Sea Change Radio

Today’s first guest is Brie Johnson from Straus Family Creamery who talks about practices that make milk production a more sustainable, less polluting and cleaner enterprise. Our next guest is venture capitalist, Tom Blaisdell of DCM, who talks about Clean Technology – where the concept of efficiency links the strange bedfellows of investment capitalism and sustainability.

This week on Sea Change Radio, host Alex Wise talks to Kate Sheppard, an environmental reporter at Mother Jones, and Martin Chilcott, the CEO of 2 Degrees Network about the UN Climate Change Summit also known as COP 16 that was just held in Cancún, Mexico.

This week on Sea Change Radio we talk with Maria Vargas of the Energy Star program and Alan Meier, senior scientist at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, a faculty member at UC Davis and the foremost authority on standby power.

This week, host Alex Wise speaks with attorney and radio personality, Mike Papantonio, as well as local economic consultant, Majora Carter.

Biologist John Hafernik talks about the sudden, mysterious disappearance of many of the world’s honey bees (known as colony collapse disorder) as well as a wider pollinator crisis. Then, in the second part of today’s show, IBM Researcher Christine Robson discusses a new iPhone application known as CreekWatch which enables regular folks to help measure the world’s water supply by simply visiting their neighborhood parks.

Sea Change Radio host Alex Wise sits down with Greenpeace’s Rolf Skar as they discuss deforestation in Indonesia, the UN Climate Change Conference that kicks off in Cancun, Mexico next week, and how we can all make a difference with day-to-day choices as consumers.

According to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, the first half of 2010 was the warmest January to July on record. At this point, to be skeptical of the overwhelming evidence of climate change is to “replace a faith in science with a belief in science fiction.” With the wounds of the Copenhagen climate summit [...]

Whether staying within a 60-mile radius of his home, or crossing the globe on nothing but the power of her two oars, this week’s guests on Sea Change Radio, Kurt Hoelting and Roz Savage, both demonstrate their commitment to being good ancestors.

This week on Sea Change Radio, the second part of Alex Wise’s discussion with John Perry Barlow to learn more about his most recent project – an advanced bio-fuel startup known as Algae Systems.

Where did conservation and America’s conservative movement part ways? Is the flight to the cities in the developing world a positive phenomenon? Has the population bomb been defused? This week on Sea Change Radio, we discuss these topics and more with two iconic sages of the green movement – Grateful Dead lyricist and green entrepreneur, John Perry Barlow along with author, ecologist and former Merry Prankster, Stewart Brand.