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TH Radio Special: Inside Tesla Motors (With Pics)

Like Angelina Jolie, the Tesla Roadster looks smaller in person. Notwithstanding all the hype and speed-geek obsession around the electric car, it is a stunning thing to behold; truly elegant. Tesla’s San Carlos engineering facility is where the
The TH Interview: Mark Tercek—An Investment Golden Boy Heads for the NGO World

As the world’s largest investment bank, Goldman Sachs raised some bushy eyebrows when it began putting its weight behind green investments. Spearheading the bank’s Environmental Markets Initiative was Mark Tercek, a managing director and longtime
The TH Interview: Wangari Maathai (Part Two)

"How can the planting of trees threaten presidents and ministers and people in authority? It's not the act of planting trees, it is the act of exposing the injustices that people in office carry out." Nobel Laureate Wangari Maathai empowers
The TH Interview: Wangari Maathai (Part One)

Yes, Wangari Maathai, the founder of the Green Belt Movement, was the first to receive a Nobel Peace Prize for environmental work. But as she makes ever-so-clear, trees are not just ecological super heroes. They form a bridge to women’s rights,
The TH Interview: Stephanie Meeks of The Nature Conservancy (Part Two)

It's not just any old organization that can set a goal like this: protect 10% of every ecosystem type on Earth by 2015, effectively doubling the headway of the conservation movement over the last century. But The Nature Conservancy can. Acting
The TH Interview: Stephanie Meeks of The Nature Conservancy (Part One)

Immersed in the nifty slickness of "environmentalism 2.0" it's sometimes easy to forget about the patient progress of the groups like The Nature Conservancy. At 56-years old, The Nature Conservancy is a granddaddy eco-org, and was doing its leafy
The TH Interview: Doug Fine—Kiss Your Subaru Goodbye (Part Two)

The challenge is a rather simple one: set up a life that is local and low-carbon without sacrificing the beloved creature comforts. The kicker is not getting electrocuted, shot, burned, crushed, bitten, or driven insane. Doug Fine has assumed this
The TH Interview: Doug Fine—Kiss Your Subaru Goodbye (Part One)

"As I watched my Subaru Legacy slide backward toward my new ranch's studio outbuilding, the thought crossed my mind that if it kept going at least I would be using less gasoline." Thus begins what journalist Doug Fine calls his "epic
The TH Interview: Jarid Manos, the Ghetto Plainsman (Part Two)

People call the Texas plains "flyover country." Jarid Manos calls this land a coral reef in a sea of grass. In a region that has been ground under America's boot heel, Manos and his Great Plains Restoration Council have found a rich ecosystem,
The TH Interview: Jarid Manos, the Ghetto Plainsman (Part One)

Manos grew up as a "stray dog," without guidance and without boundaries in world where life is only slashed down, never nurtured. In Ghetto Plainsman he traces his wanderings through a world of drugs, crime, prostitution, and depression. But it was all
The TH Interview: Jean-Michel Cousteau

It took three years and 600 underwater hours to film, but Dolphins and Whales 3D: Tribes of the Ocean has reached its stunning, multi-dimensional completion. Here in our interview with the film’s ambassador, ocean explorer Jean-Michel Cousteau explains
The TH Interview: Gary Hirshberg, CE-Yo of Stonyfield Farm (Part Two)

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The TH Interview: Fred Krupp & Miriam Horn, authors of Earth: The Sequel

We marvel daily at the blossoming of new renewable technologies. Their promise of a low-carbon economy gives us optimism, and their downright coolness makes our synapses jittery with excitement. Earth: The Sequel is a deep dive into the most
The TH Interview: Gary Hirshberg, CE-Yo of Stonyfield Farm (Part One)

Before Stonyfield Farm was a $325 million company, Gary Hirshberg was milking the cows and trying to get the bills paid. Now, as the largest organic yogurt-maker, he is fulfilling the original mission: make money and save the world. From milk cows to
The TH Interview: Edward Mazria, the Man from 2030 (Part Two)

If you say there's no silver bullet to kill climate change, architect Ed Mazria says you're wrong. The bullet is here and Mr. Mazria is challenging the world to lock and load. He'll also tell you that trees won't save us (no matter how much you
The TH Interview: Edward Mazria, the Man from 2030 (Part One)

Architect Edward Mazria was one of the first to draw major attention to the source that emits almost half of all greenhouse gas emissions: our buildings. Architecture 2030 has been his vehicle for communicating a design logic based on stemming the
The TH Interview: Yvon Chouinard, founder of Patagonia (Part Two)

In part two of our interview with Yvon Chouinard, the maverick businessman talks about politics and the irony of living simply in a consumer society. He also rebuffs his brand's "Pata-Gucci" reputation and explains why he's started pouring cheap
The TH Interview: Yvon Chouinard, founder of Patagonia (Part One)

The founder of Patagonia started out when he was little more than a teenager, selling his home-forged climbing hardware to "dirtbagger" mountaineers like himself. Although all he really wanted to do was travel and climb, he had a knack for