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Podcast: Racism and the Environment, radio show aired 6/19/20

6/20/2020

On this show we discuss racism in environmental and scientific fields and working for systems change in institutions causing this environmental injustice.

Dottie Baumgarten, environmental consultant/educator and owner of Sustainable Choices, on problems white people have in making space for people in scientific and environmental groups and how we can change the dynamic.
Rabbi Julie Greenberg, Climate Justice Coordinator of POWER, an interfaith Pennsylvania organization dedicated to social justice through advocacy. She will be talking about a recent hearing to influence the Public Utilities Commission to increase the proportion of PECO’s distributed energy be solar.

Full show aired June 19, 2020:

https://www.mixcloud.com/PlanetPhiladelphia/racism-and-the-environment-radio-show-aired-61920/

Individual interviews aired June 19, 2020:
Dottie Baumgarten: https://soundcloud.com/planetphiladelphia/dottie-baumgarten-aired-june-19-20

Planet Philadelphia · Dottie Baumgarten Aired June 19 - 20

Rabbi Julie Greenberg; https://soundcloud.com/planetphiladelphia/julie-greenberg-june-19-20

Planet Philadelphia · Julie Greenberg June 19 - 20

Planet Philadelphia  environmental radio show airs 4-5:00 PM EST 1st and 3rd Friday each month.
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Podcast of radio show aired 5/15/220: COVID-19 and the summer, Professor Karen Clay and Director Christine Knapp

5/16/2020

Two big factors affecting Covid-19;
the air we breathe and summer heat.In case you missed the show on Friday, here's another chance to listen to the Planet Philadelphia environmental radio show aired 5/15/2020.

Professor Clay talks about her research on the effects of pollution during the 1918 Spanish Flu and its implications for today’s pandemic.

Christine Knapp, is Director of Philadelphia’s Office of Sustainability discusses the City’s plans to cope with heat stress in the summer months (a growing concern as the climate warms up) in the era of Covid-19 when congestion and crowding might worsen the pandemic.

For the full broadcast:

https://www.mixcloud.com/PlanetPhiladelphia/515220-radio-show-covid-19-and-the-summer-professor-karen-clay-and-director-christine-knapp

Individual interviews:
Professor Karen Clay, aired on Planet Philadelphia5/15/2020
https://soundcloud.com/planetphiladelphia/515220-radio-show-covid-19-and-the-1918-flu-professor-karen-clay

Christine Knapp, aired on Planet Philadelphia 5/15/2020
https://soundcloud.com/planetphiladelphia/515220-radio-show-summer-heat-and-covid-19-christine-knapp-director-office-of-sustainability

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

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PODCAST: Fracking and Banking Dilemmas and Solutions, radio show aired 5/1/2020 on 92.9 FM WGGT-LP in Philadelphia and at gtownradio.com

5/2/2020

In case you missed the show on Friday, here's another chance to listen to these interesting informative interviews and more.

Kathy Hipple: The financial picture of oil/gas industry facing big troubles. Kathy Hipple is a financial analyst at the Institute for Energy Economics and Financial Analysis (IEEFA.org) and a finance professor for Bard’s MBA program in Sustainability. She has an MBA in Sustainability. She will talk about a recent report from IEEFA about the long-term economic prospects of oil and gas drilling.
Peter Winslow: How could Public Banking help cities face up to challenges? Peter Winslow will discuss the public banking movement, and specifically the movement to have Philadelphia establish a public bank.

Full show:
https://www.mixcloud.com/PlanetPhiladelphia/fracking-and-banking-dilemmas-and-solutions-aired-512020/

Individual interviews:
Kathy Hipple: Interview aired May 1, 2020. Finances of oil/gas industry facing big troubles.
https://soundcloud.com/planetphiladelphia/kathy-hipple-ieefa-aired-may-1-2020-on-9299fm-philadelphia

Planet Philadelphia · Kathy Hipple - IEEFA - Aired May 1 2020 on 929.9FM Philadelphia

Peter Winslow: Interview aired May 1, 2020. How could Public Banking help cities face up to challenges?
https://soundcloud.com/planetphiladelphia/peter-winslow-could-public-banking-help-cities-better-deal-with-challenges-aired-512020

Planet Philadelphia · Peter Winslow: Could Public Banking help cities better deal with challenges? aired 5/1/2020

Planet Philadelphia environmental radio show airs
4-5:00 PM EST 1st and 3rd Friday each month on
WGGT-LP 92.9 FM in Philadelphia or live stream at gtownradio.com.

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Podcast of show aired 4/17/20 Podcast of show aired 4/17/20

4/18/2020

On this podcast of the Planet Philadelphia radio show aired 4/17/20 on 92.9 FM WGGT-LP and gtownradio.com,
https://www.mixcloud.com/PlanetPhiladelphia/aired-41720-how-does-infrastructure-shape-equity-and-well-being-across-the-urban-rural-gradient/

Temple University’s Center for Sustainable Communities hosted a workshop ‘How does Infrastructure Shape Equity and Well-being Across the Urban-Rural Gradient’September 11th to September 13th, 2019. The workshop was supported by the National Science Foundation (NSF) under Grant No. 1929834 and Temple University in partnership with Drexel University, Hunter College, CUNY, Indiana University-Bloomington, Oak Ridge National Labs, The Franklin Institute, the Delaware Valley Regional Planning Commission, the Sustainable Business Network, and Planet Philadelphia.

The workshop was about the impact of infrastructure on equity and well-being across the urban-rural gradient and used Philadelphia metropolitan region as a case study. One of the goals was to integrate different sets of knowledge and skills from diverse perspectives. Workshop attendees included researchers from the social, engineering, health, data, and environmental sciences, and practitioners, industry leaders, government agencies, educators, and community organizers. Key issues discussed were:

How to create and evaluate models for knowledge co-production
How to meaningfully prioritize equity and wellbeing in sustainability research and planning
How to bring analysis of health into infrastructure research
Possible re-conceptualizations of the urban-rural gradient
The need for comparative research on infrastructure systems

This podcast is a compilation of interviewsconducted throughout the workshop by Kay Wood, the producer and host of the environmental radio show Planet Philadelphia, Linda Rosenwein, Planet Philadelphia assistant producer, and Geography and Urban Studiesgraduate students: Rebecca Croog, Stephen Dickinson, Sarah Heck, Shrobona Karkun, Dirk Kinsey, Matthew Marcus, Naida Elena Montes, Jeronimo Rodriguez, Alisa Shockley, and Melissa Tolosa.

In no particular order, the people in this podcast are:

Melissa R. Gilbert, Workshop Chairperson,Director, Center for Sustainable Communities, Temple University
Kay Wood, Producer and Host of Planet Philadelphia
Leslie S. Richards, Secretary of Transportation, Pennsylvania Department of Transportation
Jerome Shabazz, Executive Director, Overbrook Environmental Education Center
Rachel Valletta, Environmental Scientist, Franklin Institute, Director of theClimate and Urban Systems Partnership (CUSP)
Hallie Eakin, Professor and Senior Sustainability Scientist, Julie Ann Wrigley Global Institute of Sustainability, Arizona State University
Eduardo Brondízio, Distinguished Professor of Anthropology and Director, Center for the Analysis of Social-Ecological Landscapes (CASEL), Indiana University Bloomington
Brett Fusco, Manager, Office of Long-Range Planning, Delaware Valley Regional Planning Commission
Victor Gutierrez, Assistant Professor of Geography and Urban Studies, Temple University
Simi Hoque, Associate Professor of Engineering, Drexel University
Hamil Pearsall, Associate Professor of Geography and Urban Studies, Temple University
Bill Solecki, Professor of Geography at Hunter College and Founder Director, Emeritus, CUNY Institute for Sustainable Cities
Joe Pierce, Assistant Professor, Department of Geography and Environmental Sustainability and Division of Regional and City Planning, University of Oklahoma
Allison Hayes-Conroy, Associate Professor of Geography and Urban Studies Department, Temple University.
Wilson Lara, postdoctoral research fellow in the Geography and Urban Studies Department, Temple University.
Lara Roman,Research Ecologist, Philadelphia Field Station – Northern Research Station, USDA Forest Service
Brett Fusco, Manager, Office of Long-range Planning, Delaware Valley Regional Planning Commission
Dirk Kinsey, Geography and Urban Studies(GUS) graduate student, Temple University

The Community Report on the workshop can be downloaded from https://www.cla.temple.edu/center-for-sustainable-communities/.

It is also posted on the following websites:
Center for Sustainable Communities, Temple University
Institute for Sustainable Cites, City University of New York
Center for the Analysis of Social-Ecological Landscapes (CASEL), Indiana University Bloomington
The Consortium for Climate Risks in the Urban Northeast (CCRUN), Drexel University

Planet Philadelphia environmental radio show airs
4-5:00 PM EST 1st and 3rd Friday each month on
WGGT-LP 92.9 FM in Philadelphia or live stream at gtownradio.com.

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Hear The Podcast - Exploring Sci-fi Green Solutions, aired 4/3/20 on 92.9 FM WGGT-LP & gtownradio.com

4/4/2020

In case you missed the broadcast this past Friday (4/3/20) here’s your chance to hear the show. We explored Sci-fi like green solutions and what they might do for our environment here on earth with two super guests: James Tour, Ph.D., professor of chemistry, computer science, and materials science and nanogenineering at Rice University, and Chelsea Heveran, Ph.D., from University of Colorado and Montano State University.

Full Planet Philadelphia show:

https://www.mixcloud.com/PlanetPhiladelphia/exploring-sci-fi-green-solutions-aired-4320-on-929-fm-wggt-lp-gtownradiocom/

Individual interviews:

https://soundcloud.com/planetphiladelphia/james-tour-aired-4320-on-929-fm-wggt-lp-gtownradiocom

https://soundcloud.com/planetphiladelphia/chelsea-heveran-aired-4320-on-929-fm-wggt-lp-gtownradiocom

Planet Philadelphia environmental radio show airs
4-5:00 PM EST 1st and 3rd Friday each month on
WGGT-LP 92.9 FM in Philadelphia or live stream at gtownradio.com.

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Listen to Podcast Of Show aired 3/20/2020: a greener healthier future in PA with State Representative Chris Rabb

3/21/2020

Pathways to a greener healthier future with State Representative Chris Rabb - Planet Philadelphia aired 3/20/2020, 92.9 FM WGGT-LP & gtownradio.com. Listen to the podcast to learn about real strategies to move Pennsylvania to a greener healthier future on this Planet Philadelphia environmental radio show.

Host Kay Wood, Assistant producer/reporter Linda Rosenwein, and our Harrisburg energy correspondent, Liz Robinson, talk about things we can do right here in Pennsylvania to reach a greener healthier future with State Representative Christopher Rabb. Representative Rabb has represented the 200th District since 2017, a Philadelphia district which includes Chestnut Hill, Mount Airy and parts of Germantown.

Listen to full show here:
https://www.mixcloud.com/PlanetPhiladelphia/pathways-to-a-greener-healthier-future-with-state-representative-chris-rabb-3202020/

Individual Interview:
https://soundcloud.com/planetphiladelphia/state-representative-chris-rabb-on-planet-philadelphia-3202020

Planet Philadelphia environmental radio show airs 4-5:00 PM EST 1st and 3rd Friday each month WGGT-LP 92.9 FM in Philadelphia or live stream at gtownradio.com.

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Podcast: Staying healthy in times of climate crisis; radio show aired 3/6/2020 on WGGT-LP 92.9 FM in Philadelphia

3/8/2020

In case you missed the show on Friday, here's another chance to listen to a great show. Planet Philadelphia environmental radio show aired on 3/6/202 at WGGT-LP 92.9 FM in Philadelphia and live streamed at gtownradio.com.

How is the medical community addressing the growing challenges? Caleb Dresser, M.D., Climate and Human Health Fellow working with the Center for Climate, Health, and the Global Environment at Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health (Harvard C-CHANGE) to understand and enhance approaches to health risks during and after extreme weather events.
Health impacts of worsening air pollution. Dr. Marilyn Howarth is the Director of Community Engagement for the Center of Excellence in Environmental Toxicology at the University of Pennsylvania’s Perelman School of Medicine. Peter DeCarlo PhD, Associate Professor at Johns Hopkins University in Environmental Health and Engineering. Pouné Saberi, MD, MPH, President, Board of Directors for Physicians for Social Responsibility

Listen to the full show aired 3/6/2020:

https://www.mixcloud.com/PlanetPhiladelphia/staying-healthy-in-times-of-climate-crisis-radio-show-aired-362020-on-wggt-lp-929-fm/

Individual interviews from 3/6/2020:

https://soundcloud.com/planetphiladelphia/caleb-dresser-md-climate-change-and-health-radio-show-aired-362020

https://soundcloud.com/planetphiladelphia/climate-change-air-we-breath-dr-marilyn-howarth-peter-decarlo-phd-and-poune-saberi-md-mph

Tune in to  Planet Philadelphia environmental radio show
4-5:00 PM the first and third Friday each month
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PODCAST: Progress Towards Sustainability, radio show aired live 2/21/2020, WGGT-LP 92.9 FM & gtownradio.com

2/22/2020

Listen to the show aired on 2/21/2020. Despite some technical challenges at the radio station on Friday, we were able bring you a live on air radio show with some interesting informative discussions about Philadelphia’s sustainability efforts and a PES refinery update. We spoke about many of the different ways Philly is becoming a sustainable city despite big climate change challenges with Christine Knapp and Adam Agalloco of Philadelphia's Office of Sustainability. Also on this show, Peter Winslow gave us the latest on what is happening at PES refinery that blew it sell up last year, who might be acquiring the facility, and how they might run it.

The full Planet Philadelphia live show aired 2/21/22:

https://www.mixcloud.com/PlanetPhiladelphia/progress-towards-sustainability-radio-show-aired-live-2212020-on-wggt-lp-929-fm-philadelphia/

Individual interviews:
Entire interview with Christine Knapp & Adam Agalloco, Philadelphia’s Office of Sustainability. Not all of it was able to air on the Planet Philadelphia environmental radio show aired 2/21/2020.
https://soundcloud.com/planetphiladelphia/full-interview-with-christine-knapp-adam-agalloco-philadelphias-office-of-sustainability

Planet Philadelphia is a locally produced radio show
about our shared environment. Tune in to catch the live show
4-5 PM the first and third Friday each month on
WGGT-LP 92.9 FM Germantown Community Radio
and streaming at www.gtownradio.com.

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Podcast: Our Electric Grid & Climate Change 2/7/2020 radio show

2/8/2020

This radio show was aired on February 7, 2020 on WGGT-LP 92.9 FM in Philadelphia and live streamed at gtownradio.com. On this Planet Philadelphia we discuss ways our energy grid could stand up to climate disruptions and to mitigate it by lowering the greenhouse gas emitting energy sources with guests:

• 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.
• Robert Wood, P.E., is Senior Electrical Engineer on microgrids at the National Renewable Energy Laboratory’s Integrated Applications Center.

Full Show Aired 2/7/2020:

https://www.mixcloud.com/PlanetPhiladelphia/our-electric-grid-climate-change-272020/

Individual Interviews:
Paul Denholm:

https://soundcloud.com/planetphiladelphia/paul-denholm-our-electric-grid-storage-climate-change-272020

Robert Wood:

https://soundcloud.com/planetphiladelphia/robert-wood-pe-senior-electrical-engineer-on-microgrids

Planet Philadelphia is a locally produced radio show about our shared environment. Tune in to catch the live show 4-5 PM the first and third Friday each month on WGGT-LP 92.9 FM Germantown Community Radio and streaming at www.gtownradio.com.

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Podcast: Lively informative discussion about our changing climate, live radio show aired 1/17/2020

1/19/2020

Listen to this lively informative discussion about our changing climate 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 affecting all life forms, including our own, across the globe.

Listen to the podcast of the full Planet Philadelphia radio show here:

https://www.mixcloud.com/PlanetPhiladelphia/lively-informative-discussion-about-our-changing-climate-live-radio-show-aired-1172020/

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