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In part one of this two-part interview, British journalist George Monbiot discusses his new book, Heat: How to Stop the Planet from Burning, with CWR co-hosts Bill Baue and Francesca Rheannon. Monbiot applauds the acknowledgment of the climate crisis in awarding of 
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Emily Kawano, executive director of the Center for Popular Economics in Amherst, Massachusetts, discusses the launch of the US Solidarity Economy Network coming out of the US Social Forum in Atlanta in June 2007. Co-hosts Francesca Rheannon and Bill Baue ask Kawano
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Renowned Futurist Hazel Henderson discusses her new book, Ethical Markets: Growing the Green Economy, and the paradigm shift from our current economy measured in Gross Domestic Product to a new, sustainable economy measured by such yardsticks as the Buddhist country of Bhutan's Gross
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We visit with Andy Bichelbaum of the Yes Men. This two person team of corporate impersonators have passed for executives of Exxon, Halliburton, Dow Chemical and the WTO. We'll learn how they do what they do, and why. Interviewers Sanford Lewis and Francesca
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Co-host Francesca Rheannon talks with Wood Turner, project director of Climate Counts.org, a project of Stonyfield Farms that rates companies' commitments and actions to reducing their greenhouse gas emissions.
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Climate Counts
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Bill Baue and Francesca Rheannon discuss the benefits and shortcomings of biofuel as a solution to climate change. Francesca interviews Allan Kahane of Global Foods, which recently received one of the biggest biofuel-related investments from the Carlyle Group.
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SocialFunds article by Francesca--Biofuels: Keeping Good
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Is there too much or too little shareholder activism and democracy? The Securities and Exchange Commission, in recent roundtable discussions, called for reexamination of the rights of shareholders to place shareholder resolutions on the corporate ballot. Attorney Sanford Lewis and Journalist
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Dean Foods' Horizon Organic Milk brand is under fire for its industrial farming model. Mark Kastel of the Cornucopia Institute and Steven Heim of Boston Common Asset Management speak about the shareowner engagement they've been conducting with the company, asking why Dean
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Bill McKibben speaks about his new book, Deep Economy: The Wealth of Communities and the Durable Future. He discusses localism as an answer to the problems created by globalism. In other words, the "durable" economies of farmers markets, distributed energy, and
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Bottled drinking water is an $11 Billion per year US industry, and the withdrawal of water has been referred to as a "Blue gold rush." With impacts to local water supplies and quality of life looming, citizens groups are challenging the
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Jeremy Scahill discusses his new book "Blackwater: The Rise of the World's Most Powerful Mercenary Army." "Blackwater has openly declared its forces above the law," he writes. "While resisting attempts to subject its private soldiers to the Pentagon's Uniform Code of
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In the current corporate annual meeting season, shareowners have stepped up demands on companies to seek alternatives to toxic materials in their products. A shareholder resolution at Apple calls on the company to set an accelerated timetable for ending the use of certain
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WorldBlu recently announced its first list of the Most Democratic Workplaces. Bill Baue speaks with Rodney North, whose official title is The Answer Man at Equal Exchange, the oldest and largest for-profit Fair Trade company in the US. Equal Exchange was
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As goes the Chinese stock market, so may go US markets. But what happens when the volatility in China is of a different kind – consumer panic over product toxicity concerns? American companies selling products in Asia can suffer extremely
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Corporate Watchdog Radio presents a special video presentation on the phone companies, the National Security Agency and our civil liberties. Ransacking Liberty is a 11.5 minute video that discusses how phone company spying may jeopardize the rights of reporters, whistleblowers and protestors.
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University of San Francisco Ethics Professor David Batstone speaks about his research in writing "Not for Sale: The Return of the Global Slave Trade--and How We Can Fight It" and his launching of the Not for Sale campaign to help end human trafficking.
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Whether it's cosmetics, computers, mattresses, or "rubber" ducks, there are shocking chemical surprises in many of the products we once presumed were safe. We speak with Dr. John Warner, Director of the Center for Green Chemistry at the University of
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Rich Ferlauto, who handles shareholder activism for the American Federation of State, County, and Municipal Employees (AFSCME) pension funds, discusses shareholder democracy and corporate governance. Currently, shareholders cannot nominate candidates for corporate boards of directors, and those directors can be elected on
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The new Congress faces a full agenda on the Iraq war and corruption in the Bush administration. Where do issues of corporate accountability fit in? We talk in depth with two Washington, DC area activists and researchers about CEO pay, expansion of Enron-era
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It's been a year since the public learned that AT&T and other phone companies might be providing logs of all phone calls and emails to the National Security Agency. Today we talk with an expert on wrongful government surveillance of citizens, Professor
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