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The TH Interview: Stephanie Meeks of The Nature Conservancy (Part Two)

by Jacob Gordon, Nashville, TN on 05. 8.08
TreeHugger Radio

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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 president and CEO Stephanie Meeks chats with TreeHugger Radio about this and other mind-boggling commitments. It's no wonder they own the URL "nature.org." ::TreeHugger Radio

Listen to the podcast of this interview via iTunes, or just click here to listen, right-click to download. Click here for part one of our interview.

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The TH Interview: Stephanie Meeks of The Nature Conservancy (Part One)

by Jacob Gordon, Nashville, TN on 05. 2.08
TreeHugger Radio

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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 green thing before it was cool. As the acting president and CEO, Stephanie Meeks sits at the front of this ship, navigating through policy, politics, big business, and controversy. ::TreeHugger Radio

Listen to the podcast of this interview via iTunes, or just click here to listen, right-click to download.

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The TH Interview: Doug Fine—Kiss Your Subaru Goodbye (Part Two)

by Jacob Gordon, Nashville, TN on 04.24.08
TreeHugger Radio

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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 challenge and actually seems to be doing a bang-up job. He spoke to us from the Funky Butte Ranch, his own low-carbon Neverland. ::TreeHugger Radio

Listen to the podcast of this interview via iTunes, or just click here to listen, right-click to download.

You can find part one of our interview here.

Special thanks to Calabash Music for the soundtrack.

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The TH Interview: Doug Fine—Kiss Your Subaru Goodbye (Part One)

by Jacob Gordon, Nashville, TN on 04.17.08
TreeHugger Radio

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“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 adventure in local living,” an experience chronicled in his new book, “Farewell, My Subaru.” Grease-fuel, solar power, homegrown bananas, chickens, and Natalie (a goat purchased off Craigslist) are just a few of Doug’s companions down on the Funky Butte Ranch. Join us, if you will, as we step into his world. ::TreeHugger Radio

Listen to the podcast of this interview via iTunes, or just click here to listen, right-click to download.

Special thanks to Calabash Music for the soundtrack.

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The TH Interview: Jarid Manos, the Ghetto Plainsman (Part Two)

by Jacob Gordon, Nashville, TN on 04.10.08
TreeHugger Radio

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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, dangerously close to collapse. Through aggressive conservation, ecosystem rebuilding, and nature education for the youth of inner-cities and Indian reservations, respect is returning to plains. Even the buffalo have returned. ::TreeHugger Radio

Listen to the podcast of this interview via iTunes, or just click here to listen, right-click to download.

For part one of our interview, click here. Also check out Jarid Manos’ book, Ghetto Plainsman, and some pics after the jump.
Special thanks to Calabash Music for the soundtrack.

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The TH Interview: Jarid Manos, the Ghetto Plainsman (Part One)

by Jacob Gordon, Nashville, TN on 04. 3.08
TreeHugger Radio

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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 part of a search for a better place, a place he found in the plains of Texas, a ravaged world he has sworn to revive. Jarid Manos is the founder and CEO of Great Plains Restoration Council, an ecological social movement he has crafted as “a living art project.” ::TreeHugger Radio

Listen to the podcast of this interview via iTunes, or just click here to listen, right-click to download.

Special thanks to Calabash Music for the soundtrack.

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The TH Interview: Jean-Michel Cousteau

by Jacob Gordon, Nashville, TN on 03.20.08
TreeHugger Radio

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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 painstaking search for these cetaceans, which include some of the world’s largest and most ancient dwellers. TreeHugger was also at the premier in Boston with narrator (and honorary mermaid) Daryl Hannah, as well as the Mantello brothers and Jean-Michel himself. Check out our TH Radio interview with Jean-Michel, one of the great explorers of planet Earth, or "planet ocean," as he would have named it. ::TreeHugger Radio

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The TH Interview: Gary Hirshberg, CE-Yo of Stonyfield Farm (Part Two)

by Jacob Gordon, Nashville, TN on 03.13.08
TreeHugger Radio

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In part two of our in-depth conversation with the world’s first CE-Yo, Gary Hirshberg says we can still trust organics, but to beware of convenient aphorisms. ::TreeHugger Radio

Listen to the podcast of this interview via iTunes, or just click here to listen, right-click to download.

For part one of the interview, click here.

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