NRDC's segments on EcoTalk

Hybrid Savings

Daniel Hinerfeld  reports on a study that concludes that no matter what you may have heard, owning a hybrid does indeed save you a substantial amount of money-- perhaps as much as $13,000. Hear all about it, and new concepts like the Chevy Volt.
LISTEN (6 min)

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The National Teachers Association Rejects 50.000 Convenient DVDs

Why did the National Science Teachers Association reject 50,000 free copies of An Inconvenient Truth, but freely show videos created with the backing of Conoco Phillips? Jon Coifman wonders the same thing. LISTEN (11 min)

Florida Road Trip: Drive Beyond Oil

Eben Burnham-Snyder talks about their Florida road trip to promote hybrid and flexible fuel technology.
LISTEN (7:50 min)
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New energy policies?

Dan Lashof, Science Director with NRDC's Climate Center explains the limits of the new energy policies announced by President Bush and what can be done to really end America's oil addiction (read below).
LISTEN (7 min)

After the State of the Union

Jon Coifman shares his thoughts about GW's admission of our oil addiction in the State of the Union and what's next including the President's visit to the Energy Department's National Renewable Energy Lab that had just been hit by budget cuts.
LISTEN (10 min)

How to clean coal

Coal-fired power plants are the single largest source of man-made CO2, accounting for one quarter to one third of the world's total.
An entire generation of obsolete coal-fired power plants built in the 1950s and 1960s needs to be replaced.

David Hawkins, director of the NRDC's Climate Center explains the strategic importance of choosing the right technology for the new coal plants that are going to be built:  "If the plants are not designed up front to capture their CO2, they will lock us into large amounts of global-warming emissions for their entire operating lifetimes."   LISTEN (7 min)

Read the feature story by Craig Canine in onearth