Green Festivals Radio

President of the Earth Policy Institute and author of Plan B 3.0, Lester Brown, outlines principal threats facing civilization and lays out an alternative to "business as usual" exploring strategies to solve global warming and other major environmental crises.

Best-selling author and social critic, Barbara Ehrenreich, discusses her new book "This Land is Their Land" and offers a progressive political perspective on current environmental and economic issues.

Melissa Mansfield brings you 10 easy ways to green your life. The Green Festival is a great way to learn how being 'green' takes more than just changing a few lightbulbs.

Award-winning designer and co-author of bestselling book, Cradle-to-Cradle, William McDonough speaks about working to eliminate the concept of waste. He inspires us to re-think the way we make and use products and shares information about current innovations in green design to increase biodegradability and ecological sustainability.

A behind- the-scenes look at the 2006 San Francisco Green Festival reveals how the event stays truly green, with its impressive waste management program that diverts over 90% of garbage from landfills.

Social activist, systems scientist and cultural historian, best known for writing the Chalice and the Blade, Riane Eisler proposes a new approach to economics. Discussing her latest book, The Real Wealth of Nations, Eisler describes an economic paradigm that gives visibility and value to the most essential human work: the work of caring for people and planet.

"The Environment As Our Extended Body" - Acclaimed author, speaker, and well-being expert Deepak Chopra discusses the connection between environmentalism and spirituality.