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Last month, Ecocentric's Kyle Rabin interviewed Dr. Chris Gobler of Stony Brook University. They discussed threats to Long Island's drinking water supply, harmful algal blooms like brown tide and how a local shellfisherman's personal story inspired Chris's path as a scientist and professor.
More than a decade ago, David Schieren decided to quit a Wall Street job and start his own solar power company. Today, EmPower Solar is a successful business.
Will Allen is the now-legendary urban farmer from Milwaukee whose organization Growing Power is at the forefront of the "good food revolution.
Josh Fox is the director of the award-winning 2010 documentary film, Gasland, a cross-country exposé on the social and environmental effects of fracking taken after his family was approached to lease their land for drilling. He is now at the center of the ongoing battle against fracking and is expected to produce the sequel, Gasland 2.
With an activist mindset from an early age, Wenonah Hauter, Executive Director of Food & Water Watch, says she was inspired by early suffragettes and believes strongly that we need to strengthen our democracy. This means getting people involved in issues like genetically engineered and overprocessed foods, fracking and polluted waterways.
When she was in college, Shana Miller spent a summer on Martha's Vineyard fishing for her dinner because she didn't have enough money to buy food. Food insecurity gave her a greater appreciation of the ocean environment, and eventually led this would-be primate scientist to a career saving one of the ocean's top predators, bluefin tuna, which are in danger of being overfished.
Water educator and math tutor Matt Malina, who grew up in New York City's East Village, loves his city's water system so much that he created NYC H2O, a series of educational tours and lectures about the city's incredible drinking water system, so he could share the love.
Marianne Cufone is the Executive Director of the Recirculating Farms Coalition, a collaborative group of farmers, educators, non-profit organizations and others who work together to support the development of energy efficient farms that use clean, recycled water to grow food.
One of Carole Baker's many titles is Chair of the Alliance for Water Efficiency. Here, we discuss the organization, water efficiency and conservation and Texas water politics.
Author Steven Hawley talks about salmon recovery, dam politics and his new book "Recovering a Lost River". As salmon recovery efforts fail, river stakeholders find themselves pitted against the utilities and the federal government in their efforts to get unneeded dams removed.
