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GRITtv: Mary McBride: Love and Music
"Her voice is part angel, part truck driver, as if to say sometimes you power through sadness, and sometimes you just hope for a miracle." That's what the New York Times wrote about Mary McBride, whose voice you may recognize from "No One's Gonna Love You Like Me," from Ang Lee's Brokeback Mountain. Mary has a new holiday album out, Every Day Is a Holiday, and she joins Laura to talk songwriting, Brokeback, and why it never occurred to her to be in the closet.
Email this pageGRITtv: Climate Change: Local Leaders Ahead of the World
The Copenhagen climate conference this week focuses on creating a new global pact as a successor to the Kyoto Accord. But the U.S. never ratified the treaty, and Congress is still lagging behind on passing legislation to deal with global warming. We talk to some New Yorkers working for change in their own backyards. Miquela Craytor, executive director of Sustainable South Bronx, James Gennaro of the New York City Council and Dale Bryk of the Natural Resources Defense Council are all working in different ways to create sustainable jobs and fight climate change.
GRITtv: Dec. 7, 2009
Since U.S. presidents and Congress have dragged their heels on climate-change legislation, local activists and governments have often taken the lead in pushing for stronger regulations and innovations. Miquela Craytor, James Gennaro and Dale Bryk discuss working locally to create sustainable jobs and fight climate change. John Nichols of the Nation calls for the government to shift TARP money to create a jobs program. Mary Mcbride talks songwriting and being out of the closet as a musician with a very mixed audience. Finally, we revisit Honduras, where the recent election was boycotted by supporters of ousted President Manuel Zelaya.
