Tag: environment
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July 07, 2008 03:16 PM EDT --
7/7/08's On Point program about community efforts to cut carbon emissions is inspiring. It is great to hear that an entire community of 4500 people can become carbon-neutral, and I look forward to . . .
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November 01, 2009 07:24 PM EST --
Maya Lin, "What Is Missing?" Listening Cone, 2009, installed at the California Academy of Sciences, San Francisco. (Photo: Bruce Damonte Photography, Inc. © Maya Lin Studio, Inc., courtesy PaceWildenstein, . . .
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September 30, 2009 05:12 AM EDT --
A U.S. delegate walk past solar panels on display outside a Future House, a clean energy resident development project in Beijing, China, on July 16, 2009. (AP)
Will China be the world’s clean-energy . . .
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May 02, 2007 10:05 AM EDT --
They sound like heaven, but more and more of the world is becoming a challenging hell for the world's most beautiful songbirds.
Now, biologists find that the realm of Scarlet Tanagers and Indigo Buntings, . . .
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April 13, 2009 09:36 PM EDT --
We're heading into the woods to look at logging today and Jack McEnany's new book "Brush Cat."
Guests:
Jack McEnany , author of “Brush Cat: On Trees, The Wood Economy, . . .
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June 25, 2009 06:12 PM EDT --
Vultures and ticks, jellyfish and slugs. We’ll look at the gritty, slimy life cycles of revolting creatures with gardener-journalist Constance Casey.
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Constance Casey is a former . . .
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July 01, 2009 04:24 PM EDT --
The passage of the House climate bill – discussed in our first hour today – has been greeted with enthusiasm in many quarters. But in some ways, the real question is whether . . .
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July 10, 2009 12:12 PM EDT --
Vultures and ticks, jellyfish and slugs. We’ll look at the gritty, slimy life cycles of revolting creatures with gardener-journalist Constance Casey.
Guests:
Constance Casey is a former . . .
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July 24, 2009 05:48 AM EDT --
Forget summer heat. We’re talking glaciers, igloos, blizzards, and adventures in the world's coldest places.
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Bill Streever joins us from Anchorage, Alaska. A biologist, he . . .
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October 21, 2009 02:36 PM EDT --
In today’s first hour , Whole Earth guru Stewart Brand and energy expert Amory Lovins debated whether the U.S. should build more nuclear power plants in the effort to reduce carbon emissions. . . .
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October 13, 2008 11:12 PM EDT --
Writer Peter Matthiessen. (AP)
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Thirty years ago, in the heart of the American century, novelist and nature writer Peter Matthiessen took Americans where few, maybe . . .
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May 10, 2007 09:48 AM EDT --
New York Times writer Natalie Angier is a champion for science. She has written about polar bears, cheetahs, lions, tigers and pit vipers. She's written about the science of empathy, altruism, why . . .
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June 05, 2007 03:49 PM EDT --
For most of his presidency, George W. Bush has famously doubted and dodged on global warming. Now, just in time to shake up allies in Europe, he’s out with a big plan on climate change that would . . .
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July 03, 2007 11:15 AM EDT --
How thirsty is America for bottled water? Pretty darned thirsty.
Every week of the year we now move a billion bottles of water from ground to gullet in ships and trains and trucks. That's the equivalent . . .
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April 25, 2007 08:39 AM EDT --
New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg said last wekeend he's going to make the Big Apple radically green by 2030.
Today On Point discussed how US cities are helping out on the environment . . .
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June 19, 2008 10:27 AM EDT --
His father was against it. So was his brother, Florida Governor Jeb Bush. So was he. But yesterday in the Rose Garden, with four-dollar gas at the pump, US President George W. Bush said: . . .
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September 17, 2009 10:36 PM EDT --
Isabella Rossellini, photographed at the 34th Toronto International Film Festival in Toronto, on Thursday, Sept. 10, 2009. (AP)
Actress, filmmaker, and model Isabella Rossellini on her new sex-in-nature . . .
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September 23, 2009 09:48 PM EDT --
The Tesla Model S, slated for 2011. (teslamotors.com)
America’s super-hot electric car from Tesla Motors. We’ll talk with Tesla CEO, Elon Musk.
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Elon Musk , CEO . . .
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August 16, 2007 10:52 AM EDT --
It’s been a summer of violent and gut-wrenching crime reports in America. From execution-style shootings in Newark to New Orleans and Oakland and home invasion in the leafy suburbs of Connecticut, . . .
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July 01, 2009 09:48 PM EDT --
Author Rick Bass at his home in Montana. (Photo by Nicole Blaisdell)
Author Rick Bass walks us through the changing seasons of the Montana wilderness, in his new book, "The Wild Marsh."
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