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Best of EcoTalk 2: Toxins in cosmetics

This week's program is again from "The best of EcoTalk" series: it was originally aired on May 22nd, 2005. Betsy's guests to discuss how safe or unsafe are the cosmetics and other personal products we use are:

Judi Shils, Founder and Director of the Marin Cancer Project that promotes knowing about the ingredients, phasing out dangerous components (like phtalates) and teen organizing.  Listen (10 min)

Sasha Hoffman is Miss Teen World USA and an advocate for safe cosmetics.  Listen (6 min)

Bruce Ackers is Director of Research and Development for EO products a company that creates natural personal care products.
Listen (11 min)

Heather Sarantis is program manager with the Breast Cancer Fund that is a member of the safe cosmetics campaign.
Listen (7 min)

For more info, read the Environmental Working Group's Skin Deep report and find out what ingredients are in the products you or your children use.

LISTEN to the whole program (37 min)

Betsy on Morning Sedition

Betsy got up very early this morning to speak on New York based AAR Morning Sedition about the abysmal energy policies promoted by Bush and co.
Listen (12 min)

Best of Ecotalk

Betsy is taking a well deserved short vacation so we'll be airing programs from "The Best of EcoTalk" archives for the next few weeks. This sunday we'll replay the interview with Dr. Riki Ott on her new book about the human impacts of the Exxon Valdez disaster more than a decade later.

Interview with Riki Ott

It was 16 years ago that the Exxon Valdez ran aground, triggering the worst oil spill in history and transforming the tranquil and pristine Prince William Sound into a toxic wasteland. The legacy of that pivotal event is the subject of a new book by Dr. Riki Ott, Sound Truth and Corporate Myth$: the legacy of the Exxon Aldez oil spill.
We’ll hear why Dr.Ott’s scientific research has convinced her that oil is more toxic to humans and the environment than anyone ever thought.In what’s being called the “Silent Spring” of oil, Dr. Ott’s book is an urgent call for clean alternatives to fossil fuels. LISTEN

 

America's energy future

We'll drill down and see what's really in store for America's energy future now that the long delayed, much debated energy bill has been signed. Were the oil and coal industries the only winners or is there something in there for the rest of us? In signing the legislation Bush said nuclear power offers great promise but is it a safe or cost effective?

Author and commentator, Mark Hertsgaard will weigh in about the real cost of nuclear energy and tell us why "peak oil" is going to become a familiar concept.
Listen (17 min)

Bob Borosage, of The Campaign for America's Future and the Apollo Alliance, will tell us what states are doing to be more "conserve-ative" since the federal government is MIA on energy efficiency leadership.
Listen (19 min)

LISTEN to the whole progam (37 min)

About the Sierra Summit

The Sierra Club, the nation's largest environmental organization is holding a conference and expo in San Francisco next month, the "Sierra Summit", to launch "the third phase of the environmental movement". Our guests include Lisa Renstrom, the newly inducted 51st president of the Sierra Club, and two Summit speakers.  LISTEN (11 min)

 

Chad Pregracke, founder and president of Living Lands and Waters, will tell us how he went from pulling garbage from the Mississippi River ten years ago to creating a model for cleaning up rivers across America.
LISTEN (14 min)

We'll also hear from Sarah Craven who runs the Washington DC office of the United Nations Population Fund (a department defunded by Bush Jr.) to learn about "The Population Balm".

LISTEN (13 min)

LISTEN to the whole program (37 min)