Shades of Green

  Click here to download or listen to the Pod Cast. Jennifer Walker, Water Resources Specialist for the Sierra Club’s Lone Star Chapter joined us to talk about ways Texas Cities can conserve water.   Walker discussed ideas from a website, Texas Water Matters, a project that is collaborative effort between the National Wildlife Federation, Lone […]

Click here to download or listen to the Pod Cast Weston Sythoff, Clark Shaffer and Tony Allen all from Workforce Solutions Capital Area spoke with us about the Austin green jobs market.  Workforce Solutions is responsible for the planning, oversight, and evaluation of workforce development activities in the Austin/Travis County area.  They match companies who […]

Click here to listen to the Pod Cast This week we heard an interview recorded with Shades of Green Energy host John Hoffner and Jane Turville, writer, director of “The Greenest Building,” a documentary on how renovation and reuse of existing structures can achieve the triple bottom line – benefiting people, the planet and profits.  […]

Click here to listen to the Pod Cast The Texas Green Network (TGN) of Austin, Texas celebrates its 50th networking event. The TGN is one of the first of two green chamber of commerces in the United States. The City of San Francisco also has a green chamber like TGN. We discussed the Texas Green Network with […]

Click here to listen to the Pod Cast. The American YouthWorks of Austin is an educational program for high school students at risk. As part of a commitment to conservation, community revitalization and education, American YouthWorks operates three Green Jobs Programs including Environmental Corps, Casa Verde Builders, and Computer Corps. We spoke with the School Principal […]

  Click here to listen to the Pod Cast The City of Austin has approved a plan to completely ban plastic bags in retail stores. Stacy Guidry, the Austin Program Director for the Texas Campaign for the Environment discusses how they are encouraging Austin to go even further and ban paper bags. Also in the […]

Click here to listen to and download the Pod Cast Zoe Cardon works at the Ecosystems Center in Woods Hole, Massachusetts, she is also a member of Ecological Society of America, ESA an international organization of professional ecologists.  Cardon joined us on Shades of Green Energy to talk with us about ESA and the work […]

Click here to listen to the Pod Cast Maureen Haskell, the Be Groovy Be Green Lady and Bill Oliver, Mr. Habitat have been inspiring generations of children to be Earth Friendly and Eco-Active through stories, song and play.  Maureen and Bill joined us on Shades of Green Energy Radio to talk about ways to educate […]

Click here to listen to the Pod Cast More and more we hear about water concerns in Texas so Shades of Green Energy organized a show around the ways we catch, manage and use water.  The Colorado River catches water, Lake Travis catches water and the Edward’s Aquifer catches water and all have been providing […]

Erin Hickok from Go Local Austin and Mason Arnold, founder of Greenling talk with us about the value of going local for sustainability and economic benefit. Keeping it local helps the environment, uses less energy and helps create local jobs. Erin Hickok joined us from Go Local Austin, a grass roots marketing organization that benefits […]

Trees, lawns and farms are struggling to survive under the Texas draught conditions. Leah Haynie and Zachary Baumer from the City of Austin’s Office of Sustainability were our guests on Shades of Green Energy Radio show. They introduced us to the programs that have been created to help Austin residents and businesses reduce our carbon […]

Kate Galbraith, reporter for the Texas Tribune and Colin Meehan, Clean Energy Analyst for the Environmental Defense Fund Austin office joined us on Shades of Green Energy to discuss  green energy and environmental issues from the 82nd Texas Legislature of 2011.  Kate Galbraith also discussed her recent 5-part series in the Texas Tribune on water […]

Michele Hallahan, Austin’s environmental consultant and engineer at Eco-Logic Sustainable Solutions talked with us about “Green Washing.”  We discussed companies who are green washing and companies that are great examples of environmental stewardship and the triple bottom line. Click below to listen to or download the Podcast

Guests Lou Snead of Faith Presbyterian Church in Austin and Colin Rowan of 1st Presbyterian discussed several initiatives they are undertaking. Colin organized a showing of the movie “A Carbon Nation” at his church and Lou Snead is part of the Interfaith Environmental Network in Austin. Click below to listen to or download the pod […]

We decided to kick off the summer by celebrating World Ocean’s Day with interviews on sustainable seafood with Kerry Coughlin, Regional Director of the Marine Stewardship Council a worldwide organization based in Seattle, Washington and Carrie Brownstein, national seafood quality standards coordinator at Whole Foods Market, a national organic grocery store.  Both women joined us to […]