Interviews

  • Lynne Cherry on Earth Day 2013

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    “Kids have power.. and once kids know how much power they have to make change, they start acting.” Join in with Lynn Cherry, film producer and author of over thirty children’s books pertaining to climate change, during this year’s Earth Day celebration at Union Station in Washington D.C.

  • Ann Feldman of waterpressures.org


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    Which uses more water: tea or coffee? Chicken or a hamburger? How many gallons of water does it take to make a pair of jeans? Listen to Ann Feldman of Waterpressures.org tell GCR host Joan Michelson the amazing things she learned about the world’s water use and availability, and what YOU can do about it.

     

     

    wp-logoWatch Ann’s documentary Waterpressures this week on PBS or click here to find out where you can watch it

     

  • Phyliss Cuttino of the Clean Energy Program

    Phyliss Cuttino of Pew Clean Energy & Joan Michelson at ARPA-E 2013 - 1 of 2How does policy affect CleanTech business start ups? Click here to listen to Phyliss Cuttino, Director of the Clean Energy Program, Pew Charitable Trust, discuss this and their new research on the energy sector . This interview took place at the 2013 ARPA-E Summit in Washington, DC recently. Click here to listen

  • Joan Wages of the National Women’s History Museum

    Joan Wages, CEO of Nat Women's History Museum - 2-28-2013 at NPCOne hundred years ago – on March 3, 1913 - thousands marched in support of giving women the right to vote, and turned the tides of history.  Green Connections has a special link to the suffrage movement: GCR host Joan Michelson’s great-great aunt Miriam Michelson was a reporter covering the suffrage movement and one of the foremost interviewers of the movement’s leader, Susan B. Anthony.

    The National Press Club honored the centennial of this march, as well as International Women’s Day and Women’s History Month, with a special event. Listen to Joan Wages, CEO of the National Women’s History Museum talk to GCR host Joan Michelson from the National Press Club.

  • Amy Francetic of Clean Energy Trust

     

    Amy Francetic & Joan Michelson at ARPA-E Summit 2013The front lines of the clean energy economy are fascinating, brutal and potentially very lucrative. Listen to one of the masters at growing clean energy start-ups, Amy Francetic of the Clean Energy Trust, discuss how it all comes together and CET’s new $100 million partnership with Argonne National LaboratoryShe spoke with GCR host Joan Michelson at the 2013 ARPA-E Summit in Washington, DC recently. Click here to listen.

  • Catherine Williams of Massachusetts Clean Energy Center

    Catherine Williams of Mass Clean Energy Center and Joan Michelson at ARPA-E Summit 2013From solar energy development to the advancement of CleanTech, the Massachusetts Clean Energy Center has been one of the first U.S. state agencies to focus strictly on clean energy investment. Listen to Catherine Williams, the Director of Communications for MCEC, discuss how they are boosting sustainable energy development through trusts and policy partnerships — and what’s up with their flagship initiative, offshore wind. She spoke with GCR host Joan Michelson at the 2013 ARPA-E Summit in Washington, DC recently. Click here to listen.

  • Laura Nereng of 3M Clean Energy Innovation

    Laura Nereng of 3M & Joan Michelson at ARPA-E 2013 - at their boothWhen you hear “3M” you think of Post-it notes, right? Not so fast. 3M is innovating in cleantech and breaking new ground, especially in reducing carbon emissionsLaura Nereng, Program Manager of 3M’s Clean Energy Innovation, spoke with GCR Host Joan Michelson about 3M’s carbon capture break-through that could change everything, and about her innovative group that developed it. This interview took place at the 2013 ARPA-E Summit in Washington, DC recently. Click below to listen.

  • Osprey Orielle Lake of the Women’s Earth and Climate Caucus

    Joan and Osprey - CroppedListen in to Osprey Orielle Lake, Founder and President of the Women’s Earth and Climate Caucus, as she speaks about her recent panel discussion participation, regarding the Keystone Pipeline controversy. What did prominent women in the green economy say on the issue? Since “women are the most negatively affected and most intricate to the solutions,” how can we help in the long run to prevent these problems from expanding?

  • Karina Edmonds of the Department of Energy

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    Listen to Dr. Karina Edmonds, Technology Transfer Coordinator for the Department of Energy, speak about innovations from the National Laboratories that are solving our energy challenges. How do these inventions come to market? What can entrepreneurs learn from them?

  • Rebecca Blank, Deputy Secretary of Commerce

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    GCR host Joan Michelson spoke with Deputy Secretary of Commerce Rebecca Blank at the 2013 DC Auto Show about the dearth of women in the auto industry – 1.8% on the shop floor and about 20% in offices – and what can be done about it.