Tag Archive: climate change

Q&A – DANNY KENNEDY, ROOFTOP REVOLUTION: How Solar Power Can Save Our Economy and the Planet from Dirty Energy

    Aired: 05/12/13 Is there a revolution coming to your rooftop? While opponents claim solar is expensive, inefficient, and unreliable, in his book ROOFTOP REVOLUTION: How Solar Power Can Save Our Economy And Our Planet From Dirty Energy, DANNY KENNEDY makes clear solar can save money, create jobs, and protect the environment if only…

Q&A: LESTER BROWN – FULL PLANET, EMPTY PLATES

  Aired: 12/23/12 Recorded: 10/17/12 When gas prices were at or near record highs a few months ago in the US, that got people’s attention. What about food prices? Have you noticed them rising? Are you making different choices in the supermarket? If not, it might be because of two things. One, in America so…

Q&A: PAUL GILDING – Author, THE GREAT DISRUPTION

  Aired 06/10/12 PAUL GILDING says it’s time to stop worrying about climate change. We need instead to brace for impact because global crisis is no longer avoidable. He believes this Great Disruption started in 2008, with spiking food and oil prices and melting ice caps. It is not simply about fossil fuels and carbon footprints….

Q&A: Chris Mooney – The Republican Brain

    Aired 05/16/12 Crazy though it may be, I assume many have accepted the fact that the Republican party has a problem with science and ultimately with evidence facts — reality. It is now a matter of politics for them to deny science. Among their presidential primary candidates, only Jon Huntsman and Mitt Romney…

Q&A: RICHARD HEINBERG, author, THE END OF GROWTH: Adapting to Our New Economic Reality

  Aired 12/11/11 Economists, politicians, and pundits insist recovery is at hand, yet unemployment remains high, real estate values continue to sink, and governments face record deficits. Today’s guest, RICHARD HEINBERG has a new book, The End of Growth, in which he proposes a startling diagnosis: humanity has reached a fundamental turning point in its…

Q&A: MARIA ARMOUDIAN, Journalist/Radio Host

Aired 08/08/11

KILL THE MESSENGER emerged from MARIA ARMOUDIAN’s studies into the causes of genocide, war, peacemaking, democratization, and the protection of human rights and the environment, while she was working on her Ph.D. at the University of So…

Q&A: Mark Hertsgaard, Author – HOT: Living Through the Next 50 Years on Earth.

Aired 01/23/11

MARK HERTSGAARD, a fellow of The Open Society Institute, The Nation’s environment correspondent, covers climate change for Vanity Fair, Time and Die Zeit and has written for many of the world’s leading newspapers and magazines. He is th…

Q&A: JOSEPH STIGLITZ – Nobel Peace Prize (Economics) & Author – Free Fall

Aired 03/07/10

JOSEPH STIGLITZ became a full professor at Yale in 1970 at the age of 27, and in 1979 was awarded the John Bates Clark Award, as the economist under 40 who had made the most significant contribution to the field. He has taught at Prince…

Q&A: MARK HERTSGAARD, Environment Correspondent & Author

Aired 12/20/09

A fellow of The Open Society Institute and The Nation’s environment correspondent, MARK HERTSGAARD also covers climate change for Vanity Fair, TIME and Die Zeit and has written for many of the world’s leading newspapers and magazines. H…

Q&A: STEWART BRAND, Author and Editor

Aired 11/08/09

STEWART BRAND’s Whole Earth Catalog introduced millions to new ways of thinking and doing and probably contributed to the birth of environmentalism in the US. Confronting today’s challenges to global civilization in his new book, Brand …