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The TH Interview: Ariella Maron—The Greening of New York City
Friday, August 8th, 2008
Love it or hate it, New York’s 8.25 million people are some of the greenest citizens walking among us. Whether they know it or not, New Yorkers have significantly lighter footprints than the vast majority of Americans, and Mayor Bloomberg is trying to seal the deal by greening NYC’s buildings, yellow taxis, black limos, public transit, and introducing a climate protection act and congestion charging (although it failed, despite notable support). This is all in preparation for an influx of new New Yorkers in the next twenty years.
Ariella Maron is Bloomberg’s Deputy Director of Long Term Planning and Sustainability, which means it’s her job to see that the city gets greened and that the journey is properly mapped. She spoke to us about the nitty gritty of PlaNYC 2030, and about New York’s potential on the world stage. ::TreeHugger Radio
Listen to the podcast of this interview via iTunes, or just click here to listen, right-click to download.
Special thanks goes to CraigMichaels, the organizer of the Sustainable Operations Summit, for arranging this interview.
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The TH Interview: Chris Page—The Green Yahoo
Friday, August 1st, 2008
Climate impact might not be the first thing on your mind when jumping on a search engine (unless you’re searching “climate impact”). But much is going on behind the scenes of these ethereal data dealers of search. Yahoo! has recruited its secret weapon in the climate battle, Christina Page, from the arsenal of the Rocky Mountain Institute, Amory Lovins’ brainy and prestigious “think-and-do tank,” (also a TH guest poster).
As Yahoo!’s director of climate and energy strategy, Page has been charged with bringing the company to carbon neutrality (which it accomplished in 2007), and with developing outlets like its green autos page, 18Seconds.org (the CFL initiative of Inconvenient Truth producer Lawrence Bender), and Freecycle (a Yahoo! group). Yahoo! is also trying to harness the brains and fingers of its 500 million users to create green iconography, do-gooder advertising, and a world of green Web users. ::TreeHugger Radio
Also check out our interview with Yahoo! co-founder David Filo.
Listen to the podcast of this interview via iTunes, or just click here to listen, right-click to download.
Special thanks goes to CraigMichaels, the organizer of the Sustainable Operations Summit, for arranging this interview.
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The TH Interview: Paul Hawken—Blessed Unrest (Part Two)
Thursday, July 24th, 2008
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In part two of our in-depth discussion, Paul Hawken unpacks his new opensource, wiki-based Web entity, WISER Earth. He also offers up some details on Blessed Unrest the movie (and the remix), and brings it back to basics with the news no one wants to talk about. ::TreeHugger Radio
Listen to the podcast of this interview via iTunes, or just click here to listen, right-click to download. Click here for part one.
Special thanks go to CraigMichaels, the organizer of the Sustainable Operations Summit, for arranging this interview.
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The TH Interview: Paul Hawken—Blessed Unrest (Part One)
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For many people, Paul Hawken is a man who needs no introduction at all. As an author, a speaker, a theorist, and a business person, Paul Hawken has shaped the discussion of what sustainability is, and how it can be achieved. His Ecology of Commerce was an eye opener for many people (including Ray Anderson, last week’s interviewee), and Natural Capitalism, that he wrote with Amory and Hunter Lovins, can often be seen in the hands of Bill Clinton, brandished as a wakeup call to industry. Paul’s new book, Blessed Unrest (and its sister web community, Wiser Earth), is something different altogether: an exploration of what he says is the largest movement in human history. ::TreeHugger Radio
Listen to the podcast of this interview via iTunes, or just click here to listen, right-click to download.
Special thanks go to CraigMichaels, the organizer of the Sustainable Operations Summit, for arranging this interview.
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The TH Interview: Ray Anderson—The Man with a Spear in his Chest (Part Two)
Thursday, July 10th, 2008
Interface sells carpet to the tune of $1,100,000,000 each year. That is just one reason why the business world listens up when Ray Anderson speaks. Ray describes his ecological awakening as “a spear in the chest,” a wound he has used to both his company’s advantage, and the planet’s. Giving rebirth to 133 million pounds of carpet is just the beginning. Anderson and his design teams are hard at work studying nature’s delicate technologies—like the sticky feet of geckos—to make products better, cleaner, and more beautiful. Here, the founder of Interface shares his insights on biomimicry, right-brain thinking, cradle-to-cradle design, and our innate “biophilia.” ::TreeHugger Radio
Listen to the podcast of this interview via iTunes, or just click here to listen, right-click to download.
Special thanks go to CraigMichaels, the organizer of the Sustainable Operations Summit, for arranging this interview.
Also, check out part one of our Ray Anderson interview. (Full text after the jump)
The TH Interview: Ray Anderson—The Man with a Spear in his Chest (Part One)
Friday, July 4th, 2008
Ray Anderson started his company, Interface, back in the 1970s to make carpet. Like any business man, he wanted to shake up the market and make a healthy profit, which he’s done, and Interface now has 17 manufacturing locations on four continents. But this is not business as usual. Not anymore. Since having a sustainability epiphany, as he calls it, Ray has starting steering Interface toward one hell of a goal: zero negative effects on the planetary ecosystem by the year 2020, a goal he admits no corporation has yet reached. TreeHugger has long found inspiration in Interface’s elegant design solutions—products like modular carpet and FLOR—and in Anderson’s own sagely words. ::TreeHugger Radio
Listen to the podcast of this interview via iTunes, or just click here to listen, right-click to download.
Special thanks go to CraigMichaels, the organizer of the Sustainable Operations Summit, for arranging this interview.
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The TH Interview: Will Wynn—Austin’s Green Mayor (Part Two)
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In the second half of our face-to-face with Austin’s mayor, Will Wynn talks about his part in the race to be America’s greenest city, the decoupling of profits and pollution, and his vision for America getting it right (after we’ve exhausted every other option). ::TreeHugger Radio
Listen to the podcast of this interview via iTunes, or just click here to listen, right-click to download.
Click here for Part One.
Image courtesy of Kim Lemaire.
The TH Interview: Will Wynn—Austin’s Green Mayor
Friday, June 20th, 2008
Austin Texas is a direct challenge to typical stereotypes about the American South. As the capital of the most polluting state, Austin has decided to flip the script and become one of the most progressive cities in the nation. Mayor Will Wynn has been instrumental in this, and he’s the perfect man for the job. Born and raised in West Texas and graduating Texas A&M with a degree in environmental design, he speaks about climate change in the same twangy matter-of-fact way as another southern man with a fondness for cowboy boots, Mr. Al Gore.
Wynn has helped Austin become a national leader in wind power, biodiesel, plug-in hybrid cars, and more. He was a keynote speaker at the this year’s Sustainable Operations Summit in Monterey, California, which is where TreeHugger Radio caught up with him. ::TreeHugger Radio
Listen to the podcast of this interview via iTunes, or just click here to listen, right-click to download.
Special thanks go to CraigMichaels, the organizer of the Sustainable Operations Summit, for arranging this interview. Image credit: Caleb Miller.
Also check out: The TH Interview: Roger Duncan, Plug-in Partners
The TH Interview: Will Wynn—Austin’s Green Mayor (Part One)
Friday, June 20th, 2008
Austin Texas is a direct challenge to typical stereotypes about the American South. As the capital of the most polluting state, Austin has decided to flip the script and become one of the most progressive cities in the nation. Mayor Will Wynn has been instrumental in this, and he’s the perfect man for the job. Born and raised in West Texas and graduating Texas A&M with a degree in environmental design, he speaks about climate change in the same twangy matter-of-fact way as another southern man with a fondness for cowboy boots, Mr. Al Gore.
Wynn has helped Austin become a national leader in wind power, biodiesel, plug-in hybrid cars, and more. He was a keynote speaker at the this year’s Sustainable Operations Summit in Monterey, California, which is where TreeHugger Radio caught up with him. ::TreeHugger Radio
Listen to the podcast of this interview via iTunes, or just click here to listen, right-click to download.
Special thanks go to CraigMichaels, the organizer of the Sustainable Operations Summit, for arranging this interview. Image credit: Caleb Miller.
Also check out: The TH Interview: Roger Duncan, Plug-in Partners
TH Radio Special: Inside Tesla Motors (With Pics)
Thursday, June 12th, 2008
Like Angelina Jolie, the Tesla Roadster looks smaller in person. Notwithstanding all the hype and speed-geek obsession around the electric car, it is a stunning thing to behold; truly elegant. Tesla’s San Carlos engineering facility is where the masterpiece is crafted, and TreeHugger Radio got a nice deep look inside. VP of Marketing Darryl Siry gave us the latest on the delivery of the Roadster, the star-studded waiting list, and even let us snag some exclusive shots (below the jump). ::TreeHugger Radio
Listen to this podcast via iTunes, or just click here to listen, right-click to download.
Special thanks to Calabash Music for the soundtrack.
The TH Interview: Mark Tercek—An Investment Golden Boy Heads for the NGO World
Thursday, June 5th, 2008
As the world’s largest investment bank, Goldman Sachs raised some bushy eyebrows when it began putting its weight behind green investments. Spearheading the bank’s Environmental Markets Initiative was Mark Tercek, a managing director and longtime veteran of the bank. But now Goldman’s green golden boy is packing his bags to take the top seat at The Nature Conservancy, one of the world’s largest environmental NGOs. Here, Mark speaks about crisis at the Conservancy, his two decades at Goldman, the green bubble, and the end of greenwashing. ::TreeHugger Radio
Listen to the podcast of this interview via iTunes, or just click here to listen, right-click to download.
Also see: The TH Interview: Stephanie Meeks of the Nature Conservancy
Special thanks to Calabash Music for the soundtrack.