Podcast appearances and mentions of andrew dobbs

In preparation for the 2019 Texas Legislature we had two high profile environmental activists on Shades of Green. We had in the studio: Andrew Dobbs, Program Director at Texas Campaign for the Environment (TCE). He is an organizer, strategist, and skilled communicator intent on building power for working Texans. His writing has appeared in the Daily Beast, the New York Observer, War is Boring and the Huffington Post. Juli Berwald, Author and a volunteer with the Citizen Climate Lobby, a non-profit, nonpartisan, grassroots advocacy organization focused on national policies to address climate change. Juli is the author of “Spineless: The Science of Jellyfish and the Art of Growing a backbone.”

We had three distinguished guests in the studio to debrief us on the midterm election results and what effect they may have on our local, state and national environment. Our guests were: Luke Metzger, Executive Director, Environment Texas. Andrew Dobbs, Central Texas Program Director, Legislative Director, Texas Campaign for the Environment. Adrian Shelly, Director of the Texas Office of Public Citizen

Donald Trump announced late last week plans to meet at the invitation of Korean leader Kim Jong Un, breaking suddenly with the administration’s aggressive annihilation rhetoric. Does this signal a shift in U.S. policy on the Korean peninsula? Just as importantly, what does the DPRK hope to gain from normalized relations with the United States?Teachers in West Virginia win a victory for 21st century labor. A series of statewide wildcat strikes ended with a 5 percent pay raise for state employees, a freeze in health insurance costs, and an end to intrusive neoliberal health “monitoring” system linked to their insurance. What significance does the strike have for changing labor relations in the United States?Democratic turnout in the 2018 Texas primary increased 98 percent over previous midterm primaries. The Democratic Party is predicting a blue wave in the 2018 elections, which would be a huge upset for this deeply conservative state. But how likely is this to come to fruition, and if it does, what policy effects might this have on the national level?We are joined for these discussions by Derek Ford, education chair at the Hampton Institute, a working-class think tank; Scott Heins, a freelance journalist who wrote about the West Virginia teachers' strike for the Intercept; and Andrew Dobbs, a writer and socialist activist.

In the second part of our interview with Andrew Dobbs, we talk about convincing companies to use minimal packaging and about what happens with electronic waste from computers, cell phones and the like. Learn how you can make a difference!

Getting to “zero waste” may seem like an impossible goal, but Andrew Dobbs of the Texas Campaign for the Environment says each of us can play a role in reducing the amount of stuff going into landfills and the environment. He has some eye-opening information that can’t be ignored and some ready solutions.