Something light-hearted for the Holidays. Julie Be & Anya Rose, Thomas Cassetta & Joanna Wikander, 12/18/20
Listen to our interview about a light-hearted musical that appeals to children/youth as well as the young at heart with Julie Be and Anya Rose are a folksy duo. Together they call themselves “Ants on a Log."
Also catch this, talk with Thomas Cassetta and Joanna Wikander are station manager and program director respectively of GTown Radio station about how radio fits into communicating about the environment. https://www.mixcloud.com/PlanetPhiladelphia/something-light-hearted-for-the-holidays/
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Cooling the Planet, fighting climate change, Ben Kalina and Jen Schneider, 12/4/2020
Ben Kalina and Jen Schneider who have collaborated on directing/producing/writing and filming a recent NOVA science documentary airing on PBS entitled "Can We Cool the Planet?" that explores some of the extreme options that may be required to deal with climate change.
And Liz Robinson on the state of energy politics in Harrisburg. Pennsylvania is the third largest emitter of greenhouse gases in the US and one of the largest regional sources of electric power. |
Young People Are The Future, John Campbell & Bert Myers & Tara Muenz, 11/20/20
Young people and the environment with guests:
• John Campbell is a junior in a Roman Catholic high school in Philadelphia and the organizer/contact for the Philadelphia chapter of Fridays for the Future, an international youth group that works to prevent environment degradation and limit climate change. • Bert Myers, Director of the Environmental Education and Information Center at the Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection (DEP), and Tara Muenz is Assistant Director of Education at Stroud Water Research Center talking about environmental education. https://www.mixcloud.com/PlanetPhiladelphia/young-people-are-the-future-radio-show-aired-112020/
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What to do with our waste and trash, Haley Jordan, Helena Rudoff & Jordan Howell, 11/6/20
This show focuses on two big problems, food and e-waste.
• Haley Jordan and Helena Rudoff are both in the Philadelphia’s government Office of Sustainability and involved in implementing Philadelphia’s Zero Waste goals. • 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 discusses e-waste. |
Cleaning up the hood with community activist, Matthew George. 10/16/20
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.
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A Free Press the Environment and Voting, Sharon Friedman & Liz Robinson, 10/2/2020
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. • 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). https://www.mixcloud.com/PlanetPhiladelphia/a-free-press-the-environment-and-voting-broadcast-1022020/
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Reaching For Environmental Goals, Peter Winslow & Robert B. McKinstry Jr., 9/18/2020
The successes and failures in promoting environmental goals is instructive to the country as a whole with guests:
• Peter Winslow is president of A Smart Collaboration.Peter talks about the former Philadelphia refinery (now owned by Hilco) and about plans for a public bank for Philadelphia. • Robert B. McKinstry Jr. is a Fellow of the American College of Environmental Law and a Fellow of the American Bar Institute. He discusses a recent administrative law ruling that allows environmental stakeholders to present to Pennsylvania’s Public Utilities Commission (PUC) concerns on environmental issues for the first time. https://www.mixcloud.com/PlanetPhiladelphia/reaching-for-environmental-goals-lessons-from-regional-stories-9182020/
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Labor & the environmental movement, Dr. J. Mijin Cha & Peter Handler, 9/4/2020
This Planet Philadelphia episode is focused on labor and the environmental movement. Featured guests included Dr. J. Mijin Cha, Assistant Professor at Occidental College in the Urban and Environmental Policy Department and Fellow at the Worker Institute at Cornell, and Peter Handler, group leader of the Philadelphia Chapter of Citizens Climate Lobby (CCL).
https://www.mixcloud.com/PlanetPhiladelphia/labor-and-the-environmental-movement-aired-942020/
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Agencies controlling our electric supply. Alexandra Kroger & Liz Robinson, 8/21/2020
The actions our government take affects our energy supply, reliability and whether or not we make the transition to a zero carbon society with guests:
• Alexandra Kroger, Energy Program Director at the Energy Coop about recent FERC rulings of FERC, an important independent federal agency which regulates interstate transmission of electricity, natural gas, oil, interstate pipelines, licensing of LNG plants and LNG terminals. • Liz Robinson, Director of the Philadelphia Solar Energy Association. She will be reporting on recent governmental actions at the state level that effect energy. |
Paths to Creating a Sustainable World, Karl Schmidt & Dr. Katharine Wilkinson, 8/7/20
some contemporary approaches to sustainability: one for businesses and communities, the other based on world-wide research.
• Karl Schmidt, professor of Practice in Sustainable Engineering at Villanova University. He discuses modern approaches to sustainability in business settings and giving examples of how he prepares his graduate student engineers to provide sustainable consulting to businesses and townships. He is the director of the innovative RISE (Resilient Innovation through Sustainable Engineering) program at Villanova, which has students applying their sustainability studies to real world businesses/townships and thereby changing these organizations and helping them lower their carbon footprints. • Dr. Katharine Wilkinson is the vice president of Communication and Engagement for Project Drawdown. This project does world-wide research on current techniques that are working to lower greenhouse gases and could be scaled up. Their initial findings came out several years ago and listed 100 techniques. They have recently published an update, The Drawdown Review. https://www.mixcloud.com/PlanetPhiladelphia/new-approaches-to-sustainability-aired-872020/
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Who Gets Heard? Chandra Farley, Sarah Shanley Hope and Howard Bailey, 7/17/20
Some communities and their members don’t get heard on environmental issues by the general public. Why this is important and needs to change.
• Chandra Farley is the Just Energy Director of the Partnership for Southern Equity in Atlanta GA. The Partnership advances policies and institutional actions that promote racial equity and shared prosperity for metropolitan Atlanta and the American South. • Sarah Shanley Hope is the Executive Director of The Solutions Project in Oakland CA which serves as a national advocacy organization and grantmaker for climate solutions and energy. She will be in conversation with Chandra Farley below, with whom she often works. • Howard Bailey, is a Germantown Philadelphia resident and consultant. He has been active in the Germantown Info Hub and many other community organizations. He's active in Philadelphia’s Transition Town movement, a world-wide movement (Transition Town) that started in England. |
Approaches to working with legislatures , Reverend Mitchell C. Hescox & US House Representative Dwight Evans, 7/3/20
Approaches to working with legislatures include moral or religious as well as political avenues. We explore recent initiatives in both of these areas, particularly in light of the covid19 pandemic.
• Reverend Mitchell C. Hescox, is the President/CEO of the Evangelical Environmental Network (EEN) a worldwide network which tries to promote environmental issues from a Christian point of view. He will be talking about recent campaigns of the EEN, which have been particularly focused on pollution and protecting the health of the newborn, the child, and the adult. • US House Representative Dwight Evans, has represented Pennsylvania’s 3rd congressional district since 2016. This district includes center city, west, north, northwest, and part of south Philadelphia. The congressman will be discussing current environmental initiatives in the congress. |
Racism in environmental and scientific fields, Dottie Baumgarten & Rabbi Julie Greenberg, 6/19/20
Racism in environmental and scientific fields and working for systems change in institutions causing this environmental injustice.
• Dottie Baumgarten, local 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. https://www.mixcloud.com/PlanetPhiladelphia/racism-and-the-environment-radio-show-aired-61920/
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June 5, 2020: Show had to be cancelled due to powerful storm that caused power outages of several days duration. We’re getting more and extreme weather like this storm because of our changing climate. It affects our infrastructure, our health, and our society. Tune in to Planet Philadelpia to learn more about what's happening to our planet and our neighborhood.
Planet Philadelphia is a radio show about our shared environment.
Listen 4:00-5:00 PM EST the first and third Friday a month on WGGT-LP 92.9 FM in Philadelphia and/or live stream at gtownradio.com. Also aired on Villanova University’s radio station, WXVU, Thursday mornings at 9:00 a.m. at 89.1FM. Podcasts are available shortly after live broadcast on planetphiladelphia.com show archives page for the full broadcast or listen to individual interviews on Spotify| Anchor| Google PocketCasts| Breaker| RadioPublic or SoundCloud www.planetphiladelphia.com www.gtownradio.com @planetphila | @gtownradio |
Two big factors affecting Covid-19; Karen Clay & Christine Knapp, 5/15/20
May 15, 2020: Two big factors affecting Covid-19; the air we breathe and summer heat.
• Karen Clay is a professor of Economics and Public Policy at Carnegie Mellon as well as an affiliated faculty member at University of Pittsburgh Law School. She will be talking about her research on the effects of pollution during the 1918 Spanish Flu and its implications for today’s pandemic. • Christine Knapp is the Director of Philadelphia’s Office of Sustainability. She will discuss 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. |