How does climate change impact economic growth?

On the next Your Call, we'll have a conversation about the climate change conference in Durban, South Africa. Two years ago at the UN talks in Copenhagen, an attempt to secure a global treaty and cut greenhouse gas emissions ended in failure. What is the outcome of the latest negotiations in Durban? Join us live at 10 or send an email to feedback@yourcallradio.org. How is climate change affecting economies around the globe? It's Your Call, with Rose Aguilar and you.

Guests:
Richard Howarth, Rosenwald Professor of Environmental Studies at Dartmouth College and the Editor-in-Chief of Ecological Economics.

Andrew Light, Ph.D., is a Senior Fellow at American Progress specializing in international climate and science policy, and a professor at George Mason University where he is director of the Center for Global Ethics.

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How is California preparing for the effects of climate change?

On the next Your Call, we'll rebroadcast a conversation we had about the impacts of climate change on California. How do we need to adapt our natural and built environments and our policies? The California Air Resources Board has adopted the nation's first cap-and-trade regulations. Will these air pollution controls work? What other policies are needed to adapt to climate change effects such as rising sea level? How is climate change affecting your area? It's Your Call with Rose Aguilar, and you.

Guests:
Healy Hamilton, former director of the Center for Applied Biodiversity Informatics at the California Academy of Sciences

Steve Goldbeck, chief deputy director of the SF Bay Conservation and Development Commission

Charlie Knox, public works and community development director for the City of Benicia

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How is California preparing for climate change?

On the next Your Call, we'll talk about the impacts of climate change on California. How do we need to adapt our natural and built environments and our policies? The California Air Resources Board just adopted the nation's first cap-and-trade regulations. Will these air pollution controls work? What other policies are needed to adapt to climate change effects such as rising sea level? Join us at 10 or email feedback@yourcallradio.org. How is climate change affecting your area? It's Your Call with Rose Aguilar, and you.

Guests:
Healy Hamilton, former director of the Center for Applied Biodiversity Informatics at the California Academy of Sciences

Steve Goldbeck, chief deputy director of the SF Bay Conservation and Development Commission

Charlie Knox, public works and community development director for the City of Benicia

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How is climate change contributing to global violence?

On the next Your Call, we'll have a conversation with Christian Parenti, author of Tropic of Chaos: Climate Change and the New Geography of Violence. Parenti says if you "scratch the surface of many conflicts, you will find a clear climatological angle." How have extreme weather conditions and resource scarcity sparked social and political unrest? Join us at 10 or email feedback@yourcallradio.org. How can we avoid further climate catastrophes? It's Your Call with Rose Aguilar and you.

Guests:
Richard Dolesh, Chief of Public Policy of National Recreation and Park Association

Bonny Hawley, executive director of Friends of Santa Cruz State Parks

Ruth Coleman, Director of California State Parks

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How will future generations live with global warming?

On the next Your Call, we'll have a conversation with Mark Hertsgaard, author of Hot: Living Through the Next Fifty Years on Earth. He was inspired by his daughter, whose generation will inherit the consequences of climate change. We'll also speak with Alec Loorz, a 16-year-old climate activist who is suing the federal government over climate change. Join us at 10 or email feedback@yourcallradio.org. What are the most important actions we can take to protect our planet? It's Your Call, with Holly Kernan, and you.

Guests:
Mark Hertsgaard, independent journalist and author of Hot: Living Through the Next Fifty Years on Earth

Alec Loorz, 16-year-old climate activist and founder of Kids vs. Global Warming

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How will future generations live with global warming?

On the next Your Call, we'll have a conversation with Mark Hertsgaard, author of Hot: Living Through the Next Fifty Years on Earth. He was inspired by his daughter, whose generation will inherit the consequences of climate change. So what's in store for the planet in the next 50 years? And what can we do about it? Join us live at 10 or send us an email at feedback@yourcallradio.org. How can we prepare future generations for the climate changes they will face? It's Your Call, with Rose Aguilar, and you.

Guest:

Mark Hertsgaard, independent journalist and author of Hot: Living Through the Next Fifty Years on Earth

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Media Roundtable

On the next Your Call, it's our Friday Media Roundtable. This week, we'll discuss coverage of the climate change conference in Cancun and how WikiLeaks cables revealed the U.S. manipulated previous climate talks. We'll also focus on the media narratives around the extension of the Bush tax cuts. We'll be joined by Tax Note's David Cay Johnston, columnist David Sirota and independent journalist Mark Hertsgaard. Join us live at 11 or send us an email at feedback@yourcallradio.org. Where did you see the best reporting this week? It's Your Call, with Rose Aguilar and you.

Guests:
David Cay Johnston, a Tax Analysts' columnist

David Sirota, a nationally syndicated newspaper columnist, and radio co-host

Mark Hertsgaard, The Nation's environment correspondent

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Is Antarctica the canary in the coal mine?

On the next Your Call, we'll speak with Fen Montaigne, author of Fraser's Penguins: A Journey to the Future in Antarctica. Montaigne spent 5 months with penguin researcher Bill Fraser, documenting the effects of climate change on Antarctica and its inhabitants, including the rapidly diminishing colonies of Adelie penguins. What do the changing landscape and ecosystems of Antarctica bode for the rest of us as the planet heats up? Join us live at 11 or send us an email at feedback@yourcallradio.org. It's Your Call with Sandip Roy and you.

Guest:
Fen Montaigne, journalist and author of Fraser's Penguins: A Journey to the Future in Antarctica

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What's the next step to slow global warming?

As the conference on climate change kicks off in Cancun, what's the next step to slow global warming? On the next Your Call, we'll hear a pre-taped conversation Rose Aguilar had with the Center for Investigative Reporting's Mark Schapiro. After the defeat of efforts to pass a cap-and-trade bill, what's the Obama Administration's next move? Is a global approach the way to go, or will real progress be made at the state level? It's Your Call with Rose Aguilar.

Guest:
Mark Schapiro, a senior correspondent, Center for Investigative Reporting

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What does AB32 actually do?

On the next Your Call, we'll continue our Agenda for a New Economy series with a conversation about California's Global Warming Solutions Act of 2006, a.k.a. AB32. The opponents of AB32 are introducing a November initiative to suspend it; but what's really in AB32? Join us live at 11 or send us an email at feedback@yourcallradio.org. How does AB32 help California's future? It's Your Call, with Rose Aguilar and you.

Guests:
Steven Maviglio, spokesman for California Clean Energy and Jobs, an alliance of companies and environmental groups defending AB32. He is also the publisher of California Majority Report.

Susanne Rust, an investigative reporter for California Watch focused on the environment

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How will global warming change the world?

How will global warming change the world? And how soon? On the next Your Call, we'll speak with Gwynne Dyer, author of Climate Wars, an unflinching look at the potential geopolitical consequences of rising seas and decreasing access to water and food. Is it possible to stop climate change without first changing our over-consumptive lifestyles? Join us live at 11 or send us an email at feedback@yourcallradio.org. What are your fears about climate change, and how can we pull back from the brink? It's Your Call, with Rose Aguilar and you.

Guest:
Gwynne Dyer--author of Climate Wars: The Fight for Survival as the World Overheats

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Who should have their hands on the global thermostat?

On the next Your Call, we'll talk about the complex and controversial field of geoengineering. Purposeful intervention to change the earth's natural systems is moving into the mainstream of the debate on climate change. Can any of the geoengineering options help slow or reverse global warming?

Join us live at 11 or send us an email at feedback@yourcallradio.org. What are the risks of these technologies? And who should have the right to make these decisions about our common destiny? It's Your Call, with Sandip Roy and you.

Guests:
Pat Mooney--founder and executive director of the ETC Group
Dr. Michael MacCracken--chief scientist of The Climate Institute

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Media Roundtable

On the next Your Call, it's our Friday Media Roundtable. This week, we'll discuss coverage of the SEC accusing Goldman Sachs of defrauding its investors, financial reform, the People's Summit on Climate Change in Bolivia, and the fate of Guantanamo detainees. Join us live at 11 or send us an email at feedback@yourcallradio.org. We'll be joined by ProPublica's Dafna Linzer, Time Magazine's Jean Friedman-Rudovsky -- she just returned from Bolivia -- and the Washington Independent's Annie Lowrey. Where did you see the best reporting this week? It's Your Call, with Rose Aguilar and you.

Guests:
Annie Lowrey covers the economy for The Washington Independent. During the 2008 presidential campaign, she worked on the editorial staff of The New Yorker in the Washington bureau.

Dafna Linzer, a national security reporter with Propublica.

Jean Friedman-Rudovsky, a freelance journalist in La Paz, Bolivia, where she reports for Time magazine. She is the co-founder of Ukhampacha Bolivia, an online journal covering political and social movements in Latin America.

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Media Roundtable

On the next Your Call, it's our Friday Media Roundtable. This week, we'll discuss the coverage of the Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen. What story got the most attention? We'll be joined by independent journalist Mark Hertsgaard in Copenhagen, Allan Woods of the Toronto Star's Ottawa Bureau and Daily Nation's Sammy Cheboi in Kenya. Did a story stand out for you because of its reporting? Join us live at 11 a.m. or send us your comments and questions to feedback@yourcallradio.org. What are you looking for in stories about the environment? It's Your Call, with Rose Aguilar and you.

Guests:
Allan Woods, Toronto Star, Ottawa Bureau

Mark Hertsgaard, an independent journalist and author based in San Francisco

Sammy Kimutai Cheboi, correspondent with the Daily Nation in Kenya

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How does Climate Change Affect Food Security?

Is climate change threatening the world's food supply? On the next Your Call, we'll continue our weeklong series on Copenhagen by talking about global food security in the face of climate change. The UN says we need to dramatically change global agricultural policies to address hunger, poverty and climate change. How do we feed the world and become environmentally sustainable?

Join the conversation at 11 a.m. or send your questions and comments to feedback@yourcallradio.org? How is climate change threatening food security? It's Your Call with Rose Aguilar, and you.

Guests:
Anuradha Mittal, founder and executive director of the Oakland Institute and a food, agriculture and trade expert.

Josh Viertel, president of Slow Food USA. Josh has also worked as a shepherd, a teacher, a vegetable farmer, an activist, a fisherman, and a baker.

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What's your Biggest Worry About Climate Change?

What's your biggest worry about the effects of climate change? And what needs to come out of the meeting in Copenhagen to make you feel more hopeful? On the next Your Call, we'll have a conversation about the impact of climate change for different countries and what they are doing to reverse the trend.

Join the conversation at 11 am or send your questions and comments to feedback@yourcallradio.org. What needs to come of Copenhagen for you to consider it a success? It's Your Call, with Rose Aguilar and you.

Guests:
Leah Wickham, a 24-year-old environmental activist from Fiji

Kristine Holten-Andersen, a 27-year-old architect and volunteer with Klimaforum09

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Has Climate Change Met its Match in California?

Is California showing the way on reversing climate change? On the next Your Call, we'll continue our weeklong series on Copenhagen by talking about California's role in the global fight against global warming. Has California followed through on its commitments to reduce greenhouse gases any better than the nations who signed on to the Kyoto Protocol? Join the conversation at 11 am or send your questions and comments to feedback@yourcallradio.org. What does California need to do to curb CO2 emissions? It's Your Call with Rose Aguilar, and you.

Guests:
Erin Rogers, Western Region Manager, Climate and Energy Program at Union of Concerned Scientists

William Julian, public policy director for an assembly member in Sacramento. He served as Legislative Director and Commissioner Legal Advisor for the California Public Utilities Commission from 1999 through 2004, including the acute period of the California Energy Crisis.

Fran Pavley, State Senator, and author of AB 32, the "Global Warming Solutions Act of 2006"

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Can We Afford to Stop Global Warming?

What's the cost-benefit analysis for slowing climate change? On the next Your Call we'll kick off our weeklong programming on climate change, with a conversation on the economic impacts of global warming. Opponents of legislation to combat global warming point to the toll it will take on the economy, but what are the economic risks if we continue on the current path? Join us live at 11 or send us an email at feeback@yourcallradio.org. Which of the proposed solutions might actually have economic benefits? It's Your Call, with Rose Aguilar and you.

Guests:
Frank Ackerman is a research fellow at Global Development and Environment Institute and a senior scientist at Stockholm Environment Institute-US Centre, both at Tufts University. He authored Can We Afford the Future?: The Economics of a Warming World.

Matthias Ruth, Roy F. Weston Chair in Natural Economics,Director, Environmental Policy Program, and Co-Director, Engineering and Public Policy Program at Center for Integrative Environmental Research at University of Maryland

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Can the U.S. Lead the Climate Conference in Copenhagen?

Can the U.S. lead at the climate conference in Copenhagen? On the next Your Call, we'll discuss the key commitments the U.S. must make to slow global warming. If there's no bill from Congress, will President Obama even show up? How can concerned citizens make their voices heard in the next month?

Join us live at 11:00 or send us an email at feedback@yourcallradio.org. Can the U.S. lead on climate change? It's Your Call with Sandip Roy and you.

Guests:
Jim Ayers, vice-president of Oceana Pacific, who will be attending the Copenhagen summit next month.

Mark Hertsgaard, a journalist who covers climate change for Vanity Fair, The Nation, Time and others.

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Your Call 041008 Bill McKibben, Environmentalist

What can we do to save the environment?  On the next Your Call, we welcome environmentalist Bill McKibben, author of Deep Economy: The Wealth of Communities and the Durable Future and The Bill McKibben Reader.  For nearly three decades, McKibben has written about our relationship with the natural world.  He wrote The End of Nature, the first book about climate change, back in 1989.  How much time do we have left, and what changes are necessary?  It's Your Call with Rose Aguilar.

Guest:

Bill McKibben in Ripton, Vermont

Bill McKibben is an American environmentalist and writer who frequently writes about global warming, alternative energy, and the risks associated with human genetic engineering. He is the author of The Bill McKibben Reader, a collection of 44 essays written for various publications over the past 25 years.

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