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The Hardest Hit By Climate Change

Kristin Vorbohle (editor) — Tue, 28 Jun 2011 18:24:32 +0000

Flight of Fancy: The Air Travel Dilemma

Kristin Vorbohle (editor) — Tue, 28 Jun 2011 18:15:06 +0000

Airplanes transport over 2.2 billion passengers a year but they are also a significant contributor to climate change, producing approximately 600 million tons of carbon dioxide annually. One transatlantic flight for a family of four creates more CO2 than that family generates domestically in an entire year. And while the benefits of the smaller planet that airline travel has created are immeasurable, can it be justified in light of the potentially life-damaging effects of climate change? And … [visit site to read more]

The Future of Electricity

Kristin Vorbohle (editor) — Wed, 23 Feb 2011 20:14:36 +0000

In 1880, Thomas Edison patented a system for the distribution of electricity that within 2 years was providing power through a grid to parts of lower Manhattan. How far have we come since then? According to this week’s guests, not far enough. This week on Sea Change Radio, host Alex Wise first talks to sustainability consultant Ted Howes who explains the direction utility companies should be taking to work smarter, not harder, and why this smart grid technology is meeting with some … [visit site to read more]

Is the Answer Blowin’ in the Wind?

Kristin Vorbohle (editor) — Wed, 19 Jan 2011 21:14:57 +0000

The wind – it flies our kites and fills our sails, and, since the 7th Century, humans have been harnessing its power to pump water and mill grain. So how far have we come since then? The modern wind power industry didn’t really start until the late 70s, yet over the past three years worldwide wind-powered energy generation has doubled. But this endlessly renewable power source is still relatively untapped and only accounts for about 2% of global electricity usage.

This week on Sea Change … [visit site to read more]

Paving Paths to Sustainable Connections

Kristin Vorbohle (editor) — Fri, 14 Jan 2011 14:17:41 +0000

This week on Sea Change Radio, a more ecological solution for paving driveways and parking lots, and a social networking site specifically for people working to make the world a more sustainable place. Host Alex Wise‘s first guest is Dustin Glist from Invisible Structures, a company that creates paving solutions that process stormwater naturally, allowing water recapture, preventing erosion, and even allowing you to plant grass on a roof or driveway. We ask him about what problems current … [visit site to read more]

Deforestation Condemnation: Greenpeace’s Rolf Skar

Kristin Vorbohle (editor) — Thu, 25 Nov 2010 21:26:36 +0000

According to the World Bank, Indonesia is the planet’s third largest carbon dioxide emitter. But the problem in Indonesia differs from ours here in the United States. Rather than pollutants from cars or the energy and industrial sectors, in Indonesia, the primary culprit is deforestation. More than 64 million acres of Indonesia’s forests have been cut down or burned over the past two decades in order to make room for industrial growth.

Fortunately, Greenpeace has been working hard on a … [visit site to read more]

The Future of Luxury: Can we have our world and sustain it too?

Kristin Vorbohle (editor) — Mon, 01 Nov 2010 14:32:35 +0000

Our guests this week on Sea Change Radio talk about the development of green luxury, and suggest that products that are both luxurious and sustainable may be an important trend. First, Sea Change Radio host, Alex Wise, speaks with Dr. Jem Bendell, a sustainability professor, consultant and author. Next, Alex talks to Beth Gerstein, the Co-founder and Co-Ceo of Brilliant Earth, a socially responsible jewelry company.

Green luxury. The two concepts seem diametrically opposed. We usually equate … [visit site to read more]

Separating the Wheat From the Chaff: How Wall Street Starved the World

Kristin Vorbohle (editor) — Mon, 01 Nov 2010 14:24:51 +0000

From 2005 to 2008, the price of food rose 80 percent and in 2008, the ranks of the hungry increased by 250 million in a single year. What caused this? In 2003, there were about $13 billion in global commodities index holdings. By 2008, more than $300 billion had poured into commodities index holdings – significantly upsetting a market as relatively small and sensitive as the wheat market. This week on Sea Change Radio, host Alex Wise speaks with Frederick Kaufman, author and a Contributing … [visit site to read more]

Socially Responsible Investment Community Reacts to BP Deepwater Disaster

Kristin Vorbohle (editor) — Sat, 03 Jul 2010 20:24:18 +0000

“Man is not imprisoned by habit. Great changes in him can be wrought by crisis — once that crisis can be recognized and understood.” -author Norman Cousins

Sea Change Radio’s Alex Wise and CEO of Sustainability Risk Advisors, Mark Tulay, examine if there is a silver lining to what many are calling the greatest environmental disaster in history unfolding in the Gulf of Mexico.
Mark has over 15 years experience in the sustainability movement and was the first employee of CERES, the … [visit site to read more]

Startups Help Homeowners Conserve

Kristin Vorbohle (editor) — Wed, 16 Jun 2010 18:30:05 +0000

This week on Sea Change Radio, a profile of three Bay Area companies trying to help people lower their electric bills. Alex Wise first speaks with Danny Kennedy, the founder of Sungevity, a company that provides customers with solar installation quotes remotely using satellite imaging technology. Mr. Kennedy, who worked as an activist before entering the solar business, also discusses the issues facing. Next, we hear from the founders of two home energy auditing startups – Steve Malloy of … [visit site to read more]

Keeping PACE: A discussion with the founder of the Property Assessed Clean Energy program

Kristin Vorbohle (editor) — Sun, 30 May 2010 12:42:17 +0000

This week on Sea Change Radio, we take an in-depth look at the Property Assessed Clean Energy (PACE) program. PACE is an innovative financing model that helps local governments create green jobs, dramatically reduce carbon emissions and save property owners money on their utility bills. We speak with President of Renewable Funding, Cisco Devries, the founder of the PACE program. We also get additional perspectives into the PACE program from two green energy entrepreneurs whose businesses have … [visit site to read more]

Grind For The Green

Kristin Vorbohle (editor) — Sun, 16 May 2010 19:43:56 +0000

A Matter of Trust

Kristin Vorbohle (editor) — Thu, 06 May 2010 18:42:38 +0000

With the Deepwater Horizon oil spill on everyone’s mind this week, we take a closer look at an innovative approach to cleaning up oil spills. In this extended version of a previous broadcast, Sea Change Radio’s new Executive Producer and host, Alex Wise, speaks with Lisa Gautier, Executive Director of Matter of Trust, which collects hair from barbershops and salons and weaves it into mats to soak up petroleum oil spills.

Then, outgoing Sea Change Host, Bill Baue, and Alex Wise chat about … [visit site to read more]

Saving Landfills from Unnecessary Waste, and CleanTech Innovation from Undue Corporate Influence

Kristin Vorbohle (editor) — Sat, 01 May 2010 15:06:38 +0000

Global call for nominations for outstanding corruption fighters

Prof. Dr. Thomas Beschorner — Mon, 19 Apr 2010 09:45:33 +0000

Transparency International seeks nominations to recognise inspirational anti-corruption heroes

Berlin, 19 April 2010 – The deadline for nominations for the Transparency International Integrity Awards 2009-2010 has been extended to 30 June, 2010.

Launched in 2000, the awards recognise individuals or organisations whose unfaltering courage and determination are making a distinct difference in curbing corruption around the world from Africa and Asia, Europe, Latin … [visit site to read more]

Water Water Everywhere, Nor Any Drop to Drink

Kristin Vorbohle (editor) — Thu, 15 Apr 2010 19:12:16 +0000

The title of today’s show, which quotes Samuel Coleridge in the Rime of the Ancient Mariner, aptly describes the dilemma companies are starting to face when it comes to water management. Today, we speak with Jeff Erikson of SustainAbility, a think tank that recently surveyed experts globally on corporate impacts on water, and Cameron Brooks of IBM’s Big Green Innovations team, which has been focusing on “Smarter Water Management.”

Water has been climbing up the corporate agenda as … [visit site to read more]

Corporate Boards: Bermuda Triangle for the Moral Compass

Kristin Vorbohle (editor) — Sun, 11 Apr 2010 15:39:40 +0000

Sea Change Radio Executive Producer Bill Baue is joined in the studio by John Gillespie, co-author with David Zweig, of Money for Nothing: How the Failure of Corporate Boards is Ruining American Business and Costing Us Trillions.

In mid-March 2010, Jenner & Block released the 2,200-page report prepared by their Chairman, Anton Valukas, that autopsied the Lehman Brothers collapse of 2008. The report sent shock waves for revealing the bank’s use of Repo 105, an accounting trick to hide … [visit site to read more]

Resetting Thinking on Oil Sands

Kristin Vorbohle (editor) — Tue, 23 Mar 2010 07:17:03 +0000

Lauren Compere, Director of Shareholder Advocacy at Boston Common Asset Management, discusses shareowner resolutions asking BP and Shell to report on the strategic risks of oil sands exploitation. And Cary Krosinsky, Vice President of Trucost, talks about its analysis of the carbon intensity and environmental impacts of companies operating in Alberta’s oil sands.

We start things off with the commentary that Sea Change Radio Executive Producer/Host Bill Baue recently wrote for … [visit site to read more]

Democratizing the SEC — to Address Sustainability

Kristin Vorbohle (editor) — Thu, 04 Mar 2010 19:24:52 +0000

Sea Change Radio Host Bill Baue talks with Adam Kanzer of Domini Social Investments about the new SEC Investor Advisory Committee, on which he represents the socially responsible investing (SRI) community. SEC Chairman Mary Schapiro established the committee as one of her first initiatives after taking the helm of the Commission in 2009. In the NewsAnalysis, Sea Change Headlines Anchor Tania Haldar Hart discusses conservative backlash against the interpretive guidance the SEC recently issued … [visit site to read more]

Brewing Biofuel from E. Coli — and Fill Er Up with Yellow Grease

Kristin Vorbohle (editor) — Fri, 26 Feb 2010 13:43:23 +0000

Producing biofuel is kind of like brewing beer, a practice that’s been around since the Phoenicians and Egyptians first fermented things, according to Bill Haywood, CEO of the San Francisco-based company LS9. He explains to Sea Change Radio West Coast Correspondent Alex Wise how his company uses E. Coli’s digestion capabilities (which have been around for billions of years) to convert sugar to biofuels and chemicals. Next, Alex speaks with Robin Gold, co-founder of Dogpatch Biofuels, a … [visit site to read more]

Cool Industry for A Cooler Planet

Kristin Vorbohle (editor) — Thu, 18 Feb 2010 12:29:27 +0000

In this fifth episode of our Back To The Future series, we look at how the mighty power of the Connecticut River fueled the birth of manufacturing in Massachusetts — and the country — not just in producing finished goods, like paper and textiles, but also in making the machinery that drove the mills. We hear from Jim Lavelle, manager of Holyoke Gas And Electric (HGE), a hydroelectric power company. He tells us how Holyoke’s industrial past points the way to the future. HGE’s Calvin … [visit site to read more]

Reduce, Reuse, Recycle: Fueling Cars on Used Veggie Oil, and Shipping Used Shoes to Africa

Kristin Vorbohle (editor) — Tue, 16 Feb 2010 11:21:08 +0000

Sea Change Radio West Coast Correspondent Alex Wise interviews Moira DeNike about fueling a 1985 Mercedes 300 Diesel on waste vegetable oil (or WVO). Sea Change Co-Host Kelsey Flynn talks to Ric Sustache of Greasecar, which sells kits to convert diesel cars to run on WVO, as well as Laura Douglass, whose experience as a WVO car driver differs in interesting ways from Moira’s. And Sea Change Host Bill Baue speaks with Michael Aronson about ReRun Sports Shoes, the company he co-founded to … [visit site to read more]

Sustainable Schools: Education Goes Green

Kristin Vorbohle (editor) — Thu, 04 Feb 2010 12:28:13 +0000

This edition of Sea Change Radio studies sustainable education. Co-Host Bill Baue speaks with Sustainable Endowments Institute Executive Director Mark Orlowski about the College Sustainability Report Card. Co-Host Kelsey Flynn then chats with Josh Stoeffel, the new Sustainability Coordinator here at the University of Massachusetts in Amherst, where we produce Sea Change Radio, and Monty Archbald, chair of the Green Campus Committee at Greenfield Community College. And finally, Bill talks … [visit site to read more]

A Hybrid Model: Co-op and Nonprofits Launch Energy Efficiency Company

Kristin Vorbohle (editor) — Thu, 21 Jan 2010 15:24:00 +0000

Sea Change Radio Radio Co-Hosts Bill Baue and Kelsey Flynn talk to Tom Rossmassler, CEO of Energia, an innovative new energy efficiency company founded by two nonprofits — Nuestras Raices and Nueva Esparanza – and Co-op Power, a worker cooperative. And Kelsey profiles the Roots Up Green Jobs program, run by Nuestras Raices and Co-op Power, which will train workers for Energia.

Caulk and insulation — Bill hadn’t quite realized what a key role these play in helping solve the climate … [visit site to read more]

Game-Changer: Shifting Culture from Consumerism to Sustainability

Kristin Vorbohle (editor) — Thu, 14 Jan 2010 14:55:32 +0000

Sea Change Radio’s new Co-Host Kelsey Flynn and Bill Baue speak with Erik Assadourian and Gary Gardner, senior researchers at the Worldwatch Institute, about the new book, State of the World 2010: Transforming Cultures from Consumerism to Sustainability.

As this past holiday season was winding down, Bill got a welcome gift in his mailbox: an advance copy of this year’s State of the World Report from the Worldwatch Institute. When he opened the envelope, he was pleasantly surprised to … [visit site to read more]

Wangari Maathai on Peace and Environmental Justice

Kristin Vorbohle (editor) — Wed, 13 Jan 2010 11:59:27 +0000

As the year draws to a close, Sea Change Radio digs into its archives to rebroadcast a standout episode from 2009: an in-person interview with Nobel Laureate Wangari Maathai. Sea Change Co-Hosts Bill Baue and Francesca Rheannon speak with Maathai about the links between environmental justice, women’s empowerment, democratic governance, and sustainability in the intimate setting of the Marlboro College Graduate School, where Baue teaches in the Sustainability MBA program. Maathai was touring … [visit site to read more]

COP15 Wrap-Up: Climate Deniers, Drowning Islands, and Hope after Copenhagen

Kristin Vorbohle (editor) — Wed, 13 Jan 2010 11:56:09 +0000

Sea Change Radio surveys a broad spectrum of opinions and outcomes of the UN Climate Conference (COP15). We hear excerpts from a press conference there featuring a Republican contingent from the US House of Representatives, a speech by Tuvalu Prime Minister Apisai Ielemia, and an exclusive interview of European Commission Deputy Director-general of Environment Karl Falkenberg by Sea Change Climate Correspondent Cimbria Badenhausen, who covered all 2 weeks of the conference on the ground.
The … [visit site to read more]

Climate Change Brings an Ocean of Change to Our Seas

Kristin Vorbohle (editor) — Wed, 13 Jan 2010 11:51:52 +0000

Today on Sea Change Radio, we cover Oceans Day, a side event at the recent Copenhagen Climate Conference (COP15) looking at the impact of climate change on oceans. Sea Change Radio Climate Correspondent Cimbria Badenhausen, who covered all two weeks of COP15 from Copenhagen in December 2009, attended Oceans Day, recorded the proceedings, and hand-picked the highlights, including presentations by U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) Administrator Jane Lubchenco, Woods … [visit site to read more]

Back to the Future: Reduce, Reuse, Retrofit

Kristin Vorbohle (editor) — Sat, 19 Dec 2009 18:07:59 +0000

Welcome to the third episode in our Sea Change series, Back to the Future. Green architect Betsy Pettit talks about retrofits and what older building methods can teach us about saving energy. And John Grossman of ReStore tells us about re-using salvaged building materials.

Each month, our six-part series looks at what we can learn from the past, when we used far less fossil fuels than we do today. We explore practices we can adapt as we move toward a lower carbon future. Last month, we … [visit site to read more]

COP15 Dispatch: Will Developed Countries Pay Their Due?

Kristin Vorbohle (editor) — Wed, 16 Dec 2009 12:58:43 +0000

On Friday, at the UN Climate Conference (COP15) in Copenhagen, Deputy Chair of the Alliance of Small Island States (AOSIS) Crispin S. Gregoire from Dominica announced the release of draft amendments to the Kyoto Protocol. The draft, which advances the Tuvalu Proposal, seeks to stimulate negotiation toward adoption of a complimentary treaty to replace the Kyoto Protocol when it expires in 2012. The amendments re-allocate responsibilities for addressing climate change to match their contributions … [visit site to read more]

COP15 Dispatch: Tuvalu Insists!

Kristin Vorbohle (editor) — Fri, 11 Dec 2009 12:56:58 +0000

COP15 Dispatch: Business Plays BINGO at the Climate Conference

Kristin Vorbohle (editor) — Wed, 09 Dec 2009 12:36:58 +0000

This dispatch by Sea Change Radio Executive Producer Bill Baue and Climate Correspondent Cimbria Badenhausen first appeared on CSRwire:

The US Chamber of Commerce’s controversial opposition to climate legislation highlights the key role such business intermediaries (or BINGOs in UN-speak – Business and Industry NGOs) play in devising climate policy. Other BINGOs, such as the International Chamber of Commerce (ICC) Commission on Environment and Energy, focus on how business and industry … [visit site to read more]

Green Recovery: Can Company Eco-Initiatives Boost the Economy?

Kristin Vorbohle (editor) — Fri, 27 Nov 2009 10:21:35 +0000

Sea Change Radio Host Bill Baue speaks with Andrew Winston about his book, Green Recovery: Your Company’s Green Guide to Surviving the Recession—and Thriving in the Upturn. And Tania Haldar Hart brings us this week’s Sea Change News Analysis.

Andrew Winston made a big mark on sustainable business with his 2006 book Green to Gold, which has been called “the definitive book on the greening of business.” Together with coauthor Dan Esty of Yale, Winston presented the case for … [visit site to read more]

What’s Ecological Intelligence? Daniel Goleman Explains

Kristin Vorbohle (editor) — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 15:30:54 +0000

On this week’s Sea Change Radio, Host Bill Baue speaks with Daniel Goleman about his new book, Ecological Intelligence — the followup to his bestselling Emotional Intelligence and Social Intelligence series.

Recently, my good friend Sanford Lewis, who composed the Sea Change Radio themesong, posted a heads-up to search the terms #sustainability and #risk on Twitter. When I did, scores of tweets linked back to the same Harvard Business Press blog, written by Dan Goleman. The blog hit on … [visit site to read more]

Joanna Macy Explains The Great Turning

Kristin Vorbohle (editor) — Thu, 08 Oct 2009 11:24:15 +0000

Sea Change Radio Co-Hosts Bill Baue and Francesca Rheannon speak with eco-philosopher Joanna Macy about The Great Turning, a concept she helped coin and define. Macy calls The Great Turning “the essential adventure of our time: the shift from the industrial growth society to a life-sustaining civilization.” This is the second in a series of shows on The Great Turning — check out the first show in the series — a conversation with David Korten.

Joanna Macy is a practicing Buddhist … [visit site to read more]

How Everyday Folks World Wide View Climate Change

Kristin Vorbohle (editor) — Thu, 01 Oct 2009 12:26:26 +0000

Following up on our coverage of World Wide Views on Global Warming in April, Sea Change returns to this event that gathered citizen opinions on climate change in more than 40 meetings around the world that just happened. Sea Change Correspondent Cimbria Badenhausen attended the meeting at the Museum of Science in Boston. She and Co-Host Bill Baue also spoke with WWViews representatives worldwide, both before and after the event.

Global governance, participatory democracy, and citizen … [visit site to read more]

The Art of Sustainability

Kristin Vorbohle (editor) — Fri, 25 Sep 2009 06:50:13 +0000

Heather Lineberry of the Arizona State University Art Museum in Tempe tells us about Defining Sustainability, a new exhibition at the museum. Native American conceptual artist Kade Twist talks about “Do You Remember When”, the installation he and his fellow Indigenous artists of Postcommodity created for the exhibition. Finally, Beth Paulson of Beyond Green describes the proposed permaculture garden for a hundred year old house that’s getting a deep energy retrofit in Easthampton, … [visit site to read more]

The Digital Commons: Converting “Free” Into Value

Kristin Vorbohle (editor) — Thu, 17 Sep 2009 13:30:57 +0000

David Bollier tells us how the Internet is a “Viral Spiral” that’s changing our concept of private and public value with the digital commons. The idea of the commons is an ancient one. Peasants of medieval Europe seldom owned their own land. Legally, it was held by the nobles, the king or the Church. But they did have the right to use certain lands in common to grow crops, cut wood, or graze livestock. As capitalism supplanted feudalism, the commons began to be privatized. First, land and … [visit site to read more]

David Korten on The Great Turning: from Empire to Earth Community

Kristin Vorbohle (editor) — Thu, 10 Sep 2009 13:35:46 +0000

Sea Change Co-Host Bill Baue speaks with David Korten about his book, The Great Turning. It describes how current ecological, social, and economic crises create opportunities to transform from a dominator-based to a community-based model for organizing society. And Co-Host Francesca Rheannon brings us the Sea Change ViewPoint that digs deeper into the controversy behind Van Jones‘ resignation as Special Advisor on Green Jobs for the White House Council on Environmental Quality.

The Great … [visit site to read more]

David Korten Asks: a Wall Street Economy Based on Phantom Wealth, or a Main Street Economy Based on Real Wealth?

Kristin Vorbohle (editor) — Thu, 03 Sep 2009 12:28:14 +0000

Sea Change Radio Co-Host Bill Baue speaks with David Korten about his new book, Agenda for a New Economy: From Phantom Wealth to Real Wealth (Why Wall Street Can’t Be Fixed and How to Replace It).

David Korten is perhaps best known for When Corporations Rule the World, his 1995 book that arguably set the stage for the 1999 Seattle protests against globalized capitalism at the World Trade Organization meetings. Flash forward a decade to the fall of 2009, and that very globalized capitalist … [visit site to read more]

Urban Agriculture: Sprouting Farms on Rooftops and Empty Lots

Kristin Vorbohle (editor) — Thu, 20 Aug 2009 11:45:37 +0000

Sea Change Radio returns for a second week’s coverage of the 35th Annual Conference of the Northeast Organic Farming Association (NOFA.) Sea Change Co-Host Bill Baue speaks with Gardening the Community (GtC) Director Ippy Amatul-Wadud and her sister Qamaria about this project of NOFA Massachusetts that teaches youth about organic farming in the city. And he also speaks with Top Sprouts co-founders Alice Heung and Akshay Kolte about their startup company that puts greenhouses atop downtown … [visit site to read more]

Biomass — or Biomess? A Debate

Kristin Vorbohle (editor) — Mon, 17 Aug 2009 11:38:05 +0000

Are wood-burning biomass power plants a climate solution — or scourge? To explore the pros and cons of biomass, Sea Change Radio Co-Host Francesca Rheannon hosted a debate between Bob Saul, head of domestic land acquisition with GMO Renewable Resources, and Chris Matera, founder of Massachusetts Forest Watch.

With the world looking to replace fossil fuels in the race to mitigate global climate disruption, it’s clear a mix of renewable energy strategies will have to be deployed. But as … [visit site to read more]

The Looting of America

Kristin Vorbohle (editor) — Mon, 17 Aug 2009 11:28:25 +0000

Sea Change Co-Host Francesca Rheannon speaks with Les Leopold about his new book, THE LOOTING OF AMERICA: How Wall Street’s Game of Fantasy Finance Destroyed Our Jobs, Pensions, and Prosperity — and What We Can Do About It. And this week’s Sea Change ViewPoint comes from Arvind Ganesan of Human Rights Watch, who brings us a commentary on a new HRW report on how oil wealth fuels corruption and human rights abuses in Equatorial Guinea.

On July 16 the New York Times reported, “A new … [visit site to read more]

Growing Food — Growing Community

Kristin Vorbohle (editor) — Mon, 17 Aug 2009 11:11:56 +0000

Sea Change Radio goes to the Northeast Organic Farm Association conference to talk with Will Allen of Growing Power, Abby Youngblood of Just Food, and Scott Kellogg, author of TOOLBOX FOR SUSTAINABLE CITY LIVING.

A couple of weeks ago, Sea Change co-host Francesca Rheannon wrote an article titled Why Posterity Matters. In it, she lauded the efforts of PS 11 in Brooklyn, New York to educate its young students about the importance of good fresh food. The kids grow vegetables in the community … [visit site to read more]

ViewPoint: Walmart and Sustainability — Oxymoron, Salvation, or Both?

Kristin Vorbohle (editor) — Thu, 23 Jul 2009 18:04:49 +0000

In this week’s ViewPoint, Sea Change Co-Host Bill Baue presents a commentary he wrote on Walmart’s new Sustainable Product Index that first appeared on CSRwire.

Walmart and Sustainability. That pairing of terms triggers strong reactions, usually falling into roughly three camps:

The “oxymoron” camp. They believe Walmart’s business model of overdriven underpaid factory workers pumping out cheap goods into thousand-mile supply chains that feed a consumption-based society … [visit site to read more]

Cayapa: Social Economy Promotes the Common Good

Kristin Vorbohle (editor) — Thu, 23 Jul 2009 18:01:19 +0000

This week, Sea Change Co-Host Bill Baue speaks with Benito Diaz of the University of the Andes in Venezuela. Diaz edits the journal Cayapa, an indigenous term for mutual benefit — a notion that encapsulates the philosophy of the social economy. And later in the show, Baue provides the Sea Change ViewPoint commenting on the new Walmart Sustainable Product Index.

In March of this year, the Center for Popular Economics hosted the first-ever Forum on the Solidarity Economy here at the … [visit site to read more]

Big Agriculture: Tipping the Balance of Regulation

Kristin Vorbohle (editor) — Sat, 18 Jul 2009 10:17:43 +0000

We talk with food editor Tom Philpott of Grist.org about the impact of the farm lobby on the climate and food safety legislation. And Lisa Hamilton discusses food policy from the perspective of the small farmer. Her book is Deeply Rooted: Unconventional Farmers in the Age of Agribusiness.Big agriculture is coming under increasing scrutiny these days. A popular new film, Food, Inc., takes a hard-hitting look at how our industrial food system harms our environment and our health.

One … [visit site to read more]

The Next Generation in Green Jobs and Energy Efficiency

Kristin Vorbohle (editor) — Thu, 09 Jul 2009 07:14:22 +0000

Sea Change Radio explores on-the-ground work in green collar jobs and energy efficiency retrofits. Francesca Rheannon speaks with Patricia Moss, Project Manager of Groundwork Springfield, and the Green Team of teens and young adults working in green jobs. And Bill Baue speaks with Adin Maynard, Director of Operations at Cozy Home Performance, about the company’s participation in the Weatherization Assistance Program for low-income homeowners and its move into deep energy retrofits for mid- … [visit site to read more]

Boosting Employment with Green Jobs

Kristin Vorbohle (editor) — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 06:54:16 +0000

“If you spend money on clean energy project, what happens in terms of effects on employment?” That’s the question Bob Pollin of the Political Economy Research Institute (PERI) at the University of Massachusetts seeks to answer in a pair of new reports in its Green Economics program.

The Stimulus Plan passed this spring and the Climate Bill that passed in the House last week both hitch their wagons to creating a clean energy economy, with green jobs doing the heavy pulling. The … [visit site to read more]

Forecasting Climate Change

Kristin Vorbohle (editor) — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 06:41:18 +0000

What does our future on this warming globe hold? We explore this question today with Stephan Faris, who talks about his new book, FORECAST: The Consequences of Climate Change. And Matt Madia of OMBWatch tells us about a provision in the Waxman-Markey climate bill that would strip the EPA of its authority to regulate greenhouse gas emissions under the Clean Air Act.

Journalist Stephan Faris has traveled around the globe to cover global warming. He’s compiled his experiences in the new … [visit site to read more]