Green Street Podcast – The Gas Rush

An intense and amazingly effective campaign is underway to convince Americans that natural gas is the answer to our energy problems. As a result,  a vast network of pipelines is being constructed across the country, millions of Americans are converting their old oil-burning systems to natural gas, and government officials are green-lighting massive new gas-fired power plants.  The oil and gas industry, which created the concept of a “bridge fuel” is hoping that their trillion dollar investment will pay off before people find out that over its lifetime, natural gas contributes more to global warming than either oil or coal.

The Precautionary Principle with Carolyn Raffensperger

On this edition of Green Street, Carolyn Raffensperger, Executive Director of the Science and Environmental Health Network, talks about the founding of the Wingspread Conference, and how this unusual meeting of scientists, medical professionals, philosophers and environmentalists developed a new paradigm for analyzing risk assessment: The Precautionary Principle.

The Fight Over Seneca Lake

How a Texas gas company plans to turn the caverns under Seneca Lake into New York’s largest gas station… and what some people are doing about it!

On this edition of Green Street we hear a “Letter From Jail” written by Dr. Sandra Steingraber (and read by our friend, actress Nancy Sirianni) and interviews with John Dennis and Stefan Senders, two courageous local activists who have been arrested for blocking the entrance to Crestwood’s construction site at Seneca Lake.