TODAY’S ECO WAKE-UP CALL: In 2008, the world reaches an invisible but momentous milestone: For the first time in history, more than half its human population, 3.3 billion people, will be living in urban areas. (Source: United Nations Population Fund report: State of the World Population 2007 - Unleashing the Potential of Urban Growth www.unfpa.org/swp/2007/english/introduction.html).

In today’s show, Carolyn and Irv get sparked about this year’s Burning Man event themed “Green Man.” Burning Man is an intentional community that gathers in the Black Rock Desert of Nevada dedicated to self-expression, self-reliance and art as the center of community. They leave one week later, having left no trace. Our guest, Michael Gosney, has been attending Burning Man for over 12 years and this year will be producing a film documentary called “Burning Green”.

Resources

Michael Gosney and his multitude of green companies and projects:

Cyberset Music and Media
www.cyberset.cc

Green Century Institute
www.greencenturyinstitute.org

Interra Project
www.interraproject.org

Sacred Water Temple @ Burning Man
www.sacredwatertemple.org

Burning Man (www.burningman.com), an intentional community that gathers in the Black Rock Desert of Nevada dedicated to self-expression, self-reliance and art as the center of community. They leave one week later, having left no trace.

Burning Man Earth: A two minute fly-around of the 2007 Green Man pavilion in Google Earth: www.youtube.com/watch?v=CNWb1iyOHEY

Articles

About Burning Man 2007 - The Green Man: C-NET

http://news.com.com/Burning+Man+takes+on+green+tech/2100-11392_3-6181680.html

TODAY’S ECO WAKE-UP CALL: According to the Environmental Protection Agency, 60% of all buildings in the U.S. are considered “sick”, meaning that they are unsafe to occupy. Further more, indoor air pollution is often five to twenty times worse that outdoor air pollution, even if you live in a heavily industrialized city.

Today’ show is Part II of our “Corporate Stewardship” series. This week’s guest is David Miller, a Senior Vice President at Thornburg Companies. Thornburg is building a green corporate campus with State-of-the-Art Environmental Design with world renowned architect, Ricardo Legorreta. Thornburg is dedicated to sharing its data to inspire others to embrace sustainable design.

Resources
Thornburg Companies’ virtual reality tour of green campus

Architect, Julie Walleisa of Dekker/Perich/Sabatini

Organic Flowers for Mother’s Day

Article
Sick Building Syndrome

TODAY’S ECO WAKE-UP CALL: More than 19 billion catalogues are shipped yearly. After two years of lobbying from environmentalist group Forest Ethics, Victoria’s Secret, which mails on average 395 million catalogues a year, has agreed to use more recycled paper, reduce direct mail and conduct more efficient target mailings of other materials sent to customers. (Source: Women’s Wear Daily).So how come I just got five catalogues from them sent to me in the span of two weeks? – Carolyn

In this show, America the Green discusses the strength of the green demographic and how we can use our voice to really accelerate change. Our guest, Ted Ning, Executive Editor of the LOHAS Journal Publication and director of the LOHAS Conference, connects like minded businesses with each other to promote the health and sustainability market.

A FEW QUESTIONS WE ASKED:

So you talk to business everyday about sustainability, what do you think about what companies say — and what they actually do?

What does LOHAS stand for?

Who is the LOHAS consumer?

How are you using the voice of the 50 million LOHAS people to effect change?

What would you tell all the LOHASians listening to do about Victoria Secret and other catalogue companies out there that are contributing to the 19 billion catalogs mailed a year.

Closing Question: What one significant change do we a species need to shift towards to create permanent, positive change in our world?

To tell Victoria’s Secret to stop, email: Service@VictoriasSecret.com

America Deep Green - the Lecture Series launches Friday, January 19th, 2007

Show links

LOHAS

Victoria’s Secret

Victoria’s Dirty Secret

Forest Ethics

Comment links

Greg:
I just finished listening to your podcast on “Green Teens”. I am a proud
graduate of Unity College in Unity, ME. I think you might be interested in
some of the environmental activities that go on at Unity (www.unity.edu). A
good person to contact there would be Dr. Mic Womersley.

Intro and Outtro Music:
A special thanks to Kevin Hays for his song “What Survives” off the Kevin Hays Trio CD. PLEASE, if like this music, check him out at KevinHays.com