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bm291 Climate Change and The Age of Stupid
He has traveled around the world showing the Al Gore film and speaking about climate change. But Stuart Scott isn’t satisfied with the results and he’s got a new task in his climate change education mission. After a disappointing conference in Poland, Stuart explains how the governments of the world are still thinking small,... »
Threatening NYC Water
Some of you may recall a great guest I had on the podcast last year, Al Appleton, the man who saved the NYC water system. I thought of Al today as I read about how »
bmtv94 Undamming Rivers
Word from the Northwest of the US is that 4 dams along the Klamath river will be removed by 2011. The river will once again flow and the ecosystem will have a fighting chance after almost a century of being dammed. It will be the largest dam removal and ecosystem restoriation project anywhere… ever. »
Texas gets Smaller
Interesting piece from McClatchy newspapers included on the Guardian online today, all about the dramatic change to the Texas coastline that will follow this latest hurricane. Texas is of course famous for being huge, but also for having a highly developed coastline and generally a very polluted environment. And one of the changes that is... »
bm276 Mauritania, Greenpeace, and Bottom Trawling
Following my guest a few weeks ago, Pauline Bax, who discussed her visit to Mauritania and her research into the issue of selling fishing rights to EU companies, several experts from around the world were quite upset. Their frustration was related to the issue of ocean bottom trawling, a practice which has been banned... »