Labor Day’s come and gone, and the leaves are starting to turn color here in New England, so we at Sea Change are highlighting some of our summer programming. We focused a lot on sustainable agriculture, economic alternatives, green jobs, and the climate crisis. Check out some of our summer shows below.
Articles Tagged ‘ greenhouse gas emissions ’
Forecasting Climate Change
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What does our future on this warming globe hold? We explore this question today with Stephan Faris, who talks about his new book, FORECAST: The Consequences of Climate Change
After Capitalism: PROUT as a Sustainable, Democratic Economic Model
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ViewPoint: Jim Motavalli on Cars and Carbon
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Jim Motavalli
Jim Motavalli blogs on green matters for The Daily Green and Mother Nature Network and he blogs about cars in the New York Times “Automobiles” section. He was also a long-time editor for E–the Environmental Magazine, where he continues as a contributing writer. Motavalli combines his passion for autos and environment in his book, FORWARD DRIVE: The Race To Build Clean Cars for the Future
Susan Aaronson on Trade for Human Rights
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Susan Ariel Aaronson
Trade Imbalance: The Struggle to Weigh Human Rights Concerns in Trade Policymaking
–Rockefeller family members join fight to move ExxonMobil beyond petroleum
–Burger King Lets Tomato Pickers “Have it Their Way”
–US senate panel votes to give California the go-ahead to regulate greenhouse gas emissions
CWR co-host Francesca Rheannon speaks with Bay Area Air Quality Management District Board Chair Jerry Hill about its recent precedent-setting implementation of a fee on carbon emissions by companies in 9 counties in the San Francisco Bay Area of California. This development represents the first time that business carbon emissions have been officially regulated in the US, leapfrogging over federal and state regulations.
Planning for the Convergence of Peak Oil and Climate Change
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CWR co-hosts Francesca Rheannon and Bill Baue speak with Daniel Lerch, author of Post Carbon Cities: Planning for Energy and Climate Uncertainty and manager of the Post Carbon Cities project of the Post Carbon Institute. Lerch discusses the overlap as well as the distinctions between peak oil and climate change. He also responds to the question of how the policy void at the federal government level in the US is driving action at the municipal and state level to address climate change and peak oil.
The show also features CWR’s new headlines segment:
–Nanotech is Exposed in Grocery Store Aisles;
–The Vatican says greenhouse gas emissions and genetically modified organisms are “Modern Sins”;
–A new study says the Clean Energy Market will Hit $254 Billion by 2017.
Post Carbon Cities: Planning for Energy and Climate Uncertainty
CWR HEADLINES
March 11, 2008 Friends of the Earth news: “Nanotech Exposed in Grocery Store Aisles”
March 10, 2008 Reuters article: Vatican lists “new sins,” including pollution
March 11, 2008 GreenBiz headline: “Clean Energy Market to Hit $254 Billion by 2017, Says Study”
George Monbiot Heats Up Call for Solving Climate Crisis (Part 2)
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In part two of this two-part interview, British journalist George Monbiot discusses his new book, Heat: How to Stop the Planet from Burning, with CWR co-hosts Bill Baue and Francesca Rheannon. He touches on the irony that increased energy efficiency can lead to increased greenhouse gas emissions and the promise of high-voltage DC cables in transmitting renewable energy over long distances. We end the conversation discussing the paradox that love both creates climate change (in the form of what Monbiot calls “love miles” or the distance traveled and carbon emitted to visit loved ones) and holds the key to the solution, as compassion for humanity is the greatest catalyst for changing our carbon intensive systems.
Climate Counts Rates Company Carbon Emissions
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Co-host Francesca Rheannon talks with Wood Turner, project director of Climate Counts.org, a project of Stonyfield Farms that rates companies’ commitments and actions to reducing their greenhouse gas emissions.
