Sea Change Radio

In Part I of Alex Wise‘s conversation with Stewart Brand, Brand makes his case for expanding nuclear energy. In Part II, Brand takes an unexpected position on genetically modified organisms, one which calls into question fundamental assumptions that underlie environmentalism itself. Stewart Brand is an American writer best known as the editor of the Whole Earth Catalog.

Bill Baue and Francesca Rheannon speak with eco-philosopher Joanna Macy about The Great Turning. 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. The first was with a conversation with David Korten.

Saving Landfills from Unnecessary Waste:   Alex Wise speaks with Karen Nelson, co-founder of EarthBaby, which produces compostable diapers. Alex also talks with clean tech analyst and green business investor, Daniel Hunt, about corporate interests crowding out ecological progress.

Jeff Erikson of SustainAbility discusses findings of a global survey of sustainability experts on corporate impacts on water, and Cameron Brooks of IBM’s Big Green Innovations team discusses its recent focus on “Smarter Water Management.”   Sea Change Radio is a weekly show about corporate sustainability and accountability. SCR looks closely at the role corporations have in setting the agenda and controlling the discussion of issues in the world and the role corporations are and should play in global climate change and protection.

Bill Baue talks with 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.　

Sea Change Radio is a weekly show about corporate sustainability and accountability. SCR looks closely at the role corporations have in setting the agenda and controlling the discussion of issues in the world and the role corporations are and should play in global climate change and protection.

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In this last episode of the Back To The Future series, David Bollier talks about the commons, Patrick Quinlan talks about wind power in Massachusetts and Dan Juhl talks about community wind power.　

Bill Haywood, CEO of LS9, a San Francisco-based company that makes what it calls Ultra Clean Fuels and Sustainable Chemicals talks about the process of “brewing” biofuels. And Robin Gold, co-founder of Dogpatch Biofuels, talks about his filling station in San Francisco where drivers can gas up on biodiesel.　

Back To The Future continues with a 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. Robert Forrant, professor of regional economic development and sustainability at UMass-Lowell tells us about machine tool manufacturing in the 19th century and the lessons that holds for today.

Alex Wise interviews Moira DeNike about waste vegetable oil and Kelsey Flynn talks to Ric Sustache of Greasecar. Bill Baue speaks with Michael Aronson of ReRun Sports Shoes, a company he co-founded to collect used shoes in the US to sell in Africa.　

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Sea Change Radio studies sustainable education, talking with Mark Orlowski of the Sustainable Endowments Institute about its annual College Sustainability Report Card. We also cover green initiatives at UMass, Greenfield Community College, and OSU.　

In this edition of the Sea Change Radio series Back To The Future, Francesca Rheannon talks with historian Kerry Buckley about the heyday of the trolley system in Massachusetts; rail trail promoter Craig Della Penna talks about how rail trails came about and where they are going; and anthropologist Cathy Stanton talks about how we could reinvent the relationship between cars and other lower carbon means of transportation, like bikes and light rail.　

Tom Rossmassler, CEO of Energia, describes his innovative new energy efficiency company founded by two nonprofits — Nuestras Raices and Nueva Esparanza – and Co-op Power, a worker cooperative. And we profile the Roots Up Green Jobs program, run by Nuestras Raices and Co-op Power, which will train workers for Energia.　

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.

Sea Change Radio covers Oceans Day, a side event at the recent Copenhagen Climate Conference looking at the impact of climate change on oceans. In the NewsAnalysis, TIAA-CREF divests from companies alleged to be complicit in genocide in response to Investors Against Genocide.　

Nobel Laureate Wangari Maathai talks about the links between environmental justice, women’s empowerment, democratic governance, and sustainability. Maathai’s latest book is The Challenge for Africa. Also on the show, filmmakers Alan Dater and Lisa Merton talk about their documentary Taking Root: The Vision of Wangari Maathai.

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