Sustainability

May 4, 2010 - Segment 2

CEM — Tue, 04 May 2010 16:52:31 -0500

Bob Dixson, Mayor of Greensburg, Kansas, joins us. Greensburg was destroyed by a tornado on May 4, 2007, three years ago today. After the tornado, the City Council passed a resolution stating that all city buildings would be built to platinum LEED standards, making it the first city in the nation to do so.

At noon this Saturday, May 8, Bob Dixson will give the keynote address at the Solar and Wind Expo, which takes place at the Timonium Fairgrounds this Friday through Sunday. For more info, go to www.thesolarwindexpo.com

May 3, 2010 - Segment 2

CEM — Mon, 03 May 2010 18:23:12 -0500

In the second segment of the show, we take a broad look at what the Gulf Coast oil spill means for United States energy policy. Can our economy afford to end offshore drilling? Can our environment afford not to end it?
We're joined by:
Jon Hiskes, staff writer at grist.org
Mike Olsen, counsel in Bracewell and Giuliani's Environmental Strategies Group in Washington, DC. He worked for five years in the Department of the Interior under George W. Bush.
Jackie Savitz, Senior Campaign Director for the Pollution Campaigns at Oceana
Mike Tidwell, Executive Director of the Chesapeake Climate Action Network

May 3, 2010 - Segment 1

CEM — Mon, 03 May 2010 18:14:15 -0500

First, another trip to the University of Maryland Hospital to visit the Center for Advanced Fetal Care.

Then, Anthony McCarthy and Marc co-host a special look at the oil spill in the Gulf Coast. We begin the show with a discussion about what happened, how the cleanup is going, and what is likely to happen over the next few weeks.
We're joined by:
Steven Peyronnin, Executive Director of the Coalition to Restore Coastal Louisiana
Richard Charter, Government Relations Consultant for the Defenders of Wildlife Action Fund

To read a list of the 11 workers who lost their lives in the explosion of the oil rig, click here.

April 22, 2010 - Hour 1

CEM — Wed, 21 Apr 2010 14:28:39 -0500

This hour we feature two perspectives on transitioning to cleaner sources of energy.

First, we speak with Grist staff writer Jonathan Hiskes about his trip to Wales to explore the transition Wales has been making since its coal-based economy bottomed out in the mid '80's. Check out his article Save the Wales: 'Britain's Appalachia' Engineers a Brighter Post-Coal Future.

Activist Maria Gunnoe, winner of the 2009 Goldman Prize for her work fighting to protect her homeland in West Virginia from the devastation of mountaintop removal coal mining, joins us for the second part of the hour.

Click here to find out where your energy comes from and what your connection to mountaintop removal is.

March 29, 2010 - Hour 2

CEM — Mon, 29 Mar 2010 16:56:13 -0500

During the second hour Marc and co-host Anthony McCarthy are joined by Robert Percival, director of the environmental law program at the University of Maryland School of Law, Senator Lisa Gladden, democratic state senator from Maryland's 41st district, Senator James(Jim) Brochin, democratic state senator from Maryland's 42nd district, and Delegate Richard Sossi, Republican Delegate representing the 36th district on the Eastern Shore, deputy minority whip and a member of Environmental matters committee, to talk about a suit by the University of Maryland's environmental law clinic that accuses poultry giant Perdue Farms of water pollution. The lawsuit has led to a debate in Annapolis over cutting funding to the law clinic, raising the issues of academic freedom and corporate influence on politicians.

March 25, 2010 - Segment 2

CEM — Thu, 25 Mar 2010 15:31:54 -0500

Today we take a look at one of the collaborative visions that came out of this year's Urbanite Project. Divining Baltimore: A Visioning Exercise looks at the streams hidden beneath Baltimore's streets, and wonders how we could create a greener, more livable city by unearthing them. Eliza Steinmeier, Executive Director and Waterkeeper for Baltimore Harbor Waterkeeper, Gabriel Kroiz, an architect, builder, educator, and BSAED Program Director and Assistant Professor at Morgan State University's School of Architecture and Planning, and Christopher Streb, ecological engineer at Biohabitats join us to discuss their project.

View the map of the streams hidden beneath our city streets.

March 9, 2010 - Hour 2

CEM — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 12:02:23 -0600

David Kirby joins us to discuss his new book Animal Factory: The Looming Threat of Industrial Pig, Dairy and Poultry Farms on Humans and the Environment.

September 23, 2009 - Hour 2

CEM — Wed, 23 Sep 2009 16:10:53 -0500

Author Peter Brown joined us for the second segment of the show. He is a professor at McGill University’s School of Environment and the co-author with Geoffrey Garver of Right Relationship: Building a Whole Earth Economy. The book offers a comprehensive new model for world economic systems that seeks to serve all people and protects the natural world.

Then in the final part of the show, Marc sat down with leaders from some of Baltimore’s public safety unions to discuss the upcoming city budget cuts and employee furloughs.

Marc was joined by:

Robert Cherry, President of the Baltimore City Fraternal Order of Police, Lodge 3

Stephen Fugate, President of Baltimore Fire Officers Local 964

Henry Burris, President of the Vulcan Blazers

August 11, 2009 - Hour 2

CEM — Tue, 11 Aug 2009 15:21:08 -0500

Will Allen is an urban farmer who has garnered national recognition for the work he has done in Milwaukee, WI where his operation Growing Power produces about $500,000 of affordable produce, meat, and fish. Will won a MacArthur Fellowship in 2008 for his work in urban farming. He joins Marc to share his thoughts on the future of urban agriculture and how other cities could begin to produce food.

August 4, 2009 - Hour 1

CEM — Tue, 04 Aug 2009 16:11:09 -0500

Marc and guests discuss a new farming program that the Baltimore School system is running here in Baltimore. Great food and opportunities are being provided to students for locally grown, organic fruits and vegetables.

Today's guests were:

Tony Geraci, Baltimore City Public Schools Food Service Director
Greg Strella, Farm Manager of the Great Kids Farm at Bragg Nature Center