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Are Environmentalism’s Days Numbered?
Over the years, environmental advocates have painted a picture of doom and gloom to get their point across. Find out why the authors of a new book on the politics of environmentalism think this approach is doomed. Also, who is responsible for gas leaks that happen inside apartments; why some Fresh Direct works are in a labor dispute; and a plan for dealing with crimes committed by the mentally ill. Also, listeners call in with their heat wave comments about the endless summer.
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The Fire This Time
Glenn Corbett, professor of fire science at John Jay College of Criminal Justice, looks at whether the city should change inspection policies in light of the Harlem gas explosion.
Insanity on the streets
Eugene O'Donnell, professor of law and police science at John Jay College of Criminal Justice, former police officer and former prosecutor, talks about the dangers posed by mentally ill people on the streets of New York.
Local Delivery
Sandy Pope, president of Teamsters Local 805 in Long Island City, talks about efforts to unionize Fresh Direct's warehouse workers.
Nouveau Environmentalism
Michael Shellenberger and Ted Nordaus wrote the 2004 essay "The Death of Environmentalism” that was a Brian Lehrer Show reading project. They follow up with a call for a new approach to environmental politics in the book, Break Through: From the Death of Environmentalism to the Politics of Possibility (Houghton Mifflin, 2007).
Break Through is available for purchase at Amazon.com.
Open Phones: Heatwave
Nina Planck, former director of New York's Greenmarket and author, Real Food: What to Eat and Why (Bloomsbury, 2006) talks about how the warm weather is affecting the fruits and vegetables. Listeners call in to talk about their warm weather experiences and if they are prepared for autumn.
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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.
What's your take on Twitter? How do you use it? Comment below!- Comments [15]
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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