Latest Stories in Treehugger Radio - Page 2
-
Gernot Wagner on The Futility of Going Green and the Economics of What Really Matters (Podcast)
If bringing your canvas bags to the grocery store, carpooling, and forgoing double cheeseburgers makes you feel good about yourself, terrific. But don't expect the planet to notice. What the world needs, says Environmental Defense Fund economist Gernot
-
Zem Joaquin, Founder of Ecofabulous.com (Podcast)
Even if the label of "maven" is painfully over-applied, there are people who still deserve it. Zem Joaquin, the stylish polymath behind Ecofabulous.com, is one of those few. Zem has been on the editorial side of mags like House and Garden, Domino, and
-
Rebecca Tarbotton on Pressuring and Inspiring the Opposition (Podcast)
The Rainforest Action Network tackles a whole lot more than rainforests, and Executive Director Rebecca Tarbotton is leading her organization to the front in a slew of fights. Her preferred tactic: "equal parts pressure and inspiration." To sway the
-
Dr. Michel Gelobter on Nukes, Republicans, Tech, and the Future of Energy (Podcast)
After seven years in government, seven years in non-profits, and seven years in business, Michel Gelobter jokes that he's headed for the clergy next. And why not? He's led Redefining Progress, been a professor at Rutgers, and run environmental quality
-
Bill McKibben Versus The Terrifying Tar Sands (Podcast)
When renowned NASA climatologist James Hansen came on the podcast recently, he said some chilling words: if we burn the oil in the Canadian tar sands "it's essentially game over for the climate." The murky oil sands of Canada are the largest known
-
Allison Arieff on Prefab, Going Local, and Why the Suburbs Aren't So Bad (Podcast)
One can't spend years as the editor in chief of Dwell magazine and not be something of a sage on sustainable design. What's more, Allison Arieff literally wrote the book on prefab architecture and now shares her explorations in the pages of the New York
-
Lawrence Bender, Producer of An Inconvenient Truth (Podcast)
Inglorious Bastards. Good Will Hunting. Pulp Fiction. Kill Bill. An Inconvenient Truth. With a roster of iconic films and a whole shelf of gold statues, Lawrence Bender is one of America's most acclaimed producers. Since the release of Al Gore's
-
Seth Fletcher on Superbatteries, Electric Cars, and the New Lithium Economy (Podcast)
What makes lithium, the lightest metal on earth, our best bet for beating oil? If the world is turning to electric cars with lithium-based batteries, will Bolivia (and its massive deposits of the metal), become the next Saudi Arabia? Why has the Chevy
-
NASA's James Hansen on Climate Change and Intergenerational Justice (Podcast)
One of the most venerated scientists of our time, James Hansen is the head of NASA's Goddard Institute for Space Studies, a position he's held for three decades. Long before climate change was a household term, Hansen was one of the first to talk about
-
Musician Ben Sollee on the Ravages of Coal and the Wonders of the Bicycle (Podcast)
Among music festivals, Bonnaroo is the juggernaut, and this year is was bigger than ever with 80,000 people descending on Manchester, Tennessee. One of the innumerable artists to preside over the festival's many stages (which included sitting in with My
-
Sarah Rich on Local Food and Disruptive Technology (Podcast)
Sarah Rich is a former senior editor at Dwell magazine, the creator of Longshot Magazine, and the co-author of the WorldChanging book. Sarah's journalistic obsession pivots around design, urban agriculture, technology, and new media. She tells
-
Alexis Madrigal on Powering the Dream (Podcast)
Wind turbines, solar cells, wave power. If you think these are newfangled technologies, think again. They were fangled long ago, and their story is the meat of Alexis Madrigal's new book, Powering the Dream. Madrigal (a senior editor at The Atlantic and
-
Susan Freinkel on Our Toxic Plastic Love Affair (Podcast)
It clogs our oceans and tampers with our bodies, yet without it, all modern life would skid to a stop. Susan Freinkel's new book, Plastic: A Toxic Love Story, explores the rise of plastic into ubiquity, hails it for its life-saving wonders, and explores
-
Andy Revkin of the New York Times on Global Population Explosions (podcast)
We've reported before on Andy Revkin's assertion that "climate change is not the story of our time," as well as his sometimes provocative thoughts on geoengineering and other subjects (Rush Limbaugh once suggested the journalist kill himself to save the
-
Kraig Kraft on Chasing Chiles
There are plenty of great books out there on global warming, all full of dismaying facts and figures. But never before has our changing climate been viewed through the fiery lens of the chili pepper. In Chasing Chiles, Kraig Kraft (along with co-authors
-
Jessica Jackley on Empowering the World's Entrepreneurs (Podcast)
Jessica Jackley co-founded Kiva.org back in 2005. Since then, nearly half a million people have used the micro-lending platform to offer money to fellow citizens, almost none of whom will ever meet offline. Jackley's passion is in empowering
-
Assaf Biderman on Creating SENSEable Cities (Podcast)
Assaf Biderman and his team at MIT's SENSEable City Lab are pushing the boundaries of how we organize and visualize the metropolis. They've embedded GPS sensors into household trash and tracked it through the waste stream, conceived aquatic robots that
-
Kevin Kelly on What Technology Wants (Podcast)
Photo: Ed SchipulIs technology alive? To Kevin Kelly, the things we make comprise a seventh kingdom of life, an interlocking network he calls the Technium. Kelly cofounded Wired Magazine (where he currently holds the title of Senior Maverick) and
