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Michael Tiemann — Open Source

Michael Tiemann is Vice President of Open Source Affairs at Red Hat Inc, as well as President of the Open Source Initiative. He used to be the Chief Technical Officer of Red Hat. Michael serves on a number of boards, including the Embedded Linux Consortium, the Jabber Technical Advisory Board, the GNOME Foundation Advisory Board, and the Board of Directors of ActiveState Tool Corp.
Michael Tiemann featured in Revolution OSHe co-founded Cygnus Solutions in 1989. His programming contributions to free software include authorship of the GNU C++ compiler and work on the GNU C compiler and the GNU debugger. Tiemann is featured in the 2001 documentary Revolution OS.

He earned a bachelor’s degree from the Moore School of Engineering in 1986 at the University of Pennsylvania.

Daniel Brezenhoff for Congress

Daniel Brezenoff is running for the Green Party for Congress while at the same time working full time as a social worker.

Daniel Brezenoff has been active in the civil rights, labor, environmental, and peace movements literally since the age of ten. Raised in a family of civil rights, labor, and anti-war activists, he has organized, marched, spoken out publicly and published essays in newspapers about issues of justice, integrity and nonviolence in government and society. He was the founder of Long Beach Citizens for Peace and a principal organizer for Howard Dean’s presidential campaign. Daniel has worked on several national and local political campaigns for progressive Democratic, left-Libertarian and Green candidates.

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Taking the Message to FaceBook

On this week’s show we talk with Dan Grice, who is working hard to spread the Green message on FaceBook and has created a badge that enables people to choose their political affiliation as Green. A lot better than ‘other’.

Important Lessons Learned from the Hong Kong Transit System

We will also be talking with Stephen Sit, who shares his observations of the transit system in Hong Kong when he visited in early June. His observations are especially relevant since he has over 25 years of transit planning experience.

Stephen Sit discusses the relationship between public transit, urban density and it’s impact upon urban planning and the implications for car-dependant cities in North America.

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Achieving Global Government — A Conversation with Adrienne Carr

Adrienne Carr is the former Leader of the Green Party of British Columbia and current Deputy Leader of the Green Party of Canada. Back in April 2007, she was the Green Party representative for the opening of the movement to create a United Nations Parliamentry Assembly.

This assembly wants to create a parliament where each country will eventually send elected parliamentarians to represent all the peoples of the world.

Building Bridges with Business: A Conversation with Erich Jacoby-Hawkins

Erich Jacoby-Hawkins moved to close the gap between the Green Party and local businesses by encouraging his Electoral District Association to join the Greater Barrie Chamber of Commerce.

Listen to his reasons why not only should Green EDAs join their local Chamber of Commerce, but why Greens are ethically obligated to do so. Greens must realize that business forms an integral part of the sustainability solution.

You can read about Erich’s contributions and success by clicking this link.

Green Party and Airwolf: An Artistic Connection

Ernie Cline is one of my favorite beat poets. Once, while listening to his poem, Airwolf, I came to the understanding that that is what I wanted the Green Party to be: Airwolf.

Listen to his performance and tell me: how can we make the Green Party Airwolf?

You can hear more of Ernie Cline’s poetry by clicking this link.

If you’re too young to remember, Airwolf was a show from the ’80s:

http://youtube.com/watch?v=gH1WxcHCS74

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Theresa Howland, Vice President of Bullfrog Power, who has set up shop in Alberta to help market wind power. We talk about the opportunities and risks associated with alternative energy.

Bullfrog Power is also the first Green Business that we have profiled on GreenerPolitics.com.  If you know of any businesses that you would like people to know about, tell us in the forum.

In recognition of these folks comin’ to Alberta, we’ve dedicated the country & western song Ride just like the Wind by the Blind Side Band.

Best of luck in your future endeavors!

On October 20th, the Green Party of British Columbia will be voting for a new leader.

Interrim Leader Christopher Ian Bennett shares his thoughts on how the race is shaping up. He also shares his ideas on what he thinks needs to happen for the Green Party to win a seat in the next election.

We also talked about the possibility of interviewing the leadership hopefuls on GP Radio and maybe even staging a Leader’s debate.  If these are things you want to hear, let us know in the forum.

Unfortunately, the first part of our interview was damaged due to a problem with our connection.

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Frank De Jong is the Leader of the Green Party of Ontario and, more recently, a plaintiff in a court case against the Attorney General of Ontario. He wants to get back the money retained by Elections Ontario, an act deemed unconstitutional by the Federal Court of Ontario last year.

That money will come in handy for an upcoming election on October 10, where not only will they be running a full slate of candidates, they will be promoting electoral reform to a mixed member proportional representation system.

Also, our political forum discusses the Green Party of Canada’s new Carbon Tax proposal and all things Green.