Copenhagen Climate Change Conference Wrapup - Thr 4:30pm

Bill Baue and Francesca Rheannon speak with eco-philosopher Joanna Macy about The Great Turning. Macy calls The Great Turning “the essential adventure of our time: the shift from the industrial growth society to a life-sustaining civilization.” This is the second in a series of shows on The Great Turning. The first was with a conversation with David Korten.

Saving Landfills from Unnecessary Waste:   Alex Wise speaks with Karen Nelson, co-founder of EarthBaby, which produces compostable diapers. Alex also talks with clean tech analyst and green business investor, Daniel Hunt, about corporate interests crowding out ecological progress.

Jeff Erikson of SustainAbility discusses findings of a global survey of sustainability experts on corporate impacts on water, and Cameron Brooks of IBM’s Big Green Innovations team discusses its recent focus on “Smarter Water Management.”   Sea Change Radio is a weekly show about corporate sustainability and accountability. SCR looks closely at the role corporations have in setting the agenda and controlling the discussion of issues in the world and the role corporations are and should play in global climate change and protection.

Bill Baue talks with John Gillespie, co-author with David Zweig, of Money for Nothing: How the Failure of Corporate Boards is Ruining American Business and Costing Us Trillions.　

Sea Change Radio is a weekly show about corporate sustainability and accountability. SCR looks closely at the role corporations have in setting the agenda and controlling the discussion of issues in the world and the role corporations are and should play in global climate change and protection.

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In this last episode of the Back To The Future series, David Bollier talks about the commons, Patrick Quinlan talks about wind power in Massachusetts and Dan Juhl talks about community wind power.　

Bill Haywood, CEO of LS9, a San Francisco-based company that makes what it calls Ultra Clean Fuels and Sustainable Chemicals talks about the process of “brewing” biofuels. And Robin Gold, co-founder of Dogpatch Biofuels, talks about his filling station in San Francisco where drivers can gas up on biodiesel.　

Back To The Future continues with a look at how the mighty power of the Connecticut River fueled the birth of manufacturing in Massachusetts — and the country — not just in producing finished goods, like paper and textiles, but also in making the machinery that drove the mills. Robert Forrant, professor of regional economic development and sustainability at UMass-Lowell tells us about machine tool manufacturing in the 19th century and the lessons that holds for today.

Alex Wise interviews Moira DeNike about waste vegetable oil and Kelsey Flynn talks to Ric Sustache of Greasecar. Bill Baue speaks with Michael Aronson of ReRun Sports Shoes, a company he co-founded to collect used shoes in the US to sell in Africa.　

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Sea Change Radio studies sustainable education, talking with Mark Orlowski of the Sustainable Endowments Institute about its annual College Sustainability Report Card. We also cover green initiatives at UMass, Greenfield Community College, and OSU.　

In this edition of the Sea Change Radio series Back To The Future, Francesca Rheannon talks with historian Kerry Buckley about the heyday of the trolley system in Massachusetts; rail trail promoter Craig Della Penna talks about how rail trails came about and where they are going; and anthropologist Cathy Stanton talks about how we could reinvent the relationship between cars and other lower carbon means of transportation, like bikes and light rail.　

Tom Rossmassler, CEO of Energia, describes his innovative new energy efficiency company founded by two nonprofits — Nuestras Raices and Nueva Esparanza – and Co-op Power, a worker cooperative. And we profile the Roots Up Green Jobs program, run by Nuestras Raices and Co-op Power, which will train workers for Energia.　

Sea Change Radio’s new Co-Host Kelsey Flynn and Bill Baue speak with Erik Assadourian and Gary Gardner, senior researchers at the Worldwatch Institute, about the new book, State of the World 2010: Transforming Cultures from Consumerism to Sustainability.

Sea Change Radio covers Oceans Day, a side event at the recent Copenhagen Climate Conference looking at the impact of climate change on oceans. In the NewsAnalysis, TIAA-CREF divests from companies alleged to be complicit in genocide in response to Investors Against Genocide.　

Nobel Laureate Wangari Maathai talks about the links between environmental justice, women’s empowerment, democratic governance, and sustainability. Maathai’s latest book is The Challenge for Africa. Also on the show, filmmakers Alan Dater and Lisa Merton talk about their documentary Taking Root: The Vision of Wangari Maathai.

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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.

Sea Change Radio - Green jobs are all the talk nowadays, which has predictably led to healthy debate. Francesca Rheannon talks with GreenBiz Senior Writer Marc Gunther about his controversial article, “The Phony Green Jobs Debate” and Bob Pollin of the Political Economy Research Institute at the University of Massachusetts-Amherst, author of a report criticized by Gunther, responds. Plus, David Johnson talks about Transition Towns.

For more information on Marc Gunther visit http://www.marcgunther.com/

SEA CHANGE RADIO - A conversation with Nobel Laureate Wangari Maathai about the links between environmental justice, women’s empowerment, democratic governance, and sustainability. In her native Kenya, Wangari Maathai saw that deforestation was devastating the environment. Water sources were getting polluted or drying up and the women had to go further to find ever-scarcer firewood. So in 1977, she founded the grassroots Green Belt Movement, which over the past 32 years, has planted 35 million trees, bringing back whole ecosystems and revitalized villages.

SEA CHANGE RADIO - Lars Klüver of the Danish Board of Technology talks about the World Wide Views on Global Warming project he directs that will gather opinions of everyday citizens in 45 countries globally in September 2009 to feed into negotiations at the United Nations Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen in December 2009. And Colin and Carrick McCullough of OurRenewableNation.org talk about their “cross-country eco-video adventure” where they will visit, video, and interview folks advancing sustainability solutions.

The Center for Popular Economics (CPE) recently hosted the first Forum on the Solidarity Economy at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst — home of Sea Change Radio.

SEA CHANGE RADIO - Journalist Alan Weisman talks about his book GAVIOTAS: A Village to Reinvent the World, reissued late last year by Chelsea Green Publishing on the 10th anniversary of its first edition. And in the News Analysis, Rob Weissman of Wall Street Watch talks about its new report, Sold Out: How Wall Street and Washington Betrayed America.

SEA CHANGE RADIO - BuildingGreen.com founder Alex Wilson discusses the history, current state, and future of the green building movement. Erin Gorman, CEO of Divine Chocolate USA, welcomes the move by Cadbury to source Fairtrade cocoa from the Kuapa Kokoo cooperative in Ghana that owns Divine, and Bama Athreya of the International Labor Rights Forum also applauds Cadbury’s move. And Karl Frisch of Media Matters brings us the ViewPoint on how the mainstream media is dropping the ball on covering climate change.

SEA CHANGE RADIO - Sea Change Radio speaks with Bill McKibben about the Capitol Climate Action protest against coal in Washington, DC. And John Ruggie talks about BASESwiki, a new wiki to help human rights abuse victims resolve grievances with companies — outside the courtroom.

For more information on Bill McKibben vistit:
http://seokurumsal.net/

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SCR looks closely at the role corporations have in setting the agenda and controlling the discussion of issues in the world and the role corporations are and should play in global climate change and protection.

Sea Change Radio - This week, green business guru Joel Makower encourages us to envision success in creating a clean, sustainable economy that averts climate catastrophe and improves our environment, communities, and lives. And shareholder activist John Harrington urges banks bailed out with Troubled Asset Relief Program funding to make sure they stabilize US economic security.

For more information on Joel Makower visit http://www.makower.com/

Today the speed of money.  Woody Tasch discusses his book, Slow Money.  And Katy Lederer transforms her experience working in the fast money culture of Wall Street into poetry in the book , The Heaven Sent Leaf. 

A discussion on the alternative economic model of Progressive Utilization Theory, or PROUT. 

Lisa Woll of the Social Investment Forum proposes an “Office for Innovation in Corporate Social Responsibility” to the Obama Administration.