New Enviro Close-Up programs recently seen on FSTV

The Indigenous Environmental Network with Tom Goldtooth
Tom Goldtooth, Executive Director of the Indigenous Environmental Network, describes this alliance of Native grassroots groups and communities working together on environmental issues. #599 Ordering info

Driving Clean and Green
Having engines in cars and trucks use up to 50 percent less fuel and reducing emissions by 90 percent is possible through a vehicle "add-on" system developed by CLean Motors Corporation. Izzy Haber, its chief executive officer, demonstrates what he calls this "true comprehensive revolution" in locomotion. #598 Ordering info

Children's Health and the Environment
Dr. Leo Trasande, M.D., M.P.P., Assistant Director for The Mount Sinai Center for Children's Health and the Environment, talks about his work to safeguard those most susceptible to environmental pollution: children. Dr. Trasande says of the 80,000 chemicals in wide use, including mercury and pesticides, 60% are not tested for toxicity. #597 Ordering Info

Barbara Zimmerman: Protecting The Amazon Rainforest
Barbara Zimmerman, Director of the Kayapo Project for Conservation International, explains how the Kayapo tribe of Brazil has managed to protect the largest preserved area of rainforest in the world. #596 Ordering Info

Lisa Rainwater van Suntum
Indian Point: One of 103
River Keeper's Indian Point Campaign Director, Lisa Rainwater van Suntum, discusses the serious threats to public health and safety of the Indian Point nuclear power facility just north of New Your City, which is among the 103 nuclear plants now operating in the United States. She also discusses the strong support of G. W. Bush for the construction of new nuclear plants. #595 Ordering Info

Greenpeace USA with Bill Richardson
Bill Richardson, Deputy Executive Director of Greenpeace USA, speaks on the group's work including its challenges to global warming and the push to revive nuclear power as well as activities to save the oceans. Richardson, with Greenpeace since 1988, has taken part in numerous Greenpeace protests including climbing the Sears Tower in Chicago on the 50th anniversary of the first sustained atomic reaction in that city and blockades in Orgon to end commercial logging on the public lands of the United States. #594 Ordering Info
View 10 min. 18 sec. version!

Grub with Anna Lappe
 Anna Lappe who wrote Hope's Edge: The Next Diet for a Small Planet with her mother, Frances Moore Lappe, and who co-authored, Grub: Ideas for an Urban Organic Kitchen, with Bryant Terry, discusses good food, the consolidation of the food supply, loss of plant diversity, the farm crisis and the impact of globalization on agriculture. #593 Ordering Info

Joel Kupferman:  Environmental Law and Justice Project
Joel Kupferman, executive director and head attorney of the New York Environmental Law and Justice Project, details the government cover-up of the public health impacts of the 9/11 attack on the World Trade Center. #592 Ordering info
View 7 min. 37 sec. version!

Louis Slesin: Cell Phones: Are We at Risk?
Louis Slesin, editor of Microwave News, details the potential health impacts of cell phones citing research studies. With two billion cell phones now in use around the world, Slesin says they represent the biggest public health experiment ever. #591 Ordering info

The Waterkeepers
New York - New Jersey Baykeeper Andy Willner and Peconic Baykeeper Kevin McAllister tell of the work of those who protect the waters of the world through the Waterkeeper Alliance. #588 Ordering Info
View 7 min. 20 sec. version!

Brian Halweil: Eat Here, Homegrown Pleasures
Brian Halweil, senior researcher at Worldwatch Institute and author of "Eat Here: Reclaiming Homegrown Pleasures in a Global Supermarket," speaks on why getting food from nearby farms and shops rather than distant agribusinesses in better for your health, for farmers and for the Planet. #587 Ordering Info
View 6 min. 50 sec version!

John de Graaf: Take Back Your Time
John de Graaf, national coordinator of Take Back Your Time Day and author of the book "Affluenza," discusses the epidemic of overwork, over-scheduling and time famine that now threatens our health, our families and relationships, our communities and the environment. We need to slow down -- and realize the folly of the frenetic scramble for affluence. #586 Ordering Info

Disinfopedia with John Stauber
John Stauber is founder and director of the Center for Media and Democracy, and co-author of books including "Toxic Sludge is Good for You!," "Mad Cow U.S.A.," "Trust Us We're Experts," "Weapons of Mass Deception," and "Banana Republicans."
In this Enviro Close-Up he speaks about the newest target of the center -- disinfopedia: disinformation by corporate public relations operatives -- and its other projects helping people cut through PR propaganda and the deceptions of right-wing political machines and Big Media. #585 Ordering info

Carolyn Raffensperger: Science and Environmental Health
Carolyn Raffensperger, environmental attorney and founding executive director of the Science and Environmental Health Network, speaks in this Enviro Close-up of how the wise application of science is critical to the protection of the environment and public health. And she stresses the importance of the Precautionary Principle -- key elements include taking precautions in the face of scientific uncertainty; exploring alternatives to possibly harmful actions and placing the burden of proof on proponents of an activity. #584 Ordering info
View 10 min. version!

John Mohawk: A Conversation with John Mohawk
Mohawk, the author of books including "A Basic Call to Consciousness" and "Red Buffalo," is professor at the State University of New York at Buffalo. In this Enviro Close-up, Mohawk, a Seneca, speaks about how the conquest of indigenous peoples parallels the conquest of nature, how ideologies of Western Civilization have led to slaughter and devastation and is now driving the world off a cliff into environmental disaster. #583 Ordering info

Richard Heinberg: Oil: The Party's Over
Richard Heinberg, author of "The Party's Over: Oil, War and the Fate of Industrial Societies" and "Powerdown: Options and Actions for a Post-Carbon World," and professor at New College of California, discusses the end of oil as the fuel of industrial societies. There must be fundamental changes, says Heinberg, a full commitment to renewable energy, adoption of energy conservation measures and a transition to sustainable local food systems.#582 Ordering info
Click here to watch a Real Media version of Oil:The Party's Over provided by FSTV.
View 9 min. 15 sec. version!

Dave Phillips: Earth Island Institute
Executive Director Dave Phillips tells how Earth Island Institute, founded in 1982 by veteran environmentalist David Brower, works for solutions to environmental problems by developing and supporting projects for the conservation, preservation, and restoration of the global environment. #581 Ordering info
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Ashley Shelby: The Ongoing Exxon Valdez Disaster
Writer Ashley Shelby details how the terrible impacts of the 1989 Exxon Valdez oil spill in Alaska continue. She tells how Exxon, despite a federal jury ordering it pay $5.2 billion in punitive damages to fishers and natives, still fights the verdict. #580 Ordering info

Building Green
Energy-efficient, environmentally sound building design is discussed by Alex Wilson, president of BuildingGreen, Inc. #577 Ordering info

View 7 min. 28 sec. version!

Socially Responsible Investing
Writer Marshall Glickman examines socially responsible investing, its history and impacts. #575 Ordering info

Oren Lyons: Value Change for Survival
Faithkeeper of the Turtle Clan, Onondaga Nation who for decades has been a visionary voice, active in international indigenous rights and sovereignty issues at the United Nations and other international forums, speaks of how "we are living in a time of prophecy." #574 Ordering info
View 8 min. 18 sec. version!

John Cavanagh: Alternatives to Economic Globalization
John Cavanagh, director of the Institute for Policy Studies, co-author of 22 books on the global economy, speaks on the alternatives to economic globalization. Cavanagh's books include "Global Dreams: Imperial Corporations and the New World Order." #573 Ordering info

David Suzuki
David Suzuki, scientist, environmentalist and broadcaster, an internationally respected geneticist, professor at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver and author of more than 30 books, speaks on the ecological crisis we face. #572 Ordering info

Andy Kimbrell: Challenging Corporate Globalization
Andrew Kimbrell, attorney, activist and author and founder of the International Center for Technology Assessment, speaks on dangerous technologies--including genetic engineering. #571 Ordering info
View 8 min. 40 sec. version!

The Reckoning: Global Warming
Jim Motavalli, editor of E, The Environmental Magazine, explains the major impacts global warming is already making and the devastating consequences that will result for the planet's biodiversity and the human race itself in coming years as it alters the Earth's climate--unless aggressive, unified worldwide action is taken to deal with global warming. And he talks of the forthcoming book, "Feeling The Heat: Reports From the Frontlines of Climate Change," which he edited with contributions from leading specialists in global warming. #570 Ordering info

Marilee Foster and Joseph Gergela: Saving Farms
The efforts made by the Long Island Farm Bureau to save farmland—seen as a national model—are described by Joseph Gergela, Executive Director, Long Island Farm Bureau and Marilee Foster, Farmer and Author. #569 Ordering info

Kathleen Whitley & Scott Cullen: Blowing in the Offshore Wind
The great strides being made in harvesting wind power from off shore, for electricity are discussed by Kathleen Whitley, Co-Director, Citizens Energy Alliance and Scott Cullen, Long Island Offshore Wind Energy Initiative #568 Ordering info

Victor Yannacone: Environmental Law Pioneer
Attorney Victor Yannacone describes his efforts beginning in the 1960s to use the law to fight for environmental action--and details how courts can best be used today to preserve a livable environment. Yannacone's motto: "Sue the bastards." #567 Ordering info


Brian Howard: Message in a Bottle
"Despite the hype, bottled water is neither cleaner nor greener than tap water," says Brian Howard, managing editor of E/The Environmental Magazine, and author of a cover story in E on bottled water. #566 Ordering info
View 9 min. 14 sec. version!


Glen Alcalay: The Atomic Atolls
The plight of the people of the Marshall Islands - subject to a series of huge nuclear weapons tests in the 1950's - is described by anthropologist Glen Alcalay.#565 Ordering info


Ashok Gupta: Green Ground Zero
Ashok Gupta, Air & Energy Program Director for the Natural Resources Defense Council speaks of integrating sustainable energy principles into the reconstruction of the World Trade Center. #563 Ordering info

Jim Riccio: The New Push to Revive Nuclear Power
In "The New Push to Revive Nuclear Power," Jim Riccio describes how the nuclear industry, working with the Bush administraton, are involved in a major effort to build more and supposedly "new, improved" nuclear power plants, extend the operating lives of existing plants, water down regulation further, lower standards for radiation and "recycle" nuclear waste into commercial products. #561 Ordering info

Jim Riccio: The ABC's of Atomic Power
In "The ABC's of Atomic Power" Jim Riccio, nuclear policy analyst for Greenpeace USA, an attorney who previously worked for the Nuclear Information and Resource Service and Public Citizen, clearly explains that nuclear technology grew out of the military's desire for plutonium to build nuclear weapons. #560 Ordering info


The Women's Environment and Development Organization
WEDO - The Women's Environment and Development Organization - is an international advocacy network that seeks to increase the power of women worldwide as policymakers at all levels in governments, institutions and forums to achieve economic and social justice, a healthy and peaceful planet, and human rights for all. New York based WEDO was co-founded by the legendary congresswoman, Bella Abzug. In this Enviro Close-Up, June Zeitlin, the executive director of WEDO, is interviewed by Karl Grossman. #559 Ordering info


Gordian Raacke: Sustainable Energy
Gordian Raacke, Executive Director of the Citizen's Advisory Panel, a Long Island based energy watchdog group, details how our energy needs can be met through safe, clean, renewable energy technologies. #558 Ordering info.
View Quick Time video clip from this interview (1.5 minutes, 1.5 MB download).


Paul Lacinski: The Straw Bale House
Paul Lacinski, co-author of Serious Straw Bale, details how buildings made with straw bales are extraordinarily energy efficient, comfortable to live in and fun to build. A partner in Green Space Collaborative, and environmental consulting firm in Ashfield, Massachusetts, Licinski tells of his involvement in constructing houses using straw bales throughout the United States as well as in Mongolia and China. #557 Ordering Info
View 7 min. 41 sec. version!


Michael Phillips: Food As Medicine
Michael Phillips, co-author of The Village Herbalist, explains the importance of herbs for good health. Phillips, also the author of The Apple Grower, speaks on growing apples and other fruit without chemical pesticides -- and producing healthy food. #556 Ordering info
View 7 min. 50 sec. version!


Mark Crispin Miller: Media and Environment
Mark Crispin Miller, professor of media ecology at New York University and executive director of the Project on Media Ownership, discusses the dismal performance by media in reporting on environmental issues. Dr. Miller tells of how six companies now dominate most of U.S. media. Further, Miller, the author of The Bush Dyslexicon, notes the place of the Bush administration in the corporate media scene. #555 Ordering info


Peter Hoffmann: The Forever Fuel: Hydrogen
Peter Hoffmann, author of Tomorrow's Energy: Hydrogen, Fuel Cells, and the Prospects for a Cleaner Planet and editor and publisher of the Hydrogen & Fuel Cell Letter, stresses how hydrogen is the "forever fuel." #554 Ordering Info


Victor W. Sidel, M.D.: Physicians for Social Responsibility
A founder and co-president of the Nobel Award-winning International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War and co-founder of Physicians for Social Responsibility. Distinguished Professor of Social Medicine at the Montefiore Medical Center/Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Dr. Sidel has been a leader globally in combining a life in medicine with action on social concerns and issues of war and peace. He has written and lectured extensively on the organization of medical care in other countries and on the need for structural change and not-for-profit single-payer reform in the U.S. In this Enviro Close-Up, he details his work to Karl Grossman. #553 Ordering Info


Peggy Shepard: Environmental Justice
The fight for environmental justice and against environmental racism - the targeting of people of color communities with toxic facilities and racial discrimination in environmental policy making and enforcement - are the issues tackled in this Enviro Close-Up with Peggy M. Shepard, executive director and co-founder of West Harlem Environmental Action (WE ACT). WE ACT works for environmental justice in matters of land use, air pollution, open space and environmental health. Founded in 1988, it advances it's mission through public education, political advocacy and direct action. #552 Ordering Info


Martin Teitel: Responsible Genetics
Martin Teitel, Ph.D., president of the Council for Responsible Genetics, outlines this group's program to foster public debate about the social, ethical and environmental implications of new genetic technologies. #549 Ordering Info


Harvey Wasserman: Challenging Nuclear Power
Wasserman declares that "the idea of reviving nuclear power as put forward by George Bush and Dick Cheney could only be termed patently insane." He continues: "We have had a half century of experience with atomic energy. It is a blatant failure. It is actually the most expensive failure in technological history." And Wasserman, in this Enviro Close-Up interview program, stresses not only the dangers of nuclear power but details the availability of safe, clean, renewable energy technologies wind, solar, hydrogen, geothermal among many others here today which, with energy efficiency, could provide for energy needs without the awesome threat of atomic energy. Harvey Wasserman is a senior advisor to Greenpeace USA and Nuclear Information and Resource Service. #550 Ordering Info


John Stauber: PR Watch
An interview with John Stauber, co-author of Trust Us, We're Experts! How Industry Manipulates Science and Gambles With Your Future, Toxic Sludge Is Good For You! and Mad Cow U.S.A. and editor of PR Watch. #548 Ordering Info


Fritjof Capra: Ecological Sustainability
The author of best-sellers including The Tao of Physics, The Turning Point and The Web of Life, Dr. Capra is a physicist and systems theorist and founding director of the Center for Ecoliteracy in Berkeley, California. He discusses the new global capitalism and it's threat to ecological sustainability. He explains his theories and his life’s work as an environmental activist in this Enviro Close-Up. #547 Ordering Info


Vandana Shiva: Globalization and Nature
Internationally acclaimed as one of the most articulate critics of globalization, Vandana Shiva is a philosopher of science and an indefatigable activist.  She articulates her brilliant perspective with passion in this Enviro Close-Up.  Director of the Research Foundation for Science, Technology and Natural Resource Policy in New Delhi, India, Dr. Shiva’s books include: Monoculture of the Mind: Biotechnology and the Environment; Stolen Harvest: The Hijacking of the Global Food Supply; Biopiracy and the Plunder of Nature and Knowledge. #546 Ordering Info


Michael Mariotte: The State of Nuclear Power Today
Videotaped at the Northeast Action Camp for a Nuclear-Free New England. Michael Mariotte provides a comprehensive picture of the world-wide nuclear power situation. He talks about his trip to Chernobyl and effective challenges to nuclear technology in Europe and the US. #541 Ordering Info


Theo Colborn: World Wildlife Fund
The noted researcher discusses a massive study she conducted as senior scientist of the World Wildlife Fund -- documenting dire and widespread health impacts of life on earth from toxic chemicals.
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