It’s Hot In Here – It’s Hot In Here: Recent Episodes
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Our hosts Alex Truelove, Ed Waisanen, and Bailey Schneider wrapped up our three part series, “Please, Drink Sustainably” with a vibrant discussion on distilled spirits with distiller and marketing director at Journeyman Distillery in Three Oaks, Michigan, Nick Yoder, and co-owner and operator of Cafe Zola in Ann Arbor, Michigan, Alan Zakalik. Journeyman Distillery is … Continue reading Distilled Spirits, the Michigan Way →
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In this first episode of our three part series called “Please, Drink Sustainably,” our guests Kris Spaulding, co-founder of Brewery Vivant, and Brian Tennis, owner and operator of the Michigan Hop Alliance taught hosts Harry Rice, Becca Baylor, Ed Waisanen, and Alex Truelove all about the sustainability innovations in beer production happening right here in the mitten. Kris manages … Continue reading A Cultural Shift to Conservation: Craft Beer in Michigan →
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It’s the finale of our three part series on climate change. This week our hosts Becca Baylor, Ed Waisanen, and Alex Truelove investigate the implications of climate change on agriculture, especially on cherries in northern Michigan. They are joined on the phone by Jim Nugent, the director of the Leelanau Conservancy; Nikki Rothwell, the coordinator … Continue reading Cherries of Change: Adaptation by Michigan Farmers →
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Today’s show, the second in a three part climate change series, discusses climate justice in cities from Detroit to Paris, site of the upcoming United Nations Conference of Parties on Climate Change. In other news, the studio may just never have been this hot before; we were tempted to pour our water over our heads. … Continue reading City Limits to Climate Change: Climate Justice from neighborhoods to negotiations →
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This week’s show begins a three part series on the topic of climate change. The first show in the set discusses the vulnerability of small islands. The second will consider cities as places that also reflect unjust risk distribution and vulnerability (whether through heat islands, or other phenomena). The third will consider climate adaptation strategies … Continue reading Small Islands, Rising Seas →
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This week we are on the phone with Dr. Brian D. Fath, professor in the Department of Biological Sciences at Towson University, and a major contributor to the newly published book, Flourishing Within Limits to Growth: Following nature’s way. We are joined in the studio by Joey Zhouyuan Li, a Ph.D student in the School … Continue reading Flourishing within Limits to Growth →
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About Camp Davis Nestled in the mountains 19 miles south of Jackson Hole, Wyoming and tucked between the Hoback River and Bridger Teton National Forest, Camp Davis Rocky Mountain Field Station is a research and teaching facility owned and operated by the University of Michigan and managed by the Department of Earth & Environmental Science. … Continue reading Camp Davis Rocky Mountain Field Station →
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This week our special in studio guest is Philip Tedischi, Past President and current Vice President of the Michigan Mushroom Hunters Club, Phil is a “real fungi.” We learned during our time in studio that he served as engineer for WCBN FM back in his days as an undergraduate at UM in the 1960s, but … Continue reading Fun with Fungi →
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This week we have two very special guests in studio with us, and one on the phone lines, to talk about Environmental Disaster, Fisheries, and the Future in Japan. First up, Satsuki Takahashi, is an environmental Anthropologist who is Assistant Professor of Anthropology at George Mason University. Dr. Takahashi is the latest in a long … Continue reading Fukushima and Fisheries: Responses to Environmental Disaster in Contemporary Japan →
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This show brings lively conversation on the challenges of climate change planning, both in Ethiopia and across the diverse governance landscapes of East and North Africa. Tied with the Gala case study on climate adaptation in Ethiopia this podcast explores the complexity of crafting effective and equitable adaptation policy. Specifically, we ask how national adaptation … Continue reading Science and Social Conflicts in Climate Planning: The View from Ethiopia →
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This week we played an archived show – Tea Time with Sarah Besky. We want to use this show to send our love and best wishes to Sarah Besky for her new job at the Watson Institute for International Studies, to host Rebecca Hardin for her great work in India, and to host Jennifer Johnson … Continue reading Sail on, Honey! →
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*Vamping is to repeat a short, simple passage of music until otherwise instructed. In today’s show, we focus our chat on the Michigan Mackinac pipeline and recent SNRE grad Katie Browne’s experience on capacity-building projects in Gabon. In addition, we vamped about our favorite non-American foods and non-English languages, and shared a letter from Rebecca … Continue reading Mackinac Pipeline + Project in Gabon + IHIH Summer Vamping →
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A local artistic and scientific collaboration between Ann Arbor’s Penny Seats Theatre Company and the University of Michigan’s Environmental Biotechnology Group is offering performances of the musical Urinetown: The Musical! as well as innovative water conservation research over the next three weekends starting July 30. The Environmental Biotechnology Group, an Environmental Engineering research team from the University of Michigan, is studying how human urine and … Continue reading Urinetown: Arts in our Parks and the Future of Peecycling →
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As President Obama touched down in Kenya early on Friday July 24, 2015 Carmella Tal August, Clinical Assistant Research Professor at the University of Michigan School of Public Health, had only recently returned from Nairobi herself. Ella studies complex links between age, place, social and psychological factors, and physical impairment. She has recently expanded from … Continue reading Afro Optimism and International Collaboration →
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Join us on It’s Hot in Here this week to hear about GIS (Geographic Information System) applications in the Environmental Field — Mark Yoders from Quantum Spatial Inc. shared with us details on a variety of GIS projects involving the environment and David Betcher shared specifics on his work with the Great Lakes Communication. We … Continue reading GIS in the Environmental Field →
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Join us this week for a patriotic (and musical) edition of It’s Hot in Here as we discuss symbols of American pride (or are they?), the cultural context from which Jimi Hendrix’s rendition of the Star Spangled Banner at Woodstock arose, the newest news concerning the Geddes road expansion and the fate of the surrounding … Continue reading Poets and Patriots: A Conversation with Mark Clague →
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Join your friends on It’s Hot in Here this week as we dive into Climate Change Negotiations, morality in a global context (including the Pope’s recent climate change encyclical), and the impressive possibilities of solar energy right here in Michigan. Two special guests (and one special “caller”) are our guides on this political, material, conceptual, … Continue reading Climate Change Negotiations, Morality and Solar Energy →
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Water conservation is the focus of this week’s show as we discussed conservation efforts in the White Lake area, invasive species and their effect on the local food supply, regulating levels of harmful chemicals like PCBs in the Great Lakes, the spotted gar, and more! For more information about the dark past and revival of … Continue reading Protecting Michigan Water →
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Rebecca Hardin, Jennifer Johnson, David Clive and Bailey Schneider were joined in the studio by the lovely Donia Jarrar, a Palestinian composer and DMA student here at the University of Michigan. On this week’s segment of It’s Hot In Here, we discussed the pros and cons of the proposed reconstruction of Geddes Avenue and its … Continue reading Music and Environmental Politics →
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On this week’s show: Rebecca Hardin phones in from the wilds of Traverse City to discuss the virtuous adventures of interactive environmental learning; a long time listener, first time caller, and Michigan native fills us in on his favorite outdoor spots for maximizing our Michigan summer enjoyment; IHIH production team member Sam Molnar talks about … Continue reading Summer in Michigan →
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On this week’s show we discussed environmental news and the Food Sovereignty Conference: Local Struggles, Global Movement funded by the Horace H. Rackham School of Graduate Studies. Our guests included Guntra Aistara, Assistant Professor, Department of Environmental Sciences and Policy, Central European University in Budapest, who has studied organic agriculture movements in Latvia and Costa … Continue reading Food Sovereignty →
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On this week’s show, Rebecca Hardin and David Clive discussed our summer broadcasts and their plans for the summer, environmental news including the Santa Barbara Oil Spill, and what’s in season including morel mushrooms. This week’s Spotify playlist is available here. It includes our intro theme songs, the intro themes for our “environmental news” feature (Prince’s … Continue reading Let’s start…..Summer!! →
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This week’s segment of It’s Hot In Here was Law, Property and Society. Rebecca Hardin, our main host and the President-elect of the Association for Law, Property and Society, Hari Osofsky, previous Association president from the University of Minnesota Law School and Department of Geography, and Thomas Mitchell, Professor of Law at the University of Wisconsin discussed affordable housing, indigenous rights, … Continue reading Law, Property and Society →
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This is weeks show is an Energy Extravaganza! Our hosts, Pearl Zeng and Andrea Kraus talked energy technology, policy, consumer education, and equity with a group of four master’s students from SNRE who are wrapping up over a year of work on their capstone projects and theses, Brett Simon, Geoff Burmeister, Kate Loshakova, and Kiran Chawla. These … Continue reading Energy Extravaganza! →
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The theme of this week’s segment of It’s Hot In Here, the radio show bringing you environmental news, views, and grooves from SNRE students, faculty, and the many practitioners in southeast Michigan and beyond was Ecology of Fear and Fear of Ecology — Can Science do More to Improve Human-Wildlife Cohabitation? Our hosts were joined in-studio and by pre-recorded … Continue reading Ecology of Fear and Fear of Ecology – Can Science Do More to Improve Human-Wildlife Cohabitation? →
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The theme of this week’s show is Traditional Ecological Knowledge and Green Tribal Economies. Hosts Brittany Anstead, Andrea Kraus, Rebecca Baylor and Pearl Zeng were joined by Jannan Cornstalk with the LTBB Natural Resource Comission and Barb Barton from The Gathering Society. Brittany Anstead is a masters student at the School of Natural Resources and Environment and will be graduating this … Continue reading Traditional Ecological Knowledge →
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Today’s show was about how to end the war against the planet! We brought together activists from the 1960’s anti-war movement and the modern environmental movement to commemorate the 50th Anniversary of the first Teach-In against the Vietnam War right here at the Univeristy of Michigan in 1965. In the studio our hosts, Sam Molnar and Andrea … Continue reading Ending War, Stopping Climate Change, Intergenerational Activism →
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On this week’s show, our hosts Rebecca Hardin, Whitney Smith and Nicholas Bruscato discussed Growing Authentic Leaders from Communities Most Impacted by Environmental Injustice and Climate Change with the distinguished Dr. Robert Bullard – “The Father of Environmental Justice” and current Dean of the Barbara Jordan-Mickey Leland School of Public Affairs at Texas Southern University. What is Environmental … Continue reading Growing Authentic Leaders from Communities Most Impacted by Environmental Injustice and Climate Change →
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After a week long hiatus over spring break, we are back! Hope you all enjoyed your spring break as much as we did! In addition to the environmental news, views and grooves that you love, this week’s show focused on Art and Environmental Science. Our lovely hosts, Rebecca Hardin (rdhardin@umich.edu) and Pearl Zeng (zhuzeng@umich.edu) were joined … Continue reading Art and Environmental Science →
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We kicked off spring break with a show on Healthy Stuff and Consumer Product Safety. Our hosts, Rebecca Hardin and Andrea Kraus were joined by toxic stuff guru, Jeff Gearhart from HealthyStuff.org and the Research Director at The Ecology Center of Ann Arbor, and Andrew Klooster, a University of Michigan graduate (anthropology and sustainability) and current … Continue reading Healthy Stuff and Consumer Product Safety →
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Happy Chinese New Year! Our incredible co-hosts, Pearl Zeng and Sam Molnar, celebrated the Chinese New Year and discussed Chinese Culture and Environmental perspectives. Our co-hosts were joined by five guests, Hua Cai, Wufan Jia, Junhong Liang, Lingyan Xu, and Neal McKenna. We would like to give special thanks to our oh-so-talented audio engineer, Tex, who did his … Continue reading China | Culture and Environment →
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Happy Valentine’s Day! We had a wonderful celebration of love in the studio yesterday! Along with our regular hosts, Pearl Zeng (zhuzeng@umich.edu), and Rebecca Hardin (rdhardin@umich.edu), our latest member of the team, Bailey Schneider (baschn@umich.edu), joined us in the studio. We celebrated Valentine’s Day and shared our love with the Founders and family of IHIH, including Jennifer … Continue reading IHIH Love Fest →
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Oh how we love food! This week’s show focused on Food Love, the theme of the 7th Annual Local Food Summit 2015 and the ongoing WCBN Fundraiser! Our wonderful hosts, Rebecca Baylor and Andrea Kraus were joined by wonderful guests including Keith Soster, Eric Kempe, Bill Brinkerhoff, and Nicole Chardoul! Keith Soster (ksoster@umich.edu) is the director of Student … Continue reading Food Love →
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On this week’s show, we discussed current environmental news, climate change with Alexandra (Lexi) Brewer (MS ’15), Tu B’shevat (Birthday of Trees) with Nick Bruscatto (MS ’16), and the SNRE Food Olympics with Rebecca Baylor. We also discussed the upcoming and exciting events happening around SNRE and the University of Michigan! One of our hosts, Andrea Kraus, … Continue reading Climate Change in 2014, Tu B’shevat, and SNRE’s Food Olympics →
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Today’s show features Jimmy Chin, renowned North Face team Climber and Photographer, Will Weber, Founder of Journeys International and Returned Peace Corps Volunteer, and Benjamin Morse, SNRE MSc. student (2016) and Returned Peace Corps Volunteer. Jimmy Chin is a professional outdoorsman, climber, skier, and photographer. Jimmy has been sponsored by The North Face since 2001, and has led many outdoor … Continue reading Ecotourism →
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It is 2015 and we are back! To kick off the new year on It’s Hot in Here, our hosts Rebecca Hardin and Sam Molnar discussed Agroecology with Dr. Marney Isaac, Assisant Professor and Canada Research Chair in Agroecosystems & Development at the University of Toronto. Bio: Dr. Marney Isaac, Assistant Professor and Canada Research Chair in Agroecosystems … Continue reading Agroecology →
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A new student guest co-host brings our final show for the Fall 2014 term this week! Mugabi Augustine Ateenyi Byenkya, a first-year environmental justice master’s student at the School of Natural Resources and Environment. His career interests lie in the intersection between development and environmental injustices issues, generally in the developing world, but more specifically … Continue reading African Environmentalism: Spirit and Science →
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This week our topic and guests came to fruition thanks to our co-host, Nick Bruscato! Nick is a graduate student at the School of Natural Resources and Environment at the University of Michigan and a Participant in the Peace Corps Masters International program. He is studying Environmental Justice with a focus on inequities and access issues of public … Continue reading Underserved Urban Green Space →
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Tune in as we ring in the start of the holiday season by discussing ways that we can make a positive impact in our local community and around the world through the way consume goods. We were having some technically difficulties this time around but this gave us the opportunity to dig through WCBN’s INCREDIBLE … Continue reading Positive Consumption →
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This week on It’s Hot in Here, we discussed the upcoming international climate negotiations at the United Nations Conference of Parties (COP20) in Lima, Peru. On the show we had second-year graduate students from the School of Natural Resources and Environment COP20 student delegation: Katie Browne, Lexi Brewer, Arman Golrokhian, and (from the IHIH family) Pearl Zeng. … Continue reading Climate Week! →
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Today’s show features extra freshness: two SNRE masters students and the volunteer coordinator of southeast Michigan’s oldest environmental organization talk to us about their work researching and caring for Michigan’s lakes and rivers. Ellen Spooner (Con-Eco ’15) is a MS student in the Aquatics Department at SNRE. This summer (much to the envy of … Continue reading Freshwater Health →
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We start off the show with an old feature, “What’s in season?”, and discussions of kale, squash, fresh herbs and even some late-season tomatoes! Sam Molnar, second-year Environmental Informatics and Environmental Justice master’s student at the School of Natural Resources and Environment, joins us for the show and tells us about a vegan squash soup … Continue reading Environmental Contamination in Iraq →
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Saturday, September 27th 2014 marks the US Green Building Council’s third annual Green Apple Day of Service, during which parents, teachers, students, companies and local organizations dedicate their time to transforming schools into healthy, safe and productive learning environments through local service projects. The It’s Hot In Here crew decided to join the action as a … Continue reading Green Schools →
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The It’s Hot in Here family kicked off the new season with an introduction to 3 of our new hosts: Becca Baylor, Pearl Zeng, and Dania Gutierrez. We are really excited to welcome our new hosts to the family and are looking forward to what an new year of IHIH will bring. Flipping the classroom … Continue reading Back to School Kick-Off →
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Image courtesy of Mia Risberg In September of 2013 (just as the ’13-’14 season of It’s Hot In Here was kicking off) Traverse City-based oil and gas company West Bay Exploration performed seismic tests west of Ann Arbor to map out potential sites for oil extraction. Eight months later, 300 people stood side by side … Continue reading Michigan Black Gold (Season Finale) →
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Growing Hope, an Ypsilanti-based nonprofit, helps people improve their lives and communities through gardening and healthy food access. Using a strengths-based approach, the Growing Hope team works to build peoples’ capacity to use community and school gardens as vehicles for positive social, economic, environmental and neighborhood change. They advocate for healthy food, manage an urban farmers’ … Continue reading Growing Hope →
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This week Frank Fejeran (Chef) and Zack Zavisa (Bartender) of The Ravens Club take us on a savory trip through culinary and liquid media. Join us! The journey begins with the delights and (occasional) challenges of sourcing the most local (and happily produced) produce, beef, and cheese, and continues on to the pleasures of creating … Continue reading The Ravens Club: “Flavor is a Serious Matter” →
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“It doesn’t take much reading about current events to find articles detailing the plight of migratory songbirds and butterflies like monarchs. Due to a variety of circumstances, but especially the loss of suitable feeding and breeding habitat, numbers have dropped significantly and there is no reason to believe that that course will be reversed unless … Continue reading Growing Our Native Knowledge →
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It’s not often the US is left off any major world atlas. But such was the case with the European Union-funded Environmental Justice Organizations, Liabilities and Trade (EJOLT) project, which has previously reported on and analyzed 1,000 environmental conflicts in more than 60 countries, including India, Ecuador, Turkey, Mexico and South America. This data was organized on … Continue reading EJOLT: Environmental Justice Organisations, Liability, and Trade →
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To many Native Americans, the spring and summer months are known as powwow season–celebratory gatherings in which people come together to dance, sing, socialize, and honor Native cultures. Brittany Anstead and Hayden Hedman, two SNRE students and active members of the Native American Students Association at the University of Michigan, helped organize the 42nd Annual … Continue reading Dance & Divest for Mother Earth →
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Ian Makowske, lifelong competitive gymnast and SNRE master’s student, takes us behind the scenes of the upcoming NCAA Men’s Gymnastics Championships. Not only will the University of Michigan be hosting the event for the first time in 40 years, it’ll be the first time ever that the gymnastics championships go “zero waste”. Ian explains what … Continue reading Interview With Ian Makowske →
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Honey – it’s delicious, nutritious, and one of the most labor-intensive food products known to man. That is, if we give credit where it’s due – to bees and those who work to keep them flourishing! This week: Rich Wieske, maker of meade and pollinator of the City of Detroit with Green Toe Gardens and … Continue reading Buzzzzzz…What’s that Sound? It’s the UM Bees →
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This week Dr. Rebecca Hardin takes us on an auditory cruise across continents, academic disciplines, and musical gems like no one else can (NB: we can say that, cause she’s our hero). Inspired by the upcoming April 1-4, 2014 U-M STEM-Africa Initiative Conference: Effective U.S. Strategies for African STEM Collaborations, Capacity Building, and Diaspora Engagement sponsored … Continue reading STEM Africa with a Conservation Twist, Featuring Dr. Heather E. Eves →
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For over 25 years, Food Gatherers has worked to alleviate hunger and eliminate its causes in the Ann Arbor community. Priya Khangura talks to us about Food Gatherer’s innovative programs, including its food rescue operation, local food bank, school produce pantry, and farm. Listen in for some inspiration to join Food Gatherers in their fight … Continue reading Food Gatherers & TedxUofM →
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Join us in a lively conversation around function, form, fitness, and food with Ann Arbor’s own Ryan Sullivan. Ryan’s an impressively articulate, generous, and observant trainer and owner of the “boutique-y” gym Functional Fitness. He’s a self proclaimed “nerd,” but we prefer to think of him as a “fitness intellectual” trained in the vernacular arts … Continue reading Functional Fitness →
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Ever wonder where all this newly melting snow is heading? Whether it’s kosher to dump your paint down the drain? Or, whether there’s a toxic plumb of Dioxane 1,4 heading into the mighty Huron River? Then listen in! This week Evan Pratt, Washtenaw County Water Resources Commissioner, graces the WCBN studios with his water-related (and … Continue reading Urban Ecosystem Health →
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On this show we talk about the community building power of crowd-sourcing, as well as the awesome work that students at the University of Michigan are doing to fight food waste. Miranda Kahn and Izzy Morrison of Ann Arbor SOUP organize micro-granting dinners that bring people from around Ann Arbor together to celebrate and support positive … Continue reading Ann Arbor Soup + Food Recovery Network = Lunch for Your Ears →
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February 14th marks the most celebrated (albeit, corporatized) day for lovebirds everywhere AND one of the final days of WCBN’s Annual FUNdraiser. In celebration of this delicate confluence – where love and money intertwine and beget more love and money – we invited friends (and friendly lovers) of It’s Hot in Here to join our … Continue reading It’s Hot in Here’s Lovefest 2K14! →
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Jessica Fogel, a University of Michigan professor of dance and choreography, has long been interested in performance projects that bring forward stories embedded in our rural and urban landscapes. She’s now collaborating with Robert Alexander, sonification specialist, and David Biedenbender, composer, on a special site-based performance titled Into The Wind that explores the emotional dialogue … Continue reading Dance, Sound, and Sustainability →
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What do malaria, heavy metal, and community art have in common? They’re the focal points of this week’s It’s Hot In Here! We’re joined in the studio by Dr. Peter Larson, post-doctoral scholar in ecology and epidemiology at the University of Michigan, and, awesomely enough, an avid metal fan and musician. Peter shares his love of … Continue reading Malaria, Metal, and Detroit’s Heidelberg Project, et al. →
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Baby, it’s cold outside. In this episode of IHIH, we ask, “What exactly is a polar vortex?”, share some rather unusual stories about the grand fight against the winter blues, and check in with the SNRE Food Olympics. If the show doesn’t quite warm you up enough, keep groovin’ to our music playlist (featuring such greats as … Continue reading [Just the] Tips for Beating the Winter Blues →
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Ready your cups and saucers and set your kettles to boil! We’re talking tea with Sarah Besky! Sarah is a Postdoctoral Scholar with the Michigan Society of Fellows and Assistant Professor of Anthropology and Natural Resources and Environment at the University of Michigan. In her book, The Darjeeling Distinction: Labor and Justice on Fair-trade Tea … Continue reading Tea Time with Sarah Besky →
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In November of 2013, SNRE students Jenny Cooper, Rachel Jacobson, and Chris Wolff joined the throngs of international delegates at the COP19 UN climate talks in Warsaw, Poland. In this episode of IHIH, they share some of their most memorable experiences. Listen in and let their stories transport you to the hectic, yet hopeful, scenes … Continue reading It’s Hot in Here Goes to Warsaw: A Conversation with the Parties →
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Don’t Scrouge yourself this holiday season – tune into It’s Hot in Here for a semi-wholesome hour of talk, tunes, and tasty gift ideas. We’ll feature: A trip down Detroit’s memory lane with Mark Binelli, author of Detroit City is the Place to Be: The Afterlife of an American Metropolis. Talk with Jeff Wattrick from … Continue reading Half Holiday Edition →
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Following recent announcements from Unilever and Ferraro stating they would switch to sustainable palm oil sources by 2014, Forest Heroes, a Michigan advocacy group for the protection of Indonesian rainforest, decided it was time to apply extra pressure on Kellogg’s to join their pledge. And thus, last Wednesday Forest Heroes led a group of over … Continue reading Michiganders Visit Kellogg’s HQ to Decry Deforestation – Special Interview with Eva Resnick-Day →
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On November 6, 2013, Jennifer sat down with Mark Binelli to chat about his latest book: Detroit City is the Place to Be: The Afterlife of an American Metropolis. One of Publishers Weekly‘s Top 10 Best Books of 2012. While we’ll soon play the audio on an upcoming show, you’re welcome to listen to Mark’s … Continue reading Special Interview with Mark Binelli re: Detroit City is the Place to Be →
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Nov. 15, 2013: Learn all about the power of storytelling and how it affects the environmental field. – Lianne Lefsrud (PhD), post-doctoral fellow at the Erb Institute, studies the power of rhetoric and explains to us how storytelling may hold the key to addressing climate change. – Brittany Anstead (Sustainable Systems, MS ‘15) hails … Continue reading Stories, Climate, Sovereignty →
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Nov. 1, 2013: Two passionate activists join us and talk about their work curbing rainforest deforestation in Southeast Asia. – Eva Resnick-Day, Forest Heroes campaign organizer and Greencorps trainee, returns to the show to update us on the campaign against the massive palm oil farms that are destroying Indonesia’s rainforest. – Brihannala Morgan, director of … Continue reading Activism & Deforestation →
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Oct. 18, 2013: Listen to learn about food preservation, wildlife conservation in South Africa, and organic poultry farming in Michigan – How to preserve your fruits and veggies with Rachel Chadderdon – Pre-vet student, Andie Haugen’s, experience working with wildlife in South Africa – John Harnois, native Detroiter and local farmer, shares stories of raising happy … Continue reading Autumnal Preservation, Big Cat Conservation, and a Poultry Celebration! →
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Oct. 4, 2013: This week we bring you recycling in the Big House, SNRE’s Career Week, and a deforestation campaign gaining traction on campus. University of Michigan student, Ian Makowske (MS Behavior, Education, and Communication 2015), talks about fusing two of his passions—athletics and sustainability—in an exciting new recycling initiative at the Big House football … Continue reading Homecoming →
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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 Lucas’ awesome Rap for Food toward the middle of the show!) (+ bonus conversation with Matt Grocoff, organizer … Continue reading Food Summit Recap →
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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!
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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 in Here Radio” charts new territory for the program… Today we ask: what does scripture tell us about … Continue reading Environmental Ethics + Religion →
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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) as they yap all about “Environmental News + Journalism.”
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Download Here 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 process. Raymond De Young is an Associate Professor in the School Natural Resources … Continue reading 02.20.2012 | The Localization Reader: Adapting to the Coming Downshift →
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Download Here Matt Grocoff and Joe Trumpey are were in 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 the School of Art & Design and the School of Natural Resources, built his off-grid home by … Continue reading House Greening →
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Download Here 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 studio is the fabulous Nate Ayers, a local permaculturist and educator.www.a2reskilling.com
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Download Here January 9th show with Susan, Rissa, and Marquise of Ann Arbor’s Groundcover News!Later, an interview with Jennifer Johnson about her research in Uganda.
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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 approach. Our guests Scott Rick and Stephanie Preston joined us in the … Continue reading Consumption, Hoarding, Tightwad Show →
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We kick off the show looking at what the most sustainable Christmas tree options are (with one of our hosts even citing some insight she gained from a life cycle assessment she ran!). Then we set our sights on Delray, one of Detroit’s most impoverished neighborhoods. It is a long-time victim to city planning efforts, sits … Continue reading Poverty + Sustainability: Lessons in + from Detroit →
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Just in time for the mass exodus from Ann Arbor, SNRE’s own Shelie Miller, a specialist in life cycle assessment and energy, shares insights on sustainable transit. Beyond the typical modes, she entertains our questioning of teleportation as surely the MOST sustainable transit form! 😉 Turkey man and local farmer John Harois is also in the studio to tell … Continue reading Turkeys, Travel, and Teleportation →
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Download Here 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 Department … Continue reading Environment, Information, and Sustainable Development: The Africa-Asia Nexus →
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Download Here 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 safety of Genetically … Continue reading Talkin’ GMOs with Jeffrey Sachs →
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Download Here 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”!Not all … Continue reading UM Campus Sustainability Variety Show →
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Download Here 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 … Continue reading Homegrown Festival Preview →
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Download Here 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 opens June 1st (4:30–8:30PM) in … Continue reading 05.23.2011 | Change. Chicken. Curiosity. Clean Air. →
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Download Here 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.
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Download Here This week we talk Earth Art, Detroit’s Heidelberg Project, liminality, and jam to some stone cold grooves with Beth Diamond. Beth was a “a landscape theorist, designer and cultural instigator,” Assistant Professor of Landscape Architecture at the University of Michigan, and Lead Project Designer for the Heidelberg Project’s Cultural Village in the Black Bottom District of … Continue reading 05.09.2011 | Earth Art with Beth Diamond →
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Download Here 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 the … Continue reading 04.25.2011 | EcoMendable Actions: A Conversation with PitE Students →
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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 blog for his reflections on trash in society.
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Download Here 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 to register!Jesse … Continue reading 04.11.2011 | Energy, Budgets, Birds →
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Download Here 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 Arbor/UM joins us … Continue reading 01.31.2011 | Ann Arbor Reskilling Festival →
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Download Here 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 mlivein Detroit. It’s a good time.
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