Good Dirt Radio
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Good Dirt Radio reports inspiring and educational stories about people helping to solve environmental challenges affecting life on Earth. We share positive environmental ideas and actions that individuals, families, businesses, and communities can embrace. For more info, reports and ideas from Good Dirt Radio, please visit www.gooddirtradio.org.
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GDR: Blue Economy | Sustainability is a popular, and somewhat overused catch phrase, often misunderstood by everyone from environmentalists to corporate sales departments. But one person with a clear vision of sustainability and how ecosystem-based designs can save resources, money and time� is our friend Gunter Pauli. Gunter is a pioneer in Zero Emissions who consults internationally on environmental solutions. He's an entrepreneur, visionary writer and member of the Club of Rome who speaks 7 languages. His latest book,The Blue Economy, illustrates how in ten years... just 100 innovations could create 100 million jobs, leaving popular, often expensive �green� concepts in the dust. Join us to find out how common sense and interconnected solutions can turn vast amounts of waste into abundant resources while reducing pollution. | 1/25/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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GDR: Solar Condo | Sunny rooftops ... are proving to be an excellent asset for property owners faced with rising energy costs. The benefits of rooftop solar include energy income, tax savings and a reduction of one�s carbon footprint. Increasingly, householders are harvesting sunlight for their electricity and heat, saving money on utility bills while reducing climate-changing pollution from burning fossil fuels. Yet cost can be a hurdle. And, a large number of folks live in condominiums or town homes where it may seem impossible to install a solar system. But... as they say, where there�s a will, there is a way. Tune in to hear how one couple focused their passion, for greener living, on installing solar on their condo. | 12/28/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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GDR: Live Christmas Trees | If healthy rich soil serves as the digestive system of the planet then, trees are the lungs. They play a major role in absorbing carbon dioxide, filtering air pollution and... making oxygen. Trees help control erosion and support healthy soil, which sequesters even more CO2. But how often do you/we go out and plant a tree? Since many of us are responsible for cutting one down every year, what if this year's Christmas tree was alive and potted, to be planted after the Holidays? Sure, its just one tree, but with so many of us out there, enough people catching on to an idea like this, can make a big difference. Join us for info on how live Christmas trees can help create positive changes in the climate. | 11/30/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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GDR: Solar Gardens | Enough sunlight hits the Earth's surface every hour to power the entire world for a year! Capturing it is the challenge. But, as the saying goes� we�ve got our best people working on it. Added incentive has come from the volatile price of fossil fuels as reserves dwindle, and the increasing push toward renewables for the sake of climate stability. Although the cost of solar panels has decreased significantly, many folks either rent, have shaded roofs or yards, live in condominiums or can�t afford to install a complete system. Tune in to hear about a new model of utility scale, community owned solar installations are sprouting up. It�s a timely idea, which is attracting interest and funding. | 10/26/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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GDR: Renters' Options | Just about anyone living under a roof today has heard about investing in and saving on their own energy costs, while helping reduce climate-changing pollution at the same time. The question is� how many renters act on that knowledge? Owners have more incentives then ever to invest in renewable energy but renters also generate a fair share of global warming gases and can make small investments in conservation and energy efficiency, with a decent payback. Have a listen to hear about how renters can help offset their climate changing pollution. | 9/26/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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GDR: Energy Incentives | Most citizens have difficulty grasping the enormity of the climate crisis, don�t believe they personally can make a difference or don�t know where to start to get involved. Government has yet to embrace the reality of global warming... but tax incentives and rebates for energy conservation and efficiency and renewable energy, are available for projects costing only a few dollars... to millions, from basic weatherizing and insulation to an electric car or solar arrays. Tune in to hear how energy incentives can offset the cost of your project, yielding a healthy payback plus long term fixed energy costs and tax savings, in a rising energy market, and offsetting your �ecological footprint� at the same time. | 8/31/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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GDR: Critical Mass | With almost 7 billion of us on the planet, we often get overwhelmed at the exponential force that population growth has over key issues like energy, the environment and the economy. While we may have no control over the big picture� we do have control over our own consumption habits. A large enough number of citizens getting involved can create positive change on a grand scale. Listen in to learn how a certain number of citizens, getting involved and working for positive change, can change climate history through creating a �critical mass.� | 7/27/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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GDR: Kid Gardens | Backyard gardening is returning to the mainstream. When industrialized food production was born in the 20th century, people were ready for less work and more comfort. Generations... have bought into the ease and availability of processed factory foods but our dependence on large scale industrial food production� has come at a huge cost. Most factory farms rely on the concentrated use of fossil fuels, toxic pesticides and chemical fertilizers that poison the environment and our bodies. Meanwhile, organic gardening proponents, working from the sidelines, are seeing a resurgence in the art of growing healthy, local food. Today, leaders of the Organic Movement, such as the Organic Consumers Association, are fighting for our health by promoting rules such as labeling requirements for genetically modified and engineered foods. Many people have already taken dirt into their own hands and started gardening. They often find a payback for their work and create a pathway to more sustainable living and self-reliance. In the process, they�re also gaining an understanding of the natural limits of the biosphere. Large numbers of local schools now offer gardening time and educators say its one of the best places for kids to learn. In spite of current funding cuts, gardening programs continue to flourish in schools. Tune in to hear more about kids gardening, and the positive benefits they reap for a lifetime. | 6/29/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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GDR: Simple Steps | Conventional energy production... is dirty. Despite recent global Climate summits and their often heated sessions, inaction is not reducing man made damage to the atmosphere. While most citizens rely on legislation for protection from excessive pollution, generations of unsustainable production, consumption and toxic waste burden the natural forces behind climate cycles. Corporate operatives direct government policy and massive advertising steers consumer dollars away from systems that support a cleaner, more just and sustainable future. Join us to learn more about simple, money and energy saving steps everyone can take at home, work and at school. | 5/25/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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GDR: Meat Carbon | Among the biggest contributors to climate change is industrialized food production, its long distance transport and systemic use of toxic, oil based fertilizers and pesticides. Large, industrial feedlots produce mass quantities of meat for humans� but also rely on steroids and anti-biotics... and GMO and animal waste food, causing large scale pollution. And many buy it, making industrial beef production systems one of the biggest causes of climate change. Tune in to hear about a few commonly available choices that can help lower your meat carbon footprint. | 4/27/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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GDR: No Spray | Despite marketing spin and availability, pesticides, herbicides and chemical fertilizers are not very safe for humans and the environment. When sprayed on our backyards, city parks and in industrial agriculture� as they are across the nation, cumulative effects of toxic residue, in the biosphere, can have lasting effects. This over use of chemicals is suspected to be a cause of the widespread bee and bat colony collapse and is affecting ecosystems all the way up the food chain to humans. From local lakes, creeks and rivers to the exponentially growing dead zones in the sea, and from lawns, gardens and farms to the atmosphere, the petroleum intensive production and use of these toxic chemicals is a major cause of climate change. Listen in to hear about some safe alternatives to these toxic, petro-based chemicals. | 3/23/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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GDR: Carrotmob | What do you get when you combine progressive socio-economic incentive with a vegetable? Well, of course, you get a Carrotmob! Popping up over 70 times in 20 countries around the world and with thousands of members, socially networked mobs of supporters are actively boosting local businesses who agree to make smarter choices for conservation and sustainability. In focusing their buying power, Carrotmob organizers get businesses to bid on certain actions like having an energy audit, switching to fair trade and local foods... or services and equipment upgrades, changes that are a a win-win for the people involved and the biosphere. Join us to find out how consumer power, focused as a Carrotmob, is catching on. | 2/23/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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GDR: Food Waste | Waste not, want not, said grandparents and generations past. Life was simpler and most folks used their resources sparingly, avoiding excessive waste. Fast-forward to today�s spin-saturated, disposable, consumer America where almost all material goods made in the past 100 plus years have ended up in our landfills, including much of our food waste. But because natural resources are increasingly expensive to find and extract, waste� is becoming commonly seen as a resource. Among the easiest of waste streams citizens can capture� and utilize, is food and organic waste, which rot in our landfills, causing dangerous changes to the natural balance of the atmosphere. Join us to learn more about turning waste into a resource while helping reduce the threat of climate change. | 1/26/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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GDR: Purse Power | Attention Spenders! We, consumers... are the source of dollars that most mega corporations crave... and upon which they thrive. We can all participate in reducing the threat of climate change by learning about and switching to appropriate eco-friendly goods and services available in today's changing marketplace. Tune in to find out how each 'smart' dollar we spend sends a message to manufacturers to produce cleaner, more sustainably made products. | 12/29/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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GDR: Energy Audits | If conservation is the lowest hanging fruit on the energy tree, picking that fruit could be taking the time to find out just how energy efficient your home or office is. Whether you're a renter or an owner, an energy audit can tell you if and where your building's heating and cooling energy, and dollars... are being wasted, escaping into thin air. Join us to learn how, with the reality of climate change closing in, a professional energy audit is an inexpensive way that everyone can save energy, pollution and money. | 11/24/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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GDR: Edible Landscape | With food prices going through the roof, folks across the nation are returning to an age old tradition... planting beautiful, money saving and edible landscaping. Instead of just colorful vegetation, growing beautiful and edible yard plants can save money on the food bill, provide a very local source for nutrition and help reduce one's food related carbon footprint. Find out how edible yard plants and trees offer a way that many consumers can get involved in shaping a better world. | 10/27/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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GDR: Grass Roots | While Washington's broken public systems have a profound effect on local people, corporations are free to fund politicians. Swarms of lobbyists for the power elite have a growing stranglehold on politicians who will put private interests and enormous profits, ahead of the public good. But all the while, folks are learning that real solutions... for retooling, and creating cleaner living systems, exist on the local, community and grass roots levels. Listen in to hear how grass roots groups can empower citizens to get involved in creating the kind of world... they want. | 9/29/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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GDR: Organic Wine | Did you know that most wines are grown with petroleum-based fertilizers, pesticides, and herbicides? These industrial chemicals poison the soil, water and ecosystems including birds, bees and fish. They often survive the wine making process and traces can be found in your drink and your body. Factory made sulfites, a toxic preservative that also affects our biosphere, are then added to most wines to extend their shelf life. Tune in to hear why organically produced wines, produced with no sulfites, are better for us, and the biosphere. | 8/25/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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GDR: Zero Waste | With exponentially rising population and demand for durable goods, Gunter Pauli's breakthrough book, The Blue Economy, explains why and how we can reinvent business models to operate with the 'pervasive logic and sensitivity of ecosystems.' In the natural world, nutrients and energy are abundant, efficiency grows as a system improves itself and it responds to the needs of all involved, with no waste. Have a listen to find out how businesses operated like ecosystems make more money, provide more jobs and better products, all with no environmental degradation or waste. | 7/28/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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GDR: Phantom Power | Chances are, most of us don't know just how much power our appliances, electronics and other devices are consuming when they're turned off. This hidden hum of wasted energy is known as 'phantom load.' The Department of Energy estimates that the proliferation of devices with stand-by power gobbles up some 40% of the energy consumed by home electronics. This wasted power equals the annual output of 17 power plants or about six per cent of America's total residential electricity consumption. Join us to find out how to detect and eliminate phantom electrical loads. | 5/30/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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GDR: Eco Brokers | One man, in Evergreen, CO saw the need for real change in housing and real estate. Well aware of the major impact on climate change caused by, buildings and their energy needs, real estate brokers are learning how to get smarter with the use of sustainable choices, in construction, energy conservation and plain common sense. Join us to find out how Eco Brokers help people make smarter housing choices. | 4/26/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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GDR: Green Chemistry | Imagine, just for a moment, a world where man-made chemicals are safe for human health and the natural world. Well, if the Green Chemistry Institute has its way, this dream will continue to become reality. For years, proponents of green chemistry have been thinking about tomorrow while designing the next generation of products and processes. Join us to find out how this dream is fast becoming a reality of change. | 3/28/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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GDR: Food Carbon | Thanks to documentaries like Food Inc., consumers are learning the truth about the climate impact resulting from unsustainable, industrial, food supply systems. Investigative food journalist Michael Pollan, reports that the amount of energy required by these hi- tech, fossil fuel based food factories, causes more greenhouse gases than our entire transportation sector. Have a listen to learn more about the amount of carbon pollution that comes from our industrialized food systems. | 2/28/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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GDR: Teacher Ed | Respect for nature, where does it start? Teachers, scholars, and advocates of sustainable lifestyles from all levels of education, are emphatic that respect for nature starts in childhood. They say knowledge, based in healthy respect for Nature and ecosystems, is key to cultural transitions to a cleaner, more just and sustainable future. Many believe outdoor education provides our youth with a deeper environmental ethic that can be a strong antidote to status-quo climate-changing behaviors. Wanna hear more? Please listen to the audio report. | 1/24/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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GDR: Petro Fast | This is a story of a city guy from the 'burbs', finding his way out of a commercial, petroleum based, urban bubble to live locally and in balance with the biosphere. While we may be at the peak of automatic comfort, citizens of all ages are learning to appreciate the sense of well being that can come from living with renewable life support systems. The options are diverse. Hear how he describes his quest to wean himself from a life of fast food, wasteful energy consumption and pollution to more locally based, in sync living. | 12/27/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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GDR: Ecovestment | In most cases, corporate by-laws include a mandate requiring businesses of all types to maximize profit but boardrooms also have the choice between socially and environmentally responsible investments and the status quo. As an alternative to most current but unsustainable practices, professionals say that green investing does offer consumers a means to vote for change. Tune in to find out how this is a chance for people to support the kind of world they believe in. | 11/30/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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GDR: Holistic Parenting | The classic definition of 'holism' or 'holistic' refers to the relationship between the parts and the whole, where each part contains the whole, and yet the sum of the parts forms a greater integrated system. Tune in to find out why holistic living includes making healthy, sustainable choices that affect the natural world in a more positive manner. | 10/25/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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GDR: Economic Sustainability | Sustainability is a hot topic these days but one which may be little understood. While the green movement is helping raise awareness of natural systems, politicians, and the corporate world, have yet to truly accept the critical notion of what Wendell Berry calls the real economy. Long-term environmental protection, perhaps even the survival of life supporting ecosystems, may depend on achieving a greater degree of economic sustainability. Tune in to hear about how these principles can apply to families, businesses and community. | 9/28/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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GDR: Eco Ed | Across the board, kids are spending a record amount of time indoors, at school, texting from the mall, reading, or watching TV with little or no connection to the natural world. These kids may be consumer-society casualties newly diagnosed with nature-deficit disorder, a term coined by Richard Louv, in his book Last Child in the Woods. Have a listen to hear about outdoor education programs for kids. | 8/30/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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GDR: Plant Trees! | Trees! are the largest and longest living organisms on Earth. Trees replenish a critical renewable resource and may be the most natural and cost effective way to mitigate global warming, while making oxygen and purifying ground water. Listen in to find out more about the many benefits of trees and how you can get involved in planting more! | 7/26/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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