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Monday, November 9, 2009 at 11:00 am

Can California’s new energy economy — green economy — save the Golden State? The nation? We’ll go to California to ask the questions.

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Thursday, November 5, 2009 at 10:00 am

The Copenhagen climate conference is one month away. US climate action is going nowhere in Congress. We’ll look at the global implications of America’s domestic climate politics.

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Monday, November 2, 2009 at 11:00 am

Maya Lin’s Vietnam Memorial changed how we remember war. We’ll talk with her about her latest and, she says, last public memorial — a monument to vanishing species.

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Wednesday, October 21, 2009 at 2:19 pm

In today’s first hour, Whole Earth guru Stewart Brand and energy expert Amory Lovins debated whether the U.S. should build more nuclear power plants in the effort to reduce carbon emissions.

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Wednesday, October 21, 2009 at 10:00 am

Whole Earth Catalog guru Stewart Brand now says we need nuclear energy and genetically modified food. We’ll ask him if he’s selling out, or getting real.

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Wednesday, September 30, 2009 at 10:00 am

Will China be the world’s clean-energy superpower? We’ll look at “Green China,” and whether the U.S. is losing the clean-tech race.

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Thursday, September 24, 2009 at 11:00 am

America’s super-hot electric car from Tesla Motors. We’ll talk with Tesla CEO, Elon Musk.

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Friday, September 18, 2009 at 11:00 am

Actress, filmmaker, and model Isabella Rossellini on her new sex-in-nature project, “Green Porno,” and a life in front of the camera.

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Monday, August 3, 2009 at 10:00 am

No cars. No waste. No gas or oil. We go to Abu Dhabi, where plans are underway to build the world’s first carbon-neutral city.

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Friday, July 24, 2009 at 11:00 am

Forget summer heat. We’re talking glaciers, igloos, blizzards, and adventures in the world’s coldest places.

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Monday, July 13, 2009 at 11:00 am

“Icky” creatures. The joys of vultures, jellyfish, slugs and more, with gardener- journalist Constance Casey.

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Monday, July 6, 2009 at 11:00 am

Scientists report that widely used chemicals — endocrine disruptors — are causing serious health problems in humans. We ask what the government is, and is not, doing about it.

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Thursday, July 2, 2009 at 11:00 am

Author Rick Bass walks us through the changing seasons of the Montana wilderness, in his new book, “The Wild Marsh.”

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Wednesday, July 1, 2009 at 12:35 pm

The passage of the House climate bill — discussed in our first hour today — has been greeted with enthusiasm in many quarters. But in some ways, the real question is whether a global framework can be established in Copenhagen in December.

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Wednesday, July 1, 2009 at 10:00 am

Barack Obama came to Washington promising serious action on climate change. The climate bill that passed the House last Friday is hailed as an historic first step. We’ll look at what’s in it, what it’s up against, and whether it’s enough.

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Monday, May 11, 2009 at 10:00 am

We’ll go deep on one man’s tough quest to harness the wind for American power.

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Friday, April 24, 2009 at 11:00 am

We’ll talk with tech visionary Shai Agassi about his plan to make the world electric-car friendly — and get the entire planet off oil.

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Friday, April 24, 2009 at 10:00 am

The torture debate grows red hot. The Taliban advance in Pakistan. Craigslist under fire. Our weekly news roundtable goes behind the headlines.

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Tuesday, April 21, 2009 at 10:00 am

Green headwinds shifting. Rep. Ed Markey, top environmental journalists and Bill McKibben take stock of the huge moves afoot on the climate-energy front.

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Tuesday, April 21, 2009 at 9:56 am

Congressman Ed Markey (D-Mass.), a key sponsor of the historic climate/energy bill being debated this week, said today during the show that some industries would receive free carbon permits in the early years of a proposed cap-and-trade scheme.

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On Point Today
The Pandora Effect
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We’ll talk with the founder of Pandora, the online music service that claims it knows what you’ll want to hear.

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Week in the News
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Obama in China. Healthcare crunch time in the Senate. And the mammogram controversy rages on. Our weekly news roundtable goes behind the headlines.

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Recent Shows
Poker: America’s Game
Thursday, November 19, 2009 image

Poker and American history. How the game of presidents, cowboys, gangsters, and online gamblers helped shape America.

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Google vs. Murdoch
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Rupert Murdoch wants to block the search giant from scooping free content from his newspapers. We’ll look at the staredown.

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On Point Blog
Michael Wolff and Jeff Jarvis on Murdoch v. Google

We had a rousing discussion about Google vs. Murdoch, and what it says about the whole future of news, with Michael Wolff, Jeff Jarvis, and Steven Brill. Here’s what Wolff and Jarvis had to say about the delusions of both Murdoch and Google.

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Video: Google CEO Eric Schmidt

Last week, host Tom Ashbrook was on stage with Google CEO Eric Schmidt, asking him about some of the biggest technology and business issues of our time.

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California, here we come! And we need your questions!

On Point is headed west!
No, no. Not for good. Only for one show. But it’s a very special show!  The NPR station in Thousand Oaks, California – KCLU – is celebrating their 15th anniversary. We’re lucky to have been on their airwaves for nearly seven years, and they invited us out west to host a live [...]

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