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<![CDATA[Rebecca Tarbotton on Pressuring and Inspiring the Opposition (Podcast)]]> Sep 15, 2011

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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

<![CDATA[Dr. Michel Gelobter on Nukes, Republicans, Tech, and the Future of Energy (Podcast)]]> Sep 01, 2011

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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

<![CDATA[Bill McKibben Versus The Terrifying Tar Sands (Podcast)]]> Aug 20, 2011

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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

<![CDATA[Allison Arieff on Prefab, Going Local, and Why the Suburbs Aren't So Bad (Podcast)]]> Aug 04, 2011

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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

<![CDATA[Lawrence Bender, Producer of An Inconvenient Truth (Podcast)]]> Jul 21, 2011

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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

<![CDATA[Seth Fletcher on Superbatteries, Electric Cars, and the New Lithium Economy (Podcast)]]> Jul 07, 2011

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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

<![CDATA[NASA's James Hansen on Climate Change and Intergenerational Justice (Podcast)]]> Jun 23, 2011

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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

<![CDATA[Musician Ben Sollee on the Ravages of Coal and the Wonders of the Bicycle (Podcast)]]> Jun 20, 2011

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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

<![CDATA[Sarah Rich on Local Food and Disruptive Technology (Podcast)]]> Jun 09, 2011

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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

<![CDATA[Alexis Madrigal on Powering the Dream (Podcast)]]> May 26, 2011

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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

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