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Betsy Rosenberg
Now in its ninth year on the airwaves, EcoTalk is an award-winning series of one-minute vignettes that focus on all aspects of a greener lifestyle. This first-of-its-kind feature offers the latest on emerging eco-trends with an emphasis on everyday tips for resource conservation, energy efficiency, responsible consumption and waste reduction.
Veteran broadcast journalist Betsy Rosenberg’s compelling sound-bytes connect the dots for listeners and make the case that environmental protection is in the best interest of consumers, communities, and corporations.
Driving less? Dams, the David Brower Youth Awards and the necessity to clean coal
Here is our program.
The Alliance To Save Energy’s Lowell Unger will tell us why W’s recent request for Americans to drive less is not going to get us where we need to go, and what you can do about getting CAFÉ standards out of “stall” mode in the legislature.
Author Jacques Leslie will talk about his new book, Deep Water, about the destructive power of dams.
Three young eco-activists, recipients of the David Brower Youth Awards talk about their projects.
Coal-fired power plants are the single largest source of man-made CO2, accounting for one quarter to one third of the world's total.
An entire generation of obsolete coal-fired power plants built in the 1950s and 1960s needs to be replaced.
David Hawkins, director of the NRDC's Climate Center explains the strategic importance of choosing the right technology for the new coal plants that are going to be built: "If the plants are not designed up front to capture their CO2, they will lock us into large amounts of global-warming emissions for their entire operating lifetimes."
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