Gina and Rachel talk paganism, wild­fires, Canada vs. USA for the title of envi­ron­mental hero/​villain, and urban transit on this hot, hot after­noon.  We’re joined on the phone line by Rachel Wells of CLEAR Corps, a Detroit non­profit working to reduce lead expo­sure in homes, and Emily of small​infin​i​typro​ject​.com.  Plus lots of steamy tunes.

For national info about lead expo­sure:  www​.lead​freekids​.org

For info on soil testing in SE Michigan: http://​web1​.msue​.msu​.edu/​m​o​n​r​o​e​/​s​o​i​l​w​e​b​2​/​t​e​s​t​i​n​g​.​htm

To learn about AATA’s master plan and take the survey to give your input! www​.mov​ingy​oufor​ward​.org

Thanks to Alex Belhaj for step­ping in to engi­neer while DJ Local Shannon Brines is on a well deserved vacation.

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Hugh tells us all about the Alberta tar sands, which some say are the second biggest oil reserve in the world after the Saudi oil fields.  We started on the crenel­lated* fjords of the British Columbia coast, fol­lowed the pro­posed Enbridge oil pipeline through the coastal moun­tains and ended up in the tar sands.  But not to fear, we didn’t get bogged down (ha HA) in gloom — Hugh told us how local cit­i­zens, advo­cacy groups, and yes, even the US gov­ern­ment are all helping to block Enbridge’s progress.

Listen for some eclectic grooves, envi­ron­mental news, and your weekly vocab­u­lary lesson.

*Crenellated (adj) 1. having bat­tle­ments, 2. indented; notched

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Gillian Ream, co-​​founder of Michigan Agritours, joins us in the studio to talk about bikes, beers, and the joys of local agri­tourism.  Plus What’s in Season (kohlrabi!), Sarah’s Sustainable Choices (planes, trains, or diesel buses?), and a Small Infinity story from Emily Plews.  Vaguely travel-​​themed, this is a great show to listen to while sit­ting per­fectly still.

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Listen in to wel­come IHIH’s newest co-​​hostess Sarah — and stay for summer tunes and sus­tain­able strate­gies to stay cool when you’re so (darn) hot.

The line up…

first to our nation’s cap­ital.…

Brian Lipinski, our Washington Wardrobe, or, DC Downer, tells us how to make a last ditch effort to con­trol U.S. carbon emis­sions this Congress (and to con­sider wearing less clothes).

Aviva Glaser, our Sunshine Superwoman,  fills us in on the proven and poten­tial dan­gers of car­cino­gens and nano par­ti­cles in con­ven­tional sun­screens (aka try relaxing in the shade).

then onto New Orleans with Louie Armstrong and…

Adam Carver, of the Ross  http://​gulf​.refre​shev​ery​thing​.com/​m​i​c​h​i​g​a​n​r​e​s​p​o​n​d​s​2​010

then back to the studio for…

A tale from the Small Infinity Project with Rachel Chadderdon (drink iced coffee!!)

and finially our newest segment…

Sustainable Choices with Sarah Kempke (make your own ice pops).

Until next week, stay cool Ann Arbor (and the world).

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It’s summer. You’re hot. We’re hot.  And guess what? We’ve missed you!

Join the It’s Hot in Here family LIVE or LATER for an exxxtraspe­cial IHIH Reunion Edition fea­turing our very own Emily Plews and Rachel Chadderdon of www​.small​infin​i​typro​ject​.com (!!!)

Listen in for small (but impres­sive!) infinity sto­ries from former UM School of Natural Resource and Environment stu­dents and It’s Hot in Here co-​​hosts, and cor­re­spon­dents as we find out how to fight the Canadian Tar Sands, figure out the price of pol­lu­tion on our children’s health in Michigan, locate that big cli­mate bill we thought was comin’ our way, and share our own small infinity suc­cess sto­ries!

Special Guests Include: Hugh Stimson, “the Godfather of It’s Hot in Here,” Aviva Glaser, “the “Toxic Tangent-​​tress,” Brian Lipinski, “the Decider of Cool”, and Paul Mansoor, “the Mix-​​Masterpiece.” And as usual Shannon Brines, aka, “DJ Local” and Gina “too hot for tv” Gettum will be holdin’ down the airwaves.

Check out Aviva’s hot of the press report on the costs of pol­lu­tion on the health of chil­dren in Michigan here! Also check out the Michigan Network for Children’s Environmental Health

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Join Jeffrey Green Bean, Rachel Chadderdon, and DJ Local as they talk with Karl and Cara of Real Time Farms about their recently launched and amaz­ingly fun web­site that pro­vides real time updates regarding farmers mar­kets near you that are pro­vided by the com­mu­nity — any cus­tomers, farmers, and users who want to upload, tag, and share information.

Later in the show we get an update on the rapidly approaching US Social Forum taking place in Detroit in two weeks!

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Join Jeffrey Green Bean as he talks Tai Chi with the mas­ters from Dojo Kitchen. Then later in the show Jeffrey Green Bean, Rachel Chadderdon, and The Farmer’s Market talk with Corinna Borden Parker, market man­ager Westside Farmers Market, regarding the sea­sonal opening of that market which is Thursdays 3pm-​​7pm in the parking lot of Zingerman’s Roadhouse.

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Join Jeffrey Green Bean, The Farmer’s Marketer, Rachel Chadderdon, and DJ Local as they inter­view Paul and Annie of the Community Farm of Ann Arbor, long­time bio­dy­namic CSA farm in the region. Additionally, we talk per­ma­cul­ture with Nate Ayers, of Chiwara Permaculture Design, who has an upcoming per­ma­cul­ture design work­shop. Plus, What’s In Season.

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Join Jeffrey Green Bean, Rachel Chadderdon, and DJ Local as they inter­view Steve Bean, inde­pen­dent may­oral can­di­date in the City of Ann Arbor. What’s In Season and events are dis­cussed as well.

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For the summer, your alter­nating Monday’s at Noon public affairs shows on WCBN, Arborama & It’s Hot In Here, will be joining forces. Perhaps it should be called It’s Hot In Arborama. Either way, it will be great and led by the familiar voices of both shows and will include some of the reg­ular seg­ments you are use to.

So without fur­ther ado, please join Jeffrey Green Bean and The Farmer’s Marketer as they inter­view Margaret Wong regarding greenway ideas for Ann Arbor. As well as dis­cussing other things that are up.

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Tom Princen, SNRE Professor, joined us in the studio to dis­cuss his new book Treading Softly: Paths to Ecological Order. Listen as Tom and Paul Mansoor get dra­matic, Aviva goes on a nano-​​Toxic Tangent, and Rachel takes a walk on the wild side for What’s in Season.  Plus envi­ron­mental news and some sweet tunes.

Treading Softly: Paths to Ecological Order is avail­able at local book­stores, on Amazon, and directly from the pub­lisher, MIT Press.

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We’ve got a HOT show lined up for ya’ll We’ll be rockin’ and talkin’ at the peace/​planet inter­face with some rockin’ stu­dents from Armistice ‘Zine!! It’s also WCBN’s annual FUNdraiser, call give us your money and get HOTTTT WCBN swag! Call in you rpledges @ 734.763.3500 $15 bones gets you a FREE WCBN Pint Glass, OR a WCBN music compilation!

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Start your week off on the ‘good foot.’ Tune in and join your friends at It’s Hot in Here, UM’s own envi­ron­mental ‘info­tain­ment’ for our first ever Staycation Special!

We’ll talk leg­is­la­tion, change and local stay­ca­tion destinations/​ideas with Kerry Duggan of the Michigan League of Conservation Voters and Jesse Worker… of Clean Water Action. Brett Levy and his guitar will heat up the air­waves with inspired cli­mate­rock and as always you can count on a few the­matic grooves to really make you move.

TAKE ACTION this Staycation

Call Your Senators and ask them to Pass a COMPREHENSIVE Energy Bill! Contact Info: Here, Talking Points: Here

Join Clean Water Action, 1Sky, Repower America, et al. this Tuesday-​​Thurs in the evening, calling friendly folks to encourage them to call their Senators to sup­port a COMPREHENSIVE Energy Bill! Events are being held ALL OVER THE COUNTRY, so find your local chapter and volunteer!

TAKE A LISTEN this Staycation

Detroit Metro Times BLOWOUT: 200 Local Bands Rock Hamtramck, March 3-​​6^th

Check out Brett Levy and his band Momenta @ Sava’s on State, Thursday, March 11^th @ 9 PM.

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Join us for an hour of LOVE [Ideas we love, songs we love, food we love, people we love]. Dear friend Kerry Duggan of the Michigan League of Conservation Voters gives us her “polit­ical week in review” and Emily Plews tells us how to put the com­pas­sion back in commerce!

As always, we’ll be servin’ up our weekly Toxic Tangent, What’s in Season and Fish Ain’t Biting!

Listen and Love.

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Results from a study con­ducted by UM grad­uate stu­dents linking recent increases in ethanol pro­duc­tion to past and future loss of prairie grass­lands and wildlife pop­u­la­tions graced the national news in January and gen­er­ated con­sid­er­able back­lash from industry groups, including the Renewable Fuels Association.

Join us this week on It’s Hot in Here as we talk sci­ence, species and scandal with two of the study’s co-​​authors Becca Brooke and Aviva Glasser.

As always, we promise all the envi­ron­mental news, eclectic grooves, and com­ical com­men­tary you need to start your week of green!

Special thanks to engineer/​unintentional DJ Shannon Brines on this (and every) episode.

Listen live:
Monday February 1^st from 12–1 on 88.3 WCBN-​​FM– Ann Arbor,
or online at www​.wcbn​.org/​l​i​s​t​e​n​.​h​tml

Listen Later:
any­time at www​.wcbn​.org/​h​o​t​i​n​h​ere

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Join us for a spe­cial tribute to the good Doctor Martin Luther King Jr.

Featuring LIVE MUSIC from Matt & Jen 2010

Ekta Kothari from Project Survival Media joins us to chat about her fan­tastic doc­u­men­tary work at the Copenhagen Climate talks fea­tured here on the Huffington Post.

Carrie Rheingans from UM’s School of Public Health and School of Social Work updates us on UM’s Haiti Relief Efforts.  For more info, join the email list in the UM Directory; UMHaitiRelief2​0​1​0​@​umich.​edu; also check out the blog at UMHaitiRelief​.word​press​.com, or follow UMHaitiRelief on twitter.

Professor Extraordinaire Dr. Dorecta Taylor joins us to talk about her new book The Environment and the People in American Cities: 1600s-​​1900s. Professor Taylor will be dis­cussing and signing copies of her book at the Borders in Ann Arbor (State&Liberty) on January 29 at 7pm.

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Make the most of the shortest day of the year with your friends at It’s Hot in Here!

Emily Joyce Plews makes it exxxtra hot in the WCBN stu­dios, our Washington cor­re­spon­dent Brian Lipinski gives us a less gloomy run down on Copenhagen, we talk seven fish, oranges, how to green your hol­i­days and give a run down on the top envi­ron­mental sto­ries of the year. Listen closely? Can you catch this week’s FCC violation?

Happy Holidays and take time to make the most of the “naugh­ties” before they expire.…

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Join us this week on It’s Hot in Here for a lively con­ver­sa­tion and LIVE music with SNRE’s own David Jude. Dr Jude dis­cov­ered the round goby in 1990 and has ded­i­cated his career to under­standing the intro­duc­tion and impacts of this and other per­ni­cious Great Lakes aquatic invaders.

We’ll also give a pre-​​Copenhagen pep talk, serve up our weekly side dishes and lay down some tit­il­lating tunes to start your week off green.

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This week IHIH talks turkey [and fish] with Dr. James Diana, Professor @ SNRE and Director of Michigan Sea Grant. Listen in to catch the latest news, reel in the skinny on sus­tain­able seafood and hear the hottest musical hooks of the thanks­giving season.

Eat Well Guide
Aquaculture example in Milwaukee, WI

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Listen up ya’ll,

Tune into It’s Hot in Here, (Ann Arbor’s own biweekly dose of envi­ron­mental news, eclectic grooves and exxxper­tise for the sus­tain­able set) for a con­ver­sa­tion with Ahmina Maxey and Rocio Valerio of the East Michigan Environmental Action Council. Hear about their fan­tastic Motor City Mentoring, Clean Air Programs and details on the upcoming US Social Forum in Detroit in 2010 today from 12–1.

Also Today:
Updates on the Senate ver­sion of the Climate Bill with Jesse Worker
Your sus­tain­able fish of the week with Gina G
What’s in Season with Rachel Chadderdon
Paul Explains the Smart Grid with Paul Mansoor
What’s up with Salvage Logging? with George Bekris

Links

East Michigan Environmental Action Council — http://​emeac​.org/
Alliance for Healthy Air cam­paign — http://​alliance​forhealthyair​.org/
United States Social Forum — http://​uss​f2010​.org/

Links

East Michigan Environmental Action Council — http://​emeac​.org/
Alliance for Healthy Air cam­paign — http://​alliance​forhealthyair​.org/
United States Social Forum — http://​uss​f2010​.org/

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Join us Monday, October 12 from noon to 1.

A Greener UM: Students Lead the Way To Sustainability

With spe­cial guests from the U of M Student Sustainability Initiative and call-​​ins from Brian Lipinski and Jesse Worker

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Check out: Climate Ground Zero

Coal WAS West Virginia, cour­tesy of the Sierra Club

We’re famous.

Check out the blog post. Here.

Watch the video here

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IN and Out on Geoengineering
IN: From the New York Times, “The Earth is Warming? Adjust the Thermostat” by John Tierney:

Out: From the Atlantic, “Re-​​Engineering the Earth” by Graeme Wood:

Toxic Tangent: What’s in Your Sunscreen?

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Join us this week for an audi­tory tour through the col­le­giate halls of sus­tain­ability with spe­cial guest Mark Rabinsky, Director of Sustainability for Michigan’s own Jackson Community College.

Check out UM’s Initiatives or take your own Sustainability, Live it Love it

Also servin’ up our weekly green side dishes:

What’s in Season with Rachel Chadderdon: Stone Fruits!
Toxic Tangent with Aviva Glaser: Pesticide Free Schools!
Fish Ain’t Biting with GG: Take a pass on seabass — try Pacific Cod instead!

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Summer is a siz­zlin’ on Hot in Here. Join us today for a culi­nary cruise from garden to grill with local food exxxpert Rachel Chadderdon. We’ll be dishin’ out foodie grooves to stoke your appetite and leg­isla­tive news to whet your whistle. Stow your lug­gage, grab your sea legs and come get Hot in Here.

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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 11^th 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 Coördinator, 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/​a​d​o​p​t​-​a​-​p​ark
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​.ter​rain​.org/​a​r​t​i​c​l​e​s​/​1​5​/​k​o​u​s​k​y​.​htm
http://​www​.city​ofchicago​.org/​E​n​v​i​r​o​n​m​e​n​t​/​B​i​r​d​M​i​g​r​a​t​i​o​n​/​s​u​b​/​l​i​g​h​t​s​_​o​u​t​_​c​h​i​c​a​g​o​.​h​tml
http://​www​.nycaudubon​.org/​h​o​m​e​/​B​i​r​d​S​a​f​e​B​u​i​l​d​i​n​g​G​u​i​d​e​l​i​n​e​s​.​pdf
http://​www​.detroitaudubon​.org/​s​a​f​e​_​p​a​s​s​a​g​e​.​h​tml
http://​washt​e​nawaudubon​.org
More about fatal light attrac­tion for birds from night lighting:
http://​www​.youtube​.com/​w​a​t​c​h​?​v​=​q​t​b​8​W​c​Z​B​T5I
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:

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This week Gina Gettum and guest cohost Aviva Glaser [Hot in Here’s own Chemical Correspondent!] pepper news you can use, oscar reviews and stone cold grooves with helpful hints to reduce our own green­house gas emissions!

The News

• Climate Change is top national secu­rity threat and according to emi­nent econ­o­mist Nicholas Stern if not con­tained “what we’re talking about then is extended world war.” Whoa.
• Bisphenol A is bad for your babies, your babies babies, and your babies babies babies.
• If a beaver lives on the shores of the Detroit River, but no one’s there to record it, is it really a beaver?: First beaver sited in Detroit since the 1930s!

Breaking news from our IHIH Style and Celebrity Correspondent Brian Lipinski — the Oscars de-​​greened them­selves , BYO[tote]Bag is the new Vuitton and DeCarprio’s fixin’ to run an ecore­sort island in Belize.

And finally we get down to the lady business…

• Green Cleaning: Make Your Own Non-​​Toxic Cleaning Kit.
• Make Up: Freshen up without slowly poi­sonin’ yourself.
• Knowledge is Power: Calculate your Body Burden Score.
• Cookin’: Buy fresh, not frozen.

Our Washington Correspondent Kerry Duggan takes us from the League of Conservation Voters to Capital Hill for Great Lakes Day.

Join the Virtual March to Stop Global Warming!

‘Til next week, keep it green friends and get up with the Get Down.

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Join us this week as spe­cial guests Andrew Brix of the Ann Arbor Energy Office and Jason Bing of the Environmental House Energy & Green Building Research Center get us up to speed on efforts to keep our homes and tree town green and how we can get involved.

We also had Greg Vendena from the Clean Energy Coalition based in Ypsi join us briefly on the phone (so a tri­fecta of energy experts as it were).

But First.…

The News…

• Climate change will cause key fish species to move towards the poles in search of their for­merly cold water climes, bad for com­mer­cial fish­eries, but great for reuniting lost fishy family members.
• Birds are feeling the heat as well. A study by the Audubon Society has demon­strated that half of N. American bird species have been spending their winter vaca­tions on average 35 miles fur­ther North than 40 years ago. At least they can fly.
• Thought we had to put on serious airs to show our sexual fit­ness? Check out these birds.
• New studies point out some vicious cli­matic feed­backs as sub-​​Arctic tundra begins to thaw, poten­tially releasing bil­lions of tons of green­house gases.
• And! A ray of hope (the glass is one-​​tenth full): Paris (dis­am­bigua­tion: the city) digs deep to har­ness Earth’s green energy.
• Al Gore: on civil dis­obe­di­ence and COAL.

Fish Ain’t Biting? Great Lakes, Great Fish

• Try out one of Lake Michigan’s own deli­cious lake white­fish (Coregonus clu­peaformis).
• Check out Great Lakes Whitefish, for more info and recipes so you can fully enjoy this “Best Choice/​Good Alternative” great fish.

Eat me!

Thresholds:

• This week we look at the 1973 Oil Embargo and its effects on the global economy. The response was dra­matic around the world, as our oil junkie veins had a serious bout of petrol with­drawal (c’mon man, front me just one barrel!). Naturally, we draw par­al­lels with the modern day: dwin­dling sup­plies and an Obamian (Obaman?) “planet in peril.” Yet to keep it opti­mistic a dis­cus­sion of cre­ative destruc­tion.

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From the shores of Easter Island to the ovaries of a spawning carp it’s real Hot in Here. Join us this week for news and global grooves. In-​​studio guest Aviva Glaser delivers a hot dose of chem­ical knowl­edge, OJ debuts his new seg­ment “Thresholds” and our Washington Correspondent Kerry Duggan gives it to us straight on where we find our green economy in the stim­ulus package:

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Be Informed:

• Science: Organic agri­cul­ture can feed the world. UifM press release.
• Top ten non-​​organic veg­gies to avoid.
• Find the major pollutants/​polluters in your backyard.
• And!  You should be familiar with PALINDROMES.

Yes, we still giggle when we say gonads.  Sorry Moms.  Shout out to all the Mothers!

IHIH 2–9

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Join us this week for the news (including rethinking car­niv­o­rous­ness), an update from our always fab­u­lous Washington Correspondent Kerry Duggan, and a journey through the nerdery of social-​​ecological sys­tems theory to the dusty steps of Mongolia, the squishy shores of Lake Victoria and the Great Lakes of Michigan:

• With three dif­ferent names for winter dis­as­ters [Xar, Tsagaan and Tumur Dzud] and tem­per­a­tures rising at twice the global average, Mongolian herders and their herds are suf­fering. Big time. In the win­ters of 2000 and 2001 alone Mongolia lost more than one third of the nation’s live­stock.  Summary of a Science article.
• With cli­mate change comes vari­able rain, more storms and more cholera, malaria and fishy trouble in Lake Victoria and the Nile Basin.  (With tan­gen­tial ref­er­ence to the Maccinni and Yang’s study of long-​​term effects of early life rain­fall on devel­op­ment in Indonesia.)
• The Great Lakes are changing [but still great] here’s the report we’ll get into more in weeks to come.  Confronting Climate Change in the Great Lakes Region: Impacts on Our Communities and Ecosystems

The cli­mate really is a changin’, here in Ann Arbor, we’ve had the most snow [through January 30^th] ever recorded… see this pdf for more details.

Music:

• Tsetseg Nuriin Tovoo by Morin Khuur
• Xux Tobolton by Altan Urag
• Wetende Mukolwe, Sukuma Bin Ongaro and the Sukuma Band
• It’s Your World by Gil Scott-​​Heron
• Chase the Devil by Max Romeo

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Human and envi­ron­mental jus­tice activist  Zo Randriamaro heats up the WCBN Studios with her wisdom, pas­sion and careful thoughts.

If you are short on time, skip the news recap and head right to Zo at minute 16. You you’ll be happy you did.

Zo tells us that average tem­per­a­tures in Madagascar have risen over 1.5 degrees C in the past 50 years.  Deadly cyclones, like this one last week, have increased in number. Addressing cli­mate change should be President Obama’s number one pri­ority. Zo makes a plea that addressing poverty and eco­nomic devel­op­ment must go hand in hand with envi­ron­mental conservation.

Zo tells it like it is on the role of inter­na­tional finan­cial insti­tu­tions, the recent land deal in Madagascar leasing 50% of the islands arable land to the South Korean com­pany Deawoo and the cur­rent state, and the impor­tance of giving voice to those unable to speak for themselves.

In four short days President Obama vowed to close Gitmo, follow the Geneva Convention and freeze the salaries of his top offi­cials.  Check out his weekly address here.

In related news:

EU Calls for Global Carbon Market.

Updated ²⁄₂: New York Times: Madagascar Power Grab Fizzles

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A spe­cial Martin Luther King day and pre-​​inauguration show… We started live with both our It’s Hot In Here co-​​host Gina Gettum as well as our Washington cor­re­spon­dent Kerry Duggan on the line from Washington DC. They joined us from a League of Conservation Voters spon­sored National Day of Service event at John Phillips Sousa junior high school in DC where solar pho­to­voltaics were being installed on the roof among other things. Future Energy Secretary Steven Chu was even onsite and our intrepid remote reporters were going to try and talk with him offline and report back on future shows. Gina and Kerry told us addi­tion­ally of the pre-​​inaugural fes­tiv­i­ties they’ve already attended on Sunday as well as all the energy sur­rounding the main event tomorrow where appar­ently over 4 mil­lion people are expected to flood into DC.

Our other remote cor­re­spon­dent Hugh was going to pro­vide a per­spec­tive from Canada regarding the US changing of the guard, but was unable to join us, so we’ll check in with him at a future date.

We talked next with Lara Peterson who nor­mally hails from inside the beltway where she serves as the Coördinator for the Russia, Europe and Near Asia Program within the International Programs of the United States Forest Service. She gave us some per­spec­tive from inside a fed­eral agency during a tran­si­tion from one admin­is­tra­tion to another, and told us all about the USFS International Programs.

Finally, switching gears, we spent the last 15 min­utes talking trash with Tiffany Threadgould from Brooklyn, New York. Tiffany told us all about the his­tory and moti­va­tion behind her busi­ness RePlayGround: “where dis­carded mate­rials take on new life!” With way more energy than your average person would have dis­cussing garbage, Tiffany told us all about her mis­sion to re-​​brand garbage, giving exam­ples of her prod­ucts and designs — including a refocus room divider that she described made out of 1000 used film can­is­ters. Her web­site RePlayGround​.com also details var­ious do-​​it-​​yourself (DIY) projects and how RePlayGround likes to sup­port other orga­ni­za­tions that share sim­ilar beliefs. You can get a sense of those core values by reading the RePlayGround Blog and the FAQ page… who doesn’t love FAQs… my favorite part from the FAQ page:

Q: What will you do when there’s no more waste in the world? Like when we reduce our waste to 0%?
A: We’ll be very happy people when that hap­pens. Perhaps we’ll catch up on movies on a low-​​energy flat screen LCD. Or we’ll ride our bikes more. Cook more with locally raised food. Drink more organic wine. In the mean­time, there’s a lot of scrap out there for us to tackle.

Happy Martin Luther King Day!

Enjoy the Music Playlist for 19 Jan 2009, with a couple of extra songs we didn’t get to of course.

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In 1984, a UM SPH stu­dent just hap­pened to dis­cover abnormal con­cen­tra­tions of a known car­cinogen, 1,4-Dioxane, in the Third Sister Lake in UM’s Saginaw Forest (just west of Ann Arbor).  This prompted sub­se­quent dis­covery of dioxane in the area’s ground­water at var­ious levels from the sur­face all the way down to bedrock, some places more than 200 feet deep.

1,4-Dioxane is an indus­trial sol­vent and sta­bi­lizer that is fully mis­cible in water.  It doesn’t adhere to soils like many other indus­trial pol­lu­tants, but goes whereever water goes.

For 20 years, from 1966 to 1986, Gelman, Sciences Inc (now Pall Life Sciences) used a reported 800,000 pound of dioxane man­u­fac­turing high tech fil­ters and allowed an unknown amount of the toxic sub­stance to get into ground­water sur­rounding their prop­erty on Wagner Road.

Multiple law­suits, cleanup efforts and back­room deals later, sev­eral plumes of the stuff still con­tinue to exist, with the major ones moving at about one foot per day through Ann Arbor towards the Huron River and maybe even Barton Pond (where Ann Arbor gets 80% of its water for 150,000 people in the area.).
Listen for an in-​​depth dis­cus­sion of past and future of the clean water struggle and reme­di­a­tion efforts with Roger Rayle, Co-​​Chair of Scio Residents for Safe Water.  Roger has ded­i­cated 15 years of his life to addressing this problem, making AMAZING maps of the plumes, and pro­tecting our water!

Check out their Google Group for more detailed maps and info.

Who was that anony­mous caller?

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Please share your eco-​​resolutions below in the com­ments! AND if you have a name for a person who eats meat once a week, post that too!

In the audio above which starts a couple min­utes in we had the news, food news, and eco-​​resolutions for the new year dis­cus­sions including 10 easy ways to go green in the kitchen and some sug­ges­tions from callers and over the interwebs.

COAL is NEVER CLEAN: Sign Here to tell your Congressfolk to ban new coal plants and to invest in gen­uinely, CLEAN, RENEWABLE energy technology.

Promised links to the fol­lowing are forthcoming:

• Scientists responses: should we be devel­oping a plan b to adapt to cli­mate realities?

• Sustainable Fish of the Week!!!

• Rep. Conryn Drill Baby Drill news.

• NYTimes article dis­cussing some of the draw­backs of renew­ables in the winter, like the likely rare pos­si­bility of killer ice falling from wind tur­bines… “those ici­cles have been known to kill people!” à la The Christmas Story. Personally, DJ Local will be happy to sweep off his Solar PV panels in the winter.

Music playlist coming soon.

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We had our usual news roundup… but we had a not so usual spe­cial guest in the studio with us the whole time: Homeless Dave. Dave shared with us: the premise for his blog Teeter Talk (voted best local blog 3 years in a row by readers of the Current), what’s up with his nick­name, his bicycle delivery and hauling busi­ness, and his pedal-​​powered clothes washing/​wringing, among other things!!! You may know Homeless Dave under his shall we say pen name Dave Askins… you can see some of his local reporting, pho­tog­raphy, and illus­tra­tions at a new local news source called The Ann Arbor Chronicle which he helped his wife Mary Morgan start recently.

We had a weather, power outage, and cli­mate dis­cus­sion. Link to hand-​​crank/​solar radios. Link to University of Michigan pro­fessor Ricky Rood’s Weather Underground blog and his recent cli­mate post.

Towards the end we shared a 2008 Top Ten List from TreeHugger​.com. Since everyone loves Top Ten Lists here’s another one: top ten green sto­ries from 2008 from grist​.org.

Music playlist:
Winter Song by Sara Bareilles with Ingrid Michaelson
Worrisome Heart by Melody Gardot
Big Jim Hawkins by Great Lakes Myth Society of Ann Arbor, Michigan
See and Be Scene by The Hard Lessons of Detroit, Michigan
Gotta Be Somewhere by Johnny Headband of Detroit, Michigan

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We were a little late get­ting started, so about 7 min­utes into this pod­cast… We had a lengthy news roundup of lots of news bits and pieces. Included is some dis­cus­sion of the cur­rent EPA and forth­coming EPA, Climate Change talks in the EU, and a brief chat with Greg Vendena over at the Clean Energy Coalition based in Ypsi.

We bid Hugh a fond farewell as an in-​​studio CoHost but he promises to join us as a remote cor­re­spon­dent… from wher­ever that may be.

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We had our gen­eral news roundup plus spe­cial guest Molly Notarianni with us in the studio. Molly is the man­ager of the Ann Arbor Farmers Market and spoke of the envi­ron­mental ben­e­fits of shop­ping locally at a farmers market among other things.

Shannon Brines, aka Brines​.net, aka Brines Farm, aka Dj Local joined the show for his first stint as full Senior CoHost in charge of Environmental Talk Radio and Farming. Always smooth, never gritty.

This week two exxxtra spe­cial guests steam up the WCBN stu­dios and serve up expert advice and com­men­tary on the way for­ward (with a side of deli­cious grooves).

UM’s own Andrew J. Hoffman, Holcim Professor of Sustainable Enterprise and Associate Director of the Erb Institute for Global Sustinable Enterprise, lends his wisdom on the pos­si­bil­i­ties unfurling at the con­flu­ence of humans our economies and our environments.

and…

Kerry Duggan, IHIH’s own Washington Correspondant/​Campaigns Project Manager @ the League of Conservation Voters, fills us in on what we planet lovers want (and need) from President Elect Obama and turns us on to the 2008 Environmental Facebook.

This week, Sean Ledwin of the University of Michigan’s School of Natural Resources and Environment joined us to share insights about shrimps, shrimping, and the ups and downs of envi­ron­mental cer­ti­fi­ca­tion programs.

Remember, get your greens locally, and tri­umph in the face of diversity.

But first a word from our sponsors.

This week’s playlist:

Listen in this week for exxxtra spe­cial guest Dan Fahey from UC Berkeley, expert on resources and con­flict in the Great Lakes Region of Africa. Future Dr. Fahey schools us on why our cell­phones and i(solationist)pods are fueling vio­lence in the ‘Democratic’ Republic of the Congo. Also, a new ‘Eco-​​Warrior’ seg­ment and more from Vijay Vaitheeswaran of the Economist on carbon offsets.

• Congo: from the NY Times
• This just in: 61 trees per person!
  
• Raw off the line: Blue Ocean Institute’s Sushi Guide
• California passed Proposition 1A to con­struct a high-​​speed rail link.
• The first legal sale of African ivory since 1989, but you won’t be buying it on Ebay.
• NEW EPA Rule: No new coal plants without “Best Available Control Tech” for CO2!!
• Dry Cleaning: It blows, and may result in: depres­sion of the cen­tral ner­vous system; damage to the liver and kid­neys; impaired memory; con­fu­sion; dizzi­ness; headache; drowsi­ness; and eye, nose, and throat irri­ta­tion. Repeated dermal expo­sure may result in der­matitis.  No joke. here’s why.

Goloco: What’s not to love?

We’re not saying there wasn’t any envi­ron­mental news to report this week, we’re just saying we had too many smart people to talk to to get around to it. Specifically:

• Joseph Romm, author of many books on cli­mate change and other topics of energy and the envi­ron­ment, Senior Fellow at the Center for American Progress and former Assistant Secretary for Energy. He main­tains an excel­lent blog on energy issues at cli​mateprogress​.org. Go there now, you can read and listen at the same time.We asked Joe what exactly off­sets, cap and trade, and renew­able energy credits are, what they do and what they don’t do. His mes­sage: don’t count on ‘em.
• Howard French, pro­fessor of jour­nalism at Columbia, former senior writer for the New York Times and the International Herald Tribune. Howard is author of A Continent for the Taking: the Tragedy and Hope of Africa, and was in town last week to give a talk in the Africa Workshop series. We talked with him about the impli­ca­tions, social and envi­ron­mental, of the expan­sion of Chinese industry in Africa.

This week:

• Co-​​host Gina Gettum made a progress report from Uganda. She told us about the ille­gality of the only fish which can be eaten, and what it’s like to have dinner in a revolving restau­rant with arms dealers while missing your own inter­view on national TV.
• We spoke with Gary Peters, con­gres­sional can­di­date for Michigan, who is cam­paigning with our Washington Correspondent Kerry Duggan of the League of Conservation Voters. Gary is on the last day of the cam­paign trail, and he easily con­vinced us to endorse him in the 9^th District (for the third time over).

  
  Actual pho­to­graph of Kerry and Gary calling in from the cam­paign trail.

Howard French, former senior writer for the New York Times and author of A Continent for the Taking: The Tragedy and Hope of Africa, suf­fered a major spatiotemporal-​​decorrelation event, and we didn’t get him into the studio in time for the show. But we were able to sit down with him later in the day and that inter­view will be fea­tured on a future episode.

Next week: Gina makes her tri­umphant return from Uganda, and we talk with Joseph Romm, Senior Fellow at the Center for American Progress and editor for ClimateProgress​.org.

(Apologies for the ragged start, we had a theme-​​music failure and had to jump into the gap.)

First, the news:

• Earth Policy Institute is bullish on a new energy economy in the U.S.
• Britain ups it 2050 carbon target to 80%, is strug­gling to get wind going in the mean­time, but going hard on algae.
• In India, cli­mate change is linked to tiger attacks, but they’re still shop­ping for U.S. coal mines.

This week we talked about Detroit. It wasn’t nearly enough time, but we began to ask the ques­tion: what does envi­ron­men­talism look like in the big and weird city? Thanks to Michelle Martinez from The Greening of Detroit and the Sierra Club, and Kerry Duggan of the League of Conservation Voters, active Detroitist, and Domiana Carter and the crew at Detroiters Working for Environmental Justice. Thanks also to the School of Public Health for helping orga­nize our Toxic Tour field trip.

With music selec­tions by Rob Linn of WCBN’s From Belle Isle to 8 Mile. Just a few of his cuts, listen to his show Tuesdays at 12 for a whole world of Detroit music:

(Co-​​host Gina Gettum is away in Belgium and Uganda this week, fighting to bring more fish stocks up to Sustainable Fish of the Week levels, but we’re hoping to check in with her via tele­phone next week.)

Listen in for our first ever Get Your Health on edi­tion of IHIH. Rachel Chadderdon, Market Master of the Ypsilanti Farmer’s Market joins us in the WCBN stu­dios for some majorly uplifting updates on her (and other’s) impres­sive efforts to de-​​desertify the food desert of Washtenaw County.

• This just in: Florida AND California are saving money and saving the planet by going green!
• Which is freakin’ bril­liant, given that the autumn temps in the Arctic Region, according to NOAA, are the second highest on record! It is Hot in Here!
• The credit crunch is espe­cially bad new for wind power.
• The Union of Concerned Scientists has released their annual Federal Agency Report Card. Rock on NASA and the Nuc Reg Commission for your B’s. Shame on you EPA, NOAA, BLM and the Consumer Product Safety Commission for your D’s! No dessert for you!
• Bush gives 13 bil­lion to Amtrak via the new railroad-​​safety law.
• Next week: Check out the new sus­tain­able sushi guide, but for now know that U.S. Farmed Abalone (awabi), North American Albacore Tuna (shiro maguro) and Farmed Artctic Char (iwana) are excel­lent choices. STAY AWAY from Bluefin Tuna (toro), Monkfish (ankoh), Red Snapper (tai) and Freshwater Eel (unagi).
• LVC Releases the 2008 Scorecard! Check out your local reps!! Vote Green!
• Canada’s sour gas sit­u­a­tion explodes, lit­er­ally

This week’s musical cuts:

While Ann Arbor enjoys near-​​record highs, and the good folks of Saskatchewan sol­dier on through heavy snow­storms, what better time to tune in to envi­ron­mental radio?

Another strong focus on eco­nomic issues this week. Who knew the envi­ron­ment and the economy were linked?

• Climate change could force mil­lions from homes.
• Nature Loss Dwarfs Banking Crisis
• An eco­nomic crisis is a good time to buy a bike or an elec­tric car.

And some envi­ron­mental sto­ries whose eco­nomic impacts are as-​​yet unknown:

• A fright­ening new cli­mate pre­dic­tion from James Hansen et al.
• New species of pollution-​​adapted fish evolve in Lake Victoria.

And the crime beat:

• Environmental crimes on the rise globally
• And in US parks, thanks to gro-​​op cartels

Sustainable Fish of the Week: the Atlantic Herring (although we’re cur­rently dubious about the Marine Stewardship Council, so careful with that website.)

This week’s playlist:

Next week: A Toxic Tour of Detroit City. Stayed tuned to your environment.

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:

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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:

We’rrreee back. That’s right folks, Hugo and Gina (minus Gwen, Gwen you are truly missed!) serve up all the envi­ron­mental news that fit to hear Monday’s from 12–1 PM.

• 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/​m​u​s​i​c​/​C​o​n​g​r​e​s​s​-​W​o​m​a​n​+​M​a​l​i​n​d​a​+​J​a​c​k​s​o​n​+​P​a​r​ker
• 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/​g​l​o​b​a​l​c​h​a​n​g​e​/​en/
  • CDC: National Center for Health Statistics: http://​www​.cdc​.gov/​n​c​h​s​/​f​a​s​t​a​t​s​/​D​e​f​a​u​l​t​.​htm
  • Aviva’s Top 6 Bad Enviro Health Impacts of Chemical Pollution: http://​the​bird​sandthepcbs​.blogspot​.com/
  • Environmental Health News: http://​www​.envi​ron​men​tal​health​news​.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 opense​crets​.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:

Dean Bavington, gen­uine NewFi, fish­eries scholar, envi­ron­mental philoso­pher and mentor to inquis­i­tive Wolverine FishHeads joins us, adding equal parts bril­liance, insight, humility and humor to heat up the HIH studio!

• 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 2^nd 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

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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

Playlist.

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.