The Green Divas will have Lisa Fahay and Peter Troast back on the air tonight to talk about the value of monitoring our energy usage and how easy it now is to do.

We first met Peter and Lisa about a year ago just after they shared their family’s energy consumption through the Internet for a week (I think it was a week). They live with their kids (and their Jack Russell Terrier) in Maine, and run a wonderfully informative website – EnergyCircle.com – and business that offers detailed, EASY-TO-UNDERSTAND advice on creating home energy efficiency. They also provide the tools to do the job from the products to great vidoes on installation and energy efficiency how-to’s.

Green Dude Scott and of course, GD (silent) Jessie will be in the house and as always we’ll have some fun music so tune in and turn on a friend!

Thursday, January 28, 2010
7 – 8pm EST
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Ode magazine founders, Jurriann Kamp and his wife Helene De Puy are still busy changing the world one creative edition at a time.

The Green Divas will be talking to Jurriaan tonight, so make sure to tune in!

We’ll be talking about the special edition Ode magazine that is designed to share some of the inspired solutions for climate change with everyone in Copenhagen (and anyone who cares via FREE digital mag too) this week. 75,000 of The solutions we need now: How the renewable energy economy will halt global warming, clean up the planet, create millions of jobs and make us all healthier, issue will be distributed in Copenhagen and it is also available free online – SolutionsWeNeedNow.org.

Some of the most inspiring and influential minds offer  insights and solutions to the climate crisis (and some of the other challenges clobbering us as well) – Paul Hawken, Bill McKibben, Lester Brown, Al Gore, and others.

This issue offers information on a breakthrough project to use man-made vortices (not sure exactly what this is, but we’ll ask Jurriaan tonight!), up to six miles high, to circulate heat in the upper atmosphere and thus cool the planet. The issue also contains stories on: Dutch scientists who have developed technology to generate renewable electricity wherever saltwater and fresh water meet; ‘carbon farming’ as an innovative and simple form of CO2 sequestration; houses that generate more power than they consume; and new biofuels that don’t interfere with food production.

Please email any questions in advance to: info@thegreendivas.com or IM us during the show.

Tune in and turn on a friend!

Thursday, December 10, 2009
7 – 8pm EST
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If you are like so many who are trying to avoid the swine or ANY flu this season, you may be on a handwashing frenzy. I find myself feeling terrible about using so many paper towels in my increased number of hand washing adventures in public bathrooms.

Mary Wallace and Linda Lannon have devised a simple and great solution – PeopleTowels! These little 100% organic cotton AND fair trade produced personal hand towels are a wonderful and sustainable way to save trees AND water while drying your hands in public places.

With great hang-tags for easy attachment to purse, backpack or belt, these little beauties are washable and built to last – and they come in 6 different cool designs. I’m partial to the one above!

In addition to playing some musical requests from some of our favorite listeners, we’ll be talking to Linda Lannon on the show tonight, so please tune in!

Thursday, November 12, 2009
7 – 8pm EST
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The Green Divas will speak to Jake Wall of ExperienceProject.com, a ‘passion-based’ network that calls itself the largest living collection of shared experiences in the world. The ExperienceProject.com teamed up recently with Haagen Daz (yes, those crazy delicious ice cream makers) to help the honey bees. They helped raise awareness about the plight of honey bees, who have been dying off in record numbers. The effect on our agriculture system is devastating.  (read more about this on Green Diva Meg’s post, The Buzz with Honey Bees)

Tune in tonight to catch up with the Green Divas, learn about how to help the honey bees and the social experiment network experienceproject.com.

Thursday, October 22, 2009
7 – 8pm EST
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Amor Ilao McGuinness and her husband Tom will join The Green Divas live in the studio on Thursday, October 8th to promote the benefit concert she will headline at Alice Tully Hall in New York City on October 17th.

The concert called “Six Voices for One Love” will combine opera, Broadway and traditional Kundimans and will benefit Bantay Bata 163, a child welfare program established over 10 years ago by the ABS-CBN Foundation based in Asia to provide shelter, education, legal and medical services to children in  need.

Amor’s first performance was at the age of 6 at a talent show in her hometown of Laguna, Louisiana.  She charmed the audience and took home the first prize. Since then, Amor has gone on to perform at Carnegie Hall and NJPAC in addition to performing up and down the east coast as well as before the Philippine Consulate in and at other Filipino affairs. She has also received two Philippine Presidential Awards.

Now in her 70s, Amor is fulfilling a lifelong dream at last with her upcoming benefit performance, “My dream was to sing at Lincoln Center. I said I would do it for the benefit of the poor children, plus show them [the audience] our culture, our music.”

Not only is Amor the principal vocalist in the concert, she, along with her husband Tom, have organized the entire event which includes a traditional 12-piece Rondalla String Orchestra.

Tickets cost $40 and may be purchased by calling 973-335-7660, at the box office, or online at Alice Tully Hall.   Alice Tully Hall, Lincoln Center is located in New York City at 65th and Broadway.

Don’t miss tonight’s show!

Thursday, October 8, 2009
7 – 8pm EST
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The Green Divas will ask John Fox, CEO of Innovative Fuels these and other relevant questions on tonight’s radio show. If you have specific questions about biodiesel or biofuel, please make a comment here or email us before or during the show at info@thegreendivas.com or IM us at the station (instructions are on the HGR website).

The musical theme is ‘mother nature’ and if we have time, you’ll hear some fun tunes.

So, tune in and turn on a friend tonight!

Thursday, September 24, 2009
7 – 8pm EST
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Bradford Rand and Ed Begley, Jr.

The Green Divas have a great show planned for tonight. Don’t miss our interview with Bradford Rand, President/CEO of Go Green Expo and the producer of the upcoming Eco Luxury press event in NY next week. The Green Divas will be covering that event, so be sure to tune in next week for the details on that . . .

Bradford and his talented team have produced over 700 trade shows, job fairs and special events over the last 15 years spanning a multitude of industries. His philanthropic charity events include the Red Cross Benefit & City Harvest; an organization that feeds the hungry of New York. He, like many others were inspired by Al Gore’s Inconvenient Truth and realize in his home city of Manhattan there was no event to showcase earth-friendly products & services. Thus, Go Green Expo was born and in April of 2008, the inaugural show featured 250+ exhibits, 50+ speakers, an eco-film festival and nearly 10,000 participants.

So, tune in and turn on a friend . . .

Thursday, September 17, 2009
7 – 8pm EST
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Inspired by these words of Aldous Huxley, The September Concert Foundation was born in 2002 on the first anniversary of 9/11. Since then, on each anniversary this message of peace through music has spread further and further.

In 2008, 222 concerts were organized throughout the world. This year there will be close to 10,000 performers. 46 US cities from coast to coast joined the cause,  including Oakland, Philadelphia, Santa Barbara, Forth Worth, Seattle, and Washington D.C.

On Friday, September 11, 2009, across America and around the world, the skies will come alive with music as The September Concert Foundation organizes its eighth annual global day of music for peace. On that day professional and amateur musicians will perform classical music, jazz, rock & roll – all kinds of music in all kinds of venues – from parks and squares, schools, libraries, churches, office building lobbies and plazas to cafés, stores and senior centers.

All concerts adhere to three basic principles:

• Freedom: All venues and musicians are free to design and organize their own concerts.
• Equality:  All music and all musicians are treated equally, regardless of gender or background.
• Accessibility: All music is offered free of charge.

For more information about the event go to www.septemberconcerts.org To learn more about Leo Schaff go to:    www.myspace.com/leosongs.

Tonight Leo Schaff, co-writer (along with Jim Papoulis and Regine Urbach) of one of the songs to be performed throughout the world Give Us Hope,  joins The Green Divas LIVE in the studio to perform and talk about this great event.  Don’t miss tonight’s magical show!

Thursday, September 10, 2009
7 – 8pm EST
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The Green Divas are thrilled that the kids are back in school . . . I mean thrilled to speak with author, Jodi Helmer about some tips on ‘greening’ the school experience. Jodi writes and blogs on the topic of simple green living and has authored a couple of books, including The Green Year: 365 Small Things You Can do to Make a Big Difference, which has a lot of the material we will be discussing tonight.

Green Dude, Scott Rousseau will be in the house and we’ve got some serious blues with Howlin’ Wolf and my favorite crazy Scotsman, the Proclaimers burned and ready to play.

So, tune in and turn on a friend!

Thursday, September 3, 2009
7 – 8pm EST
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On tonight’s Green Divas radio show, the green divas will be talking to Jeff Yeager, also knows as ‘the Ultimate Cheapskate’.  You may have seen Jeff on NBC’s Today show or read his wonderful book, The Ultimate Cheapskate’s Road Map to True Riches.

We met Mr. Cheapskate down in DC, while sponsoring and playing at the GreenFest back in 2007. He stopped by our booth to talk about how being cheap is green. We loved him, have been corresponding with him since then, and have gotten his book, which is as funny as it is informative.

We were glad to schedule Jeff as he is a very busy cheapskate right now.

Should be an exciting and interesting night with the green divas and Scott Rousseau our resident Green ‘Dude’. So, tune and turn on a friend!

Thursday, August 27, 2009
7 – 8pm EST
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