Earthbeat Radio

‘Cash for Clunkers’ is touted as a green program – but experts say it actually takes funds away from dollars already dedicated to a loan program for renewable energy.

Host Daphne Wysham investigates with Michael Gerrard, the professor of environmental law at Columbia Law School and the director of its Center for Climate Change Law. Joining the conversation is Henry Jacoby, a professor of management ad co-director of the Joint Program on the Science and Policy of Global Change at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

India is considering a massive solar program that it hopes will help provide that country with needed power. Shankar Venkateswaran joins us from India; he’s the social policy director for the group SustainAbility. In our studios is Namrata Patodia, an international fellow at the Pew Center on Global Climate Change.

And the Navajo Nation goes green. Natasha K. Johnson, the legislative staff assistant for the Navajo Nation Office of the Speaker talks about the new resolution that focuses on green energy jobs, and Wahleah Johns, the co-director of the Black Mesa Water Coalition, speaks about the effort to move the Navajo from extractive industries to green ones.

Music for this edition of Earthbeat is from the soundtrack to the TV show Dexter on Milan Records.

Our theme music is Baladi by Tony Anka, Bellydance Superstars vol. 2.

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Image used courtesy of Tabbi Kat via Flickr.

It’s ten thousand times worse that carbon dioxide, and it’s sitting in your refrigerator. HFCs were designed to be an ‘environmentally friendly’ alternative to the ozone-hole creating CFCs in our air conditioners and fridges.

Joining host Mike Tidwell to discuss how the White House is holding closed-door meetings that may result in HFCs becoming a bargaining chip on the worldwide carbon market is David Sassoon, the editor of the website Solve Climate.

Joining the conversation is Kert Davies of Greenpeace to discuss a safe alternative to HFCs — that are banned by the EPA.

A DC lobbying group forged anti-climate letters – pretending to be grassroots African-American and Hispanic non-profits groups in Virginia. Tim Freilich is a board member of Creciendo Junto, one of the groups whose identity was stolen. Joining the conversation to speak about and other coal company subterfuge is Jeff Biggers, the author of the book The United States of Appalachia.

TV weathermen could be a force for educating the public about the connections between our weather and climate change, but instead they’re often high-profile climate deniers. Joe Romm, editor of the website Climate Progress, discusses the lack of progress on the nightly news.

Image used with permission from listener Eric Crowley via Flickr. Thank you Eric!

Music for this edition of Earthbeat is the song ‘Sweeping’ from The Devil Makes Three.

Our theme music is Baladi by Tony Anka, Bellydance Superstars vol. 2.

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