Host Francesca Rheannon talks with author and climate activist Bill McKibben about his new book, EAARTH. It’s about adapting to a planet already transformed by global warming. Then James Hoggan exposes the lies of the climate denial industry — and who’s behind them. And we air a clip from an archived interview with George Monbiot, author of HEAT.
Articles Tagged ‘ sustainability ’
What’s An Economy For, Anyway?
October 12th, 2009
Is there an upside to the downside of the recession (or “jobless recovery”)? Francesca reviews some of the books that cover this ground, and the people that are discussing alternative economies.
LIFE, INC. and Washington Sex Scandals, too
August 29th, 2009
Media critic Doug Rushkoff talks about LIFE, INC., his new book about our disconnect from each other caused by corporations; and Jeff Sharlet, author of THE FAMILY, returns for another interview, updating us on how the sex scandals in Washington are splitting the Christian Right.
Human Spaces and Liveable Cities
August 29th, 2009
Francesca interviews scientist Colin Ellard about his book YOU ARE HERE: Why We Can Find Our Way To The Moon But Get Lost At The Mall; also, urban geographer Rutherford Platt tells us about his book THE HUMANE METROPOLIS.
Sustainable Gardening
May 26th, 2009
We talk with Toby Hemenway about his updated , Carleen Madigan tells us how to turn a lawn into a BACKYARD HOMESTEAD, and Patricia Klindienst (THE EARTH KNOWS MY NAME) talks about three gardens of immigrant Americans in this excerpt from our archived interview with her.
Surviving the Long Emergency
March 2nd, 2009
Host Francesca Rheannon talks with engineer and survivalist Matthew Stein about his book, WHEN TECHNOLOGY FAILS: A Manual for Self-Reliance, Sustainability, and Surviving the Long Emergency.
Climate Change, Past, Present and Future
August 1st, 2008
The current climate crisis isn’t the first time human beings have faced global climate change. Extreme weather, ice sheets melting into the Arctic ocean, and mega-droughts lasting a century or more: it all happened before, between the tenth and the fifteenth centuries. The global warming of the Middle Ages changed civilization, bringing both great disorder [...]
Philip Fradkin and Rutherford Platt
April 8th, 2008
We talk with biographer Philip Fradkin about the life of Wallace Stegner, writer and environmentalist extraordinaire. His book is WALLACE STEGNER AND THE AMERICAN WEST. You can read a New York Times review of Fradkin’s book (which says a lot more about Stegner than about the biography) here. And for the first chapter, go here. [...]
Patricia Klindienst, THE EARTH KNOWS MY NAME
June 12th, 2007
Patricia Klindienst talks about . Also, check out the Writer’s Voice interview with Klindienst we did in 2009 about her latest book.
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