What we buy individually is small potatoes beside the quantities purchased by large firms and governments. Little noticed by the rest of us, the market for green products is being decisively boosted by the deliberate choices of city governments, universities, hospitals, and corporations. Filling the supply chain with "green" products can benefit both the environment and the bottom line.

This program was funded by The Park Foundation.

Guests: 
Chris Geiger Ph.D, Environmentally Preferable Purchasing, and Integrated Pest Management for the City of San Francisco's Department of the Environment
Gary Cohen, Founder and Co-Executive Director of Health Care without Harm. He is also Executive Director of the Environmental Health Fund
Dean Edwards, Vice President and Chief Procurement Officer, Kaiser Permanente
Dr. David Walinga , Director, Food and Health Program, Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy

(Click on a guest's name to listen to their full unedited interview.)

Credits: 

Host: Mark Sommer
Senior Producer: Gregg McVicar
Associate Producers: Naihma Deady, Matt Fidler
Production Engineer: Michael Schwartz
Field Engineers: Dave Goodman, P.Scott Cuddy, Cyrus Farivar

Music in this program: Open - "Take Your Partner By The Hand (Featuring Robbie Robertson)" remixed by Howie B - Polygram Records; "Fizzy in My Mouth/Your Mouth" by Howie B - Polygram Records; "A United Earth I" by Alan Stivell and Youssou N'Dour - Putumayo World Music; "Green Green" by The New Christy Minstrels - Sony Records; "Banal Reality" by Sasha Crnobrnja - Putumayo World Music; "Wash Your Spirit Clean" by Walela - Triloka Records

Duration: 55:00 minutes

Original airdate: 
Tue, 2008-10-21

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