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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/listen.html

Listen Later:
any­time at www.wcbn.org/hotinhere

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

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; UMHaitiRelief2010@umich.edu; also check out the blog at UMHaitiRelief.wordpress.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://allianceforhealthyair.org/
United States Social Forum — http://ussf2010.org/

Links

East Michigan Environmental Action Council — http://emeac.org/
Alliance for Healthy Air cam­paign — http://allianceforhealthyair.org/
United States Social Forum — http://ussf2010.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/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: