green economy
The Coffee House: Apr. 2010: Green Jobs
Washington Post reporter Steven Mufson is interviewed about the trend of domestic green jobs continuing to move overseas; the life of Mark Rooney is discussed with his two biographers Rob Ruck and Maggie Patterson; the Free Minds book club in the DC men's correction facility is revisited; Amnesty International's first Human Rights Art Festival is reviewed; singer-songwriter Lynn Hollyfield; and Ryan Gilmore's reads his poetry. "The Coffee House" is a monthly, TV magazine of public affairs and the arts. The producer of The Coffee House is Mark Cohen.
Email this pageNaomi Klein: Breakdown in Copenhagen
Author and activist Naomi Klein is in Copenhagen for the UN Climate Conference. In this interview she discusses what's happening on the ground with marchers and protesters and police, what messages AREN'T getting out and what has gone very, very wrong in the last week in Copenhagen.
CANTV: Climate Change is Smart Business
Business and political leaders and advisers from around the world, including Caio Koch-Weser, vice chairman of Deutsche Bank, Premier of British Columbia Gordon Campbell and Nancy Sutley, chair of the White House Council on Environmental Policy, talk about the business imperative to tackle climate change and the enormous economic opportunities in the emerging green economy. Video: GlobalObservatory
CANTV: The Truth About Climategate
James Hoggan is co-author of "Climate Cover-Up: The Crusade to Deny Global Warming," and here he explains the politics of misinformation and the financial mechanisms behind "climategate." Video: GlobalObservatory
GRITtv: an Interview with Green Entrepreneur Gil Friend
Gil Friend, a business entrepreneur and the author of the "The Truth About Green Business," on what makes a green economy successful and what happens when small companies get too big. Can they stay true to their ideals?
GRITtv: Majora Carter on How to Build Real Sustainable Growth
You don't have to go broke to go green. And you don't have to live in Walden to understand that there's a connection between the environment, our economy, and the way we live. As climate action week gets underway, we speak to longtime environmental activists and community leaders about the future of our planet. Majora Carter, an urban redeveloper and the founder of Sustainable South Bronx (SSBx), has worked since the late 1990s to bring together the worlds of urban renewal and environmental sustainability. How does one make it work? Carter joins us in studio.
GRITtv: September 21, 2009
You don’t have to go broke to go green. And you don’t have to live in Walden to understand that there’s a connection between the environment, our economy, and the way we live. As climate action week gets underway, we speak to two longtime environmental activists and community leaders about the future of our planet.
Positive Spin #128
On today’s show Peace Portal’s Youth Peace Ambassador, Clint Shepherd, interviews music and cultural legend Joan Baez. "Positive Spin" presents positive, innovative and solution oriented news promoting a better world for present and future generations.
