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Planet Philadelphia
Environmental radio show

WGGT-LP 92.9 FM in NW Philadelphia & gtownradio.com
4-5:00 PM ET, the 1st & 3rd Fridays/month.

How’s Our Energy Grid? New Planet Philadelphia February 7, 2020

1/31/2020

 
The U.S. has the least reliable grid of any industrial nation. What are the implications for the grid as climate change continues and as we work to mitigate it by lowering the greenhouse gas emitting energy sources? Tune in to  Planet Philadelphia environmental radio show 4-5:00 PM Friday 2/7/20, WGGT-LP 92.9 FM in Philadelphia and/or live streaming at gtownradio.com.
  • Paul Denholm, is Principal Energy Analyst at the National Renewable Energy Laboratory and a member of the Grid Systems Group in the Strategic Energy Center.  He talks about how the grid will need to change as it accommodates renewable energy and energy sources with less greenhouse gas emissions, as well as how storage works with the grid to accommodate fluctuating sources of and needs for energy.
  • Robert Wood, P.E., is Senior Electrical Engineer on micro-grids at the National Renewable Energy Laboratory’s Integrated Applications Center.  He tells us about current developments concerning microgrids and how they may help stabilize the grid, among other things during climate change events, as well as work with renewable sources of energy.

Planet Philadelphia  is a locally produced radio show about our shared environment. 4-5 PM the first and third Friday each month tune your radio WGGT-LP 92.9 FM, Germantown Community Radio, and live streams at gtownradio.com for local, national, and international environmental news and more.


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You can still listen to all the great G-town Radio programing  on  
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Winter woods

1/27/2020

 
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We've been having such an unusually mild winter so far with almost no snow. Still there is beauty to be found. i took these pictures just the other day.
Kay

Listen to the podcast of the live show aired on 1/17/2020

1/19/2020

 
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Did you miss last Friday's Planet Philadelphia environmental radio show? Do you want to share it with friends? Don't worry, just go to the Planet Philadelphia show archives page to listen to this show and other Planet Philadelphia shows aired on our wonderful local community radio station, Germantown Community Radio at  92.9FM WGGT-LP . Happy Listening.

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Listen 4-5:00 PM today - Dr. Carolyn Kousky, Wharton, & Billy Fleming, Ian L. McHarg Center, climate change risks.

1/17/2020

 
New Planet Philadelphia 4-5 pm Friday January 17, 2020 on WGGT-LP 92.9 FM and streaming at gtownradio.com. Today's Discussion: What is the best policy for the US facing grave risks from climate change?
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Billy Fleming (PhD’17) is the Wilks Family Director for The Ian L. McHarg Center at the University of Pennsylvania Stuart Weitzman School of Design. Most recently, he co-authored The Indivisible Guide—a progressive, grassroots organization with more than 6,000 groups—and co-created Data Refuge, an international consortium of scientists, librarians, and programmers working to preserve vital the environmental data at risk of erasure during the Trump Administration.
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Dr. Carolyn Kousky is Executive Director at the Wharton Risk Management and Decision Processes Center at the University of Pennsylvania, where she also directs the Policy Incubator.  Dr. Kousky’s research has examined multiple aspects of disaster insurance markets, the National Flood Insurance Program, federal disaster aid and response, and policy responses to potential changes in extreme events with climate change.


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Don’t miss the Planet Philadelphia! 
This locally produced radio show about
our shared environment airs on the radio waves
4-5 PM the first and third Friday each month on
WGGT-LP 92.9 FM
Germantown Community Radio
and streaming at gtownradio.com.

Not in Philly?
You can still listen to all the great G-town Radio programing  on  
Tunein  (https://tunein.com/) on your phone or other device.

www.planetphiladelphia.com | www.gtownradio.com
facebook |  @planetphila | @gtownradio

Tune in 4-5:00 pm this Friday for a lively discussion on how best to address climate change risks.

1/15/2020

 
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An Atlas for the Green New Deal, The McHarg Center
Planet Philadelphia will feature a talk this Friday with Dr. Carolyn Kousky, Executive Director Wharton Risk Management and Decision Processes Center, and Billy Fleming, the Wilks Family Director for The Ian L. McHarg Center, about the best ways for the US to tackle the many climate change risks and disruptions headed our way. Tune in to Planet Philadelphia 4-5 pm Friday (1/17/2020) on WGGT-LP 92.9 FM Germantown Community Radio and streaming at gtownradio.com for this and more.


Planet Philadelphia is a locally produced
radio show about our shared environment right here in Philadelphia.
Tune in to catch the live show 4-5 PM the first and third Friday each month.

Not in Philly?
You can still listen to all the great G-town Radio programing  on  
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Confused about climate change risks? Tune in next week to Planet Philadelphia 4-5 pm Friday 1/17/20, WGGT-LP 92.9 FM & gtownradio.com to gain some clarity.

1/10/2020

 
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A lot of us are like this poor Philly tree not sure what we can or should be doing about climate change. It's budding in January! Tune in next week for a helpful discussion about what makes the most sense in dealing with the growing climate change risks.

Planet Philadelphia 4-5 pm Friday January 17, 2020 on WGGT-LP 92.9 FM Germantown Community Radio and streaming at gtownradio.com. Planet Philadelphia guests discuss climate change policies:
  • Dr. Carolyn Kousky is Executive Director at the Wharton Risk Management and Decision Processes Center at the University of Pennsylvania, where she also directs the Policy Incubator.  Dr. Kousky’s research has examined multiple aspects of disaster insurance markets, the National Flood Insurance Program, federal disaster aid and response, and policy responses to potential changes in extreme events with climate change.
  • Billy Fleming (PhD’17) is the Wilks Family Director for The Ian L. McHarg Center at the University of Pennsylvania Stuart Weitzman School of Design. Most recently, he co-authored The Indivisible Guide—a progressive, grassroots organization with more than 6,000 groups—and co-created Data Refuge, an international consortium of scientists, librarians, and programmers working to preserve vital the environmental data at risk of erasure during the Trump Administration

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Discussion: What is the best policy for the US facing grave risks from climate change? New Planet Philadelphia 4-5 pm Friday January 17, 2020 on WGGT-LP 92.9 FM and streaming at gtownradio.com

1/10/2020

 
Planet Philadelphia 4-5 pm Friday January 17, 2020 on WGGT-LP 92.9 FM Germantown Community Radio and streaming at gtownradio.com. Planet Philadelphia guests discuss climate change policies, what must we do to best handle the risks climate change presents to the economy and to the nation as a whole:
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Dr. Carolyn Kousky is Executive Director at the Wharton Risk Management and Decision Processes Center at the University of Pennsylvania
, where she also directs the Policy Incubator.  Dr. Kousky’s research has examined multiple aspects of disaster insurance markets, the National Flood Insurance Program, federal disaster aid and response, and policy responses to potential changes in extreme events with climate change.


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Billy Fleming (PhD’17) is the Wilks Family Director for The Ian L. McHarg Center at the University of Pennsylvania Stuart Weitzman School of Design. Most recently, he co-authored The Indivisible Guide—a progressive, grassroots organization with more than 6,000 groups—and co-created Data Refuge, an international consortium of scientists, librarians, and programmers working to preserve vital the environmental data at risk of erasure during the Trump Administration.

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Don’t miss the Planet Philadelphia! 
This locally produced radio show about
our shared environment airs on the radio waves
4-5 PM the first and third Friday each month on
WGGT-LP 92.9 FM
Germantown Community Radio
and streaming at gtownradio.com.

Not in Philly?
You can still listen to all the great G-town Radio programing  on  
Tunein  (https://tunein.com/) on your phone or other device.

www.planetphiladelphia.com | www.gtownradio.com
facebook |  @planetphila | @gtownradio

Australia is burning by Michael Mann

1/9/2020

 
Australia, your country is burning – dangerous climate change is here with you now
by Michael Mann
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This article originally appeared in The Guardian and is republished here as part of Covering Climate Now, a global journalistic collaboration to strengthen coverage of the climate story.
After years studying the climate, my work has brought me to Sydney where I’m studying the linkages between climate change and extreme weather events.

Prior to beginning my sabbatical stay in Sydney, I took the opportunity this holiday season to vacation in Australia with my family. We went to see the Great Barrier Reef – one of the great wonders of this planet – while we still can. Subject to the twin assaults of warming-caused bleaching and ocean acidification, it will be gone in a matter of decades in the absence of a dramatic reduction in global carbon emissions.

We also travelled to the Blue Mountains, another of Australia’s natural wonders, known for its lush temperate rainforests, majestic cliffs and rock formations and panoramic vistas that challenge any the world has to offer. It too is now threatened by climate change.

I witnessed this firsthand.

I did not see vast expanses of rainforest framed by distant blue-tinged mountain ranges. Instead I looked out into smoke-filled valleys, with only the faintest ghosts of distant ridges and peaks in the background. The iconic blue tint (which derives from a haze formed from “terpenes” emitted by the Eucalyptus trees that are so plentiful here) was replaced by a brown haze. The blue sky, too, had been replaced by that brown haze.

The locals, whom I found to be friendly and outgoing, would volunteer that they have never seen anything like this before. Some even uttered the words “climate change” without any prompting.

The songs of Peter Garrett and Midnight Oil I first enjoyed decades ago have taken on a whole new meaning for me now. They seem disturbingly prescient in light of what we are witnessing unfold in Australia.

The brown skies I observed in the Blue Mountains this week are a product of human-caused climate change. Take record heat, combine it with unprecedented drought in already dry regions and you get unprecedented bushfires like the ones engulfing the Blue Mountains and spreading across the continent. It’s not complicated.

The warming of our planet – and the changes in climate associated with it – are due to the fossil fuels we’re burning: oil, whether at midnight or any other hour of the day, natural gas, and the biggest culprit of all, coal. That’s not complicated either.

When we mine for coal, like the controversial planned Adani coalmine, which would more than double Australia’s coal-based carbon emissions, we are literally mining away at our blue skies. The Adani coalmine could rightly be renamed the Blue Sky mine.

In Australia, beds are burning. So are entire towns, irreplaceable forests and endangered and precious animal species such as the koala (arguably the world’s only living plush toy) are perishing in massive numbers due to the unprecedented bushfires.

The continent of Australia is figuratively – and in some sense literally – on fire.

Yet the prime minister, Scott Morrison, appears remarkably indifferent to the climate emergency Australia is suffering through, having chosen to vacation in Hawaii as Australians are left to contend with unprecedented heat and bushfires.

Morrison has shown himself to be beholden to coal interests and his administration is considered to have conspired with a small number of petrostates to sabotage the recent UN climate conference in Madrid (“COP25”), seen as a last ditch effort to keep planetary warming below a level (1.5C) considered by many to constitute “dangerous” planetary warming.

But Australians need only wake up in the morning, turn on the television, read the newspaper or look out the window to see what is increasingly obvious to many – for Australia, dangerous climate change is already here. It’s simply a matter of how much worse we’re willing to allow it to get.

Australia is experiencing a climate emergency. It is literally burning. It needs leadership that is able to recognise that and act. And it needs voters to hold politicians accountable at the ballot box.
Australians must vote out fossil-fuelled politicians who have chosen to be part of the problem and vote in climate champions who are willing to solve it.

Michael E Mann is distinguished professor of atmospheric science at Pennsylvania State University. His most recent book, with Tom Toles, is The Madhouse Effect: How Climate Change Denial Is Threatening Our Planet, Destroying Our Politics, and Driving Us Crazy (Columbia University Press, 2016).

Listen to the podcast of Planet Philadelphia aired 1/3/202 on 92.9 FM & gtownradio.com

1/4/2020

 
Did you miss last Friday's Planet Philadelphia environmental radio show? Do you want to share it with friends? Go to the Planet Philadelphia show archives page to listen to this show and other Planet Philadelphia shows aired on our wonderful local community radio station, Germantown Community Radio at  92.9FM WGGT-LP .
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Planet Philadelphia

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Tune in 4-5:00 PM today – you can help make our world better! Planet Philadelphia

1/3/2020

 
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Listen to Planet Philadelphia 4-5 pm today (1/3/20) on WGGT-LP 92.9 FM Germantown Community Radio and streaming at gtownradio.com.

Achieving victories to reach a regenerative economy: Anthony Rogers-Wright, Policy Coordinator for the Climate Justice Alliance (CJA)
He has over ten years of policy analysis, community organizing and outreach/advocacy experience. Anthony will explain the origins of the climate justice ideas in the GND as well as discuss why he and the CJA believe that a “just transition” to a greener world must place race, gender and class at the center of solutions.  Anthony was interviewed at the recent NetRoots Conference in Philadelphia.


Another way to regenerate, feed the goats your old Christmas tree and restore your spirit: Karen Krivit, Philly Goat Project Director
Karen  and several
enthusiastic volunteers talk about this unique community-based program. Don’t throw your  Christmas tree in the trash. Recycle it by feeding it to the goats at the Philly Goat Project at Awbury Arboretum's Agricultural Village.


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Don’t miss the Planet Philadelphia! 
This locally produced radio show about
our shared environment airs on the radio waves
4-5 PM the first and third Friday each month on
WGGT-LP 92.9 FM
Germantown Community Radio
and streaming at gtownradio.com.

Not in Philly?
You can still listen to all the great G-town Radio programing  on  
Tunein  (https://tunein.com/) on your phone or other device.

www.planetphiladelphia.com | www.gtownradio.com
facebook |  @planetphila | @gtownradio

Thank you!

1/3/2020

 
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Thank you to all you wonderful local community radio supporters!
Planet Philadelphia

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Planet Philadelphia 4-5:00 tomorrow

1/2/2020

 
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Philly Goat Project Community Walk

Listen to Planet Philadelphia 4-5 pm tomorrow (Friday January 3, 2020) on WGGT-LP 92.9 FM Germantown Community Radio and streaming at gtownradio.com. Things we can do right here in Philly to make our world better with Planet Philadelphia guests: 

  • Anthony Rogers-Wright, Policy Coordinator for the Climate Justice Alliance (CJA).  Anthony will explain the origins of the climate justice ideas in the GND.
  • Karen Krivit, Philly Goat Project Director and several enthusiastic volunteers talk about this unique community-based program.

Thank you so much for supporting Planet Philadelphia and
Germantown Community Radio Radio!


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