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Betsy is away for two weeks, working on her book

Betsy is away working on her book. She'll be back on February 27. In the meantime she has selected a few of her favorite recent programs in case you missed them when they aired originally, starting with the show aired on December 12. Enjoy!

Bob Doppelt: Climate Ethics Campaign 

Laurie Johnson: ski and climate change

• David Levine: Geostellar

A Challenge on Mother's Day - Betsy on The Huffington Post

There were several developments last week on the climate front that left me deeply disheartened and angry. As a broadcast news journalist turned green radio activist, I am dismayed by these ominous tidings. As a mother, I am outraged, and you should be too.

Whether or not you have a child, grandchild, nieces or nephews in this world, you should know there is an all-out war underway to harm their future and the future of all life on the planet. If that sounds apocalyptic, well, it is, according to James Hansen, NASA's top climate scientist. Dr. Hansen recently wrote a gripping op-ed piece about the Keystone pipeline signaling "game over" for our climate.

Source: Huffington Post, May 13, 2012

Earth Week 2012: The Eco-evolution Will Not Be Televised!

This is Earth Week, that brief period once a year, when you might actually see an in-depth green story, series, or panel discussion about an environmental topic on TV, or hear a few on the radio. Newspapers and magazines can be counted on to do an eco-themed article in late April, but that’s about it.
Sadly, that’s about all the consistent coverage we’ve gotten from mainstream commercial media over the past 15 years. That’s how long I’ve been focused on this odd programming void. While that reality remains unchanged, ecologically and meteorologically speaking, there’s been a groundswell of dramatic events.