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July 14, 2007 - Nell Newman is building environmental awareness in a big way through her organic products book, "The Newman's Own Guide to a Good Life." In this interview Nell shares her simple approaches to an organic and environmentally friendly life.

This June 20th 2007 America the Green Podcast, two major issues are addresses. The first deals with the fact that research has shown over and over that even though the use of mercury in vaccines is linked to health issues "there have been no lawsuits over its use. The answer is that Congress acting on behalf of the big pharmaceutical companies have created a Vaccine Court where plaintiffs are not permitted to have paid legal representation. Who does that help?

July 18th 2007's ECO WAKE-UP CALL: A recent survey this spring polled 1047 travelers that said they're less likely to conserve water and electricity while away from home. Nearly 70% said they open a new mini-bottle of shampoo each time they shower at a hotel. 63% were more likely to leave the lights on at a hotel than at home. And three out of four think it's important to have their hotel linens changed each day. (Source: USA Today, Starwood Hotels and Resorts survey).

August 23, 2007 - In today's show, Carolyn and Irv get all the dirt on diesel and it's a lot cleaner than you think. Their guest, Michael Roach, the founder of CleanAIR Systems, a technology-based corporation that manufactures emissions control systems with worldwide distribution. Their products are designed to control air pollution for vehicles such as construction equipment and buses, as well as for industrial generators and power plants.

July 9, 2007 - Join BearingPoint technologist and managing director Daryouche Behboudi in this podcast to explore the growing need to go green, starting with data centers.

After nearly seven years of online volunteering for a charitable organization 1200 miles away, Toronto area resident, Tu Loan St-Cyr, is taking a leave of absence from a charitable organization she has never seen.

Winnipeg, Canada, February 27, 2007: When self-employed multimedia creator Dan Tombs was contacted by a Canadian charity about volunteering via the Internet, he did not realize the rewards and ease of helping from home -- a way of volunteering he had not known about.

Two slim guides have recently been published on climate change solutions, one written to CEOs on how business can profit by helping mitigate and adapt to climate change, one addressing what government policies are most promising. CWR co-host Bill Baue speaks with University of Michigan Professor Andy Hoffman, co-author with John Woody of Climate Change: What's Your Business Strategy?, published May 1 by Harvard Business Press as part of its "Memo to the CEO" series.

The ExxonMobil annual shareholder meeting this year carried high expectations from shareholder activists. Members of the Rockefeller family, descending from the founder of the Standard Oil monopoly that splintered into Exxon and Mobil, attended the meeting to support four different shareholder resolutions on corporate governance and climate change. Of these four, the resolution supported by most Rockefellers asked the company to split the CEO and Board Chair positions. Today's CWR guest, Bob Monks, has filed this resolution at ExxonMobil since the early 2000s.

Utilities and coal companies are pushing to open over a hundred new coal-fired power plants in the US. But activists, investors, communities, consumers, and scientists are pointing to financial, regulatory, environmental, and social risks that far outweigh the potential benefits of coal. And they are pulling back the veil from the myth of clean coal, exposing that king coal is a naked emperor. Carbon capture and storage, the key to coal's "clean" claims, has years of technical and economic hurdles to cross.