Monthly Archives: February 2009

Bill McKibben Urges Civil Disobedience Against Coal

February 25, 2009Full ShowAl Gore, Bill McKibben, Clean Tech, Climate Change, clinton global initiative, Renewable Energy, Sustainable Innovation, wendell berryBill Baue

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Sea Change Radio speaks with Bill McKibben about the Capitol Climate Action protest against coal in Washington, DC. And Caroline Rees of the Harvard team behind UN Special Representative on Business and Human Rights John Ruggie talks about BASESwiki, a new wiki to help human rights abuse victims resolve grievances with companies — outside the courtroom. The Sea Change ViewPoint comes from Arvind Ganesan of Human Rights Watch on the Employee Free Choice Act.

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ViewPoint: EFCA – A Human Rights Imperative

February 25, 2009Sea Change BlogArvind Ganesan, corporate governance, human rights, Human Rights Watch, Labor Rights, Sustainable Public Policy, View PointBill Baue

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In January 2009, Human Rights Watch issued a briefing paper entitled Employee Free Choice Act: A Human Rights Imperative. The paper details some of the glaring deficiencies in current US labor law that significantly impair the right of workers to freely choose whether to form a union. It recommends that the US Congress pass the Employee Free Choice Act to help remedy these shortcomings and bring US law closer to international standards. Arvind Ganesan, Director of Business and Human Rights at Human Rights Watch, brings us this week’s ViewPoint.Read the show transcript

Making the Case for a Green Stimulus

February 18, 2009Full ShowClean Tech, Climate Change, EPA, global warming, Green Building, Green Jobs, Green Living, Renewable Energy, stimulus, Sustainable Agriculture, Sustainable Innovation, Sustainable Public PolicyBill Baue

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alexbowen greenstimulus Alex Bowen, a Principal Research Fellow at The Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change and the Environment of the London School of Economics, discusses An Outline of the Case for a ‘Green’ Stimulus, a report he co-authored with Lord Nicholas Stern, the man behind the 2006 Stern Review on the Economics of Climate Change. And in the ViewPoint, Donald Bartlett of the investigative journalism team Bartlett and Steele advances the idea of a Federal Reserve for health care.Read the show transcript

ViewPoint: Don Bartlett on a Federal Reserve for Health Care

February 18, 2009Sea Change BlogObama, View PointBill Baue

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donaldbarlett The investigative reporting team of Don Bartlett and Jim Steele has been looking under the hood of issues vital to Americans since 1971. One of these has been health care. Their 2004 book, [amazon-product text=”Critical Condition: How Health Care in America Became Big Business–and Bad Medicine” type=”text”]0767910753[/amazon-product], examined How Health Care in America Became Big Business — and Bad Medicine, as the subtitle of the book goes. One recommendation they made in the book was for a new independent independent agency, to manage health care. Read the show transcript

Envisioning a Green Economy

February 11, 2009Full ShowClean Tech, Climate Change, economic security, Green Building, green business, green economy, Green Jobs, Green Living, greenbiz, joel makower, john harrington, Obama, Renewable Energy, Social Entrepreneurs, Sustainable Business, sustainable economy, Sustainable Innovation, Sustainable Public Policy, troubled asset relief programBill Baue

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This week, green business guru Joel Makower encourages us to envision success in creating a clean, sustainable economy that averts climate catastrophe and improves our environment, communities, and lives. And shareholder activist John Harrington urges banks bailed out with Troubled Asset Relief Program funding to make sure they stabilize US economic security.

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ViewPoint: John Harrington Seeks Economic Security from TARP Banks

February 11, 2009Sea Change Blogbank of america, citigroup, corporate accountability, corporate governance, corporate welfare, economic security, goldman sachs, john harrington, securities and exchange commission, Shareholder Engagement, shareholder resolutions, troubled asset relief program, View PointBill Baue

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Late last year, Harrington Investments President John Harrington filed shareholder resolutions at banks that received billions of taxpayer dollars under the Trouble Asset Relief Program. Congress bailed out the banks because they are essential to the stability of our economy, so the resolutions ask for board committees to oversee US Economic Security. Ironically, Citigroup and Bank of America have petitioned the SEC for permission to ignore the resolutions.Read the show transcript

Sea Change Member Thanks

February 9, 2009Extra Audio Feature, Sea Change BlogSustainable Business, western massachusettsBill Baue

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Thanks to the efforts of the Sea Change Marketing Coordinator Wayne Cobb, we have almost reached the halfway point in our goal of raising $5,000. That’s the amount of the Matching Grant Challenge issued by the Community Foundation of Western Massachusetts in late December 2008, which effectively doubles every dollar donated toward membership.

“The Community Foundation of Western Massachusetts is a funding vessel to sustain projects like Sea Change that promote sustainability here in the Pioneer Valley and throughout the world,” said CFWM board-member Sandy Pearson, whose Donor Advised Fund, the Pearson Family Trust, financed the grant. “I’m proud to support Sea Change to enhance the value of its programming through fundraising and building its community of members, who are fans of the show like me.”

We currently have over 30 members, and would love to have YOU join the Sea Change community. Contact Wayne at marketing [at] cchange.net to arrange for your donation, which is tax-deductible due to our non-profit status as a division of the Trusteeship Institute.

Members, please listen to the below message from Sea Change Radio Co-Host/Producer Bill Baue thanking you for your generosity, and outlining ongoing benefits of membership.

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Slow Money = Compost for Growing New Economy

February 4, 2009Full ShowAlternative Economic Models, Climate Change, Community Economic Engagement, Fair Trade, Green Living, jessie smith noyes foundation, katy lederer, Local Living Economies, steve viederman, Sustainable Agriculture, Sustainable Business, Sustainable InnovationBill Baue

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Today we measure the speed of money. Woody Tasch discusses his book, [amazon-product text=”Inquiries into the Nature of Slow Money: Investing as if Food, Farms, and Fertility Mattered” type=”text”]1603580069[/amazon-product]. And Katy Lederer transforms her experience working in the fast money culture of Wall Street into poetry in the book , [amazon-product text=”The Heaven-Sent Leaf” type=”text”]1934414158[/amazon-product].Read the show transcript

Katy Lederer: The Poetry of Fast Money

February 4, 2009Sea Change Blogkaty lederer, View PointBill Baue

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[amazon-product align=”right”]1934414158[/amazon-product]In her poetry volume, [amazon-product text=”THE HEAVEN SENT LEAF” type=”text”]1934414158[/amazon-product], Katy Lederer reflects on her work for a Wall Street hedge fund. While there, she wrote poems that meditate on the spiritual costs that enter into the emotional balance sheet. Sea Change Co-Host Francesca Rheannon opened by asking Katy Lederer what it was like to be a poet while toiling on Wall Street during the biggest speculative bubble in its history–and whether she had had any sense of its impending collapse.