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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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Tuesday, April 14, 2009 at 11:00 am

We’re heading into the woods to look at logging today and Jack McEnany’s new book “Brush Cat.”

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Recent Shows
The Future of Aging
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A surge of new strategies to “manage” aging — from diets to testosterone. We’ll get the story.

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Climate, Congress & Copenhagen
Thursday, November 5, 2009 image

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.

Comments [73]
On Point Blog
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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For Love of Science – or Money?

A new study supports the idea that U.S. dominance in engineering and science is threatened — but not for lack of training and education. It has more to do with a lack of social and economic incentives.

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Matthew Hoh’s Resignation Letter

Matthew Hoh, a former Marine captain, became the first foreign service official to publicly resign in protest over the war in Afghanistan. The move has generated a lot of reaction. You can read Hoh’s resignation letter, posted by The Washington Post, which reported on it here.

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