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GOING GOING GOING GREEN
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Program 08-11-30-A |
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 Colin Beavan & Family |
A poster at Starbucks asks customers to focus on the world water crisis. A congregation asks the faithful to go on a carbon diet. The local grocery now charges for a plastic bag. We've got green cars, green clothing, green investments, and even green weddings. In this hour of To the Best of Our Knowledge, going, going, gone green. There's an eco-revolution sweeping America – and the world. Can this new grassroots environmental movement save the planet?
SEGMENT 1:
A self-described "guilty liberal," Colin Beaven began blogging about his And his wife's experiment in "no impact living." He got a lot of national media attention (and we hear a clip of some of it) then Anne Strainchamps talks with him about how no impact living has changed his life. Also, Jeff Ferrell quit his job as a tenured professor and moved back to Fort Worth for a year long experiment in living off the street. He chronicles his year as a dumpster diver in the book "Empire of the Scrounge." Ferrell talks with Steve Paulson about America's illicit economy of street scavenging and extreme re-cycling.
SEGMENT 2:
Steve Paulson prepared this report on the life of Edward Abbey. Abbey's book "Desert Solitaire," changed the way people thought about the earth and made him the patron saint of young environmental activists. Abbey died in 1989but his legacy lives on.
SEGMENT 3:
Bryandt Urstadt is a freelance writer from Connecticut. He wrote "Imagine There's No Oil: Scenes from the Liberal Apocalypse" for Harper's Magazine. He researched his piece at the 2nd Conference on Peak Oil, and tells Steve Paulson what the peak oil people believe the future will be like. Also, Ken Eklund created an alternate reality game called "World Without Oil." He tells Jim Fleming about his game and what happened when people began to play it. And, Anne Strainchamps, herself a Mom, goes looking for environmental Hope among the children of Randall Elementary School in Madison, Wisconsin. Finally, we listen in on David Rothenberg playing a clarinet duet with a humpback whale recorded live off the coast of Maui.
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Books & CDs:
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Jeff Ferrell. Empire of Scrounge: Inside the Urban Underground of Dumpster Diving, Trash Picking, and Street Scavenging NYU Press |
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For a list of books by and about Edward Abbey:
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Websites:
- To read Bryant Urstadt Harper's articles "Imagine
there's no oil: Scenes from a liberal apocalypse" please go to:
http://harpers.org/archive/2006/08/0081156
- To read Colin Beavan's blog "No Impact Man"
please go to: http://noimpactman.typepad.com
- The World Without Oil On-Line Game: http://worldwithoutoil.org/
Music:
- David Toop. “Reverse World” on the CD “Screen Ceremonies.” The Wire Records.
- Chris Hughes. “Slow Motion Blackbird” on the CD “Shift.” Mercury Records.
- Jaron Lanier. “Cactile” on the CD “Future Tickle.” BMI Records.
- Thai Elephant Orchestra. “Rainforest” on the CD “Thai Elephant Orchestra.” Mulatta Records.
- David Rothenberg. “Never Satiified” on the CD “Whale Music” from the book “Thousand Mile Song.” Basic Books.
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Distribution dates: week of 11/30/2008
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