1. WomenMatter - Facts and Trade-Offs - Oil and Energy: What Choices Do We Really Have? This show highlights the critical facts citizens need to know in order to judge the trade-offs of the many policies and practices recommended to solve the problem of the coming shortage of oil and natural gas. WomenMatter points out the already existing global connections, the technology now and in the future, and the critical timetable for personal and political action. Politicians may be afraid to tell us the details. We learn how to decide for ourselves.
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2. Intro: Dr. Nancy Bauer, CEO and Editor-in Chief of WomenMatter, asks Professor Linda E. Jones, Director of the Picker Engineering Program at Smith College to pinpoint how we can learn to pose the problem of energy supply in the form of a question that opens up creative and workable action, rather than looking at bits and pieces of disconnected information that lead to fragments of decision-making. How different this is from high school science and math where all the problems already have right answers.
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3. Interview with Paul Krugman, Professor of Economics and International Affairs at the Woodrow Wilson School at Princeton University. In what ways are our personal choices about using energy already tied to the lives of other people around the world and nations that have goals of their own? What can we expect from private investment and public tax policy? How do war and diplomacy among nations affect the solutions to the coming energy crisis and our quality of life?
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4. Interview with Dr. Marilyn Brown, Director of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy Program of the Oak Ridge National Laboratory in Tennessee. What are the real choices we have in applying science to public and private investments in a variety of energy sources - hydro, nuclear, wind, solar? What are efficient uses of energy that can waste less and cost less in the long run? How must we think about the time and money it takes to make the right decisions?
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5. Dr. Bauer and Dr. Jones focus on what we learned from Katrina and from our understanding of China about oil and gas supplies and the demand for energy. Why we must make sure our legislators do not pretend that it is just about jobs and the price of gas. How we must let them know that we understand science, engineering, and the cultural and political framing of the responsible choices we must trust ourselves to make.
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