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About
Planet Philadelphia environmental radio show on G-Town Radio – the sound of Germantown.
Hosted and produced by Kay Wood – a mix of environmental news, interviews, music, poetry, and reporting on community events. Planet Philadelphia is thrilled to now have a dedicated environmental news reporter, Linda Rosenwein, ably assisting to bring you a great show. Please tune in to http://www.gtownradio.com/ 1st and 3rd Fridays each month at 4:00 to 5:00 pm for Planet Philadelphia and listen to a super show. Planet Philadelphia Info: https://www.planetphiladelphia.com/ Listener Comment Line: (484)278-1846 Email: planetphila (at) gmail.com Twitter: @planetphila Facebook: PlanetPhila |
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A Pioneering Environmental Radio Show
Just as all politics is local, so, too, are all natural environments. They all face their own local environmental challenges and have local people working to meet them.
That’s the insight that led to a uniquely formatted program on G-Town Radio — Planet Philadelphia. Created and hosted by Kay Wood, the show focuses on environmental doings in the Philadelphia neighborhoods of Mt. Airy and Germantown with reportage and interviews with neighborhood people and elected state officials. This may well set a pattern that will soon be emulated by local radio stations everywhere.
The show’s obvious appeal explains why national experts about our environment as well as local activists have been attracted to appear as guests. Here are a few of the guests interviewed by host Kay Wood: Rutgers University Professor Benjamin Horton of the Department of Marine and Coastal Science speaking about what’s happening with sea level rise and what we can do right now to save our world; Robert P. Hartwig, the president of the Insurance Information Institute, on how the insurance industry is looking at climate change; Rev. Mitchell C. Hescox, President/CEO of the Evangelical Environmental Network who spoke about his strong belief that climate change is the greatest moral challenge of our time and the greatest opportunity for hope; and Professor Rakesh Agrawal, School of Chemical Engineering, Purdue University, about a new energy system combining solar and hydrogen production that's getting a lot of attention, "Hyricity.”
Planet Philadelphia streams on G-Town Radio – the sound of Germantown. Hosted and produced by Kay Wood – a mix of environmental news, interviews, music, poetry, and reporting on community events. Tune in to http://www.gtownradio.com/ 1st and 3rd Fridays each month at 4:00 to 5:00 pm for Planet Philadelphia and listen to a super show.
Listener Comment Line: (484)278-1846
Email: planetphila (at) gmail.com
Twitter: @planetphila
Facebook: PlanetPhila
Just as all politics is local, so, too, are all natural environments. They all face their own local environmental challenges and have local people working to meet them.
That’s the insight that led to a uniquely formatted program on G-Town Radio — Planet Philadelphia. Created and hosted by Kay Wood, the show focuses on environmental doings in the Philadelphia neighborhoods of Mt. Airy and Germantown with reportage and interviews with neighborhood people and elected state officials. This may well set a pattern that will soon be emulated by local radio stations everywhere.
The show’s obvious appeal explains why national experts about our environment as well as local activists have been attracted to appear as guests. Here are a few of the guests interviewed by host Kay Wood: Rutgers University Professor Benjamin Horton of the Department of Marine and Coastal Science speaking about what’s happening with sea level rise and what we can do right now to save our world; Robert P. Hartwig, the president of the Insurance Information Institute, on how the insurance industry is looking at climate change; Rev. Mitchell C. Hescox, President/CEO of the Evangelical Environmental Network who spoke about his strong belief that climate change is the greatest moral challenge of our time and the greatest opportunity for hope; and Professor Rakesh Agrawal, School of Chemical Engineering, Purdue University, about a new energy system combining solar and hydrogen production that's getting a lot of attention, "Hyricity.”
Planet Philadelphia streams on G-Town Radio – the sound of Germantown. Hosted and produced by Kay Wood – a mix of environmental news, interviews, music, poetry, and reporting on community events. Tune in to http://www.gtownradio.com/ 1st and 3rd Fridays each month at 4:00 to 5:00 pm for Planet Philadelphia and listen to a super show.
Listener Comment Line: (484)278-1846
Email: planetphila (at) gmail.com
Twitter: @planetphila
Facebook: PlanetPhila
Kay Wood and Planet Philadelphia
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Doing a radio show is a completely new and different endeavor for me. Most of my life has been lived as an artist doing different kinds of 2d media. But I was inspired – one could even say driven – to do Planet Philadelphia radio show to give voice to our community about our environment – which is after all simply where we all live, work and play – because of my concerns about climate change – but also because I keep on meeting amazing people doing amazing things to make our world a better place.
I’d been addressing environmental issues in my paintings and other works for years, but after the Deepwater Horizon oil spill and horrendous disaster in the Gulf of Mexico in 2010, I decided I somehow had to reach a wider audience about climate change. The Big Belch, my first ever graphic novel, uses humor to express just how ridiculously insane our behavior is toward the natural environment, oil, and future generations. I hope you enjoy it. "Kay Wood's graphic novella pits a gang of haplessly humorous activists against an environmental Armageddon in the making. In the "Big Belch", the stakes are high but so are the spirits of characters bumbling their way to a better world." — Singe Wilkinson, Pulitzer Prize winning political cartoonist My work on, The Big Belch, has gotten some good things going. Here are links to some: 2014 Art and Change Grant Successful Kickstarter project Fun article about The Big Belch, Fletcher's famous! Contact Kay Wood: k at thebigbelch.com Before I became a graphic novelist, I had a long history as a painter with shows all over – even had a work in a show in Japan. Mostly I showed my paintings, hand made books and installation works at Denise Bibro Fine Art in New York City. If you’d like to find out more about my art history, here’s a small selection: http://kaywood-art.com/ Here's what some critics have said about my past work: Art critic Lilly Wei said about Kay Wood’s work: It’s “... beautifully rendered, visually penetrable but hard, sealed, the pictures and marks embedded in many layers of translucent acrylic, layers that glow as the light passes through them, activating the color. Like fossils in resin, the configurations are preserved and presented, specimens from a cabinet of curiosities, visual tests to be decoded...” Jeff Wright said in Cover Magazine: “...Wood sees her work as balancing aesthetic concerns with thematic propositions...The works are handsome and have a dreamy quality. Their success lies in their ability to conflate both the apparent and the apparition.” R.B. Strauss “...Kay Wood's paintings focus on the geological and the biological. Her work is mixed media on paper on wood...Natural splendor from all quarters is found at Pentimenti Gallery.” Roberta Fallon “...Kay Wood's collage oil paintings. The small, colorful works showcase images of objects--some manmade, some natural--floating in fields of rich color. The images--organic shapes like a pear or a fossilized flower and inorganic shapes like a glove or a shower curtain ring--are hand-drawn, then scanned and collaged onto the paintings. The play of manmade vs. nature works well against a background that suggests a cosmos of fading stars and looming black holes...[It evokes] thoughts about ecology and humankind's careless husbandry of the earth.” |
