After a very quick trip to San Diego I'm looking at a rather busy week but I'm glad I got the chance to sneak in a 15-minute chat with some old pals - Tim Hurst, Maria Surma Manka and Jeff McIntire-Strasburg - just before I left. We're the "Gang of Four" for Earth and Industry Radio.
We discussed the implications the new debt ceiling deal have on environmental policy - I hope you tune in and comment.
Showing posts with label podcasts. Show all posts
Showing posts with label podcasts. Show all posts
06 August 2011
10 February 2010
Earth & Industry's Gang of Four - Lighting an Eco-friendly Candle
It's been said it's better to light a candle than curse the darkness. I don't recall seeing anything about a candle's carbon footprint, though...
Those who subscribe to the Earth and Industry Radio "Gang of Four" podcast on iTunes (yes, you can subscribe here) may have heard us take a not-so-upbeat tone in a recent "2010 Predictions" episode. So we thought we'd try to get back to our positive nature and suggest some things environmentalists can do to regain momentum when it comes to sentiment on climate change.
I think it's worth a listen - Jeff, Maria and Tim are really smart.
Those who subscribe to the Earth and Industry Radio "Gang of Four" podcast on iTunes (yes, you can subscribe here) may have heard us take a not-so-upbeat tone in a recent "2010 Predictions" episode. So we thought we'd try to get back to our positive nature and suggest some things environmentalists can do to regain momentum when it comes to sentiment on climate change.
I think it's worth a listen - Jeff, Maria and Tim are really smart.
23 September 2009
President Obama's Speech to the UN on Climate Change
Last night the Earth & Industry "Gang of Four" got together to record a podcast and discuss President Obama's speech on climate change. We decided to do what some goofy political pundits do and give the President a grade on his speech. However, Jeff is a college professor so he at least has some credibility in that department...
The Earth & Industry post features the podcast, a link to the speech text, and HD video of the speech. If you don't have time to read or watch the whole speech, here's a "speech cloud," brought to us by our pals at Wordle. No surprises here.
The Earth & Industry post features the podcast, a link to the speech text, and HD video of the speech. If you don't have time to read or watch the whole speech, here's a "speech cloud," brought to us by our pals at Wordle. No surprises here.
18 September 2009
If I had a million dollars...
My pals at Earth and Industry and I got together for a quick podcast that compared the investment potential of solar energy versus wind energy. We threw out the goofy hypothetical - if you had a million dollars, and could only invest in solar OR wind, where would you go?
We'll be doing more of these, and I hope you'll listen in.
We'll be doing more of these, and I hope you'll listen in.
28 August 2009
Greenwashing, Social Media, and The New Opinion Leaders
This week I had the chance to record a conversation with Maria Surma Manka, an expert in environmental communications and policy. Maria is one of my favorite green bloggers and she's also in public relations - I think she serves as a role model for people who want to succeed in the workplace and make a difference on important policy issues.
Our conversation focuses on "greenwashing" and how to avoid it, but we also got into how the media covers environmental issues and how the opinion leaders in environmentalism are all moving online.
The audio clip is 23 minutes, 51 seconds and I think the audio quality is the best I've been able to manage so far.
Our conversation focuses on "greenwashing" and how to avoid it, but we also got into how the media covers environmental issues and how the opinion leaders in environmentalism are all moving online.
The audio clip is 23 minutes, 51 seconds and I think the audio quality is the best I've been able to manage so far.
11 August 2009
Protest and Social Media in Iran
While the United States media focuses the bulk of its attention on screaming people at "town hall" meetings (presumably about health care) and the fact that Michael Jackson is STILL dead, I thought it was important to take a look at what real journalism looks like today and at how high the stakes really are for free speech in some places in the world.
Earlier this week, I was very fortunate to speak briefly with Hamid Tehrani, Iran Editor for Global Voices Online. He's been covering Iran's presidential election and its aftermath. In my opinion no one has provided better coverage than GVO, because they are able to curate the primary source material, translate it in many languages, and present it in its proper context. Hamid has written extensively on the protests and the use of social media to facilitate and report on them.
So much of the "social media coverage" of these protests has been about the tools, and they're no doubt important. But I still think this story is still about the people, the messages, the stories, and what's at stake. Hamid made some excellent points about how social classes have come together in protests, something you wouldn't expect to see in Iran. And for all the talk about Facebook, YouTube, and Twitter, I loved his point about history. In 1978 the Ayahtolla distributed audio cassettes to spread his message and people climbed to their rooftops to yell "God is great" in protest. Today, they're using social media tools, but the protesters are still going to the rooftops and they're still chanting "God is great."
The audio quality is so-so, I'm still getting the hang of it. But this is well worth a listen - just under 20 minutes. Here's a link to the page on the Internet Archive. It's also embedded here.
Earlier this week, I was very fortunate to speak briefly with Hamid Tehrani, Iran Editor for Global Voices Online. He's been covering Iran's presidential election and its aftermath. In my opinion no one has provided better coverage than GVO, because they are able to curate the primary source material, translate it in many languages, and present it in its proper context. Hamid has written extensively on the protests and the use of social media to facilitate and report on them.
So much of the "social media coverage" of these protests has been about the tools, and they're no doubt important. But I still think this story is still about the people, the messages, the stories, and what's at stake. Hamid made some excellent points about how social classes have come together in protests, something you wouldn't expect to see in Iran. And for all the talk about Facebook, YouTube, and Twitter, I loved his point about history. In 1978 the Ayahtolla distributed audio cassettes to spread his message and people climbed to their rooftops to yell "God is great" in protest. Today, they're using social media tools, but the protesters are still going to the rooftops and they're still chanting "God is great."
The audio quality is so-so, I'm still getting the hang of it. But this is well worth a listen - just under 20 minutes. Here's a link to the page on the Internet Archive. It's also embedded here.
23 July 2009
A New Green Podcast
As many of you know I have conversations from time to time with people who blog about environmental issues. Three of my favorites are Tim Hurst, Maria Surma Manka, and Jeff McIntire-Strassburg.
They're also three of the busiest people I know. Like me, Maria is in the PR industry. She leverages her considerable expertise on environmental issues for her company's green marketing blog, EcoLogic. She's contributed to some of the biggest green blogs out there.
I interviewed Tim a while back for this blog, and I've followed him quite a bit - he contributes to Red Green and Blue, Web Ecoist and and he's the managing editor for a relatively new blog I'm high on called Earth and Industry.
Jeff is the granddaddy of 'em all - a former English professor, he's a co-founder of Green Options, he's blogging for the Sundance Channel's Sunfiltered (yes, with co-contributor Robert Redford), and he's contributing to Tim's Earth and Industry blog.
Just for kicks, I asked the three of them to join me for a new semi-regular podcast I'd like to start on environmental issues. I wanted to keep it very simple - we come up with one question, and each of us answer it. I also wanted to keep it under half an hour. Tim came up with the first question. He told the group, "There seems to be a lot of discussion about whether the Waxman-Markey climate bill should be passed because it's a good start or whether it should be scrapped entirely in favor of something tougher or completely different. This could go lots of different ways, but it seems salient." I think we were all pleased with the discussion.
I know there's a large and growing number of green podcasts out there, but I wanted to do this for a few reasons. First, I like these folks and wanted to talk about environmental and economic policy with some smart people.
Second, I wanted to learn podcasting. Finally, I wanted to demonstrate how people can publish smart content (if not the most polished) without spending a dime - I'm using Skype to create a conference call, Call Graph to record it, Audacity to edit it, and The Internet Archive to store it. I'd like to do more of these and publish a series of green policy conversations to iTunes. I may try to do this with other topics as well.
The audio quality is so-so - I've heard worse, I've heard better. I'm still learning. So many thanks to Tim, Maria and Jeff for their participation in this - I'm looking forward to more.
Here's the discussion - it's about 26 minutes. Details and downloads can be found here.
They're also three of the busiest people I know. Like me, Maria is in the PR industry. She leverages her considerable expertise on environmental issues for her company's green marketing blog, EcoLogic. She's contributed to some of the biggest green blogs out there.
I interviewed Tim a while back for this blog, and I've followed him quite a bit - he contributes to Red Green and Blue, Web Ecoist and and he's the managing editor for a relatively new blog I'm high on called Earth and Industry.
Jeff is the granddaddy of 'em all - a former English professor, he's a co-founder of Green Options, he's blogging for the Sundance Channel's Sunfiltered (yes, with co-contributor Robert Redford), and he's contributing to Tim's Earth and Industry blog.
Just for kicks, I asked the three of them to join me for a new semi-regular podcast I'd like to start on environmental issues. I wanted to keep it very simple - we come up with one question, and each of us answer it. I also wanted to keep it under half an hour. Tim came up with the first question. He told the group, "There seems to be a lot of discussion about whether the Waxman-Markey climate bill should be passed because it's a good start or whether it should be scrapped entirely in favor of something tougher or completely different. This could go lots of different ways, but it seems salient." I think we were all pleased with the discussion.
I know there's a large and growing number of green podcasts out there, but I wanted to do this for a few reasons. First, I like these folks and wanted to talk about environmental and economic policy with some smart people.
Second, I wanted to learn podcasting. Finally, I wanted to demonstrate how people can publish smart content (if not the most polished) without spending a dime - I'm using Skype to create a conference call, Call Graph to record it, Audacity to edit it, and The Internet Archive to store it. I'd like to do more of these and publish a series of green policy conversations to iTunes. I may try to do this with other topics as well.
The audio quality is so-so - I've heard worse, I've heard better. I'm still learning. So many thanks to Tim, Maria and Jeff for their participation in this - I'm looking forward to more.
Here's the discussion - it's about 26 minutes. Details and downloads can be found here.
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