Environment : Audio

In part two of this conversation with Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales, Wales goes deeper into the nuts and bolts of  Wikia Green, but also tackles the role that free culture can play in saving the world (hint: it's a big role).

Peter Williams, IBM's Chief Technology Officer for Big Green Innovations, talks about the launch of WaterOrg, what he thinks it can accomplish, and how the company and its future partners in the organization will achieve success.

A brief comedy sketch about Congress going green, courtesy of Plenty Magazine.

Wikia Green is one of the latest additions to this growing family of special interest, wiki-based subworlds.

Chevron says the case is fundamentally flawed. Activists call it a global game-changer.

Jonathan Elmer, chief executive of smart meter company Landis + Gyr, speaks about the role advanced energy meters can play in helping the UK meet its carbon reduction targets.

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.

In a 2006 Rolling Stone interview, Al Gore infamously likened the practice of extracting oil from tar sands to "junkies find[ing] veins in their toes" to inject heroin. Gore's image simply extends to its logical conclusion George Bush's 2006 State of the Union "addicted to oil" metaphor. Clean, renewable energy represents a healthy cure for petro-addiction. Tar sands, which increase the carbon intensity of petroleum extraction, represent an exacerbation of the climate-changing addiction--kind of like trying to cure heroin addiction by injecting arsenic.

Wangari Maathai, the founder of the Green Belt Movement, was the first person ever to receive a Nobel Peace Prize for environmental work.

CWR co-hosts Bill Baue and Francesca Rheannon speak with Gary Hirshberg, CEO of organic yogurt maker Stonyfield Farm, and author of Stirring It Up: How to Make Money and Save the World.