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  • GaiaGram #230 - Environmental Headlines from around a planet in crisis.
    -Hurricane Milton destroys 500,000 homes at $85 billion cost
    -“2024 State of the Climate Report warns of Climate emergency
    -Antarctica's glaciers are in serious trouble
    -Pesticides aren't always necessary
    -United States continues to emit more planet-warming methane
    -Utah’s Great Salt Lake days may be numbered.
    -India unhappy with EU Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism tariffs
    -12% of Rep’s, and 59% of Dem’s, say must address climate change
    5 min
  • Home Page Radio - Wither Starchitects
    Host: Duo Dickinson
    Wednesday October 16, 2024, 12 Noon WPKN 89.5FM www.wpkn.org
    A century of top-down architectural determination is over. Regimes of conferring worth via station and prestige have been replaced with the number of “likes” and “followers” accruing as if the entire world is one polling station. We have reached intellectual democratization, where popularity trumps insights (good or bad) – our world is becoming unending popularity contests and beauty pageants, where everyone is the judge and the contestant – “the most eyeballs wins”. So much so that the remaining organizations are trying to ban Tik Tok, control Artificial Intelligence and social media and limit access based on age. But the cow has left the barn.
    As a result, in architecture, the Starchitect, the image of the Power of Style has left the building.
    All media is losing its editorial guardrails as the internet’s overwhelming universal, free and open access to exposing every and any aspect of everyone’s life becomes the basis of cultural evolution. The elitist sensibility of anointing “important work” in controlled, highly exclusive journalistic exposure of architecture is collapsing.
    Popular culture critic Kate Wagner voiced the power of democratic revolution in media: “We all live in the world. We all deserve to participate in it. We all also deserve to see our own lives reflected in architectural media, not just the spaces of the rich and famous. That requires reshaping everything, even vernacular or popular design media culture.”
    Today we have two people who know the past, present and perhaps can see a future for architecture. Martin Pedersen is a New Orleans based writer, critic and editor, and is the executive director of the Common Edge Collaborative. John Connell is the co – founder of Yestermorrow, an Architect and Urbanist.
    51 min
  • Between The Lines - 10/16/24 ©2024 Squeaky Wheel Productions, Inc.
    * Trump, GOP Preparing to Undermine Presidential Election Results if They Lose Justin Glawe, an independent journalist, frequent contributor to Rolling Stone magazine Producer: Scott Harris
    * Under Trump Project 2025 Would Sabotage Federal Storm Forecasting and Disaster Relief Andra Watkins, a New York Times bestselling author Producer: Scott Harris
    * If Completed the East African Oil Pipeline Will be a Destructive ‘Carbon Bomb’ Nico Udu-Gama, US Partnerships Coordinator at 350.org Producer: Melinda Tuhus
    29 min
  • Mysterious world of eels
    Laura Modlin interviews Bill Lucey, Soundkeeper for the Long Island Sound with Save the Sound, about eels migrating out to the North Atlantic after decades spent in Connecticut's rivers and streams and what they encounter here.
    Aired October 6, 2024.
    30 min
  • Between The Lines - 10/9/24 ©2024 Squeaky Wheel Productions, Inc.
    * US Media Sanitizes US Role in Israel's Savage War in Gaza and Lebanon; Norman Solomon, co-founder of RootsAction.org; Producer: Scott Harris.
    * Corporate Media is 'Sanewashing' Trump's Obvious Cognitive Decline; Parker Malloy, publisher of the Present Age newsletter, fmr editor-at-large w Media Matters 4 America; Producer: Scott Harris.
    * As Hurricanes Ravage the Southeast US, Fossil Fuel’s Destructive Infrastructure Impacts Rural Communities; Sydney Collins, climate activist, speaking at a Stop Project Maple rally in Hartford, in CT late Sept; Producer: Melinda Tuhus.
    29 min
  • GaiaGram # 229 Environmental Headlines from around a planet in crisis.
    -UK set to stop producing any electricity from burning coal
    -90% of the planet’s soil is being degraded
    -Extinction of hundreds of bird species Threatens other systems
    -24 percent of plastic waste comes from just five companies:
    -Africa’s ecosystem threatened by climate change
    -Home insurance companies pulling out of risky states.
    -Connecticut sees first human case of new tick-borne disease
    5 min
  • State Of The Arts October 4 2024
    Friday October 4, 2024, 12 Noon WPKN 89.5FM www.wpkn.org
    Host: Peggy Nelson
    Part 1: Hot Spots – events in our area.
    Part 2: Director and actor Mike Boland discussing his film “Yo, Andrea”.
    Part 3: A conversation with Bridgeport artist Julia Contacessi
    Part 4: A tribute to Gavin Creel
    49 min

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