In preparation for a big Green Press Conference in August 2008, Andrew Mannle, Mike Ratner and Paul Johnston premiered “The Green Radio Show” end of June with a roundtable meeting of Media, experts and grass roots activist.

Because there is a lot of conflicting information, misinformation, and changing information in the green space, the Green Press Conference sees itself as an opportunity to present these issues to mainstream journalists and open a dialogue with journalists to hear their questions and strategies for covering the crucial topics of climate changeClimate change is a lasting change in weather patterns over long periods of time. It can be a natural phenomena and and has occurred on Earth even before people inhabited it. Quite different is a current situation that is also referred to as climate change, anthropogenic climate change, or ..., the energyThe ability to perform work, mainly kinetic, potential, thermal energy, but also in forms of gravitational, sound, elastic and electromagnetic energy. economy and sustainable solutions.

Peter Richards from REEEPThe Renewable Energy & Energy Efficiency Partnership (REEEP) is a non-profit, specialist change agent aiming to catalyse the market for renewable energy and energy efficiency, with a primary focus on emerging markets and developing countries. participated at this press conference and presented REEEP, the Renewable EnergyRenewable energy is power generated from infinite sources, such as wind or solar power. Conventional energy is generated from finite sources, such as natural gas or fossil oil. and Energy EfficiencyUsing less energy/electricity to perform the same function. Programs designed to use electricity more efficiently - doing the same with less. Partnership. He spoke about instituting renewable energy in developing countries and what the developed world can do to help these countries. Peter stressed that we should not only focus on the +5 countries (China, India, Brazil, South Africa, and Mexico) in case of sustainability issues but have a look on other developing countries too.

After his presentation he introduced the STERN-Report to the audience which resulted in a very interesting discussion about several different topics (ie. “green things cost more money”).

See “The green radio show @ IDEOCAST” for further information and the whole lineup oft the cast. You can listen to or download the whole cast there too.