Because we all contribute
to global warming, be co-dependent no more:
1st Step: Admit
you are powerless over your addiction to using energy
and that your high energy use has become unmanageable, and then
change 10 light bulbs in your house to
compact florescent bulbs. Taking this first step
saves 1,795 lbs of carbon dioxide per year!
Continue reading "EcoTalk’s 12 Step Program for “Warm-a-holics*”" »
Want to hear what engaging, positive voices EcoTalk could bring to your radio station? Check out Betsy Rosenberg's inspiring mix of green ideas, trends, and personalities, and call your local affiliate to demand that EcoTalk be heard on your patch of this great green Earth. LISTEN
Powering the planet (pdf) is the title of the inaugural speech given by Nathan Lewis at the California Clean Innovation Conference. At this point we don't have a recording.
This might be EcoTalk's last hurrah as a daily show, but we'll be damned if we won't go out with yet another jam-packed hour of news that will inform the future that us optimists are determined to see through.
If the mainstream media were a little more concerned with concrete plans for our energy future than the cost of somebody's haircut, presidential outside shot Governor Bill Richardson (NM) might have a reasonable shot at the White House this upcoming silly season. David Sandretti of the League of Conservation Voters joins Betsy to outline the big guy's plan to combat climate change. LISTEN (10 min)
Treehugger Correspondent Simran Sethi
reports on France's request that the US show more leadership on reducing emissions, the green rebuilding of tornado-devastated Greensburg, Kansas, the unusual challenge of making the Burning Man festival sustainable, and Paul Hawken's incisive new book "Blessed Unrest." LISTEN (8 min)
Shawnee Hoover of Exxpose Exxon comments on reports that say that despite their ongoing insistence that they've severed ties with the Competitive Enterprise Institute and renounced smearing the science of climate change, Exxon "is still funding more than $2 million to the majority of climate skeptic groups" closely linked to CEI and their ilk. LISTEN (8 min)
Richard Heinberg performs his role as EcoTalk's final (for now) guest with aplomb, discussing Exxon's latest shenanigans as well as his books The Party's Over and The Oil Depletion Protocol.
And finally, Betsy sees us out with a brand new Madonna tune, released as part of the LiveEarth series of concerts to combat climate change: "Hey You." Download it here! LISTEN (12 min)
Toronto Mayor David Miller talks about representing one of the sixteen major world cities (plus five major banking institutions) to cut carbon emissions by renovating city-owned buildings with the Greenest of practices and the Clinton Climate Initiative: "This is a win win win win win win." This what it takes! Teamwork, optimism, and practical business. LISTEN (11 min)
Paul Ehrlich has been both authoritative and controversial for forty years, so that fact that to this day his still somewhat taboo advocacy of population control and his other work are cited in newspaper editorials no longer shocks him: "I am an outsider from the point of view of the media. I am an insider from the point of view of science. Scientists don't care what Jerry Falwell, or Limbaugh, or Coulter say. They care about what other scientists say." Join us for a special interview that is as compelling as it is freewheeling.
PART ONE (7 min) PART TWO (12 min)
Greg & Connie Mattison of the "GreenByDesign", the creative and frisky Green Building TV show that's taking the state of the New Jersey (and beyond) by storm. Connie: "I think there are many out there who don't know where to begin. We thought, 'Well, you can watch us while we learn.'" Greg: "We call ourselves newlygreens." Check it out! LISTEN (8 min)
Beantrees Organic Coffee founder Barrie Gromala tells us about the coffee that has won over celebrities like Oprah's chef and Aerosmith, and announces a great deal for all of us and our planet: order coffee from Beantrees.com, and Beantrees will donate one dollar per bag to keep EcoTalk on the air!
LISTEN (9 min)
In the growing Green Building Community, Andres Edwards of EduTracks and author of The Sustainability Revolution is among the most thoughtful. Here he opines on Tibet, Deep Ecology, and helping companies like Whole Foods, Pfizer, small non profits, and government agencies make the practical decisions that we will look back on and call wisdom: "When I started, it was a huge learning curve for folks to begin to understand, 'What is Green building?' As it's very rapidly been mainstreamed people are a lot more familiar." LISTEN (11 min)
Green Building Initiative's Ward Hubbell checks in with EcoTalk following his Senate testimony on how the Federal Government makes Green Building an implicit part of a smart, forward-thinking government: "I think what [the Senate] were trying to do was get educated on the various rating systems out there and the different approaches." Find out about GBI's Green Globes rating system here. LISTEN (8 min)
Clean Air Watch President (and EcoTalk favorite) Frank O'Donnell weighs in on the President Bush's pledge to abide by the Clean Air Act (or at least mouth words to that effect). "I think that the president has come up with a strategy to stall off any kind of action, and essentially put the US EPA into a straitjacket of bureauracratic process," Frank tells Betsy. Does this have to be "a long process", as the President says? LISTEN (10 min)
This is a rerun of our April 30 program:
Greenpeace Canada Targets Prime Minister Harper LISTEN (10 min)
Vanity Fair's 2nd Annual Green Issue LISTEN ( 8 min)
Kim McKay: True Green LISTEN (12 min)
Lori Pye, Eco-Psychology, and Eco-Suicide LISTEN (8 min)
Dear Friends of EcoTalk
“EcoTalk’s Inconvenient
Truth":
If Green is the new Black why are we in the Red?
The nearly three years of broadcasting our groundbreaking program on Air America have come with nearly constant turbulence. As the nation's first progressive network with ambitious expansion plans experienced growing pains, EcoTalk weathered them all - but not without significant cost. Selling advertising and partnerships was our only means to cover production costs and that task was made difficult for many reasons.
Paul Hawken talks about his most recent book Blessed Unrest : How the Largest Movement in the World Came in to Being and Why No One Saw it Coming.
Part 1 (11 min) Part 2 (7 min)
Kevin Contreras talks about his new PBS program Building Green.
LISTEN ( 10 min)
You can also read his blog.
This week, correspondent Jeff McIntire Strasburg
sheds some light on the murky question of ethanol versus biodiesel. We
speak with Mark Oberholzer, a runner-up in the 2006 Metropolis Next
Generation Design Competition, whose plan for roadside turbines aims at
getting something back from the flow of traffic. We also speak with the
designer of World Without Oil, an online alternate reality game that simulates a world in the throes of an oil shock. LISTEN (9 min)
This is a rerun of our program of April 27:
Schwarzenegger tells the EPA to shape up LISTEN (10 min)
Treehugger: Earth Day Hangover Edition LISTEN (8 min)
PG&E's Nancy McFadden LISTEN (11 min)
Clif Bars GreenNotes Program LISTEN (8 min)
As the Dead Sea shrinks three feet per year, can Israel, Jordan, and the Palestinian territories find common ground in these common waters to build a more lasting peace? Oregon State professor and author of Hydropolitics along the Jordan River: the impact of scarce water resources on the Arab-Israeli conflict Aaron Wolf offers his thoughts on the solutions, and the political will necessary to save the Dead Sea. LISTEN (11 min)
Think only inorganic, GMO, pesticide-laden agriculture can feed the world's poor, and that organic is merely an indugence of the elite? While certain parties have a vested interest in having us believe that, University of Michigan researcher Catherine Badgley tells Betsy about some new studies that suggest that organic agriculture can feed the world. LISTEN (7 min)
Brad College Environmental Studies Chair Mark H. Lytle checks in to discuss his new book The Gentle Subversive: Rachel Carson, Silent Spring, and the Rise of the Environmental Movement: "[Carson] really believed that the right to endure gave us a right to know. She felt that unless the public had the facts necessary to make an informed decision, they were going to be unwitting victims." We take such citizen advocacy for granted today, but as multinational coporations and the chemical revolution created a brave new world of potential dangers to human beings, Carson was one of the first people to stick her neck out for all of us. LISTEN (12 min)
The city of Boston has cut its PC energy use by an astonishing 44 percent with the help of power management software company Verdiem. With power management something we need in every city, Verdiem Vice President of Business Development Dave Harvey tells Betsy what they can offer to any City or Company in the land. LISTEN (8 min)
This is a rerun of our April 20 program:
Earth Day co-founder Pete McCloskey PART ONE (11 min) PART TWO (7 min)
Treehugger: Eco America's Bob Perkowitz LISTEN (12 min)
Home Depot's New Eco Options LISTEN (8 min)
If you like bars and you happen to be in Phuket then you’re in luck. In fact it’s like your birthday, Christmas and Wedding day all rolled into one. Phuket bars are world renowned as excellent places to drink and hang out. Phuket bars alone are definitely worthy of a trip to Phuket.
One thing is for sure: Phuket bars are markedly different from their Western counterparts, and the organization of the bars will leave some confused. Never fear! I’m here to clear up some of this confusion.
The main area where most of the bars are situated is Bangla road. This road is around 600m and is wall to wall with restaurants, market stalls, bars and night clubs. There are some other areas where you will find some evening action, but Bangla road has to be one of the most impressive.
Most of the Phuket bars are positioned on side streets called ‘Soi’s. A Soi is just a grouping of related or unrelated establishments; they have names like ‘Soi Crocodile’, ‘Soi Lion’ and, interestingly, ‘Soi Eric’.
You can easily get lost in one Soi for an evening (or more); if you want a better taster of what Phuket bars are about then you would do better to do a little more traveling around the different types of Soi.
Getting a free Ares download is pretty easy. Typing free Ares download into Google should give you any number of excellent choices. There are some places to be wary of, though.
Places like OfficialAres.com are great sites to learn about getting a free Ares download. There’s loads of information there that is both interesting and useful to new and old users alike. Point your browser over there and see what you think. They’ve got a really useful section on reviews and comparisons of different versions of Ares.
A lot of free software on the web is put there purely for the benefit of its use and distribution. Other, less morally acceptable, people will place software online just for the purposes of infecting your computer with a virus, a Trojan horse, or some spyware. The latter is probably the most common when it comes to getting a free Ares download. Software like Ares Destiny comes packaged with ‘Dealio’ which is a pretty nasty piece of adware software. The providers of Ares Destiny are brazen enough to actually claim this as a ‘feature’ of the software.
There are plenty of good resources on the internet for getting a free Ares download, but you’ve really got to use your common sense when you decide from where you get it.
Salvia wasn’t a well known drug until the middle of the last century, it was mentioned in 1963 by scholars Richard Schultes and R. Gordon Wasson, from experimenting in psychedelic explorations in the 1960’s and 1970’s. Salvia is also known as Salvia Divinorum and has become quite well known and is being used by teens in universities all over the world. Is Salvia the new Marijuana?
Salvia Divinorum was once mentioned in an article about cooking with sage, it belongs to the mint family so you can understand why, but Salvia has totally different results when ingested.
Salvia can be taken in various ways but the most common is to smoke it. This produces experiences ranging from uncontrollable laughter to much more intense and profoundly altered states. Because of these effects Salvia has been likened to LSD.
A documentary in 1998 about the plant produced numerous Nexis mentions in the British press. As the drug was thought to be new, not many people had heard of it. But this plant is not new and has been known to the natives of Mexico’s Sierra Mazateca range for a long time, they use it to facilitate visionary states of consciousness during spiritual healing sessions.
Do you want to answer your iPhone calls wirelessly? Then what you need is the Apple iPhone Bluetooth Headset. This is a fantastic mobile headset that is compatible with any other mobile phone. You can also purchase a wired headset from the Apple iPhone accessories range for when you are not on the go. Obviously the wired version is going to be cheaper for you. But if you want to look like an android then the wireless version is going to be your choice.
One of the important iPhone accessories that you need is a screen cover or iPhone case to protect the clear blue screen which can easily be scratched. I’m sure you don’t want to damage this lovely screen.
Do you travel long distances? Why not buy one of the iPhone travel pillows from Solutions.com. This will ensure you have a restful journey whilst listening to your favorite tracks.
Do you like good quality sounding music? If so you need to buy the Bose iPhone Headset as one of your iPhone accessories. I think everyone agrees that Bose produce the best headphones around.
So go on, treat yourself to something special now. There are numerous iPhone accessories to choose from.
I was scouring the net the other day to find the best place to download Ares software. I’m a filesharing virgin and, really, I wanted a site that would introduce me gently and hold my hand through the difficult first time. Fortunately I found OfficialAres.com which is not only a really good site, it seems like it’s a fantastic resource for anyone wishing to download Ares.
I didn’t know much about P2P filesharing, nor the controversy that surrounds the whole exercise. I thought that all I wanted to know about was how to download Ares. Now I realize, thanks to OfficialAres.com, that there’s a very interesting and varied world out there. The guides and FAQs on the site really helped me to understand more about my decision to download Ares. Without it I would still be in the dark over what exactly is going on my computer!
I read with interest the filesharing news and perused the reviews. Once I’d read through the site a little I was a lot more confident with my decision to download Ares. I’d definitely recommend this site to casual and more regular users of Ares filesharing software. The interesting a well written news section is worth a repeat visit in its own right. Great stuff.
I’m dedicated to my home based business. It has given me (and my family) a new lease of life which was sorely needed. Not only am I able to set my own hours (and, as a result, see more of my family), but I’m also able to work on the things I want to work on. I do not have to suffer a commute, and I don’t have to work for someone who I’d rather not spend any time at all with. All in all, this is the best thing I’ve ever done.
If I had the luxury of being able to turn back the clock a year then I would definitely do one thing differently: I would go to CitizenCorps.com and find a home business review for the business I undertook. It might have made me think a little differently about my future. A home business review at CitizenCorps.com would have given me a practical and unbiased opinion on the opportunity that I was going to expend so much sweat and tears upon.
CitizenCorps.com is without a doubt the greatest repository of information on the Internet. Not only is it a great place to find a home business review on pretty much any potential home business opportunity, but it’s a wealth of information on other related topics. Definitely worth a visit whether you’re a current or prospective home business practitioner, whether you’re looking for a home business review or otherwise.
Ares Galaxy has been a stalwart in the Ares filesharing software world since day one. It has always been there for me and for many others.
Unfortunately the old workhorse has start give up the ghost. Not only is Ares galaxy past its sell by date, but there some trouble with Ares not connecting to its network properly. This is a major annoyance for many people. Ares connecting is just something that happens: like morning turning into the evening.
The problem with Ares not connecting appears to be originating from the cnodes (listen at me… sounds like I know what I’m talking about. Really I don’t, I just happened to hear it from someone that does!) not repopulating properly when the program is up and running. This results in Ares not connecting when you fire it back up.
Fortunately help is at hand. Ares Ultimate and Ares Vista – both relative newcomers to the scene – are programmed so that the cnodes problem is not a problem. In addition to solving the Ares connecting problem this software is just, well, better. Good job all round, really, and once you’ve made the swap you’ll be wondering just why you didn’t do it last year.
The key to receiving everything you desire is by learning how to achieve a vibrational harmony. So teaches the Law of Attraction. This ‘vibrational harmony’ is relating to the vibrations that your thoughts create when you think them. If you can direct these vibrations towards something that you really want to attract – or repel – then you may just attract it.
The Law of Attraction allows us, put simply, to shape our lives. When we are born we have a primordial sense of what can be achieved by positive thought and, conversely, how very damaging negative thoughts can be. This sense of self is beaten back by a society which keeps telling us to ’stand in line’ to ‘fit in’, and not to have crazy ideas.
I want those crazy ideas, and the Law of Attraction tells me that not only can I have them, but they’re most definitely good for me.
In order to reap the full benefits of the Law of Attraction you must learn to give your focus and attention to the things or experiences you truly desire. Giving your focus and attention on the absence of what you desire is a completely different concept and your negative vibrational energy will drive these things away.
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