What is green chemistry?

On the next Your Call, we'll have a conversation with Elizabeth Grossman about her book Chasing Molecules: Poisonous Products, Human Health and the Promise of Green Chemistry. Consumers are becoming more aware of the potential health and environmental hazards of plastic products. Grossman argues that green chemistry could offer a new manufacturing process that is "benign by design." So could we get away from plastic entirely? Join us at 10 or email us at feedback@yourcallradio.org. What do you want to know about the pros and cons of green chemistry? It's Your Call with Malihe Razazan, and you.

Guests:
Elisabeth Grossman, who writes on health and environment, author of Chasing Molecules: Poisonous Products, Human Health and the Promise of Green Chemistry

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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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What can we learn from the history of renewable energy?

What can we learn from the history of renewable energy in the US and how far back does it go? On the next Your Call, we'll have a conversation with Alexis Madrigal, author of Powering the Dream: The History and Promise of Green Technology. He says in order to move toward a green energy system, we need to look to the past. What is the history of green technology? Join us at 10 or send an email to feedback@yourcallradio.org. How can past inventions help us solve today's environmental crisis? It's Your Call with Rose Aguilar and you.

Guests:
Alexis Madrigal, a senior editor at The Atlantic. He's the author of Powering the Dream: The History and Promise of Green Technology.

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How do you strike a balance between green technology and the environment?

On the next Your Call, we'll have a conversation about the tradeoffs of green technology. Google and General Electric have invested hundreds of millions of dollars in solar and wind projects. Environmentalists and native rights activists say the solar plan in the Mojave Desert should be relocated to protect wildlife and sacred sites. Can the drawbacks of big green tech offset the benefits? Join us at 10 or send an email to feedback@yourcallradio.org. It's Your Call with Rose Aguilar and you.

Guests:
Michael Haederle, contributing editor for Miller-McCune Magazine, where his recent articles are "Rooftop Solar Power to the People?" and "Are New Solar Power Projects Anti-Environmental?"

Matthew Kahn, professor at the UCLA Institute of the Environment, the Department of Economics, and the Department of Public Policy and author of Green Cities: Urban Growth and the Environment.

Bill Powers, member of the Solar Done Right coalition and principal of Powers Engineering

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What can we learn from the history of green tech?

What can we learn from the history of renewable energy in the US and how far back does it go? On the next Your Call, we'll have a conversation with Alexis Madrigal, author of Powering the Dream: The History and Promise of Green Technology. He says in order to move toward a green energy system, we need to look to the past. What is the history of green technology? Join us at 10 or send an email to feedback@yourcallradio.org. How can past inventions help us solve today's environmental crisis? It's Your Call with Rose Aguilar and you.

Guest:
Alexis Madrigal, a senior editor at The Atlantic. He's the author of Powering the Dream: The History and Promise of Green Technology.

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Your Call 101608 Van Jones

Can we overhaul our economy to save both the people and the planet? On the next Your Call we speak with the visionary activist Van Jones, author of The Green Collar Economy: How One Solution Can Fix Our Two Biggest Problems. In his book, Jones lays out his plan to rescue the world from environmental catastrophe and transform the American economy at the same time. What will create the political circumstances to ensure our liberation from lousy energy and lousy jobs? It's Your Call with Rose Aguilar and you.

Guest: Van Jones in San Francisco
Civil rights and environmental advocate in Oakland, California, working to combine solutions to social inequality and environmental justice. Jones is the president and founder of Ella Baker Center for Human Rights and author of the new book The Green Collar Economy: How One Solution Can Fix Our Two Biggest Problems. Jones lives in Oakland with his partner Jana and his two little boys Cabral and Mattai.

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Your Call 081308 Green Car Conundrum

Do alternative fuel cars solve our problems? Can a car based transportation system ever be sustainable? On the next Your Call we'll discuss the latest electric, hybrid, low-emission diesel and alternative fuel cars. Makers of next generation electric cars say they get the equivalent of 170 miles per gallon, but are the claims road tested any better than the prototypes? Are hybrids better than today's diesel? Does changing the fuel in the motor solve all or even most of the problems we get with cars? It's your call with Sandip Roy and you.

Guests:
Shannon Arvizu in LA
Writes for Autobloggreen.com and Triplepundit.com and is a PhD candidate in Environmental Sociology at Columbia University. Her thesis is about the clean car movement.

Meghan Sinott in Portland
Publicity, Advertising and Apparel organizer for the June 2008 Carfree Cities Conference in Portland, Oregon

Michou Olivera in San Francisco
Co-owners of Luscious Garage a SF repair shop that only works on hybrids. Olivera BARTs to work and on weekends rebuilds classic muscle cars.

Russ Heimerich in Sacramento
Spokesman for the California Bureau of Automotive Repair's Drive Healthy Campaign

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Your Call 033108 Solar Rising

Why is solar rising over the Bay Area? On the next Your Call, we're rebroadcasting a conversation we recently had with a panel of stakeholders in the solar boom. Cities are making it easier to install panels on residences and offices, local companies are spearheading research into new technologies, and local contractors and non-profits are making it practical. What policies are happening in your neighborhood to make solar's present as bright as its future? It's Your Call with Sandip Roy.

Guests:
David Hochschild in San Francisco
Vice-President of Solaria, a start-up; he is a commissioner on the San Francisco Public Utilities Commission and a founder of the non-profit Vote Solar. He joins us in our San Francisco studio.

Johanna Partin in San Francisco
Renewable Energy Program Manager in the San Francisco Department of the Environment. She joins us from San Francisco.

Cisco Devries in Berkeley
Spokesperson for the City of Berkeley.

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Your Call 011408 Big and Green

Can you be big and green? On the next Your Call we’ll discuss the future of organic companies that have been bought by bigger, conventional ones. Burt’s Bees was bought by Clorox, Colgate-Palmolive owns 84 percent of Tom’s of Maine and Wal-Mart is now the largest retailer of organic vegetables in the country. Can green grow and still mean anything? If you buy an organic juice made by Coke are you being responsible, or buying a lie? It’s Your Call with Rose Aguilar and you.

Guests:
Professor Dara O’Rourke
Associate Professor of Environmental and Labor Policy at UC Berkeley
 
Gary Hirschberg
President and CEO of Stonyfield Farms
 
Rinku Sen
Publisher of Colorlines, a national, multi-racial magazine devoted to the creativity and complexity of communities of color and winner of Utne Magazine’s Independent Press Award for General Excellence.

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