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  • GaiaGram #194 Environmental Headlines from around a planet in crisis
    -Climate scientist Michael E. Mann wins more than $1mn in
    damages in defamation case
    -20% of the world’s migrating animals could be extinct due to
    human activities
    -The EU on rejects a plan to cut back reliance on pesticides in
    agriculture
    -The Oil Industry Knew About Its Role in Climate Change since
    1954
    -Devastating wildfires tear across large parts of Chile leaving
    widespread destruction
    -The U.S. announces new funding for electric vehicle charging
    stations
    -Louisiana Govenor fills state environmental posts with fossil fuel
    executives
    -The world surpassed a key warming threshold for the first time
    on record.
    5 min
  • GaiaGram #193 Environmental Headlines from around a planet in crisis
    Growing "climate crisis" is fundamentally a human behavioral crisis
    European countries technological advances, won't limit global heating to 1.5°.
    Greenlandic mainland is rising faster than sea levels
    United States’ planet-overheating gas emissions dropped by 1.9% in 2023
    Saudi Aramco call off plans to expand its oil output,
    First-ever white rhinoceros pregnancy using in vitro fertilization.
    United States Postal Service to install electric vehicle charging stations nationwide
    5 min
  • Between The Lines - 2/7/24 ©2024 Squeaky Wheel Productions, Inc.
    * Preventing a Wider Middle East War linked to Ending Israel's Brutal War in Gaza; Medea Benjamin, Co-founder Code Pink Women For Peace; Producer: Scott Harris.
    * Biden Pause on Approving LNG Export Terminals, Won’t Solve Frontline Communities’ Health Hazards; Roishetta Ozane is the founder and CEO of the Vessel Project in southwestern Louisiana; Producer: Melinda Tuhus.
    * GOP and Far Right Forces Provoking National Emergency at Southern Border; Justin Akers Chacón, author and Professor of U.S. History and Chicano Studies San Diego City College; Producer: Scott Harris.
    29 min
  • The Heating Crisis At Success Village Apartments
    On the February 4, 2024 episode of Mic Check, host Mike Merli is joined by Jose Sandoz, Board Member and 4.5-year resident of Success Village Apartments.
    Jose discusses the heating crisis at Success Village currently affecting 924 families in Bridgeport and Stratford, and the ways in which he and others have been organizing to try to bring heat back to residents.
    26 min
  • Jeff Masters Meteorologist - Atmospheric rivers
    I welcome back to DITD Jeff Masters of the Yale Climate Connection. Jeff, worked as a hurricane scientist with the NOAA Hurricane Hunters from 1986-1990. He has a Ph.D. in air pollution meteorology from the University of Michigan. In 1995, he co-founded the Weather Underground weather channel. On Monday Jan 22nd , a relatively weak atmospheric river, along with favorable winds in the mid-to-upper atmosphere, combined to deliver a deluge to San Diego, with the city seeing 2.73 inches of rainfall in a very short amount of time causing major flooding and destruction of property. Now California is being slammed up and down the coast in the same manner. What's going on?
    33 min
  • GaiaGram #192 Environmental Headlines from around a planet in crisis
    -Brazil’s Rio de Janeiro state Nightmare weather events
    -Maine record-breaking weather extremes bring disruption,
    destruction
    -San Diego has record rains and flash flooding caused by an
    atmospheric river
    -Climate change is having a “catastrophic impact” on migratory
    species,
    -The courts halt spraying of streptomycin on citrus crops across
    the US
    -New Jersey Plans two new offshore wind farms
    -White House halts all new licenses for LNG export terminals
    5 min
  • Jan. 29, 2024 - Counterpoint
    * International Court of Justice Orders Israel to Prevent Acts of Genocide in Gaza War; Robert L. Herbst, is a civil rights lawyer in New York; Producer: Scott Harris.
    * Fighting to Reform U.S. Mass Incarceration from Inside the System; Nneka Jones Tapia, managing dir. of justice initiatives at Chicago Beyond, former warden of Chicago’s Cook County Jail; Producer: Melinda Tuhus.
    * Argentina’s Unions Respond to President Milei’s Extremist Program with General Strike; Pablo Pryluka, Doctoral Candidate in the Department of History at Princeton University; Producer: Scott Harris.
    1 hr 28 min
  • Spotlight on Arts and Culture — Discussion with Bridgeport Mayor Joseph Ganim
    Erika K. Wesley, the Executive Director of the Cultural Alliance of Fairfield County, sits down for a conversation with Bridgeport Mayor Joseph Ganim. They discuss Bridgeport's numerous cultural initiatives and growing status as a city where many artists and other creative professionals choose to live. This interview marks the beginning of a 2024 series in which Erika plans to connect with the mayors of Fairfield's urban communities.
    1 hr
  • Home Page Radio – Don’t Trash The HOME
    Thursday, January 25, 2024, 12 Noon WPKN 89.5FM www.wpkn.org
    Host: Duo Dickinson
    We are in the time of Tear Downs, Again. And yet feel good, virtue signalling, of 8,000 square foot “Green” homes and $80,000 electric cars simultaneously tell us we are being good stewards of our world. The oxymoron of a new millennium’s religion of “sustainability” and the never ending growth in size and cost of the American Home has always been part of our culture.
    It is so basic as to be be cliche: “It if ain’t broke don’t fix it.” But we tear down endless viable buildings, throwing away all the energy in them, toxic waste and spending the carbon to make all the parts and build the new building. This is nuts, and people have devoted their lives to offering an alternative to our throw away culture.
    Joe DeRisi created Urbanminers, Klass Armster has created Armster Reclaimed Lumber and John Hiden is part of Mongers Market: they are walking the talk where others cynically market “Green” as a vehicle for profitting from our hubris and guilt. JOIN US ON HOME PAGE TO SEE A FUTURE IN THE PAST.
    52 min

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