2.10.12: In the latest installment of Ask The Expert, producer Ben Pomeroy visited with Emily Landsburg, CEO of Black Gold Biofuels to learn about the infrastructure scourge and energy potential of used cooking oil’s less glamorous cousin, restaurant grease trap waste. Unlike yellow grease from cooking oil, grease trap waste had no practical applications until Landsburg and her company created one that’s now adding value for towns and cities.

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1.27.12: NNR’s Ben Pomeroy talks in depth with energy policy blogger and NNR contributor Andrew Schenkel about the election-friendly energy agenda laid down by the President in the State of the Union.

12.16.11: Climate negotiators from around the world gathered in Durban, South Africa last week to discuss how the international community might beat back global warming. Though the United Nations Framework on Climate Change summit yielded a consensus to renew the Kyoto Protocol and fund mitigation and adaptation measures in developing nations, heavy hitters like India, China and the U.S are still resistant to the policy framework. To make matters worse, Canada, one of the world’s top ten polluters, dropped out of the Protocol entirely after the conference concluded.

Brad Johnson, editor of the Think Progress Green Blog at the Center for American Progress, talks us through the existential state of affairs over the world’s only climate summit.

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10.12.11: When you hear the term “green collar job”, you most likely think solar panel installer, energy efficiency expert, Tesla car dealer. But there are also companies that on the surface are not branded with the mark of “Green”, but at the core of how they do business or what they hope to achieve, are environmentally progressive.

Producer Makeba Seargeant speaks with Ron Williams, the CEO and Co-Founder of Snap Goods, the peer to peer startup that let’s you use or test out a product, tool or piece of gear for short period of time at a low cost. Think the power drill you need to hang a framed painting or the 15 martini glasses for next Saturday night.

It’s a service that falls under the emerging trends of collaborative consumption and what Ron calls the “access economy” – communities and networks opening up to share resources.

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10.13.11: In the latest installment of Ask the Expert, Treehugger.com contributor, Bonnie Hulkower, shares with us the reasons why flushing those out of date antibiotics or pain killers down the toilet is bad medicine for our waterways. We also learn that you can drop off your unused prescription drugs with the Drug Enforcement Agency through their National Take Back Initiative on October 29th.

And don’t worry, no sideways glances from the Narcs, they just want to properly rid the world of your drugs.

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