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/2009/11/04/350-a-number-to-save-us-from-climate-chaos/ http://www.cchange.net/2009/11/04/350-a-number-to-save-us-from-climate-chaos/#comments Wed, 04 Nov 2009 23:08:02 +0000 Bill Baue http://www.cchange.net/?p=2075 http://www.cchange.net/2009/11/04/350-a-number-to-save-us-from-climate-chaos/feed/ 0 350.org,Bill McKibben,Climate Action,Climate Change,global warming,paul hawken Sea Change Climate Correspondent Cimbria Badenhausen covers the International Day of Climate Action by talking beforehand with 350.org Director Bill McKibben.  The Bioneers by the Bay Conference celebrated Climate Action Day with a 350 event MC’ed by r... (http://www.cchange.net/wp-content/uploads/2009/11/350-Copenhagen-150x150.jpg)(http://www.cchange.net/wp-content/uploads/2009/11/350-GreatBarrierReef-150x150.jpg) Sea Change Climate Correspondent Cimbria Badenhausen (http://www.cchange.net/about/cimbria-badenhausen/) covers the International Day of Climate Action (http://www.350.org/350-action-gallery) by talking beforehand with 350.org (http://www.350.org/) Director Bill McKibben (http://www.billmckibben.com/).  The Bioneers by the Bay Conference (http://www.connectingforchange.org/) celebrated Climate Action Day with a 350 event MC’ed by rapper Tem Blessed (http://www.temblessed.com/), featuring talks by Callum Grieve (http://www.theclimategroup.org/about/our_people/callum_grieve) of the Climate Group (http://www.theclimategroup.org/) and Marty Driggs, a member of the Youth Initiative Planning Committee (http://www.connectingforchange.org/youth-planning.html) for the Bioneers by the Bay Conference.  Also at Bioneers, Cimbria caught up with sustainability guru Paul Hawken (http://www.paulhawken.com/paulhawken_frameset.html), who told Cimbria of the Arctic trip that Scandinavian royalty invited him to attend, to witness and study the impacts of climate change.  And finally, ZipCar (http://www.zipcar.com/) Founder Robin Chase (http://www.time.com/time/specials/packages/article/0,28804,1894410_1893837_1894186,00.html) describes the controversial "Supermodels Strip for Climate Action (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kdz555JBIwY&feature=player_embedded)" video her daughter conceived and produced. "The longer I've spent working on global warming -- the greatest challenge humans have ever faced -- the more I've come to see it as essentially a literary problem.  A technological and scientific challenge, yes; an economic quandry, yes; a political dilemma, surely.  But centrally?  A crisis in metaphor, in analogy, in understanding."  So wrote Bill McKibben in the August 2008 edition of Orion Magazine (http://www.orionmagazine.org/) in an essay entitled, "When Words Fail (http://www.orionmagazine.org/index.php/articles/article/3059/)."  And, indeed, words do fail to capture the enormity of this slow-creeping, almost invisible crisis, McKibben discovered.  "Boiling point?" Nope.  "Climate chaos?"  Uh uh. (http://www.cchange.net/wp-content/uploads/2009/11/JamesHansen-150x150.jpg)It was James Hansen (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Hansen), who McKibben calls "our greatest climatologist," who solved the literary problem -- with a number.  In December 2007, he presented a paper at the American Geophysical Union in San Francisco that "named a number," McKibben says.  350, to be precise -- parts per million carbon in the atmosphere, that is.  "That, [Hansen] said, was the absolute upper bound of anything like safety -- above it and the planet would be unraveling.  Is unraveling, because we're already at 385 parts per million," McKibben wrote over a year ago. A number!  It translates into all tongues.  And, it gave birth to the organization McKibben now heads: 350.org, whose mission is to "tattoo that number into every human brain."  And that's exactly what we all did on October 24, the International Day of Climate Action, which featured over 52 hundred [5,200] grassroots events in 181 countries to become the "most widespread day of political action in the planet's history, " according to CNN. (http://www.cchange.net/wp-content/uploads/2009/09/BillMcKibben-150x150.jpg)The week before the big event, Sea Change Correspondent Cimbria Badenhausen caught up with Bill McKibben at the Relocalize Massachusetts (http://www.relocalizemassachusetts.org/) Conference in Roxbury. (http://www.cchange.net/wp-content/uploads/2009/11/TemBlessed.jpg)On the International Day of Climate Action, Cimbria attended the Bioneers by the Bay Conference in New Bedford, Massachusetts, which hosted its own 350 event, hosted by rapper Tem Blessed.  After working up the crowd, Bill Baue clean 29:30 http://www.cchange.net/2009/09/30/how-everyday-folks-world-wide-view-climate-change/ http://www.cchange.net/2009/09/30/how-everyday-folks-world-wide-view-climate-change/#comments Thu, 01 Oct 2009 04:58:21 +0000 Bill Baue http://www.cchange.net/?p=2004 http://www.cchange.net/2009/09/30/how-everyday-folks-world-wide-view-climate-change/feed/ 0 Bill McKibben,Climate Change,COP15,kyoto protocol,World Wide Views on Global Warming Following up on our coverage of World Wide Views on Global Warming in April, Sea Change returns to this event that gathered citizen opinions on climate change in more than 40 meetings around the world that just happened. (http://www.cchange.net/wp-content/uploads/2009/09/WWV-Boston-150x150.jpg) (http://www.cchange.net/wp-content/uploads/2009/09/CimbriaBadenhausen-150x150.jpg)Following up on our coverage (http://www.cchange.net/2009/04/08/closing-the-climate-feedback-loop-with-everyday-citizen-opinions/) of World Wide Views on Global Warming (http://www.wwviews.org/) in April, Sea Change returns to this event that gathered citizen opinions on climate change in more than 40 meetings around the world that just happened.  Sea Change Correspondent Cimbria Badenhausen (http://www.cchange.net/about/cimbria-badenhausen/) attended the meeting at the Museum of Science in Boston.  She and Co-Host Bill Baue (http://www.cchange.net/about/bill-baue/) also spoke with WWViews representatives worldwide, both before and after the event. (http://www.cchange.net/wp-content/uploads/2009/09/cop15_logo_img.gif)Global governance, participatory democracy, and citizen activism on climate change all took a giant step forward on Saturday, September 26, 2009.  That's when over 4,400 ordinary people gathered at 44 citizen consultation meetings in 38 countries around the globe to brainstorm solutions to the climate crisis as part of World Wide Views on Global Warming.  The results (http://results.wwviews.org/new2/?cid=blank&gid=1631&ccid=blank&cgid=blank&question=blank&rec=0) of these deliberations will be delivered to national policymakers when they gather in Copenhagen for the 15th Conference of Parties, or COP15 (http://en.cop15.dk/).  That's where the climate treaty to replace the Kyoto Protocol (http://unfccc.int/kyoto_protocol/items/2830.php) will be negotiated. (http://www.cchange.net/wp-content/uploads/2009/09/BillMcKibben-150x150.jpg)Correspondent Cimbria Badenhausen will be there to cover COP15 for Sea Change Radio (click here (http://www.cchange.net/2009/09/23/support-sea-change-radio-to-cover-cop15/) to give tax-deductible donations to support Sea Change's coverage of COP15.)  To prepare, she attended the World Wide Views meeting in Boston.  But before, she got a chance to speak with Bill McKibben (http://www.billmckibben.com/), author of the first major book (http://www.billmckibben.com/end-of-nature.html) on global warming in the late 1980s.  McKibben serves as a World Wide Views Ambassador (http://www.wwviews.org/node/162).  He also directs 350.org (http://www.350.org/), a global climate advocacy group named after the safe threshold of carbon concentration in the atmosphere (http://www.350.org/understanding-350), which we've already surpassed.  He's helping organize a day of climate action (http://www.350.org/actions) on October 24. (http://www.cchange.net/wp-content/uploads/2009/04/larskluver-150x150.jpg)Next, Cimbria spoke with Lars Kluver (http://www.tekno.dk/subpage.php3?page=sekretariatet/person.php3&toppic=om_os&id=1&language=dk), director of the Danish Board of Technology (http://www.tekno.dk/subpage.php3?page=forside.php3&language=uk) in Copenhagen and of World Wide Views, about the design behind the meetings. (http://www.cchange.net/wp-content/uploads/2009/09/Chandra-Shekhar.jpg)In advance of the meetings, Cimbria spoke by skype with Chandra Shekhar Balachandran (http://www.climatechallengeindia.org/component/option,com_idoblog/tagid,26/task,viewtag/) of the Centre for Social Markets (http://www.csmworld.org/) in Bangalore.   There, he managed one (http://results.wwviews.org/new2/?cid=1273&gid=blank&ccid=blank&cgid=blank&question=blank&rec=0) of the two (http://results.wwviews.org/new2/?cid=1590&gid=blank&ccid=blank&cgid=blank&question=blank&rec=0) World Wide Views meetings happening in India (the other (http://results.wwviews.org/new2/?cid=1272&gid=blank&ccid=blank&cgid=blank&question=blank&rec=0) happened in Delhi.) (http://www.cchange.net/wp-content/uploads/2009/09/MohamedNada-150x150.jpg)After the meetings, Cimbria and Bill spoke with Mohamed Nada of CARE Egypt (http://www.care.org.eg/), Bill Baue clean 29:43 http://www.cchange.net/2009/03/04/news-analysis-protesting-coal/ http://www.cchange.net/2009/03/04/news-analysis-protesting-coal/#comments Wed, 04 Mar 2009 21:21:58 +0000 Bill Baue http://www.cchange.net/?p=623 http://www.cchange.net/2009/03/04/news-analysis-protesting-coal/feed/ 0 Bill McKibben,Clean Tech,Climate Change,Glen Ayers,global warming,Green Jobs,Renewable Energy,sustainability institute,Sustainable Innovation,Tina Clarke Peaceful protesters gathered at the Mount Tom Power Plant in Holyoke, Massachusetts, on March 1, a chilly Sunday. They were demonstrating against coal, the fossil fuel that spews global warming carbon dioxide and toxins such as mercury into the air. (http://www.cchange.net/wp-content/uploads/2009/03/mttompowerplant.gif)Peaceful protesters gathered at the Mount Tom Power Plant (http://www.firstlightpower.com/generation/mttom.asp) in Holyoke, Massachusetts, on March 1, a chilly Sunday. They were demonstrating against coal (http://petervickery.blogspot.com/2009/03/mount-tom-demo.html), the fossil fuel that spews global warming carbon dioxide and toxins such as mercury into the air.  They were piggy-backing on the Capitol Climate Action (http://www.capitolclimateaction.com/) coal protests happening the next day in Washington, DC.  Sea Change Radio spoke last week (http://www.cchange.net/2009/02/25/bill-mckibben-urges-civil-disobedience-against-coal/) with that event's organizer Bill McKibben (http://www.billmckibben.com/).  Co-Host Francesca Rheannon covered the Mount Tom protest for Sea Change.  There, she spoke with Glen Ayers, a public health agent and soil scientist.  She also caught up with Tina Clarke, who works with the Sustainability Institute (http://sustainer.org/) in Vermont. Bill Baue clean http://www.cchange.net/2009/02/25/bill-mckibben-urges-civil-disobedience-against-coal/ http://www.cchange.net/2009/02/25/bill-mckibben-urges-civil-disobedience-against-coal/#comments Wed, 25 Feb 2009 21:00:56 +0000 Bill Baue http://www.cchange.net/?p=597 http://www.cchange.net/2009/02/25/bill-mckibben-urges-civil-disobedience-against-coal/feed/ 3 Al Gore,Bill McKibben,Clean Tech,Climate Change,clinton global initiative,Gandhi,jim hansen,MLK,peaceful protesters,Renewable Energy,ruckus society,Sustainable Innovation 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, (http://www.cchange.net/wp-content/uploads/2009/02/billmckibben-150x150.jpg) Sea Change Radio speaks with Bill McKibben (http://www.billmckibben.com/) about the Capitol Climate Action (http://www.capitolclimateaction.com/) protest against coal in Washington, DC.  And Caroline Rees (http://www.hks.harvard.edu/about/faculty-staff-directory/caroline-rees) of the Harvard team behind UN Special Representative on Business and Human Rights John Ruggie (http://www.business-humanrights.org/Gettingstarted/UNSpecialRepresentative) talks about BASESwiki (http://www.baseswiki.org/En), a new wiki to help human rights abuse victims resolve grievances with companies -- outside the courtroom.  The Sea Change ViewPoint comes from Arvind Ganesan (http://www.hrw.org/en/bios/arvind-ganesan) of Human Rights Watch (http://www.hrw.org/) on the Employee Free Choice Act (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Employee_Free_Choice_Act). Civil disobedience (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Civil_disobedience) -- the term conjures historic figures, from Thoreau to Gandhi to MLK, who all believed in trespassing against civil law in the name of higher laws.  As the climate crisis heats up, the laws of nature are trumpeting calls to action.  The target?  Coal, a leading source of global warming, according to the EPA (http://www.thisisreality.org/). On Monday, March 2, peaceful protesters are gathering to enact civil disobedience against coal power in Washington, DC.  The site?  The Capitol Power Plant (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capitol_Power_Plant), the coal-fired facility that provides electricity to Congress.  Al Gore first floated the notion of protesting coal at the September 2008 Clinton Global Initiative (http://www.clintonglobalinitiative.org/NETCOMMUNITY/Page.aspx?pid=2953&srcid=2827 ). Environmentalist authors Bill McKibben and Wendell Berry took up the cause in a December 2008 open letter (http://gristmill.grist.org/story/2008/12/10/104251/55) announcing their plans to conduct civil disobedience.  Climate scientist Jim Hansen is urging participation (http://www.capitolclimateaction.com/?page_id=91), and NGOs such as Rainforest Action Network, Greenpeace, and the Ruckus Society are handling logistics.  A week before, Sea Change Co-Host Bill Baue spoke with Bill McKibben, director of the climate activist organization 350.org (http://www.350.org/), about the Capitol Climate Action. Bill Baue clean http://www.cchange.net/2008/12/31/the-best-moments-of-corporate-watchdog-radio/ http://www.cchange.net/2008/12/31/the-best-moments-of-corporate-watchdog-radio/#comments Wed, 31 Dec 2008 22:52:00 +0000 Bill Baue http://www.cchange.net/2008/12/31/the-best-moments-of-corporate-watchdog-radio/ http://www.cchange.net/2008/12/31/the-best-moments-of-corporate-watchdog-radio/feed/ 0 Barney Frank,Bill McKibben,blessed unrest,Climate Change,corporate watchdog,frances moore lappe,george monbiot,paul hawken,troubled asset relief program On this, the last-ever episode of Corporate Watchdog Radio, we take a stroll down memory lane to revisit the best moments in CWR's history. The exchanges that had us on the edge of our seats, straining into our headphones to hear every syllable. (http://www.cchange.net/wp-content/uploads/cwr-images-archive/cwrlogo.jpg) On this, the last-ever episode of Corporate Watchdog Radio, we take a stroll down memory lane to revisit the best moments in CWR's history. The exchanges that had us on the edge of our seats, straining into our headphones to hear every syllable. We hear from a crotchety Barney Frank, a reflective Frances Moore Lappe, a tentative but ultimately optimistic Bill McKibben, a hopeful George Monbiot, and an eloquent Paul Hawken. Starting in 2009, CWR is changing its name to Sea Change Radio to cover the shift to social, environmental, and economic sustainability. (http://www.house.gov/frank/barney.jpg) CWR September 23, 20008 -- Barney Frank on the TARP: Troubled Asset Relief Program (http://corporatewatchdogmedia.blogspot.com/2008/09/barney-frank-on-tarp-troubled-asset.html) (http://www.gettingagrip.net/wp-content/uploads/2007/10/fml-northampton-1.jpg) CWR January 21, 2008 -- Getting a Grip! with Frances Moore Lappe (http://corporatewatchdogmedia.blogspot.com/2008/01/getting-grip-with-frances-moore-lappe.html) (http://www.billmckibben.com/images/bill_mckibben.jpg) CWR May 16, 2007 -- Bill McKibben Debunks Myths that More is Always Better and Economic Growth is Always Good (http://corporatewatchdogmedia.blogspot.com/2007/05/bill-mckibben-debunks-myths-that-more.html) (http://newsimg.bbc.co.uk/media/images/42977000/jpg/_42977561_monbiot.jpg) CWR October 31, 2007 -- George Monbiot Heats Up Call for Solving Climate Crisis (http://corporatewatchdogmedia.blogspot.com/search?q=monbiot) (http://www.paulhawken.com/images/paulhawken_frontpage_140.jpg) CWR September 5, 2007 -- Paul Hawken's Blessed Unrest (http://corporatewatchdogmedia.blogspot.com/search?q=hawken) (http://www.cchange.net/wp-content/uploads/cwr-images-archive/sea_change.tif) And remember to check out Sea Change Radio (http://www.cchange.net). Bill Baue clean 28:25 http://www.cchange.net/2007/05/16/bill-mckibben-debunks-myths-that-more-is-always-better-and-economic-growth-is-always-good/ http://www.cchange.net/2007/05/16/bill-mckibben-debunks-myths-that-more-is-always-better-and-economic-growth-is-always-good/#comments Wed, 16 May 2007 14:59:00 +0000 Bill Baue http://www.cchange.net/2007/05/16/bill-mckibben-debunks-myths-that-more-is-always-better-and-economic-growth-is-always-good/ http://www.cchange.net/2007/05/16/bill-mckibben-debunks-myths-that-more-is-always-better-and-economic-growth-is-always-good/feed/ 0 Bill McKibben,Climate Change,community radio,peak oil Bill McKibben speaks about his new book, Deep Economy: The Wealth of Communities and the Durable Future. He discusses localism as an answer to the problems created by globalism. In other words, the "durable" economies of farmers markets, (http://www.cchange.net/wp-content/uploads/2009/02/billmckibben-150x150.jpg)Bill McKibben speaks about his new book, Deep Economy: The Wealth of Communities and the Durable Future. He discusses localism as an answer to the problems created by globalism. In other words, the "durable" economies of farmers markets, distributed energy, and community radio to replace the unsustainable premise of perpetual growth that capitalism promises, but has led to climate change and peak oil. Co-hosting the interview is Francesca Rheannon of Writer's Voice. SocialFunds.com Book Review: Deep Economy: The Wealth Of Communities And The Durable Future (http://www.socialfunds.com/news/article.cgi/2286.html) Bill McKibben.com (http://www.billmckibben.com/) Writer's Voice with Francesca Rheannon (http://www.writersvoice.net/) Bill Baue clean 28:00