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Alan Durning

Green-Collar Jobs

Alan Durning, executive director of Northwest Environment Watch and author of the book Green-Collar Jobs: Working in the New Northwest, discusses the impact of this new economy with host Steve Curwood. The rise in green-color jobs has bolstered local economies which were threatened by the loss of traditional resource extraction jobs. But it has also […]

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Green Refund

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Tax Code Greening Idea

THIS PLACE ON EARTH

This Place on Earth

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Curbside Voter Registration

Commentator Alan Durning thinks out loud about some practical ways voter registration might be made easier for green voters in his native Seattle.

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Dreaming of Coffee

Commentator Alan Durning had a kind of dream about the negative global impacts of his coffee drinking addiction, and he has given it up for locally grown herb tea. Experience this aural epiphany.

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Giving Thanks for the Lichens

Commentator Alan Durning shares his appreciation for not just the small, but the tiny things in life that we have to be thankful for this and every holiday season.

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He’s Met The Enemy, and it is Us

Commentator Alan Durning’s image of the population problem changed when he started acquiring stuff for his new baby.

Will Wonders Never Cease?

We follow up on listener line comments in response to Alan Durning’s piece on the “Seven Sustainable Wonders of the World.”