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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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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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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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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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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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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