About

Planet Philadelphia environmental radio show on
Germantown Community Radio at 92.9 FM WGGT-LP, Philadelphia, and www.gtownradio.com

Planet Philadelphia is an environmental radio show created by Kay Wood, the producer and host of the show. It has been broadcast on G-Town Radioat http://www.gtownradio.com/ since September 2015. Ms. Wood is now assisted in producing Planet Philadelphia by reporter Linda Rosenwein, who came on board in Spring of 2017.
 
Planet Philadelphia is an independent  locally produced show that provides professional interviews and reporting about the environment we all share while also providing a platform for local residents to discuss their environmental interests and concerns. The show tackles important topics, presents national environmental news, and gives context for information and perspectives. It makes a special effort to highlight connections between national/global issues and their implications for the local community. 
 
The show has a unique format.  It combines a high level of community participation with interviews from national/global experts, a rare combination in an informative show. 
 
Planet Philadelphia airs 4:00-5:00 p.m. the first and third Friday every month on Germantown Community Radio 92.9 FM WGGT-LP Philadelphia, and live streams on http://www.gtownradio.com. All shows are also available as podcasts at https://www.planetphiladelphia.com/podcasts.
 
Here are a few of the many Planet Philadelphia  guests :
  • Professor Rakesh Agrawal, School of Chemical Engineering, Purdue University, on a new energy system combining solar and hydrogen production called Hydricity; 
  • US Senator Robert Casey Jr. on politics and climate change in Washington.
  • Robert P. Hartwig, the president of the Insurance Information Institute, on how the insurance industry is looking at climate change.
  • Dr. Karl Hausker, Senior Fellow of the World Resources Institute, on research concerning realistic routes to reducing carbon emissions by 2050.
  • State Senator Art Haywood on environmental and climate change and hopes for action in Harrisburg.
  • Rev. Mitchell C. Hescox, President/CEO of the Evangelical Environmental Network, on his strong belief that climate change is the greatest moral challenge of our time and the greatest opportunity for hope.
  • Dr. John Goodenough, the inventor of the lithium–ion battery, on his exciting new battery.
  • Professor Benjamin Horton of the Earth Observatory of Singapore Asian School of the Environment, Nanyang Technological University, Singapor, and Rutgers University speaking about what’s happening with sea level rise and what we can do right now to save our world. 
  • Former Rear Admiral David Titley on climate change and national security; Rutgers University .
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Tune in to Planet Philadelphia the 1st and 3rd Fridays each month at 4:00 to 5:00 pm at 92.9 FM in NW Philadelphia and/or catch the live stream anywhere on the planet at http://www.gtownradio.com/  and listen to a super show.
Podcasts: www.planetphiladelphia.com/podcasts
Planet Philadelphia Info: www.planetphiladelphia.com
Listener Comment Line: (484)278-1846
Email: planetphila (at) gmail.com
Twitter: @planetphila
Facebook: PlanetPhila

It’s our world. Please join the conversation and share your ideas on how to keep it
going strong by listening to and supporting  Planet Philadelphia.

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.”