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May 03, 2008

Wal-Mart: Go Green on a Shoestring

--> As lazy environmentalists we like to go green in ways that are easy, stylish, and affordable. That’s because the more green choices fit our lifestyles, the more likely we are to actually make them. For Earth Day I...

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January 16, 2008

Something Smells Great: Eco-Friendly Cooking with Bon Appetit Magazine

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Today's show features a features editor from a magazine we love, Bon Appetit. The current issue is a "practical tool that produces deliciousness" according to our guest. It highlights stories and recipes with seasonal, local, sustainable, and organic ingredients and has photos that will make you drool.

Today's Featured Radio Guest:

Hugh Garvey - Features Editor of Bon Appetit,a premier food magazine whose February issue that is on stands now, is all about local, organic, and sustainable cooking and eating.

Organic Dark Chocolate Bon Appetit is Loving - Check out Page 20
Nirvana Organic
Equal Exchange
Choco Love
Grenada Organic Company
Green and Blacks
World Wide Chocolate - Great online chocolate retailer
Chocosphere - Another excellent online chocolate retailer

Thanks to Ashley who wrote in about Soy Clean a natural product for paint and pant stripping.

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December 20, 2007

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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December 18, 2007

TUESDAY, DECEMBER 18th RADIO SHOW

EPA in the House

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We are speaking today with a Big Dog. Our guest heads a program from the most powerful green organization in the US: The Environmental Protection Agency. The Non-CO2 Program is an EPA branch partnering with other governmental and non-governmental groups around the world to sequester and harness all gases that are not carbon-dioxide.

Today's Featured Radio Guest

Paul Gunning - Chief of the Non-CO2 Gases and Carbon Sequestration Programs Branch at the EPA. For more information check out

Kyto Protocol -

Gateway to the UN System's Work on Climate Change - The Conference, hosted by the Government of Indonesia, took place at the Bali International Convention Center and brought together representatives of over 180 countries together with observers from intergovernmental and nongovernmental organizations, and the media.

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September 24, 2007

MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 24th RADIO SHOW

Environmental Technology: The Final Green Frontier?

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Hold on to your socks because today's show might blow them off. We are talking about technology that is so green/rad that it might change the course of history. Or just make you scratch your head and think, "Wow, how are they doing that?" Either way, this is not a show to be missed.

Today's Featured Radio Guest:

Katie Fehrenbacher - Editor of earth2tech.com an online Eco-technology news and weblog published by GigaOmniMedia, Inc. and Staff Writer at GigaOM.com delivering technology news, analysis and opinions on a range of topics.

Topics Discussed Today -

EcoFest - Awesome green festival this Sunday, September 30th at Lincoln Center in NYC from 11am to 6pm.

US Military - uses crazy advanced green technology that is so environmentally friendly is makes us feel down right patriotic.

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July 06, 2007

Authors@Google: Josh Dorfman

Last month I had the good fortune to visit Google’s headquarters in Mountain View, CA to talk about my new book, The Lazy Environmentalist: Your Guide To Easy, Stylish, Green Living. The talk provides a strong overview of my...

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June 07, 2007

Josh Goes on MSNBC's "YOUR BUSINESS"

Lazy Environmentalist Host Josh Dorfman recently appeared on "Your Business" airing on MSNBC and hosted by JJ Ramberg. In the segment titled "Green Without Guilt", Ramberg's crew follows Josh from his Vivavi sustainable furniture showroom in Brooklyn to LIME's...

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May 25, 2007

Lazy Environmentalist in the News

The Lazy Environmentalist in the news this week, May 25th: Mountain Express: Asheville, NC - "So what does Dorfman say to those who insist that widespread consumerism is a cause of environmental woes? "Well, I would say, I agree,"...

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May 18, 2007

Lazy Environmentalist in the News

The Lazy Environmentalist in the news this week, May 18th : Nashville Scene - "We already know that we can buy our way out of climate change hell with carbon offsets, but some of us are eager to do...

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April 25, 2007

Lazy Environmentalist on Martha Stewart Show - II

This past Friday, April 20th, Josh was on the Martha Stewart Show to share some Lazy Environmentalist green ideas for Earth Day. Watch the videos as he demonstrates for Martha cutting-edge products and services to help easily "green" our...

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April 18, 2007

Lazy Environmentalist on Martha Stewart Show

The Lazy Environmentalist, Josh Dorfman, will be on the Martha Stewart Show this Friday, April 20th at 10 AM on NBC. Josh will be showing Martha some of the most cutting edge eco-friendly products for the home and yard....

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March 16, 2006

Lazy Environmentalist Interviewed on NPR

This past Friday, March 10th Ira Flatow of NPR Talk of the Nation: Science Friday interviewed Josh covering topics ranging from Vivavi and The Lazy Environmentalist, to the prospects for sustainable style and the new design-centric environmental movement, to ICInyc...

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September 01, 2005

Vivavi Founder Interviewed on "Conscious Living"

Vivavi founder and "The Lazy Environmentalist" creator and host Josh Dorfman appeared on the "Conscious Living" radio show this afternoon on VoiceAmerica. Host Samone Myers sat done with Josh to discuss his philosophy, how Vivavi got started, innovations in recycling...

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