Wal-Mart: Go Green on a Shoestring

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Exclusive: Big Ideas for a Small Planet: Water Tuesday 4/15 @ 9pm on Sundance Channel

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Lazy E profiled on Sundance Channel’s ECO BIZ: Tuesday, April 8th at 9pm

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Get Yourself Some Reuse: Brita's FilterForGood Campaign

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Green Living in Pure Style: Anna Getty

Today's show features a maven in the green lifestyle realm. Anna Getty has more titles than any other guests we've ever had on the show, but in an all encompassing way, she is a pro at conscious living. Pulling from her various careers and diverse life experiences, she brings a unique knowledge to the concept of living in sustainable luxury.

Today's Featured Radio Guest:
Anna Getty - Heiress, Actress, Fashion maven, Chef, Kundalini yoga teacher, Writer, DVD personality, and holistic lifestyle expert.

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Getting Students Interested and Involved in a Sustainable Future

Today's radio show is two-fold. Firstly, we talk about creating a sustainable future with kid-power. By investing in high school students and college students and empowering them with tools like mentors, technical support, and financial resources, students are invisioning and realizing socially responsible ventures. Our other guest, is a Lazy E regular who is bringing the latest and greatest in green gossip.

Today's Featured Radio Guests:
Michael Del Ponte - Co-founder and CEO of Conscious Lifestyle, a nonprofit organization that empowers students and schools to be more socially responsible, whose deadline to apply for a social venture grant is due February 15th, 2008.

Michael d'Estries - Co-founder and Editor of Ecorazzi.com, a green gossip website bringing us that good eco-buzz.

Youth with great green ideas doing BIG things:

Teens for Safe Cosmetics a coalition led by young women raising awareness about potentially harmful ingredients in beauty and daily use products that may be linked to cancer, reproductive harm and other health risks.

Do Something - A supreme organization hooking kids up with a chance to make a difference, and win the Brick Awards.

Youth Venture Helping teams of young people start new youth-led organizations.

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Fields of Fuel: Green Screening at Sundance

Today's show features a producer and director of a film that is currently at Sundance. Fields of Fuel is turning heads at that festival, and across the US at large, because it is both timely and awesome.

Today's Featured Radio Guests:

Josh Tickell and Greg Reitman - Director and Producer from Fields of Fuel, a film about biodiesel fuel made from vegetable oil that is an economically sustainable, environmentally sound alternative energy to fossil fuel.

Check out more Green Sundance info on the Huffington Post.

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Eco Rock Star: KT Tunstall

Today's show is awesome. We have a rocking guest: literally a rock-n-roller who is changing both the music scene and the green scene. KT Tunstall is revamping the notion of both eco-activist and rocker chick.

Today's Featured Radio Guest:

KT Tunstall - Rock Star and Green Activist whose latest album Drastic Fantastic is all that.

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ON TODAY'S RADIO SHOW: THURSDAY, DECEMBER 20th

2007 Eco-Wrap Up

Lazy Environmentalist 2007 Highlights

Eco-Business:
Treehugger bought by Discovery Channel for 10 million dollars.

BurtsBees bought by Clorox for $925 million in Cash

Political Innovation:
Arnold Schwarzenegger promising to sue the EPA for not allowing California and 16 other states to create their own more rigorous automobile carbon emissions standards. The EPA has set a 35 mpg fleetwide standard for all cars by 2020 and Cali, NY, Pennsylvania, VA and 13 other states wanted 43 mpg for cars, 27 mpg for trucks by 2016 beginning in 2009.

May 22nd 2007, Van Jones speaks before Congress on behalf of a bill to allocate $120 million to “clean energy” vocational training programs, nationally to help 30,000 U.S. workers (and would-be workers) become “green-collar” workers in clean and green industries. Focusing on about $20 million to go specifically to help low-income people and those with barriers to employment.

On October 12th in Oslo Norway, Former Vice Prez Al Gore won the Nobel Peace Prize OSLO, Norway along with the U.N.'s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change.

Celeb Green:
Roger Waters performs a dope version of Brick in the Wall with a kids choir, and rocks out the Live Earth Concert (only rivaled by Bon Jovi who OWNED Giants Stadium on 7.7.07)

Will Ferrell as President W Bush on Global Warming. Funniest Video EVER.

Larry David and Cheryl on stopping global warming. HYSTERICAL: "The bald are pioneers on water conservation".

Green Collar Jobs:
Gamesa - a company that is training ex-steel workers in Pennsylvania as green collar workers engaged in manufacturing, selling, installing, operating, and maintaining wind turbines.

Green Collar Vets - Our mission is to coordinate skill development, education and employment opportunities in emerging Green Industries for U.S. military veterans .

Hottest Lazy E Guests:
David de Rothschild - author and adventurer.
Rob Stewart - flimaker and shark aficianado.
Sarma - restauranteur and owner of Pure Food and Wine.
Cathy Zoi - heads up the Alliance for Climate Protection

Best Lazy E Moments:
The Lazy E goes on the Martha Stewart show and tells Ms Stewart that th G Diaper is his reason to have kids.

The Lazy E eats dog food on air with Anthony Zolezzi Author, Co-Founder of Pet Promises Dog Food, and loves it.

Our sound engineers Vin, Jon "MySpace", and Andrea all go green. Vin convinces The Lazy E he has a green back pack by virtue of its minimal zipper amount.

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WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 19th RADIO SHOW

Organic Gardening and Winter Planting

We are talking about therapeutic, healing, organic gardening today. Our guests are the co-hosts of The Organic Gardener here on Lime Radio Sirius 114. Even in winter, we can still reap, sow, and harvest with an organic focus, metaphorically and literally.

Today's Featured Radio Guests:

Jessica Walliser and Doug Oster - Hostso of The Organic Gardeners on Lime every Saturday from 12-2pm EST and authors of A Gardener's Journal, My Life in the Garden.

There other book, Grow Organic: Over 250 Tips and Ideas for Growing Flowers, Veggies, Lawns and More, is a smash hit and makes for a great holiday gift.

Innovation of '07

BadA** Reusable Bag

PETA and Sexy Advertising Techniques

Teens for Safe Cosmetics

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CNN Captures The Lazy E talking Green Drinks

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FRIDAY, DECEMBER 14th RADIO SHOW

Spotlight Green: Long Island

Today we have the owner and founding publisher Canvas Magazine, based in Long Island. If you weren't aware of the fact that Long Island is a bastion of sustainability, you probably need to check yourself. Fridays are great for obvious reasons, and today we are taking it to another eco-awesome plane with our show.

Today's Featured Radio Guest:

Matthew O'Grady - Associate Publisher for Canvas Magazine, A backdrop for ideas, perspectives and life on Long Island.

Mega Shout Out to:

Recycle Bank. This awesome company is showing mad fantastic leadership and vision in creating recycling solutions that make both sense and money.

Neighborhood Network - A Long Island Organization dedicated to reclaiming the suburban and rural character of community life on the island.

North Shore Land Alliance - A land trust formed to protect and preserve,
in perpetuity, the green spaces, wetlands and
historical sites of Long Island's North Shore.

Green Drinks Holiday Event for Canvas Magazine at the Footprint Gallery, 51 Gibbs Avenue in Huntington, Long Island.

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THURSDAY, DECEMBER 13th RADIO SHOW

Two Michaels and Green Creativity

Today's show features two guests, both named Michael, with great information to share. The first is an allstar from Dwell.com who is reporting back from Design Miami and Art Basel on the Green Tip. The second is a musician who has composed the scores for An Inconvenient Truth, and most recently Into the Wild with Eddie Vedder.

Today's Featured Radio Guests:

Michael Cannell - Editorial Director at Dwell.com, and one of our professional style homeboys.

Michael Brook - Composer, Producer, Guitarist with an environmentally focused mission, whose work has appeared as individual albums and as movie soundtracks.

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THURSDAY, DECEMBER 6th RADIO SHOW

Eco-Journalism and Green Networking

Today's show features some heavy hitters. Our first guest is the Environment and Energy news editor for the Wall Street Journal , extensively covering green news better than any national newspaper. The second guest founded a green social networking and events organization called Green Drinks, whose annual NYC holiday party will be held this coming Tuesday, December 11th at Blvd located at 199 Bowery (at Spring). You can get your ticket at Brown Paper Tickets.
Today's Featured Radio Guests:

Jeffrey Ball - News Editor for the Wall Street Journal covering environmental and energy isues, and keeping Journal readers in the green.

Margaret Lydecker - Founder of the NYC Chapter of Green Drinks, a monthly networking event for Eco Professionals.

Today's Podcast:

Eco-friendly cleaning products.
Seventh Generation - The green cleaning pioneer, still rocking hard.
Method Cleaning Products - A great company we love because of its availability (check out Target), cool packaging design, and effectiveness.
Clorox GreenWorks - A new brand of natural cleaners we will be introducing nationwide in January 2008 by the GIANT mainstream cleaning company, Clorox.

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MONDAY, DECEMBER 3RD RADIO SHOW

A Good Publisher and a Great Climate Expert

What a show on tap for today. Whew, we are going to need a water break halfway though this one! Our first guest is publisher of GOOD Magazine, media for people who give a damn. Our second guest is the experts' expert: the Weather Channel's Climate Expert. This is going to rock!

Today's Featured Radio Guests:

Max Schorr - Publisher and Founding Editor of GOOD Magazine, a media company with print magazine, feature and documentary films, original multimedia content and local events, GOOD is providing a platform for the ideas, people, and businesses that are driving change in the world.

Dr Heidi Cullen - The Climate Expert at The Weather Channel, and a scientist formerly with the National Center for Atmospheric Research. She now hosts of Forest Earth on the Weather Channel, the first weekly television series to focus on climate issues.

Topics Discussed Today:

Son of Rambow - First feature length film produced by GOOD media about two kids with a video camera and the madness that ensues.

The word of the day is Psychographic - Identification of personality characteristics and attitudes that affect a person's lifestyle and purchasing behaviors.

Check out Good Magazine's NYC headquarters at 201 Mulberry Street.

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Lazy E goes on NBC's "In The Loop with iVillage"

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WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 17th RADIO SHOW

Eco-Fabulous? Clearly!

Today's show features a woman who looks like Salma Hayek, according to USA Today, but to us just looks like a true Eco-ALLSTAR. She is hanging out in the studio today talking about her bolg, her job, and her unending energy. Not to mention, she brought her awesome daughter Zoe, age 4, who will be coloring most of the time but might also grace the mic with mom (fingers crossed).

Today's Featured Radio Guest:

Zem Joaquin - Eco Editor for House and Garden Magazine and Editor of Ecofabulous.com.

Design Happening - NY Design Week co-sponsored by House and Garden Magazine and Featuring the Green and Gorgeous Fashion Show going on tonight.

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FRIDAY, OCTOBER 12th RADIO SHOW

One, Two, Tree

Today's show features a film maker with an important movie to show the world. From loggers to granny activists, this guest is bringing us stories of folks who deepy love trees. Then we hop to an architect, designer and all around green guru.

Today's Featured Radio Guests:

Mark Leiren-Young - Director of The Green Chain , a thought-provoking film about the conflicts between people on both sides of the battle who love trees -- both loggers and environmentalists, who are willing to risk anything to protect their personal visions of the forest. Check out Mark's comedy group Local Anxiety, too.

David Bergman - Principal architect and designer of Bergworks GBM am exceptional multidisciplinary design firm.

Swagologie - Newly launched site that helps party planners and individuals provide eco-swag for parties.

West Coast Green - A conference in San Francisco this past September 20 -22, 2007, this conference is gave the residential green building market the event it had been wanting: a full scale 3-day conference and expo, and David Bergman was there to cover it.

DIY Channel - If you're looking for Front Door, Homemade Mayonaise, Aircondition or anything similar, go ahead and browse this comprehensive resource directory.

Rate It Green - A user-driven directory, ratings site, and community portal for the green building industry.

Brompton Bicycle - David rode up to the studio in this awesome fold up bike. Righteous.

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FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 28th RADIO SHOW

Bold Eco- Bloggers and Beyond

If bloggers were rockstars, our guest would be Madonna. If eco-bloggers were movie stars, our guest would be Leonardo DiCaprio. If our guest was one of the most important environmental journalists, she would be Amanda Griscom Little. Oh wait, that is our guest. Sweet.

Today's Featured Radio Guest:

Amanda Griscom Little - Writes the Muckraker Column for Grist Magazine and keeps her finger on the green pulse and dissects it for the rest of us.

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MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 17th RADIO SHOW

Goodsearch and You Shall Find

What if every time you did something as mundane as used a search engine to find out George Washington's middle name, you raised money for a cause you believed in. Our guests today have created a way to do just that and help lead us to the inevitable conclusion that a brighter future is as easy as a click. (Oh, and George Washington didn't have a middle name.)

Today's Featured Radio Guests:

JJ Ramberg and Ken Ramberg - Sibling Co-Founders of Goodsearch.com, a search engine which donates 50-percent of its revenue to the charities and schools designated by its users.

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FRIDAY, AUGUST 17th RADIO SHOW

Green Films: The 11th Hour

Today's a big day for the environmental community. The 11th Hour is being released in theaters nation wide to meet its toughest critics: the American Public. Will the average Joe respond to the film the way the green community has (very positively) and will it be used as a tool to educate and inspire the masses? We are featuring guests today who have the inside scoop on the film.

Today's Featured Radio Guests:

Nadia Conners Co-Director and Co-Writer of The 11th Hour, a feature-length documentary film on the state of the world and the state of humanity co-produced and narrated by Leo DiCaprio, as well as a Founder and Creative Director of the Tree Media Group.

The 11th Hour film is just the beginning of the movement. Check out 11th Hour Action to participate and get involved in the community.

Michael d'Estries and - Co-Founder and Editor of Ecorazzi, a website that catches celebrities in the act of doing the right (or wrong) green thing.

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Wednesday, June 27th Radio Show

Live Earth Concert: Clap It Up

We are talking Global Warming survival today, with the writer of the companion book to the Live Earth Concerts all going down on 7.7.07. We are also announcing our Win Live Earth Concert Tickets contest co-sponsored with Ecorazzi.

Today's Featured Radio Guest:

David de Rothschild - Author of The Live Earth Global Warming Survival Handbook: 77 Essential Skills To Stop Climate Change and co-founder of Adventure Ecology.

Topics Discussed Today:
Extra Live Earth tickets are still available for a limited time.

GoLoco - Carpooling networks are now a reality with this website founded by Zipcar founder Robin Chase.

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Friday, June 22nd Radio Show

Go Go Green Garden

According to the National Gardening Association, lawn and garden retail sales totaled over $35 billion in 2005. The NGA also states that more than eighty-three percent of all U.S. households have some type of garden. Considering the sheer purchasing power of over about 91 million Americans, the greening of the gardening industry has huge potential to affect positive environmental change. Today we speak with guests who are changing the way we garden.

Today's Featured Radio Guests:

Katherine Whiteside - Expert Gardner and Author of The Way We Garden Now: 41 Pick-and-Choose Projects for Planting Your Paradise Large or Small, a hands-on book bringing together savvy advice and inspirational ideas in a lively compilation of projects involving both edible and ornamental gardening.

Marina D'Abreau - Head of Florida Yards and Neighborhoods Program for Hillsborough County educating local Florida residents on conserving water and energy, reducing maintenance, fertilizer, and pesticides use, and improving their lawns.

Book Parties Mentioned Today:

Katherine's The Way We Garden Now book party will be held tonight, June 22nd from 7-9 at Van Brunt Gallery in Beacon, NY.

Josh's Lazy Environmentalist book party will be held Tuesday, June 26th at 7pm at the Barnes and Noble Astor Place in NYC.

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Wednesday, June 20th Radio Show

Books that Make You Go Green: Cause It's Cool

Combining loads of potential advice with celebrity insights, today's guests discuss the various ways to make real environmental changes without the fear factor.

Today's Featured Radio Guest:

Thomas M. Kostigen - Author and Co-Editor of The Green Book: The Everyday Guide to Saving the Planet One Simple Step at a Time

Topics Discussed Today:
Worldchanging: A User's Guide for the 21st Century - by Alex Steffen

The Live Earth Global Warming Survival Handbook: 77 Essential Skills To Stop Climate Change - Live Earth Concert Companion Book by David de Rothschild

And of course The Lazy Environmentalist: Your Guide To Easy, Stylish, Green Living by Josh Dorfman

Native Energy - Carbon offsetting company which incorporates social responsibility in its mission.

Terra Pass - Carbon offsetting company investing in eco-agricultural innovation.

Renewable Choice Energy - Energy credit company that works with major sustainable

Appalachian Offsets - Local carbon offsetting company partnering with the Western North Carolina Green Building Council to bring energy credits to the WNC community.

Green-Ehttp://green-e.org - The nation's leading independent certification and verification program from the Center for Resource Solutions.

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FRIDAY, JUNE 15TH RADIO SHOW

Green Documentary Day: The Real Dirt on Farmer John

What does it take run a successful organic farm? What does it mean to be true to your self? How does organic farming hold the potential to tie us all closer to the land? And what we can we do to get off our butts and participate? The Real Dirt on Farmer John explores these issues while tracking the often eccentric, sometimes wacky, and always authentic path of Farmer John and his organic farm located in Caledonia, Illinois.

TODAY’S FEATURED RADIO GUEST:
Farmer John Peterson – the force and main protagonist of The Real Dirt on Farmer John. Follow Farmer John’s “astonishing journey from farm boy to counter-culture rebel to the son who almost lost the family farm to a beacon of today’s booming organic farming movement. The result is a tale that ebbs and flows with the fortunes of the soil and revealingly mirrors the changing American times.” - FarmerJohnMovie.com

TOPICS COVERED TODAY:

Community Supported Agriculture (CSA) - LocalHarvest.org

Sustainable Local Food in New York - JustFood.org

Don't Trash Your Electronics. Cash Them.
GreenPhone.com
Ebay Trade-in Program

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TUESDAY, JUNE 12TH RADIO SHOW

Green Living Trends: Where Do We Go From Here?

“Green” is very much the buzz word of the moment. But what do we mean by “green?” Is it a trend? A fad? How is green culture evolving? Where do we go from here? These are just some of the questions we tackle today with two of our favorite green media experts.

TODAY'S FEATURED RADIO GUESTS:
Shea Gunther – Founder and Publisher of GreenOptions.com, a blog and resource website that brings together many of today's top environmental bloggers.

Deborah Snoonian – Executive Editor of Plenty Magazine, the foremost eco-friendly lifestyle magazine.

TOPICS COVERED TODAY:

Cradle to Cradle

Biomimicry

U.S. Green Building Council

Natural Swimming Pools

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Josh Goes on MSNBC's "YOUR BUSINESS"

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WEDNESDAY, JULY 6TH RADIO SHOW

Building Green TV: Coming to a Station Near You

Do you live in a great home? Would you like to? Meet Kevin Contreras, Host of Building Green TV now rolling out on PBS stations around the country. Kevin is building a green home in Santa Barbara and taking viewers with him on the exciting journey. Along the way, Kevin debunks green building myths and demonstrates ways to implement some of the most exciting green building innovations available today.

Today's Featured Radio Guests:
Kevin Contreras - Executive Producer and Host of Building Green TV, airing on PBS affiliates throughout the U.S. Follow along as he builds his Santa Barbara dream house--out of straw. And steel. And fly ash. And old blue jeans. And find those resources as well on the television show's companion website, Buildinggreentv.com.

Ted Rose - Vice President of Business Development of
Renewable Choice Energy, a national leader in providing wind energy credits to organizations and individuals around the country. Ted joins us from the American Wind Energy Association Annual Conference to update us on the latest developments in the wind energy industry.

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Tuesday, June 5th Radio Show

Green Celebrity Round-Up

Want to know which brand of organic shampoo Paris Hilton uses in prison? Well, we might not uncover that choice tidbit today, but we will explore the many ways in which celebrities are using their fame to accelerate positive environmental and social change.

Today's Featured Radio Guest:
Michael d'Estries - Co-Founder and Online Editor of Ecorazzi.com, the top destination for green celebrity gossip, catching celebrities in the act of doing the right (or wrong) green thing. The site also highlights humanitarian efforts, beneficial campaigns, fundraisers and other acts of good.

GREEN TOPICS COVERED IN TODAY'S SHOW:

Al Gore and Co.'s Live Earth Concert Series (even Spinal Tap is getting back together for it)

Cameron Diaz's New Book - The Green Book

Jay Leno's Wind-Powered Garage

Keira Knightley and Reusable Shopping Bags

The Summer of Green Music (as coined by Michael):
The Green Tours:
John Mayer
Keith Urban
Damien Rice

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Tuesday, May 29th Radio Show

Sustainability Spotlight: Asheville, NC

Tucked away in the mountains of western North Carolina, Asheville is a small southern city that is both open-minded and progressive yet maintains its local traditions and unique heritage. Sandwiched between the Blue Ridge mountains and the Great Smokies, Asheville is close to our hearts for personal and professional reasons and this city is getting it right with eco-solutions.

The Lazy E will be reading from his book tommorow, Wednesday May 30th at 7:00 pm at Malaprops book store in downtown Asheville.

Today's Featured Radio Guests:

Rebecca Bowe - Writer and "The Green Scene" expert for the Mountain Express, an independent newspaper featuring local news and issues affecting Asheville and the surrounding region as well as the area’s vibrant arts-and-culture scene.

Brian Sonoskus - Executive Chef at Tupelo Honey Cafe, an absolute Asheville favorite offering old southern favorites with creative twists which incorporates mostly local and organic ingredients.

Brian Winslett - Staff and Board member of Blue Ridge Biofuels , an employee owned biodiesel production and distribution company supplying the greater Asheville area.

Green Trendsetters Discussed with Today's Guests:

Appalachian Offsetts - a voluntary carbon offset program to combat global climate change through local renewable energy and efficiency projects in Western North Carolina.

Western North Carolina Green Building Council - a non-profit organization whose mission is to promote environmentally sustainable and health conscious building practices through community education.

Dogwood Alliance - What would it take for the music industry to go green? Working with artists, labels and musicians this organization is helping to transform an industry that has a huge environmental footprint.

Near Bio - A free service that combines the most comprehensive, verified list of US biodiesel stations (retail pumps) and driving directions with easy access from your cell phone or your computer!

Bio Trucker - Find biodiesel fueling sights, or call the biodisel hotline at 1-866-BIODIESEL (1-866-246-3437).

National Biodiesel Board - The national trade association representing the biodiesel industry as the coordinating body for research and development in the United States.

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Monday, May 14th Radio Show

Pushing Green Mainstream: The Power of Design

Around the globe designers and entrepreneurs are grasping the awesome potential for design to create a greener world. It’s manifesting in new products, new business models, new media, and new venues in which to showcase the enormous strides underway.

Kimberly Oliver and Rebecca Silver – Executive Producers of Haute Green, an exhibition of the best in sustainable design for the contemporary home, showcasing furniture, lighting, and accessories that are both aesthetically pleasing and eco-friendly.

Graham Hill – Founder of Treehugger.com , the definitive internet blog and resource for modern green living, and a juror of Haute Green.

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Tuesday, May 1st Radio Show

Lifestyles of the (Eco) Rich and Famous

If you've ever felt alone in your quest for the ultimate eco-friendly lifestyle, today's show will remind you that this modern green movement is in fact a team sport. It turns out that not only you, but your neighbors, friends, and some major Hollywood stars are all making environmentally conscious changes to their ever-glamorous lives. If they can green glamorously, so can you.

Today's Featured Radio Guest:

Michael d'Estries - Co-Founder and Online Editor of Ecorazzi, a website that catches celebrities in the act of doing the right (or wrong) green thing.

Companies, Projects and Products Mentioned on Today's Show:

Tridel Condos - Canada's leading builder of Toronto condominium homes and condos in the Greater Toronto Area with a focus on green living.

Gaia Napa Valley Hotel & Spa - Napa's first fully environmentally- sustainable hotel.
Green Toronto Festival - If you're green, be seen, at the Green Toronto Festival! Darryl Hannah, Al Gore, and Rachel McAdams were in attendance, just to name a few.
CitiLog - Using their Full Circle Recycling Company Program, these products are made from our extensive stock of reclaimed wood or from timbers harvested directly from your local site. CitiLog is looking for sales personnel in the New York City Area, so check out their site if you are seeking employment in a green-collar job.
Q Collection - Provides furnishings for that are better for you, your home, and our planet. Q Collection is currently hiring for specific positions, so definitely check their website for more details about yet another green-collar job.

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Tuesday, April 23rd Radio Show

What Color is Your Internet? Powerful Green Solutions

Today we explore how the power of the internet is helping build this modern green movement and also enable green lifestyles. Using the World Wide Web, our guests are taking green mainstream and into the spotlight.

Today's Featured Radio Guests:

Nick Aster - Media Architect of TreeHugger, which breaks it down for you in a series of in depth how-to articles that help you green your life and he is also the Founder of Triple Pundit, which uses an 'integrated bottom-line' approach to looking at business from the next generation of MBAs.

Alyson Wilson - Business Development Director for ThisNext.com, a social shopping network deftly integrating and featuring eco-friendly and green products and services for those with a penchant for fashion, home decorating, architecture, and design.

Companies, Projects and Products Mentioned on Today's Show:

Website of the Day
NewsTarget.com - Independent journalism which provides "information that empowers".

Green Trendsetters Discussed with Today's Guest:

Presidio School of Management - Offering an MBA program in Sustainable Management integrating social and environmental values within every course, this program has succeeded as a collaborative learning community committed to human, natural and financial sustainability.

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Wednesday, April 18th Radio Show

Green Media goes Prime Time

Green living is becoming more stylish and convenient than ever before. And it’s easier than ever to watch the eco-transformation as green-themed shows begin airing on prime time television.

Paul Polizotto – Founder of EcoMedia, an environmental media dedicated to improving the quality of life in communities across the country through the EcoZone Project – a public-private partnership that brings together business and government to address critical environmental challenges in the areas of air quality, energy conservation, enhancing green spaces, and protecting our rivers, lakes & streams from pollution.

Companies, Projects and Products Mentioned on Today's Show:

Websites of the Day

Better World Club - The nation's only environmentally friendly auto club to provide nationwide roadside service. Membership includes eco-travel services, discounts on hybrid cars, insurance services, free maps, auto maintenance discounts and bicycle roadside assistance. Better World Club donates 1% of annual revenues toward environmental cleanup and advocacy.

Better World Telecom - The only nationwide, full-service voice and data telecommunications carrier solely focused on serving businesses and organizations that supports social justice and sustainability. Better World Telecom donates 3% of revenues to causes that benefit children, education and the environment.

Organic Endurathon - Conceived by Steve Shriver, CEO and founder of Eco Lips, the Organic Endurathon is a 260 mile run across Iowa's varied terrain to promote organics and celebrate Earth Day 2007.

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Monday, April 16th Radio Show

Building Green: At Home and At Work

Environmentally smart homes and office buildings are on the rise throughout North America. Combining advanced technology with timeless design principles, green architects, builders, and practitioners are steering us toward a future where comfort, satisfaction and productivity go hand in hand with environmental responsibility.

Today's Radio Guests:

Serge Appel - Senior Associate for Cook + Fox Architects and Project Director of the Bank of America Tower at One Bryant Park in New York City which, upon completion, will be the world’s most environmentally responsible high-rise office building and the first to strive for the U.S. Green Building Council’s Leadership in Energy & Environmental Design (LEED) Platinum designation.

Robyn Griggs Lawrence - Editor-in-Chief of Natural Home Magazine, offering today's health-conscious, environmentally concerned homeowners the information they need to practice earth-inspired living.

Companies, Projects and Products Mentioned on Today's Show:

Gen Art Film Festival in NYC showing innovative cinema including Gimme Green, a film about the America's lawn obsession and it's environmental impact. Another films is Shark Water which explores the ecological problems associated with a human caused decrease in the world's shark population.

The Power of Green - An extensive Thomas Friedman article in the April 15th NY Times Magazine all about the state of green geo-politics.

Green: The New Red, White and Blue - a documentary featuring Thomas L. Friedman's reporting on green technology, premiers on the Discovery Channel on Saturday, April 21 at 9 p.m.

Green Trendsetters Discussed with Today's Guests:

Energy Star - a joint program of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and the U.S. Department of Energy helping us all save money and protect the environment through energy efficient products and practices.

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Thursday, April 5th Radio Show

Green Celebrities, Big Money, and Fast Cars

Innovative strategies for shifting our economy, society, and personal lifestyles in a more environmentally conscious direction are generating a lot of excitement. Being green is increasingly becoming about being right on the cutting-edge of culture, media, entertainment, and technology. Our guests today are advancing this new green agenda and in the process having a broad impact.

TODAY'S RADIO GUESTS:
Michael d'Estries and Rebecca Carter - Co-Founders and Editors of Ecorazzi, a website that catches celebrities in the act of doing the right (or wrong) green thing.

Mark Goodstein, Executive Director, Automotive X PRIZE for Xprize Foundation, The Automotive X PRIZE is the latest effort from the X PRIZE Foundation with a mission is to bring about radical breakthroughs for the benefit of humanity.

Green Trendsetters Discussed with Today's Guests:
Ed Begley - "Living with Ed" on HGTV
Will Ferrell - Greening his home, driving a hybrid car, and making us laugh hysterically in his new film, "Blades of Glory".
Honda FCX - One of the hottest fuel cell cars, young actress Q’Orianka Kilcher is seen driving hers all around Hollywood.

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Monday, March 26th Radio Show

Creating Stylish Eco-Friendly Events

How do we celebrate in style while treading lightly on the planet? Whether it's a raging party, an elegant wedding, or any number of events designed to celebrate milestones in our lives and the lives of our family and friends, finding ways to have a great time while minimizing the environmental impact is becoming easier, more stylish, and more intoxicating.

FEATURED RADIO GUESTS:

Meghan Meyers - Editorial Director & CEO of Portovert, the first only magazine for eco-savvy brides and grooms
www.portovert.com

Allison Evanow - Founder and CEO of Square One Vodka,
www.squareonevodka.com a great-tasting, ultra-premium vodka that is also 100% certified organic.

Companies, Projects and Products Mentioned on Today's Show:

Bauer Hotels - www.bauerhotels.com provides green places to stay while you vacation
Town & Country Magazine- www.townandcountrymag.com has a great "going green" section in the back of this month's edition
Q Collection - www.qcollection.com has high end, beautiful, and eco-friendly furniture
Domino Magazine - www.dominomag.com whose green edition for this month of March is available on newsstands now

Green Trendsetters Discussed with Today's Guests:

Amansala Eco-Chic Resort - www.amansala.com offers a great eco-wedding destination in Tulum, Mexico

Organic Agave Nectar is less sweet than simple syrup and adds a dimension of depth to Square One cocktails. Infused Agave Nectar adds a layer of flavor complexity that you won’t get simply by using a sweetened juice or mix. When you want just a subtle hint of a certain fruit, spice or herb in your cocktail, infuse it first in Agave nectar
for several hours or overnight in the fridge. You can find Agave nectar in most gourmet and natural products food stores.

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The Lazy Environmentalist Goes Live Daily on Lime Radio’s channel on Sirius Satellite Radio (Channel 114)

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Verdant Magazine does Valentine's Day

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Premieres Wednesday, November 15th

Contemporary Voices of the Eco Movement

New and extremely articulate voices are talking, debating, coming up with ideas, challenging old ideas and charting a course toward a twenty-first century environmental ethic that is relevant to the way we live. The eco-conversation is on in earnest and while environmental challenges loom large, fresh solutions are being offered that engage, inspire, and delight.

THIS WEEK'S GUESTS:
Alex Steffen – Executive Editor of Worldchanging.com and Editor of the newly released World Changing: A User’s Guide for the 21st Century, and Sarah Rich – Managing Editor of both Worldchanging.com and the WorldChanging book. WorldChanging believes that changing the world is a team sport and that the tools, models, and ideas are already at hand. The website and now the book bring together many of the most visionary thinkers who highlight those solutions and show how they interconnect to form a tool-kit for changing the world.

Sharon King Hoge – Editor of Verdant Magazine, the nation’s first upscale, environmentally-friendly, lifestyle magazine featuring green ideas for better living. Verdant entertains while it informs, delivering smart profiles, engaging think pieces, insightful travel advice and cooking, gardening and investment tips in a beautifully designed, easy-to-read design for today's modern reader.

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Premieres Wednesday, September 6th

Green Media: Empowering Environmental Change

Some of the most interesting environmental media coverage is taking place at magazines that speak their environmental and social values loudly. How they go about presenting their information and what they choose to cover is not only important for shaping our societal conversation but also insightful because these media outlets have discovered an environmental approach that resonates with readers and makes the “eco” conversation extremely relevant to our lives.

THIS WEEK'S RADIO SHOW GUESTS:
Terri Trespicio - Associate Editor of Body & Soul Magazine, dedicated to giving readers the tools they need to keep body and soul together as they live their natural, active, informed, and balanced whole lives, and Host of the Body & Soul Hour on Martha Stewart Living Radio.

Robyn Griggs Lawrence - Editor-in-Chief of Natural Home Magazine, offering today's health-conscious, environmentally concerned homeowners the information they need to practice earth-inspired living.

SIRIUS AND LIME RADIO SHOWTIMES:
Premieres Wednesday at 9 am EST on the Lime Channel on Sirius Satellite Radio 114 and streaming live at Lime.com. Encores - Wednesdays 9PM; Thursdays 3AM, 2PM, 8PM; Fridays 2AM; Sundays 1PM.

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Premieres Wednesday, June 28th

Environmental Media: Entertaining, Informing, Inspiring

Today an environmentally focused media is informing and educating about pressing environmental issues through compelling entertainment. It’s the latest strategy being adopted and implemented by savvy filmmakers, distributors and media companies. The environmental story, the real story is starting to reach the American mainstream, informing and empowering us as consumers and as citizens to get hip to the environmental reality and do something about it through the choices me make as individuals and as a society.

THIS WEEK'S RADIO SHOW GUESTS:
Chris Paine - Director of Who Killed The Electric Car, a documentary film released by Sony Pictures Classics, chronicling the life and mysterious death of the General Motors EV1 electric automobile, examining its cultural and economic ripple effects and how the reverberated through the halls of big business and government.

Chris is joined by Chelsea Sexton - Executive Director of Plug in America, promoting the use of plug-in cars, trucks and SUVs powered by cleaner, cheaper, domestic electricity to reduce our nation's dependence on petroleum and improve the global environment.

Joey Shepp and Mikaele Holzer, Founders and Ambassadors to Urth TV, a social and media network for people who value greater consciousness, healthy living and a sustainable planet.

SIRIUS AND LIME RADIO SHOWTIMES:
Premieres Wednesday at 9 am EST on the Lime Channel on Sirius Satellite Radio 114 and streaming live at Lime.com. Encores - Wednesdays 9PM; Thursdays 3AM, 2PM, 8PM; Fridays 2AM; Sundays 1PM.

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Premieres Wednesday, February 22nd

Green Media Goes Mainstream

The emergence of media outlets covering the modern green lifestyle presents convenient, easy ways for consumers to keep abreast of the latest trends in stylish, cool, eco-friendly living.

THIS WEEK'S GUESTS:
Mark Spellun - Founder of Plenty Magazine, the leading magazine for green living, offering a hip, irreverent look at today's environmental issues.

Jill Fehrenbacher - Founder of Inhabitat.com, a weblog devoted to the future of design, tracking the innovations in technology, practices and materials that are pushing architecture and home design towards a smarter and more sustainable future.

Premieres Wednesday at 9 am EST on the Lime Channel on Sirius Satellite Radio 114 and streaming live at Lime.com. Encores - Wednesdays 9PM; Thursdays 3AM, 2PM, 8PM; Fridays 2AM; Sundays 1PM.

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Episode 13

The Media and the Modern Green Lifestyle

From green design and eco-fashion to hybrid automobiles and sustainable architecture, modern green living is a hot topic. Could we be witnessing the birth of a new, consumer driven environmentalism? Joining Josh to discuss this emerging trend are Jen Boulden, Co-founder of Ideal Bite, a daily source for useful, relevant eco-tips delivered to your inbox, Graham Hill, Founder of Treehugger, the definitive internet blog and resource for modern green living, and Mark Spellun, Publisher and Editor-in-Chief of Plenty, a magazine for hip, savvy, environmentally conscious consumers.

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Media Outlets for Modern Green Living

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Episode 11

Living Well by Doing Good

On a core level many of us want to align our professional lives with our values about the environment and society. All too often, however, there seems to be a tradeoff between meaningful work that fills our souls and available work that fills our bank accounts. Yet more and more people are finding ways to bridge the gap. Joining Josh to discuss the new paradigm of work are Anita Sharpe and Kevin Salwen, founders of Worthwhile Magazine, and Lance Secretan, renowned strategist and leadership consultant.

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IdealBite - small eco bites that make a big difference

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Episode 1

Exploring the Modern, Green Lifestyle and Environmentally Friendly Transportation

We introduce our listeners to the expanding possibilities for greening our modern lifestyles taking a close look at the fleet of eco-friendly automobiles emerging from industry leader Toyota. The discussion will center on hybrid automobiles and other emerging green technologies that will further increase fuel efficiency and reduce our environmental impact. Joining Josh are Graham Hill, founder of modern, green internet blog Treehugger.com and David Hermance, Executive Engineer for Environmental Engineering at Toyota Technical Center U.S.A.

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