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Podcasting for Beginners
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Some of our shows are now available for you to download and enjoy at your leisure. We're in the process of adding to the collection, so if there's a show that you'd like to share with a friend (or simply hear again) give us a call or email us and we'll contact you.
Links to the very broad categories of shows that we have available for you are listed at the top of this page.
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Air & Water
Elisabeth Eytchison, Eureka resident down-wind from Humboldt Bay's Evergreen Pulp Mill. discusses how she got involved in trying to clean-up the mill's air emissions. (December 2004)
- Barbara Miller, Silver Valley Community Resource Center Director, discusses air pollution and environmental justice. (June 2005)
- "Will you be my pen pal?" was the message all the way from Germany. A disscussion with the Outreach Manager of the California Coastal Commission Eben Schwartz. Covers the 21st annual California State-Wide Beach Clean-Up and general good stewardship of our beaches. (September 2005)
- Reducing greenhouse gasses through local efforts is the focus of this conversation with Jennifer Berman, project coordinator for Humboldt County Climate Change Project.(March 2006)
- Tony DeFalco works with the Marine Fish Conservation Network, which has 180 member groups including commercial fishers, scientists, recreation and conservation groups. He and Tim McKay talk about the laws governing marine fishing off the US, the health of the oceans, and the threats to sustainable fisheries.(March 2006)
- A talk with Steven Combs, Director of environmental studies program and professor of Biology at the University of Portland. He holds a BS, MS, and Phd in zoology and has interest in the area of salmon recovery planning (7/20/06).
- NEW! Craig Tucker, the Klammath coordinator for Karuk tribe on dam removal (11/2/06).
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Critters
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- Louisa Willcox talks about the threats to Montana's mighty, but endangered, grizzly bears. (Dec. 2004)
- Petey Brucker, with the Salmon River Restoration Council, talks about their efforts to save the spring Chinook from extinction. (May 2005)
- Earthworms: the Most Important Animal Ever!? A great discusion with Amy Stewart; home gardener and author of The Earth Moved: On the Remarkable Achievements of Earthworms. Covers Darwin's remarkable research on the worm and "worms as ecosytem engineers?" (July 2005)
- Dana Stolzman, with the Salmonid Restoration Federation, talks about ecology & economy of restoring natural resources for future generations of fish and people.
- Discussion with John Alexander of the Klamath Bird Observatory. Topics include the intentions of the International Bird Conservation Initiative, monitoring efforts of bird population trends on the North Coast, and educational outreach programs. (September 2005)
- Dr. Dorothy Borst, associate professor of biology at Gordon College in Massachusetts and a member a the Noah Alliance, which opposes a major rewrite of the Endangered Species Act, provides Christian views of endangered species. (October 2005)
- NEW! Godwits, birds of prey, ducks, song birds and more are the focus of Godwit Days. Rob Hewitt, one of the event organizers, gives some of the details of this three day event that brings people from all over the world. (April 13, 2006)
- NEW! Mark Rockwell, Endangered Species Coalition spokesman, talks about recent developments in Congress. (May 18, 2006)
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Land and Trees
Susan Kinsella highlights ConservaTree Paper's ideas on policy options for reducing the waste of trees. (September 2004)
Andrea Tuttle, recent director of the California Department of Forestry, recounts her four years at the helm of the embattled agency. (October 2004)
- Daniel Sarr, Ph.D. discusses the Klamath Network Parks monitoring program of the National Park Service. (May 2005)
- Talking about Redwood National Park with two employees Leonel Arguero and Jason Karaoka. (June 2005)
- Vera Smith of the Colorado Mountain Club talks about roadless areas and land use.
- Lesley Adams, outreach coordinator for the Ashland, Oregon based Klamath-Siskiyou Wildlands Center, discusses remedies to current public lands problems.
- Greg King , Director, discusses the goals of the Siskiyou Land Conservancy. February 2, 2006
- Mark Lovelace, director of the Humboldt Watershed Council, gives listeners an update on the life and times of the landscape of Pacific Lumber Co. (Feb. 2006)
- Scott Greacen of the Environmental Protection Information Center details recent national forest developments. (May 19, 2006)
- Scott Grecean of the Environmental Protection Information Center discusses a roads project in an old growth clear cut in the Underwood Roadless Area (12/07/06)
- NEW! A dialouge on the controversal Community Fuels Project proposed for the Orleans area with Kimberly Baker of the Klamath Forest Alliance. (2/22/07).
- Greg King talks with longtime North Coast resident and environmental activist Richard Geinger. (3/1/07).
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Cultural Voices
Kari Norgaard, a researcher at UC Davis, presents her findings regarding salmon and the diet of local Karuk Indians. (June 2, 2005)
- Chris Peters, executive director of the Seventh Generation Fund talks about his work with the Tradition, Knowledge and Environmental Stewardship conference that SGF organized. (July 2005)
- Dr. Hamil Taravati, Iranian conservationist, addresses population, peace and sustainable development.
- Craig Tucker, a member of the Karuk Tribe, and Klamath River Campaign Coordinator, tells their story.
- NEW! Leo Canez, who works with the Seventh Generation Fund, and Tasha Norton, a high school senior and run organizer, talk about the Salmon Run. This event, now in its fourth year, is designed to bring attention to the need for the salmon run in the Klamath River to be restored. (May 11, 2006)
McKinley to McKay. A tribute to Tim McKay written by Darryl Cherney, a long time political and environmental activist.
Cultural biologist Ron Reed of the Karuk Tribe on the Klammath River shed talks with Greg King (2/15/07).
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Energy
- Daniel Kammen, Professor of Energy and Resourcesat UC Berkeley outlines the failure of a national vision for our energy future.
- NEW! George Wheeler, a McKinleyville resident, talks about the solar set-up on his garage roof. And remember, the McKinleyville airport was built in part to give pilots training in foggy conditions! (April 6, 2005)
- Kate Krebs, former director of the Arcata Recycling Center and now the Director of the National Recycling Coalition in Washington, DC, expounds on the US vs Europe in waste reduction and recycling. (June 9, 2005)
- Guest Jill Morrison of the NE Wyoming area talks of the dangers of the coal minning boom in her area. (June 2005)
- Richard Charter of the Outer Continental Shelf Coalition previews prospects for oil drilling off the northern California coast. 1/26/2006
- 500 people packed the local FERC hearing while every comment made to the Washington DC Federal Energy Regulatory Commission representatives was for the removal of Klammath dams (11/23/06).
- Greg King gives an update on recent climate change studies; and Jennifer Berman on global, national, and local efforts to reduce greenhouse gases (11/30/06)
- Greg King talks seriously with Peter Bunyard on Climate Change. Peter Bunyard is the foundng editor of The Ecologist Magazine and has served as a consultant to the UN Environmental Program (3/29/07)
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Local Focus
- Melissa Zelinski, director of the Humboldt State University Natural History Museum discusses the mission of that institution. (April 2005)
- Erica Terence is the new editor for ECONEWS, filling the shoes of Sid Dominitz, editor the last 13 years. Changes are in store! (April 2005)
- Cars On Clam? Not Quite the Nice Day at the Beach. A discussion with Eureka local Scott Greacen of EPIC about the Exxon-backed Blue Ribbon Coalition and their efforts to support recreational driving on Clam Beach. Also covers over grazing of 120,000 acres of Six Rivers National Forest. (Sep. 2005)
- Pete Nichols celebrates one year of the Humboldt Baykeepers program. (October 2005)
- Kaitlin Sopoci-Belknap, campaign manager for the Humboldt Coalition for Community Rights, describes the Humboldt County Ordinance to Protect Our Right to Fair Elections and Local Democracy.(March 2006)
- Water policy from the federal to the county level is the topic of this conversation with Tom Stokely, principal Trinity County planner.(March 2006)
- Sarah Borok, fisheries specialist, explains Klamath salmon population date. (June 1, 2006)
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Toxics
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Books
Author of new book "River of Renewal" Steven Most on the history, landscape, controversies, and community of the Klammath river basin. Also Dana Stolzman on the 25th annual Salmonid Conference (2/8/07).
Author John Hart celebrates the early environmental leaders of Nothern California in his new book "Legacy" (7/20/06).
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Republicans for Environmental Protection
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Podcasting for Beginners
These shows are in the form of Podcasts. So if clicking on the link doesn't work, here's how they work.
If you want to listen to o-ne of the archived programs, you will need to have a program o-n your computer that will download Podcasts. iTunes is probaby the most common program that serves this function. If you don't already have it, you can download a free copy for either Mac or PC by going to www.apple.com/itunes/podcasts/.
Once you have an appropriate program o-n your computer, click o-n this link to access the library of our Econews Reports.
Depending o-n your system, you may now be able place an icon o-n your desk top (or another location of your choice), or open the file. If you have saved the file o-nto your computer, when you double click its icon, iTunes will automatically open it, along with the album showing our available radio shows.
A big Thank You! goes to StreamGuys for not only hosting our PodCasts, but also taking the time to patiently instruct me in the fine details of transferring our programs from CD's to the web. If you have a business that could use this type of service, I highly recommend them. You can find them on the web at www.streamguys.com, or phone them (right here in Arcata!) at 826-1311.
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Updated Friday, February 24, 2006 |
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