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It will be continued on April 24. The two-part series is designed to help citizens better understand several crucial issues facing Durham County in the weeks leading up to the May 6 election: Are we growing wisely? Do we have the resources to handle the growth patterns that we currently see in this area? Have we reached the outer limits of sustainable growth? Do we need shifts in policy to reflect the reality of drought? Discussion will follow the presentations as time allows. Speaking on April 2 will be: Bill Holman, senior fellow at the Nicholas Institute for Environmental Policy Solutions at Duke University. Holman is former executive director of the Clean Water Management Trust Fund, and former Secretary of the N.C. Department of Environment and Natural Resources. He has been affiliated with Duke since 2006. Mark Chilton, Mayor of Carrboro, will also speak. Chilton, an attorney, served on the Carrboro Board of Aldermen before being elected Mayor in 2005. He became the youngest person ever elected to public office in North Carolina when he was sent to the Chapel Hill Town Council in 1991. Chilton has been particularly concerned with environmental, growth and housing policies throughout his career. Syd Miller, Water Resources Program Manager for the Triangle J Council of Governments, will round out the program. His team provides planning and management services for water resources to local governments, state and federal agencies, and nongovernmental organizations. Miller is Fellow of the Natural Resources Leadership Institute, and holds a Master's degree in regional planning from UNC-CH. His recent work includes the Triangle Area Water Supply Monitoring Project. WOMEN FOR WISE GROWTH HOSTS 2nd FORUM ON WATER RESOURCES "From the Watershed to the Tap: Promoting change to preserve the quantity and quality of our water supply" will be the theme of Women for Wise Growth's second free public forum on Thursday, April 24. The event will be held in the Durham County Main Library auditorium from 7-9 p.m. The forum will focus directly on the relationship between growth and our regional water supplies. Speakers from neighboring counties will consider Durham's public policies on development and watershed protection. Durham draws its drinking water from the Neuse Basin, but discharges its effluent-and is building heavily-in the Haw River watershed/Cape Fear Basin, which includes Jordan Lake. Elaine Chiosso, Executive Director of the Haw River Assembly and an expert on water quality issues, will speak about Durham's relationship to Jordan Lake. In addition to running the influential grass-roots water protection program of the Haw River Assembly, Chiosso is a member of Chatham County's Environmental Review Board and was named by Gov. Easley to the NC Sedimentation Control Commission in 2006. She is expected to discuss such issues as the impact of mass grading and its associated erosion on water quality. Also speaking on April 24 will be Barry Jacobs, chair of the Orange County Board of Commissioners. He has been a Commissioner since 1998, and throughout his time on the Board has been particularly concerned with growth policies and environmental responsibility. He is expected to discuss balancing growth with watershed protection, careful land-use planning, and the preservation of open space. His many civic roles include membership on the NC Commission on Smart Growth, Growth Management and Development. Women for Wise Growth's two-part forum series is designed to help citizens better understand, in the weeks leading up to the May 6 election, several crucial issues concerning growth and natural resources facing Durham County. The April 2 forum focused on the realities of the drought cycle and brought out many important facts regarding water availability, water usage and population pressures on this vital resource. Speaker bios and audio recordings from that event are available at http://h2opodcast.com/water3.html#wwg. Blogger Kevin Davis posted an extensive report at http://www.bullcityrising.com/2008/04/drought-forum-g.html. The Durham County Main Library is located at 300 N. Roxboro St., between Holloway and Liberty Streets, in downtown Durham. It is fully accessible, with plenty of parking. Women for Wise Growth is an ad hoc group of Durham County women concerned with resource management and good government. WWG has no institutional structure or affiliations. For more information, call Julia Borbely-Brown at 688-9479, or email womenforwisegrowth@gmail.com ============== ============== ============== April 2nd Forum Women For Wise Growth Forum ====>Right Click to Download "Introduction" ====>Right Click to Download "Syd Miller" ====>Right Click to Download "Mark Chilton" ====>Right Click to Download "Bill Holman" ====>Right Click to Download "Questions and Answers" ====>Right Click to Download "Questions and Answers" Copyright © 2008 Women For Wise Growth, All Rights Reserved. ============== ============== ============== April 24th Forum Women For Wise Growth Forum ====>Right Click to Download "Introduction" ====>Right Click to Download "Barry Jacobs" ====>Right Click to Download "Elaine Chiosso" ====>Right Click to Download "Questions and Answers" ====>Right Click to Download "Questions and Answers" Copyright © 2008 Women For Wise Growth, All Rights Reserved. ============== ============== ============== "Making Contact" National Radio Project "Making Contact," produced by National Radio Project, offers many great radio programs. Please visit their webpage for a complete listing: http://www.radioproject.org/. Also subscribe to the podcast via their RSS feed: http://www.radioproject.org/rss.xml Here are descriptions from their website of a few of their Radio Programs: "Waves of Change, Rivers of Doubt: Global Water Issues and Solutions" (hour-long special) "Making Contact" #34-06 August 23, 2006 - produced by National Radio Project ====>Click to hear "Waves of Change, Rivers of Doubt: Global Water Issues and Solutions" Description, guest list and links Water... it's the source of all life. 70 percent of the planet is covered in it, and more than half of your body is made up of it. We use water everyday to refresh, revive, to subsist... yet, water resources are growing increasingly scarce around the world and access to potable water is alarmingly difficult in some regions. In this special, hour-long edition, we look at some core water issues affecting people around the world, including privatization, access to clean water, desalination technology, bottled water debates, and non-point source pollution. A half-hour version of this program is also available. Copyright © 2007 National Radio Project, All Rights Reserved. ============== ============== ============== ====>Click to hear "Women Rising VIII: International Changemakers Protecting the Environment" July 26, 2006 Description, guest list and links Women are gaining influence as leaders throughout the world, fighting for peace, justice, the environment and civil society. On this edition, we profile four courageous young ecology activists, going to court for environmental justice and leading regional cooperation to rescue precious natural resources and indigenous cultures. Anne Kajir is an indigenous lawyer fighting for the rainforest and the people of Papua New Guinea. Olya Melen is a Ukrainian lawyer who stopped her government from destroying the Danube Delta. Dana Rassas is a Palestinian activist on trans-boundary water policy issues in the Middle East. Ilana Meallam is an Israeli advocate for the indigenous Bedouin people of the Middle East. Copyright © 2007 National Radio Project, All Rights Reserved. ============== ============== ============== ====>Click to hear "Who Owns Our Water? Profits vs. Public Interest" January 5, 2005 Description, guest list and links Water is essential to survival. Yet access to fresh, clean water has increasingly come under the control of private corporations, making it less affordable and harder to come by. On this edition, we'll take a look at water as a basic human right. We'll hear about a plan to privatize water services in Lagos, Nigeria, and we'll hear about how activists in Maui, Hawaii are working to recover the island's water sources for public use. Copyright © 2007 National Radio Project, All Rights Reserved. ============== ============== ============== ====>Click to hear "Water Woes" August 10, 2005 Description, guest list and links Access to clean water is a matter of life and death for poor people across the globe. And that's the reality over one billion face today. On this edition, we'll hear about the problem of water domestically and abroad, and the community organizers who are creating solutions. People in cities ranging from Manilla in the Philippines to Felton, California are thirsting for change. Copyright © 2007 National Radio Project, All Rights Reserved. ============== ============== ============== ====>Click to hear "Katrina Uncovers: Environment, Health and Rescue" September 13, 2005 Description, guest list and links Millions of lives torn apart, a city in ruins, and a government in denial. No doubt, Katrina is one of the most catastrophic and costly events ever to hit the U.S. In this first part of a special series, hear the powerful stories from those who survived and find out how you can help with the relief efforts in your local communities and beyond. We'll also take a look at how the events unfolded after Katrina smashed into the shores of the southern U.S. coastline and we'll talk to a water expert who explains what the people in the gulf coast might be up against in the coming months. Copyright © 2007 National Radio Project, All Rights Reserved. ============== ============== ============== ====>Click to hear "Tapping the Market: Privatizing the World's Water Supply" August 28, 2002 Description, guest list and links The World Bank predicts that two-thirds of the worldıs population will not have enough fresh drinking water by the year 2025. Instead of protecting existing supplies, promoting conservation or helping vulnerable populations, many governments are turning to private companies to fix their water woes. Private companies, often large transnational corporations, are looking to cash in. On this edition of Making Contact, we take a look at water privatization in South Africa, Ghana, Bolivia, and the United States. Copyright © 2007 National Radio Project, All Rights Reserved. ============== ============== ============== ====>Click to hear "Water Harvest: A Look at Desalination" December 12, 2001 Description, guest list and links Only a slim percentage of the world's water is usable for human consumption. More than 97 percent of it is salt water. In some areas, where there are shortages of fresh water, people are turning to desalination plants - facilities that can remove salt from ocean water. On this program, we take a look at this technology, and what it means for the environment and our outlook for water supply. Copyright © 2007 National Radio Project, All Rights Reserved. ============== ============== ============== ====>Click to hear "Thirst for Profits: Privatizing the World's Water" May 9, 2001 Description, guest list and links Over one billion people throughout the world lack the most basic water supply. At the same time, agribusiness and other industries are rapidly depleting remaining fresh water sources. On this program, we take a look at the global water supply and the push for privatization. Copyright © 2007 National Radio Project, All Rights Reserved. Living On Earth The Living On Earth podcast Living on Earth with Steve Curwood is the weekly environmental news and information program distributed by Public Radio International. Every week approximately 300 Public Radio stations broadcast Living on Earth's news, features, interviews and commentary on a broad range of ecological issues. The show airs in 9 of the 10 top radio markets and reaches 80% of the US. Their webpage offers a complete listing of many quality audio programs: http://www.loe.org/. Also subscribe to the podcast via their RSS feed: http://www.loe.org/podcast.rss Here are descriptions from their website of their Audio Programs: ====>Click to hear "Pond Scum or Planet Savers?" 11-24-2006 ====>Click to hear The Entire Show: 11-24-2006 Pond scum just might be the answer to solving the CO2 woes of the Industrial Age. Host Bruce Gellerman visits with Dr. Isaac Berzin, founder of GreenFuel Technologies Corporation. Berzin is working on a prototype that uses algae to convert power plant emissions into biofuels. (5:15) Copyright © 2006 Living on Earth, All Rights Reserved. ============== ============== ============== ====>Click to hear "Trash Vortex" 11-17-2006 ====>Click to hear The Entire Show: 11-17-2006 Researchers have discovered a Texas-sized area of trash floating in the Pacific Ocean. Composed primarily of plastic garbage from landlubbers, the area has become both a major threat to marine life and a frightening example of how polluted our oceans are. Living on Earth speaks with Adam Walters, a scientist for Greenpeace who is monitoring the vortex aboard the vessel Esperanza. (5:15) Copyright © 2006 Living on Earth, All Rights Reserved. ============== ============== ============== ====>Click to hear "Banking on Wetlands / Ashley Ahearn" 11-03-2006 ====>Click to hear The Entire Show: 11-03-2006 Wetlands are disappearing at an astonishing rate across the United States. Private companies have come up with a profitable solution to counter the loss. Living on Earth's Ashley Ahearn reports on the problems and potential of this booming environmental industry known as "wetland mitigation banking." (6:00) Copyright © 2006 Living on Earth, All Rights Reserved. ============== ============== ============== ====>Click to hear "Well"-being 10-27-2006 ====>Click to hear The Entire Show: 10-27-2006 When Ryan Hreljac was six years old he learned that many areas around the world did not have access to clean water. Ryan decided to raise money to build a well in a village in Uganda. Akana Jimmy lived in that village and the boys became penpals and fast friends. Ten years later, Ryan and Jimmy join host Steve Curwood to share their story and to discuss Ryan's continuing efforts to bring water to other struggling villages. (7:15) Copyright © 2006 Living on Earth, All Rights Reserved. ============== ============== ============== ====>Click to hear "Foresaken Mermaids / Philippe Cousteau" 10-06-2006 ====>Click to hear The Entire Show: 10-06-2006 In 1970, oceanographer Jacques Cousteau visited Blue Spring in Florida to film a documentary on the manatees that depended on its warm water for their survival. Boat traffic and harassment had turned their winter safe haven into a danger zone. Jacques Cousteau's grandson, Philippe, brings us the story of the manatee's new fight for survival in the face of development and Florida's rising demand for water. (15:30) Copyright © 2006 Living on Earth, All Rights Reserved. ============== ============== ============== ====>Click to hear "Blue Jeans, Blue Water / Jana Schroeder" 09-22-2006 ====>Click to hear The Entire Show: 09-22-2006 In Mexico, the production of worn-out jeans has environmentalists singing the blues. Manufacturing methods send chemicals into nearby waterways. Jana Schroeder reports on how environmental authorities do and don't enforce Mexican environmental laws (10:00) Copyright © 2006 Living on Earth, All Rights Reserved. ============== ============== ============== ====>Click to hear "Problems Underground / Julie Grant" 09-15-2006 ====>Click to hear The Entire Show: 09-15-2006 Although we don't pay them much attention, when sewer systems fail the consequences are far worse than the smell might indicate. Julie Grant of WKSU in Kent, Ohio, goes underground to find out what's wrong with our nation's sewage systems. (6:30) Copyright © 2006 Living on Earth, All Rights Reserved. ============== ============== ============== ====>Click to hear "New Orleans Health" 09-08-2006 ====>Click to hear The Entire Show: 09-08-2006 A year after Hurricane Katrina, critics of the EPA say the health hazards in New Orleans are under-researched and under-regulated. Living on Earth talks with Dr. Gina Solomon, a senior scientist with the Natural Resources Defense Council, who is on the ground in New Orleans testing the quality of the air, sediment, and water. (5:30) Copyright © 2006 Living on Earth, All Rights Reserved. ============== ============== ============== ====>Click to hear "Wetland Mystery / Ashley Ahearn" 09-08-2006 ====>Click to hear The Entire Show: 09-08-2006 Marsh grass is dying in wetlands in the northeastern U.S. and scientists are having a hard time finding out what's causing this "sudden wetland dieback." Living on Earth's Ashley Ahearn visited some sick wetlands and has our story. (5:00) Copyright © 2006 Living on Earth, All Rights Reserved. ============== ============== ============== ====>Click to hear "Saving the Bay / Andrea Kissack" 08-11-2006 ====>Click to hear The Entire Show: 08-11-2006 There was a time when the San Francisco Bay was replete with native oysters. But it's been many years now since they were contaminated and fished out. As part of efforts to restore the Bay, Andrea Kissack of KQED reports scientists are trying to bring back these useful and sought-after mollusks. (6:00) Copyright © 2006 Living on Earth, All Rights Reserved. ============== ============== ============== ====>Click to hear "Water Permeable Concrete / Conrad Fox" 08-04-2006 ====>Click to hear The Entire Show: 08-04-2006 Mexico City gets almost 30 inches of rain each year, but most of it runs out to the ocean through extensive drainage systems. During the summer rains, the streets flood and the aquifers are not refilling fast enough to keep the water supply at a constant level. A group of entrepreneurs believe they have a solution to the city's water problems with a material called "Ecocreto." Conrad Fox reports. (9:00) Copyright © 2006 Living on Earth, All Rights Reserved. ============== ============== ============== ====>Click to hear "Coral Talk / Allan Coukell" 08-04-2006 ====>Click to hear The Entire Show: 08-04-2006 Producer Allan Coukell listens to the sounds of a reef, and tells us how fish use sound to find their way around. (2:15) Copyright © 2006 Living on Earth, All Rights Reserved. ============== ============== ============== ====>Click to hear "Emerging Science Note/Toxic Breakdown / Allison Smith" 07-14-2006 ====>Click to hear The Entire Show: 07-14-2006 Researchers develop a non-toxic catalyst that breaks down potentially harmful estrogens in water supplies. Living on Earth's Allison Smith reports. (1:30) Copyright © 2006 Living on Earth, All Rights Reserved. ============== ============== ============== ====>Click to hear "Dead Zones / Mhari Saito" 06-30-2006 ====>Click to hear The Entire Show: 06-30-2006 Dead zones--large areas of water with little oxygen--occur when excess fertilizer and untreated sewage seep into the waters. The dead zones are usually seasonal and they cause fish and other bottom-dwelling animals to move outside the area to avoid being suffocated. Much underwater life also dies. Since the 1960s the number of dead zones worldwide has doubled with each passing decade. In Lake Erie, a massive multiyear study is underway to study how the lake's ecosystem is affected by its dead zone. Producer Mhari Saito has our report. (6:00) Copyright © 2006 Living on Earth, All Rights Reserved. ============== ============== ============== ====>Click to hear "A Supreme Look at the Swamp / Jeff Young" 06-23-2006 ====>Click to hear The Entire Show: 06-23-2006 The US Supreme Court is split on whether the Clean Water Act protects all wetlands. Living On Earth's Jeff Young tells us what's next for wetlands protection and what the decision tells us about the court's newest members. (7:00) Copyright © 2006 Living on Earth, All Rights Reserved. ============== ============== ============== ====>Click to hear "A Green Legacy?" 06-23-2006 ====>Click to hear The Entire Show: 06-23-2006 The Bush Administration has officially limited the use of snowmobiles in national parks and has created a massive marine protected area as a national monument off the Hawaiian coast. Are these signals of a new environmental direction for the administration? Host Steve Curwood talks with Terry Anderson, executive director of the Property and Environmental Research Center in Bozeman, Montana. Copyright © 2006 Living on Earth, All Rights Reserved. ============== ============== ============== ====>Click to hear "Fishy Business" 06-23-2006 ====>Click to hear The Entire Show: 06-23-2006 Fish stocks crashed in the U.S. in the late 80's, prompting the government to require rebuilding plans for all overfished species. Host Steve Curwood turns to Professor Andy Rosenberg, of the University of New Hampshire, who has just completed a ten-year assessment of fish population rebuilding efforts in the U.S., to find out how the recovery's going. (5:00) Copyright © 2006 Living on Earth, All Rights Reserved. ============== ============== ============== ====>Click to hear "Lake Okeechobee At Risk" 06-16-2006 ====>Click to hear The Entire Show: 06-16-2006 Lake Okeechobee, the second largest lake in the contiguous US, has been called the "Liquid Heart" of Florida, and a 143-mile dike keeps it from spilling over. But new maps from the Army Corps show weaknesses in the walls that could mean disaster for the communities around the lake if a massive hurricane were to breach the dike. Host Steve Curwood talks with Associated Press reporter Brian Skoloff about why the Corps is keeping the maps under wraps. (7:15) Copyright © 2006 Living on Earth, All Rights Reserved. ============== ============== ============== ====>Click to hear "Remaking the Los Angeles River / Ilsa Setziol" 06-16-2006 ====>Click to hear The Entire Show: 06-16-2006 Straightened, lined with concrete, filled with treated sewage, is there still a river in the Los Angeles River? Angelenos are saying yes, and demanding that planners and engineers go to lengths, even great lengths, to bring back a stream Los Angeles can call its own. Ilsa Setziol reports. (15:25) Copyright © 2006 Living on Earth, All Rights Reserved. ============== ============== ============== ====>Click to hear "Stemming Red Tide / Ashley Ahearn" 06-09-2006 ====>Click to hear The Entire Show: 06-09-2006 Red tide hits the world's coasts every year when toxic algae bloom offshore and are swept into coastal waters. But there's a parasite that destroys red tide algae and could one day be used to fend off the toxic blooms. Living on Earth's Ashley Ahearn reports. (5:00) Copyright © 2006 Living on Earth, All Rights Reserved. ============== ============== ============== ====>Click to hear "Prairie Pothole Wetland" 05-26-2006 ====>Click to hear The Entire Show: 05-26-2006 Spring comes alive in central North Dakota, near the Chase Lake National Wildlife Refuge. Nature recordist and photographer Lang Elliott gives Living on Earth host Steve Curwood a tour of a cattail marsh and the birds we're likely to find there. (7:00) Copyright © 2006 Living on Earth, All Rights Reserved. ============== ============== ============== ====>Click to hear "Early Signs: Kilimanjaro / Kate Davidson" 05-19-2006 ====>Click to hear The Entire Show: 05-19-2006 You may have heard the snows of Kilimanjaro are fast disappearing. It turns out, so are the forests. Reporter Kate Davidson spent time with scientists and local farmers in Tanzania to look at the combined effect of tree-cutting and climate change in this installment of the series Early Signs: Reports from a Warming Planet. (14:00) Copyright © 2006 Living on Earth, All Rights Reserved. ============== ============== ============== ====>Click to hear "Out to Sea / Ashley Ahearn" 05-12-2006 ====>Click to hear The Entire Show: 05-12-2006 The Magnuson-Stevens Fisheries Act is up for renewal and there are several proposals on the table. U.S. fish stocks have been steadily recovering since they crashed in the early nineties, and that's leading some fishermen to ask for reduced fishing regulations. But others believe that staying the conservation course will ensure robust fisheries in the future. Living on Earth's Ashley Ahearn reports. (6:00) Copyright © 2006 Living on Earth, All Rights Reserved. ============== ============== ============== ====>Click to hear "Our Fisheries Today by David Helvarg" 05-12-2006 ====>Click to hear The Entire Show: 05-12-2006 David Helvarg might be the ocean's biggest fan. He started the non-profit environmental organization, Blue Frontier, back in 2003 and he's been working to make blue the new green ever since. Host Bruce Gellerman spent the afternoon with Helvarg at the New England Aquarium to talk about the state of America's oceans. (10:30) Copyright © 2006 Living on Earth, All Rights Reserved. ============== ============== ============== ====>Click to hear "Early Signs: Bangladesh / Sandhya Somashekhar and Emilie Raguso" 04-21-2006 ====>Click to hear The Entire Show: 04-21-2006 When scientists discuss countries at risk from the potential effects of climate change, they point to Bangladesh. Just above sea level, and in the flood plain of the Ganges and Brahmaputra rivers, 144 million people live in a space the size of Wisconsin. Producers Sandhya Somashekhar and Emilie Raguso report on what's at stake for Bangladesh. (15:45) Copyright © 2006 Living on Earth, All Rights Reserved. ============== ============== ============== ====>Click to hear "Contaminated Water" 04-14-2006 ====>Click to hear The Entire Show: 04-14-2006 Reports from some troops and company whistleblowers say Halliburton subsidiary KBR supplied contaminated water to military camps in Iraq. Living on Earth's Jeff Young talks with some soldiers who came home sick and wonder if it's from the dirty water. (5:30) Copyright © 2006 Living on Earth, All Rights Reserved. ============== ============== ============== ====>Click to hear "Early Signs: Water Disappearing / Aaron Selverston" 04-14-2006 ====>Click to hear The Entire Show: 04-14-2006 For low-lying coral islands in the South Pacific, the warming of the planet and its atmosphere is not an abstraction, it's a reality. In the fifth in a series on early signs of climate change around the globe, Aaron Selverston reports from the island nation of Kiribati (kiri-bahs). (12:45) Copyright © 2006 Living on Earth, All Rights Reserved. ============== ============== ============== ====>Click to hear "Early Signs: Melting Ice Caps in Ecuador" 04-07-2006 ====>Click to hear The Entire Show: 04-07-2006 This week we travel to the Ecuadorean Andes, to a snow-covered mountain that has been the source of legend for centuries. Now the glacier has melted, and the region's native people try to cope with a warmer, drier, world. (15:25) Copyright © 2006 Living on Earth, All Rights Reserved. ============== ============== ============== ====>Click to hear "Water Dialogues" 03-24-2006 ====>Click to hear The Entire Show: 03-24-2006 The fourth international World Water Forum just wrapped up in Mexico City. Elisabeth Malkin, who covered the forum for the New York Times, says that with representatives from NGO's, governments, the UN and the corporate world, it was hard to find common ground. She speaks with host Bruce Gellerman from Mexico City. (5:10) Copyright © 2006 Living on Earth, All Rights Reserved. ============== ============== ============== ====>Click to hear "Quenching Australia’s Thirst" 03-24-2006 ====>Click to hear The Entire Show: 03-24-2006 Brad Moggridge is a hydro-geologist with the New South Wales Department of Environment and Conservation. He's found a way, through cultural research, to tap his aboriginal heritage for solutions to Australia's modern day water problems. (4:00) Copyright © 2006 Living on Earth, All Rights Reserved. ============== ============== ============== ====>Click to hear "Early Signs: Reports From a Warming Planet / Jori Lewis" 03-24-2006 ====>Click to hear The Entire Show: 03-24-2006 In the second of a series on climate change, Living on Earth travels to East Africa. The waters of Lake Tanganyika have warmed in recent years. Now some scientists are worried that that could be affecting a small fish that's a staple food for Tanzania. Jori Lewis reports. (14:50) Copyright © 2006 Living on Earth, All Rights Reserved. ============== ============== ============== ====>Click to hear "Early Signs: Reports From a Warming Planet / Nick Miroff and Jon Mooalem" 03-17-2006 ====>Click to hear The Entire Show: 03-17-2006 Living on Earth kicks off a six-part series of reports from places where climate change concerns are already bringing change. First stop: Churchill, Manitoba where Nick Miroff and Jon Mooalem report diminished polar ice is forcing a town to reexamine whether it has any future as "The Polar Bear Capital of the World." (15:00) Copyright © 2006 Living on Earth, All Rights Reserved. ============== ============== ============== ====>Click to hear "Whither the Waterways" 02-17-2006 ====>Click to hear The Entire Show: 02-17-2006 On Tuesday the Supreme Court will hear two clean water cases. Protection for more than half the country's wetlands is the issue. Host Jeff Young speaks with David Savage, a reporter for the Los Angeles Times about what's at stake. (5:30) Copyright © 2006 Living on Earth, All Rights Reserved. ============== ============== ============== ====>Click to hear "U.S. Indian Tribes Challenge Canadian Company's Legacy of Waste / Ingrid Lobet" 02-10-2006 ====>Click to hear The Entire Show: 02-10-2006 Observers say an environmental border dispute 20 years in the making is likely to set precedent. A Canadian metal smelter dumped 15 million tons of waste into the Columbia River, which many suspect to be poisonous to fish and wildlife. Now Indian tribes who live downstream in the U.S. want the American Superfund law be applied to the Canadian company. Living on Earth's Ingrid Lobet reports. (16:20) Copyright © 2006 Living on Earth, All Rights Reserved. ============== ============== ============== ====>Click to hear "Drought in East Africa Causes Crisis" 01-27-2006 ====>Click to hear The Entire Show: 01-27-2006 A severe drought in East Africa has taken a heavy toll on livestock and now, people are beginning to die from lack of food. Host Steve Curwood talks with Brendan Cox from Oxfam in Wajir, Northern Kenya about the crisis. LOE also speaks with Richard Moller, head of Wildlife and Security at Lewa Wildlife Conservancy in Kenya, about how the drought is affecting wildlife. (7:15) Copyright © 2006 Living on Earth, All Rights Reserved. ============== ============== ============== ====>Click to hear "Mercury in Fish: Casting Caution to the Wind?" 01-13-2006 ====>Click to hear The Entire Show: 01-13-2006 An ad campaign called FishScam.com says government mercury advisories are inaccurate and meant to scare consumers. Host Bruce Gellerman talks to David Martosko of the Campaign for Consumer Freedom about the campaign. He also speaks with Dr. Leo Trasande of Mount Sinai Medical School who says studies show that, in fact, the government safety threshold for mercury should be even stricter. We also speak with reporter Sam Roe of the Chicago Tribune. His recent series "The Mercury Menace" revealed many fish deemed safe by the government contain high levels of mercury. (12:00) Copyright © 2006 Living on Earth, All Rights Reserved. ============== ============== ============== ====>Click to hear "Pond Scum or Planet Savers? / Bruce Gellerman" 01-13-2006 ====>Click to hear The Entire Show: 01-13-2006 Pond scum just might be the answer to solving the CO2 woes of the industrial age. Host Bruce Gellerman visits with Dr. Isaac Berzin, founder of GreenFuel Technologies Corporation. Berzin is working on a prototype that uses algae to convert power plant emissions into biofuels. (6:00) Copyright © 2006 Living on Earth, All Rights Reserved. ============== ============== ============== ====>Click to hear "Greenland's Ice Melt" 12-09-2005 ====>Click to hear The Entire Show: 12-09-2005 Carbon dioxide emissions are causing temperatures to rise and that's making Greenland glaciers melt at rates faster than previously expected. Living on Earth host Steve Curwood talks with Richard Alley, professor of geosciences at Penn State University, about how melting ice sheets may affect sea levels and global coastlines. (6:15) Copyright © 2006 Living on Earth, All Rights Reserved. ============== ============== ============== ====>Click to hear "Water Warnings" 12-02-2005 ====>Click to hear The Entire Show: 12-02-2005 A group of engineering students from MIT have come up with a cheap, yet effective, flood warning system. Host Steve Curwood talks with Elizabeth Basha of the Flood Safe Early Warning project about the group's work in hurricane ravaged Honduras. (4:00) Copyright © 2006 Living on Earth, All Rights Reserved. ============== ============== ============== ====>Click to hear "Maine River Cleanup Spawns Controversy / Susan Sharon" 11-11-2005 ====>Click to hear The Entire Show: 11-11-2005 Once on the list of the country's ten most polluted rivers, Maine's Androscoggin River was one of the inspirations for the Clean Water Act. But some old mill towns in Maine are at odds over the cleanup of the Androscoggin. Maine Public Broadcasting Network's Susan Sharon has our story. (9:00) Copyright © 2006 Living on Earth, All Rights Reserved. ============== ============== ============== ====>Click to hear "Planting Sideways" 11-04-2006 ====>Click to hear The Entire Show: 11-04-2005 Host Bruce Gellerman interviews Lindsey Williams, a freshmen at Southern Methodist University. She won the Gloria Barron Prize for Young Heroes for inventing a new kind of irrigation system for crops. (3:00) Copyright © 2006 Living on Earth, All Rights Reserved. ============== ============== ============== ====>Click to hear "The Mad Kayaker" 11-04-2005 ====>Click to hear The Entire Show: 11-04-2005 Roger Frymire has been patrolling the Charles River watershed in Massachusetts for over a decade, testing viral and bacterial levels that have been appearing at alarming highs. Living on Earth's Dennis Foley has this portrait of an average citizen who's putting the problem of water pollution on the radar. (7:30) Copyright © 2006 Living on Earth, All Rights Reserved. ============== ============== ============== ====>Click to hear "Environmental Refugees" 10-28-2005 ====>Click to hear The Entire Show: 10-28-2005 Scholars predict fifty million people will be displaced within five years by rising sea levels, desertification, dried up aquifers, and other serious environmental change. The term "environmental refugees" has increasingly been invoked over the last two decades to describe growing waves of people displaced by environmental problems. Host Steve Curwood talks with Andrew Simms. He's the Policy Director of the New Economics Foundation in the United Kingdom and the author of a recent book entitled, "Environmental Refugees: The Case for Recognition". (6:30) Copyright © 2006 Living on Earth, All Rights Reserved. ============== ============== ============== Please visit the Living On Earth site: http://www.loe.org/ to find many other valuable audio programs. ============== ============== ==============   For further information contact: Joseph Puentes email: Clean@h2opodcast.com RSS FEED: http://h2opodcast.com/rss.xml WWW H2Opodcast.com Copyright © Joseph L. Puentes 2005-2012 Counter developed by website design company designer.