Your Call 052908 When Big Oil Goes Wrong

When big oil goes wrong, who should be held responsible? On the next Your Call, we'll look at the environmental and human toll of oil exploration in Ecuador and ask where responsibility lies: Is it with San Ramon-based multinational Chevron? The Ecuadorian government? Or those of us who pull up to the pump? It's Your Call, with Sandip Roy, and you.

Guests:
Lou Dematteis, author/photographer of Crude Reflections just published by City Lights

Mitch Anderson, Corporate Accountability Campaigner with Amazon Watch.

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Your Call 052808 The Ethics of Fruit Hunting

Is the hunt for new flavors from the far corners of the globe ever going to be consistent with an ethical and sustainable diet? On the next Your Call we'll be joined by two authors who've chronicled the ethics, economics and aesthetics of fruit: Adam Gollner, author of "The Fruit Hunters: A Story of Nature, Adventure, Commerce, and Obsession," and Dan Koeppel, author of "Bananas!: The Fate of the Fruit That Changed the World." There a quarter million fruit-bearing species, and eighty thousand of them are edible. Yet most of the fruit you'll eat in your lifetime comes from only twenty crops. Monoculture is a bad idea, but is hunting for nature's best any better? It's Your Call with guest host Ben Temchine and you.

Guests:
Dan Koeppel, well-known outdoors, nature, and adventure writer. He has written columns for the New York Times Magazine and Popular Science, as well as having written extensively in a variety of mountain biking periodicals.

Adam Leith Gollner has traveled around the globe to report on the fruit underworld. He's written for The New York Times, Gourmet, Bon Appetit, and Good Magazine. The former editor of Vice Magazine, he is also a musician. The Fruit Hunters is his first book. He lives in Montreal and Los Angeles.

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