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/2009/01/07/the-transition-to-sustainability/ http://www.cchange.net/2009/01/07/the-transition-to-sustainability/#comments Wed, 07 Jan 2009 22:06:16 +0000 Bill Baue http://www.cchange.net/?p=287 http://www.cchange.net/2009/01/07/the-transition-to-sustainability/feed/ 0 Charlie Cray,Clean Tech,Climate Change,climate policy,EPA,Green Jobs,hunter lovins,Obama,paul hawken,Renewable Energy,sustainability movement,Sustainable Business Today we talk with Hunter Lovins, founder of Natural Capitalism Solutions, about the Presidential Climate Action Project.  The Sea Change ViewPoint comes from Charlie Cray of the Center for Corporate Policy. - For many people, Today we talk with Hunter Lovins, founder of Natural Capitalism Solutions, about the Presidential Climate Action Project.  The Sea Change ViewPoint comes from Charlie Cray of the Center for Corporate Policy. For many people, the election of Barack Obama as the US President stoked hope for big change.  The transition to the Obama Administration brings promise of shifts to government regulations and policies to promote sustainability.  Long before the election, though, a group of influential sustainability leaders gathered to brainstorm recommendations to the incoming President on tackling climate change.  The Presidential Climate Action Project was born, midwived by the University of Colorado School of Public Affairs in Denver.  The P-CAP Advisory Committee hashed out a plan with over a hundred recommendations for the incoming President on climate policy. (http://www.cchange.net/wp-content/uploads/2009/01/new_pcap_cover.jpg)Advisory Committee member Hunter Lovins also authored a separate report for P-CAP to map a broader survey of the current sustainability landscape.  Lovins helped pioneer the sustainability movement by co-founding Rocky Mountain Institute in the 80s with Amory Lovins. They also co-authored Natural Capitalism in the late 90s Paul Hawken.  Earlier this decade, she founded Natural Capitalism Solutions.  We caught up with Lovins between commitments in California, where she teaches at the Presidio School of Management.  It's one of a handful of new MBA programs with sustainability embedded in its DNA. The Economic Case for Climate Action (http://www.natcapsolutions.org/publications_files/PCAP/PCAP_EonomicCaseForClimateProtection_04xii07.pdf) by Hunter Lovins Natural Capitalism Solutions (http://www.natcapsolutions.org/) 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/2007/09/05/paul-hawkens-blessed-unrest-part-two/ http://www.cchange.net/2007/09/05/paul-hawkens-blessed-unrest-part-two/#comments Wed, 05 Sep 2007 19:25:00 +0000 Bill Baue http://www.cchange.net/2007/09/05/paul-hawkens-blessed-unrest-part-two/ http://www.cchange.net/2007/09/05/paul-hawkens-blessed-unrest-part-two/feed/ 0 blessed unrest,Climate Change,open source,paul hawken,Sustainable Business Co-hosts Bill Baue and Francesca Rheannon continue their conversation with Paul Hawken about his new book, Blessed Unrest: How the Largest Movement in the World Came into Being and Why No One Saw It Coming. (http://www.cchange.net/wp-content/uploads/2007/08/paul_hawken-150x150.jpg)Co-hosts Bill Baue and Francesca Rheannon continue their conversation with Paul Hawken about his new book, Blessed Unrest: How the Largest Movement in the World Came into Being and Why No One Saw It Coming. The conversation in this second show looks at the difference between finite games (such as climate change) and infinite games (such as sustainability), as well as looking at the open source websites Hawken has set up to profile organizations participating in the Blessed Unrest movement--WiserEarth.org and WiserBusiness.org. PaulHawken.com (http://www.paulhawken.com/paulhawken_frameset.html) Blessed Unrest (http://www.blessedunrest.com/) WiserEarth.org (http://www.wiserearth.org/) Bill Baue clean 25:51 http://www.cchange.net/2007/08/29/paul-hawkens-blessed-unrest/ http://www.cchange.net/2007/08/29/paul-hawkens-blessed-unrest/#comments Wed, 29 Aug 2007 17:05:00 +0000 Bill Baue http://www.cchange.net/2007/08/29/paul-hawkens-blessed-unrest/ http://www.cchange.net/2007/08/29/paul-hawkens-blessed-unrest/feed/ 0 blessed unrest,paul hawken Bill Baue and Francesca Rheannon speak with Paul Hawken about his new book, Blessed Unrest: How the Largest Movement in the World Came into Being and Why No One Saw It Coming. Our conversation was so fascinating that we are presenting it in two shows. (http://www.cchange.net/wp-content/uploads/2007/08/paul_hawken-150x150.jpg)Bill Baue and Francesca Rheannon speak with Paul Hawken about his new book, Blessed Unrest: How the Largest Movement in the World Came into Being and Why No One Saw It Coming. Our conversation was so fascinating that we are presenting it in two shows. The first show focuses on defining the Blessed Unrest movement that brings together environmentalists, social justice activists, and indigenous people's advocates, and on describing the metaphor of how this system works like the planet's immune system. PaulHawken.com (http://www.paulhawken.com/paulhawken_frameset.html) Blessed Unrest (http://www.blessedunrest.com/) Bill Baue clean 26:57