Friday, September 3rd, 2010

Environmentalism Today

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From approximately 22,236 miles in space, NOAA's newest Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite - GOES-15 - took its first full visible image of the Earth on April 6. Image courtesy NOAA/NASA/SSEC .

Has the modern environmental movement become too quick to compromise? In this segment, we'll talk with author Bill McKibben and Sierra Club executive director Michael Brune about the state of environmentalism in the US today. What does it mean to be green?

Guests

Michael Brune
Executive Director, Sierra Club
San Francisco, California

Bill McKibben
Environmentalist, writer
Co-founder and Global Organizer, 350.org
Author, "Eaarth: Making a Life on a Tough New Planet" (Times Books, 2010)
Ripton, Vermont

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Segment produced by:Annette Heist

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