Sea Change Radio

Sea Change Radio wraps up its Copenhagen Climate Change Conference coverage with excerpts from a press conference of U.S. Republican Representative in attendance, excerpts of a speech by the Tuvalu Prime Minister and an exclusive interview with the European Commission Deputy Director-general of Environment.　

In the third episode in our Sea Change series, Back to the Future, green architect Betsy Pettit talks about retrofits and what older building methods can teach us about saving energy. And John Grossman of ReStore tells us about re-using salvaged building.

“All hell is breaking loose.” That’s what the Sea Change Climate Correspondent texted to the Executive Producer from Copenhagen at 3:27 pm there on Wednesday December 9, the third day of the UN Climate Conference, or COP15. Find out what happened on Sea Change Radio.

Bill Baue talks with Roger Saillant about his eco-thriller, Vapor Trails. And Tania Haldar Hart brings us this week's Sea Change News Analysis: Obama’s Funny Numbers for Carbon Reductions.　

Bill Baue speaks with Andrew Winston about his book, Green Recovery: Your Company’s Green Guide to Surviving the Recession—and Thriving in the Upturn. And this week’s News Analysis is on President Obama attending the Copenhagen Climate Change Conference.　

A look at the revival of a locally based food system. Guests include Margaret Christie of CISA and organic farmer Jim Pitts. Also, historian Christopher Clark looks at how a market-driven economy came to be the norm.

Bill Baue speaks with Dan Goleman about his new book, Ecological Intelligence -- the followup to his bestselling Emotional Intelligence and Social Intelligence series.　

Sea Change Climate Correspondent Cimbria Badenhausen covers the International Day of Climate Action by talking beforehand with 350.org Director Bill McKibben. Also, Cimbria talks with sustainability guru Paul Hawken, just back from an Arctic trip to witness and study the impacts of climate change. And finally, Robin Chase describes the controversial “Supermodels Strip for Climate Action” video her daughter conceived and produced.

Dairy farmer Larry Shearer talks about his low-impact, pasture-based organic dairying; baker Cheryl Maffei talks about the Little Red Hen local wheat-growing project; and, historian Dan Bennett talks about the water-driven mills in North Leverett, MA.　

From the Sea Change archives a show featuring an interview with Adin Maynard, Director of Operations at Cozy Home Performance, about the company’s participation in the Weatherization Assistance Program for low-income homeowners and its move into deep energy retrofits for mid- and upper-income homeowners. Also, Patricia Moss, Project Manager of Groundwork Springfield, and the Green Team of teens working in green jobs.　

THIS WEEK: Sea Change Radio asks "What's the Economy For, Anyway?" by airing a clip from John de Graaf's new movie of that title and talking to Wanda Urbanska about LESS IS MORE: Embracing Simplicity for a Healthy Planet, a Caring Economy and Lasting Happiness.　

Bill Baue and Francesca Rheannon speak with eco-philosopher Joanna Macy about The Great Turning, a concept she helped coin and define. Macy calls The Great Turning “the essential adventure of our time: the shift from the industrial growth society to a life-sustaining civilization.”

THIS WEEK: Hear voices of citizen activism on climate change gathered on September 26th, 2009 from all around the world. On that date, 4,400 ordinary people gathered at 44 locations in 38 countries to brainstorm solutions to the climate crisis as part of World Wide Views on Global Warming. Sea Change Radio was at some of those meetings and recorded these voices.

Heather Lineberry of ASU Art Museum in Tempe talks about the exhibition, Defining Sustainability on her campus and Native American artist Kade Twist talks about the installation he and his fellow Indigenous created for the exhibition.

Sea Change Radio - The Waxman-Markey Climate Bill is making its way through Congress, and stirring up controversy within the environmental movement between those who support it as a necessary first step, and those who think it’s fatally flawed. Sea Change Radio talks with both sides. Joe Romm, editor of the ClimateProgress.org blog and a senior fellow at the Center for American Progress, favors passing the Bill. Carroll Muffett of Greenpeace says the bill fails to address key issues in solving the climate crisis.