Description and History

SHADES OF GREEN is a live one-hour talk show that features issues and people related to sustainability and the environment.

Topics include:
• Sustainability
• Efficiency
• Conservation
• Health
• Renewable Energy
• Natural Building
• Low-Carbon Energy, Services and Products
• Environmental wellbeing
• Climate Change Issues.

LIVE in-studio with Guests, phone interviews, Events, topical Music & green News … and Howie Richey’s ECO-Calendar.

Listen on Thursdays from 1:00 p.m. – 2:00 p.m. on 91.7 FM, streamed live on KOOP.org, or download podcasts available here on the website’s weekly updates.

Talking Water with Dr. Susan Shaw of the Marine Environmental Research Institute on 3-22-12

For 3-22-2012, our guest was Dr. Susan Shaw, a leading marine toxicologist, Doctor of Public Health, and founder and director of the Marine Environmental Research Institute (MERI).

Dr. Shaw shared her expertise on toxins and the marine environment, discussing a wide variety of issues that impact our lives. She is widely known for her [...]

“Delegation from Kazakhstan” 3-8-2012

Our guests on Thursday, 3-8-12 were members of a delegation of environmentalists from Kazakhstan, visiting the US as part of the Library of Congress Open World Program.

Ruslan Telegin, 43 years old, from Karaganda (population 471,800), is Press Secretary of the NGO Karaganda Regional Ecological Museum (www.ecomuseum.kz). He works to raise awareness of the [...]

A discussion on climate change with Michael Tobis from the University of Texas … plus the answer to what is slow money! 12/01/2011

Scott Price and Joe Day work with Slow Money Austin, which is a member of Slow Money Texas and the Slow Money Alliance. Slow Money Austin is working to increase capital opportunities for food entrepreneurs. Scott and Joe talked with us about opportunities to invest to help grow local food development something they described [...]

More on the Drought … Still Hot & Dry in Central Texas 9/22/11

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We continued our coverage about the Texas Drought with guest, Brad Rippey, an agricultural meteorologist with USDA’s Office of the Chief Economist, and the managing editor of the Weekly Weather and Crop Bulletin, a cooperative effort between the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) and [...]