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Meryl Streep’s Green Interview with Alison van Diggelen

Meryl Streep’s Green Interview with Alison van Diggelen

By Alison van Diggelen, host of Fresh Dialogues We were delighted when Meryl Streep agreed to a Fresh Dialogues interview last month in San Francisco. We had a lively conversation about why she’s become an activist for the [...]

Commonwealth’s Climate One: Paul Gilding and Richard Heinberg

Commonwealth’s Climate One: Paul Gilding and Richard Heinberg

By Alison van Diggelen, host of Fresh Dialogues Climate One‘s Greg Dalton brought together a pair of climate experts yesterday at the Commonwealth Club to discuss the “Great Disruption” – Is it the end of the world as [...]

Solar: The Economic Argument

By Alison van Diggelen, host of Fresh Dialogues On the Eve of Earth Day, it’s telling to look at the green motivations of one of Silicon Valley’s leaders in solar technology: CEO of Akeena Solar, Barry Cinnamon. [...]

Jeffrey Toobin Transcript: Kagan, Supreme Court, Environment

By Alison van Diggelen, host of Fresh Dialogues Fresh Dialogues (TM) is an interview series with a green focus: Fresh Questions, Fresh Answers. This video interview took place at  Foothill College Celebrity Forum on April 1, 2010, [...]

Jeffrey Toobin: On Obama’s Offshore Drilling Plan

By Alison van Diggelen, host of Fresh Dialogues Last week, President Obama announced a surprise decision to allow oil and gas drilling off the East Coast of the United States. The world was at once outraged and confused. [...]

Michael Krasny: Why Green Forums Matter

Michael Krasny: Why Green Forums Matter

By Alison van Diggelen, host of Fresh Dialogues Earlier this year, I had the chance to turn the tables on celebrated Forum Host, Michael Krasny, and interview him for Fresh Dialogues. He was surprisingly candid about [...]

Martin Sheen: Our responsibility to future generations

Martin Sheen: Our responsibility to future generations

By Alison van Diggelen, host of Fresh Dialogues I talked to acclaimed actor and activist, Martin Sheen about why he thinks everyone has a responsibility to do something about the environment. His views are especially topical [...]

Rob Bernard, Microsoft’s Green Czar: Why is Company “Light” Green?

By Alison van Diggelen, host of Fresh Dialogues I met with Rob Bernard, Microsoft’s Chief Environmental Strategist, at – appropriately enough – Green’s Restaurant in San Francisco to discuss the company’s green strategy and why it [...]

Martin Sheen: His Green Motivations

By Alison van Diggelen, host of Fresh Dialogues Martin Sheen sat down with me at the Flint Center in Cupertino to talk about what motivates him to be green and actively involved in environmental causes. He [...]

Rob Bernard, Microsoft’s Green Czar talks clean tech

By Alison van Diggelen, host of Fresh Dialogues On Monday, I was invited to Greens Restaurant in San Francisco to meet Microsoft’s Chief Environmental Strategist, Rob Bernard. We then joined a small group of  researchers and [...]

Stanford Clean Tech class by Andres Wydler a sellout

By Alison van Diggelen, host of FreshDialogues If we need any more evidence that clean tech is hot in Silicon Valley, this is it. Last Wednesday, I attended a lecture on Clean Tech Entrepreneurship by Andres [...]

KQED Perspectives – All That Shines At Christmas

To Alison van Diggelen the inflatable Santas, plastic reindeer and sparkling illumnation may be environmentally incorrect, but they light the light in some very important places. [...]