apple range (yes, I do have an Apple! Definitely recommended!).
Your home business deserves decent equipment that is suited to its job.
Some books are just difficult to read unless you’re in the right mindset. I found that this was the case with Napoleon Hill’s Think and Grow Rich. It had been sat on my bookshelf for some 18 months before a friend revealed the chapter on sex to me. What a revelation. Chapter eleven is entitled “The Mystery of Sex Transmutation: The Tenth Step Towards Riches.”.
This helped me to get started, and it turns out that I was in the right frame of mind to Think and Grow Rich. Concepts I had originally thought had no relevance to me, turned out to be concepts that I believed in and had actually been living, which really was a nice bonus.
When I first received Think and Grow Rich as a present from my well-meaning husband I was unable to focus and comprehend on what it was exactly that I was reading and how any of it related to my current life. When I gave myself the time to think and grow rich I found a wealth of relevant information that was well presented and accessible. Definitely recommended.
Your iPhone is only as good as the data (music, games, videos, information) that you have on it. Sometimes software can be the iPhone’s saving grace, but without data even this software can be useless. This is where iPhone downloads come into their own: changing your gadget from a useless (but very pretty) brick into a raging fun machine. Like me.
The wonderful world of free iPhone downloads can lead to some serious entertainment. There are loads of podcasts your favorite shows available. Loads of free music, loads of movies and TV clips; iPhone downloads can be everything to every man (and woman). Let’s get busy and put some music and movies onto our iPod, iPhone and iPod touch. Your iPhone downloads maketh your iPhone, so get out there and find something you want!
Music and movies are available all across the web in a variety of formats. Downloading these and converting to a format that suits is easy. Go for it!
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