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Enviro Close-Up: Chuck Schwartz: Home Energy Efficiency
Chuck Schwartz, an energy efficiency expert, discusses the many ways in which homes and buildings can be made more energy efficient. He outlines how an "energy audit" can determine wasteful energy use--and how, at relatively low cost, the problems can be fixed and money and energy saved.
Email this pageEnviro Close Up 608: Larry Kilroy
Larry Kilroy of the Healthy Building Network outlines how his organization strives to have where people work, play and live, environmentally sound, socially just and healthy.
GRITtv: May 13 2010
The war in Afghanistan seems to be a constant rigmarole of democratization, stabilization, and Al-Qaeda claims. Which is it? Contributing editor to The Nation, Christian Parenti joins us in studio to share his take that the United States' response to Afghanistan is a political instance of an iatrogenic disease: an endless cycle of creating more problems with supposed "cures." Investigative journalist and professor Karl Grossman of TV program Enviro Close-Up reports on how offshore drilling is inevitably both dangerous and expensive. Despite the "safe guards" Obama has requested to continue offshore drilling, the process will remain "drill baby, spill!" What does the press take away from allegedly important events such as a presidential nominee, a catastrophic oil spill, and the political changes in Great Britain? Apparently it investigates Elena Kagan's personal appearance as a woman, and heralds the spill as Obama?s Katrina. In short, it ignores Kagan's political and personal records and the actual consequences of BP's oil spill. Radio Host Esther Armah and journalist Dorian Warren joined us in studio to elucidate how the media reacts to these stories in how it chooses what to omit and what to emphasize.
GRITtv: Karl Grossman: Drill Baby, Spill
Investigative journalist and professor Karl Grossman of the TV program Enviro Close-Up reports on how offshore drilling is inevitably both dangerous and expensive. Despite the "safe guards" Obama has requested to continue offshore drilling, the process will remain "drill baby, spill!"
GRITtv: Karl Grossman: Obama and Nukes
Karl Grossman of EnviroVideo talks about Obama's apparent shift on nuclear power plants, and asks whether his advisers might have something to do with that shift.
GRITtv: Taking the Mystery Out of Solar Panels
Environmental journalist Karl Grossman gets the dirt on solar energy from Dean Hapshe of Majestic Son & Sons Solar Energy. Since the Reagan years, when government tax credits for installing solar panels were killed, we've come a long way as far as efficiency and costs are concerned. In New York, on top of the federal tax credit recently passed in the stimulus bill, you can get a state and local tax credit for installing the panels -- and then it's possible to produce more than enough energy to run your whole home. Learn more in this video exclusive for GRITtv.
GRITtv: Karl Grossman on Nuclear Energy
An investigative reporter for Envirovideo, Karl Grossman reports that nuclear energy is not the solution the nuclear lobby has been promoting.
GRITtv: September 16, 2009
One year on from the sinking of Lehman, and the conventional wisdom seems to be that we’ve moved away from the precipice. But not everyone is so sure. If anything has been preserved, if not enlarged, it is the deep inequalities of American capitalism. Not only that, but are the necessary regulations in place to prevent a second storm? Discussion with David Cay Johnston, author of "Free Lunch: How the Wealthiest Americans Enrich Themselves at Government Expense."
