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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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Friday, September 25, 2009 at 4:04 pm

Tesla Motors CEO Elon Musk joined us on Thursday for a detailed discussion of his business plan and his vision for the electric car future. One outstanding issue for him remains whether he can make his cars affordable for average people – the original Roadster costs $109,000, and even his forthcoming Model S will cost about $50,000.

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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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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, 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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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, March 17, 2009 at 10:00 am

Will green technology really lead us out of our economic bust? We ask Silicon Valley legend John Doerr and the head of the Environmental Defense Fund, Fred Krupp.

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Tuesday, November 25, 2008 at 10:00 am

The green economy in the midst of meltdown. Obama talks a green game. Can he now deliver?

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Wednesday, November 21, 2007 at 11:00 am

Auden Schendler is true-blue green, a life-long environmentalist, a climate crusader, says Time magazine.
Schendler believed, with every fiber of his being, that American corporations could save the planet and reap profits at the same time. But when he put that faith to the test, he found turning green into greenbacks is harder than he thought.
Now, [...]

 
Monday, October 22, 2007 at 11:00 am

The warning bells could hardly be louder: oil at $90 dollars a barrel on Friday and polar bears bobbing on too little ice.
If global warming and war in the Middle East were provoked by a century of fossil fuels and cars, just maybe changing cars can change the problem.
The race is on for cars that [...]

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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
Friday, November 20, 2009 image

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
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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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