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GREENDAY + NRDC

Daniel Hinerfeld explains how
Green Day and NRDC have joined forces to engage more people in one of the most important issues of our time: our addiction to oil. LISTEN (7 min)

NRDC: Electric Skateboards

NRDC's  Daniel Hinerfeld knows what he wants this holiday season: An electric skateboard. It’s emission free, silent and, by all accounts, a lot of fun. But shhh: It's illegal. LISTEN (7 min)

Gabriela Chavarria & NRDC's New Science Center

Gabriela Chavarria is heading the NRDC's new Science Center, dedicated to the search for solutions   and hard facts, while serving as honest brokers between scientists, communities,   business and government. She tells Betsy about the Center's spirit, priorities, and her own scientific passions. LISTEN (10 min)

Amy Domini and Socially Responsible Investing

NRDC's  Daniel Hinerfeld  interviews Amy Domini of the Domini Social Equity Fund. "If you invest blindly, " she says, "your future will be blindly created." LISTEN (7 min)

NRDC Reveals Stockpiles of Methyl Bromide Far Exceed Allowed Use

NRDC Correspondent Daniel Hinerfeld tells how American chemical suppliers have been stockpiling the dangerous chemical Methyl Bromide, an ozone-depleting and cancer-causing pesticide, and how the US government will allow them to profit off Methyl Bromide, even though its production has been blocked since 1987. LISTEN (6 min)

Green Election Results

NRDC Legislative Director Karen Wayland discusses the election results with several victories for pro-environment candidates like Jerry McNerney.
LISTEN (11 min)

In New York: City Sol

NRDC's Kelly Cox interview City Sol's Chris Neidl about innovative ways to get people to pay attention to alternative energy.
LISTEN (8 min)

Destroying Precious Forests to Make Tissue

Darby Hoover coordinates NRDC's campaigns to promote the use of recycled paper products by US colleges with a 3 ponged approach: paper procurement, use reduction and recycling. Destroying precious forests to produce disposable tissues is the reason for targeting Kimberly Klark and pressuring the pulp and paper industry to change its ways. LISTEN (8 min)
More inforrmation: A shopper's guide to home tissue products, saving paper in schools

This is a rerun of our May 19 program

China Power: How To Bring Clean Energy To 1.25 Billion People?

NRDC's Daniel Hinerfeld interviews Barbara Finamore, director of NRDC's China Clean Energy Program about the situation in China and its implications:"China's staggering economic growth is an environmental time bomb that, unless defused, threatens to convulse the entire planet regardless of progress in all other nations."
LISTEN (7:50 min)

Sheryl Eisenberg: This Green Life

Sheryl Eisenberg is producing This Green Life, a monthly column for NRDC.
LISTEN (12 min)