Southeast Green - Speaking Of Green

Metro Atlanta will be voting on a critical transportation tax in 2012. Join us as we explore how Atlantans will benefit, why it's necessary and the challenges that faced in getting it passed. Commissioner Larry Johnson was elected as the DeKalb 3rd District Commissioner in November 2002. With the overwhelming support of the community he won with 92 percent of the vote, making him one the youngest commissioners to ever be elected to serve on the Board of Commissioners. During his first year in office, he accomplished a number of things, including voting for 32 million dollars in infrastructure and highway improvements, such as sidewalks and improvements to relieve traffic congestion; the Millage Rate was decreased for homeowners; and the adoption of the Property Maintenance Ordinance. Commissioner Johnson has served as Chairman of the Economic Development/Planning Committee for the Board of Commissioners; is past the Chair of the Board of Education/Board of Commissioners Intergovernmental Committee; former ch

We'll be talking to Atlanta's homegrown EV manufacturer. Join us as we talk to Mike McQuary (“McQ”)|  CEO of Wheego. Prior to joining Wheego, McQ was focused on the music business as the CEO of Brash Music. Before that he was the president of the ISP EarthLink after its merger with MindSpring in February 2000. McQ developed the concept behind MindSpring with Charles Brewer, and was the president and COO of MindSpring. Prior to MindSpring, McQ served for 9 years in a variety of sales, marketing, operations, and management positions with a division of Mobil Corporation. McQ was on the varsity wrestling team at the University of Virginia and managed to receive a bachelor’s degree in psychology while missing few (if any) parties. He did the nights and weekends thing to get a masters degree in business administration from Pepperdine University. McQ serves on the Board of Inner Strength – an at risk youth education program, and is on the Chastain Park Conservancy Advisory Board.

Green space is a key component to any City's quality of life. Join us as we meet the leadership of Park Pride. Atlanta's non-profit to protect, maintain and grow park space.

Executive Director of the North Carolina Solar Center, Stephen Kalland, will join us live from Dallas at the Solar Power Conference 2011 to discuss North Carolina's Solar growth, what's happening live at the show and how the DSIRE website is helping the growth of solar.

Meet Tom Kemper, DolphinBlue.com CEO In 1973 the valley in which Kemper was raised was sprayed with dioxin-contaminated waste-oil by county contractors to reduce road dust. Resultant illness and environmental degradation played a role in development of Kemper’s environmental awareness. Conducting a 1992 recycling event in Dallas, he collected and bagged 350 bags of recyclables. Having no success finding a place to accept the materials, he learned RECYCLING Economics 101: when we purchase products made from materials we place in bins, recycling WORKS! Dolphin Blue, a business built on “The Triple-Bottom-Line” (People, Planet, Profits) was begun in 1994 on Kemper’s vision. Fiscal 2010 produced revenues of $2.5 million in only recycled-content office supplies, all made in the USA.  Kemper believes we must begin in our communities valuing “natural capital” (clean air, water, organic foods, human health, and strength of local economies). Small business returns accountability and sustainability, creating strong,

Doug Beebe, Board Chair of Georgia Solar Energy Association, will join us as discuss all the exciting developments in Georgia's Solar industry. In addition to his work at the Georgia Solar Energy Association, Doug works for Deutsche Leasing USA, the US subsidiary of a German leasing company. While growing their traditional equipment finance business in the US, Doug is also developing a solar finance business at Deutsche Leasing USA.  In the past, Doug has held leadership roles in sales, marketing, operations and management at GE Capital and Citigroup during his career in equipment finance.  Doug holds a B.A. degree in Economics and International Studies from The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and has a working knowledge of French and speaks basic Turkish. He attained NABCEP’s Entry Level Certificate of Knowledge in Solar Photovoltaics and continues his education in the solar industry.  He lives in Decatur with his wife, Tijen and daughter, Aleyna.

We are talking less petroluem usage in Atlanta! Clean Cities Atlanta Director Don Francis and Steve Clermont – Center for Transportation and the Environment will join us as we talk how Atlanta will become less reliant on petroleum.

Meet Will Harris of White Oak Farms. We discuss small family farms, organic and sustainable agriculture and solar barns to boot.

Meet Jerry Spencer is an passionate man. So it was with a sense of adventure one day that this chiropractor of 20 years--a man who had never in his life grown a single tomato plant much less a garden--dug up his front lawn and planted a vegetable plot far bigger than what would feed his family of eight. That was 1996. By 1999, after a few years selling surplus veggies to Birmingham restaurants, expanding his garden and adding a flock of laying hens, Jerry enlisted 40 people to join his fledgling Community Supported Agriculture program. By the end of the season, membership had grown to 65 people paying up front for four to 12 months of weekly boxes of in-season vegetables raised at Mt. Laurel Organic Gardens. Fast-forward another six years to 2004 and Mt. Laurel has enlisted 25 farms to supply produce and meat to 400 members of the CSA renamed Grow Alabama. To coordinate the network of farmers ranging in size from 2 acres to 27 acres, Jerry hired a full-time office staff of about eight people, each equippe

Georgia Power has started a new energy efficiency rebate program. Make energy efficiency upgrades and get money back from Georgia Power. Join us as we discuss all the benefits of the new program with Frank Wickstead, manager of the Residential side of the program.

Brain Carr of the Clean Air Campaign discusses the upcoming telecommuting week and other options to reduce commuter pollution.

The Director of the Clean Air Schools program, Gretchen Gigley and the Director of Mothers and Others for Clean Air Rebecca Watts Hull as we discuss children's health as it is connected to clean air, asthma, the latest attack on the Clean Air Act, and how you can get your schools and kids breathing cleaner air.

The Green Building Industry continues to grow despite economic challenges. Find out how BOMA is leading the way in educating it's members on how to green their buildings.

Luiz Rodrigues, ECOMB - Executive Director; Gabriole Van Bryce, LEED AP -Executive Director, Dream in Green; Commissioner Gongora, Office of the Mayor and Commission will discuss communtiy projects in the Miami Beach area.

Join guest host Paula Collins as she interviews folks from the Green Chamber of the South who conduct and are participants in the chamber's business accelerator. Not only will there be plain old good business advice but hear how green businesses can get a boost from participating.

Georgia Public Service Commissioner Tim Echols is leading an old fashioned train tour throughout middle Georgia to show some of Georgia's coolest Solar Manufacturers and companies. So all aboard to learn about why, how and when you can join the Solar Train.

Phillips Arena is the home of the Atlanta Hawks and many top quality entertainment events but it is also the first LEED Certified arena. Learn how the son-in-law of Ted Turner, took a vision of green to make Phillips Arena as the shining example of how to run a large scale venue/business as an example to protect the planet.

Join us as we discuss recycling. If you think you know about recycling, we invite you to learn about what's happening, what's not happening and why things have gotten so confusing. Gloria Hardegree of the Georgia Recycling Coalition will join us as sift through all the trash!

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There's actually good things happening in Alabama. Join us as we interview Scott Hughes of the Department of Environmental Mangament for the State of Alabama. Scott Hughes currently serves as the Chief of the ADEM Office of External Affairs.  Mr. Hughes is responsible for the coordination of all media efforts as well as the publication of the ADEM Annual Report, the ADEM Update Newsletter, and the ADEM Insider Newsletter.  In addition, Mr. Hughes oversees the administration of the Section 319 Nonpoint Source Pollution Program within ADEM.