The Future is Bright Green

Today's show is about big ideas (think solar-powered space travel), former SI supermodels like Cheryl Tiegs who are going green in Indianapolis, and our boy Larry David who advises all of us to do our part for the planet by going bald. We also delve into the burgeoning green collar jobs movement with the likes of: Green Worker, Ella Baker Center, and Green COllar Vets.

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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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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-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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KT TUNSTALL on the Show: Friday, January 18th

Can this eco-chick rock or what?!!!

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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: TUESDAY, January 8th

Eco-Resorts: Star Island Bahamas

Today's show features the product of a partnership between an alternative energy sensei and a sustainable architect/ developer. When these two Sklars (not related) got together, a luxurious, off the grid resort was created: Star Island in Eleuthera, Bahamas.

Today's Featured Radio Guests:

Scott Sklar - President of The Stella Group, a strategic marketing and policy firm facilitating distributed alternative energy generation and the Senior Energy Advisor of Star Island Bahamas

David Sklar - Founder, CEO, and Lead Architect of Star Island Bahamas, a fully sustainable, off the grid luxury resort being built on Eleuthera Island in the Bahamas.

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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: FRIDAY, January 4th

Eco-Fashion Friday

On today's show, the Lazy E is perusing the walk-in closet of awesome eco-fashion options available online and in the streets. Check out our Lazy Environmentalist Eco-Fashion Boutique Directory to discover the amazing array of green-minded stores opening around the U.S., Canada and overseas where you can try on the latest green fashion finds. Or peruse Chapter One of The Lazy Environmentalist; Your Guide to Easy, Stylish, Green Living, for a primer on eco-fashion materials, trends, and upcoming eco-fashion clothing and accessories brands to watch and, better yet, wear.

Companies we are loving:
Krelwear - krelwear.com prepurposed yarn into tubular, seamless sexy dresses, tops and scarves with major fans like Cristina Ricci and Cameron Diaz.

Ciel - Hot, contemporary women's fashion in hemp silks, bamboo, and other eco-awesome materials.

Ashley Watson - Rescued vintage leather jackets, making these hobo bags in all colors super slouchy and chic.

Natalie Portman has created a vegan line for Te Casan, a high end spanish shoe company with a boutique in NYC.

Thanks to Jeff from Atlanta for his call. Stop Littering

Go Marta - Successfully answered the question: "Who is the #1 organic cotton purchaser in the world?" (Answer: Wal-Mart)

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ON TODAY'S RADIO SHOW: THURSDAY, January 3rd

Can A Heat Pump Save The Planet?

Our show today features the 2008 winner of the Innovation Award for Energy Efficient Heating. The Acadia heating and cooling system is so boss that the McGuire/Fort Dix Air Force Base in New Jersey is set to install 2,000 of them in their military housing on the base. With its patented new system that is all-electric, the Acadia reduces dependence on expensive and pollutant fossil fuels and outperforms conventional heating systems by 200 percent.

Today's Featured Radio Guest:

Duane Hallowell - Founder, President and CEO of Hallowell International, the creator of the Acadia Heat Pump, moving past the boundaries of conventional home heating and cooling solutions to create alternative approaches to residential climate management.

Alternative Energy in the Military

The Defense Department is the largest energy consumer in the United States, racking up an energy bill of $13.6 billion last year, up from $10.9 billion the year before. The military services and other components of the defense establishment consume the equivalent of 340,000 barrels of oil a day.

Solar Panels on Nellis Air Force Base in Nevada

Guantanamo Harnessing Wind to Create Power, Cut Emissions

Landfill Methane Gas Powers Dyess Air Force Base in Texas

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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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ON TODAY'S RADIO SHOW: FRIDAY, DECEMBER 21st

Accessing Green: From Wind Turbines to Bicycles

Today's show is all about bringing green power to the people. Our first guest is bringing the power of clean energy solutions for all Americans, while the second guest is bringing the power of mobility in the form of bicycles to school children in Uganda. Here at the Lazy Environmentalist, we love when people get the power to choose a sustainable and awesome future.

Today's Featured Radio Guests:

Gillan Taddune - Chief Environmental Officer of Green Mountain Energy the nation’s leading provider of cleaner energy and carbon offset solutions. Also check out Green Mountain's BeGreenNow.com to calculate your own carbon footprint.

Dan Austin - Founder and CEO of 88 Bikes, an organization donating and filming a gift of 200 Bikes for kids at the Patongo School in Uganda. Each bike and each donation is is 88 dollars. Also check out Dan's documentary True Fans about bicycle riding across America.

Today's Podcast:
The Lazy E talks about regifting and swapping. Why not give and take at a suave e-commerce site instead of buying and selling. Check out the following sites:
Swango - the smart way to swap clothing.
Swap Tree - trade books, dvds, and cds.
Go Loco - join the ride revolution.
Ride Amigos - Share rides with folks in your 'hood.

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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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TUESDAY, DECEMBER 18th RADIO SHOW

EPA in the House

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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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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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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WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 12th RADIO SHOW

Designing Eco-Vehicles and Showing that Eco-Love

Today's show is focused on creating green alternatives for vehicles and shifting our overall transportation infrastructure. Making a change of this caliber is a huge deal and will take many smart minds, and all hands on deck.

Today's Featured Radio Guests:

David A. Muyres - Vice President of Educational Initiatives at Art Center College of Design whose Sustainability Summit will be held in February.

Bari Nan Cohen - Freelance Journalist, Contributing Editor at Plenty Magazine and "Striving Environmentalist" whose work can be seen at More, and RealSimple.com.

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TUESDAY, DECEMBER 11th RADIO SHOW

A Whiz-Bang Team and Big Ol' Trees

Today's show features students from Johns Hopkins University Sais Business School who won both the glory of the Thunderbird Sustainable Innovation Summit and $25,000 dollar prize. Then, we are talking trees: conservation, FSC Certified Furniture, and paper.

Today's Featured Radio Guests:
Tania Askins, Chris Meyer, Michael Ralles, Sarah Rotman, Geneveive Taft - The Diplomats: The winning team, "from the Thunderbird Sustainable Innovation Summit.

Smith Electric Vehicles - A recent caller asked about electric delivery/courier vans and trucks, so here you go.

Come party with TEAM LAZY E tonight at the Green Drinks Holiday Party, tonight at Blvd in NYC.

Tips from the Global Trees Campaign.

Green Kids Books

Sustainable Furniture Council - A non-profit balanced coalition of industry players created to promote sustainable practices among manufacturers, retailers, and consumers alike with a public tagging program to identify good choices.

United Nation Environmental Programme - Ask an expert at the UNEP any environmental question you can think of.

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MONDAY, DECEMBER 10th RADIO SHOW

It's Raining Eco-Innovation, Hallelujah!

It's raining today, both outside our New York City studio, and inside the booth with some great guests who know just what to do with precipitation. That is to say anticipate it, trap it, and use it. It's like your yard saying, "Wait for it, wait for it, wait for it..."

Today's Featured Radio Guests:

Matt Ridenour CEO and Judy Guido Chief Marketing Officer of Cyber-Rain, a ground-breaking smart sprinkler control system that gives homeowners an easy way to save 30-70 percent on their landscape watering bills by using the ease and convenience of the personal computer and automatic weather updates from the internet.

Water H20=Life -
current rocking exhibit about water (obviously) at the American Museum of Naural History.

Today's Podcast:
Green Investments

New Alternatives Fund - Oldest green mutual fund in existence emphasizing alternative energy and the environment.

Guinness Atkinson Alternative Energy Fund (GAAEX) - seeks long-term appreciation investing in equity securities (US and non-US) of companies involved in alternative energy or energy technology sectors

Portfolio 21 - Invests in big companies that are best in class, and have the best environmental policies in the industry.

Winslow Green Growth Fund - For twenty-five years, Winslow has been dedicated to the same corporate mission: to demonstrate that our green investing approach can yield positive long-term results for our clients.

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FRIDAY, DECEMBER 7th RADIO SHOW

Building Green is Awesome.

Our show today features a company that is known throughout the country for leading the way in green building. This $8.5 billion dollar company is the largest building group in the US, and last year green buildings were over 20% of their new sales. Our second guests are working on a smaller scale. Their construction can fit in your pocket.

Today's Featured Radio Guests:

Michael Deane - Operations Manager for Sustainable Construction at Turner Construction

Benjamin Diggles - Marketing Director of DB Clay, a wallet company rejecting the traditional PVC materials in favor of more sustainable options. You can make your own duc tape wallet with DB Clay's kit.

Haute Idea - A well-edited lifestyle guide that demonstrates how to live a fashion-forward lifestyle while balancing an eco-friendly way of life.

The Green Home Guide - USGBC's new website that is awesome and very helpful for building the green home of your dreams.

Shout out to Ecorazzi, whose content is always choc full of great green gossip. Our favorite headline photo today is of our homeboys Owen Wilson and Woody Harrelson.

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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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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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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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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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WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 28th RADIO SHOW

Green Buildings From the Outside In

Today's show is about green buildings, both residential and professional. Our guests are from different parts of the country but unified as they LEED the way in green building.

John Krause - Principal Architect at DNA/Day Night After, A Strategic Design and Development company.

Jay Swoboda - Founder of Eco Urban Homes, a St Louis based LEED certified PLATINUM building company.

Global Gaming Expo - There was a big green push at this recent Las Vegas convention, and our guest John Krause spoke at this conference

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TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 27th RADIO SHOW

Green Express: Making Major Moves

Today's show is about greening the transportation options available to us. In an increasingly global economy, how a product arrives to your front door is as important as "what" product you actually bought. Whether you are receiving important documents, beer, or exotic fish for your home aquarium, it all travels quite a distance to reach you; and that is the topic we're exploring today.

Today's Featured Radio Guest:

Jay Holgate - Founder and CEO of Green Express, an Atlanta based courier company whose hybrid fleet is the first eco-friendly courier service in the US.

Topics Discussed Today

Guardian Eco Store - The British Newspaper's fantastic online boutique with products specially selected to promote ideas for a better world. Whether you are looking for stylish clothing, energy-saving gadgets, fantastic housewares, eco-fashion, organic cosmetics or fairly traded gifts there is something for everyone.

Ships Draw Fire For Rising Role In Air Pollution - Wall Street Journal article about the impact of the shipping industry on the environment

Invasion of Jellyfish Envelops Japan In Ocean of Slime - Another Wall Street Journal article about Monster Jellyfish choking the fishing industry in Japan due to increased sea temperatures and Chinese pollution, and creative solutions.

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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 20th RADIO SHOW

Green Thanksgiving and Greening our Troops

Today's show has two parts. First we discuss going green for Thanksgiving this year, and making the holiday season less wasteful and more meaningful. The second part of the show focuses on the ways in which the military is greening their operations, and how resource conservation relates to a winning strategy.

Today's Featured Radio Guest:

Jason Venner - Worked for the Special Inspector General for Iraq Reconstruction and the Government Accountability Office Before that. Jason is no longer employed by the US government, but is here to tell us all about the US military going green.

Topics Discussed Today

Turkey Biofuel - Tucson-based Grecycle has partnered with the Tucson Regional Clean Cities Coalition and Pima County Wastewater Management in its first annual Thanksgiving grease recycling drive to collect cooking oil and grease.

Green Thanksgiving - tips for having a more sustainable Thanksgiving from our friends at Domino Magazine.

Tofurky - An alternative to turkey for this Thanksgiving.

Sustainable Business - Why not give the gift of a share in a green company this holiday season.

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MONDAY, NOVEMBER 19th RADIO SHOW

New Green Order

Today's show is pretty big deal. Why? Because it's Monday and we are wrapping up the Thunderbird Sustainable Innovation Summit in Arizona and the Opportunity Green Conference in LA, both of which The Lazy E attended and presented at.

Today's Featured Radio Guest:
Lesley Chilcott - Head of non-profit Unscrew America who is hosting a conference in LA this Saturday, November 24th at Cut and Run in Santa Monica featuring Green Interior Designers, Fashion Designers, Jewelry Designers, and more.

Topics Discussed Today:

Planting Empowerment - pioneering a new reforestation model in Panama’s marginalized Darien region, founded by Thunderbird graduates.

The Air to Water Co. - Their Atmospheric Water Generators allow you to capture the moisture in the air while saving money, drinking the cleanest water available, and not having any hassles associated with other water resources.

Earth 911 - By simply entering a location or zip-code at the Earth 911 environmental portal or 1-800-CLEANUP, users can access the leading comprehensive resource for community-specific “actionable” information about: Recycling Centers, Green Shopping, Beach Water Quality and Alerting, Household Hazardous Waste, Composting and more.

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MONDAY, NOVEMBER 12th RADIO SHOW

Vinod Khosla on The Lazy Environmentalist

Today's show features a guest who goes beyond the term venture capitalist. In his own words he is not in the financial business, but rather, "in the Venture Assistant business. My goal is to be the best assistant there is for anybody trying to build a large technology oriented company." With sustainability woven into the fabric of his methodology, this is one guest the Lazy E has been excitedly awaiting.

Today's Featured Radio Guest:

Vinod Khosla - Founder and Director of Khosla Ventures, helping leverage relationships to build teams, attract partners & customers and then work together to make billion dollar businesses.

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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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THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 1st RADIO SHOW

Greening Casinos, Business Conferences, and Everything in Between

We have a very animated first guest today, a green gaming expert. He is bringing us greener ways to make (and lose) money while gambling, which is a $100 billion a year industry. Also, we talk with folks from Opportunity Green, an innovative green business conference going down November 17th in LA.

Today's Featured Radio Guests:

Eric Hansel -Founder and CEO of EGM Green, the first ever eco-friendly line of casino gaming products. Eric also runs Executive Gaming Monthly, bringing the casino home.

Karen Solomon - Co-Founder of Opportunity Green, an innovative sustainable business conference Saturday, November 17th in LA.

Tom Feegel - CEO of Brand Neutral, creating innovative environmental strategies for companies that not only drive profits and cut costs, but also better the planet.

Women's Wear Daily - Now features a green fashion section. Mega props to this fashion power house.

Silicon Valley Cleans Up - Great flow chart in this month's Wired Magazine: "How Tech Titans Became Energy Entreprenuers".

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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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WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 24th RADIO SHOW

Getting Stoned with the Eco-Stuff

Today's show features guests who are producing eco-friendly surfaces for kitchen countertops and bathroom vanities made from recycled glass and concrete. But this isn't any old concrete: this is the "world's sexiest concrete". And this company, IceStone, is also down with Green Collar Jobs, one of The Lazy E's favorite topics.

Today's Featured Radio Guests:

Miranda Magagnini and Peter Strugatz - Co-CEOs of IceStone making durable surfaces that are strong like granite, not as porous as marble and heat-resistant like stone but made from recycled glass and cement.

Green Collar Job Shout Out
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.

In the News:

Italian prisoners make eco-friendly gelato.

The Army's entire family of MGV's (Manned Ground Vehicles) is going hybrid.

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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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MONDAY, OCTOBER 22nd RADIO SHOW

Eco-Uppin' the Anti on Awesome

Today we are featuring a bomber skateboarder who lives in a hard core eco-house, is a major backer of the 11th Hour, and runs some of the hottest skate companies on earth. This guest demonstrates that to be a successful business person and all-around cool dude, you must understand the natural environment and incorporate sustainabiliy.

Today's Featured Radio Guest -
Pierre André Senizergues - Founder and CEO of the wildly successful company Sole Tech, whose brands include famed skate companies Emerica and Etnies. Etnies has just launced its SEED Project, a unique collection of apparel and footwear made of sustainable and recyclable materials that reflect our responsibility to give back to the planet.

Shout Out - Thanks Earth Cars for sending us the gear. We will be rocking it hard.

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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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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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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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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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WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 10th RADIO SHOW

(Inter)Face the Green Future

Today we are looking at a truly inspiring story of sustainability in business. In August 1994, Interface's Chairman and CEO, Ray Anderson, received The Ecology of Commerce by Paul Hawken. This book instigated Anderson's mission to transform the whole corporate culture of Interface to become infused with sustainability, so much so that it leads the industry today.

Today's Featured Radio Guests:

Steve Arbaugh - Vice President of Retail & Strategic Alliances for InterfaceFlor and
Jeff Roman - Vice President of Information Services and Business Development for InterfaceFlor a huge modular carpet company with with a super committment to sustainability.

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TUESDAY, OCTOBER 9th RADIO SHOW

Green Trekking the World Over

We are traveling around the world today in 40 days, strike that, in 1 hour. Our super guests are talking all about adventure travel with sustainability at the core: social, environmental, and cultural sustainability.

Today's Featured Radio Guests:

Bruce Poon Tip - Founder and CEO of GAP Adventures a travel company since 1990 specializing in unique, small group outdoor adventures striving to show the real world by taking you off the beaten track to the heart of the destination, and to meet the locals who call it home.

John Rasmus - Founding Editor of National Geographic Adventure, the world's leading magazine on adventure travel and lifestyle, published by the National Geographic Society.

International Association of Antarctic Tour Operators - IAATO is a member organization founded in 1991 to advocate, promote and practice safe and environmentally responsible private-sector travel to the Antarctic.

Geographic Expeditions - Offers a varied portfolio of overland tours, treks, walks, and expeditionary voyages to the world's most astonishing places.

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MONDAY, OCTOBER 8th RADIO SHOW

LEEDing the Way With Green Buildings

Our show today is about the frontrunners of green architecture. Building with sustainability in mind increases productivity, happiness, and work satisfaction for the folks inside the buildings and it also cuts down on overall environmental impact. It's just that simple. And that's why we love it.

Today's Featured Radio Guests:

Paula Vaughan - Co-Director of Sustainability for Perkins + Will, an architecture firm based in Atlanta, GA. See more about Perkins + Will in this great Green Progress article.

Jill Fehrenbacher - Founder and Senior Editor of Inhabitat, an online magazine dedicated to future forward design.

Also check out the Solar Decathlon which Jill will be attending in Washington DC, next weekend October 12th - 20th.

Check out this article that with information on the 40,000 LEED certified building professionals.

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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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WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 3rd RADIO SHOW

Wind Energy and You!

You know we've got a big show on tap for today's Lazy Environmentalist when our guest's company actually owns the web domain: WindEnergy.com. With that said, we are in fact talking about wind energy and what it means for the future and as well as right now.

Today's Featured Radio Guest:

Frank Greco - CEO of Southwest Windpower as the world's largest producer of small wind generators, they have been bringing low-cost, reliable wind energy to the world for the past 20 years.

Topics Discussed Today:

Sky Stream - The first all-inclusive wind residential wind energy generator designed to provide quiet, clean electricity in very low winds.

Always Be Selling blog and Southwest Windpowers's own Andy Kruse.

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TUESDAY, OCTOBER 2nd RADIO SHOW

Your Tuesday Green Wrap Up

Today's show sums up great green choices available for consumers. We highlight green innovation in the news, and finally wrap with an overview of the issues surrounding locally grown food and organic farming.

Great Green Choices:

For stylish, eco-friendly furniture see Modern Bamboo, Rhubarb Decor, RC Green, and Knu Furniture.

For information about building your own eco-friendly kitchen, check out the book The Lazy Environmentalist: Your guest to Easy Stylish Green Living.

Other Topics Covered On Today's Show:
Science Barge

Body Glove Eco Wetsuit

Farm to School

Local Harvest

Sustainable Table

Farmer John

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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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THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 27th RADIO SHOW

Eco-Fest: Bigger, Badder, and Un-Censored Green

Today's show is huge. We have four different guests working through different mediums but united in a solitary end. That end is promoting eco-education to the masses through building practices, financial management, personal well being, and street festivals.

Today's Featured Radio Guests:

Nancy Callahan - Director of ECOFEST, going down this Saturday, September 30th at Lincoln Center in New York City.

Bruce Kahn -Second Vice President of Wealth Management at Citi Smith Barney, a socially responsible investment business that focuses on emerging environmental technology companies and corporations that are leaders in their sustainability and environmental management practices.

Robert Politizer - Founder and CEO of Green Street - A high end construction firm that specializes in energy efficent, healthy, and green building.

Gary Null - A multi award-winning journalist and New York Times best-selling author with a syndicated public radio show, Natural Living with Gary Null.

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WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 26th RADIO SHOW

Legally Green Automotive Propulsion. And Lazy Polar Bears.

Today's show deals with greening the automobile industry using more stringent legislation and increasingly desireable alternatives. If you love cars, love breathing clean air, and have a penchant for polar bears this might just be the show for you.

Today's Featured Radio Guests:

Matt Pawa - Founder and Senior Attorney at Law Ofices of Matthew F. Pawa, P.C. who representing the State of Vermont won the case of Green Mountain Plymouth Dodge Jeep v. Crombie. This major decision means that states are free to adopt California's more stringent tailpipe laws that control greenhouse gases from cars.

Alex Campbell - Director of Communication at ZAP, positioned to become a leading brand and distribution portal of advanced technology vehicles.

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TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 25th RADIO SHOW

Greenovation at the MBA Level

Today's show is all about smart people coming together to make smart decisions. Smart business decisions. Smart green business decisions. We are focusing on The Lazy E's alma mater Thunderbird and how they are catching the eco wave.

Today's Featured Radio Guests:

Jairaj Mashru - Project Manager of the Thunderbird Sustainable Innovation Summit, Engaging in a global dialogue November 8-10 2007 to inspire sustainable values through innovative solutions for tomorrow’s global business challenges.

Topics Discussed Today:

This info is for our caller in Jackson Hole and anyone else working on sustainable rennovations for their living space. Best of luck with your theatre, Vicki!

Modern Green Living - your source to design, build, remodel, furnish or find your green home.

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.

GreenHomeGuide - Unbiased reviews and advice from professionals and homeowners like you.

Green Seniors - Environmental action, age no limit.

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MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 24th RADIO SHOW

Environmental Technology: The Final Green Frontier?

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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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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WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 19th RADIO SHOW

Eco-Savvy Software and Evolving Power Saving Technology

If you are anything like us, you are probably pretty spent at the end of the day when it is time to leave the office. Bringing the good green word to the masses is a tiring job and when 5:00 comes, it is not our favorite job to have to shut down all the computers in the Lazy Environemtnalist World Headquarters. With that annoying task in mind, today's show focuses on making this process easier and getting us out of the office quicker to beat the rush to happy hour.

Today's Featured Radio Guests:

Sumir Karayi - CEO of 1E, a global Windows Management software and services company providing leading-edge automation solutions that reduce complexity, management costs and power consumption for large-scale desktop and server environments.

Ronnie Kweller - Spokesperson for Alliance to Save Energy promoting energy efficiency worldwide to achieve a healthier economy, a cleaner environment, and greater energy security.

Topics Discussed Today:

Energy-Efficiency Home and Vehicle Tax Credits - Find out more about the the Energy Policy Act of 2005 which provides valuable federal tax credits for consumers who purchase fuel-efficient hybrid-electric vehicles and who make certain, specified energy-efficiency upgrades to their homes.

Energy Efficency Global Forum and Exposition - November 11-14th in Washington DC showcasing energy efficiency worldwide.

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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.

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