Rock It Green: 'Eco-Friendly' Radio Program
We will bring stories that make a difference, that help fight climate change and pollution around the world, and support approaches that will make life more sustainable for people and our planet, our future.
What other platforms can you listen to Rock It Green Radio?
Water!
Host Antonio Saillant and Richard Solomon interview Heather A. Kollar, CEO, h2ocleanse, LLC. h2ocleanse’s mission is simply to save our water by educating people and helping them make the best choices when it comes to water. For more information visit: h2ocleanse.com/
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The Intersection of Green and Sports
Host Antonio Saillant and Richard Solomon interview green sportswriter Lew Blaustein who is on mission to push greening in sports. The launch of GreenSportsBlog (greensportsblog.com), he has educated a loyal and growing audience of subscribers, including sports commissioners, team and governing body executives, and CEOs around the world about the burgeoning green and sustainability initiatives within the world of sports and the power they have to effect positive change for our environment.
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The Ocean as a Resource for Plastic Reversal
Richard Solomon and Antonio Saillant interviews, Founder of UpGyres, José Luis Gutiérrez-García for an in-depth discussion on solutions to marine plastic pollution, which Gutiérrez-García asserted is killing sea life and poses a danger to human health. UpGyres plans to collect plastic in the oceans and convert it into crude oil and other resources. Is it true that “millions of barrels of oil” could be produced from plastic in the oceans? Let’s take a listen to this amazing episode, ‘THE OCEAN AS A RESOURCE FOR PLASTIC REVERSAL.’ For more information about UpGyres, Visit upgyres.org/
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Episode Special: Maple Sap Seltzer
Richard Solomon Host from Rock It Green Radio and TCBRadio visits Summer Fancy Food Show and finds Maple Sap Seltzer. Listen to this amazing short interview. During the maple sap season in Vermont (March/April), Charles Smith is busy creating Maple Sap Seltzer and other products harvested from the maple tree. As you will hear during the tasting section of the interview, the seltzer tastes "clean" and is refreshing. On an environmental note, the company uses 4 pack carrier rings made from recycled plastic which is eco-friendly. For more information, please visit sapmaplewater.com
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Episode Special: The Miracle Tree, Moringa!
Rock It Green Radio Host, Richard Solomon visits the Specialty Food Show NYC 2017 and interviews - Moringa! According to www.miracletree.co, "Moringa is widely regarded as one of the most nutrient-dense plants on the planet and is known worldwide as the Miracle Tree. Studies show that Moringa leaves contain more than 90 different nutrients, including 47 antioxidants and all 9 essential amino acids. Moringa leaves have been used in traditional medicine passed down for centuries in many cultures including the Egyptians and Romans." (See www.miracletree.co) So we tried it at the show and asked about the origins of moringa and about the Miracle Tree Company.
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Saving Elephants One Kid at a TimeAntonio Saillant and Richard Solomon interview Taegen Yardley, who became passionate about saving elephants in 2014. Taegen of “Young Voices for Wildlife” discuss How she Hopes to have her voice, and the voices of other passionate young people, heard, and to create awareness about the crisis our planet’s beautiful creatures are facing.
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Professor Hugh Sealy - Climate Change from the Caribbean Perspective
Dr. Hugh Sealy. Hugh is one of the lead negotiators for the small island states -- the countries that are most at risk from rising sea levels and catastrophic weather patterns caused by climate change. He participated in negotiations at COP22 in Morocco in November 2016 and at the big COP21 conference in Paris in 2015, which led to the Paris agreement.
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One More Generation – How Two Kids Are Saving Our PlanetOne More Generation (OMG) was founded in 2009 by 8 year old Carter and 7 year old Olivia. Carter and his Sister Olivia are both extremely passionate about animals and conservation. Following the adoption of Cheetahs in South Africa, Carter and Olivia began to question why humans would need to adopt wild animals like the cheetah. Carter and Olivia soon learned of the pressing issues surrounding endangered species, and knew they had to act.
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Chris Moorman, Rubicon AG’ The AgroboxAntonio Saillant and Richard Solomon discuss with CEO Chris Moorman of Rubicon Agriculture, an Indiana-based agricultural manufacturing company whose flagship product, the AgroBox, an automated hydroponic growing facility built inside of an upcycled 40' shipping container. By combining state of the art manufacturing controls automation to the growing process, Rubicon has designed a climate controlled manufacturing facility capable of growing nutritious, hyperlocal produce year-round in the neighborhoods where it is consumed, independent of the vagaries of the weather. In a US fresh produce system that gets more than 50% of all produce and 82% of all fresh greens from a systemically water deficient California, this is an industry trend combining with a climate trend, and Rubicon Ag stands ready to take advantage.
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Linda Booker’s Last StrawAntonio Saillant and Richard Solomon discuss with documentary filmmaker, Linda Booker's "Straws" film. The film aims to entertain and inspire action by showing how individuals, groups and business owners around the globe are working to rid plastic straws through awareness, outreach and policy change. "Together we can make a sea of change one plastic straw at a time."
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Amy Greeson, Healing Seekers' The Medicine Hunter
Rock It Green Radio will kick off with Amy Greeson, Healing Seekers’ The Medicine Hunter,Founder and Executive Director with Antonio Saillant and co-hosts Richard Solomon and Susan Sachs [www.susansachsacupuncture.com].
Many of us don’t realize how modern medicine is closely joined with traditional healing practices in remote communities . Amy Greeson began the project in 2006 when she realized that with the destruction of forest and other habitat around the world, we were also potentially losing countless species of plants and animals which had much to offer humanity by way of medical cures and solutions. So she began traveling the world with teams of researchers, collecting material from communities, forming partnerships with similar minded organizations and spreading the word about saving threatened places, people and knowledge. |
Rock It Green Radio PromoThis is the beginning of the Rock It Green Radio Promo which Antonio Saillant meets Richard Solomon. Film production is dramatically changing. Antonio Saillant details the current and future efforts to capture "sustainability" on a film set in this interview with Richard Solomon.
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