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WhatsOnMyFood.org
FoodMed.org

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SNRE’s own recently minted M.S. and MBA Devon Treece schools us on the history and future of carbon trading.

From factories in the Rust Belt to forests in the Amazon, from acid rain to potential global gain we learn how we got where are and contemplate where we need to be.

Music = a Caribbean twist on American soul.

As always, with exxxtra special guests (so special, we’re not even sure they can make it)!

LCV.org keeps us up to date as usual, like telling us who in congress to contact regarding Clean Energy.

Carbon Caps = Hard Hats

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Exxxtra special Earth Week Edition: It’s Hot in Here.

This week we get real drrrty with “clean coal.” From the scene (i.e., mostly the bar) of last week’s Proposed Bay City Coal Plant hearing, we take you on a carbon filled journey through time and space. Interviews recorded from the hearing as well as live interviews with some State of Michigan Sierra Club folks, and an activist from coal extraction state West Virginia.

Joining us in the studio again is class act[ivist] Andrew Munn.

News coverage of the hearing.

Take Action: CleanEnergyNowMI.org or MIPowerShift.org.

Union brothers and sisters (co-hosts are part of the GEO and LEO unions)… rest assured we are in favor of jobs, but we want them to be stable, long-term, sustainable jobs… like these skilled trades millwrights, carpenters, electricians, quality assurance managers, plant managers, customer care, and engineers jobs coming to Michigan at a wind turbine factory.

Also, check out the state sponsored conference on May 11th Green Today, Jobs Tomorrow.

By the end of the show we decided to stop using the word clean in front of coal, even in quotes, as ThisIsReality.org campaign suggests.

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Appropriate Technology Collaborative (ATC) joins us in the studio… More specifically, we are joined by John Barrie (the Executive Director), Ben Connor Barrie (Special Projects Manager aka “Special Ops”), and Jeff Tenza (volunteer engineer). ATC is a non-profit organization based out of Ann Arbor, Michigan whose purpose is “To design, develop, demonstrate and distribute appropriate technological solutions for meeting the basic human needs of low income people in the developing world.” We hear about their operations, their recent trip to Guatemala, and some of their exciting design ideas.

More info:
Appropriate Technology Collaborative (ATC) website
Appropriate Technology Collaborative (ATC) blog
Sustainable Design Update (SDU)
SDU-Ann Arbor

Additionally…
Get on the bus to Bay City Coal Plant protest.
GROCS 09 Exhibition at the Dude(rstadt).

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Today we take a journey through the Caribbean as we discuss how the region is responding to both long-term and immediate climatic hazards.

Joining us in the studio is Dr. Emma Tompkins, University of Leeds, School of Earth and Environment. She is a prolific author and much research that looks at current societal responses to natural disasters in order to anticipate climate change adaptation. Some of her other interests include: sustainable adaptation to climate change; climate change decision making; scales of governance in enabling and constraining climate change responses; identifying the psychological, social and cultural and economic limits to adaptation.

News

Ice bridge ruptures in Antarctica, adding to fears that it’s worse than scientists had thought.

Climate is the loser at the G20 meeting, but optimism abound for transforming lemons into a 100% natural and fresh squeezed lemon drink through a so-called “green New Deal.” It’s creative destruction.

Takin’ it to the streets: Coal protests in Bay City, MI.

Small islands are livid, and you would be too if your home was slowly drowning.  The Alliance of Small Island States pleads for action from the world.

Thresholds

Algae sucks.  Trophic cascade due to human overfishing and climate pressures has led to the collapse of our pristine Caribbean reefs.  First the sea urchins reigned, but even they couldn’t compete with the tenacious resiliency of brown algae.  See more detail from the Resilience Alliance.

Fish

Don’t eat grouper.  Ever.

Musical Stuff

A digital tour through the bins of long forgotten Caribbean grooves, including Mighty Sparrow, the Professionals, Grupo Ikare…

May I reccommend this fine series of compilations from Numero Group? – pure solid gold jams (and the source of 4 of today’s songs)!

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Yes I did. it's your turn now.

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Join us as Gina G, Shannon B and OR Johns heat things up with two exxxtra special guests.

Lisa Anne Richey Associate Professor of Development Studies in the Department of Society and Globalisation (yes,  that’s Globalization with an S) at Roskilde University in Denmark and author of Population Politics and Development: From the Policies to the Clinics schools us on the politics of our “population problem.”

John Perkins, NY Times bestselling author of Confessions of an Economic Hit Man and the Secret History of the American Empire heat up the WCBN studios. Gina “J.J” Gettup, Shannon and yours truly will interview the former eminent economic hitman, John Perkins. Get prepared for some incendiary vitriol and lime juice to the eye action.

Butt first…

The weekly standards: News roundup, “Thresholds: The Curse of Akkad,” and “Fish Ain’t Bitin’?” (try a delicious Striped Mullet (not just for NASCAR fans anymore)).

Mentioned early on in the show WashtenawLocalFood.net is your portal on the interwebs for getting to know the Ann Arbor area local food community better: includes a calendar that reveals such special events as an Open Space Technology event “Everyone Has To Eat” this Tuesday (6:30pm 1024 Dana Bldg. Central Campus) and “Localizing Agriculture: How Will We Eat on 80% Less Energy” lecture by Dr. Tom Princen on Wednesday (5:30pm 1024 Dana Bldg. Central Campus).

SO! Lock and load. Pull the trigger. Bite the bullet.  And pour some sugar on me.

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We are joined in the studio by two staffers from the City of Ann Arbor’s Natural Area Preservation (NAP) unit: the Volunteer & Outreach Coordinator, Jason Frenzel-Wright, and City Ornithologist, Deaver Armstrong respectively.
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But first the news…
Some examples of new manufacturing and business innovation ideas in Michigan: WindTronics 760 wind turbines out of Muskegon, Affordable Green Energy LLC out of Essexville. Plus, our watch continues on the brewing fights over new coal-fired power plants.

And the Sustainable Fish of the Week!

Back talking with our guests we discuss the details of the Natural Area Preservation unit which is a nationally unique city program that employs folks like ornithologists while reaching out to the community to volunteer to help inventory and maintain the ecology of the city’s natural areas. Lean much more and get involved here:

Natural Area Preservation – www.a2gov.org/nap
Adopt-a-Park – www.a2gov.org/adopt-a-park
NAP Blog – a2nap.blogspot.com

And lots of good links regarding bird volunteering, birds, bird safe-passage, birding, and more:
NAP Volunteering with Bird Inventory
http://www.terrain.org/articles/15/kousky.htm
http://www.cityofchicago.org/Environment/BirdMigration/sub/lights_out_chicago.html
http://www.nycaudubon.org/home/BirdSafeBuildingGuidelines.pdf
http://www.detroitaudubon.org/safe_passage.html
http://washtenawaudubon.org
More about fatal light attraction for birds from night lighting:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qtb8WcZBT5I
Video Regarding Light Attraction at the 9/11 Memorial

Finally, some tips via grist.org for Drinking Green and/or Green Drinking
How-To Get Wasted and Waste Less

And since we are discussing Green Drinks, check out the Green Drinks mixer this Wednesday at ABC at 7pm and other local food events listed at the Washtenaw Local Food Portal calendar.

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We’re joined this week (about 4 minutes in) by soon-to-be Cosmology doctorate Brian Nord who helps us explore the universe.

Brian Nord: Our Cosmologist in Residence

It is also pledge week so consider showing some love (online even) for WCBN!

Space Junk

Butt First

A little news:
the EPA is re-thinking a few things like dioxin clean-up ideas….

Then intermixed with our discussions of Space and Cosmology:

The tragedy of our orbital commons: This week’s Thresholds examines all that junk up there in Earth’s orbit.
a Sustainable Fish of the Week…Tilapia (AGAIN!)

a check in with our Washington correspondent Kerry Duggan at the League of Conservation Voters…

and of course some tunes.

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This week Gina Gettum, Shannon Brines and chemical correspondent Aviva Glaser discuss: environmental news headlines relevant to Michigan and the Great Lakes, lots about coal, a few toxic tangents and more! Un-censored!

You can read more about the Great Lakes round-up of news bits here

Read more about the exciting Power Shift 2009 and Capitol Climate Action here!

Sarah Cwiek (a.k.a. Gwen Hetfield) joined us as a Motown correspondent from the studios of WDET FM in Detroit and brought us greatly up to date on proposed coal plants in Michigan among other things.

DNA and Dogs!@@#$!

Our Washington correspondent Kerry Duggan….

checked in from the nation’s capitol and the League of Conservation Voters. (She mentioned the Coen Brothers “Clean” Coal spoof – see previous post below.) Check out her Great Lakes’tivities.

And a Toxic Tangent regarding bottled water and whatnot: