Wal-Mart: Go Green on a Shoestring

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Sustainable Sports Equipment: Just In Time For The Super Bowl

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Axis of Eco: Let's Go Rainforest Alliance

Today's guest brings together large multinational corporations and small, community-based cooperatives, to push responsibly produced goods and services into a global marketplace. These collaborations encourage sustainability and profitablity for everyone involved.

Today's Featured Radio Guest:
Tensie Whelen - Executive Director of The Rainforest Alliance, an organization that works with people whose livelihoods depend on the land, helping them transform the way they grow food, harvest wood and host travelers.

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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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Eco-Grooming: Can Shaving Oil Save the World?

Today's show is awesome because it features one of the Lazy E's favorite products in his eco-arsenal: shaving oil. This company is changing the shaving notion of using lather (from shaving cream) and replacing it with lubricant (from shaving oil). Pacific Shaving was born out of necessity for its founder and our guest; he needed a shaving product that was good for the skin, good for the wallet, and good for the earth.

Today's Featured Radio Guest:

Stan Ades - Founder and CEO of Pacific Shaving, a small but mighty shaving oil offering a consistently smooth shave that reduces nicks and razor burn using the only natural ingredients.

Topics Discussed on Today's Show
HybridCars.com -

Kick Global Warming -

Golf and Environment -

Fair Trade Sports -

National Ski Association -

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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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Tech Support: Using Computers for a Green Future

According to the Environmental Protection Agency EPA, roughly 250 million computers are disposed of each year in the US. In California alone, about 6,000 computers become obsolete each day. Our guest today brings us a company whose services make it easy and more affordable to fix our computers instead of throwing them away.

Today's Featured Radio Guests:

Mark Itzkowitz - Director of Product Management for Support.com, offering instant technology relief over the internet.

Jon "MySpace" Pontecorvo - Technical Producer and Multi-media expert at Lime, healthy living with a twist on Sirius Satellite Radio.

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

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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Pimp My IPod- Salvaging Gadgets Instead of Chucking Them

Today's show is all about keeping gadgets out of landfills. The company we are talking to takes broken or returned MP3 players, phones, PDAs, and IPods, restores them, and sells them for less. With so many of our old electronics being thrown away each year, which is known as E Waste, Dyscern is making money from converting that waste into more affordable products for consumers.

Today's Featured Radio Guest:
Jennifer Canty - Founder and CEO of Dyscern specializing in the recovery and resale of PDAs, MP3 players and Apple Products.

Other Topics Mentioned:
Rubber Sidewalks - Awesome sidewalks and playground materials made from recycled tires.

Nike Bowerman Track Program - A Nike Grant program that takes over 75,000 used running shoes and grinds them up to be used for athletic tracks.

The Jordan XX3 - First eco-friendly Air Jordan commemorating Michael Jordan's 23 year legacy and jersey number.

Blue Ridge Biodiesel - Converting would be cooking oil waste into cooking oil gas for cars.

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Freecycle - Free Gifts for the Giving and Taking

Today's show is very exciting for us because we have reading about our guest's company, Freecycle, all over the place including in our favorite eco-newspaper, The Wall Street Journal. Not only does does Freecycle have over 3 million users, but founder Deron Beale is a Thunderbird alum, just like the Lazy E.

Deron Beale - Founder of Freecycle which is made up of 4,226 groups with 4,338,000 members across the globe. It's a grassroots and entirely nonprofit movement of people who are giving (& getting) stuff for free in their own towns.

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ON TODAY'S RADIO SHOW: THURSDAY, January 10th

Green IQ - How Eco Intelligent Are You?

Today's show features a website that tests your IQ. We know we know, at first we were nervous too because we freaking hate tests. But, this is an eco-IQ test measuring how sustainable your life is, and how you can get greener. The best part is that there is no final grade for Green IQ because the quiz is always re-takeable.

Laurel House - Chief Green Officer of Green IQ, a site with a test where you can measure how green you really are. Once the test is taken, custom tips will be sent each week according to your individual green interests.

Website of the day:
The Now Watch - The time is now. This watch reminds us of that.

Check out these great Deborah Lindquist recycled cashmere dog sweater. Love the skulls, Fido.

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ON TODAY'S RADIO SHOW: WEDNESDAY, January 9th

Climate Counts: An Eco Score Card for Corporations

Today's show features an organization that is scoring global companies based on how they are addressing the challenges we face from global warming. Climate Counts acknowledges that in a race to combat climate change, how are companies responding and how can we as consumers influence them. Then we hear from our style expert, Michael Cannell who is reporting live from the floor at the International Consumer Electronics Show on all the cool green innovation.

Wood Turner - Founder of Climate Counts, a group rating major companies based on a point system for climate related actions combating global warming.

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

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ON TODAY'S RADIO SHOW: MONDAY, January 7th

Waste Not, Want Not: GoodBye Junk Mail

We love TiVo. In face, we love anything that reminds us of TiVo. Today's show features a company that essentially lets you TiVo all the junk mail coming into your house. GreenDimes makes it easy to get rid of the annoying and wasteful junk mail you don't want, and they plant 10 trees when you sign up, to boot.

Today's Featured Radio Guest:

Pankaj Shah - CEO of GreenDimes A company that stops up to 90% of your junk mail and plant 10 trees on your behalf by immediately by remove your entire household from dozens of lists, eliminating only your unwanted catalogs and monitoring your account monthly.

Pankaj is also the founder of Tonic Generation where you can buy eco-friendly and organic gear, made using sustainable sourcing and ethical manufacturing processes and every product directly supports an important cause so you make a difference with every purchase.

Also check out conservation minded bathroom companies:
Toto - Dual flush toilets
Oxygenics - Low flow shower heads with EXCELLENT pressure (Lazy E Certified)
Home Depot Eco Options -
Hallowell Acadia -

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ON TODAY'S RADIO SHOW: WEDNESDAY, January 2nd

You Say You Want A Resolution

Today's show we are covering our eco-resolutions for 2008. We love thinking up A+ options for going green, and team Lazy E is bringng you some of our personal favorites.

Dream Big - Think of the coolest green innovation, like Molten Salt Energy Power, and work on it. It helps to have big $ backers, so ask your rich Uncle Herb.

Talk to Kids - Kids these days have their little fingers on the green pulse from school, the internet, and eachother. Next time you are around one, ask them earth saving techniques. Their expertise might surprise you.

Switch to Green Power - Check out your local utilities company and the eco- options that they have for powering your home.

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MONDAY, DECEMBER 17th RADIO SHOW

Come On and Stir It Up, Little Darlin'

Today's show is about sustainable beverage companies. From mixers to energy drinks, today's guests bring us beverages that are great to chin chin with. And, they get us HYPED too.

Today's Featured Radio Guests:

Gretchen Nix - CEO and Co-Founder of ModMix, the first and only organic cocktail mixer.

Ray Jolicoeur and Éric Graveline - Co-founder and New York Manager of Guru Energy Drink, an organic energy beverage that the Lazy E is LOVING, that freaking rocks.

Today's Podcast:
Eco-Detox your body after all the holiday festivities; The Lazy E tells you how.

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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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WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 5th RADIO SHOW

Personal Journey towards a Greener Life

Today's show features guests who help us with out personal decisions in choosing the awesome green lifestyle that we want to live. Both of them provide accessible information that we all want to know about, to move our consumption and lives in a green-a-licious direction.

Today's Featured Radio Guests:

Susanna Tocco - Founder and Blogger of Organic Solutions for the Mint Green, a site devoted to the author's personal quest to make her life, as well as those close to her, sustainabley focused.

Gay Browne - Founder of Greenopia and Author of Greenopia: the urban dweller’s guide to green living, great resources for living sustainably in San Francisco, LA and NYC (coming in the Spring of '08).

Topics Discussed Today:

Cafe Mom - Interesting Learning and Networking site for mothers mentioned today by our guest, Susanna Tocco.

Today's Podcast:
Top 10 Eco Holiday Presents. Grab this podcast off Lime.com

1)Credo Mobile - Give your family a cell phone plan which gives millions a year to non-profits.
2)Good Magazine – A great magazine whose subscription fee of $20 goes to charity.
3)Green Stocks or Mutual Funds – SustainableBusiness.com where you can your track green stocks.
4)Voltaic Backpacks are sweet and available at Voltaic Systems and Reware.
5)Dwell.com – A great gift list including Terra Plana shoes, Bamboo fingerless gloves, hammers, and much more.
6)EcoCalendar – 2008 calendar with everything you need to know about our earth.
7)Lazy E Calendar – Tips for everyday that go with everyday.
8)Kindle – Wireless reading device from Amazon, reducing paper use and making electronic reading pleasureable and easy.
9)Green Home Cleaning – Give the gift of a green clean home with a cleaning service like Zen Home or listed in The Lazy Environmentalist book.
10)Green Rock Concerts - Give a green concert ticket to a music fan who also digs biodiesel tour busses, onsight recycling, and eco-messaging.

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TUESDAY, DECEMBER 4th RADIO SHOW

Be a Green Activist with your Cell Phone

Today's show is very lazy and therefore right up our alley. Our guest is the CEO of a company that helps cell phone users participate and enacting social change, just by making phone calls and texting. This is no LOL matter. In fact, this to 2 cool 2 B TRU. TXT 4 CHNG is GR8.

Today's Featured Radio Guest:

Laura Scher - Co-Founder and CEO of Credo Mobile, formerly Working Assets, with a mobile phone service in where every time you make a call with us, 1% of your charges automatically go to the non- profit group of your choice. Since its creation in 1985, over $56 million dollars have been donated.

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Websites That Rock

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FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 30th RADIO SHOW

Zen Cleaning and Solar Luggage: Right On

Today's show features a company which cleans your house sans chemicals and still leaves it shining. And then, a backpack/pack company with a bag design that has pv panels embedded into the product while still being 100% durable and stylish. Good show.

Today's Featured Radio Guests:

Beth Seidler Rehman - Founder of Zen Home Cleaning a home cleaning company providing a unique cleaning experience while remaining conscious of environmental concerns by using only non-toxic, eco-friendly products.

Shayne McQuade - Founder Voltaic Systems, manufacturer of bags and backpacks with PV panels to recharge your traveling electrical devices.

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THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 29th RADIO SHOW

Giving Green to Go Green

Today's show spotlights some of the best green gifts from one of our favorite magazines, Dwell. But what do you get for that person on your list who has everything? Our second guest from Conservation International gives us some great alternative gift ideas that will neither fit under a Christmas tree nor a Menorah, but might help save species.

Today's Featured Radio Guests:

Michael Cannell - Editorial Director at Dwell.com, whose online content is above and beyond and has created a fantastic eco-gift list.

Rod Mast - Vice President of Conservation International Sojourns Program, offering an alternative to traditional gifts this holiday season: conservation and species survival. Check out these cool gift ideas.

Topics Discussed Today:

Can Wind Power Find Its Footing in the Deep? - Wall Street Journal article about offshore wind turbines off the Scottish Coast.

Lighting the Rockefeller Center Tree - When the 30,000 energy-efficient lights were turned on, it marked the official start of the holiday season in New York City.

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MONDAY, NOVEMBER 26th RADIO SHOW

Green Travel + Leisure

With over $7 trillion of the world's GDP (10%) each year coming from the travel industry, it is quite evident that this a money making field. Today's guest is an expert in travel and is explaining how sustainable travel can maintain environmental integrity, preserve local cultures, and encourage community economic development. All while relaxing and getting a tan.

Today's Featured Radio Guest:

Alice Gordon - Features Director for Travel + Leisure Magazine, whose commitment sustainability includes an in-house Responsible Travel Department.

Topics Discussed Today:

Spice Island Beach Resort in Grenada

Orange Hotel in Rome

787 Dreamliner Airplanes by Boeing

Wild Divine - Lazy E's favorite bio-feedback game.

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TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 13th RADIO SHOW

Eco-Style For Your Babe and Your Home

Today we are talking about tiny tikes and their tees, home habitats and healthy style, and using literary devices such as alliteration. Our guests are bringing us t-shirts that teach kids about sustainability, animals, and reading and an interior designer who is rocking out New Jersey homes with eco-panache.

Today's Featured Radio Guests

Becky Nix and Olek Novak-Zemplinski - Co-founders bioME 5 an organic kid's t-shirt company whose parent site is bioLINIA.

Pat Gaylor - New Jersey based eco-interior designer who is listed on Modern Green Living.

Also check out Citilog the industry leader in urban forest salvaging and full circle recycling.

The Not So Big House books by Sarah Susanka, which bring to light a new way of thinking about what makes a place feel like home.

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WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 31st RADIO SHOW

The Future is Today: And it is Rocking Green

Instead of talking spooky and scary on this Halloween Lazy E show, we are talking future and "for real"? Our guests are bringing products that you won't believe: solar powered bags that charge all your personal gadgets with sunlight only and a plasma converter that destroys hazardous contaminants including anthrax and mad cow disease.

Zach Lyman - Co-founder of Reware, maker of the Reware Juice Bags, a line of solar powered backpacks and messenger bags.
Also, founder of Power Cube, portable mobile solar power storage and management devices engineered for home use, emergency response, construction, and any other remote power needs. Reluminati is the umbrella company to see more.

Steve Landa - VP of Sales for StarTech, a company marketing a series of products and services emanating from its core Plasma Converter ™ technology, resulting in saleable fossil fuel alternatives while creating a safer and healthier environment.

DSIRE - a comprehensive source of information on state, local, utility, and federal incentives that promote renewable energy and energy efficiency.

Green Halloween - great tips for a fun Halloween that is healthier and less wasteful.

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TUESDAY, OCTOBER 30th RADIO SHOW

Ordinary, Meet Extraordinary Green

Our show today features two very differenct companies with projects that are equally cool and accessible for us all. Our first guest has found a way to increase efficency in mail while reducing waste, hassle and headache. Aknowledging that 80% of the world's population will be in urban centers by the year 2050, our second guest is working on a system of vertical farms that will accomodate spatial and resource challenges in the future.

Today's Featured Radio Guests:

Steven Gal - Chairman and CEO of ProQuo, which removes your name and personal information from thousands of marketing lists, data brokers and other organizations that send you unsolicited mail.

Dickson Desspomier - Founder of Vertical Farm and Professor of Public Health and Microbiology at Columbia University.

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MONDAY, OCTOBER 29th RADIO SHOW

Sexy, Green, and Famous

Our show today features a woman whose work as an actress and activist is helping push the green (r)evolution. Not only has our guest been an electric car driver since the 1990, but she has kept it real and green in both the environmental entertainment genre with films like Who Killed the Electric Car, as well as a tv show that deserves a genre of its own, Baywatch.

Today's Featured Guest:

Alexandra Paul - Actress and Activist and Triathlete best known for her role as Lt Sephanie Holden on Baywatch, but whose work includes many other films and tv shows including a personal Lazy E favorite, Borat.

Topics Discussed Today:

Tupelo Honey Cafe - Cafe in Asheville, NC using organic and local ingredients to create some of the best southern food you've ever had.

Sustainable Table - Find local farmer's markets, supermarkets with local foods, and sustainable restaurants by entering in your zip code.

Peach Tree City - This Georgia town uses only electric powered golf carts as the in-city mode of transportation.

Eco-Fashion looks rocked by Shalom Harlow in the New York Times Magazine style section.

Gwyneth Paltrow, according to this month's InStyle Magazine is a big fan of Patyka organic bath line.

Net Impact - The Lazy Environmentalist will be speaking at this conference November 1-3 in Nashville, Tennessee where more than 1,500 graduate business students and professionals will be discussing creating a sustainable future for business.

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TUESDAY, OCTOBER 23nd RADIO SHOW

Green is the new Clearasil

Today we are talking with a senior editor from the beauty expert: Allure Magazine. If you aren't familiar with the magazine, it is to beauty products (skin care, hair care, makeup, etc.) as the Bible is to monotheistic religions. And this is on our green radar because last year alone, over 2,000 organic beauty products were introduced into the market; and that's just the beginning.

Today's Featured Radio Guest:

Patricia Tortolani - Senior Editor at Allure Magazine, the beauty expert.

Topics Discussed Today:

Juice Beauty Products - Organic skin care products that are rich in vitamins and nutrients and contain no pesticides, parabens or petroleum derivatives.

Burts Bees - Earth friendly, natural personal care company.

Lather Spa - A fav spa of our guest Patty offering a skin care experience by creating high quality, unisex products with effective, natural ingredients.

Cargo Cosmetics PlantLove - It's an amazing innovation: a compostable lipstick case made from corn. PlantLove is a collection of 15 sheer and glossy lipsticks that feel good on every level.

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TUESDAY, OCTOBER 16th RADIO SHOW

Round it up, Green. Round it up.

Yes, we love The Office at the Lazy E. We also love flexing our, "You go green!" muscles and taking part in the ongoing eco-dialogue that is so needed yesterday, today, and tomorrow.

Thanks for calling in Janey, to find out more about getting recyling centers closer to your Missouri home, contact Sandra Sabanske, Missouri Waste Management Conference Executive Director at (913) 381-4458, or sabanskes@aol.com

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MONDAY, OCTOBER 15th RADIO SHOW

Eco-Fresh and Fashion Forward

What if you didn't have to sacrifice style to rock out with eco-fashion? Today's show highlights guests who are bringing us the beautiful and NOW pieces we want, without compromising tomorrow's future.

Today's Featured Radio Guests:

Taryn Rose - CEO and Founder of Taryn Rose International; In the fashion world where beauty and pain go hand-in-hand, Taryn Rose offers women the opportunity to wear exquisite footwear which is also good for their feet.

Bahar Shahpar - CEO and Designer of Bahar Shahpar and Curator of The Four Hundred , a unique sales and press showroom, representing high-end contemporary and designer apparel and accessory lines, particularly those with a commitment to sustainable design and socially conscious business practices.

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THURSDAY, OCTOBER 11th RADIO SHOW

And the (Green) Dish Ran Away With the Spoon

Today's show features a company whose products are environmentally sound, have competitive functionality, and are eleagantly designed. It doesn't get a whole lot better than that. From yogurt cups to award winning design, this company faces any challenge head-on.

Today's Featured Radio Guests:

Eric Hudson - Founder and CEO of Recycline providing high-quality recycled content & recyclable products like toothbrushes, razors, and now tableware and flatware.

Aaron Szymanski - Co-Founder and President of Evo Design balancing the power of creative design with business realities and is now working with Recycline to create a flatware line for Whole Foods.

This is just so Badass

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FRIDAY, OCTOBER 5th RADIO SHOW

Bags of Eco-Bounty, Shake your Eco-Booty

Today we are focusing on a company based on the other side of the world, but who are bringing us all some very useful products. Not only is this Australian company founded and operated by a husband/wife team creating reusable shopping bags for the eco-common sense of it, but also for the stylish grocery shopper in us all. And, as a special edition to the show, we are wrapping up some of the hottest green dance clubs and pubs across the globe. This is a glorious Lazy E show, if ever there was one.

Today's Featured Radio Guest:

Mark David-Tooze - Co-founder and CEO of Envirosax, a company providing environmentally sustainable, stylish range of eco-chic reusable shopping bags.

Big Thanks to Sue who wrote in lauding Doy Bags, "We love
em in our household... (we) think they might be addictive!!!

Also check out Bazura bags.

Tips to Green your Office:

Barista Works - Offering biodegradeable disposable coffee cups.

Watt Stopper - Sensors that turn lights on when people are around, and turn them off when they are not.

1E - Software that can be applied to a company's database that turns off and on computers accordingly.

Green Pubs and Clubs:

Kettleby Cross Pub - A green pub in Leicestershire, England.

Double Dee - Sustainable Dance Club in Rotterdam whose dance floor creates the energy to power the club.

Greenhouse - Eco-friendly dance club in NYC to be opened late October.

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THURSDAY, OCTOBER 4th RADIO SHOW

Big Companies, Big Green Changes

Today's show features the greening of the world's largest home improvement retail store, Home Depot. With about 1,900 stores across North America, going green for a company like this means big changes in terms of a market shift and eco-friendly options that are highly available.

Today's Featured Radio Guest:

Natedra Banks - Senior Manager of Eco Options at Home Depot which has over 2,000 eco-friendly products available.

Topics Discussed Today:

A Fish Grows in Brooklyn - Aquaculture: Is it what's for dinner.

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THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 20th RADIO SHOW

Eco-Fashion For All You Fancy, Fly, Folks

Today's show is about style that comes from a natural source of inspiration: a desire to change the world. Our two guests share a broad vision of rocking individual style and a collective good for fashion, and yet have distinct aesthetic ways of delivering it to us consumers.

Today's Featured Radio Guests:

Eric Fleet - Founder of Threads for Thought Fashion for the Rebel Soul, aiming to provoke thought about important issues facing our world today through inspired designs.

Hector Estrada - Founder of Triko, a fashion brand in pursuit of mastering the Art of Life.

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TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 18th RADIO SHOW

Think Green, Loco Green

Today's show is awesome because it provides folks all over the US with a chance to network, make new friends, save money, commute quicker, and conserve fuel. In fact, this idea is so loco that it just might work.

Today's Featured Radio Guest:

Robin Chase - Founder of Go Loco the Ride Revolution, a service that helps people quickly arrange to share rides between friends, neighbors, and colleagues.

Topics Discussed Today:

ELT Living Walls - Living walls conserve energy by insulating the building envelope, reducing the need for heating in the winter and cooling in the summer.

Inhabitat - 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.

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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, SEPTEMBER 14th RADIO SHOW

Eco-Etiquette, Sustainable Soirees, and Great Green Events

Isn't the worst part of throwing a big party the clean-up? Beer pong remnants, empty kegs in the yard, friends passed out next to them... oh, maybe that's just our parties. Anyways, the parties we are talking about today have a much easier clean up as they go easy on the resources but heavy on the fun.

Today's Featured Radio Guests:

Jessica Rios - Founder and Lead Planner for Love Events a values-based business offering green wedding & event planning, consulting & coordination services. Ms Rios currently pursuing her MA in Values-Based Business.

Valerie Reddemann - Founder of Greenfeet.com a green retailer with an online gift-registry providing quality eco-friendly presents for a baby shower, wedding, or quinceañera.

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WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 12th RADIO SHOW

Organic Snack-Attack

Today we are talking about power beverages and snacks that organically keep us energized and zestful. Helping eco-systems and our own bodily systems, the products our guests are making are win-win for everyone.

Today's Featured Radio Guests:

Jim Cannell - Founder of Jim's Organic Coffee delicious and grown without synthetic pesticides and fertilizers, this coffee improves the ecosystem of the farms and surrounding communities through improved water quality, topsoil retention, and increased biodiversity.

Zach Adelman - Founder of Navitas Naturals providing premium organic functional foods loaded with antioxidants, vitamins and minerals that increase energy and enhance health.

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TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 11th RADIO SHOW

Cool Mayors, Green Cities, and Strong Leadership

Today we are talking about strong leadership through local initiatives. Currently underway is the Sundance Summit, a ground-breaking conference hosted by Robert Redford in Sundance, Utah where over 40 mayors are discussing local action for citizens to work towards climate change. Our guests today are helping empower all of us in each of our cities to make change that counts.

Today's Featured Radio Guests:

Kim Lundgren - Regional Director for ICLEI USA International Council for Local Environmental Initiatives responsible for supporting over 60 local governments within the US on implementing climate change prevention policies and programs.

Dannel Malloy - Mayor of Stamford, CT who is one of 500 Cool Mayors leading 66 million US citizens to action on global warming.

Topics Discussed Today -

The Spa and Wellness Center - Founded by our friend Sheila Brody, this is the only green spa in Brooklyn tucked away in the lovely Bay Ridge.

Architecture 2030 - Founded in 2002 by architect Edward Mazria, 2030's goal is straightforward: to achieve a dramatic reduction in the global-warming-causing greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions of the Building Sector by changing the way buildings and developments are planned, designed and constructed.

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THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 6th RADIO SHOW

Eco-Pets: Furry and Fabulous

The environmental impact your pets can make is bigger than you think. Today's show is about creating a greener home for your pets and their owners through better food choices, animal cleaning supplies, and safe and environmentally friendly toys for your furry best friend.

Today's Featured Guest:

Anthony Zolezzi - Author, Co-Founder of Pet Promises Dog Food, and owner of eco-dog Sandy.

Topics Discussed Today:

Simply Fido - Organic pet toy collection that is organic dyed, safe and natural, and toxin free.

Kitty Pod - Cat lounge furniture that looks stylish enough for the pet owners to sit on

Farm Aid - An awesome concert on September 9 on Randall's Island in NY working to keep family farmers on their land bringing together family farmers and citizens to guarantee family farm food is available to you.

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WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 5th RADIO SHOW

Kiss My Face, I'm Eco-Friendly

It's a big day here at the Lazy E. We have skin care gurus, climate action innovators, and great green collaborations. Our show focuses on enterprise for dual green purposes - making money and solving earth challenges. And in the mean time, giving us all beautiful skin.

Today's Featured Radio Guests:

Bob MacLeod and Steve Byckiewicz - Co-Founders of Kiss My Face, and obsessively natural skin care company that just launched it's Lip Action line which donate $1 from each purchase to the Alliance for Climate Protection.

Cathy Zoi - CEO of the Alliance for Climate Protection, an organization founded by Al Gore bringing about awareness on the issues surrounding climate challenges.

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MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 4th RADIO SHOW

Making Small Green Changes Everyday

Our show today is about many baby steps (365 to be exact) adding up to a cumulative change. Our guest is greening her life day by day and she's not stopping until the year is up. She's unplugged the fridge, sold the car, and exposing the pros and cons of full-on greening.

Today's Featured Radio Guest:

Vanessa Farquharson - Founder and daily blogger at Green As A Thistle, "making one change every day to greenify my life (and hopefully not being to smug about it)"

Topics Discussed Today:

Lilikoi - Sustainable fashion company that Green As A Thistle blogger Vanessa Farquharson loves.

Decatur Book Festival - Josh gave a book talk at this awesome book festival in Decatur, Georgia.

Georgia Interfaith Power and Light - whose mission is to engage communities of faith in stewardship of God's Creation as a direct reflection of our faithfulness through worship, education, and the sustainable generation and efficient use of energy.

Pope Leads Eco-Friendly Rally for half million youth in Italy this past weekend and announces plan to put solar panels on the Vatican.

Paper Back Swap - Your source for swapping books online.

Bindi Irwin, the 9 year old daughter of Crocodile guy Steve Irwin launches her own eco-fashion line.

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TUESDAY, AUGUST 28th RADIO SHOW

Major Companies, Major Green Results

Today's show is BIG! We are talking with a major corporation that is finding a way to do it all: create great products that people want to buy, promote a new green economy, and work for positive environmental change. Timberland is considered one of the greenest companies on the planet, with good reason, and today is their day on The Lazy E.

Today's Featured Radio Guest:

Betsy Blaisdell - Manager of Environmental Stewardship for Timberland, whose mission is to equip people to make their difference in the world. You can see their Corporate Social Responsibility Report online.

Jeff Swartz - President and CEO of Timberland, a company making boots, shoes, clothes and gear that are comfortable enough to wear all day and rugged enough for all year.

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THURSDAY, AUGUST 23rd RADIO SHOW

Treading Lightly in Sustainable Footwear

There is something to be said about making change from the ground up. Today we have guests on the show who are talking about just that. What could be better than making positive changes towards sustainability starting from the ground, specifically your feet, all the way up to your mind and into our collective conscience? This is truly what is meant by the green evolution.

Today's Featured Radio Guests:

Blake Mycoskie - Founder and Chief Shoe giver of TOMS Shoes which matches each pair of traditional Argentine alpargata shoes purchased with a donated pair to a child in need in Argentina.

Paul Wood - Apparels Director for IPATH, a skateboard shoe and clothing company first established in 1999 with a vision to offer an alternative path to what was happening in skate footwear.

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MONDAY, AUGUST 20th RADIO SHOW

Green Cars: Fast, Ferocious, and Freaking Awesome

It's all about envisioning a greener future through with our car choices on today's show. We are talking to some super-bad guests who are creating vehicle solutions to help solve the omni-present climate challenge. So buckle up, because we are in for one helluva ride today.

Today's Featured Radio Guests:

Mark Bonfigli - Founder of Earthcars.com and Chairman, CEO and President of Dealer.com, a shopping portal for new & pre-owned earth-friendly vehicles where you can research, compare and locate hybrids, electrics, and other "green" vehicles all in one place.

Don Foley - Executive Director of the Automotive X PRIZE which will invite teams from around the world to focus on a single goal: design viable, clean and super-efficient cars that people want to buy.

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MONDAY, AUGUST 13th RADIO SHOW

Greener Deaths and Healthier Life Transitions

Today's topic can be difficult to talk about but is inevitable in the life cycle. Our guests are highlighting the most eco-friendly ways to pass on to another realm in style and dignity. The green burial movement is arguably the final frontier in the evolving and growing environmental movement.

Today's Featured Radio Guests:

Billy Cambell and Kimberly Cambell: Husband/Wife Owners of Memorial Ecosystems Inc. Ramsey Creek preserve since 1998, the first “green cemetery” in the United States. The preserve was formed to harness the funeral industry for land protection and restoration, to fund non-profits, education, the arts and scientific research, and to provide a less expensive and more meaningful burial option.

Charles "Chuck" Kizina - President of Eternal Reefs
based out of Georgia, creating permanent living legacies that memorialize the passing of a loved one. For families and individuals that choose cremation, Eternal Reefs offers a new memorial choice that replaces cremation urns and ash scattering with a permanent environmental living legacy.

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FRIDAY, AUGUST 10th RADIO SHOW

Sustainable Foods, Healthy Lawns and Happy Lives

Today's show explores US eating habits and gardening trends which are both "ripe for reconsideration" to quote one of our guests. The folks on our show are helping us wrap our minds around the possible changes to make our country tastier and more beautiful vis a vis incorporating sustainability.

Today's Featured Radio Guests:

Fritz Haeg - Founder and Lead Garden Designer of Edible Estates is an ongoing series of projects to replace the American front lawn with edible garden landscapes responsive to culture, climate, context and people.

Diane Hatz - Founder and Director of Sustainable Table, celebrating the sustainable food movement, educating consumers on food-related issues and working to build community through food. Diane is currently on board the Eat Well Guided Tour of America crossing the US stopping at restaurants, universities, and sustainable food companies to eat, drink, and learn. She is also the creator The Meatrix, an critically acclaimed short film exclusively available online. Diane also heads The Eat Well Guide which is the easiest and most comprehensive way for you to find wholesome, fresh, sustainable food in the US and Canada.

Gimme Green

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THURSDAY, AUGUST 9th RADIO SHOW

Sexy Green: Eco-Sensuality

Today's show is a bit more risqué than usual, but it's all good because we're doing it for the earth. We often speak on personal sustainability but our guests today take it to another level. They will be teaching us how to sustain ourselves (ahem) personally and cooperatively.

Today's Featured Radio Guests:

Ethan Imboden- Founder and Designer of Jimmy Jane, a lifestyle brand that has redefined the context and perception of sexual accessories.

Dr. Marilyn Volker - A sexologist for 28 years certified by the American Board of Sexology and the American Academy of Clinical Sexologists and host "Sex With Marilyn" live daily at 7pm ET on Lime Sirius Satellite Radio channel 114.

Topics Discussed Today:

Green Design Expo - The inaugural Green + Design Conference and Expo will be the design industry's most comprehensive educational and trade event focusing on integrating the principles of sustainability into project designs in Atlanta, October 1st and 2nd.

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Wednesday, July 18th Radio Show

Surf's Up with Green Boards

We are taking to the water today. The swells, to be exact. If surfers understand the complex patterns of the tide, weather and moon and their effects on monster waves, our guest takes this knowledge to another level. With his company, this surfer integrates wave smarts with eco savvy to create superior surfing products.

Today's Featured Radio Guest:

Brian Gagliana - HGIC (Head Guy In Charge) at Green Light Surfboards, leading the growing movement toward manufacturing and supplying surfboard building materials that are sustainable and which have the least impact on the ocean's delicate ecosystems.

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Tuesday, July 17th Radio Show

The Best Products are Green Products

Today's show features a skin care company with a mission that goes beyond a nice dermatological glow. Not only have they created active, all natural products that have a real effect on your skin, but they provide you with information so you can make educated choices about what you put on your body. With a mission statement that includes helping the customer look and feel beautiful without harming any living things, their thoughtful and ethical food grade organic products lead the industry and show sincere dedication to sustainability.

Today's Featured Radio Guest:

Suki Kramer - Founder and owner of Suki Pure Cosmetics, committed to creating the most gentle and effective skin care treatments for even the most allergic, fragile or challenged conditions, without compromising the purity or integrity of the formulas. A new makeup line will be coming out in the next few weeks, so keep your eyes peeled.

Topics Discussed Today:

I am not a plastic bag - They are coming to America. Get ready for the riots.

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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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Monday, June 4th Radio Show

Sigg Bottles: Why Do All The Cool Kids Have Them?

If you want to shift behavior in a greener direction why not make it cool? While Nalgene water bottles still have “cred” in diehard green circles, designer Sigg bottles are streaming into the mainstream. The result is much fewer plastic disposable plastic bottles streaming into our landfills where currently over 30 million plastic bottles in the U.S. head everyday. Today we discuss cutting-edge products and service that are helping us adopt more environmentally conscious lifestyles.

Today's Featured Radio Guest:
Steve Wasik - President/General Manager of SIGG USA, combining 100 years of Swiss quality & craftsmanship with a fresh, fun perspective on contemporary style to deliver a water bottle with both function AND fashion! Customize your bottle at MySigg.com.

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Monday, May 21st Radio Show

Sustainability Spotlight: Portland, Maine

Today's Featured Radio Guests:
Today's spotlight is Portland. As the biggest city in Maine with it's 66,000 inhabitants, Portland has one of the few working waterfronts left in the United States and a full range of awesome eco companies and organizations. The influence of both the landscape and seascape make this destination as well as it's inhabitants just a little bit different than the rest.
Beth Shissler - Co-owner of Sea Bags where custom tote bags are out of recycled sails which means every bag has sailed around the world before it even leaves their shop.

Lora E. Winslow - Executive Director of The Naked Truth Project, a resource for non-toxic living devoted to telling you the truth about the products you put in your body, on your body, and in your home everyday.

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Friday, May 18th Radio Show

Healthy Skin Happy Earth

A dedicated beauty regimen includes hair, face and body; preventive therapies; and aesthetic enhancement. It has become a $32.2 billion industry, with the average US woman annually spending $1,596 on beauty products and services. With figures like these, it is undeniable the impact incorporating eco-beauty products and services would have in promoting a modern green economy. But, that isn't the reason today's guests suggest you choose their eco-friendly toners, moisturizers, balms, and creams. Instead, it is the superior quality of their products and the actual results that will convince you to make the green switch.

Today's Featured Radio Guests:

Joshua Onysko - Founder and CEO of Pangea Organics, eco-centric bodycare that is gaining mass recognition and praise.

Mike Indursky - Chief Marketing Strategist of Burts Bees, a company that is one of the rising stars of eco-beauty products.

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

Website of the Day

New Consumer - The UK's hottest ethical lifestyle magazine featuring some of the hottest eco-friendly brands that we love.

Green Trendsetters Discussed with Today's Guests:

A brief list of the other wholly sustainable eco-beauty companies-
W.S. Badger
Dr. Bronner
Suki
Grateful Body

Setting the Greater Good - The standard includes the following stipulations:
* Made with at least 95% truly natural ingredients
* Contain no ingredients with any potential suspected human health risks
* Use no processes that significantly or adversely alter the purity/effect of the natural ingredients

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Monday, May 7th Radio Show

Green Friends: The Rise of a Global Green Community

This past weekend was huge for our Lazy Environmentalist, Josh D. He was down in Atlanta at the International Furnishings and Design Association, and then he was back here in NYC curating Designers & Agents and spreading that good green word. Today's guests are just a few of the friends that Josh made and they are here to tell us about some incredibly innovative green advances happening all over the globe.

Today's Featured Radio Guests:

Barb Dornbush - Founder and President of Dornbush Studios, an award winning firm specializing in sustainable residential interiors. Dornbush Studio's phone number is (404) 378 2188 and is located in Atlanta, GA and can be reached at BarbBD@bellsouth.net

Allert Elema - Founder and Managing Director Maxabel International provides high quality "environmentally aware" disposable drink and food packaging, with friendly service and support.

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

Home Depot - Reaffirmed their commitment to green by rolling out 3,000 eco-friendly products and will have 6,000+ products by 2009.

Organic Convenience Stores - The new trend is the eco-convenience store, and Full Moon Foodies Inc. located in Portland, Oregon is a great example.

Green Trendsetters Discussed with Today's Guests:

Waldenour - Great new green home furnishings store in Atlanta, GA.

Modern Green Living - Find green interior designers, green builders, green architects, and more with this sustainable directory.

Indika Organics - offers a wide range of natural and organic products including organic cotton hand-loomed towels, organic cotton sheets, duvets and shams made of hemp and hemp / silk combinations, and other natural bedding accessories.

Power of Green - Article by Thomas Friedman elaborating on who is really pushing the Green Revolution.

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Friday, April 6th Radio Show

Outside of Box with Unique Eco-Solutions

We have all heard that highly quotable Margaret Mead saying, "Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has." Today we speak with organizations and companies that have taken that quote to heart. Can each of us help solve the biggest global challenges by commemorating earth day, running marathons, or maybe just using lip balm?

Today's Feature Radio Guests:
Margo Bettencourt - Volunteer Coordinator from Sea of Change, the New York City contingent of Step It Up, which is planning 1287 events in 50 states across the country for Earth Day 2007 where they will be saying "Step it up, Congress! Cut Carbon 80% by 2050."!

Steve Shriver - President and Organic Endurathoner from of EcoLips, which uses healing organic herbs and moisturizing organic vegetable oils to provide lasting lip protection from all the harsh elements: sun, wind, and cold.

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

Sundance Channel - Robert Redford Presents The Green which explores green living with awesome weekly programming.

Discovery Green Channel - Discovery Communications will launch a 24-hour channel devoted entirely to eco-friendly living.

Vanity Fair - The Green Issue from May 2007 that is on newsstands now.

Green Trendsetters Discussed with Today's Guests:
Climate Stewardship Act

Clif Bar - Steve, the edurathoner, will be taking Clif Shots and eating Clif Bars which are totally Organic and Tasty.

Nutiva Hemp Shakes- Great organic source of protein to keep Steve energized through all 260 miles

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Thursday, March 29th Radio Show

Change the World: Solutions are Here

Have you ever wondered if you could change the world? What would it take and would you be up to the task? Today we talk with folks who are asking that question and implementing solutions.

FEATURED RADIO GUESTS:

Jay Satz - Vice President of Student Conservation Association (SCA) and Tamara Paul - SCA Recruiter Thesca.org, the nations largest provider of conservation opportunities for students.

Alex Steffen – Executive Editor of Worldchanging.com and Editor of the newly released, "World Changing: A User’s Guide for the 21st Century"

Companies, Projects and Products Mentioned on Today's Show:
Website of the Day
EcoRazzi.com - devoted to showing you all your favorite celebs doing the right (and wrong) things for the earth.

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Friday, March 23rd Radio Show

Personal Sustainability: Integrating Healthy, Stylish, Green Choices into our Lifestyles

While we often think of the environment as something "out there" and somehow separate and distinct from ourselves, this couldn't be further from reality. We, as humans and a species, are part of the natural environment. So living an environmentally conscious lifestyle starts with the decisions we make to sustain and nourish ourselves to enhance our health and quality of life. The choices are grounded in common sense and yet can awaken a sense of joy while bringing our lives into alignment with a cleaner planet.

FEATURED RADIO GUESTS:

Mariel Hemingway - Actress and Author of Healthy Living From The Inside Out. The granddaughter of illustrious author Ernest Hemingway, Mariel was destined to be in the public eye. But when she was only thirteen years old, Mariel became famous in her own right for her part in the feature film Lipstick. Four years later, she earned an Oscar nomination for her role in Woody Allen's film Manhattan. Mariel is an actress, model, yoga instructor, mother of two teenage girls, and one of the leading voices for holistic and balanced living.

Mary Bemis - Founder and Editor-in-Chief of Organic Spa Magazine, a lifestyle magazine promoting the marriage of spa and wellness with your sustainable and organic lifestyle. It’s about bringing the spa home…and living the organic spa lifestyle!

Green Trendsetters Discussed with Today's Guests:
Osmosis Spa - www.osmosis.com an all around healing and nurturing organic spa located in Sonoma County, California mentioned in Organic Spa Magazine

Stone Forest - www.stoneforest.com provides hand-carved granite sculptures that can be used in your home or spa

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