Previous Shows
Impact with John Shegerian produces new episodes every week. Visit regularly to explore our archive of past conversations below.
November 26, 2010
Greening Northern NJ with Meadowlands Commission’s Debbie Lawlor
Debbie Lawlor, New Jersey Meadowlands Commission Chief Sustainability Officer, helps to control the zoning and planning of the Meadowlands region of northern New Jersey, less than 10 miles west of New York City. Lawlor’s background is in sustainable regional planning. In 2006, she helped to implement green-building guidelines with incentivized zoning. “The Meadowlands likes to […]
November 26, 2010
Training and Advising Green Business in France with Entreprendre Vert’s Frédéric Benhaim
Frédéric Benhaim, a self-proclaimed “eco-nerd,” speaks to John and Mike from Paris. Benhaim co-founded the nonprofit company Entreprendre Vert, a 250-member green entrepreneur organization. “[When I was young,] I saw this green business movement start to pick up,” Benhaim recalls. “When we started out in 2005, I was 22, and I was really passionate in […]
November 19, 2010
Setting the Green Hotel Example with Hotel Gavarni’s Xavier Moraga
When Xavier Moraga began working at Paris’ upscale boutique Hotel Gavarni, he immediately began conceptualizing ways to green the legacy hotel. Today, the hotel is the first independent hotel in Paris to receive the European Ecolabel, a strict certification award for the greenest hotels in Europe. Moraga was inspired to green his workplace following a […]
November 19, 2010
Reducing Corporate Energy Footprints with Yahoo!’s Christina Page
Christina Page, Director of Climate and Energy Strategy at Yahoo!, is tasked with reducing the footprint of a website network that serves more than 600 million users. “We really ‘walk the talk’ as much as we possibly can,” Page says. “Yahoo! Green is the number one green-content website on the Web right now. There is […]
November 17, 2010
Nourishing and Conserving with Campbell’s Dave Stangis
Dave Stangis is trying to reduce Campbell's impact without sacrificing the soup brand's scope.
November 15, 2010
Looking Back at 40 Years of Environmentalism with NRDC’s John & Patricia Adams
John and Patricia Adams reminisce about their beginnings in 1970 and how they felt they were living in a time of change — there were serious issues affecting the health of our environment even then.
November 5, 2010
Capturing the Plastic Bag Reduction Story with ‘Bag It’ Filmmakers Suzan Beraza and Jeb Berrier
Suzan Beraza, a documentary filmmaker, began research for a short documentary on plastic bag reduction in small Colorado towns before her findings quickly snowballed into the concept for Bag It, an award-winning film now working through the film festival circuit. Jeb Berrier, the “everyman” whose tale of plastic exploration the film follows, admitted not really […]
October 29, 2010
Greening the Insulation Industry with Owens Corning’s Joe Arrigo
Joe Arrigo, the Building Science Leader for Owens Corning, visits “Green is Good” to discuss the iconic building materials company’s new eco-projects. Owens Corning is the original manufacturer of Fiberglas, the insulation material used in millions of homes worldwide. Arrigo points out that Fiberglas pays for itself 12 times over in the first year following […]
October 29, 2010
Discussing the Hollywood Greening Process with Eco Consulting * Eco Media’s Paige Donner
Paige Donner wears many eco-hats: humanitarian, filmmaker, journalist, founder of the Green Blog Network and more. While Donner is based in Los Angeles, she travels all over the globe, investigating how the media conveys eco-news and awareness. “We’re all together on this planet,” Donner says. “[We share] more similarities than differences. It’s not that you […]
October 22, 2010
Stressing the Collective Effort with Green is Sexy’s Megan Kuhlmann
Megan Kuhlmann started GreenIsSexy.org after conspiring with two friends about what could be done to spread eco-awareness to the public. The site, online for three years now, provides new eco-tips every day to help viewers in their day-to-day lives. Kuhlmann feels that many small changes can add up to large results. “It’s not corny, it’s […]
October 22, 2010
Talking All-Natural Plasters with American Clay’s Carol Baumgartel and Croft Elsaesser
Carol Baumgartel and Croft Elsaesser and are the mother-and-son team at American Clay, based in New Mexico. Elsaesser had been working with plasters for years as a finisher on building projects, but was feeling the negative effects of the toxins within these products. An all-natural solution became his #1 goal. Baumgartel, who has a fine […]
October 15, 2010
Discussing Green Human Rights and Animal Welfare with Care2’s Randy Paynter
Care2.com founder Randy Paynter started his online community in 1998, and it is now the largest online community of users — more than 14 million — focusing on living green and making a difference in the areas of human rights and animal welfare. “I had the feeling that people didn’t believe there was anything they […]
