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Tune in for more on cleaning up our environment by dealing better with waste. New Plant Philadelphia radio show 4-5:00 pm tomorrow, 11/6/20

10/30/2020

Photo courtesy of the Philadelphia Office Of Sustainability

Managing Waste
Planet Philadelphia 4-5:00 PM Friday 11/6/20
92.9 FM WGGT-LPin Philadelphia
and live streaming at gtownradio.com.

Planet Philadelphia environmental radio show 4-5:00 PM Friday 11/6/20:
This show continues our series of interviews about waste. During the pandemic, waste and trash issues have significantly worsened in some cities, including Philadelphia, although they are always important environmental issues. We will be emphasizing some significant types of waste: food and e-waste.

Haley Jordan and Helena Rudoffare both in the Philadelphia’s government Office of Sustainability.Hayley is the Program Coordinator of a program to minimize waste and implement policies within the City’s municipal agencies in support of its Zero Waste goals. Helena is a Program Coordinator of a program working with residents and businesses to achieve Zero Waste and also coordinates several recent food waste initiatives. They will be talking about waste in general, and several of Philadelphia’s newest waste management programs, with an emphasis on food waste.
Jordan Howell is a professor of sustainable business at Rowan University. He has a joint appointment in the Dept. of Geography, Planning & Sustainability and the Dept. of Management and Entrepreneurship. He is the Program Coordinator for the Environmental & Sustainability Studies offerings at Rowan. Professor Howell has studied the performance of markets for recyclable materials and the history and future of waste management. He will be discussing the management of e-waste.

The next Planet Philadelphia environmental radio show will be
4:00-5:00 PM November 6th. Tune in then to hear the broadcast show at
WGGT-LP 92.9 FM in Philadelphia or live stream anywhere at gtownradio.com.

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Resources links from Oct 16th show

10/22/2020

Weekly list of environmentally related events in the Philadelphia region
Put together by Meenal Raval
Philly Talks Climate: https://phillytalksclimate.com/connect/

Environmental/Climate Change Solutions
From the consulting group Solar Impulse. There are over 1000 of these, many may be technical
https://solarimp0ulse.com/efficient-solutions-search

Renaming the former Philadelphia refinery now owned by Hilco
Jasmine Sessoms
Senior Vice President of Corporate Affairs
HRP - Hilco Redevelopment Partners
JSessoms@hilcoglobal.com
215-907-8345 (Cell)
847-509-1100 (Main)
215-215-339-2183 (Work)

Contact information provided by Peter Winslow, Please mention that he provided this contact information and send her his greetings.

Department of Environmental Protection of PA Education Grants
Applications accepted until Dec. 11
There are mini-grants of up to $3000 and general grants of $20,000 to $80,000
Priorities are water quality, climate change and environmental justice
How-to webinar and other information about these grants:
https://www.dep.pa.gov/Citizens/EnvironmentalEducation/Grants/Pages/default.aspx

Please Vote

10/20/2020

Podcast: Cleaning up the hood with community activist, Matthew George. Radio show aired 10/16/20

10/17/2020

The Planet Philadelphia environmental radio show aired 10/16/20 at 92.9 FM WGGT-LP in Philadelphia and live streaming everywhere at gtownradio.com. Listen to our conversation with Matthew George, the creator of the project to clean up trash Germantown while spurring community engagement. His project “I Love Thy Hood” is an inspiring example of how one person can help improve people’s lives. Also on today’s show is a round up of important environmental stories that affect all our lives.

Full show broadcast 10/16/20:
https://www.mixcloud.com/PlanetPhiladelphia/cleaning-up-the-hood-with-community-activist-matthew-george-radio-show-aired-101620/

Individual interview:
https://soundcloud.com/planetphiladelphia/matthew-george-i-lovethy-hood-101620

Planet Philadelphia · Matthew George - I LoveThy Hood - 10/16/20

Listen to Planet Philadelphia 4-5 today: I Love Thy Hood, and more

10/16/2020

Tune in to Planet Philadelphia 4-5:00 PM today (Friday 10/16/20) for our conversation with Matthew George, the creator of the project to clean up trash Germantown and spur more community engagement.

Matthew George. Photo credit: Linette Kielenski

Also on today’s show is a round up of important environmental stories that affect all our lives. Listen to Planet Philadelphia today at 92.9 FM WGGT-LP in Philadelphia and live streaming everywhere at gtownradio.com

Neighborhood Trash:
A Community-Run Approach
Planet Philadelphia
4-5:00 PM today 92.9 FM WGGT-LPin Philadelphia
and live streaming at gtownradio.com.

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Another idea on how to clean up the neighborhood

10/15/2020

We're very lucky that Signe Wilkinson gave permission to reproduce her cartoon today. Follow her fun yet trenchant political cartoons in the Philadelphia Inquirer here: https://www.inquirer.com/author/wilkinson_signe/

And please do tune in tomorrow for
Neighborhood Trash:
A Community-Run Approach
Planet Philadelphia 4-5:00 PM Friday10/16/20
92.9 FM WGGT-LPin Philadelphia
and live streaming at gtownradio.com.

We will be talking with Mathew George, a resident of the Germantown area of Philadelphia, about how he and his fiancé, Bria Howard, addressed the litter around their neighborhood with their project, I Love Thy Hood.

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Cleaning up the hood, new Planet Philadelphia 10/6/2020

10/9/2020

Neighborhood Trash:
A Community-Run Approach
Planet Philadelphia 4-5:00 PM Friday10/16/20
92.9 FM WGGT-LPin Philadelphia
and live streaming at gtownradio.com.

Photo credit: Linette Kielenski

Planet Philadelphia environmental radio show 4-5:00 PM Friday10/16/20:

This is the first of several interviews we will air this fall about waste and trash, which have proliferated during the pandemic. This first interview shows how dedicated community members can help with trash troubles and neighborhoods.

Mathew George, a resident of the Germantown area of Philadelphia, will talk about how he and his fiancé, Bria Howard, addressed the litter around their neighborhood and began to build this project, I Love Thy Hood, into a general community organization devised by and run by the people in the neighborhood.
News Segment, our reporter, Linda Rosenwein, will catch us up on some of the interesting and important environmental stories of the last few months.

Listen to the next Planet Philadelphia environmental radio show
4:00-5:00 PM October 16th on
WGGT-LP 92.9 FM in Philadelphia or
live streaming everywhere at gtownradio.com.

Not in Philly?
You can still listen to all the great G-town Radio programing on
Tunein , Simple Radio, or other aps on your phone or other device.

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Resources Mentioned on October 2nd Planet Philadelphia

10/5/2020

1) Tree Philly giveaway of 1000 trees to residents:
Register to pick up trees at TreePhilly.org. Trees can be picked up on Oct. 17 and Nov. 21.

2) Report by HR&A Advisors on Feasibility Study for the City about a Philadelphia Public Bank
https://www.phila.gov/media/20200930101919/Philadelphia-Public-Bank-Feasibility-Study_-FINAL_Sept-2020.pdf

3) Reliable and Informative Online Media Sources on the Environment
Note that some of these generate the news themselves, others aggregate news from other sources. In some cases, both online and print media for a particular source are available.

Anthropocene newsletter https://www.anthropocenemagazine.org/
Center for Public Integrity - investigative group that occasionally focuses on environmental issues https://publicintegrity.org/about/subscribe/
Daily Climate newsletter (also their website) https://www.dailyclimate.org/st/Newsletter_Subsciption
Environmental Health News - newsletter is Above the Fold https://www.dailyclimate.org/st/Newsletter_Subsciption - also has a good website and publishes the DailyClimate.org
The Guardian - British paper with US version https://www.theguardian.com/us
Inside Climate News newsletter (and website) https://insideclimatenews.org/newsletter
New York Times - has online climate digests Climate Fwd https://www.nytimes.com/column/climate-fwd, plus the full newspaper: https://www.nytimes.com/
Propublica - investigative publication which occasionally focuses on environmental issues https://www.propublica.org/
State Impact - National Public Radio's online source on energy and the environment. Covers 8 states, each with a separate website: Florida, Idaho, Indiana, New Hampshire, Ohio, Oklahoma, Pennsylvania, Texas. Overall website: https://stateimpact.npr.org/. Pennsylvania State Impact: https://stateimpact.npr.org/pennsylvania/
Washington Post - full newspaper https://www.washingtonpost.com/
World Resources Institute newsletter - has various newsletters related to the environment. Here is address of their Digest newsletter: https://www.wri.org/sign-wri-digest
Yale Environment 360 newsletter - climate change communication information https://e360.yale.edu/newsletter

This is a very important election

10/5/2020

Podcast of Planet Philadelphia broadcast 10/2/20: A Free Press the Environment and Voting

10/3/2020

Planet Philadelphia guests talk about the importance of reporting on our environment and how it can inform the citizenry on environmental positions of federal and state candidates when voting:

• Sharon Friedman is Professor and Director of the Science and Environmental Writing Program in the Department of Journalism and Communication at Lehigh University. Sharon will be talking about the state of environmental journalism, what makes for good journalism in this area, and how to evaluate environmental media.
• Liz Robinson is the founder of the Energy Coordinating Agency and the Keystone Energy Efficiency Alliance. Liz has been our correspondent from Harrisburg (capital city of PA). She will be reporting on the environmental/climate platforms of our presidential candidates and of our state legislature.

Full show:

The next Planet Philadelphia environmental radio show will be
4:00-5:00 PM October 16th. Please do tune in then to hear the show on
WGGT-LP 92.9 FM in Philadelphia or live stream at gtownradio.com.

Not in Philly?
You can still listen to all the great G-town Radio programing on
Tunein , Simple Radio, or other aps on your phone or other device.

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New Planet Philadelphia 4-5:00 PM Today: A Free Press, the Environment, and Voting

10/2/2020

Pre-election Show
Information for Environmental Choices
Planet Philadelphia 4-5:00 PM Today, (10/2/20)
92.9 FM WGGT-LP in Philadelphia
and live streaming everywhere at gtownradio.com.

Tune in today to hear our Planet Philadelphia guests talk about the importance of reporting on our environment and how it can inform the citizenry on the positions of federal and state candidates for the upcoming election.

Sharon Friedman is Professor and Director of the Science and Environmental Writing Program in the Department of Journalism and Communication at Lehigh University. She also directs Lehigh’s Environmental Studies Program and is the Associate Director of its Environmental Initiative. Her research focuses on risk communication issues and how scientific, environmental and health issues are communicated to the public. She is the co-author of Reporting on the Environment: A Handbook for Journalists. Sharon will be talking about the state of environmental journalism, what makes for good journalism in this area, and how to evaluate environmental media.
Liz Robinson founded the Energy Coordinating Agency in Philadelphia and the Keystone Energy Efficiency Alliance (a trade association for energy efficiency in PA and NJ). She also has helped the Energy Coop transition to renewables, and now is the Director of the Philadelphia Solar Energy Association. Liz has been our correspondent from Harrisburg (capital city of PA). She will be reporting on the environmental/climate platforms of our presidential candidates and of our state legislature.

Tune it to the new Planet Philadelphia environmental radio show
4:00-5:00 PM today. Listen on air at
WGGT-LP 92.9 FM in Philadelphia or live stream at gtownradio.com.

Not in Philly?
You can still listen to all the great G-town Radio programing on
Tunein , Simple Radio, or other aps on your phone or other device.

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