#548
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.

#547
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.

#546
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.

#533
INFACT
Kathryn Mulvey of INFACT and Lucinda Wyckle Rosenberg, INFACT’s communications director, speak about the Boston based organization’s crusade against corporations “who exert undue influence over the political process at the expense of public health and safety.”

#536
Inform
Inform, headquartered in New York, evaluates and reports on environmental practices of business and government.  Dr. Nevin Cohen, director of research of Inform, tells in this Enviro Close-Up of how only 10% of the 70,000 chemicals used in U.S. industry have been sufficiently analyzed to know their effects on humans, yet these poisons are put into products that are in daily use.

#142
South Africa & Environmental Justice
Heeten Kalan, director of the South African Exchange Program on Environmental Justice, explains how apartheid has left a deadly legacy of pollution for people of color in South Africa.

#143
Richard Grossman
Author, former director of Environmentalists for Full Employment, and long-time leader in the environmental and anti-nuclear movements, Grossman outlines his newest campaign - against the unbridled power of U.S. corporations.

#156
Population Explosion
The population is booming and Mike Hanauer of Zero Population Growth considers that the world’s leading environmental problem. Population growth is already straining the world’s environmental and energy resources. If current trends continue, the population of the U.S. could reach a half-billion in the next century and world population could triple to 14 billion. Hanauer speaks of what needs to be done to stem the population explosion.

#158
The Trilateral Commission
Founded by David Rockefeller in 1973, The Trilateral Commission has tried to be a kind of board of directors seeking to help multi-national corporations control the world, says Holly Sklar, editor of Trilateralism, The Trilateral Commission and Elite Planning for World Management. The 300-member Trilateral Commission has had a deep impact on recent U.S. administrations. Trilateral members becoming U.S. presidents were Jimmy Carter, George Bush and Bill Clinton. The impacts on environment and energy policy of The Trilateral Commission are substantial, notes Sklar, and both NAFTA and GATT have been key Trilateral Commission goals.

#171
A Good Environment: The Ultimate Preventive Medicine
Dr. Eric Chivian, director of the Project on Global Environmental Change and Health of Physicians for Social Responsibility, says that global environmental degradation is a human health issue. Humans are totally dependent on a healthy environment but the health effects of a bad environment are relatively neglected in the environmental debate, says Dr. Chivian, clinical professor of psychiatry at Harvard University and Massachusetts Institute of Technology. We must "begin to break the silence," he says. The health and lives of people in this and future generations depend on it.

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