http://www.cchange.net Covering the transformations to social, environment and economic sustainability Wed, 08 Feb 2012 00:08:33 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 Sea Change Radio covers the transformations to social, environmental, and economic sustainability. Change is accelerating in positive and negative directions: the clock is ticking in the race to see which will tip first—the problems or the solutions. Join Sea Change's Host, Alex Wise, as he provides in-depth analysis to help our audience understand possible remedies and potential pitfalls. Sea Change interviews sustainability experts including Paul Hawken, Stewart Brand, Bill McKibben, Van Jones, Lester Brown, and many others. Sea Change airs on over 30 radio stations around the country. Alex Wise clean Alex Wise awise@cchange.net awise@cchange.net (Alex Wise) 2007-2011 Making Connections for Sustainability Sustainability, Climate Change, Human Rights, Environment, Corporate Responsibility, Socially Responsible Investing, Accountability, Stakeholders, Clean Tech, Renewable Energy, Green Jobs, Wealth Divide http://www.cchange.net/wp-content/uploads/cwr-images-archive/SeaChangeRadioTAG_square144_sm.jpg http://www.cchange.net Weekly http://www.cchange.net/2011/07/26/the-future-of-nowhere-james-howard-kunstler/ http://www.cchange.net/2011/07/26/the-future-of-nowhere-james-howard-kunstler/#comments Wed, 27 Jul 2011 06:02:52 +0000 Alex Wise http://www.cchange.net/?p=3588 http://www.cchange.net/2011/07/26/the-future-of-nowhere-james-howard-kunstler/feed/ 0 alex wise,back to the future,edward glaeser,james howard kunstler,orion magazine This week's guest on Sea Change Radio is author and futurist James Howard Kunstler. (http://www.cchange.net/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/james-kunstler.jpg)This week's guest on Sea Change Radio is author and futurist James Howard Kunstler (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Howard_Kunstler). In his numerous articles and books he paints a future that involves rather drastic changes to business as usual for the human race. His most recent article in Orion Magazine, Back To The Future (http://www.orionmagazine.org/index.php/articles/article/6336/), attempts to punch holes in the theories of urbanists like Harvard economist Edward Glaeser (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_Glaeser) who believe that increased, more efficient urbanization can be a life raft for a human race that has already depleted many of earth's treasures. In his talk with host Alex Wise (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alex_Wise), you’ll hear Kunstler’s own dystopian theories on the fate of suburban America, the necessary decline of global commerce, and the bumbling nature of grassroots environmental efforts. But, lest this interview leave us all feeling paralyzed by gloom, Mr. Kunstler talks about what makes him most optimistic about a post-carbon tomorrow. Alex Wise clean http://www.cchange.net/2010/03/24/whose-commonwealth-is-it/ http://www.cchange.net/2010/03/24/whose-commonwealth-is-it/#comments Wed, 24 Mar 2010 20:45:07 +0000 Francesca Rheannon http://www.cchange.net/?p=2408 http://www.cchange.net/2010/03/24/whose-commonwealth-is-it/feed/ 0 back to the future,Clean Tech,clean technology,Commonwealth,Dan Juhl,David Bollier,digital sphere,energy expert,green economy,intellectual commons,kerry buckley,mass humanities Journalist and policy strategist David Bollier tells us about the idea of the commons, wind energy expert Patrick Quinlan talks about how wind power in Massachusetts has become a battleground over competing definitions of the commons, (http://www.cchange.net/wp-content/uploads/2010/03/Bollier_photo_June_10082-150x150.jpg) Welcome to the final episode in our Sea Change series, Back to the Future. Journalist and policy strategist David Bollier tells us about the idea of the commons; wind energy expert Patrick Quinlan talks about wind power in Massachusetts and how it has become a battleground over competing definitions of the commons; wind developer Dan Juhl talks about community wind power; and historian Kerry Buckley sums up the lessons of our series. Each month, Back To The Future looks at what we can learn from the past, when we used far less fossil fuels than we do today. We explore practices we can adapt as we move toward a lower carbon future. Last month (http://www.cchange.net/2010/02/17/cool-industry-for-a-cooler-planet/), we looked at how water power in Holyoke, Massachusetts helped fuel the industrial revolution in the U.S. and is powering the birth of a green economy in Holyoke. This month we look at how the ancient idea of the commons can be adapted to ensuring the survival of the ecological commons. We also take the case of wind power in Massachusetts to examine how controversy has erupted over conflicting ways people define the common good. David Bollier (http://www.bollier.org/) is a journalist and policy strategist whose work focuses on the politics, economics and culture of the commons.  He's the editor of the web portal and blog OntheCommons.org (http://www.onthecommons.org/ ) and also co-founder of Public Knowledge (http://www.publicknowledge.org/), a public interest group defending the rights of the  intellectual commons in the digital sphere.  Lately he's been thinking about how to establish a international legal framework for protecting the ecological commons. Patrick Quinlan is Associate Director of the Wind Energy Center (http://www.umass.edu/windenergy/)at the University of Massachusetts-Amherst. He's been actively involved in wind power and clean technology development since 1982.  He was an advisor to the U.S. Office of Science and Technology Policy and worked for the National Renewable Energy Laboratory in the Washington office, serving the Federal wind energy, solar energy, geothermal, and hydrogen technology programs. (http://www.cchange.net/wp-content/uploads/2010/03/juhl_wind-104x150.jpg)Minnesota-based Dan Juhl of Juhl Wind (http://www.juhlwind.com/) is one of America's pioneers in community wind power. Sea Change Radio interviewed him (http://www.cchange.net/2008/07/16/the-community-building-power-of-wind/) originally in 2008. Kerry Buckley is executive director of Historic Northampton (http://www.historic-northampton.org/). He's the author of several books and editor of A PLACE CALLED PARADISE (http://search.barnesandnoble.com/A-Place-Called-Paradise/Kerry-W-Buckley/e/9781558494855). This program is funded in part by Mass Humanities, which receives support from the Massachusetts Cultural Council and is an affiliate of the National Endowment for the Humanities. Francesca Rheannon clean http://www.cchange.net/2010/01/27/back-to-the-future-getting-around-on-rails-and-trails/ http://www.cchange.net/2010/01/27/back-to-the-future-getting-around-on-rails-and-trails/#comments Wed, 27 Jan 2010 20:48:51 +0000 Francesca Rheannon http://www.cchange.net/?p=2312 http://www.cchange.net/2010/01/27/back-to-the-future-getting-around-on-rails-and-trails/feed/ 0 back to the future,cathy stanton,commuter rail lines,craig della penna,francesca rheannon,kerry buckley,light rail,mass humanities,northampton museum,radio series,rail trails,trolley system In this edition of the Sea Change Radio series Back To The Future, Francesca Rheannon talks with historian Kerry Buckley about the heyday of the trolley system in Massachusetts; rail trail promoter Craig Della Penna talks about how rail trails came abo... In this edition of the Sea Change Radio series Back To The Future, Francesca Rheannon talks with historian Kerry Buckley about the heyday of the trolley system in Massachusetts; rail trail promoter Craig Della Penna talks about how rail trails came abo... Francesca Rheannon clean 29:29 http://www.cchange.net/2009/12/16/back-to-the-future-reduce-reuse-retrofit/ http://www.cchange.net/2009/12/16/back-to-the-future-reduce-reuse-retrofit/#comments Wed, 16 Dec 2009 21:03:39 +0000 Francesca Rheannon http://www.cchange.net/?p=2220 http://www.cchange.net/2009/12/16/back-to-the-future-reduce-reuse-retrofit/feed/ 2 back to the future,carbon emissions,carbon footprint,mass humanities,northeast sustainable energy association,retrofits,zero net energy Welcome to the third episode in our Sea Change series, Back to the Future.  Green architect Betsy Pettit talks about retrofits and what older building methods can teach us about saving energy. And John Grossman of ReStore tells us about re-using salvag... (http://www.cchange.net/wp-content/uploads/2009/12/BetsyPettit-150x150.jpg) Welcome to the third episode in our Sea Change series, Back to the Future.  Green architect Betsy Pettit (http://www.buildingscienceconsulting.com/who/member.aspx?TeamID=3) talks about retrofits and what older building methods can teach us about saving energy. And John Grossman of ReStore (http://www.restoreonline.org/ ) tells us about re-using salvaged building materials. Each month, our six-part series looks at what we can learn from the past, when we used far less fossil fuels than we do today. We explore practices we can adapt as we move toward a lower carbon future. Last month, we looked at the revival of a locally based food system in western Massachusetts. This month we look at using old style Yankee frugality in building homes -- and adapting existing houses -- to save energy and reduce our carbon footprint. (http://www.cchange.net/wp-content/uploads/2009/12/BetsyPettitRetrofit-150x150.jpg)(http://www.cchange.net/wp-content/uploads/2009/12/BetsyPettitRetrofit2-150x150.jpg)In the U.S., buildings are responsible for between 48 and 80 percent of all carbon emissions (http://architecture2030.org/current_situation/building_sector.html), depending on what you include in the numbers. Single-family homes account for a significant portion today -- but they used to use a lot less energy. Green architect Betsy Pettit says homes built in the early years of the last century can teach us a lot about using less energy for cooling and lighting -- and even heating. She retrofitted her circa 1916 Sears Kit house (http://www.buildingscience.com/documents/case-studies/cs-0016-concord-four-square-retrofit/?searchterm=retrofit) to make its carbon footprint tiny -- nearly zero net energy (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zero-energy_building). Pettit plies her trade with Building Science Corporation (http://www.buildingscience.com/) in Boston. She'll be chairing this year's Building Energy Conference (http://www.nesea.org/buildingenergy/) put on by the NorthEast Sustainable Energy Association, or NESEA (http://www.nesea.org/). The ReStore in Springfield was founded eight years ago by the Center for Ecological Technology (http://www.cetonline.org/) in Northampton, MA.. It takes salvaged materials and surplus stock from the building industry and sells them to the public at low prices, thereby keeping good used stuff out of landfills. The ReStore crew will take a house apart, piece by piece, including one from the 1700s, that used to sit in Rutland, Massachusetts. (http://www.cchange.net/wp-content/uploads/2009/12/ReStoreMerch-150x150.jpg)When you go to the ReStore, you'll find everything from claw foot tubs to spas, doors, windows, heaps of old lumber, radiators of various vintages, tub surrounds and marble countertops outside. Inside, you can find entire kitchen cabinet sets, including a cherry one on the day Sea Change host Francesca Rheannon (http://www.cchange.net/about/francesca-rheannon/) visited that looked like it had been pulled from a 1940s mansion. There are lamps hanging from every inch of ceiling space, and everything else for the home from drawer pulls to wiring.  Manager John Grossman took Sea Change on a tour. Francesca Rheannon clean 29:30 http://www.cchange.net/2009/11/18/back-to-the-future-to-market-to-market/ http://www.cchange.net/2009/11/18/back-to-the-future-to-market-to-market/#comments Wed, 18 Nov 2009 22:55:44 +0000 Francesca Rheannon http://www.cchange.net/?p=2123 http://www.cchange.net/2009/11/18/back-to-the-future-to-market-to-market/feed/ 0 amherst farmers market,back to the future,CISA,delta organic farm,farmers markets,historian,local economy,MA Humanities,margaret christie,mass humanities,organic farm,rural capitalism The second episode of our Back To The Future series looks at the revival of a locally based food system in western Massachusetts. We talk with Margaret Christie of CISA (Community In Support of Agriculture), The second episode of our Back To The Future (http://www.cchange.net/mass-humanities/) series looks at the revival of a locally based food system in western Massachusetts. We talk with Margaret Christie of CISA (http://www.buylocalfood.org/) (Community... 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