Out guest this week: Dr. Thomas Princen, winner of the International Studies Association 2007 award for his latest book the The Logic of Sufficiency (2005) - the “best book for the study of international environmental problems.”  Commited to intellectual exporation, historical grounding and active learning, Dr. Princen shares his insights on the need for “localization,” “sufficiency” and “appropriately placed buzzwords.”

Learn more about Dr. Princen here.

Pick up The Logic of Sufficiency in Ann Arbor at Shaman Drum, or online used or through Amazon. While there, have a look at his other books… restraint in consumption, not in thinking.

In other news…

• This just in - size matters, so keep your kids away from harmful plastics!
• Politics and the dinner table.
• Keep your cold old growth free!  Here’s how.
• Ecuador grants constitutional rights to… nature
• Making jet fuel from canola, coconuts, soybeans, palm tree oil, algae and other things we’d rather you not make jet fuel out of.
• Economic Sufficiency. It’ll keep you alive.

Something pity to look at, Emptied Oceans, a short from Randy Olson and Shifting Baselines:

Al Gore’s staid and sober advice:

Our audio extract:

Full: transcript, audio, video.

Science Mag on ITQs to save fisheries forever.

Climate-change driven beetle outbreak driving climate change

Scientist hear’s the ticking of the methane time bomb.

African hunger blamed on Western organic trends.

Canada hopes the US will take it’s eye off the dirty-oil ball.

Join us for top enviro headlines, a few musical biscuits and candid, contentious and contentious chat about the upcoming election and your candidate’s stance on important environmental issues.  Special guests and special music guaranteed.

Vitrually Visit

• The Obama Campaign
• The McCain Camp
• LCV.org’s Scorecard
• Pew Forum’s Overview
• Pretend you’re Canadian: calculate your green tax shift pay-out.

And a few non-electoral chasers:

Peter Schwartz from Global Business Network burning down peak oil

Peter Schwartz on climate change:

Stephen Colbert burning down Global Business Network and the arctic generally:

Musical legend for Obama, some music we didn’t get to:

• Two extra special guest, Dr’s Ezekiel Kalipeni and Mark Wilson discuss their work exploring the linkages between environment and human health around the globe, but particularly in Africa. Check their impressive credentials:
  • Dr. Ezekiel Kalipeni
  • Mark Wilson
• Big News This Week: Oil, Hurricanes and Rebels
  • Ike shuts down major U.S. crude oil ports
  • And could yield West Nile and other health effects (warning: Fox News)
  • Nigerian militants declare oil war in Delta
  • Chad plays down World Bank exit from oil accord
  • Malawi goes against the “grain” with positive (and some mixed) results!
    • Subsidies help farmers
    • Bans private sale of maize
    • Promotes irrigation
• Congress-Woman Melinda Jackson Parker, Free Downloads to Cousin Mosquito #1 AND #2! http://www.last.fm/music/Congress-Woman+Malinda+Jackson+Parker
• Sustainable fish of the week! US Farmed Tilapia!!
• Antarctic Winter Ice Gets Bigger, Arctic Ice Still Shrinking
• New Music From Malawi
• Enviro/Human Health Info and Stats
  • WHO on Global Environmental Change: http://www.who.int/globalchange/en/
  • CDC: National Center for Health Statistics: http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/fastats/Default.htm
  • Aviva’s Top 6 Bad Enviro Health Impacts of Chemical Pollution: http://thebirdsandthepcbs.blogspot.com/
  • Environmental Health News: http://www.environmentalhealthnews.org
  • NOAA
  • Human Health at USGS

Join us next week for our “Run for President, but Don’t Ruin My Planet” edition of IHIH where we digest and discuss each candidates stance on key environmental issues!

Join us for groovy jams, news spannin’ the continent, and VERY special guests Rebecca Hardin, Professor of Anthropology and Natural Resources at UM AND our very own Washington correspondent/SNRE success story, Kerry Duggan.

This just in: WCBN Saves Lives, half of the world’s population are women and people eat food!

To learn more about the exceptionally eloquent, devastatingly funny, and dangerously toasty Rebecca Hardin and read of her many multi-media-tic, multi-sited, multi-disciplinary endeavors check out her site.

To stay on top of your Congress-peeps toes, check out LCV.org for all things environmental and opensecrets.org to find out where your Reps get their ca$h.

A few links to today’s content. Feel free to post any related articles/sweet dance vids YOU may find in the comments section!

Banjuka (tu) by DNA, blazing up the pool halls and discotheques of E. Africa.

The Economist calls for radical solutions to the earth’s food crisis.

The Stern Review

National Geographic series on Africa. Check it out here and do let us know if it’s in the AskWith:

Get the freshest news from the Continent @ AllAfrica.com. For enviro specific news head here.

It got so hot in here today we forgot to announce the sustainable fish of the week, sooo take your pick here.

Wow, Tuesday was Earthday - it felt just like any other day. Sorry Mother Earth, we really blew it. I hope you weren’t expecting organic flowers or fair trade chocolates. We’ll try harder next year, we promise.

This is good bye for now to our regularly scheduled time slot, but do check back for irregularly timed shows featuring Gwen, DJ. Who, K. Duggz and the good Dr. Hardin.

Banjuka (tu) by DNA, blazing up the pool halls and discotheques of E. Africa:

• U.N. Panel calls for less oily agriculture production, local seeds and natural fertilizers to ” avoid a social explosion from rising food prices.”
• MI Statehouse passes “Bipartisan Energy Plan to Create Jobs and Lower Costs” (Thanks to MI LCV for keepin’ us abreast on this breaking issue!)
• The blog discussion on the Laws of the Sea: Was the Farley Mowat in International Waters?
• Fish Heads, Fish Heads, eat them up, yum!
• We’ve come full circle people - Eat low, grow your own food, and embrace and deconstruct the linkages in your interrelated-interconnected world.

It was exxxtra hot in here today….

The It’s Hot in Here team, with special guest Kevin Merrill, Communications Director for the School of Natural Resources and Environment, revelled in an SNRE Love-Fest - but don’t worry - we used sustainable protection (for real).

• Check out the Food Systems Economic Partnership for more details on sustainable foods or those cutting edge sisters of the cloth.
• Olfactory-licious dogs, not just for drugs anymore
• (Another) Sustainable Bi-Valve of the week
• The University of Michigan Rocks (100 dollars please), but seriously, it’s true:
  • Cutting edge research and Eco-Events Galore.
• Special Guest Kevin Merrill shares his smooth radio voice and astute insight into the necessary nuances of effective communication strategies.
• SNRE Dean Rosina Bierbaum, Nobel Laureate, Climate Change Expert, and Science advisor to the Stars (a Dean so hot even Alec Baldwin couldn’t get a date) to direct the new World Bank’s World Development Report, the first ever focused on climate and development! Bam! This is a major honor and opportunity for SNRE and the University! (Checks can be sent to It’s Hot in Here @ 2050 When the Polar Ice Caps are Completely Gone, Ann Arbor, MI 4810-HOTT) We’ll keep you updated!
• Kerry Duggan, our “Washington Correspondent” with LCV.org in your nation’s capital announces the newest member of the dirrrty dozen.
• “The Spy who Greened Me” upcoming James Bond film Quantum of Solace features the usual awesomeness and a green-washing villan!!!!

Join us next week for a very special “classes are over let’s get radical” edition of It’s Hot in Here with SPECIAL GUEST, SNRE’s very own, environmental philosopher Dean Bavington. Warm up with his very own episode on the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation’s show Ideas (a series so good it made Hugo into the brilliant thinker he is today), where Dean discusses the role of science in the rise and fall of the Newfoundland Cod Fishery. Listen here and learn.

Gina Ginason, Hugh-go “I Rock the Mic’s” Stimson and special guest Alex Sergay overcompensate for Gwen’s absence today on the fourth ever It’s Hot in Here.

This just in:

• Don’t Tase Me Man: Protesters arrested and tased after locking themselves to bulldozers at a Duke Energy coal plant in North Carolina on Tuesday. More details here.
• Polar bear ventures too far in land to escape the ravages of climate change, gets shot by hunters in “self defense” thinking its a grizzly bear…if only the poor animals knew how to read the animal migration road signs… Check it.
  • Too depressing for you: shoot your very own Polar Bear to ease the pain!
    1 part vodka, 1 part chilled peppermint schnapps, 1 dash crushed ice: Shake schnapps and vodka together until well-mixed. Add crushed ice, shake lightly, then pour to shot glasses. Delish.
• Oil Exec’s wine like babies for access to ANWR, despite record profits. More details here.
• LCV Dirty Dozen, get the word out and learn about Michigan’s own diiirrrrrrtyyy Congressman Joe Knollenberg, who helped get a law banning the USEPA from ever holding informational sessions on climate change for the public. I think I could use a polar bear shot….
• Join the greenest people in the Mitten and surrounding sweet smelling states at Ann Arbor’s own Hash Bash this Saturday from 12-1 on the UM diag. Learn more about the reason for the season, the arrest of John Sinclair and his sentence to ten years in jail for two measly joints. Check out John Lennon and Yoko Ono in some era-appropriate hot pink t’s doing the original version of their tune John Sinclair at the Free John Sinclair Rally at the Big House in 1971.
• For more on the Shafer Commission (that recommended decriminalizing marijuana in 1972, and subsequently ignored by Nixon) and the craziness surrounding the U.S. MJ laws, check out this short format docu, The Color Green
• And if you didn’t get enough green tunes, check out all the ones I hoped to play.

Join us next week for all the environmental news that’s fit to hear.

Right arm earth lovers,

Gina

Very special It’s Hot in Here today! Mrs. Ginason (AKA Jayanna Lee Johnson), fabulous mother of three, woman of the world and 2nd grade teacher from Medina, Ohio joins us to chat about how students impact parental environmental decision making. Mrs. Ginason has taught over 1,200 young people (and countless parents) how to be good people, avoid disposable cups and learn to quell their “Thneeds”

• “Norm-like” Mayor of Curitiba, Brazil goes against the grain and the man with amazing results! link
• Check out and attend the Food System Economic Partnership Conference on April 3r. Come to see the most sustainably rockin’ nuns on the planet, stay for the local foods. More info here: link
• Soon, fish will be trained to catch themselves. It’s expected that within a decade, they’ll be able to coat themselves in batter and hop right into the fryer! link
• While at IHIH, we strongly recommend regulatin’ your own heat the ol’ fashioned way, do check out what Ohio Edison is doing to conserve energy at peak times in Ohio! We’ve got one at the Ginason house and if you live in Ohio, you can too! Mr. Ginason reports on the newest thermostatic innovation:, but you can get more details here.
• Mrs. Ginason recommends that we all check out the Dr. Seuss book, The Lorax, for a nice reminder of why rampant consumerism, and “Thneeds” are just bad news! Here’s a video rendition here.
• Sustinable fish of the week: Mahi Mahi (aka Dolphin Fish) Make sure it’s US caught and you’re free to dine deliciously and safely! More details here.
• Last, but never least, Kerry Duggan of Washington, DC League of Conservation Voters joins us in pre-recorded form - thanks much to Jay, her Communications Director for helpin’ us out! We’re sorry we couldn’t play the whole expertly recorded and informative segment, but do check it out, it’s posted here and full of great info on LCV’s Senate work, the DIIRRRRTY Dozen and your “homework” assignment for the week!

Kerry Duggan/League of Conservation Voters: audio

Don’t forget to join us next week on 4-3 @ 12:00 PM EST live for a special stickin’ it to the man episode, where we’ll try to dig up Ann Arbors radical roots and rekindle our earthy fire!

Have fun heatin’ things up and see you next week,

Gwen Hetfield, The Hugo-it’s not all for naught, and “The Ginason’s”

This week:

• An interview with Kerry Duggan from the League of Conservation Voters about the environmental voting record of the presidential candidates.
• The coming of spring and the deterioration of ecological synchronaeity.
• Sustainable fish of the week: striped bass.
• Audio that cuts in and out on the right channel.
• Former snerd putting it to the man at the ECO:nomics conference.
• Some other substantive things.

After last week’s guerilla episode we’ve received the official go-ahead from station official go-aheaders. A new era in environmentally themed college talk radio with an emphasis on soul and R&B is born.

Here’s just the part with Kerry Duggan:

Here’s the video of Brihannala Morgan of the Rainforest Action Network rising to speak at ECO:nomics:

Archer Daniels on the Hotseat

And some good coverage from the Santa Barbara Independent:

Activists Infiltrate ECO:nomics, Briefly

Today’s show is a bit of a strange beast. In addition to the usual tunes, about half of it was dedicated to a pilot episode of what might become a regular environmental-themed current events/talky talk show. I asked a couple of friends if they wanted to come on the air, and a few days later they announced that they had worked out a whole show. They’re calling it “It’s Hot in Here”. I kind of like the idea of “producing” a talk show, and it gives me a chance to make unhelpful quips while they try to do something useful and interesting. So we’ll pitch it to the station execs and see. If it flys, I’ll still be doing the regular show, just an hour shorter.

I feel like we managed to fit a tonne of good music in there anyhow. The stretch from Fred Eaglesmith to John Vanderslice felt downright blessed. (Not bad, given that our chief engineer was ripping and tearing at the patch cords trying to figure out why one of the CD decks was failing at the time.) And Jen, or Gina, or whatever the hell she’s calling herself (what’s up with these dj’s with ambiguous names?) has pretty ace taste in music to play in between the talky talk, so it all adds up pretty well. I had never heard that Rahsaan Roland Kirk song. Good stuff.