The Green Front - 07/14/10

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Two women on the green front lines of climate change policy and ocean protection will join us today. First, Rachel Finlay Ginis, a LEED-accredited building contractor, designer and founder of the Citizen’s Climate Lobby in Marin County, California. Rachel is just back from Washington DC where she met with dozens of legislators to lobby for a strong energy bill that includes a new carbon policy concept known as “fees and dividends”, a better alternative to “cap and trade”, from a practical and political perspective. Next, Julia Whitty, just back from the Gulf Coast and just in time to launch her new book Deep Blue Home – An Intimate Ecology of Our Wild Ocean. Whitty is passionate about our need to wake up to the gifts of our seas and to ‘seize’ the moment of this oil catastrophe to make a sea change!