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/2011/09/27/remembering-wangari-maathai-1940-2011/ http://www.cchange.net/2011/09/27/remembering-wangari-maathai-1940-2011/#comments Tue, 27 Sep 2011 17:02:49 +0000 Alex Wise http://www.cchange.net/?p=3796 http://www.cchange.net/2011/09/27/remembering-wangari-maathai-1940-2011/feed/ 1 african woman,Al Gore,Bill Baue,desmond tutu,francesca rheannon,green belt movement,kenyan environmentalist,nobel peace prize,peace activist,sea change radio,wangari maathai This week on Sea Change Radio, we remember the spirit of Nobel Peace Laureate, Wangari Maathai, the founder of The Green Belt Movement, who died this week a the age of 71. Listen to this exclusive interview from 2009 with Sea Change Radio founders Bill... (http://www.cchange.net/wp-content/uploads/2009/04/wangarimaathai-150x150.jpg)"It's the little things citizens do. That's what will make the difference. My little thing is planting trees." -Wangari Maathai (http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/authors/w/wangari_maathai.html) Wangari Maathai (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wangari_Maathai), the Kenyan environmentalist and peace activist who was the first African woman to receive the Nobel Peace Prize, died this week from cancer at the age of 71. Maathai was best known as the founder of The Green Belt Movement (http://www.greenbeltmovement.org), a group she started in 1977 that encouraged poor women to collect native tree seeds in the wild in order to ensure they had access to sustainable firewood for cooking and potable water. Eulogies came pouring in from around the globe upon news of her passing. Fellow Nobel Prize laureate Desmond Tutu described (http://articles.cnn.com/2011-09-26/africa/world_africa_wangari-maathai-tribute_1_kenya-green-belt-movement-professor-maathai?_s=PM:AFRICA) her as a "visionary African woman" and Al Gore said (http://articles.cnn.com/2011-09-26/africa/world_africa_wangari-maathai-tribute_1_kenya-green-belt-movement-professor-maathai?_s=PM:AFRICA) that Maathai "overcame incredible obstacles to devote her life to service - service to her children, to her constituents, to the women, and indeed all the people of Kenya - and to the world as a whole.” Sea Change Radio co-founders Bill Baue (http://www.cchange.net/about/bill-baue/) and Francesca Rheannon (http://www.cchange.net/about/francesca-rheannon/) sat down with Maathai in the spring of 2009. This week, we remember the spirit of Wangari Maathai by bringing that conversation to you in its entirety.   Alex Wise clean http://www.cchange.net/2009/04/15/wangari-maathai-peace-and-environmental-justice-taking-root/ http://www.cchange.net/2009/04/15/wangari-maathai-peace-and-environmental-justice-taking-root/#comments Wed, 15 Apr 2009 18:31:09 +0000 Bill Baue http://www.cchange.net/?p=779 http://www.cchange.net/2009/04/15/wangari-maathai-peace-and-environmental-justice-taking-root/feed/ 1 Alan Dater,Alternative Economic Models,Climate Change,Community Economic Engagement,Green Jobs,Green Living,lisa merton,Local Living Economies,marlboro college graduate school,nobel peace prize,Renewable Energy,Social Entrepreneurs Francesca Rheannon and Bill Baue of Sea Change host an intimate chat with Nobel Laureate Wangari Maathai about the links between environmental justice, women's empowerment, democratic governance, and sustainability at the Marlboro College Graduate Scho... (http://www.cchange.net/wp-content/uploads/2009/04/lisamertonalandater-150x133.jpg) (http://www.cchange.net/wp-content/uploads/2009/04/wangarimaathaifrancescabill21-150x130.jpg)Francesca Rheannon and Bill Baue of Sea Change host an intimate chat with Nobel Laureate Wangari Maathai (http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/peace/laureates/2004/press.html) about the links between environmental justice, women's empowerment, democratic governance, and sustainability at the Marlboro College Graduate School (http://gradcenter.marlboro.edu/), where Baue teaches.  Maathai is touring (http://www.greenbeltmovement.org/events.php) the US promoting her new book, (http://www.amazon.com/Challenge-Africa-Wangari-Maathai/dp/0307377407), as well as the documentary, TAKING ROOT: The Vision of Wangari Maathai (http://takingrootfilm.com/index.htm).  In the second half of the show, Rheannon and Baue speak with the filmmakers, Alan Dater and Lisa Merton (http://takingrootfilm.com/production-team.htm) of Marlboro Productions (http://www.marlboroproductions.com/index.html). In her native Kenya, Wangari Maathai saw that deforestation was devastating the environment. Good arable land was eroding, streams were getting polluted or drying up and the women had to go further to find ever-scarcer firewood. So in 1977, she founded the grassroots Green Belt Movement (http://greenbeltmovement.org/index.php). Over the past 32 years, it's planted 35 million trees, bringing back whole ecosystems with it and revitalizing villages. The program has been carried out mainly by women in those villages. By hiring them to plant the trees, it gave them the means to care for their children and protect their environment. The corrupt regime of Daniel Arap Moi sought to stop her, arresting her numerous times and even jailing her. In 1991 she was beaten while planting trees on public lands and suffered a head injury. But she fought on and earned world acclaim for her actions and her courage. In 2004 Maathai became the first African woman to receive the Nobel Peace Prize for “her contribution to sustainable development, democracy and peace.” She's in the US to promote her new book, CHALLENGE FOR AFRICA and a new film about her, TAKING ROOT, which aired recently on the PBS program, Independent Lens (http://www.pbs.org/independentlens/takingroot/index.html). Taking a break from her tour of major cities, Wangari Maathai visited the filmmakers near their home in Vermont for a public talk.  Sea Change Co-Hosts Francesca Rheannon and Bill Baue  sat down for an intimate chat with Wangari Maathai at the Marlboro College Graduate School, where Baue teaches. The story of Wangari Maathai, and the Green Belt Movement, is captured vividly in the documentary, TAKING ROOT.  The film won a bunch of awards in 2008.  Rheannon and Baue spoke with filmmakers Alan Dater and Lisa Merton of Marlboro Productions from their home studios.  The interview started with the question, what inspired them to tell the story of Wangari Maathai's vision in film? Bill Baue clean http://www.cchange.net/2007/10/17/george-monbiot-heats-up-call-for-solving-climate-crisis/ http://www.cchange.net/2007/10/17/george-monbiot-heats-up-call-for-solving-climate-crisis/#comments Wed, 17 Oct 2007 18:11:00 +0000 Bill Baue http://www.cchange.net/2007/10/17/george-monbiot-heats-up-call-for-solving-climate-crisis/ http://www.cchange.net/2007/10/17/george-monbiot-heats-up-call-for-solving-climate-crisis/feed/ 0 Al Gore,Climate Change,george monbiot,global commons institute,nobel peace prize In part one 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. Monbiot applauds the acknowledgment of the climate crisis ... (http://www.cchange.net/wp-content/uploads/2007/10/George-Monbiot-150x150.jpg)In part one 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. Monbiot applauds the acknowledgment of the climate crisis in awarding of the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize, but criticizes recipient Al Gore for undermining the Kyoto Protocol when he was in office. He also presents the case for carbon rationing under the "Contraction and Convergence" framework. He emphasizes the necessary role of government regulation in solving the climate crisis, and discusses the paradoxes of how "regulation enhances the sum of human freedom" and how our carbon-intensive lifestyles create a "fantasy of freedom." Heat: How to Stop the Planet from Burning Monbiot.com (http://www.monbiot.com/) Global Commons Institute: Contraction and Convergence (http://www.gci.org.uk/contconv/cc.html) SocialFunds article citing Heat: Emissions Trading Commodifies Carbon, But Does It Really Help Solve Climate Change? Bill Baue clean 28:00