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The floods have been described as epic – more vast than Haiti, Katrina, and the tsunami…
Mercy Corps is an international aid organization based in Portland, Oregon and is right in the thick of things.
Joy Portella is director of communications and leads a team of professionals dedicated to documenting and reporting Mercy Corps’ work in 40 countries. She has traveled to global hotspots including North Korea, the Gaza Strip and Haiti.
She joins us to talk about it all:
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Who is apologizing to BP and why?
And Father’s Day – paternity leave in Sweden? Primate Dad’s strutting their stuff with babies? Should there be a presumption of joint custody when parents divorce? Sperm donors? Is this a good idea? How many half-siblings are out there who don’t know it?
What’s on your mind?
Not good. Really really not good….
December 12, 2009
Climate change
Outside the United States, the world is pretty much on board with the notion that the climate is changing in profound ways and that human activity is partially the cause. Within the United States however, there is a stubborn minority who believe it is all hype, or a natural occurrence, or a conspiracy by scientists, politicians, environmentalists and other overt and covert liberals. They reject the notion that there is a scientific consensus, they believe the insurance companies’ risk assessments with which they price their products are simply jumping on the bandwagon, and so forth. We look at the scientific consensus and what the skeptics have to say about them, and also pose few questions from a Green IQ test we stumbled upon.
We’re joined by Brenda Ekwurzel, Federal Climate Scientist, Union of Concerned Scientists.
The unlucky
We get an update on how things are going at the Somerville Homeless Coalition from Mark Alston-Follansbee, Executive Director. Personal experiences, funding, what works, who helps.
Podcast
Jared Diamond makes the case that some businesses have become among the world’s strongest positive forces for environmental sustainability… Now I gotta say, I have greatly admired Jared since “Guns, Germs and Steel” so I feel like i gotta listen….
He cites examples with three companies: Wal-Mart, Coca-Cola and Chevron…