Starting Friday, September 18: 3-part series on green building

This week Martha Baskin is starting a 3 part series on green building. The series will look at both residential and commercial buildings.

Part I, which airs this week, is titled "Weatherization, Insulation, Sealing, Oh My!": Ecofriendly strips of insulation and caulking the outside seams of a house don't often come to mind when reducing your carbon footprint, but for the homeowners we'll meet in Part I of this series, improving their homes' energy efficiency by weatherizing is the low-hanging fruit of green activity.

September 11, 2009: Book Review of Thoreau’s Legacy : American Stories about Global Warming

Green Acre Radio begins the Fall season with a review of a new anthology, Thoreau’s Legacy: American Stories about Global Warming. A project of the Union of Concerned Scientists and Penguin Classics, the book is dedicated to the millions of Americans taking action to solve global warming. Martha Baskin has our review.

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August 13, 2009: Fees for Plastic Bags and $1.4M from the American Chemistry Council

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July 30, 2009: The Untold Environmental Crisis: Bees, Colony Collapse Disorder and the Food We Eat

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July 23, 2009: Living with Light Rail: Transit Oriented Development and Existing Communities

Martha Baskin takes a look at light rail, "transit oriented development" and real-life transit options in existing communities.

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July 16, 2009: Putting the Genie Back in the Bottle: Full Disclosure and Bottled Water

Bottled water has become an indispensable prop in our lives and culture. It starts the day in lunch boxes, goes to every meeting, lecture hall and soccer match. Thirty years ago it barely existed as a business. Last year we spent more on Poland Spring, Fiji Water, Evian, Aquafina and Dasani than we spent on iPods or movie tickets - $15 billion. But are the marketing claims of bottled water accurate? Green Acre Radio’s Martha Baskin lets the genie out of the bottle.

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July 2, 2009: Navigating Water Supply in an Age of Global Warming

This week Martha continues her series on water by looking at how climate change might affect its availability. In this public affairs segment we'll hear from Seattle Public Utilities, the county's Regional Water Policy Analyst and the UW Climate Impacts Group.

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