Archive for January, 2008
Eco News for Wednesday - January 23, 2007
Tuesday, January 29th, 2008
Eco News is a 90-second news segment airing 4x a day / 5 days a week (9:58a, 1:58p, 7:58p and 9:58p) on Your TV20 (KBWB-TV San Francisco).
Eco News focuses on daily environmental and energy news, sustainability trends, new products, profiles of people on the cutting edge and lifestyle tips that support sustainability.
From the most current information on renewable energy and organic produce to environmentally friendly products and people making a difference, Eco News is your daily dose for everything Green!
Author: yourtv20
Keywords: your green report tv20 kbwb san francisco sf lesley nagy sustainable living eco-friendly news
Added: January 29, 2008
Inside Renewable Energy- February 7, 2008
Sunday, January 27th, 2008The Nubanusit Neighborhood and Farm is a new 29-unit co-housing development being built in Peterborough, NH. The community features state-of-the-art, energy-efficient homes; a working organic farm; seven wood pellet boilers for electricity and hot water; and “roughed in” plans for photovoltaics and solar hot water systems. Stephen Lacey visited the site and brought back this story.
Also in the podcast: Patrice Frey, Director of Sustainability Research at the National Trust for Historic Preservation tells us why preservation is one of the most effective tools for combating climate change and avoiding “green sprawl.”
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Inside Renewable Energy- January 31, 2008
Sunday, January 27th, 2008The race is on to bring the biofuels industry to the next level. As more people question the prudence of food-based fuels, researchers and companies are aggressively looking for commercially viable ways to produce greener alternatives to gasoline.
This week, we’ll talk with Rob Tripp, CEO of Benefuel, a company that calls itself a “next-generation” biodiesel producer. Rob tells us about Benefuel’s proprietary catalyst and how it makes for a more economical and environmentally-sound refining process.
Also, University of Nebraska Adjunct Professor Ken Vogel speaks about a five-year study showing that the energy potential of switchgrass-based ethanol is 450 percent higher than the energy put into growing, harvesting and refining the fuel.
Finally, Greg Wetstone, Senior Director of Governmental and Public Affairs at the American Wind Energy Association considers the importance of renewable energy development during these rough times for the U.S. and global economies.
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Facilitating Economic Localization in Willits, California
Saturday, January 26th, 2008
Peak Moment 94: Jason Bradford and Brian Weller, co-founders of Willits Economic LocaLization (WELL), discuss their group’s approach to educating and enrolling their townsfolk about declining oil and the imperative to reduce dependencies on imported energy, food, and other goods. They view their group as a mid-WIFE: a Watchdog, Incubator, Facilitator and Educator. They’re pioneering “rediscovering where we live–and it’s exciting.” [www.willitseconomiclocalization.org]
Author: peakmoment
Keywords: localization peak oil energy local economy organizing Willits
Added: January 26, 2008
Clint Eastwood on Saving San Onofre
Friday, January 25th, 2008
Clint Eastwood talks about learning to surf at San Onofre State Park, and why we need to stop a proposed toll road from destroying the park forever.
Author: NRDCflix
Keywords: Clint Eastwood NRDC San Onofre Toll Road Activism California
Added: January 25, 2008
TGM #69: Consumer choices (January 25, 2008)
Friday, January 25th, 2008This week:
We feature a lecture by NOW Magazine columnist Adria Vasil, who presents her views on the ins and outs of getting by in good health and good ecological conscience in this age of dodgy consumer products. A compilation of her weekly column is available in her recently published book, Ecoholic.
Technical producer Alex Nursall joins [...]
FOOD NEWS: Kitchen Literacy
Thursday, January 24th, 2008
A conversation with author, Ann Vileisis about Kitchen Literacy, what we know about our food, and how we came to know it. For Ann, her book Kitchen Literacy came about because she was struck by how much she didn’t know about the common foods she encountered in the supermarket. In the research for her book, she was surprised to learn how much people expected to know about their food in pre-industrial times. For example, meats, they would find out the sex and age of the animal, the farm it came from, and even the animal’s background. Certainly a far cry from our expectations today!
Author: cookingupastory
Keywords: food history kitchen literacy book authors sustainable stories locally grown advertising commercial
Added: January 24, 2008
More Hip Than Hippie - Visit with a ChicoEco Activist
Thursday, January 24th, 2008More Hip Than Hippie #134 - Visit with a ChicoEco Activist
Beer and Chocolate:
Beer: Sierra Nevada ESB
Chocolate: Some type of chocolate with almonds by United Confectioners sent in by Brent and Tracy
in Wisconsin who picked it up while in Russia to adopt their first child. Thanks, and more importantly, CONGRATULATIONS on the new
addition to your family!
Hip News and Finds
Finds:
- Pop it! What’s more fun than bubble wrap? Virtual Bubblewrap!
Our only advice is to make sure the sound on your computer is turned up because the popping sound is half the fun!
Hip News:
- We still don’t really want to eat it. The FDA has found no safety risks in the meat from healthy
cloned cows, pigs, or goats or milk from cloned cows or their offspring. - Give it up for Google. Google has announced its core initiatives to combat
climate change, poverty, and other emerging threats. - Changes at Safeway. Safeway has announced that they will run its U.S. fleet
of trucks on biofuel.
Teenie Weenie Greenieâ
This week’s Teenie Weenie Greenieâ comes from Ines in Connecticut. If you’re comfortable that the dish washing soap you use when hand washing dishes is non-toxic, then skip rinsing and just dry it off with a towel. You’ll save water!
Visit with a ChicoEco Activist
Nani Teves of ChicoEco.org stops by the patio for a chat. Nani is a Chico, California resident who was inspired
by Al Gore’s famous documentary An Inconvenient Truth and decided to make a difference in her community.
Nani got in contact with a local environmental activist group and, with the help of the organization’s webmaster, started
ChicoEco.org. ChicoEco is an online community that encourages Chico residents and neighbors to
share what they’re doing to live more sustainably. People can post upcoming eco-events, find local green businesses, and
read environmental news.
One project Nani developed is designed to encourage people to bike more often. Since she lives on a bike route, she created a
Bike Station. The station has a sitting bench
she got for free and a box that houses a battery operated air pump, patches, and tools for changing a flat. What a brilliant idea!
And be sure to check out the projects
section for other great ideas to green your community.
Listener Emails
Once again, we have a bunch of great listener emails. Keep ‘em rolling in at hip@greenfeet.com.
And don’t forget to post articles, links, and speak your mind at our MHTH forum!
- Recycling made easy. Ines discovered a cool compartmentalized recycling bin at the Container Store. It looks like
a regular step-on trash can, but inside it has three different compartments for plastic, glass, and cans. - Biodegradable foil? Veggy Liz in NYC just got back from her honeymoon in the UK and was seriously impressed by all the
eco-friendly things she discovered during her two week trip. One of her favorite discoveries was energy bars wrapped in
biodegradable foil. - Did you know? Shayna sent along an article about 21 Things You Didn’t Know You Can Recycle.
- Are you a Texan looking for an electric car? Kristi wanted to let all
the Texans out there know that she has a relative who is selling an ‘81 Escort that was factory converted to run
off electricity. - Spider milking. Dori and Val still won’t go there, but Mike sent along a video
of spider milking.
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Inside Renewable Energy- January 24, 2008
Thursday, January 24th, 2008Concentrating Solar Power (CSP) is emerging as one of the most promising utility-scale renewable energy sources. The launch of Nevada Solar One last June sparked a revival for this so-called “sleeping giant” in the U.S. and marked the first of a series of important developments for the industry. But there is still much uncertainty about the mid-term prospects for CSP, as the possibility of the investment and production tax credits expiring hangs over the industry.
Faced with this rocky investment climate, the U.S. is falling behind countries like Spain, which has a generous feed-in tariff for CSP developers. Mike Taylor, Director of Research for the Solar Electric Power Association just got back from a trip to Spain where he toured a few different projects and talked to developers and financiers. Taylor and CSP Today founder Belen Gallego will tell us about how the Spanish industry is benefiting from the country’s renewable energy support structure.
We’ll also speak with Ausra Executive Vice President John O’Donnell about the company’s unique parabolic trough collectors and about how uncertainty in the U.S. market may impacting its aggressive business plan.
Finally, Darren Kimura, President and CEO of Sopogy talks about micro-CSP and how the company’s technology can play a major role in the distributed generation sector.
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Eco News for Wednesday - January 23, 2007
Wednesday, January 23rd, 2008
Eco News is a 90-second news segment airing 4x a day / 5 days a week (9:58a, 1:58p, 7:58p and 9:58p) on Your TV20 (KBWB-TV San Francisco).
Eco News focuses on daily environmental and energy news, sustainability trends, new products, profiles of people on the cutting edge and lifestyle tips that support sustainability.
From the most current information on renewable energy and organic produce to environmentally friendly products and people making a difference, Eco News is your daily dose for everything Green!
Author: yourtv20
Keywords: your green report tv20 kbwb san francisco sf lesley nagy sustainable living eco-friendly news
Added: January 23, 2008
Eco News for Tuesday - January 15, 2008
Wednesday, January 23rd, 2008
Eco News is a 90-second news segment airing 4x a day / 5 days a week (9:58a, 1:58p, 7:58p and 9:58p) on Your TV20 (KBWB-TV San Francisco).
Eco News focuses on daily environmental and energy news, sustainability trends, new products, profiles of people on the cutting edge and lifestyle tips that support sustainability.
From the most current information on renewable energy and organic produce to environmentally friendly products and people making a difference, Eco News is your daily dose for everything Green!
Author: yourtv20
Keywords: your green report tv20 kbwb san francisco sf lesley nagy sustainable living eco-friendly news
Added: January 23, 2008