Word: greencast
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...Kutner might not appear to be taking the apocalypse seriously - this is, after all, a man whose day job at The Daily Show involves reading depressing news and transforming it into "poop jokes." (Hear Kutner ponder the apocalypse on this week's Greencast.) But though the book is inspired comedy, Kutner says the theme came from his own preoccupation with the possible end of the world. He has a "go bag" - a collection of items needed in case of an emergency evacuation - and he calls himself and his wife "apoca-nerds." He looks around the landscape of American popular culture...
...melt down the waste to get to the gold," he says. "It'd produce a reddish smoke that was so strong I couldn't stand there for more than a couple minutes before my eyes would just burn." (Hear Zhao talk about the e-waste on this week's Greencast.) Urban China is so polluted that few Chinese escape without some damage to their health, but Zhao says that local researchers have found that the children of Guiyu fare worse than their counterparts in nearby cities, suffering from respiratory illnesses traced back to e-waste...
...would pay back more than $1 billion in benefits - better health, fewer deaths, more worker productivity. "It's a matter of cost and benefit," says Lomborg. "These are the best problems with the best solutions." (Hear Lomborg talk about the Copenhagen Consensus and climate change on this week's Greencast...
...Harvard Forest, dozens of executives from groups like the National Wildlife Federation and the Nature Conservancy, along with a few representatives from the government, tried to work out a new framework for the biggest challenge facing conservation. (Listen to Levitt talk about adaptive management on this week's Greencast...
...decent wages and benefits that can support a family. It has to be part of a real career path, with upward mobility. And it needs to reduce waste and pollution and benefit the environment." (Hear Angelides discuss the green-collar revolution on this week's Greencast...