How is the economic downturn affecting the business of recycling? On the next Your Call, we'll have a conversation about economics of recycling. California pays five cents for every glass, plastic, or aluminum beverage container. Last year, 82 percent of bottles and cans in California were recycled. So how well is the recycling system working? Where do the materials go? Join us at 10 or send an email at feedback@yourcallradio.org. What explains the rise of recycling? It's Your Call, with Hana Baba and you.
Guests:
Eric Lombardi, the Executive Director of Eco-Cycle
Jack Macy, Commercial Zero Waste Coordinator for SF Environment
Jerry Powell, editor of Resource Recycling Magazine
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Tuesday, August 16, 2011
How is the economic downturn affecting the business of recycling?
Wednesday, July 27, 2011
What is eco-terrorism?
On the next Your Call, we'll have a conversation with Will Potter, author of Green Is the New Red. The FBI says the Earth Liberation Front is the country's "number one domestic terrorism threat." A new movie If a Tree Falls explores the controversy surrounding ELF members who set fire to timber companies and SUV dealerships. Is that terrorism? Join us at 10 or email feedback@yourcallradio.org. When does violence turn into terrorism? It's Your Call with me, Rose Aguilar and, you.
Guests:
Will Potter is an award-winning independent journalist who focuses on "eco-terrorism," the animal rights and environmental movements, and civil liberties post-9/11.
James Brady, Action Recruitment Coordinator for Greenpeace USA
Scott Parkin, a senior organizer with Rainforest Action Network
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Tuesday, June 8, 2010
How will the BP disaster affect us long-term?
What are the long-term environmental effects of the BP oil disaster? On the next Your Call, we'll talk about the devastation we're seeing, along with the hidden casualties. We're facing months of oil spewing into the Gulf of Mexico, at a rate now close to 100,000 barrels per day, according to scientist Ira Leifer. How will that affect life above and below the surface in the Gulf and beyond?
Guests:
Richard Steiner, a retired marine conservation professor at the University of Alaska
Shaye Wolf, PhD., staff biologist for the Center for Biological Diversity
Carl Safina, ecologist, marine conservationist, and president of Blue Ocean Institute
Riki Ott, marine biologist, activist, and author of Not One Drop: Promises, Betrayal, and Courage in the Wake of the Exxon Valdez Oil Spill
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Thursday, April 30, 2009
Your Call 043009 How healthy are the Monterey and San Francisco bays?
How healthy are the Monterey and San Francisco bays? On the next Your Call we will speak with the superintendent of the Monterey Bay Marine Sanctuary and the San Francisco Baykeepers about maintaining the bays for future generations. What are the greatest successes of our conservation efforts? How are potential threats from economic activity being mitigated? Send us an email at feedback@yourcallradio.org or join us live at 11 a.m. What needs to be done to leave our children an ecosystem and an economic asset that is sustainable and healthy? It's Your Call with Rose Aguilar and you.
Guests:
Paul Michel in Monterey
Superintendent of the Monterey Bay National Marine Sanctuary, the federally-protected marine area that stretches 276 miles from Marin to Cambria. The sanctuary encompasses 5,322 square miles of ocean, extending an average distance of 30 miles from shore.
Sejal Choksi in San Francisco
Director of Programs for San Francisco Baykeeper. Ms. Choksi, an attorney, spearheaded Baykeeper's anti-pesticide campaign to secure the nation's first regulations of agricultural pollution. She is a member of East Bay Municipal Utility District's Blue Ribbon Panel, addressing sewage problems, and served on California's Oil Spill Prevention & Response Advisory Committee. Baykeeper is celebrating their 20th anniversary as the public's watchdog for the health of the San Francisco Bay.
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Sunday, February 22, 2009
Your Call 022309 Can California avoid a drought?
Can any amount of rain avert drought in California? On the next Your Call, we'll have a conversation about the future of our water supply. The director of the California Dept. of Water Resources recently said that state is faced with its most severe drought since at least the early 1990s. How has our demand for water changed? What will water rationing look like? You can join the conversation by phone or by sending us an email at feedback@yourcallradio.org. How is climate change affecting California's water supply? It's your Call with Rose Aguilar and you.
Guests:
Andrew T. Fisher, professor of Earth & Planetary Sciences and Hydrogeology at UC Santa Cruz
Mindy McIntyre, Water Program Manager at Planning & Conservation League
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Tuesday, October 14, 2008
Your Call 101508 Wildlands Philanthropy
How can we save the wilderness for public use? On the next Your Call, we'll be joined by philanthropist Kristine Tompkins and Tom Butler, author of Wildlands Philanthropy: The Great American Tradition. The book celebrates natural landmarks by introducing us to the people who transferred privately owned land to the public trust and made much of our park system possible. These are extraordinary people who simply loved the land. How can we work together to carry on their legacies? It's Your Call with Sandip Roy and you.
Guests: Tom Butler in Colchester, Vermont
Author of Wildlands Philanthropy and editorial projects director for the Foundation for Deep Ecology.
Kris Tompkins in San Francisco
During college she began to work for Chouinard Equipment, the California rock and ice climbing equipment maker that became the global apparel giant Patagonia. In 1979 she became CEO of Patagonia, and 8 years ago she cashed out and used the money to found and endow Conservacion Patagonica. Its goal is the protection and restoration of critical habitats in the Patagonia region of the Southern Cone in South America.
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Wednesday, April 16, 2008
Your Call 041708 Disappearing World- Extraordinary and Endangered Places
Monday, February 11, 2008
Your Call 021208 How should we preserve biodiversity?
What is being done to protect our biodiversity? On the next Your Call, we continue our series on the commons by focusing on our ecosystem. California is one the most biologically diverse areas in the world with 30,000 species of insects, 8,000 plants, 563 birds, and 190 mammals. Globally, as many as 50,000 species disappear every year, mostly from human activity. How will global warming affect efforts to protect biodiversity? And what can we do to protect our natural resources? It's Your Call, with Sandip Roy, and you.
Guests:
Stuart Pimm, Professor of Conservation Ecology at Duke Univ.
Dr. Healy Hamilton, Director of Center for Biodiversity Research and Information at California Academy of Sciences
Peter Brastow, Founding Director of Nature in the City
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Thursday, October 25, 2007
Your Call 102607 Media Roundtable
On the next Your Call, it's our Friday Media Roundtable. This week, Southern California burned. Did the reporters covering the fires connect the emergency with larger ecological and social trends? Also this week battles raged on the border of Turkey and Iraq and within the halls of power in Istanbul. Did you see or hear reporting that covered more than the blow-by-blow and provided the context to help you understand what's at stake? What was your story of the week? It's Your Call, with me, Rose Aguilar and you.
Guests:
Robert Parry in Healdsburg, California
Founder and editor of Consortium News
David Roberts in Seattle, Wash.
Staff writer for Grist and blogmaster of Gristmill
Evrim Bunn in Washington DC
Reporter with Voice of America Turkish Service
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