It's Hot in Here: Recent Episodes
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Audio[audio:http://hughstimson.org/wp/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/wcbn-2012-04-30-120001-EDT.mp3] (Skip through first part of audio to get to show start!) We hosted this conversation with Shannon Brines, Jason Frenzel, and Lucas DiGia, organizers of the April 2012 Local Food Summit. How did the summit go? What were the major themes and outcomes this year? Listen in to find out! (Don’t miss some of […]
Listen Here! Listen to this bird-tastic episode of “It’s Hot in Here Radio” with special guest Taylor Forrest of the UM Ornithological Society….complete with bird trivia, sound-bites of Michigan birds, and resources to get started with bird-watching!
Listen Here! (Skip through first part of audio to get to beginning of show…) NOTE: In this episode, we erroneously reported that Bill McKibben left 350.org…this is not true! It was an April Fool’s joke that Laura mistook for truth. Please accept our HUGE apology for a news mistake of this magnitude! “It’s Hot […]
Listen Here! why is the news so depressing? can we trust the media to accurately report on environmental affairs? what will/should the future of environmental news + journalism be? Join Kat Superfisky (SNRE) + special guest co-host Phil D’Anieri (famous NPR and PitE legend), along with special guest Dave Askins (from The Ann Arbor Chronicle) […]
Audio: [audio:http://archive.org/download/hotinhere/wcbn-2012-02-20-120001-EST.mp3] (Scroll past the first 1:30 to get to beginning of show) Join us for this in-depth preview of the recently released book: “The Localization Reader: Adapting to the Coming Downshift.” Dr. Raymond De Young, co-editor of and contributor to the book, joined us in the studio to chat about the book’s content and […]
Listen here:[audio:http://archive.org/download/hotinhere/wcbn-2012-02-06-120001-EST.mp3] (Fast forward through the first 10 seconds or so to get to start of show!) Matt Grocoff and Joe Trumpey are were the HOUSE today! Co-hosts Rebecca Hardin and Laura Smith conversed with Matt and Joe throughout the hour about their amazing homes in the Ann Arbor area. Joe Trumpey, a professor in […]
Listen Here:[audio:http://archive.org/download/hotinhere/wcbn-2012-01-23-120001-EST.mp3] (Fast forward through the first 10 seconds or so to get to start of show!) Dying to learn how to preserve food, keep bees, meditate or craft string from bark????? Please join us on the radio today as we highlight the 6th Ann Arbor ReSkilling Festival with organizer Rebecca Streng. Also in the […]
Audio:[audio:http://annarborcalling.com/wcbn-2012-01-09-120001-EST.mp3] January 9th show with Susan, Rissa, and Marquise of Ann Arbor’s Groundcover News! Later, an interview with Jennifer about her research in Uganda.
Listen Here:[audio:http://archive.org/download/hotinhere/wcbn-2011-12-19-120001-EST.mp3] (Show starts 2 minutes at 35 seconds into the recording!) Consumption is necessary for survival but also produces negative consequences for human health, society, and the environment. Research across domains (addiction, obesity, debt, consumer behavior, material waste, hoarding) finds overlapping biological and psychological bases for consumption-related phenomena, suggesting the benefits of an interdisciplinary […]
Listen Here (Fast forward through the first minute until you get to start of the show!) Delray is one of Detroit’s most impoverished neighborhoods. It is a long-time victim to city planning efforts, sits in the most polluted zip code in the state of Michigan, and is the future home of the bridge plaza for […]
Audio[audio:http://archive.org/download/hotinhere/wcbn-2011-11-21-120001-EST.mp3] (scroll through the first minute and 25 seconds until you get to the show start!) Just in time for the mass exodus from Ann Arbor, SNRE’s own Shelie Miller, a specialist in life cycle assessment and energy, will share insights on sustainable transit. Beyond the typical modes, we hope she will entertain our questioning […]
Audio[audio:http://archive.org/download/hotinhere/hotinhere_hour.mp3] From oil wars to heroic computer geeks to strapping GPS devices on cows… Join us for this interview with recently hired faculty in the cluster for research and teaching on “Environment, Information, and Sustainable Development: the Africa-Asia Nexus.” Joyojeet Pal is assistant professor at the School of Information, Omolade Adunbi is assistant prof in the […]
Audio[audio:http://archive.org/download/hotinhere/wcbn-2011-10-10-120001-EDT.mp3] Wondering about all this hype and controversy around GMO’s? “It’s Hot in Here Radio” presents an hour of GMO talk, punctuated with some catchy tunes, including, yes, a rap song about GMO’s. Millions of people speak out against the spread of Monsanto’s biotech food, but what is the science actually saying about the […]
Audio[audio:http://archive.org/download/hotinhere/wcbn-2011-09-26-120001-EDT_VarietyShow.mp3] Sick of environmental talk being so gloomy-n-doomy? Wish you knew more about what sustainability-related initiatives and events were happening on U-M’s campus? Been hankering for some great tunes about Mother Earth? Welp, then WCBN 88.3FM has the answer for you! Co-hosts Kat Superfisky and Laura “Smitty” Smith bring you the “U’M Sustainability Variety Hour”! […]
Audio[audio:http://archive.org/download/hotinhere/wcbn20110905.mp3] The righteous Laura Miesler joined us in the studio to chat about the upcoming, also righteous, Homegrown Festival(!) Listen to that conversation here…along with some great tunes by bands that will be at the festival. How can you listen and not get pumped about this event? Additionally in this episode: learn what to do […]
Audio Part 1[audio:http://hughstimson.org/wp/wp-content/uploads/2011/06/wcbn20110613part1.mp3] Audio Part 2[audio:http://archive.org/download/hotinhere/wcbn20110613part2.mp3] Well first at the start of the show we tried (epic fail) to talk to Scott Brines about the proposed new bridge / international crossing that would have landings in the Delray community of Detroit and Windsor. Scott is a Delray resident and a board member for the Southwest […]
Audio[audio:http://archive.org/download/hotinhere/wcbn20110523.mp3] Join us this week as we check-in and chat change with Kat Superfisky in Brooklyn, John Harnois on his farm in Whitmore Lake, Emily Plews in Columbus, and Michelle Martinez in Detroit! Bam! Lessons Learned The Big Apple is Green, and Superfisky is basically famous. The brand spankin’ new Ann Arbor Wednesday Night Market […]
Audio[audio:http://archive.org/download/hotinhere/wcbn20110516.mp3] The Sierra Club‘s not just about birds anymore. Join us, as we talk fish, hair, toxics, green jobs, energy, environmental justice and more with Michelle Martinez, former UM School of Natural Resources and Environment M.S. student and current organizer with the Sierra Club. Michelle loves fish (and people) – truly a soul sister.
Audio[audio:http://archive.org/download/hotinhere/wcbn20110509.mp3] This week we talk Earth Art, Detroit’s Heidleberg Project, liminality, and jam to some stone cold grooves with Beth Diamond. Beth Diamond An Actual Diamond (No Blood was Shed during the Cutting and Pasting of this Image) Beth is a “a landscape theorist, designer and cultural instigator,” Assistant Professor of Landscape Architecture at the […]
Audio[audio:http://archive.org/download/hotinhere/wcbn20110425.mp3] This week on the program, we found some rays of sunshine on a rainy day. Kadie McShirley and Lindsay, two students from the Program in the Environment, joined us in the studio to share their most recent projects and travels. A degree in sustainability can be challenging — how do they stay positive amidst […]
Audio[audio:http://archive.org/download/hotinhere/wcbn20110418.mp3] We chatted with UM doctoral student about his year-long experiment to go trash-free. See audio link to show below, and learn about how he managed this experiment, blogged about it, and inspired others in the process! Check out Darshan’s blogsite for his reflections on trash in society.
Audio[audio:http://archive.org/download/hotinhere/wcbn20110411.mp3] Join us for the debut of IHIH’s newest co-hosts Laura (Lolo Smith) and Kat (Superfly) Superfisky! Kerry Duggan, Senior Advisor, Legislative Affairs, Energy Efficiency & Renewable Energy, U.S. Department of Energy joins us to hype the April 21-22nd workshop held in the Michigan League entitled: Revitalizing Innovation in Michigan for Clean Energy Manufacturing Click on the workshop title […]
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Audio[audio:http://archive.org/download/hotinhere/wcbn20110131.mp3] Want to feel more satisfied in your day-to-day? Always been curious about home funerals/permaculture/meditation/bread-yogurt-kombucha-making/wild winter medicines/getting your garden going, et al? Then listen in as we talk skillz, satisfaction and community with a few good folks from the Ann Arbor Winter 2011 Reskilling Festival. The eloquent and ever-lively Laura Smith of AA Reskill/Transition Ann […]
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[audio:http://hughstimson.org/wp/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/AnnArborCalled-ep1-128.mp3|titles=Ann Arbor Called – Episode 1] Jeff, David, and Mark interview Francis Farmer about Dr. Weston A. Price, a UM grad who studied healthy traditional people. We learn about how the microflora in our guts are an integral part of our lifeforms, that we should eat lacto-fermented foods and properly sourced/prepared saturated fat, and more […]
Audio[audio:http://archive.org/download/hotinhere/wcbn20101129.mp3] Noam Kimelman of Get Fresh Detroit joins us in the studio to talk about food access in Detroit and his new initiative to put fresh fruits and vegetables in corner stores all over the city. Then we get a call from Jeff who blogs for mlive in Detroit. It’s a good time.
Audio[audio:http://archive.org/download/hotinhere/wcbn20101122.mp3] We’re joined in the studio by Cynthia Koenig of Wello, a social venture committed to bringing safe, potable water to the people who need it most. Guest co-host Emily Plews helps us figure out why gratitude is so healthy and why keeping your mind from wandering keeps you happier. Plus a call-in from Gina, […]
Audio[audio:http://archive.org/download/hotinhere/wcbn20101115.mp3] Listen in and let John Harnois of Harnois Farms put you in the mood for the most delicious secular holiday of the year – THANKSGIVING! John hand-raises happy, healthy and sometimes heritage turkeys, chickens, geese and ducks. Birds so well-lived, you can taste the love. Thank you to the good folks @ Real Time […]
Audio[audio:http://archive.org/download/hotinhere/wcbn20101108.mp3] Global economic meltdown got you down? Then listen in and let David Klingenberger CFO (Chief Fermentation Officer) of Ann Arbor’s own The Brinery stimulate your inner economy. After an exxxtraspecial call-in from from America’s Next Top Political Pundit (and hopefully IHIH’s newest political correspondent) Colin Warren, we crunch on turnips, groove on some veggie-themed […]
Audio[audio:http://archive.org/download/hotinhere/wcbn20101101.mp3] Failure to vote is not a protest, it’s just lazy. Tune in to get a sense of the mood in DC – hear from the Michigan League of Conservation Voters on who’s greenest on your ballot – from Emily/Judy about the role of business in sustainability and from who we hope will be America’s […]
Audio[audio:http://archive.org/download/hotinhere/wcbn20101018.mp3] This just in: the Detroit Incinerator is officially shut down and the Beehive Collective is soon coming to town! Tune into It’s Hot in Here, Monday from 12-1 on 88.3 WCBN-FM-Ann Arbor, or wcbn.org/listen.html for our “Great Lakes, Green Jobs: Environmental Justice, Clean Energy, Activism” edition. Michelle Martinez, SNRE Alum and Cool Cities Project […]
Audio[audio:http://archive.org/download/hotinhere/wcbn20101011.mp3] Karl and Cara of RealTimeFarms.com join us live in the studio to tell us about all the goings on around supporting real time information regarding local food and farms.
Audio[audio:http://archive.org/download/hotinhere/wcbn20101004.mp3] 10/10/10 is just under a week away, and if the fact that the day, month, and year are all the same number isn’t enough reason for you to get out of the house, Bill McKibben’s 350.org International Day of Action is coming to a town near you. Almost 6,000 grassroots events to take action […]
Audio[audio:http://archive.org/download/hotinhere/wcbn20100927.mp3] Our friend Rachel Long joins us in studio to tell us about the grassroots efforts working to end mountaintop removal coal mining in Appalachia. www.appalachiarising.org
Audio[audio:http://archive.org/download/hotinhere/wcbn20100920.mp3] We’re joined by Amy Heath of Living Stones Community, a farm that partners with the Michigan Prisoner Re-entry Initiative to help returning citizens get back on their feet. We talk about good food and good work and what makes farming so ideal as an occupation. Listen really closely and you might hear her son […]
Audio[audio:http://archive.org/download/hotinhere/wcbn20100830.mp3] Gina and Rachel talk paganism, wildfires, Canada vs. USA for the title of environmental hero/villain, and urban transit on this hot, hot afternoon. We’re joined on the phone line by Rachel Wells of CLEAR Corps, a Detroit nonprofit working to reduce lead exposure in homes, and Emily of smallinfinityproject.com. Plus lots of steamy tunes. […]
Audio[audio:http://archive.org/download/hotinhere/wcbn20100823.mp3] Petropolis website Hugh tells us all about the Alberta tar sands, which some say are the second biggest oil reserve in the world after the Saudi oil fields. We started on the crenellated* fjords of the British Columbia coast, followed the proposed Enbridge oil pipeline through the coastal mountains and ended up in the […]
Audio[audio:http://archive.org/download/hotinhere/wcbn20100816.mp3] Gillian Ream, co-founder of Michigan Agritours, joins us in the studio to talk about bikes, beers, and the joys of local agritourism. Plus What’s in Season (kohlrabi!), Sarah’s Sustainable Choices (planes, trains, or diesel buses?), and a Small Infinity story from Emily Plews. Vaguely travel-themed, this is a great show to listen to while […]
Audio[audio:http://hughstimson.org/wp/wp-content/uploads/2010/08/wcbn20100809part1.mp3] Audio Part 2[audio:http://archive.org/download/hotinhere/wcbn20100809part2.mp3] Listen in to welcome IHIH’s newest co-hostess Sarah – and stay for summer tunes and sustainable strategies to stay cool when you’re so (darn) hot. The line up… first to our nation’s capital…. Brian Lipinski, our Washington Wardrobe, or, DC Downer, tells us how to make a last ditch effort to […]
Audio[audio:http://hughstimson.org/wp/wp-content/uploads/2010/07/wcbn20100726part1.mp3] Audio Part 2[audio:http://archive.org/download/hotinhere/wcbn20100726part2.mp3] It’s summer. You’re hot. We’re hot. And guess what? We’ve missed you! Join the It’s Hot in Here family LIVE or LATER for an exxxtraspecial IHIH Reunion Edition featuring our very own Emily Plews and Rachel Chadderdon of www.smallinfinityproject.com (!!!) Listen in for small (but impressive!) infinity stories from former UM […]
Audio[audio:http://archive.org/download/hotinhere/wcbn20100607.mp3] Join Jeffrey Green Bean, Rachel Chadderdon, and DJ Local as they talk with Karl and Cara of Real Time Farms about their recently launched and amazingly fun website that provides real time updates regarding farmers markets near you that are provided by the community – any customers, farmers, and users who want to upload, […]
Audio[audio:http://archive.org/download/hotinhere/wcbn20100531.mp3] Join Jeffrey Green Bean as he talks Tai Chi with the masters from Dojo Kitchen. Then later in the show Jeffrey Green Bean, Rachel Chadderdon, and The Farmer’s Market talk with Corinna Borden Parker, market manager Westside Farmers Market, regarding the seasonal opening of that market which is Thursdays 3pm-7pm in the parking lot […]
Audio[audio:http://archive.org/download/hotinhere/wcbn20100524.mp3] Join Jeffrey Green Bean, The Farmer’s Marketer, Rachel Chadderdon, and DJ Local as they interview Paul and Annie of the Community Farm of Ann Arbor, longtime biodynamic CSA farm in the region. Additionally, we talk permaculture with Nate Ayers, of Chiwara Permaculture Design, who has an upcoming permaculture design workshop. Plus, What’s In Season.
Audio[audio:http://archive.org/download/hotinhere/wcbn20100517.mp3] Join Jeffrey Green Bean, Rachel Chadderdon, and DJ Local as they interview Steve Bean, independent mayoral candidate in the City of Ann Arbor. What’s In Season and events are discussed as well.
Audio[audio:http://archive.org/download/hotinhere/wcbn20100510.mp3] For the summer, your alternating Monday’s at Noon public affairs shows on WCBN, Arborama & It’s Hot In Here, will be joining forces. Perhaps it should be called It’s Hot In Arborama. Either way, it will be great and led by the familiar voices of both shows and will include some of the regular […]
Audio[audio:http://archive.org/download/hotinhere/hotinhere12apr2010.mp3] Tom Princen, SNRE Professor, joined us in the studio to discuss his new book Treading Softly: Paths to Ecological Order. Listen as Tom and Paul Mansoor get dramatic, Aviva goes on a nano-Toxic Tangent, and Rachel takes a walk on the wild side for What’s in Season. Plus environmental news and some sweet tunes. […]
Audio[audio:http://archive.org/download/hotinhere/hotinhere15mar2010.mp3] We’ve got a HOT show lined up for ya’ll We’ll be rockin’ and talkin’ at the peace/planet interface with some rockin’ students from Armistice ‘Zine!! It’s also WCBN’s annual FUNdraiser, call give us your money and get HOTTTT WCBN swag! Call in you rpledges @ 734.763.3500 $15 bones gets you a FREE WCBN Pint […]
Audio[audio:http://archive.org/download/hotinhere/hotinhere01mar2010.mp3] Start your week off on the ‘good foot.’ Tune in and join your friends at It’s Hot in Here, UM’s own environmental ‘infotainment’ for our first ever Staycation Special! We’ll talk legislation, change and local staycation destinations/ideas with Kerry Duggan of the Michigan League of Conservation Voters and Jesse Worker… of Clean Water Action. […]
Audio[audio:http://archive.org/download/hotinhere/hotinhere15feb2010.mp3] Join us for an hour of LOVE [Ideas we love, songs we love, food we love, people we love]. Dear friend Kerry Duggan of the Michigan League of Conservation Voters gives us her “political week in review” and Emily Plews tells us how to put the compassion back in commerce! As always, we’ll be […]
Audio[audio:http://archive.org/download/hotinhere/hotinhere01feb2010.mp3] Results from a study conducted by UM graduate students linking recent increases in ethanol production to past and future loss of prairie grasslands and wildlife populations graced the national news in January and generated considerable backlash from industry groups, including the Renewable Fuels Association. Join us this week on It’s Hot in Here as […]
Audio[audio:http://archive.org/download/hotinhere/hotinhere18jan2010.mp3] Join us for a special tribute to the good Doctor Martin Luther King Jr. Featuring LIVE MUSIC from Matt & Jen 2010 Ekta Kothari from Project Survival Media joins us to chat about her fantastic documentary work at the Copenhagen Climate talks featured here on the Huffington Post. Carrie Rheingans from UM’s School of […]
Audio[audio:http://archive.org/download/hotinhere/hotinhere21dec20092.mp3] Make the most of the shortest day of the year with your friends at It’s Hot in Here! Emily Joyce Plews makes it exxxtra hot in the WCBN studios, our Washington correspondent Brian Lipinski gives us a less gloomy run down on Copenhagen, we talk seven fish, oranges, how to green your holidays and […]
Audio[audio:http://archive.org/download/hotinhere/hotinhere07dec2009.mp3] Join us this week on It’s Hot in Here for a lively conversation and LIVE music with SNRE’s own David Jude. Dr Jude discovered the round goby in 1990 and has dedicated his career to understanding the introduction and impacts of this and other pernicious Great Lakes aquatic invaders. We’ll also give a pre-Copenhagen […]
Audio[audio:http://archive.org/download/hotinhere/hotinhere23nov2009.mp3] This week IHIH talks turkey [and fish] with Dr. James Diana, Professor @ SNRE and Director of Michigan Sea Grant. Listen in to catch the latest news, reel in the skinny on sustainable seafood and hear the hottest musical hooks of the thanksgiving season. Eat Well Guide Aquaculture example in Milwaukee, WI
Audio[audio:http://archive.org/download/hotinhere/hotinhere09nov2009.mp3] Listen up ya’ll, Tune into It’s Hot in Here, (Ann Arbor’s own biweekly dose of environmental news, eclectic grooves and exxxpertise for the sustainable set) for a conversation with Ahmina Maxey and Rocio Valerio of the East Michigan Environmental Action Council. Hear about their fantastic Motor City Mentoring, Clean Air Programs and details on […]
Audio[audio:http://archive.org/download/hotinhere/hotinhere12oct2009.mp3] Join us Monday, October 12 from noon to 1. A Greener UM: Students Lead the Way To Sustainability With special guests from the U of M Student Sustainability Initiative and call-ins from Brian Lipinski and Jesse Worker
Audio[audio:http://archive.org/download/hotinhere/hotinhere31aug2009.mp3] Check out: Climate Ground Zero Coal WAS West Virginia, courtesy of the Sierra Club
Audio[audio:http://archive.org/download/hotinhere/hotinhere17aug2009.mp3] IN and Out on Geoengineering IN: From the New York Times, “The Earth is Warming? Adjust the Thermostat” by John Tierney: Out: From the Atlantic, “Re-Engineering the Earth” by Graeme Wood: Toxic Tangent: What’s in Your Sunscreen?
Audio[audio:http://archive.org/download/hotinhere/hotinhere20jul2009.mp3] Join us this week for an auditory tour through the collegiate halls of sustainability with special guest Mark Rabinsky, Director of Sustainability for Michigan’s own Jackson Community College. Check out UM’s Initiatives or take your own Sustainability, Live it Love it Also servin’ up our weekly green side dishes: What’s in Season with Rachel […]
Audio[audio:http://archive.org/download/hotinhere/hotinhere06jul2009.mp3] Summer is a sizzlin’ on Hot in Here. Join us today for a culinary cruise from garden to grill with local food exxxpert Rachel Chadderdon. We’ll be dishin’ out foodie grooves to stoke your appetite and legislative news to whet your whistle. Stow your luggage, grab your sea legs and come get Hot in […]
Audio[audio:http://archive.org/download/hotinhere/hotinhere29jun2009.mp3] WhatsOnMyFood.org FoodMed.org
Audio[audio:http://archive.org/download/hotinhere/hotinhere27apr20091.mp3] SNRE’s own recently minted M.S. and MBA Devon Treece schools us on the history and future of carbon trading. From factories in the Rust Belt to forests in the Amazon, from acid rain to potential global gain we learn how we got where are and contemplate where we need to be. Music = a […]
Audio[audio:http://archive.org/download/hotinhere/hotinhere20apr2009.mp3] Exxxtra special Earth Week Edition: It’s Hot in Here. This week we get real drrrty with “clean coal.” From the scene (i.e., mostly the bar) of last week’s Proposed Bay City Coal Plant hearing, we take you on a carbon filled journey through time and space. Interviews recorded from the hearing as well as […]
Audio[audio:http://archive.org/download/hotinhere/itshotinhere13apr2009.mp3] Appropriate Technology Collaborative (ATC) joins us in the studio… More specifically, we are joined by John Barrie (the Executive Director), Ben Connor Barrie (Special Projects Manager aka “Special Ops”), and Jeff Tenza (volunteer engineer). ATC is a non-profit organization based out of Ann Arbor, Michigan whose purpose is “To design, develop, demonstrate and distribute […]
Audio[audio:http://archive.org/download/hotinhere/itshotinhere06apr2009.mp3] Today we take a journey through the Caribbean as we discuss how the region is responding to both long-term and immediate climatic hazards. Joining us in the studio is Dr. Emma Tompkins, University of Leeds, School of Earth and Environment. She is a prolific author and much research that looks at current societal responses […]
Audio[audio:http://archive.org/download/hotinhere/itshotinhere23mar2009.mp3] Join us as Gina G, Shannon B and OR Johns heat things up with two exxxtra special guests. Lisa Anne Richey Associate Professor of Development Studies in the Department of Society and Globalisation (yes, that’s Globalization with an S) at Roskilde University in Denmark and author of Population Politics and Development: From the Policies […]
Audio[audio:http://archive.org/download/hotinhere/itshotinhere16mar2009.mp3] We are joined in the studio by two staffers from the City of Ann Arbor’s Natural Area Preservation (NAP) unit: the Volunteer & Outreach Coordinator, Jason Frenzel-Wright, and City Ornithologist, Deaver Armstrong respectively. JasonDeaver But first the news… Some examples of new manufacturing and business innovation ideas in Michigan: WindTronics 760 wind turbines out […]
Audio [audio:http://archive.org/download/hotinhere/itshotinhere09mar2009.mp3] We’re joined this week (about 4 minutes in) by soon-to-be Cosmology doctorate Brian Nord who helps us explore the universe. It is also pledge week so consider showing some love (online even) for WCBN! A little news: the EPA is re-thinking a few things like dioxin clean-up ideas…. Then intermixed with our discussions […]
Audio [audio:http://archive.org/download/hotinhere/itshotinhere02mar2009.mp3] This week Gina Gettum, Shannon Brines and chemical correspondent Aviva Glaser discuss: environmental news headlines relevant to Michigan and the Great Lakes, lots about coal, a few toxic tangents and more! Un-censored! You can read more about the Great Lakes round-up of news bits here Read more about the exciting Power Shift 2009 […]
Audio[audio:http://archive.org/download/hotinhere/itshotinhere23feb2009.mp3] This week Gina Gettum and guest cohost Aviva Glaser [Hot in Here’s own Chemical Correspondent!] pepper news you can use, oscar reviews and stone cold grooves with helpful hints to reduce our own greenhouse gas emissions! Butt First The News Climate Change is top national security threat and according to eminent economist Nicholas Stern […]
Audio[audio:http://archive.org/download/hotinhere/itshotinhere16feb2009.mp3] Join us this week as special guests Andrew Brix of the Ann Arbor Energy Office and Jason Bing of the Environmental House Energy & Green Building Research Center get us up to speed on efforts to keep our homes and tree town green and how we can get involved. We also had Greg Vendena […]
Audio[audio:http://archive.org/download/hotinhere/itshotinhere09feb2009.mp3] From the shores of Easter Island to the ovaries of a spawning carp it’s real Hot in Here. Join us this week for news and global grooves. In-studio guest Aviva Glaser delivers a hot dose of chemical knowledge, OJ debuts his new segment “Thresholds” and our Washington Correspondent Kerry Duggan gives it to us […]
Audio [audio:http://archive.org/download/hotinhere/itshotinhere02feb2009.mp3] Join us this week for the news (including rethinking carnivorousness), an update from our always fabulous Washington Correspondent Kerry Duggan, and a journey through the nerdery of social-ecological systems theory to the dusty steps of Mongolia, the squishy shores of Lake Victoria and the Great Lakes of Michigan: With three different names for […]
Audio [audio:http://archive.org/download/hotinhere/itshotinhere26jan2009.mp3] Human and environmental justice activist Zo Randriamaro heats up the WCBN Studios with her wisdom, passion and careful thoughts. If you are short on time, skip the news recap and head right to Zo at minute 16. You you’ll be happy you did. Zo tells us that average temperatures in Madagascar have risen […]
Audio [audio:http://archive.org/download/hotinhere/itshotinhere19jan2009.mp3] A special Martin Luther King day and pre-inauguration show… We started live with both our It’s Hot In Here co-host Gina Gettum as well as our Washington correspondent Kerry Duggan on the line from Washington DC. They joined us from a League of Conservation Voters sponsored National Day of Service event at John […]
In 1984, a UM SPH student just happened to discover abnormal concentrations of a known carcinogen, 1,4-Dioxane, in the Third Sister Lake in UM’s Saginaw Forest (just west of Ann Arbor). This prompted subsequent discovery of dioxane in the area’s groundwater at various levels from the surface all the way down to bedrock, some places […]
Audio [audio:http://archive.org/download/hotinhere/itshotinhere05jan2009.mp3] Please share your eco-resolutions below in the comments! AND if you have a name for a person who eats meat once a week, post that too! In the audio above which starts a couple minutes in we had the news, food news, and eco-resolutions for the new year discussions including 10 easy ways […]
Audio [audio:http://archive.org/download/hotinhere/itshotinhere29dec2008.mp3] We had our usual news roundup… but we had a not so usual special guest in the studio with us the whole time: Homeless Dave. Dave shared with us: the premise for his blog Teeter Talk (voted best local blog 3 years in a row by readers of the Current), what’s up with […]