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New Dimensions Radio for January 28, 2008
9:30 PM - 10:30 PM
[Program Website]
Today's Highlight: "A Practical and Accessible Strategy on Global Warming," with David Gershon
Protecting our environment is no longer just the job of environmentalists. With the reality of global climate change upon us, we're all waking up to the fact that saving the planet is everybody's business. But how can we make a difference fast enough to avert a global crisis? Climate scientists tell us that we have less than ten years to dramatically cut our carbon emissions before we reach a point of no return. Yet most of the large-scale solutions on the table will take far longer than that to implement. Fortunately, necessity is the mother of invention, and among the climate change pioneers there are those who feel that, if we step out of the box of the traditional social change model, we'll discover that we already have everything we need to make a huge dent in our carbon footprint-almost overnight. This "new social change formula" serves as the focus of this dialogue with David Gershon, who says, "What we've been looking at is a strategy I call 'Cool America.' The core of that program is a cool community campaign which is scaling up eco-teams within a community . . . This is a bold idea, and says if 50 to 90% of the carbon footprint of a community is the residential sector, and we've been able to demonstrate that 25%, on average reduction per household participates, we can scale up these eco-teams and can get this 20% reduction by 2010." (Hosted by Craig Hamilton)
Since 1973, New Dimensions has been exploring the landscape of possibilities of a more just, sustainable and compassionate world by having deep dialogues with individuals who are actively making a creative contribution in the world.
New Dimensions has interviewed hundreds of the greatest minds on the planet such as the late mythologist Joseph Campbell, poet Maya Angelou and physicist David Bohm. It has featured Pulitzer prize winners E.O. Wilson from Harvard and poet/ecologist Gary Snyder.
Primarily the medium used to communicate these ideas is radio. New Dimensions national series is heard, for the most part, on National Public Radio affiliates and other public stations. This flagship series airs weekly on over 350 stations around the U.S. and another 300 stations in Australia on the Australian Broadcasting Corporation. It can also be heard 24/7 here on the New Dimensions website.
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