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  • The World Needs Liberation: People, Polemics, and Politrixxx

    Audio[audio:http://archive.org/download/hotinhere/itshotinhere23mar2009.mp3]

    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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  • NAP: Birds and Burnin’… Plus, Green Drinking

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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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  • It’s Hot (2.725 Kelvin) In Here (Space)

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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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  • Great Lakes Headlines, Coal, Toxic Tangents and more

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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:

  • Extinct Bird Found! And then Eaten. http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2009/02/090218-extinct-bird-photo.html
  • Contaminants in Common Brands of Bottled Water: http://www.ewg.org/reports/bottledwater
  • Take Back the Tap! http://www.foodandwaterwatch.org/water/bottledNext week, pigs in space!
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  • (Mostly) Ladies Only: News You Can Use, Oscar Reviews, Beaver Sitings and Helpful Hints to Reduce Your GHG Emissions,

    Audio[audio:http://archive.org/download/hotinhere/itshotinhere23feb2009.mp3]

    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!

    Butt First

    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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      • Brix and Bing: Two, Two, Two Guest in One (Show)

        Audio[audio:http://archive.org/download/hotinhere/itshotinhere16feb2009.mp3]

        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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            • Better Living Through Chemicals, Thresholds, Green Jobs, Carp Caviar

              Audio[audio:http://archive.org/download/hotinhere/itshotinhere09feb2009.mp3] 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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              • The Human and Ecological Impacts of Climage Change, Mongolia, Lake Victoria, Michigan

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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 30th] 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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                  • Activist Zo Randriamaro Joins us from Madagascar!

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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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