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Earth Day Edition: Living Green
As concern over climate change grows, more Americans are living greener. We celebrate Earth Day with a special edition dedicated to environmental living. Find out why New York Times columnist, Thomas Friedman thinks being green is the new red, white and blue. Also, we talk to architect Maya Lin about designing green buildings. Plus: a debate on green consumerism.
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What's Red, White & Blue and Green All Over?
Thomas Friedman, New York Times columnist, makes the case that environmentalism could rejuvenate the U.S. economy and cut the flow of money to terrorists.
EnviroMyth
Manhattan Institute senior fellow Max Schulz says many of the public's beliefs about energy and the environment are misguided.
Read the Manhattan Institute's new report, Energy & the Environment.
No Sacrifice Required
David B. Goldstein, research scientist and Air & Energy program director for the NRDC, and the author of Saving Energy, Growing Jobs: How Environmental Protection Promotes Economic Growth, Competition,Profitability and Innovation, says there's no trade-off between economic and environmental health.
Saving Energy, Growing Jobs is available for purchase at Amazon.com
Building a Green World
Sculptor and architectural artist Maya Lin shares her ideas for building the environmentally-friendly way.
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The Rocky Road Ahead
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Ray Young, the chief financial officer of General Motors, talks about GM’s bankruptcy.
Then, Damon Lester, president of the National Association of Minority Automobile Dealers, and Greg Williams, former owner of the recently closed Huntington Chevrolet in Huntington Station, NY., discusses the effect GM’s bankruptcy has had on dealerships and their employees.- Comments [41]
Tweet If You Use Twitter
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Farhad Manjoo, Slate's technology columnist and the author of True Enough: Learning To Live in a Post-Fact Society talks about what Twitter means and how different groups use it.
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Don't Say That, Literally
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John Flansburgh of the band They Might Be Giants discusses the running list the band keeps of "things we can no longer say." (a few examples: "my bad" "don't go there" "one hundred and ten percent" and "voted off the island")
What would be on your list of banned words or phrases? Comment below!- Comments [172]
From Denmark with Love
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Jesper Grunwald, senior managing editor with the Danish Broadcasting Corporation, talks about the Danish economy, biking to work, and why the Danes are allegedly the happiest people in the world.
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Squatting, Then and Now
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As former squats in the East Village make the transition to coops, making homes from abandoned housing is again an issue. Andrew Reicher executive director of Urban Homesteading Assistance Board, Frank Morales an Episcopal priest involved in East Village/Lower East Side squatting and homelessness activism since the late '70s, and Rob Robinson, a leader of the Housing Campaign of Picture the Homeless, discuss the return of squatting.
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