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A great New Planet Philadelphia - hear host Kay Wood's interview with State Senator Art Haywood, 4:00 pm this Friday, April 1st, streaming on Gtown Radio.

3/28/2016

A great New Planet Philadelphia - hear host Kay Wood's interview with State Senator Art Haywood, 4:00 pm this Friday, April 1st, streaming on Gtown Radio. He's a fabulous guest for this Planet Philadelphia show. State Senator Art Haywood represents our own 4th district in Harrisburg. Listen to host Kay Wood’s interview with the senator as he talks about his views on the proposed and controversial energy hub. Hear his answers not only to Wood’s questions, but also to questions from a number of constituents who contacted Planet Philadelphia with some tough questions of their own about the hub. So it's an exciting new Planet Philadelphia this Friday – 4:00, April 1, 2016 – streaming on wonderful http://www.gtownradio.com/. (Podcast information below.)

Podcasts of the shows become available the day after they broadcast. Please tell all your friends that they too can hear great shows about our environment – after all it’s where we all live, work, and play. To make a comment about what you hear on Planet Philadelphia or if you have a question, please call the listener Comment Line: (484) 278-1846. It would be great to hear what you have to say. To find out more about Planet Philadelphia go to http://www.planetphila.com or http://www.gtownradio.com/. | @planetphila | @gtownradio | Facebook

Podcast: Planet Philadelphia live radio show March 18, 2016

3/19/2016

Great podcast - listen to live Planet Philadelphia show that was streamed on Gtown Radio yesterday to hear:

Sue Caskey, a Mt. Airy resident and environmental science writer, talk with Kay about the AAAS Annual Meeting in Washington D.C.
New Sustainability Director Christine Knapp, who was appointed by Mayor Jim Kenney in January, talk about what Philly is doing to further efforts to grow greener and prosper while doing it.
Robert P. Hartwig, the president of the Insurance Information Institute, on how the insurance industry is looking at climate change.

https://www.mixcloud.com/PlanetPhiladelphia/planet-philadelphia-radio-show-live-on-gtown-radio-march-18-2016/

Podcasts of the shows become available the day after they broadcast. Please tell all your friends that they too can hear great shows about our environment – after all it’s where we all live, work, and play. To make a comment about what you hear on Planet Philadelphia or if you have a question, please call the listener Comment Line: (484)278-1846. It would be great to hear what you have to say. To find out more about Planet Philadelphia go to http://www.planetphila.com or http://www.gtownradio.com/.
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Tune In Today - Planet Philadelphia 4:00 pm http://www.gtownradio.com/

3/18/2016

Great New Planet Philadelphia radio show 4:00 pm today with host Kay Wood, streaming on http://www.gtownradio.com/ Sue Caskey, a Mt. Airy resident and environmental science writer, will talk live with Kay about her visit to the AAAS Annual Meeting in Washington D.C. Also on this Planet Philadelphia, listen to two great interviews; the first will be with our new Sustainability Director Christine Knapp, who was appointed by Mayor Jim Kenney in January. Then we’ll hear from Robert P. Hartwig the president of the Insurance Information Institute talks about how the insurance industry is looking at climate change.

Get Ready For a Wild Ride - Cartoon

3/18/2016

Today’s high is an unusually warm 62º. Sunday we have a 70% chance of snow with a high of 37º predicated. Here’s a cartoon I drew using characters from The Big Belch. Think it sums things up? For folks who don’t know, The Big Belch is my graphic novel about oil. The cartoon with more info on the novel The Big Belch.

Tune In Tomorrow - Great New Planet Philadelphia 4:00 pm Friday March 18th Gtown Radio

3/17/2016

Listen live to the great New Planet Philadelphia radio show about our environment with host Kay Wood, 4:00 pm Friday March 18th streaming on http://www.gtownradio.com/ Sue Caskey, a Mt. Airy resident and environmental science writer, will talk live with Kay about her visit to the AAAS Annual Meeting in Washington D.C. Also on this Planet Philadelphia, listen to two great interviews; the first will be with our new Sustainability Director Christine Knapp, who was appointed by Mayor Jim Kenney in January. Then we’ll hear from Robert P. Hartwig the president of the Insurance Information Institute talks about how the insurance industry is looking at climate change.

Podcasts of the shows become available the day after they broadcast. Please tell all your friends that they too can hear great shows about our environment – after all it’s where we all live, work, and play.
To make a comment about what you hear on Planet Philadelphia or if you have a question, please call the listener Comment Line: (484)278-1846. It would be great to hear what you have to say.
To find out more about Planet Philadelphia go to http://www.planetphila.com or http://www.gtownradio.com/.

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Pennsylvania's fractured gas attitude.

3/15/2016

Pennsylvania's fractured gas attitude.
By Kay Wood

"Gov. Wolf hails shale ethane exports"
"$4.24M awarded in Dimock tainted-water case"
These two headlines in the same philly.com edition on the same day illustrate Pennsylvania's fractured gas attitude.
Since 1859 when the first successful oil well was drilled near Titusville, Pennsylvania, fossil fuels have been a very useful and toxic form of energy that’s been providing us with wonderful amounts of energy, and poisoning us as we use it. The more energy we get, the more we and our environment are poisoned.
Big oil has more often than not foisted the clean up and health care costs off on the general public. This business model our legislators have allowed, has let some people make obscene amounts of money off oil and gas. Some of them want to make a lot more before the climate change which oil causes wipes us all out. The logic of that escapes me, but there it is.
Philadelphia owns PGW and makes money from it. Philly is also a city desperately in need of revenue. That could be why our city leaders are even considering increasing fossil fuel processing here. This is with something misleadingly labeled an “energy” hub by gas promoters. It’s a plan to increase the processing and transshipment of fracked gas in Philly.
The gas industry is the same industry that by the time of the first Earth Day had gotten Philadelphia labeled "Filthadelphia.” It’s the same industry whose leavings we've spent the last 40 some years and enormous resources trying to clean up. We’ve made good progress, but even after all that effort and expense, a couple years back Forbes magazine cited us as number 1 for toxicity in the country, and the Clean Air Council says we’ve got the third worst air.
Here's one way to heal our fractured future. Why not invest in clean energy?

Green energy jobs are the fastest growing job sector in the energy business.
There's been enormous technological advances in producing clean energy efficiently.
In just the last couple years the prices for clean energy, especially solar, have dropped exponentially faster than anyone imagined could happen.
It’s smarter to invest in clean energy. Bloomberg Finance and other such sources have often pointed out that once you build the clean energy infrastructure the energy stock is essentially free.
It is a safer more predictable investment than any fossil fuel which has a wildly boom and bust business cycle – something it seems to me would be good for city budget planning.
In the cost benefit ratio between gas and clean energy one also needs to include the stranded assets, huge toxic clean up and health costs that come with fossil fuel. Clean energy doesn’t saddle us with the sort of devil’s bargain we made with oil. You don't poison the workers and the neighborhoods nor the planet in the same way with clean energy.

Shouldn't we if we want a sustainable healthy prosperous future have a clean energy hub and possibly even change Philadelphia Gas Works to Philadelphia Green Works?

Kay Wood is the producer/host of Planet Philadelphia environmental radio show on Gtown Radio. The website is planetphila.com. She can be reached at [email protected].

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Great New Planet Philadelphia radio show about our environment 4:00 pm Friday March 18th streaming on Gtown Radio

3/11/2016

Listen live to the next great new Planet Philadelphia radio show about our environment with host Kay Wood, 4:00 pm Friday March 18th streaming on http://www.gtownradio.com/. Sue Caskey, a Mt. Airy resident and environmental science writer, will talk live with Kay about her visit to the AAAS Annual Meeting in Washington D.C. Also on this Planet Philadelphia, listen to two great interviews; the first will be with our new Sustainability Director Christine Knapp, who was appointed by Mayor Jim Kenney in January. Then we’ll hear from Dr. Robert P. Hartwig the president of the Insurance Information Institute talks about how the insurance industry is looking at climate change.

Podcasts of the shows become available the day after they broadcast. Please tell all your friends that they too can hear great shows about our environment – after all it’s where we all live, work, and play.

To make a comment about what you hear on Planet Philadelphia or if you have a question, please call the listener Comment Line: (484)278-1846. It would be great to hear what you have to say.

To find out more about Planet Philadelphia go to http://www.planetphila.com or http://www.gtownradio.com/. @planetphila | @gtownradio | Facebook

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