Episodes
Aug. 8, 2014
Paul Ehrlich and Michael Charles Tobias: Hope On Earth
In 1968, Paul Ehrlich and his wife, Anne, published the book, The Population Bomb, which shook the world as it discussed the connection between environmental degradation and exponential human population growth. Though critics...
Aug. 1, 2014
California’s Drought and Seawater Desalination
For California, 2013 was the driest calendar year ever recorded across virtually the entire state. On January 17, 2014, Governor Jerry Brown proclaimed the drought to be a State of Emergency, directed state officials to take ...
July 25, 2014
Geothermal Helping to Achieve a Clean Power Future in California
Today’s guest is Karl Gawell, Executive Director of the Geothermal Energy Association (GEA). “California has ambitious climate goals. Fortunately, it also has the geothermal resources and potential to access those goals,” say...
July 18, 2014
Special Encore Presentation: Electric Vehicles in America
Yearly plug-in vehicle sales increased 198 percent in 2012, and the number of available models in the U.S. market is expected to triple by model year 2015. Since entering the market just more than two years ago, more than 70,...
July 11, 2014
The Collaborative for High Performance Schools
The Collaborative for High Performance Schools (CHPS) is leading a national movement to improve student performance and the entire educational experience by building the best possible schools. Today we’ll be joined by the CHP...
June 27, 2014
Special Encore Presentation: Environmental Justice: Race, Class and Environmental Quality
Do America’s poor, working-class, and persons of color bear a disproportionate share of the country’s environmental problems? Are environmental hazards to human health more likely to be located near the neighborhoods of those...
June 20, 2014
Special Encore Presentation: TOXIN TOXOUT: Getting Harmful Chemicals Out of Our Bodies and Our World
How do we remove toxic chemicals from our bodies and homes? Bruce Lourie and Rick Smith, two of Canada’s environmental leaders, have been asked this question on an almost daily basis since the publication of their runaway int...
June 13, 2014
Special Encore Presentation: Countdown, a new book by Alan Weisman
With a million more of us every 4½ days on a planet that's not getting any bigger, prospects for a sustainable human future seem ever more in doubt. Alan Weisman traveled to more than 20 countries to ask what experts agreed w...
June 6, 2014
Special Encore Presentation: Green Schools National Network
What will it take to teach the next generation to live sustainably? Can environmental education enhance academic achievement in math, science and social studies? These are among the many important questions that the Green Sch...
May 30, 2014
Special Encore Presentation: Tusks and Terrorism , Why Wildlife Poaching is More than an Animal Rights Issue
Hillary and Chelsea Clinton made protecting wild African elephants the centerpiece of the 2013 Clinton Global Initiative, in part because the elephants are facing extinction in a decade given current poaching rates, but also ...
May 23, 2014
Special Encore Presentation: Education and the Environment
Education is a dynamic institution. Every few years classrooms are introduced to new technologies and reforms that alter the learning experience in many ways. Throughout all these changes, however, two things have remained th...
May 16, 2014
Foolproof Shopping for Eco-friendly Products
Green labels are popping up on products from clothing to electronics, and it isn’t easy to tell which ones are credible and which ones are misleading. Our guest today is Scot Case, Director, Market Development at UL Environme...
May 9, 2014
TOXIN TOXOUT: Getting Harmful Chemicals Out of Our Bodies and Our World
How do we remove toxic chemicals from our bodies and homes? Bruce Lourie and Rick Smith, two of Canada’s environmental leaders, have been asked this question on an almost daily basis since the publication of their runaway int...
May 2, 2014
Environmental Justice: Race, Class and Environmental Quality
Do America’s poor, working-class, and persons of color bear a disproportionate share of the country’s environmental problems? Are environmental hazards to human health more likely to be located near the neighborhoods of those...
April 25, 2014
Special Encore Presentation: Countdown, a new book by Alan Weisman
With a million more of us every 4½ days on a planet that's not getting any bigger, prospects for a sustainable human future seem ever more in doubt. Alan Weisman traveled to more than 20 countries to ask what experts agreed w...
April 18, 2014
Ed Begley Talks About How Hollywood is Going Green
Ed Begley, Jr. joins us to discuss an entire day of Earth Day coverage of Hollywood’s efforts to Go Green. Interviews will be covered on www.BiteSize TV.com/live, and will bring together actors, authors, scientists, business ...
April 11, 2014
A Fierce Green Fire
Today we’re joined by Lois Gibbs, environmental health advocate made famous by her leadership during the Love Canal crisis in upstate New York, and Academy Award-nominated filmmaker Mark Kitchell (Berkeley in the Sixties) to ...
April 4, 2014
Green Schools National Conference Highlights
The Green Schools National Network held its annual conference in Sacramento, CA in late March 2014, and I had the chance to interview some of the leaders on the GSNN Advisory Board. On todays’ episode, you’ll hear from Stephe...
March 28, 2014
Special Encore Presentation: Green Schools National Network
What will it take to teach the next generation to live sustainably? Can environmental education enhance academic achievement in math, science and social studies? These are among the many important questions that the Green Sch...
March 21, 2014
Countdown, a new book by Alan Weisman
With a million more of us every 4½ days on a planet that's not getting any bigger, prospects for a sustainable human future seem ever more in doubt. Alan Weisman traveled to more than 20 countries to ask what experts agreed w...
March 14, 2014
Arctic Oil Drilling: The Risks of Extreme Energy Extraction at the North Pole
Climate change isn’t bad news for everyone. As Arctic ice melts at historically rapid rates, some people brace for rising sea levels, and some brace for new opportunities to drill for oil in waters that were once too icy for ...
March 7, 2014
The Movement to Divest From Fossil Fuels
Just a few weeks ago, 17 foundations with assets of about $2 billion agreed to divest their portfolios of coal, oil and gas, and reinvest in the clean energy economy. This adds a major tailwind to the movement that is up and ...
Feb. 28, 2014
Let it Shine: The 6000 Year Story of Solar Energy
“Western man has been using the sun’s rays for useful purposes since the days of ancient China, as this comprehensive, carefully researched, clearly written history of solar architecture and technology makes abundantly clear,...
Feb. 21, 2014
Special Encore Presentation: What We Should Learn from the W. Virginia Chemical Spill
Toxic chemicals used to wash coal were stored on the banks of a river less than 2 miles from where water entered the public water system for 300,000 people in nine counties of West Virginia. When 7,500 gallons of the chemical...