Josh Dorfman interviews Eva Otto – Real Estate Agent and Partner in Green Works Realty, the first real estate firm in the United States to specialize in healthy green homes, community-focused developments, and innovative properties.

Also on hand to discuss Green Building is Bob Sisum, Director of Builder Programs at Lakewood Ranch in Bradenton, Florida and Board Member of the National Association of Home Builders. Lakewood Ranch is one of the largest and most successful green residential developments in the country situated on 38,000 acres involving over 20 home builders. 600 homes have already been built to green specifications with many more on the way.

Josh Dorfman interviews Frank Morris, Principal of Ecologic Advisors, an investment firm specializing in environmental investing, and developer of the Earth Index tracking publicly traded companies that provide solutions to environmental pollution.

During the last half of the show, Josh chats with Ed Guinness Financial Manager for Guinness Atkinson Funds, a global provider of no-load mutual funds for investors interested in capitalizing on innovation and profound change. Guinness Atkinson recently introduced its Alternative Energy Fund.

At the end of September, I was in San Francisco to attend West Coast Green, the largest green residential building conference and exhibition in the United States. The conference boasted authoritative speakers on topics ranging from green architecture and building to kitchen remodeling and interior decorating. It also included a stirring and fiery speech by Robert Kennedy, Jr., lambasting the Bush administration and its corporate task masters for the roll-back of environmental laws and the indefensibly weak-kneed media that has lapsed in its civic duty to inform the public about matters that greatly affect our democracy, society, and environment. Yet, while vehement in his condemnation of corporate meddling in governmental affairs, Kennedy offered the refreshing viewpoint that businesses, operating within fully functioning free markets, can and will play key roles in creating long-lasting solutions to the environmental challenges we face. A good number of those solutions were on display throughout the three day event.

Terri Trespicio - Associate Editor of Body & Soul Magazine, dedicated to giving readers the tools they need to keep body and soul together as they live their natural, active, informed, and balanced whole lives, and Host of the Body & Soul Hour on Martha Stewart Living Radio.

On this weeks Lazy Environmentalist, Josh interviews the following participants in the Eco Festival:

Josh Dorfman interviews Frank Morris, Principal of Ecologic Advisors, an investment firm specializing in environmental investing, and developer of the EARTH INDEX tracking publicly traded companies that provide solutions to environmental pollution.

During the last half of the show, Josh chats with Ed Guinness Financial Manager for Guinness Atkinson Funds, a global provider of no-load mutual funds for investors interested in capitalizing on innovation and profound change. Guinness Atkinson recently introduced its Alternative Energy Fund.

Lazy Environmentalist Josh Dorfman talks with David Ghodussi & Jim Pearsall about ecological car care products and the cordless electric lawn mower.