The Green Economy: The Future Of Natural Resource Management - Waterways Superfund Part 2
In this program we will compare other rivers where industry has left its mark. Rivers like the mighty Hudson where PCB clean up has been revolutionized. New Jersey’s Passaic River, which is considered one of the most polluted bodies of water anyw...
The Green Economy: The Future Of Food & Medicine - Green Wine
Organic wine making is big business in California. We take a look at Frie Family Winery in Napa County where organic wine making was practically invented. Then we take a look at how this trend is moving north to Oregon where varietals like Pinot Noi...
The Green Economy: The Future Of Food & Medicine - Green Beer
Mendocino California is where hops, the lifeblood of beer, have been grown for generations. Brewers like Mendocino Brewing brew dozens of types of Organic beer and we find out how. Then we sample some of those and other great beers at Urban Hop Wo...
The Green Economy: The Future Of Natural Resource Management - Waterways Superfund Part 1
Cities around the United States grew up around the great arterial waterways. In the West, the Columbia and Willamette have seen 150 years of commerce and change and unfortunately have paid the price of the industrial revolution. It's not the water s...
The Green Economy: The Future Of Natural Resource Management - Sustainable Forestry
Growing trees is not totally the job of Mother Nature anymore! Making sure logging doesn’t tax future growth too much is an ever more increasingly important task. Using a relatively new high tech invention, the helicopter, to harvest hasn’t be...
The Green Economy: The Future Of Food & Medicine - Organic Cooking
There’s nothing boring about organic cuisine anymore! Bland and dull are not words used to describe the food at places like Flying Lotus Café. This trend has to start up the stream a little further, which is where food giant like Sysco comes in. ...
The Green Economy: The Future Of Food & Medicine - Green Medicine
Words like Naturopath and other less traditional terms to describe the healing process once were shunned by modern medicine and the general public. Today they are much more common and accepted. Procedures like acupuncture are prescribed by doctors r...
The Green Economy: The Future Of Energy - Wind Power
The Green Economy looks at the emerging technology that’s becoming big business. Condon Oregon is the site of one of the largest wind farms in the World. This trend is becoming a reality!
The Green Economy: The Future Of Energy - Waste to Energy
Marion County Environmental Services oversees the operation of one of the most successful recycling and energy programs in the United States. Curbside collection, sorting, waste incineration which in turn generates electricity…these folks have it ...
The Green Economy: The Future Of Energy - Biodiesel
Growing gas…that’s one way to look at it. By focusing on using organic waste like used cooking oil and compost materials niche companies like Sequential Bio-Diesel have created their own industry. We will look at how it's grown, gathered, made...