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10/20/21
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Wildfires From Space
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Wildfires in California are getting a lot of publicity. Sometimes we'll hear about wildfires in other western states, including Alaska.
There are wildfires throughout the world. Hundreds of them. Check out the links to the NASA photographs of them.
The map is interactive and you can get close-ups of many areas of the world.
This site mentions no political conclusions, even with the IPCC report being so alarming.
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10/15/21
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Pacific Leatherback Conservation Day
Is Today
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The largest sea turtle in the world can grow up to seven feet and weigh more than a ton.
Eats jellyfish.
Can dive to depths of 4,200 feet, deeper than any other turtle, and can hold its breath for over an hour.
Might not be a true "cold-blooded" OR "warm-blooded" animal, like some dinosaurs may have been.
For more info, follow the link.
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9/19/21
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#PeopleVsFossilFuels
Report Back
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This has been an amazing week of action designed to wake up the administration to honor their campaign promises - C'mon, Biden!
The Build Back Fossil Free Coalition's
People vs. Fossil Fuels action began on Indigenous People's Day
and included hundreds of groups and thousands of people.
We are gathering several people, including Eco-Logic Collective member JK Canepa and journalist Ted Glick, who were at the
daily rallies and civil disobedience in DC to speak with us Friday October 15th at
2:30pm. If you were there and want your comments included in the broadcast, send them to us.
Listen in for our live on the scene report from the People vs Fossil Fuels action in Washington, DC
People vs Fossil Fuels Artists: Christi Belcourt, Jan Burger, Josh MacPhee
And...
Tune in next week, Fri. Oct. 22, 2:30pm for Wildfires From Space! The Immense Scope of the Problem and its Causes.
Stay tuned,
Ken Gale, Donna Stein & Sally Gellert
When the air or water are clean, thank an environmentalist. If not, become one. 'Nuff Said!
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10/7/21
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People vs. Fossil Fuels
Demanding a Fossil Free Future!
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President Biden has the executive authority to stop fossil fuel expansion now, but he is not doing it. By refusing to stop major fossil
fuel projects, the president has broken his campaign promises to protect Indigneous rights, prioritize environmental justice, and fully
address the climate crisis. This week of action is trying to get him to listen to the people!
Indigenous People's Day is this coming Monday, October 11, and the Indigenous Environmental Network
and people from front-line communities lead off People vs. Fossil Fuels,
a week of action in Washington DC. Build Back Fossil Free, a coalition of
hundreds of Indigenous, Black, environmental, climate justice, youth, and social justice groups, will be demonstrating
outside the White House all week, each day focussing on a particular issue related to
dirty energy and the current policy discussions.
On this show we have an activist from one of the organizing groups: Alex Beauchamp
from Food & Water Watch.
At this writing, there are still seats for the Wednesday, Oct. 13
bus from NYC to DC for Thursday morning's actions.
And...
Tune in next week, Fri. Oct. 15, 2:30pm for our live on the scene report from People vs Fossil Fuels actions in Washington, DC.
WBAI, 99.5FM & www.wbai.org
Stay tuned,
Ken Gale, Donna Stein & Sally Gellert
When the air or water are clean, thank an environmentalist. If not, become one. 'Nuff Said!
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10/7/21
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Louisiana black-out
an act of Entergy
by Greg Palast
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Louisiana Black-out: Not an Act of God, an Act of Entergy
The effect of Hurricane Ida on the people of the New Orleans area should not be forgotten.
The role of the energy corporation Entergy should not be forgiven for making the problem worse and last longer.
It is the company that used to own a lot of nuclear power plants.
Investigative Journalist Greg Palast gives you the details.
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9/30/21
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Confronting BlackRock
Global climate-threatening financier
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BlackRock has been greenwashing its investments in dirty fossil fuels, deforestation, the military and other environmentally destructive projects.
Financial giants like BlackRock are not used to the public knowing what they do, much less holding them accountable for the impacts of their investments. Yet a growing global movement is doing just that.
Starting October 1st, a worldwide network of NGOs, social movements, grassroots groups, and financial advocates will show up at BlackRock offices around the globe for a week of actions to remind employees of what their company is doing. Join us on Eco-Logic to learn more about how to get involved locally.
Guests: Mary Cerull: Climate Finance Action, Founder; part of the BlackRock's Big Problem campaign, a network
of campaigners, scientists, researchers, and policy experts. #BlackRocksBigProblem
Nancy Mancias: CODEPINK National Organizer, San Francisco Bay Area, CA, part of the BBP campaign. www.codepink.org
For a video of the Sept. 21 "Walk of Shame" to many financiers of pollution, go to this video
And...
Tune in next week, Fri. Oct. 8, 2:30pm for "The People Vs. Fossil Fuels"
WBAI, 99.5FM & www.wbai.org
Stay tuned,
Ken Gale, Donna Stein & Sally Gellert
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9/30/21
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What does $20 Trillion look like?
Here's a visualization
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The numbers used by corporations, the military and the government to define profit or debt or taxes or spending are too big to comprehend easily.
If a number ends in "illion," it's hard to visualize and differentiate from another number that ends in "illion."
This web site gives a graphic representation. It's fascinating to scroll down.
Bear in mind that the visualizations would be 100 times larger if they used $1.00 bills.
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9/22/21
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Confronting BlackRock
Global climate-threatening financier
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Postponed one week to Oct. 1, 2021, 2:30PM due to technical difficulties.
BlackRock has been greenwashing its investments in dirty fossil fuels, deforestation, and other environmentally destructive projects.
Financial giants like BlackRock are not used to the public knowing what they do, much less holding them accountable for the
impacts of their investments. Yet a growing global movement is doing just that.
On October 1st, a worldwide network of NGOs, social movements, grassroots groups, and financial advocates will show up at
BlackRock offices around the globe to remind employees of what their company is doing. Join us on Eco-Logic to learn more
about how to get involved locally.
Guest: Mary Cerulli: Founder of Climate Finance Action; part of the BlackRock's Big Problem campaign, a network of campaigners, scientists,
researchers, and policy experts. #BlackRocksBigProblem
WBAI, 99.5FM & www.wbai.org
Stay tuned,
Ken Gale, Donna Stein & Sally Gellert
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9/22/21
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The Effects of a 20-year Drought
And more people along the Colorado River
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The Colorado River has been in a 20-year drought. Millions more people use the river for drinking water and crop
irrigation than when the drought began. The Colorado River no longer reaches the sea.
Water levels have declined so much that water is no longer available to everyone who has taken it for granted. Almost all
cities and states in the Southwest U.S. have been spending a lot more money on water conservation, water reuse, and water
recycling, but mandatory water restrictions have also been put in place.
Yet the population continues to increase and crops continue to be grown in a desert.
Environmentally destructive methods of getting water, such as desalination, are being proposed.
For more information, read this article by Gary Wockner on ecowatch.com
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9/22/21
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Oil Companies Respond to Pressure
Shell sells an oil field
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Oil companies DO respond to outside pressure. Dutch oil company Shell Oil, which is notoriously anti-environmentalist,
responded to demands to become greener and sold their oil holdings in Texas to ConocoPhilips. This does not decrease
greenhouse gas emissions, but it does show that public pressure works - in Europe. We have no doubt that U.S. oil companies
will eventually also be forced to clean up their acts.
Read the whole article by Olivia Rosane on ecowatch.com
The October 1 episode of Eco-Logic will be on People Vs. Fossil Fuels.
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9/22/21
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Sponges Save Coral Reefs
In Florida Keys
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"Sponge Bobbie" Renfro is a Ph.D. candidate at Florida State University with a specialty in sponges. Sponges are the
first multi-cellular animal to evolve, 550 or more million years ago. Coral reefs are among the most productive ecosystems on Earth.
She is using sponges to restore Florida coral reefs, that are only about 1/20 their former size, from a deadly coral disease,
poor water quality, and the climate crisis.
Read how she is doing that and what the results have been in
an article by Tiffany Duong on Ecowatch.com
For more on ocean ecology, there are radio shows and articles linked from this web page.
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9/22/21
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Late-night comedians
Tackle the Climate Crisis
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For one night, seven popular late-night comedy shows hope will be addressing the climate crisis.
On Wednesday, September 22, the hosts are dedicating a portion of each of their shows to giving climate change a
platform. The goal of the unprecedented, coordinated effort is to reach a wide audience and convey
the seriousness of the challenge faced by humanity.
Participants are FCBS' "The Late Show with Stephen Colbert" and "The Late Late Show with James Corden," ABC's "Jimmy Kimmel Live!,"
NBC's "The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon" and "Late Night with Seth Meyers," Comedy Central's "The Daily Show with Trevor Noah"
and TBS' "Full Frontal with Samantha Bee."
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9/19/21
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Resist False Climate Solutions
Hoodwinked in the Hothouse 3rd edition
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The Climate False Solutions collective's Hoodwinked in the Hothouse: Resist False Solutions to Climate Change
analyzes greenwashing and so-called solutions to climate change that are actually worse than the opposite of a solution because they take
time, energy, attention and money away from real solutions and make things worse.
Check out these chapters and download a pdf:
Carbon pricing
Nature-based Solutions
Bioenergy
Natural Gas
Hydrogen
Landfill Gas to Energy
Waste Incineration
Nuclear Power
Renewable energy
Hydroelectricity
Geoengineering
Carbon Capture
Real Solutions for Climate Justice.
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9/19/21
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Demand Against Nuclear Bailouts
In Infrastructure Bills
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BREAKING: There are proposals in both the energy legislation for the larger reconciliation package (S.2291/H.R.4024) and
the bipartisan infrastructure bill, the Build Back Better Act, which together would grant up to $50 billion to prop up
aging, increasingly uneconomical nuclear reactors for the next decade.
This is another example of socialism for the rich, with taxpayers paying expenses for businesses that cannot or will not pay their own way.
This is also an example of not taking the urgency of climate change seriously and ignoring nuclear power's immense contribution to the climate crisis.
It would also prevent the creation of more than 60,000 new jobs.
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9/19/21
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GREENWASH WEEK!
Polluters pretend they are clean
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On this, the 10th Anniversary of Occupy Wall Street
from members of the Environmental Solidarity Working Group...
GREENWASH WEEK!
Polluters pretend they're clean
Climate Week, or what we at Eco-Logic call Greenwash Week, unfortunately has been co-opted by corporate polluters. The sponsors are almost all from
polluting industries, including their headline partner National Grid, which brings fracked gas pipelines to North Brooklyn, among many other locations.
They have included a couple of organizations that do good work, which itself is greenwashing.
Although Cambridge Dictionary says greenwashing is designed "to make people believe that your company is doing more to protect the
environment than it really is," greenwashing in reality hides the fact that they may not be doing anything at all or take too much
credit for too little action.
"Greenwashing is all about misdirection, showing one thing that distracts you from what is really going on. The main issue is that
it gets in the way of real progress on such significant environmental issues as climate change, plastic ocean pollutions, air pollution,
and global species extinctions." -Leyla Acaroglu on medium.com/
With greenwashing, environmental problems stay the same, or more likely get even worse, as greenwashing often sucks up airtime and
misdirects well-intentioned consumers down the wrong path.
Polluting industries are not about to repent.
"...'net zero' plans from big polluters are nothing more than a big con. The reality is that corporations like Shell have no
interest in genuinely acting to solve the climate crisis by reducing their emissions from fossil fuels. They instead plan
to continue business as usual while greenwashing their image with tree planting and offsetting schemes that can never ever
make up for digging up and burning fossil fuels. We must wake up fast to the fact that we are falling for a trick. Net zero
risks obscuring a lack of action until it is too late." - Sara Shaw, Friends of the Earth International, Climate Justice
and Energy program co-coordinator
Stay tuned,
Ken Gale, Donna Stein & Sally Gellert
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9/2/21
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Military Impacts on Climate!
Military Exemptions in Climate Agreements
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Eco-Logic shows you climate change from another angle: the impact of the military and how its emissions are routinely exempted from
climate agreements -- despite being the largest single user of fossil fuels in the world.
Our guests, who have been working in the peace movement for decades, are Nobel Peace Prize recipient Alice Slater of
ICAN, also with
World Beyond War and
Global Network against Weapons and Nuclear Power in Space,
and Cindy Piester with
Veterans for Peace
and Unitarian Universalists for a Just Economic Community.
"US Militarism is the elephant in the room that is not being addressed, for want of public awareness and governmental resolve."
Here is Code Pink's 10 links between the climate crisis and militarism.
Stop Excluding Military Pollution in Climate Agreements petition.
And
Join us in two weeks, Friday, September 17th, at 2:30 p.m., when Eco-Logic previews Greenwash Week!
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8/26/21
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Banning Poison Pesticides
Two Victories!
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After years of hard work the EPA has banned the use of the pesticide chloropyrifos on all food. Recently the
NYC Council banned the toxic pesticide glyphosate in city parks and playgrounds. This is huge! We'll have two activists
who have been on the forefront of fighting against poison in our playgrounds, parks and crops.
Our guests have worked to protect our food supply and our children from toxic pesticides. Kristin Schafer is the executive director of the
Pesticide Action Network, which works with those on the frontlines to tackle the pesticide
problem and reclaim the future of food and farming. Paula Rogovin is a long time environmental and peace activist who inspired her
kindergarten students to solve the problem of poison on their playgrounds.
And
join us next Friday, September 3rd, at 2:30 p.m., when Eco-Logic discusses the military exceptions in all of the climate agreements- they keep getting exemptions!
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8/20/21
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Victory!
Brooklyn Botanic Garden Protected
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BREAKING: Rarely does the City of New York's government say No to developers. Permits to destroy and modify East River Park and Governor's Island in ways that
hurt nature and most of the Public are recent examples.
However, the City Planning Commission will vote to disapprove the controversial Crown Heights apartment tower that threatens to block the
Brooklyn Botanic Garden's sunlight, the commission's chair said on August 16. They cited public opposition, but in the past, that seldom
sways decision-makers against developers.
For more information, listen to the 3/11/21 episode of Eco-Logic or read this article by Ben Brachfield
on brownstoner.com
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8/19/21
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Electric Vehicles and Climate Change
Biden's Car Rules Explained
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The transportation sector, especially private vehicles, account for 1/3 of climate-chaos-causing greenhouse gases - nearly half
(46%) of New Jersey's emissions. (Because NYC resididents have so few cars most [70%] of NYC's emissions are from buildings).
Pres. Biden addressed the problem, announcing new standards while standing with reps from the Big Three U.S. automakers.
We discuss the good and bad points of Biden's program, and of electric vehicles generally, with Scott Hochberg, transportation
attorney at the Center for Biological Diversity's Climate Law Institute.
And
Join us next Friday, August 27th, at 2:30 p.m., when Eco-Logic discusses the EPA's ban on a carcinogenic pesticide and
New York's limitations on pesticides in city parks.
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8/19/21
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Victory!
Plastics Project needs EIS
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BREAKING: the US Army Corps has been ordered to prepare a full Environmental Impact Statement for Formosa Plastics' project,
which could take years to complete.
The fight to stop Formosa Plastics from building a mega-polluting petrochemical plant in St. James Parish, Louisiana is moving
to the White House. After a lot of hard work - through the leadership of RISE St. James, the power of the people, and
robust legal opposition - construction has been delayed.
The plant would pollute a predominantly Black community, disturb unmarked burial sites of formerly enslaved people,
degrade wetlands, and deepen the plastic pollution crisis.
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8/19/21
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Victory!
Alaska Oil Project Stopped!
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A federal judge rejects Trump-era permits for a major Alaska oil project, a setback for ConocoPhillips' Willow project,
which aimed to produce more than 100,000 barrels a day on the National Petroleum Reserve-Alaska.
The project had been backed by both the Trump and Biden administrations, despite a host of environmentalistal and Indigenous communities' concerns.
An Obama appointee, U.S. District Judge Sharon Gleason, wrote in her ruling that the Bureau of Land Management and the U.S. Fish and Wildlife
Service incorrectly approved the project because they failed to adequately analyze its climate impact and other possible development plans,
and didn't specify how polar bears would be protected.
For more information, read the enviropolitics article or
the Washington Post article
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8/19/21
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NY PSC rules for utilities
Again
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On 8/12, while the temperature hit 97ºF, as we were reeling from the latest IPCC climate report, the NYS Public Service Commission
voted YES on corporate utility National Grid's rate hike on the backs of the New York area communities forced to buy their
fracked gas. The regulators falsely claimed the North Brooklyn Pipeline did not harm disadvantaged communities in its path, and that
it complies with our State's climate laws. Four days later Ruhan Nagra was in court to halt the related and illegal construction
of National Grid's Liquified Natural Gas (LNG) facility and the utility's lawyer claimed the company was "suffering" because of the activists.
For more information, learn about the lawsuit,
catch up on the story at No NBK Pipeline Campaign this Monday 8/23,
join the rate strike against National GREED.
Listen to the episode of Eco-Logic on this.
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8/19/21
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Danskammer Fracked Gas Plant
Public Hearing
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The Danskammer electricity plant
will increase industrialization along the Hudson River even as communities are working so hard to reclaim their waterfronts.
And it doesn't fit in with NY's nation-leading climate change goals - to phase out all fossil-fuel electricity generation by 2040.
NY's electricity grid operator found that electricity demands are met without a new Danskammer - and with renewable projects.
The Stop the Plant Coalition calls on Governor Cuomo to Stop the
Danskammer Plant and, instead, commit to 100% renewable energy.
The public hearing is Monday and Tuesday, August 23 & 24, with the deadline for registration to speak of Friday, August 20.
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8/11/21
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Eco-Logic Pre-empted
for August 13, 2021
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This week, Eco-Logic is pre-empted for WBAI fund-raising.
Please explore this web page and visit our partners' web sites:
Environment TV
Songs of Freedom
NYC Friends of Clearwater
Indian Point Safe Energy Coalition
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Lots of
Eco-Links
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Lots of Eco-Links
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8/11/21
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Barry the Barred Owl
Central Park, NYC
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Nearly every winter, there are owls in New York City's Central Park. Many species have visited the park, but rarely do they
stay into the spring and summer. This winter, a Barred Owl, a more common relative of the famous Spotted Owl, stayed months
after winter was over. Birders named her Barry the Barred Owl.
On August 6th, she died after a collision with a Central Park Conservancy maintenance vehicle. The Central Park Conservancy is a private,
nonprofit park conservancy that manages Central Park under a contract with the City of New York and NYC Parks. In the 1980s, the
Conservancy and birders were at odds when the Conservancy, then under Betsy Barlow, cut down hundreds of trees to create "vistas."
Hundreds of people gathered in Central Park on August 9th to mourn her. She is credited with teaching thousands of people about the nature in Central Park.
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8/11/21
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To Destroy a Park
Mayor de Blasio overrules Comptroller Stringer
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Last week, the Chief Financial Officer and Chief Auditor of City agencies, Comptroller Scott Stringer, rejected the IPC Resiliency Partners
contract (IPC) for the East Side Coastal Resiliency project at East River Park. The Comptroller sent the contract back to the Department of Design
and Construction due to outstanding issues including IPC's failure to meet the City's goal of hiring 30% of minority/women-owned business
enterprises. It is also not clear that all of the companies comprising IPC, which is a joint venture, have filed all of the required disclosures
in the city's PASSPort system, as required by the Procurement Policy Board rules and the New York City Administrative Code.
Days after Comptroller Stringer rightfully rejected the contract, the Mayor overrode Comptroller Stringer and registered the IPC contract for the ESCR project.
For more information, go to Save East River Park .
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8/5/21
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Events of the Week
An Eco-Logic Report
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Every week is a busy week, but this week was full of environmental actions. We report on the Danskammer Flotilla,
the NRC Public Hearing, the Hiroshima Peace Gathering and an upcoming celebration of shorebirds.
The Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) came to Tarrytown, and were met by a number of
knowledgeable residents
asking hard questions. In contrast, the NRC representatives were ignorant of specifics of the Indian Point facility - even being
unsure of how many pipelines crossed the property (three, none mentioned in Holtec's post-shutdown plans).
The Danskammer electricity plant
will increase industrialization along the Hudson River even as communities are working so hard to reclaim their waterfronts.
And it doesn't fit in with NY's nation-leading climate change goals - to phase out all fossil-fuel electricity generation by 2040.
NY's electricity grid operator found that electricity demands are met without a new Danskammer - and with renewable projects.
The Stop the Plant Coalition calls on Governor Cuomo to Stop the
Danskammer Plant and, instead, commit to 100% renewable energy. Tune in to hear our guest Matt Salton of the Clearwater Environmental Action Team tell us about the
flotilla of over 50 kayakers.
There is no greater environmental destruction than a nuclear war.
And there is no greater proof of that destruction than the ruins of the cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Mari Inoue of the
Manhattan Project for a Nuclear-Free World will be reporting on the
Global Online Event
that had Speakers (including youth activists from Hiroshima and Nagasaki, 1st, 2nd and 3rd generation atomic bomb
survivors; and a young Fukishima evacuee), music and songs from Hiroshima and New York.
The entire event (1 hour and 26 minutes) is on youtube.
Let's celebrate the adorable sandpipers and plovers while we still have them!
Saturday, August 14,
11am - 3pm at the Jamaica Bay National Wildlife Refuge.
PLUS Join us in two weeks, Friday August 20th at 2:30pm when Eco-Logic discusses Car Mileage Standards.
Stay tuned,
Ken Gale, Donna Stein & Sally Gellert
When the air or water are clean, thank an environmentalist. If not, become one. 'Nuff Said!
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7/29/21
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Microbes!
A vital component of all life!
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Microbes do a lot more than cause disease - in fact, we could not live without them.
Every surface everywhere is covered with microbes
Microbes make plants more efficient
Diversity of microbes in soil is important
Biodiversity refers to microbes just as well as other forms of life.
Find out how microbes improve your health
Our guests are
Phoebe Mankiewicz, Interdisciplinary PhD Student at Yale Center for Ecosystems in Architecture and
Dr. Elizabeth Hénaff, Assistant Professor of Integrated Design and Media Center
at the NYU Tandon School of Engineering.
The report on the microbes conference Ken went to that he mentioned is on this page of reports, about 2/3 of the way down.
AND join us Friday August 6th at 2:30pm when Eco-Logic reports back on the Flotilla to stop the Danskammer fracked gas plant;
and on the Hiroshima Anniversary Global online Peace Gathering; and we discuss the impending extinction of beloved shore birds.
WBAI, 99.5FM & www. wbai.org
Stay tuned,
Ken Gale, Donna Stein & Sally Gellert
When the air or water are clean, thank an environmentalist. If not, become one. 'Nuff Said!
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7/29/21
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Hiroshima 76th Anniversary
Schedule of Online Events
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Online schedule of events for August 5th, 9AM, click to enlarge -->
There is no greater environmental destruction than a nuclear war.
And there is no greater proof of that destruction than the ruins of the cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
Music, video and guest speakers.
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7/22/21
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Solar Canopies
Helping Solve the Climate Crisis
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Have you ever wished that the parking lots at the beach were shaded? Have you wondered why that space is not used for solar energy?
Join us Friday, July 23, 2021 at 2:30PM. Lindsay Audin, one of the stars of the renewable energy movement, is working to expand solar installations across the entire state with
solar canopies over parking lots. A solar canopy is essentially a shade structure with solar panels on top of it, keeping parking lots
cooler while making free electricity.
Lindsay will explain the policy change needed to install solar canopies all over the state and how close we are to passing the necessary
bill, A6838 - and how YOU can help.
And also join us Friday July 30th at 2:30pm when Eco-Logic brings you Microbes, a vital component of everything you care about - Indispensable
The Pacifica Bylaws Vote:
We legally won it. The bylaws won't be changed. WBAI will continue to have representation on the Pacifica National Board. The opposition is
not conceding so it isn't totally over yet.
WBAI, 99.5FM & www. wbai.org
Stay tuned,
Ken Gale, Donna Stein & Sally Gellert
When the air or water are clean, thank an environmentalist. If not, become one. 'Nuff Said!
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7/22/21
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Solar Canopy Policy Change
Reducing New York's carbon footprint
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Please help pass the solar canopy bill in the NY Assembly
Lindsay Audin, our guest on July 23, 2021, asks your help in passing a bill (A.6838) in the State Assembly that could help expand
solar installations across our State. It would allow solar canopies (essentially shade structures topped with solar panels) over
parking lots at municipal and State parks. It's presently stuck in the Assembly's Environmental Conservation Committee (ECC),
despite the fact that it has 44 sponsors and co-sponsors in the full Assembly.
In mid-May, its companion bill in the State Senate (S.2995) passed by a 62-1 margin, so it's neither controversial nor political.
A.6838's sponsors are Assbly. Sandy Galef and Carrie Woerner, but neither is on the ECC. We need to push this bill to the full
Assembly for an up-or-down vote. Below is a list of metro NY reps that sit on the ECC. We need you to push ECC Chairman Englebright t
o become a co-sponsor, or at least allow the bill to come before his committee for discussion.
At present, an old law forbids making a change to any park in the State without going through a cumbersome and expensive process
involving a 69-page handbook, followed by a vote in both houses and the governor's signature for each change in a park. Several
solar projects (e.g., in Westchester County) are presently stalled due to the existing law. A.6838 would exempt solar canopies
over parking lots in parks, up to 2 MW output (roughly 1,000 parking spaces, though most lots are much smaller).
Essentially, no park land is disrupted by a canopy. Each is mounted 20 feet over the blacktop on steel beams. Only their concrete footings
(30 inches in diameter) contact the ground, and then only into pavement. Such canopies are an added amenity at a park, shading cars
(and people) from the hot sun and summer showers.
If done as a community solar project, a solar canopy can be installed at no cost to the local municipality, pay it rent for use of the
air space, produce decades of clean renewable power that helps clean up the grid, and support the State's Climate Leadership and
Community Protection Act (CLCPA). It's a win-win proposition!
Call your representative's Albany number and his/her local office number to request co-sponsorship of A.6838. Please make the call
today. If you need further information, email Lindsay at energywiz -at- aol.com.
Here are the Assembly reps that need to hear from you, especially if you are a constituent. Their Albany phone numbers are followed by their local office phone numbers.
Steve Englebright, Setauket 518-455-4804 631-751-3094
William Colton, Brooklyn 518-455-5828 718-236-1598
Michael Durso, Massapequa 518-455-5305 516-541-4598
Deborah J. Glick, Manhattan 518-455-4841 212-674-5153
Jessica Gonzalez-Rojas, Queens 518-455-4545 718-457-0384
Steven Otis, Port Chester 518-455-4897 914-939-7028
Amanda Septimo, Bronx 518-455-5402 718-292-2901
Fred W. Thiele, Jr., Sag Harbor 518-455-5997 631-537-2583
Jaime R. Williams, Brooklyn 518-455-5211 718-252-2124
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7/15/21
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Canadian hydroelectricity exports
NOT Clean
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<-- HydroQuebec Dam flooding a forest
From Paul Buckowski at the Albany Times Union newspaper, "Hydroelectricity can be generated in several ways, some of which are extremely destructive. Canadian hydroelectricity exports into New York state are not clean.
"During the past 50 years, Hydro-Quebec has blocked many formerly spectacular, free-flowing major rivers with dams and power stations, flooding river valleys and drowning forests. The natural, seasonal river flows to the seas is destroyed, wrecking water quality and severely damaging freshwater and ocean aquatic life. Impounding river water behind many dams probably contributes to the rapid warming of the Arctic region.
"Submerged forests can no longer remove carbon from the air. When vegetation rots, carbon and methane are released into the water and air. Neither Hydro-Quebec nor anyone else quantifies greenhouse gas emissions from their so-called reservoirs, some of which are much larger than Albany County. The company's hydroelectricity carbon footprint is undoubtedly huge.
"If we as a species hope to stabilize the climate, we must begin with an honest analysis of all the global and on-site pros and cons of each existing and proposed energy source. Reservoir hydro is far more dangerous than many people realize."
-Tom Ellis, Albany © 2021 Hearst
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7/15/21
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Ocean On Fire!
Gulf of Mexico Explosion
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You may well remember the 2010 Deepwater Horizon disaster in the Gulf of Mexico. This week, the water west of
the Yucatán peninsula of Mexico actually caught on fire - which apparently started when methane, and probably other wet-gas
components, leaked from an underwater pipeline to the surface. The fire, which was said to resemble molten lava swirling
on the water, continued on the ocean's surface for five hours until employees of Pemex, Mexico's gas utility, could control
it using nitrogen.
The incident report reportedly said "active production facilities were affected by an electrical
storm and heavy rains. The fire consumed some of the leaking hydrocarbons, and there were no human injuries."
The Mexican oil-safety regulator reported that the incident "did not generate any spill," but did not explain what
was burning on the water's surface!
Pemex's past poor safety record
includes a 2015 fire at a platform in the same Bay of Campeche, a 2012 fire at a natural-gas facility in northern Mexico
that killed 26 people, and a 2013 blast at the Pemex Mexico City headquarters that left 37 people dead.
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7/12/21
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New UN IPCC Report
Leaked
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Contents have been leaked of the new report from the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). The report is scheduled to
be released in February, 2022, and is still being finalized. It seems to be a more alarming, more pessimistic version of the 2015 report.
Like the 2015 report, this will contain input from the reports and articles of hundreds of scientists. Unlike the 2015 report, this one may contain policy
change suggestions. (I wonder if that's what's holding it up?)
Greenpeace has a good article on it. So does the
UK Guardian newspaper.
I couldn't resist linking to this pessimistic 2015 PBS
article predicting much of what is being reported now.
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7/12/21
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Oyster Shell reclamation
Atlantic City restaurants
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Atlantic City restaurants are contributing to oyster colonies. The Hard Rock Casino, the Knife and Fork and Dock's Oyster House restaurants,
are participating in a program, started in 2019, that collects oyster shells from diners' plates. The New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection
gives the shells to the Jetty Rock Foundation and Rutgers and Stockton University workers and volunteers. They are then turned over to the
New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection for Rutgers and Stockton University workers and volunteers and the Jetty Rock Foundation.
The shells are barged and dumped into the Mullica River, home to one of the last self-sustaining oyster populations on the East Coast.
Free-floating baby oysters, called spat, attach to the shells and start growing, forming the basis of new or expanded oyster colonies.
In addition to providing shelter for the oysters that filter the waterway, the program has kept 65 tons out of landfills. Other restaurants and
casinos are looking to join, and the volume could be significant - the Hard Rock Casino buffet reportedly shucks between 500 and 1200 oysters daily.
Also, New York's Billion Oyster Project has collected 1.6 million pounds of shells from 75 restaurants, and planted 13 oyster reefs across
New York Harbor since 2015. Florida and Alabama have similar programs. For more information, go to
enviropolitics.com.
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article
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7/12/21
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Maya Lin's environmental art
Madison Sq. Park, NYC
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There's a very good environmental art exhibit in Madison Square Park by Maya Lin, the sculptor of the Vietnam War Memorial in Washington DC.
A lot of environmental art is greenwashing or stretching the environmental connection, but this one was very clear about climate change,
sea level rise, salt water intrusion, and forests dying, with a plaque explaining it. You're going to enjoy it ! Madison Sq Park is where
23rd St, 5th Ave and Broadway come togetber in NYC.
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web site
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article
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7/12/21
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Greenpeace exposes Exxon
They got it on video!
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Democracy Now listeners would have heard on
July 6 about how
Greenpeace UK exposed
Exxon-Mobil's dirty tricks in Congress to stop climate legislation. Even the NY Post
mentioned it, too - in a shorter article. The Post referred sympathetically to ExxonMobil lobbyist Kevin McCoy as having been duped, but they
DID print some of what he admitted - such as that much of what they say is only for public relations.
One of the more interesting aspects of ExxonMobil's lobbying Congress is that they go through third parties, so little or no attention
falls on them. They talk about how they influence Democratic senators, as well as Republicans - they even name names!
Because Greenpeace got it on video, the exposure has had a lot more power than it might otherwise have had. I have a feeling that most Eco-Logic
listeners already suspected that this was happening - Greenpeace exposed some of ExxonMobil's climate lies in 2015 - but it's nice
to have video proof - and it's nice that mainstream news covered it.
Greenpeace has a timeline
of Exxon and climate on their web site. They knew at least as early as 1957 what their products were doing to the planet.
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radio show
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7/9/21
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Wind Energy On the Way
Offshore of New Jersey
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The New Jersey legislature just passed a law, S3926/A5894, which enables the state to prevent local shore governments, such as Ocean City council,
from blocking offshore-wind projects' access to come ashore. New Jersey Organizing Project, a local community advocacy organization started in the
aftermath of Superstorm Sandy, says, "We believe responsible offshore wind development that benefits our communities will provide real opportunities
for the Shore and South Jersey. We're already living with flooding - we need to act now to improve our infrastructure and move to renewable energy
like offshore wind. It's critical that all working-class New Jerseyans benefit from offshore wind. No one gets left behind: Black, brown, or white."
Organizations that focus on the birds and the whales have figured out how to do this in a way that minimizes disturbances for whales and birds.
That's why we want best practices followed during construction to spot whales and avoid bird migration season to minimize the number of deaths.
Construction schedules must be arranged in conjunction with migration patterns.
Find more information from NJOP on their Web site, newjerseyrp.org - search for offshore wind or go directly to
this NJRP article or
this Atlantic City Press article.
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7/9/21
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Stop Penn East
Pipeline and eminent domain
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The U.S. Supreme Court has ruled that PennEast - and by extension, other fossil-fuel projects - can take state-owned lands and property rights.
Local environmentalists are therefore urging N.J. Governor Phil Murphy, President Biden, and other elected leaders to use their powers to STOP PENNEAST.
The pipeline is not a done deal - but it could be if political leaders choose not to stop it going forward.
There will be a rally in Trenton on July 15th at 12 noon and a petition at
www.change.org/StopPennEastGovMurphy (requires cookies).
Republican Senator Kip Bateman says that the pipeline still has a lot of challenges if it is to move forward: PennEast would ford more than
30 vulnerable 'Category One' waterways that are essential to protecting clean water in our state. The pipeline needlessly jeopardizes the safe,
clean flow of water our families and farms rely on.
PennEast cannot meet water-quality standards, and the applicant's data submissions to the various regulatory agencies have been,
according to the petition, "false, misleading, deficient and legally unfit to support any positive regulatory outcome." Because of
the deficient and misleading information provided to the state, the NJ Department of Environmental Protection rejected the project
and closed the file years ago. And yet the Delaware River Basin Commission (DRBC) has allowed PennEast to keep the application open
despite its ongoing failure to provide full, accurate information on the project's proposed route, elements, and impacts.
The DRBC has important work to do; keeping open the file on this deficient project is a waste of its limited time, resources,
and money. It is time for DRBC to close the file on PennEast.
For more information, check these articles on
Bloomberg News or
NJ Herald.
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articles
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web site
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7/9/21
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Citizens Water Quality Testing Program
NYC Water Trail Association
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We all benefit from clean waterways - whether you make your living from or on the river, get your drinking water from the river,
as some upstate communities do, enjoy recreational boating or swimming, or just live nearby.
The climate crisis is overwhelming storm drainage systems and wastewater management - especially in large cities. This can lead to
backups where runoff of contaminants such as trash, nutrients, sediment or bacteria go into local waterways lowers water quality
and even threatens drinking water supplies according to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency.
Almost 50 years ago, in 1972, the Clearwater organization contributed to getting
the Clean Water Act passed but there is still much more to be done. One of the local champions of the Hudson River is the Citizens
Water Quality Testing Program -- watchdogs whom we are lucky to have on the job. Mostly volunteers, they provide an important
service testing the waters.
Recently the worst week of the season for water quality was recorded. Good time to stay out of the water.
If you want to go swimming you want the water to be clean. Eyes on the prize! We want our waters fishable and swimmable!
For more information or to volunteer email water-quality@nycwatertrail.org
The Citizens Water Quality Testing Program is a collaboration of the New York City Water Trail Association, the Billion Oyster Project,
and Hudson River Park's River Project and others.
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7/9/21
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Environmental News, Information and Announcements
The Eco-Logic Collective
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Long-time listeners remember Eco-Logic starting with News, Information and Announcements. So much is happening that we did that for the entire show today.
Worst week for Hudson water quality.
A once abundant Sandpiper
Wind energy on the way.
Supreme court and eminent domain
Oyster-shell reclamation.
Greenpeace exposes Exxon.
Rate Strike continues.
Green Amendments Day July 13th.
Maya Lin's environmental art.
Ocean on fire.
The votes are in for the Pacifica Referendum of 2021 - Stay tuned for the results.
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25 min.
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radio show
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7/2/21
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Melting Ice Caps
And Sea Level Rise
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Eco-Logic, in our former News, Announcements and Information segment, has been reporting for years on Antarctic ice breaking off the continent,
floating away -- and the resulting climate chaos.
Some of the icebergs have been the size of Rhode Island. A recent chunk was "only" the size of Manhattan. Ice that breaks off a glacier
contributes to sea level rise - if the ice breaks off a floating ice shelf, it won't directly contribute to sea level rise, but it will
speed up land glaciers, and that will add to sea level rise.
If all the ice on West Antarctica flowed into the ocean, it would raise sea levels over 20 feet. East Antarctica is several times larger and the
ice is much, much thicker; that is melting, too.
What about the penguins?
How is the Pacific plastic garbage patch related to ice melting in Antarctica?
How much sea level rise is predicted for Antarctic ice?
There is a lot to unpack in this complex issue that affects us all.
For more information, go to our Eco-Links page and search for "Antarctic."
Here are four links to get you started:
Science News magazine contents.
The Paris Agreement and Antarctic melt
UK Guardian newspaper.
University of Leeds article
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radio show
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7/2/21
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Moulins
Dramatic video of climate chaos in action!
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I (this is Ken writing this) get emotional watching video of actual moulins. What you're seeing is real-time evidence of climate chaos happening.
Glaciers are rivers of ice that flow slowly to the oceans. Moulins are holes in glaciers into which surface meltwater pours, usually with great
force. When that water gets to the bottom of the glacier, it lubricatres the rock that the glacier flows over and speeds up the glacier.
It now takes a month, sometimes less, for a glacier to flow the distance that it used to travel in a year.
There are many videos on youtube of moulins. Follow the link.
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youtube
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videos
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7/2/21
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Red Knots, a Bird
On the Edge of Extinction
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At one time there were billions of Passenger Pigeons in
the United States. People killed them all, every last one, through habitat destruction and hunting. They are extinct.
It's happening again!
Red Knots are a formerly abundant shorebird that is on the edge of extinction.
And yet they are not legally listed by the government as endangered species.
Red Knots migrate thousands of miles and the food they eat, horseshoe crab eggs, is being taken away by humans as they use the adults for bait and medicine.
Protecting the Red Knot would also protect other shorebirds. Please follow the link the the American Bird Conservancy web site's
article on this.
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web site
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article
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7/2/21
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Mining promoted by
the European Union
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A global coalition of over 180 community platforms, human rights and environmental organizations and academics from
36 nations is calling on the European Union to abandon its plans to massively expand dirty mining. In a terrible irony, the EU
announced the expansion as part of their Green Deal and Green Recovery plans.
"Simply put, we need to drastically reduce the amount of resources used and consumed in the EU and move to truly circular solutions.
Legislation like the EU battery regulation is a step in the right direction, but must go further. Transport decarbonization,
decarbonization of all kinds, in fact, can only be achieved with a strong reduction in demand. We need to realign our
priorities to meet climate goals," says Diego Marin of the European Environmental Bureau.
For more informaiton, do a search or follow the link.
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web site
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article
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6/24/21
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Green Roofs AND Solar Panels!
Changing the way we think about our roofs
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Roofs!
This Eco-Logic delves into the practical uses of our roofs.
Green roofs help the fight against climate change.
Buildings with green roofs are cooler in the summer.
Green roofs actually make solar panels more effective.
On green roofs you can grow food: for people, or for butterflies and bees - or both!
Guests were Josh Harrison, Paul Mankiewicz and Michael Fishman of Leaf Island
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radio show
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6/24/21
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Newly Discovered Species of Microbe
It can actually help the environment
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Microbes that live deep underground generally produce methane rather than carbon dioxide. Methane is 120 times worse than carbon dioxide for
climate chaos when it first gets into the atmosphere.
A newly-discovered phylum of single-celled archaea, Brockarchaeota, do the opposite. For more information on this potentially-important and definitely
fascinating life form, check out this article
in Science News magazine and any of the links within it, including the scientific journal where Brockarchaeota was first described.
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article
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6/18/21
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Black Birders Week
Nationwide event
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As Drew Lanham and Chris Cooper mentioned on Eco-Logic in 2019,
birding and birdwatching is for everyone. Drew and Chris's negative thoughts and experiences have not diminished their love of birds and birding one bit.
It took Chris having to deal with an awful experience to inspire Deja Perkins (left) to create Black Birders Week.
I could not describe the joy and importance of African-Americans, or anyone for that matter, being in nature better than Drew and Chris did on that
video, Environment TV's version of an episode of Eco-Logic.
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video & article
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6/18/21
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National Green Amendments Day
July 13, 8:00 am - 5:00 pm EDT
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Green Amendment Day is dedicated to educating and engaging civil rights, environmental, environmental justice and
Indigenous leaders and community members across the nation around the power of Green Amendments for ending environmental racism and
restoring environmental justice through constitutional empowerment.
Environmental racism is just too widespread and ingrained in our society to entrust to politics and politicians. Communities of color
disproportionately live in environmental sacrifice zones, where industrial contaminants, pollution, and other poisons degrade water,
air, and soil, causing heart disease, asthma, cancer, compromised immune systems, and other serious illnesses.
Ending environmental racism and securing true environmental justice requires systemic legal and government reform. By providing
constitutional recognition and protection we can raise up the inalienable rights of all people to a clean & healthy environment,
and transform our system of laws and government to ensure environmental justice is mandatory, equitable and enforceable.
Eco-Logic dedicated the June 3, 2021 episode to Green Amendments.
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article
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6/18/21
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Juneteenth Special, 6-19-21, 4PM
Environmental Justice
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Eco-Logic is pre-empted for June 18, but....
We are doing a special for Juneteenth on Saturday, June 19th from 4 to 5 PM.
Eco-Logic's three guests will discuss how Juneteenth relates to environmental justice and modern life. A pollution source placed in a
poor neighborhood points out a pattern of the disregard with which such neighborhoods are treated, plus, the pollution of a pollution source migrates out of
that area and often around the globe, contributing to climate chaos and harmful health effects.
Our guests are:
Larry Hamm, chair of the People's Organization for Progress
Rev. Dr. Gregory Simpson, co-founder of the Hudson Valley Environmental Justice Coalition and Board member of Hudson River Sloop Clearwater
Taylor Morton, WEACT Director of Environmental Health & Education -- Environmental Health & Justice Leadership Training
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radio show
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6/10/21
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$66 RATE STRIKE!
Not paying for unneeded fossil fuel expansion.
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Eco-Logic's guests will be discussing this issue:
"National Grid ratepayers declare a gas bill strike! Frustrated by a proposed rate hike to pay for the utility's detested, polluting,
racist North Brooklyn Pipeline, and inspired by a successful bill strike against Con Edison in 1981, people living along the pipeline
from Brownsville to Greenpoint have launched the strike and will withhold $66 from their gas bills. All National Grid customers in
Brooklyn, Queens, Staten Island and Long Island are invited to join."
More info here
and here
The episode of Eco-Logic on the North Brooklyn Pipeline
Note: Remember when we asked you to become a member of WBAI because there was an important vote coming up? --
well, you should have received a ballot in your email box June 7th! You will have one month to respond to the ballot.
The same people who kicked in the doors of WBAI in October 2019 are at it again and want to change the bylaws to gain control -
this time they are better funded and organized. They have even misled some celebrities. You can find more info on
www.wbaifightback.org or at 917-781-0366
Stay tuned,
Ken Gale, Donna Stein, Sally Gellert, with JK Canepa
When the air or water are clean, thank an environmentalist. If not, become one. 'Nuff Said!
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radio show
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6/10/21
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Victory!
KXL Pipeline
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"Keystone XL is now the most famous fossil fuel project killed by the climate movement," said one veteran campaigner, "but it won't be the last."
It took ten years, hundreds of arrests, great hardships for the water protectors, and a tenaciousness not always seen in the environmental movement.
Collusion between government and the fossil fuel industry was on display for all the world to see.
Studies on how unnecessary that pipeline was got a lot more attention than such studies usually get.
Environmentalists everywhere should celebrate, but remain as vigilant as ever. "The polluters don't give so we don't give up."
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6/10/21
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Line 3 Pipeline News
Mobilization! Blockade! Police escalation!
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Mobilization! Blockade! Police escalation! Arrests! Continued protests!
The largest action against the "Line 3" pipeline so far was a few days ago, Monday, June 7th.
Over 2000 water protectors gathered in Minnesota and shut down the Two Inlets pump station.
The Biden Administration is still not honoring treaties, but so far is taking the side of the fossil fuel industry.
Police have escalated tactics, using a Department of Homeland Security helicopter flying just over people's heads to
kick dust and rocks into people's faces. Later, they used a Long Range Acoustic Device (LRAD) without warning.
The eyes of the world are upon them and people from all over the U.S. are joining the protest.
Stay Tuned!
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web site
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article
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6/3/21
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Antarctica Breaking Apart
Huge chucks floating away and melting.
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When Eco-Logic was an hour long, we had a News, Announcements and Information segment. For several years, we've been reporting
on chunks of Antarctic ice breaking off of the continent and floating away.
Some of the ice bergs have been the size of Rhode Island. A recent chuck was "only" the size of Manhattan. Ice that breaks off a
glacier contributes to sea level rise. If the ice broke off a floating ice shelf, it won't contribute to sea level rise directly,
but it will speed up land glaciers which will add to sea level rise.
If all the ice on West Antarctica flowed into the ocean, it would raise sea levels over 20 feet. East Antarctica is several times larger
and the ice is much much thicker; that is melting, too.
Go to our Eco-Links page and search for "Antarctic."
Here are three links to get you started:
Science News magazine contents.
UK Guardian newspaper.
University of Leeds article
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web sites
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Many articles
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6/3/21
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Fossil Fuel Subsidies Repealed
New York State Senate Bill #S4816 and
Assembly Bill A6882
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New York State Senate Bill #S4816
and Assembly Bill A6882 seek to eliminate
over $334 million of fossil fuel subsidies annually.
Contact your state legislature through either of the links in this paragraph
and ask them to please bring this bill to the floor for a vote before the legislative session ends on June 10.
For more information, click here.
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web site
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article
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6/3/21
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Green Amendment
On the ballot in New York State this November.
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Eco-Logic is honored to have as our guest Maya van Rossum, the Delaware Riverkeeper and leader of the Delaware Riverkeeper Network; Founder of the
Green Amendment For The Generations Movement and author of "The Green Amendment, Securing Our Right to a Healthy Environment."
On the ballot in New York State this November.
Securing a Constitutional Right to Pure Water, Clean Air, a Stable Climate & Healthy Environments, For All People, Including Future Generations,
Regardless of Race, Ethnicity, Religion or Income.
What are the possible arguments against this amendment? What do we say to counter them? What are the Environmental Justice aspects of the Green Amendment?
Tune in Fri. June 4th 2:30PM to WBAI, 99.5FM or www. wbai.org or listen via the Archives.
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radio show
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5/28/21
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Alaska pipeline Supported by Biden Administration
Major threat to a delicate environment!
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Biden backs enormous Trump-era environmentally-disastrous Alaska oil drilling project.
In a move that shocked many environmentalists, the Department of Interior defends a plan to extract hundreds of thousands of barrels of oil from Alaska.
Interior Secretary Deb Haaland had opposed the project last year when she was a member of Congress.
The Arctic is a delicate eco-system that is showing the effects of climate change, expecially the global warming part of climate change, more than any other ecosystem on Earth.
The pipeline is also an investment in more greenhouse gases for the future. It also shows the energy priorities of the current administration are very similar to the
energy priorities of the previous administrations. Oil companies are citing a technicality in last year's court case on the pipeline.
There are many articles about this on the web. For more, here's a search
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article
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5/27/21
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Making Your World Greener
radio show: May 28, 2021
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Minor changes in lifestyle can have a major positive impact on the planet. Tune into Eco-Logic's 5-28-21 show to hear Bob Nagy,
an amazing visionary and compelling speaker.
From food to energy you'll hear fabulous sustainable living tips!
Stay tuned,
Ken Gale, Donna Stein, Sally Gellert and Joel Landy
When the air or water are clean, thank an environmentalist. If not, become one. 'Nuff Said!
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radio show
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5/21/21
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The Environment TV
Information galore!
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Even when Eco-Logic is pre-empted for WBAI fund-raising, there is still audio and video for you to see and hear.
The Environment TV has a wonderful youtube channel
with some of the content garnered from episodes of Eco-Logic with extra material as we continue the shows with our guests on zoom.
There is a video on Mega-Dams.
There is a video on the 2021 NYC Harbor Ring Bike Ride.
There is a video on the Value of Urban Parks.
That's just three examples. Explore the youtube channel for yourself.
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web site
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ETV video
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5/21/21
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Eco-Logic Pre-Empted
for May 21, 2021
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Due to a pre-emption for fund-raising, Eco-Logic will not be on the air on May 21st, 2021. Please support WBAI and your favorite program Eco-Logic! www.give2wbai.org and of course we would like you to choose Eco-Logic from the drop down menu.
We will return on May 28th with an interview with Bob Nagy, an amazing speaker, who will discuss how minor changes in lifestyle can have a major positive impact on the planet. You'll hear fabulous sustainable living tips!
Please explore this web page or our Eco-Links page.
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5/21/21
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What's Next for Indian Point?
Public forum Wednesday, May 26, 2021, 6 - 7:30PM
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Clearwater invites you to an introductory meeting on
Indian Point Nuclear Plant decommissioning and other Environmental and Climate Justice issues on
Wednesday, May 26th from 6:00 to 7:30 p.m., via Zoom.
During this event, we will share information on Indian Point's closure and decommissioning and begin to brainstorm how best to
address relevant threats. Brief presentations will be followed by short breakout rooms with participants from paired EJ communities
and brief report backs.
We plan to then follow up over the summer by meeting with these pairs of communities on a smaller basis with the goal of
reconvening at a regional summit this fall to report our collective findings and recommendations.
This event is free and open to the public, but pre-registration is required. For more information, including the program agenda,
presenters' biographies and how to register, go to the
Indian Point Forum web site.
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90 min.
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Indian Point Forum
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5/13/21
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President Biden and the Environment
What we can expect.
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We'll be talking about President Biden's environmental policies and what we can expect from the cabinet appointees - with
environmental attorney and Clearwater Board member Seth Davis.
This show goes into detail about executive orders vs administrative rule making or legislation.
There's more discussion on Biden's cabinet on RevolvingDoorProject.org.
We also did a short segment on the terrible threat to Governor's Island.
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25 min.
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WBAI radio
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5/13/21
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Governor's Island Under Threat
From Developers.
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The Current Governors Island Rezoning Proposal Needs to be Withdrawn Completely
On Tuesday May 11th, the City Council Land Use Committee approved a severely inadequate set of modifications to the
fiscally and environmentally irresponsible Governors Island rezoning proposal. These council members have set themselves
up for a legacy to be known to usher a "Penn Station 2.0" where a precious public jewel is greedily devoured at the taxpayers' expense.
Details aside, the issue here is - what is Governors Island going to be?
Will it be an irreplaceable one-of-a-kind green urban refuge that essentially functions as a park - even in areas with buildings
which provide for the arts and environmental educational projects? Or another high-rise, high-density commercial urban district
with boxed in value-added landscaping? (In this case in a floodplain when the proposed "Zoning for Coastal Flood Resiliency" is
also sponsored by the Land Use Committee)
Yesterday's approved modifications will not prevent the latter. The 200 foot plus heights proposed by the Council are three times
the height of Lookout Hill on the South Island while many solid historic buildings lie unused. Any new construction should be
kept to minimum and not exceed the four-story height of buildings in the historic district.
As Paul Graziano, long-time NYC Urban planner and land use and zoning expert said at a May 6th M.A.G.I.C. press conference,
"There is no question that the rezoning application put forth by the Governor's Island Trust is frankly an overdevelopment scheme
in search of a plan. In the more than two decades that I have been involved in planning issues in New York City, I have never
encountered such a brazen attempt by any entity - public or private - to essentially steal this amount of public land and hand it
over to the equivalent of a phantom organization. The Trust refuses to show its financials, has no development partner and continues
to push for the privatization of one of the crown jewels of public land in New York City, or anywhere in the United States for that matter.
There are no planning principles being discussed here, only the utter degradation of a cherished and irreplaceable public asset by
the de Blasio administration and the Mayor's handpicked members who control the Trust. The City Council has an obligation to protect
the public good against what can only be described as a landgrab against itself and either demand that this application be withdrawn
or, barring that, just vote NO. Our city - and Governor's Island - deserves better."
M.A.G.I.C. thanks Council Member Inez Barron for voting no and stating for the record that this plan "is a disservice to maintaining
really open space and preserving the environment."
M.A.G.I.C. has a better plan at https://govislandcoalition.org/a-magic-plan
For more information, go to M.A.G.I.C.'s web site.
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5/6/21
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Megadams = Megadamage
Controversy and Solutions
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The next Eco-Logic will discuss the Mayor's procurement of hydropower that will require the construction of a transmission corridor from
Quebec to Queens. Blackstone and every other financier must cancel plans to import hydropower produced by megadams built on Indigenous lands,
to New York. This is truly not a climate solution and must be explicitly excluded from sustainable renewable energy plans. Mayor deBlasio
is seeking to procure this dirty power instead of promoting local energy economies.
Energy use in New York City has been declining for years. New supplies are not necessary. Instead, further efficiency should be backed by government.
Join Lucien Wabanonik - Spokesperson for Innu First Nations, George Jackman - Hudson Riverkeeper, and Annie Wilson - NY Environmental Law and Justice Project
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5/6/21
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Mayoral Candidates Nature Forum
Tuesday, May 18, 2021, 7 - 8PM
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We can't reach our climate goals without also saving biodiversity. Deforestation, even in New York City, increases the atmospheric abundance of
carbon dioxide. Forest conservation and ecosystem restoration must be the cornerstone of any climate action plan.
Yet nature in New York City has no legislative protections. In fact, the City regularly cuts down trees and builds on forests without
environmental impact review. And the burdens of loss from biodiversity are disproportionately carried by lower income communities.
A broad coalition of grassroots organizations is hosting a forum on Tuesday, May 18, 2021 7 - 8PM to ask the New York City mayoral candidates to value wildflower habitats and
to ensure that all New Yorkers have access to nature. At least six candidates will attend.
Register in Advance
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4/30/21
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Indian Point Closing Event
Two of two.
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The closing of a nuclear plant without it melting down is a momentous occassion. Besides today's radio show (see below), there are also two
zoom events. This one is at 7:30PM.
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4/30/21
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Indian Point Closing Event
One of two
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The closing of a nuclear plant without it melting down is a momentous occassion. Besides today's radio show (see below), there are also two
zoom events. This one is at 6PM.
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4/30/21
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Indian Point Nuclear Reactors
Sept. 16, 1962 to April 30, 2021.
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The long fight to shut down Indian Point Nuclear Reactors is finally over. We can now breathe a sigh of relief that no additional
nuclear waste will be produced near New York City. Marilyn Elie, longtime champion of the antinuclear movement, joins us on April 30th as we
commemorate Indian Point's closure.
Since its first day, Indian Point has been creating radioactive waste. All along, there have been massive radioactive leaks into the
groundwater and into the air. Daily radioactive pollution has made Westchester into a cancer cluster for many different cancers.
Eventually, that will end, but not for a while, as it hasn't at Three Mile Island. Tons of very radioactive material are still on site.
Activists have for years been warning of the dangers in our back yard and with this victory there is still more work to be done. We need an
active decommissioning oversight board to ensure that decommissioning is done right. The Public Service Commission has agreed to a joint
proposal for the license transfer. The proposal is seen as better than most for the community, but they will need to address a major
loss of tax revenue until the site is ready for reuse, which could be decades away.
Eco-Logic collective members have been involved with antinuclear issues for many years. More from Ken Gale, the author of
"Chernobyl-on-the-Hudson"
What is next for Indian Point? The grid connections at the site make a wind or solar installation a natural choice. Make no mistake, nuclear energy
is a FALSE solution to climate change. As Amory Lovins, one of the foremost energy experts in the world,
points out, "Nuclear energy is too expensive,
too slow, and too dirty."
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4/28/21
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Earth Week Special
One hour radio show!
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As we always say, Every day is Earth Day! "Officially" April 22nd is Earth Day, but we're covering Earth Week and beyond. This special Eco-Logic
celebrates a very important time for environmental activists, so today Eco-Logic covers some of the stories and events in the news.
We feel fortunate when we see the victories, like stopping a development that would destroy green spaces; shutting down destructive extreme energy horrors like the
Indian Point nuclear plants or the occasional pipeline; or the rediscovery of an animal or plant species that was thought to be lost, like the Black-Browed Babbler
in Indonesia - but we KNOW there is always more to do. We can not let the victories make us complacent. The common threads are corporate greed and a system built
to reward the wealthy and powerful.
We do realize that environmental justice is a huge factor. It is always the powerless that are stepped on and not expected to fight back. Well, you are making a
difference. You are the kind of people who make your voices heard. As Pete Seeger said "Participation - that's what's going to save the human race!"
Power manifests in inequality: the least powerful have the least voice. Yesterday, a jury gave voice to the powerless, but we know that if justice were real,
George Floyd and many others would be alive today. There is a lot more work to be done, and here at Eco-Logic we focus on issues of environmental justice and protection.
Be careful when you are invited to some wonderful green event, especially around this Earth Day time of year. They are washing their image with your hopes
and wishes for a greener tomorrow. For example, there is a group of well known clothing companies owned by one of the most polluting of corporations that are big in
world deforestation and fossil fuel.
Eco-Logic Earth Week Special, WBAI radio and internet,
Weds. April 21 at 6PM
99.5FM and wbai.org
When the air or water are clean, thank an environmentalist. If not, become one. 'Nuff Said!
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4/16/21
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Save East River Park
From being demolished.
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Soon, New York City will demolish our big, beloved park on the unwealthy side of the Lower East Side and East Village.
Everything must go - shady lawns, picnic areas, ballfields, running track, amphitheater, the compost yard, historic buildings, and 1,000 trees.
The city is determined to go ahead with the $1.45 billion East Side Coastal Resiliency - even with the budget in desperate shortfall and
despite the desperate need during this pandemic for outdoor recreation at safe distances.
The city will build a 1.2 mile seawall and cover the park with eight feet of fill for flood control. It will also cause a health crisis
for our already suffering neighborhood with many people of color, elderly and low-income residents.
True Resiliency is Possible.
There are better plans that will preserve our park and give us flood protection.
We Need a Green Plan, Not an Environmental Disaster!
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4/14/21
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No Exit! Humor, Art & The Environment!
The Political Cartoons of Andy Singer
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There are many ways to educate and activate about environmental issues.
One of the most effective is through humor. Our guest is political cartoonist Andy Singer, whose comic strip "No Exit" is syndicated all
over the world. He is the political cartoonist that other political cartoonists recommend for environmental issues.
Right-click on that image to see a larger version of it.
Enjoy exploring his cartoons via Andy's web site
Eco-Logic, WBAI radio and internet,
Fri. April 16 at 2:30PM
99.5FM and wbai.org
Stay tuned,
Ken Gale, Donna Stein and Sally Gellert
When the air or water are clean, thank an environmentalist. If not, become one. 'Nuff Said!
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4/2/21
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The Eco-Logic Collective Presents
Multiple Environmental Issues.
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Today Eco-Logic Collective members Joel Landy, JK Canepa, Donna Stein and Sally Gellert present issues important to us.
Tune in to hear about upcoming shows and events:
-the ongoing fight to stop fossil fuel infrastructure, eg. the Williams Pipeline.
-The Green Amendment in New York and New Jersey.
-the real toll the Champlain Hudson hydro project is taking on people and the environment, especially affecting the Indigeonous people in Quebec.
-and one man's amazing journey of a lifetime dedicated to a sustainable existence off the grid.
-active vs passive solar.
-Offshore wind in New Jersey.
-the historic closing of Indian Point.
The zombie Williams NESE pipeline has tried to rise again, as the company filed a request for two more years to get it built and running.
But activists, elected officials and frontline communities mounted a swift and strong resistance.
Bob Nagy has designed his life, from where he lives to how long he spends in a shower to what he drives and how he gets the energy to
power a good life. How do we live well and leave a minimum carbon footprint without sacrificing anything?
What is the difference between active and passive solar energy?
Offshore Wind in New Jersey: Both governors Christie and Murphy ran on expanding offshore wind, but only recently does there seem to be
real progress. Gov. Murphy says that he wants a wind port, but no LNG, at Gibbstown; shore communities want to be sure that their needs
are considered.
Green Amendment: New Jersey and New York are both among the states working to include the right to clean air and water with other
constitutional rights (free speech, freedom of religion, etc.) The New Jersey legislature still needs to approve a ballot question;
New York voters will find a constitutional amendment on their November ballots.
Megadams equal Megadamage - Hear about Canadian Hydropower and its impacts on communities and the environment. We need to speak up to
help divert a disaster. As too often happens, the power of profit seeks to overrule the power of the people and the environment.
Indian Point's last nuclear reactor will shut down April 30th, 2021. This huge success story took many years and work from many
organizations. Safe decommissioning and a just transition for affected workers and communities, environmental justice, and a
clean, safe energy future for New York must be the focus now.
Ken will be back with us next week, when we will be speaking with political cartoonist, Andy Singer.
Eco-Logic, WBAI radio and internet,
Fri. April 9 at 2:30PM
99.5FM and wbai.org
Stay tuned,
Donna Stein, Sally Gellert, JK Canepa and Joel Landy
www.ecoradio.org
When the air or water are clean, thank an environmentalist. If not, become one. 'Nuff Said!
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4/7/21
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The Fall of Exxon
Renewable energy matters!
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Felix Salmon wrote an article on axios.com about the decline of Exxon's financial value that is strongly linked to their ideological
stance against renewable energy. "Exxon has lost 54% of its value this year alone. That's some $163 billion. ExxonMobil might be
the first empire to fall as a result of global climate change. It won't be the last."
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4/2/21
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Green Amendments For The Generations
Securing a Constitutional Right to Pure Water, Clean Air, a Stable Climate and Healthy Environments.
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Securing a Constitutional Right to Pure Water, Clean Air, a Stable Climate and Healthy Environments, For All People,
Including Future Generations, Regardless of Race, Ethnicity, Religion or Income.
The goal of the Green Amendments For The Generations is to advance a Green Amendment movement that sweeps the nation and
secures for all people constitutional recognition and protection of their inalienable rights to pure water, clean air,
a stable climate and healthy environments. We seek to inspire and support pursuit and passage of self-executing,
environmental rights amendments in the Bill of Rights section of every state constitution across the U.S. and ultimately
at the federal level. Once accomplished, we will work with communities to ensure their strong and meaningful implementation and enforcement.
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4/2/21
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Poisons in the Drinking Water
A New Study.
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The UK Guardian newspaper and Consumer Reports magazine has an article by Ryan Felton and Lisa Gill of Consumer Reports
and Lewis Kendall for The Guardian on the latest study of pollution in drinking water throughout the U. S.
The array of poisons found in the nine month study is staggering. This is a health crisis. Another example of how protecting the environment is
a human health issue. Every environmentalist is protecting the health of people and wildlife no matter what the issue is that you have the most passion for.
The article ends with solutions to this problem. Read the article to the end or at least read the Solutions.
Read Here.
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4/2/21
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Saving the Seas from Plastic
Through song and activism.
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There are billions of bits of floating plastic in the oceans.
This episode of Eco-Logic will discuss plastic pollution as well as acidification, coral bleaching, overfishing, military testing and climate change.
Singer, songwriter, author, speaker and long time environmentalist Steve Andrews is our guest today. "I wrote a poem which became my song and with it came the idea for Ocean Aid."
The solution: Education and awareness are key to creating a sea change--the 5 Rs: Reduce, Refuse, Reuse, Recycle and Rethink. Please share this information.
Eco-Logic, WBAI radio and internet,
Fri. -changed date- April 2 at 2:30PM
99.5FM and wbai.org
Stay tuned,
Ken Gale, Donna Stein, Sally Gellert and Joel Landy
www.ecoradio.org
When the air or water are clean, thank an environmentalist. If not, become one. 'Nuff Said!
Listen Here.
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3/25/21
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Pre-Emption
Fund-raising show.
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Due to a pre-emption for fund-raising, Eco-Logic will not be on the air on March 26, 2021. We will return on April 2nd with
a show on Saving Our Seas: Plastics in the Oceans, with Steve Andrews.
In the meantime, explore this web page or our eco-links page.
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3/19/21
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Danskammer fracked gas plant
Official public hearings.
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Please share widely!
The time has finally come-- the official public hearings on the new Danskammer fracked gas plant have been set. They will be held virtually
on March 31st at 1pm & 6pm. The deadline to sign up is 5pm on March 29th. Please register to comment!
Want to know more? The Stop Danskammer Coalition is holding an update and training on March 23rd to get folks up to speed-- we hope you can join us!
The state has one year to review Danskammer's application and determine whether to approve or deny the project-- but they've only guaranteed us a
couple of public hearings during this year-long process. That means this upcoming hearing is critical for our campaign!
In order to stop this power plant we must demonstrate to Governor Cuomo and the Siting Board that New Yorkers are strongly opposed to
Danskammer. We must show up in force to the virtual public hearing!
Important Links
Register for 1pm Danskammer Hearing on March 31st
(Requires "cookies" click on the blue "register link" and be sure to click "YES I would like to make a statement"!)
Register for 6pm Danskammer hearing on March 31st
(Requires "cookies" click on the blue "register link" and be sure to click "YES I would like to make a statement"!)
Helpful Instruction Guide and Talking Points for Registering to Comment (Deadline to register is March 29th)!
RSVP for March 23rd Update and Training
With Gratitude,
The Stop Danskammer Coalition
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3/18/21
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Celebration Of Nature Series:
Cephalopods! - octopus, cuttlefish, squid.
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Cephalopods, more and more fascinating the more we learn about them! They are among the most intelligent animals on earth,
good at problem solving, and good at planning - they see a problem and think of how to solve it. Most animals, even some people, don't
do that. And the ability to change the way they look is so amazing!
Ian Jones, part of the MIT /WHOI Joint Program, will be joining Eco-Logic on this Celebration of Nature show. Ian works in the Sensory Ecology
and Bioacoustics Lab at Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution. Here are links to two of Ian's Journal papers.
Changes in feeding behavior of longfin squid (Doryteuthis pealeii) during laboratory exposure to pile driving noise.
Marine Environmental Research. 2021.
Impulsive pile driving noise elicits alarm responses in squid (Doryteuthis pealeii)
Marine Pollution Bulletin, 150. 110792. 2020.
Here are some articles for your enjoyment:
On octopus and cuttlefish intelligence and cleverness
which has links to more articles on that subject.
Look up "mimic octopus" and "psychedelic cuttlefish" on youtube.
"Octopuses and their relatives are remarkably clever and controlled. How many of our top politicians can say the same?" - Emma Beddington in The Guardian
"Looking forward to celebrating nature. With all the terrible stuff in the mainstream and in the environmental movement, I need to remind myself why I'm an environmentalist." - Ken Gale
Listen Here.
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3/18/21
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A Texas Passive House
Survived the 2021 Deep Freeze.
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Passive House techniques might be the very best solution to stop and reverse climate chaos.
A passive house uses less than 1/10 of the energy of a "conventional" building. It is also very comfortable,
since it doesn't leak much heat at all in the winter or much air conditioning in the summer. Passive House techniques
are how Europe is getting to 100% renewable energy.
A Texas Passive House Survived the 2021 Deep Freeze. Here's how.
For more information on Passive House, look it up on a search engine or a video provider such as youtube.
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3/15/21
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Water Futures and Financialization
Wednesday, March 24, 2021 Webinar on a necessity for human health and wildlife.
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Water is a necessity for all life, including people. As it becomes more and more of a product it becomes less and less of a human right. That is deadly.
In December of 02020, the Chicago Mercantile Exchange launched the world's first water futures market, allowing investors to bet on the future price
of water rights in California. This raised global alarms about the financialization of water resources and the threat of Wall Street speculation
on water prices and scarcity, both of which are bound to increase as a result. This webinar will provide an introduction to futures trading and
water markets and discuss the implications for water activists around the world.
Register Here.
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3/12/21
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FERC Listening Session
Pre-Register at link provided.
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On March 17th, at 1 p.m., FERC, the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, is holding its first of four listening sessions, as it
establishes its Office of Public Participation.
Pre-register at this link.
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3/11/21
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Anti-Nuclear Music
In English and Japanese
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Today is the tenth anniversary of the first day of the ongong Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power disaster. Radiation from the plant is still going into the air and water.
On June 12, 2012, Yuko Tonohira and I put together this list of music with anti-nuclear themes, both power and war/weapons. The Japanese songs were from Yuko, of course. Both of us compiled the music in English.
Links to the songs are on this web site.
Suggestions are welcome.
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3/11/21
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Green Spaces vs Developers
Green Spaces Are Important To
Our Mental and Physical Health
And Need Our Protection!
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Developers often look at a green space as a commodity just waiting to be taken. Various parks and green spaces are being threatened by development,
often ignoring protection in place for decades.
Learn how you can work with your community to fight back and help stop this!
This Friday we speak with Alicia Boyd of MTOPP "Movement TO Protect the People" about the ongoing fight to protect our green spaces.
MTOPP defeated one threat to the Brooklyn Botanic Gardens and its neighborhood, and now they are facing another threat. The greenhouses and
plants of the Brooklyn Botanic Gardens are being threatened by the planned construction of high-rise apartment towers which would block off their sunlight.
Tune in to learn more and prepare for an upcoming hearing.
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3/4/21
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Delaware River Fracking Ban Is Permanent
(but what about the water?... it's not over yet!)
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Today's show is about an important victory - it was an intense battle, first to get a moratorium on fracking by the Delaware River Basin
Commission (DRBC) in 2010, then in the 11 years since to get a permanent ban! All 4 states (N.Y., N.J., Penn., Del.) voted for the
ban, though Biden's Army Corps of Engineers representative did not.
Over the years, environmental groups sent 1000s of letters and collected even more petition signatures; organizaions included Clearwater,
NJ Sierra Club, Food & Water Watch, Delaware Riverkeeper, and many more across the region. A major celebration is in order - and yet, the
DRBC left open the regulation of fracking wastewater and water export for fracking. They have until September to draft those regulations,
when another public comment period opens; so yes, we celebrate, but then we must stay vigilant to ensure that those regulations are actually
bans... and close any loopholes.
Eco-Logic, WBAI radio and internet
Fri. March 5 at 2:30PM
99.5FM and wbai.org
Stay tuned,
Ken Gale, Donna Stein and Sally Gellert
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3/4/21
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Sea Level Rise
Worldwide analysis, with animation.
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The global warming part of the climate crisis is causing the melting of glaciers and land-based ice caps. That in turn is
causing sea levels to rise, flooding coastal communities, displacing hundreds of millions of people, over a billion if global warming is not reversed.
This video illustrates that creatively and accurately.
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2/26/21
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Cleaning up the Indian Point nuclear plant
Radiation and Public Health
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Eco-Logic radio & internet, Fri. Feb. 26 from 2PM to 3PM; WBAI, 99.5FM & www.wbai.org
Eco-Logic is asking you to write comments to make a difference. This is what WBAI is all about; this is why you need to support public radio.
This is where we excel, getting our voices heard and making our world safer.
We have incredible people to speak to you about a disturbing situation 24 miles north of NYC: Joe Mangano and Susan Hito Shapiro of
Radiation and Public Health Project; Mary Olson of
Gender and Radiation Impact Project; yours truly, Eco-Logic Collective members;
and excerpts from speakers at the hearing on Tuesday.
We know you want to support issues that are near and dear to your heart. You have from now until just before 5 p.m. Friday Feb 26th,
Let's get these comments in!.
Indian Point's final nuclear reactor shuts down this April, but decommissioning plans are far from solid. The current owner, Entergy,
is planning to sell Indian Point and get out of town; they are looking to ditch their responsibility and liability. Holtec is willing
to take it off their hands because they see profit - but profit at our expense.
Holtec International has never actually completed a full decommissioning. They make crappy casks to store dangerous radioactive fuel rods.
You wouldn't believe the corporate accounting going on - tune in and we will give you the basics.
Several organizations, many community members and elected officials oppose the transfer to Holtec because of their long-standing history
of serious malfeasance. Holtec is not the only game in town; there are better alternatives and we need the PSC to require Entergy to
explore them all. This is NOT over!
The NY Public Service Commission (PSC) will be accepting public comment for citizens to voice their concerns on the Indian Point License Transfer.
Please write in your comments to the PSC at
http://documents.dps.ny.gov/public/Comments/PublicComments.aspx?MatterCaseNo=19-E-0730
One of the main reasons to care about this and to send in your comments is because of the very damaging effects of radiation on your health.
Our guests are Mary Olson of Gender and Radiation Impact Project works on public health, medicine, and public policy. and Susan Hito
Shapiro and Joe Mangano of the Radiation and Public Health Project. RPHP is a nonprofit educational and scientific organization, established by
scientists and physicians dedicated to understanding the relationships between low-level, nuclear radiation and public health.
Again, we need to let the NY Public Service Commission (PSC) hear from all of us - each and every one! Public comment ends this Friday, February 26 at 5pm!
For more information:
Eco-Logic video
(on the new youtube channel of WBAI !)
clearwater.org
Alliance for a Green Economy
Radiation and Public Health Project
Gender and Radiation Impact Project
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2/19/21
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BREAKING: URGENT APPEAL!
Opposing the Transfer of Indian Point to Holtec
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Eco-Logic radio & internet, Fri. February 19 at 2:30PM, WBAI, 99.5FM & www.wbai.org
Our guest is Manna Jo Greene of Hudson River Sloop Clearwater
The Public Service Commission just announced that on Tuesday, Feb. 23, they will hold the public hearing that activists have been demanding.
By Friday, Feb., 26th, the written public-comment period is over!
Indian Point's final nuclear reactor will be shutting down in April 2021. With its closure, the plant will begin the decommissioning phase.
The current owner, Entergy, is planning to sell the license so another company can perform the decommissioning. At the moment, that company
is Holtec International. Clearwater and many community members oppose the sale of Indian Point to Holtec because of their long-standing
history of serious malfeasance. More on that can be
found here.
The NY Public Service Commission(PSC) will be holding a public comment period for citizens to voice their concerns on the Indian Point License Transfer.
This will take place over two separate virtual comment periods on Tues., February 23rd, at 1:00 pm and 6:00 pm
Please write in your comments to the PSC here.
Click here to use AGREE NY's easy to use form
For those who wish to make a comment during the virtual hearing, you need to sign up on www.webex.com by 6:00 p.m. on Monday, February 22nd.
For anyone who wants to either write a comment and send it in beforehand or voice their concerns during the virtual hearing and would like some help,
Clearwater will be hosting an informational session on Friday, February 19th at 6:00 p.m. over Zoom. We will be going over any questions people
might have about Holtec, Indian Point, or the public commenting process.
Click here.
This is the most important role for Eco-Logic and WBAI-FM: to bring you breaking news and give you the opportunity to make a difference!
Join the IP License Transfer info session 6pm 2-19-21.
This is the most important role for Eco-Logic and WBAI-FM: to bring you breaking news and give you the opportunity to make a difference!
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2/19/21
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Fracking Boom not helpful
Few benefits to the people living in fracking counties.
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James Bruggers wrote an article for Inside Climate News on the effects the fracking boom has had on the people who live where the boom is happening.
Jobs, personal income and population growth in 22 gas-producing counties of Pennsylvania, Ohio and West Virginia lagged behind. Instead, the
economic growth went to the companies doing the fracking, despite promises to local residents and politicians.
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2/12/21
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Horseshoe Crabs and Covid
Will Horsehoe Crabs survive covid vaccines?
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They're prehistoric, alien-looking creatures that capture children's attention at aquarium touch tanks
and swarm the Garden State bays at each summer's outset.
They're horseshoe crabs - and now they're more important than ever.
The animals are critical to the work of pharmaceutical companies, especially during this pivotal mass distribution of the coronavirus
vaccine. The crabs' milky blue blood has been used for decades to detect harmful pathogens in medicines, allowing drugmakers to ensure
their products are pure before being shipped out and injected into human arms.
Read the rest of the article from NJ.com News.
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2/12/21
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LNG expansion hearing
And how you can join in.
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Prep For DEC Hearing: No LNG on the NBK Pipeline Sunday, Feb 21 @5pm.
Whether it's your 1st time or 40th time attending a public hearing, preparing for it is important. Join in this prep session to
review the facts, re-familiarize yourself with the issue at hand, and establish key arguments to make your public comment as
strong and persuasive as can be.
What is the NBK pipeline and LNG facility?
(North Brooklyn, Liquified Natural Gas)
What is National Grid applying to the DEC to do?
(gas utility, Dept. of Environmental Conservation)
Why we oppose.
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2/12/21
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Community Opposition to Fracked Gas Project
Stopping a peaker plant.
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This week's show will cover the strong and vibrant community opposition to NRG's proposal to build a dirty "peaker plant" in their
neighborhood. We'll have JK Canepa of the Eco-Logic Collective and Elaine O'Brien of the No Astoria NRG Fracked Gas Plant Coalition to fill
us in on the health effects already suffered by this community, NRG's attempt at greenwashing this project, and what Astoria folks demand instead.
"NRG once again presented a false choice to our community and tried to greenwash the facts on fracked gas," said Elaine O'Brien. "The public
health science is clear, there is no clean fracked gas. Our communities have suffered from fossil fuel pollution for too long and are
demanding actually clean renewable energy now."
For more information, go to Queens Climate Project.org/.
This show will be linked from here.
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25 min.
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WBAI archive
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2/5/21
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Energy Efficiency
You can become better energy managers.
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Andy Padian of the EME Group has 40 years of energy efficiency experience and will join Eco-Logic for a brief talk about reducing catastrophic
waste in your buildings.
If you own or manage a multifamily building and your letter grade just came back as "D" or "F", you're in a panic right now but you don't
have to be. You don't have to completely replace everything in your building, you just need to become better energy managers, and understand
that much of your energy use is actually in the apartments. For a quick analysis of your building's equivalent EKG, walk around on these
currently cold days and count open windows. Now you have begun to diagnose the problems.
Tune in to learn more.
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WBAI archives
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1/29/21
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Save Money and Energy
Comprehensive list to decrease greenhouse gases.
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Eco-Logic is pre-empted this week, but we'll be back on Feb. 5 at 2:30PM. We'll be discussing Energy Efficiency and elimination of waste with Andy Padian.
Meanwhile enjoy this list put together by one of Eco-Logic's friends. It shows ways to save money and energy, and thus lower greenhouse gas emissions
and is the most comprehensive compilation we've seen. Not all ways will apply to all people, of course, but you can use a lot of them whether you rent or own.
This list was compiled and distributed by the New York Solar Energy Society
Lowering our energy footprint is the best way to get to a 100% renewable energy economy.
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1/22/21
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The Circular Economy
Presented by GreenHomeNYC.
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The world's rate of consumption is at "1.75 times the earth's carrying capacity, meaning we are using [almost double] the natural resources than we are regenerating each year," says
The Circular Economy Handbook. Find out what's being done to help reverse that trend in fashion, food, water and waste, and learn what you can do to become part of the circularity movement.
This year's presenters will share programs and projects that are redefining waste as a resource, moving us towards a more efficient, circular economy.
The circular economy spurs economic development worldwide by redesigning, reducing, reusing, repurposing, recovering, refurbishing, regenerating, and
recycling biological and technical materials to meet the growing resource needs of our consumptive society.
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1/21/21
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The Power of Song
Music has the power to educate and activate as well as entertain.
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Music is fun, but it also crosses borders and unites people. Music has to power to raise consciousness, create activists, and teach listeners.
Eco-Logic collective member Joel Landy talks about the Power of Song with Ben Grosscup, Executive Director of the People's Music Network.
PMN's purpose is to be a loving activist/artist community space who do their work pursuing and creating a progressive human agenda.
This show will be linked from here.
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25 min.
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WBAI archive
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1/21/21
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How Cities Can Help Migrating Birds
Rather than Kill Them.
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From an article on Ecowatch.com by Frank La Sorte and Kyle Horton.
Millions of birds travel between their breeding and wintering grounds during spring and autumn migration, creating one of the greatest spectacles
of the natural world. These journeys often span incredible distances.
Bird migration is affected by factors ranging from climate change to artificial light at night.
Urban areas contain numerous dangers for migratory birds. The biggest threat is the risk of colliding with buildings or communication towers.
Trees provide important habitat for migratory birds during migration and the breeding season, so the presence of trees can have a strong effect
on the number of migratory bird species that occur in cities.
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1/15/21
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NO NORTH BROOKLYN PIPELINE!
PEOPLE OVER PROFITS!
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This show focuses on National Grid's bid to expand their Liquefied Natural Gas (LNG) facility on Lenape/Munsee/Canarsie land (what people call Greenpoint),
the end-point and the main point of the polluting and racist North Brooklyn Pipeline. The utility needs an air permit from New York State's Dept of Environmental
Conservation (DEC) and the state is accepting your comments on that right now; go to NoNBKPipeline.org to submit.
Today we're joined by Ruhan Nagra and Willis Elkins.
Ruhan Nagra is an attorney with the University Network for Human Rights, a nonprofit organization
that partners with directly affected communities and grassroots
organizations to fight environmental racism and other forms of human rights abuse across the globe. Ruhan has been working with Sane Energy, Brownsville Residents
Green Committee, and the No North Brooklyn Pipeline Coalition on some of the legal and regulatory issues implicated by National Grid's recent proposals to expand
fracked gas infrastructure in Brooklyn.
Willis Elkins is the executive director of the Newtown Creek Alliance,
a community based organization founded in 2002 with the mission to Restore, Reveal and
Revitalize Newtown Creek. Willis is also co-chair of Newtown Creek Superfund Community Advisory Group
and a member of Brooklyn Community Board 1.
Props go to State Senator Julia Salazar, Assemblymember Emily Gallagher, Brooklyn Borough President Eric Adams, U.S. Representatives Carolyn Maloney and
Nydia Velasquez, and all the other elected officials along the route of the North Brooklyn Pipeline from Brownsville to Greenpoint. Also to the
No North Brooklyn Pipeline Coalition, Newtown Creek Alliance,
Sane Energy Project,
the Brownsville Residents Green Committee, Hudson River Sloop Clearwater,
Riverkeeper, and Frack Outa Brooklyn.
This show is linked from here.
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WBAI archive
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1/9/21
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Radiation Levels At Fukushima Far Worse
Far Worse Than Previously Thought.
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For those who want to minimize the health effects of ionizing radiation.
Radiation at the Fukushima No. 1 nuclear plant is far worse than previously thought, with the levels estimated at 10 sieverts per hour--
a fatal dose for anyone who stays in the vicinity for an hour, according to experts. This means it will be extremely difficult for
crews to move shield plugs, raising concerns that the plan to decommission the reactors will have to be reassessed.
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1/8/21
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The Nuclear Fuel Chain:
From Cradle to Grave.
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Speaking via Zoom from Albuquerque, Leona Morgan will address the connected issues of nuclear bombs and nuclear power. Saturday, January 9, 2021.
The first nuclear bomb ever was developed from uranium mined in the Democratic Republic of Congo and exploded in New Mexico, a
prelude to dropping the bomb on Hiroshima during WWII. Today, nuclear power plants throughout the U.S. generate nuclear waste,
and its transportation to the Southwest for storage threatens the lives and health not only of people living in the area,
but that of others everywhere.
Leona (Diné) is an Indigenous activist and a community organizer who co-founded and coordinates the Nuclear Issues Study Group,
which is a multi-racial, multi-generational, and woman-led volunteer organization based in Albuquerque, NM. Sponsored by WAMM
committees: End War, and End Military Madness Against the Earth; VFP-Chapter 27; and Nukewatch, Wisconsin.
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1/8/21
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Decommisioning nuclear power plants
It has to be done right.
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Decommisioning nuclear power plants is very important, but has to be done right.
Holtec is taking over closed nuclear reactor sites, but doesn't have the decommissioning experience needed. Their plan
envisions tons of extremely radioactive nuclear waste being transported thousands of miles across the county and dumped
in a low-income, Hispanic-majority county in New Mexico. The governor and regional environmental justice and Native
American groups have fiercely opposed the scheme. The public interest is being given short shrift in the nuclear
industry's effort to unload its legacy of nuclear waste.
Holtec is not just an Indian Point or NY-metro regional issue. Holtec is a national issue. The company's scheme presents a
real and present threat to the nation on multiple levels: safety, security, and environmental justice
Indirectly, the scheme may slow the response to climate change.
Our guest today is Michel Lee, an attorney and analyst who focuses on nuclear power and radioactive waste issues.
Tune in to learn more.
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WBAI archives
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1/1/21
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Eco-Logic Collective Convenes
Live music and three different environmental issues.
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Energy expert Andy Padian and Eco-Logic Collective Members J.K. Canepa and Joel Landy oin regular on-air members Donna Stein,
Sally Gellert and Ken Gale and talk about what they're working on now and what subjects they will cover for an entire episode
of Eco-Logic in 2021.
This show is linked from here.
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25 min.
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WBAI archive
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12/25/20
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Utility-scale Solar power
Problems arise.
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As solar installation emphasis goes from decentralized rooftops to centralized utility-scale solar, problems arise.
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2 pages
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newspaper article
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12/25/20
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Eco-Logic Collective Convenes
Live music and three different environmental issues.
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Eco-Logic Collective Members J.K. Canepa, Joel Landy and Tim Keating join regular on-air members Donna Stein,
Sally Gellert and Ken Gale and talk about what they're working on now and what subjects they will cover for an entire episode
of Eco-Logic in 2021.
Today's Eco-Logic was dedicated to EarthMum, Helena Miel, a loving spirit who always gave her best on her early morning WBAI
broadcast including excellent environmental content along with her other eclectic interests. She passed away early this year.
The WBAI family misses her.
This show is linked from here.
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25 min.
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WBAI archive
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12/19/20
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Bringing Wolves Back
Restored the Yellowstone National Park ecosystem.
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Bringing wolves back to Yellowstone National Park restored the ecosystem in ways that even those who helped bring them back never imagined.
Wolves increased the numbers and diversity of trees, butterflies, birds, fish and more by restoring balance to the ecosystem. This short video explains how.
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BBC video
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12/18/20
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Save the Oceans
and They'll Save Us
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Plastic is only one of many pollution threats to our oceans. Even though the oceans are vast they are
vulnerable. Join our discussion with our guest, Amy Goldsmith of
Clean Water Action and Rethink Disposable,
on the health and sustainability of the oceans, including work of the
High Level Panel for Sustainable Ocean Economy.
Today's Eco-Logic is linked from here.
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25 min.
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WBAI archive
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12/17/20
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14 Nations To Save the Oceans
40% of the world's coastline.
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Our well-being depends on a healthy ocean. It always has. It always will.
The pressures on the ocean are intense and growing, but we know recovery is possible. Crucially, a healthy ocean holds the solutions to many of the world's challenges.
Putting sustainability at the heart of ocean management is essential for protection, production and prosperity that benefits people, nature and the economy.
The leaders of 14 countries have put forward a new ocean action agenda underpinned by sustainably managing 100% of national waters.
This was discussed on the Dec. 18, 2020 Eco-Logic.
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WBAI archive
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12/11/20
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Scientific Journals for Covid Info
Where to go when government agencies are scientifically compromised.
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From Dr. Chuck Kaplan, a primary care Internal Medicine physician:
We were just talking on the show about how are we supposed to evaluate scientific recommendations when the CDC and FDA are both
compromised and I came up with my list of top journals that are highly respected:
New England Journal of Medicine
Science
Nature
British Medical Journal
Mayo Clinic Proceedings
Annals of Internal Medicine
Lancet
JAMA
Medical Letter
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short list.
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right here!
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12/11/20
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Covid-19 Vaccines: Eco-Logic Investigates
The Science of Covid-19 Vaccines.
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With vaccines finally coming into view, it's s a good time for another COVID show on Eco-logic.
How will we know if the vaccines are effective?
Learn how vaccines work.
How can a side effect be a good thing?
Can a Covid vaccine be compared to any other vaccine?
Let's learn the science from scientists:
Two guests: Dr. Chuck Kaplan, a primary care Internal Medicine physician in private practice in Tucson AZ. He did NIH-based clinical research on AIDS treatments in the '90's.
And Dr. Abby Hafer, a biologist who teaches Nursing students at Curry College in Eastern Massachusetts.
This show is a follow-up to an earlier covid episode of Eco-Logic.
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WBAI archive
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12/11/20
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Covid-19 Journal article
New England Journal of Medicine
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A peer-reviewed article on the new Covid-19 vaccine. 'Nuff Said!
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Journal article
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12/11/20
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Diamondback Terrapin program
Life on the Edge
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This program will introduce the natural history and conservation of an imperiled estuarine turtle, the diamondback
terrapin. Although terrapins occur in 16 states along the Atlantic and Gulf coasts, including Jamaica Bay in New York City, the coastline of Florida
represents approximately 20 percent of their entire range. Five of the seven recognized subspecies occur in the state's
extensive salt marsh and mangrove habitats, including three endemics. Therefore, Florida terrapin populations and
habitats are critical to the conservation of the entire species.
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12/4/20
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Nuclear Power and Climate
Is it good or bad?
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Does nuclear power affect our health, including covid?
Is nuclear power good or bad for the climate crisis?
Is nuclear power good or bad for electricity needs and rates?
These are some of the web sites we referred to:
covid
climate
climate
carbon, profit, waste, proliferation
women's health
indigenous environmenal justice
handbook
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25 min.
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WBAI archives
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12/4/20
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Broad-based push for climate legislation
Climate Crisis Policy
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Climate Crisis Policy is a national effort to unite all those concerned with addressing climate change in a s
ubstantial and united way. Starting with more than 130 published, online source documents from authors including
coalitions, think tanks, legislative bodies, academics, and advocacy groups, and using the Drawdown project as an
outline, 20 experts and activists created a digest of solutions falling into 11 broad policy areas, each of
which is further broken down.
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25 min.
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WBAI Archives
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11/23/20
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Global Trade & Environment in the Biden Era
What might the future bring?
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Here is the link to hear the episode of Eco-Logic on Global Trade & Environment in the Biden Era.
Environmental regulations are often manipulated during trade talks with other nations.
Sometimes they're improved and sometimes eroded. Listen to learn how trade negotiations are
expected to affect the environment under the new federal administration.
RCEP, btw, was not written by China, but by Southeast Asian nations and is not the danger to the
U.S. that multi-national corporations claim it will be. Those corporations are apparently trying to push the
U.S. back into the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP), which itself now has fewer rules to favor U.S.
oil & pharmaceutical companies.
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WBAI audio
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11/18/20
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Global Trade & Environment in the Biden Era
What is RCEP - Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership?
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Environmental regulations are often manipulated during trade talks with
other nations. Sometimes they're improved and sometimes eroded. Listen to
Eco-Logic this Friday, Nov. 20, 2:30PM to learn how trade negotiations
are expected to affect the environment under the new federal administration.
WBAI, 99.5FM or www.wbai.org
Special thanks to Adam Weissman for helping us put this show together.
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11/18/20
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Analyzing the Election from an Environmental Perspective
What might the future bring?
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We analyzed the results of the election from an environmental perspective. Returning to Eco-Logic were environmental and social
justice blogger Ted Glick, TedGlick.com, and
Ava Mateo, Community Engagement Director at 18by.vote.
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25 min.
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WBAI audio
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11/13/20
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Biden cabinet posts
An analysis of potential contenders.
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Politico's analysis of potential cabinet picks in a Biden administration. Who they are and what they represent.
Part of the discussion on today's episode of Eco-Logic.
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10/30/20
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The Powerful Oyster
Projects that heal waterways.
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Learn how important the oyster is to the health of our waterways, the Billion Oyster Project and NY/NJ Baykeeper projects
that seek to restore this valuable resource, and also how important the oyster was to the history of this region.
Guests were Meredith Comi from NY/NJ Baykeeper and Amali Knobloch from Clearwater
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WBAI audio
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10/23/20
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News and Announcements
A variety of Environmental topics.
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Today's Eco-Logic covers new items from several different environmental and ecological issues:
Activists claim victory from New Jersey Transit regarding renewable energy, saving the Hudson River Sturgeon,
renewable energy increases during covid crisis, New Jersey Global Warming Response Act, flooding dangers
thoughout the US, Standing Rock Sioux back in court, fighting fracked gas transmission pipelines,
Black Rail now listed as threatened, Japan now releasing radioactive water into the Pacific, dilution
is not a solution, victory for the whales against the oil industry seismic blasting, past and upcoming shows,
Cecil Corbin-Marks.
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WBAI audio
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10/23/20
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The State of Global Air
Report on air pollution worldwide.
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YOU know that "The Environment" is not some abstract thing. It's clean and healthy air, clean and healthy water,
renewable energy jobs, energy efficiency jobs, sea level rise protection, storm surge protection, the morality of
killing endangered species, the morality of environmental justice and environmental racism. It's our health and health
costs. It's everyone's future. It's also the sheer beauty and wonder of nature. That's why Eco-Logic exists and why
it SHOULD exist.
Case in point. www.ecowatch.com
reported on Oct. 22, 2020 about a new study
on air pollution - The State of Global Air - a collaboration between the Health Effects Institute and the Institute for Health
Metrics and Evaluation's Global Burden of Disease project. The
UK Guardian newspaper
also has an article on this. A study like this is especially important during the covid crisis,
simply because covid-19 is a respiratory disease and air pollution lowers respiratory health. And of course the report refers
to covid-19 often.
Even without covid-19, air pollution kills almost 7 million people worldwide every year, half a million of them babies,
making it the 4th leading cause of early death, behind high blood pressure, tobacco use and poor diet, moving up from #5.
Air pollution also causes brain damage and other organ damage.
And if air pollution can kill nearly 7 million people, it can damage the health and quality of life of many millions more.
No, "the environment" is not some abstract thing.
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10/22/20
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Standing Rock Sioux back in court
Dakota Access Pipeline struggle continues.
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You win a battle, but it doesn't mean you're done. :(
We celebrate for a moment, but still get ready for the next onslaught.
That defines pipeline struggles right?
Native American Nations opposed to the Dakota Access Pipeline have had to go to Federal court again to stop
the oil companies operations while it is still being litigated. Everything needs to stop until either side
wins in court in a logical legal world!
The threat to the water supply is to disastrous a risk and violates their sovereign rights. Standing Rock Sioux
and other Nations succeeded on their first attempt, only to have an appeals court overturn U.S. District Judge
(James) Boasberg's shutdown order. The next step is asking the judge to clarify his earlier ruling to get the
appellate judges to again order the line to cease operations and (issue an injunction to) shut down the pipeline
while the legal fight is ongoing.
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10/22/20
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Protecting the Hudson River sturgeon
Champlain Hudson Power Express Project would destroy crucial habitat.
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We still have a creature from the paleozoic era in our river? Talk about conservation! This is not something we should allow
to be lost. The sturgeon in the Hudson River is in danger from the construction of the Champlain Hudson Power Express Project.
It would devastate critical habitat of this endangered species. Both the
Center for Biological Diversity and Riverkeeper are
speaking out to help protect this fascinating prehistoric fish. The sturgeon is an indicator species, meaning if it thrives it
shows the ecosystem is healthy. Jared Margolis, an attorney at the Center for Biological Diversity says "New York can't bury
its head in the sand and pretend that this is a 'clean' energy project."
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10/22/20
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Renewable Energy Victory in NJ
Fracking plant scrapped.
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This Wednesday, activists claimed victory as NJ Transit announced that they are moving forward with an alternative
renewable energy plan to replace its planned 140-mw fracked-gas plant in Kearney. A new NJ Department of Environmental
Protection report, out last week, looks at the state's progress toward the goal of an 80% reduction in greenhouse gas
emissions by 2050, and this action brings NJ Transit on board after 16 municipalities passed resolutions opposing the
original plans.
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10/22/20
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NJ Global Warming Response Act
pdf of detailed Report.
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The New Jersey Global Warming Response Act (P.L. 2007 c.112; P.L. 2018 c.197) (GWRA) directed the New Jersey Department
of Environmental Protection (DEP), in collaboration with other state agencies, to develop plans and make
recommendations for reducing emissions of climate pollutants, represented throughout this report as carbon dioxide
equivalent emissions or CO2e, to 80% below their 2006 levels by the year 2050 (known as the "80x50" goal).
You can download the entire report and read it for yourself.
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201 pages
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PDF
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10/22/20
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Ted Glick Fasting
Until the election.
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Ted Glick, a 71 year old, long-time peace and justice, climate and progressive activist, organizer and writer is
fasting until election day to encourage Americans to realize the importance of voting in this election.
There are daily updates on Ted's web site.
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web site
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10/22/20
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Environmental Film Festival
Princeton, NJ Public Library.
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The Princeton, NJ Public Library has an annual Environmental Film Festival. Check their web site for information.
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web site
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10/22/20
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Fracked gas pipeline
Expansion battle in North Brooklyn.
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Corporate utility National Grid wants to expand a massive fracked-gas transmission pipeline in North Brooklyn. This project
is not a replacement of leaking pipelines, it is an expansion to charge us, the rate-payers, millions of dollars in rate
hikes to fill their shareholders' pockets, and keep us locked into fossil fuels when we want to move onto affordable and
clean renewable energy like geothermal, solar, wind and energy efficient buildings.
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web site
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activism
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10/22/20
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Songs of Freedom Television
Manhattan Neighborhood Network.
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The Songs of Freedom Television show by Eco-Logic Collective Member Joel Landy wonderfully combines music and progressive politics.
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web site
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web site
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10/22/20
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Japan To Release Fukushima Water
Radioactive water to be dumped Into the Pacific Ocean.
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Japan is set to officially decide to release treated water from the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plants into the Pacific Ocean.
Keeping water at the site, where the devastating tsunami in March, 2011 led to three meltdowns, could affect decommissioning.
Since the meltdowns, groundwater and rain have been entering the site. An additional 180 tons of water was being contaminated
every day by the high concentration of radioactive substances. Zengyoren, a fishing-industry lobby, opposed the release.
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10/16/20
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Loss of Cecil Corbin-Mark
Giant voice for Environmental Justice.
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From the WE Act for Environmental Justice comes this tragic news:
The environmental movement lost a very strong voice when Cecil Corbin-Mark's voice was silenced forever. We lost a great deal of
intelligence, wisdom and caring. He was on Eco-Logic many times.
His communication skills on the environmental justice issue were as strong as anyone I know, and the
e.j. movement has a lot of strong voices. He could talk to a room full of white people about racism without compromising
on the issue yet without almost anyone feeling uncomfortable; people listened when Cecil spoke. That's how good a communicator
he was. He could explain succinctly how environmental justice affects white people and why people of color should be environmentalists.
He was 51.
We mentioned this briefly on this day's episode of Eco-Logic and will in more detail on a future episode.
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10/16/20
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Rarely seen Black Rail protected
Louisiana oil expansion threatened it.
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It took a decade, but the rarely seen Black Rail is now listed as "threatened" under the Endangered Species Act,
which means that if steps aren't taken, the species could become "Endangered" or Extinct. As an indicator species,
Black Rails illustrate the health of an entire ecosystem.
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article
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10/16/20
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Renewable Energy Providing ALL new power
A million homes worth between January and April, 2020.
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Even during the covid crisis, renewable energy production is
increasing. According to a review by the Sun Day Campaign of data just
released by the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission - FERC - wind,
solar, and hydropower provided ALL, that's 100% of the over 1,300
megawatts (MW) in new U.S. electrical generating capacity added in April
of this year. I have noticed that when the renewable energy
industry and FERC both report of renewable energy of any kind, whether
solar, wind or geothermal, FERC has lower numbers, which you might
expect from a federal agency oriented toward the fossil fuel industry -
they're the agency that rubber stamps methane pipeline all over the
country. But you can't get any higher than 100%, even for FERC.
FERC also reported that over 5,000 MW of renewable energy was added
to the U.S. electricity supply between January and April.
According to Green Building Advisor, that's enough energy to power about
a million homes. A Million! About 3,000 MW was wind and about 2,000 was solar.
New solar installations, when they're on private buildings such as
homes and factories, usually are accompanied by energy efficiency
measures, so that 2000 MW is not the whole story. Much more than 2000
MW of methane was not burnt as a result of the new solar energy capacity.
The article links to the U.S. Energy Information Administration's
"Electric Power Monthly" report. It uses utility data, so rooftop solar
is vastly underreported because utilities don't own it and don't report
it. For example, the NY Independent System Operator, the
quasi-corporate quasi-government organization that safeguards the New
York electricity grid, does not put rooftop solar in it's data of
electricity generation in New York, even though it accounts for
thousands of megawatts.
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Sun Day Campaign
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10/16/20
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High Flood Danger
Throughout the U.S.
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From the Reuters News Service comes a report by First Street Foundation on the very high danger of flooding throughout
the U.S. The report is oriented on property damage and criticizes FEMA's flood assessment for not including rain, rivers
or climate change. FERC is the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission and is the federal agency rubber-stamping all those
methane pipelines, making the flooding worse.
With a photo and a map.
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2 pages
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Reuters article
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10/16/20
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Marine animals protected from seismic blasting
Atlantic Right Whales safe from oil exploration.
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From the Center for Biological Diversity comes this news:
The oil industry can't search the Atlantic Ocean for oil via seismic blasting this year - and maybe not for several years,
according to announcements made in court in early October. Permits to harm and harass ocean animals, including critically endangered
North Atlantic Right Whales, with the blasting will expire Nov. 30 and not be renewed.
Seismic testing blasts the seafloor with high-powered airguns, then measures the echoes to map offshore oil and gas reserves.
In the process it disturbs, injures and even kills marine wildlife.
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1 page
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Washington Post
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10/9/20
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Pope Francis' Climate Encyclical
A discussion with four guests
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Pope Francis' first Encyclical was about climate change, which was both criticized and praised by U.S. Cardinals. Pope Francis'
teaching document is a wide-ranging look at what he calls an "ecological crisis" destroying our "common home." The document, or
encyclical, is at once a theological treatise, a public policy analysis and a heart-felt plea for personal change. Hear a
discussion of what was in that document.
Our guests are from a variety of backgrounds and experiences. Dr. Marian Ronan of New York Theological Seminary, and Rev. Donna Schaper
from Judson Memorial Church, Steve Knight from GreenFaith and Corinne Willinger of the NYC Raging Grannies.
"Never have we so hurt and mistreated our common home as we have in the last two hundred years. Reducing greenhouse gases requires honesty,
courage and responsibility. On a larger scale, our leaders must be held to account. Those who will have to suffer the consequences . . .
will not forget this failure of conscience and responsibility." - Pope Francis.
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25 min.
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Eco-Logic audio
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10/9/20
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Losing the battle on plastic pollution
Predicted growth in plastic waste exceeds efforts to mitigate plastic pollution.
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Plastic pollution is a planetary threat, affecting nearly every marine and freshwater ecosystem globally. In response,
multilevel mitigation strategies are being adopted but with a lack of quantitative assessment of how such strategies reduce plastic emissions.
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1 page
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Science magazine
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10/9/20
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Fossil fuel companies still influence Biden.
But not on his transition team.
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The fossil fuel industry will have influence on a Biden regime, as they usually do with all regimes, but perhaps a little less than usual.
Read for yourself....
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1 page.
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Eco-Watch article
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10/2/20
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The Election and the Environment
Analyzing the candidacies and the 9/30 debate.
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Environment and the Elections? What are we hearing from the candidates? We delved into it, what we can hope for and
what we can expect for the planet from these candidates' platforms. The 9/30 debate moderator actually asked a climate change question.
Eco-Logic's guests today were environmental and social justice blogger Ted Glick, TedGlick.com, and
Ava Mateo, Community Engagement Director at 18by.vote.
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25 min.
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WBAI archives
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9/25/20
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Trade deals & Environment
NAFTA and other "free trade" deals' effects on environmental law, air, water and climate
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Attention is not given on mainstream media to how trade deals affect so many aspects of our lives, including the
quality of our air and water, and especially the climate crisis. So stay tuned.
Returning to Eco-Logic today are Arthur Stamoulis of the Citizen's Trade Campaign,
Ben Beachy of the Sierra Club's Living Economy
and Pete Dolack of Trade Justice NY Metro, and author of
Systemic Disorder Blog.
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25 min.
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WBAI archives
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9/25/20
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Jacob Aftel
A Great Man and a Great Activist.
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This month is the 30th anniversary of the death of Jacob Aftel, who is the man that helped make me the environmental
activist you hear on WBAI-FM. We worked together with the NYC SHAD Alliance.
Jacob was brilliant at not letting the egos that crop up in volunteer groups get in the way.
He was just as brilliant at figuring out people's strengths, sometimes realizing them before that person did. He brought out
the best in people, was wonderful at putting folks together, and I felt he deserved a shout out because he is largely forgotten.
I have often wished I could call on his counsel. My tribute was two of the first three minutes.
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2 min.
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ETV video
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9/25/20
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Arctic National WIldlife Refuge.
Under threat again.
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The Arctic National Wildlife Refuge in Alaska is an ecological marvel that has been under threat by oil companies for decades.
This is part of an episode of CounterSpin explaioning the latest, now that the feds have approved drilling. The
transcription
is also available.
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13 min.
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FAIR archives
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9/20/20
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Climate March
Happy 6th Anniversary Peoples Climate March.
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6 years ago on Sunday, September 21, 2014 - 400,000 climate change believers from many walks of life marched in
Manhattan from Columbus Circle to 34th Street to show their support for action.
This encore video presentation of that event, which was first broadcast on the 1st anniversary, encapsules that march and the
previous night's forum with Bill McKibben, co-founder of 350.org, Ambassador Marlene Moses, chairperson of the UN's Alliance
of Small Island States (AOSIS) and Mary Robinson, the UN's Special Envoy for Climate Change, among others who spoke at the NY
Society for Ethical Culture event: A Global Climate Treaty: Why the US Must Lead.
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59 min.
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ETV video
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9/20/20
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Kevin Zeese tribute.
Margaret Flowers, Ellen Davidson, Tarak Kauff.
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The Sept. 18th show is the kind of show you will only hear on WBAI. When mainstream media does a tribute to someone, it's usually a
celebrity or a politician, someone in the public eye. WBAI can do tributes to activists. People whose lives were dedicated to
helping other people without needing or getting acclaim. Today we're talking about Kevin Zeese. You may not know his name, but you surely know his work.
Our guests today are Margaret Flowers, his partner in all aspects of life, and Tarak Kauff and Ellen Davidson, who knew and worked with Kevin for years.
Special thanks to Reggie Johnson for engineering the show.
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25 min.
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WBAI archives
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9/18/20
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Kevin Zeese
Photographs.
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A number of photographs of Kevin Zeese taken and uploaded by Ellen Davidson.
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5 pages
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Ellen's photos
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9/18/20
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Danskammer Op Ed.
Hudson River methane power plant on a flood plain.
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Bad site.
Not needed.
Will increase climate chaos.
Environmentally catastrophic in bad weather.
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1 page
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article
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9/18/20
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Scientific Journals for Covid Info
Where to go when government agencies are scientifically compromised.
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From Dr. Chuck Kaplan, a primary care Internal Medicine physician:
We were just talking on the show about how are we supposed to evaluate scientific recommendations when the CDC and FDA are both
compromised and I came up with my list of top journals that are highly respected:
New England Journal of Medicine
Science
Nature
British Medical Journal
Mayo Clinic Proceedings
Annals of Internal Medicine
Lancet
JAMA
Medical Letter
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short list.
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right here!
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9/13/20
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Science of Covid-19 Vaccines.
Also, the politics of Covid-19 Vaccines.
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Science of covid vaccines, what is done to make them, with particular emphasis on the "Election Day Vaccine."
What makes a vaccine trustworthy?
How do we know how political any one covid vaccine is?
How do we know the corporations making them are not playing with statistics or test results?
Click the link. Tell people you know to listen and to check this web site, www.ecoradio.org.
Two guests: Dr. Chuck Kaplan, a primary care Internal Medicine physician in private practice in Tucson AZ. He did NIH-based clinical research on AIDS treatments in the '90's.
And Dr. Abby Hafer, a biologist who teaches Nursing students at Curry College in Eastern Massachusetts.
For more information to go with the radio show, check out these two articles on Politico.com, both on different aspects of government interference in science and education.
One on scientific malpractice with the CDC.
The other on the Election Day Vaccine.
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25 min.
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WBAI archive
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9/11/20
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9-11
My Thoughts and Experiences
on and after 9-11.
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I (Ken) was downtown at WBAI on 9-11-01, when WBAI-FM was at 120 Wall St. I saw the toll on local firefighters.
I wrote up some of my thoughts and experiences at the time for this web site.
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6 pages
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This web site
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9/11/20
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Climate Change and Nuke Waste.
How sea level rise affects
nuclear power plant waste storage.
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Climate change results in new risks to nuclear power operations.
Spent fuel sites will be subject to risks from sea-level rise.
A long-term spent fuel management plan is needed to mitigate risks.
Short-term solutions to mitigate risks are recommended.
Waste should be near as possible to site of generation to minimize transport risks.
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article
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9/7/20
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Environmental Justice
Environmental Racism, Black Lives Matter and Climate Change.
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The connection between Environmental Justice, Black Lives Matter, and Climate Change are explored on the Sept. 4, 2020 Eco-Logic.
What is the difference between Not In My Back Yard and Think Globally Act Locally?
Why are pollution sources so often in poor neighborhoods?
What do those pollution sources do to the global atmosphere?
What do those pollution sources do to the health of the people living near-by?
As Eddie Bautista says, "If you're not at the table, you're on the menu."
Our guest was Maria Lopez-Nuñez from Ironbound Community Corporation in Newark, NJ. She's a fantastic speaker!
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57 min.
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WBAI archives
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9/7/20
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Champlain-Hudson Power Express.
Environmental and cultural damage.
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If energy efficiency was more of an issue, bad supply would be less of an issue.
The hydropower industry is seeking to profit from the climate emergency by falsely marketing its power as "clean, green, sustainable and
renewable." Canadian hydropower is dirty energy and should not be allowed to qualify for subsidies or be considered "clean energy." It is
a human rights, climate, and environmental disaster.
Champlain Hudson Power Express is not a fair, just, or equitable solution to the climate or economic crisis that New York faces. It
places the burdens of American energy demands on the backs of front-line, Indigenous communities in Canada where this power is being produced.
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1 page
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article
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8/28/20
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The Health of the Oceans.
The Tara Expeditions.
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Today's Eco-Logic is with two of the principles, Daniele Iudicone and Romain Troublé, behind the Tara Expeditions:
a comprehensive, worldwide, multi-year, scientific oceanographic voyage. This interview was conducted when they were nearly
finished with their first expedition - that's before they were famous in oceanographic circles. It's really a privilege to
be able to bring this interview to you.
The extent of the plastic garbage in the Pacific Ocean was just becoming known, partly thanks to our two guests. You'll also
learn about the oxygen depletion zone where almost nothing can live. And learn how climate change is affecting the ocean.
What they achieved and the unique way they networked with scientists all over the world and made it work even with the economic
restrictions that they had is fascinating.
Btw, Romain Troublé and Daniele Iudicone are from France and Italy and use metric measure. A meter is just over three feet long (39 inches).
Right click on the map to see a larger image of it.
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57 min.
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Eco-Logic audio
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8/20/20
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Success! Endangered Species Act Victory.
Federal judge ruling.
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A federal judge ruled that the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers and National Marine Fisheries Service failed to take necessary steps.
"Plaintiffs have shown the Corps' operation of the [Willamette Valley Project] without completing the [required] measures is causing the species' decline."
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1 page
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article
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8/14/20
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Global Climate Change and Butterflies.
The beauty, ecology, and natural history of butterflies.
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People who study butterflies, lepidopterists, knew 'way before almost everyone else that climate change was happening.
How many species live in NYC? What's the difference between a moth and a butterfly? What conservation efforts
can you do? What are some popular misconceptions about butterflies? Hear details about the fascinating ecology of Monarch Butterflies,
plus a discussion of swallowtails, Snout Butterflies, and fossil butterflies.
Our guests Carol Butler, Mercy Van Vlack, Harry Zirlin and Rick Cech discuss the beauty, ecology, and natural history of butterflies.
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62 min.
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youtube video
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8/14/20
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The Campaign To Stop Shoreham.
Reliving successful activism.
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Lenny Librizzi and Joel Kupferman re-live some of their activism from the late '70s and early '80s, as they challenged the
nuclear industry at Shoreham's nuclear reactor in Long Island, New York.
The cost estimate in 1969 for construction of the Shoreham Nuclear Power Station was $217 million
and was expected to be completed in 1975. The construction was completed in 1983 with a final construction cost of $6 billion.
Most of the cost overages were passed along to ratepayers.
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12 min.
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ETV video
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8/7/20
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Links on MANY different environmental issues.
This day's Eco-Logic
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Ice caps disappearing; a thawing Arctic; environmental activists saving academic studies; Congressional Report on the Climate Crisis is
wanting; Dakota pipeline setback; George Takei, Hiroshima, and nuclear disarmament; a young environmental hero.
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first page
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Eco-Links page
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8/7/20
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The Hibakusha - #StillHere.
There is no climate or environmental threat worse than nuclear war.
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George Takei, blogger, Broadway star and Sulu from the Starship Enterprise has a direct connection to the anti-Nuclear movement. Seventy-five years ago,
the United States dropped a nuclear bomb over Hiroshima at the end the Second World War. Three days later, a second bomb dropped over Nagasaki. Hundreds
of thousands of people died. Thousands more were affected by the radiation and the aftermath. George Takei lost several family members, and that pain is still
with him, "to this day. Nuclear annihilation is still an ever-present threat, and I stand with those working tirelessly to ensure that no one has to suffer that same fate."
The Hibakusha is a group of anti-nuclear activists, many survivors of the Hiroshima and Nagasaki bombings, that are currently working on creating a world-wide treaty to ban
nuclear weapons. #StillHere, The Hibakusha Appeal. Join as we contemplate our nuclear future
by interrogating our nuclear past and present— August 9, 2 PM EST.
There is an international signature campaign calling on State governments to ban and eliminate nuclear weapons.
There is no climate or environmental threat worse than nuclear war. The nuclear winter that will follow it will end early all life on Earth.
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4 min.
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twitter video
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8/7/20
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D.C. Circuit Issues Mixed Decision on Dakota Access Shutdown Order
What's an environmental impact study for?
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What's an environmental impact study for? Is it to study the environmental impact of a project? That's like asking what does
Environmental Protection in Environmental Protection Agency mean? The P of EPA hasn't meant Protection since president Ronald
Reagan put a mining company executive in charge of the Interior Department in the '80s. So we shouldn't be surprised when a
Washington, DC court said the Dakota pipeline can continue to pump oil even before the environmental impact study is finished.
The Standing Rock Sioux are not giving up the fight, Earthjustice is not giving up, and thousands of environmentalists
throughout the country are not giving up. We link to articles on
ecowatch and
Earthjustice.
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2 pages
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Earthjustice article
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8/7/20
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The New Jersey School of Conservation is in crisis.
It needs your help!
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We need more not less science no matter what the current times might say otherwise. The
New Jersey School of Conservation is in crisis.
For over 70 years, the School of Conservation welcomed students, campers, counselors, teachers, Teaching Fellows, and researchers. But now the
school is closed, the gate is locked, and Montclair State University's management of the facility will end on September 1st. They're facing
a perfect storm of challenges: the loss of long-time partner MSU, a statewide budget crisis, and a global pandemic.
But they have a plan.
The Friends of NJSOC is applying for the SOC's management contract. Wow! That is taking action!
For more info and to get involved, watch the video.
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2 1/2 min.
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youtube video
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8/7/20
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St. Patrick Bay ice caps disappeared
Global Warming on Steroids
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More proof of the global warming part of climate chaos. NASA satellite imagery shows that the St. Patrick Bay ice caps on the Hazen
Plateau of Ellesmere Island in Canada have completely disappeared. National Snow and Ice Data Center scientists and colleagues predicted in
2017 that this would happen by 2022. The NSIDC web site shows a map of how much those ice caps have been shrinking since 1959.
That melting has been contributing to sea level rise all that time. Global warming and climate chaos is not new, no matter how complacent people have been.
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2 pages
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NSIDC report
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8/7/20
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St. Patrick Bay ice caps disappeared
Global Warming on Steroids
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There's more proof of the global warming part of climate chaos. NASA satellite imagery shows that the St. Patrick Bay ice caps on the Hazen Plateau of Ellesmere Island in
Canada have completely disappeared. We link to a Scientific Journal article on the disappearance.
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1 page
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Journal article
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8/4/20
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Thawing Arctic
Global Warming on Steroids
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The worst effects of climate chaos, by far, for years, have been in the Arctic. Here are details, in video form (print form below), from the National Academy of Sciences.
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88 min.
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youtube video
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8/4/20
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Thawing Arctic
Global Warming on Steroids
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The worst effects of climate chaos, by far, for years, have been in the Arctic. Here are details, in print form (video above).
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1 page
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article
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8/4/20
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Environmental game
High school student wins award.
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Divek Patel, a grade 11 Hackley School student, invented a game to keep the environment clean and recycle.
He won a national award for Student Idea for a Better America from the National Museum of Education. "In many areas, especially in cities,
there is a lot of roadside litter which can affect animals and the community around us. In this project, I would like to encourage roadside
cleanup in an appealing and exciting way where all ages can get involved. Not only will they help clean the Earth, they will be awarded for doing so!"
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3 pages
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article
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8/4/20
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Congressional Report on Climate
Downloadable pdf
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A new Congressional Report from the House Select Committee on the Climate Crisis, analyzing the crisis and solutions in detail.
This link includes the report and a summary Caution: this is a pro-nuclear report, ignoring
the carbon footprint, greenhouse gas emissions, nuclear waste and total cost of nuclear power.
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547 pages
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Congressional report pdf
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7/31/20
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This day's Eco-Logic
Health Effects of Indoor Plants.
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Interview on the health effects of indoor plants - All the more important while we're indoors more at this time. Guests are plant experts
M.J. Gilhooley from Plants At Work, John Mini
& Madelyn Simon. How do plants - any living plants - make your home or office healthier? What are the best plants
to get? How do you choose them? What about asthma? How do you keep your cats from eating them? Find out on this episode!
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38 min.
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Eco-Logic Audio
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7/27/20
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Find Your Own Blind Spot
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Our eyes have a blind spot, as Dr. Hafer explained on the air.
You can find your own blind spot with this simple downloadable exercise.
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1 page
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pdf
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7/24/20
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This day's Eco-Logic
UNintelligent Design.
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Our bodies as an ecosystem. How do our bodies show that we evolved rather than were designed? Examples used are the reproductive organs, the eye, the throat, goosebumps,
vestigial parts, teeth and more. Abby Hafer
is a biologist and author who teaches nursing students at Curry College in Massachusetts. Her first book was "The Unintelligent Designer."
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55 min.
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Eco-Logic Audio
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7/17/20
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This day's Eco-Logic
Information on many environmental topics
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Many different issues! On today's News and Announcements: worldwide co-operation, corona virus & animal trafficking, corona virus & nuclear reactor safety,
air pollution & tree species, Monarch Butterflies, democracy vs. Capitalism, transition to renewable energy, Pangolins link to covid-19.
Plus actor Harrison Ford on Nature and Climate Change from an Extinction Rebellion conference.
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24 min.
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Eco-Logic Audio
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7/17/20
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Links on MANY different environmental issues.
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Links to the MANY different environmental issues mentioned on today's episde of Eco-Logic (linked above)! On today's News and Announcements:
worldwide co-operation, corona virus & animal trafficking, corona virus & nuclear reactor safety,
air pollution & tree species, Monarch Butterflies, democracy vs. Capitalism, transition to renewable energy, Pangolins link to covid-19.
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1 page
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Eco-Links Page
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7/17/20
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Transition to Renewable Energy in the News
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We environmentalists need to focus on the need to transition to a renewable energy economy with storage and efficiency,
which can provide jobs that are helping to solve the climate crisis, not exacerbate it. There have already been great s
trides in that direction such as the sheer number of solar installer jobs in the U.S., the fastest growing job area for at least a year.
Efficiency and renewable energy has literally stopped planned fossil fuel plants from being built throughout the nation.
We link to many articles from our eco-links page.
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Eco-Links Page
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7/17/20
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Important Information About Pangolins and Covid-19.
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We link to many articles about Pangolins. The science behind their link to covid-19, their use in Chinese traditional medicine,
their protection by China, their sales on the black market, and how we can help them and prevent the next pandemic.
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Eco-Links Page
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7/10/20
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Environmental and Health Effects of Plastic Bottles
That day's Eco-Logic continues.
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An explanation of the environmental, health and financial effects of plastic bottles, along with some solutions to the plastic crisis caused by them.
Our experts are Dr. Sandra Steingraber, biologist, author, fracktivist and cancer survivor and long-time water
activist Ruth Caplan of the Alliance for Democracy and the
Sierra Club Water Privatization Task Force.
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46:40
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Eco-Logic Audio
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7/10/20
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Court victory for the climate, Indigenous Rights and wildlife.
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From Earthjustice comes some good news from court. Last month, a federal appeals court in Washington, D.C., rejected a Louisiana company's bid to keep its
oil and gas drilling lease in Montana's Badger-Two Medicine region, adjacent to Glacier National Park. The decision settles a 30-year-long fight to protect
lands and waters sacred to the Blackfeet and critical for wildlife habitat.
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1 page
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full article
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7/3/20
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Air Pollution and Covid-19
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Damian Carrington's article in the UK Guardian newspaper about air pollution impairing our lungs and making the coronavirus worse, but he also mentioned that
isolation measures are improving air quality. That's a silver lining. Smoking and air pollution make us more susceptible to coronavirus and many other diseases,
so efficient uses of energy, mass transit and higher mileage cars all help keep us healthier. Click the link in the right-most column for the entire article.
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newspaper article
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7/3/20
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An organization with solutions to air pollution
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In a related story from the United Nations Good News agency and the World Resources Institute comes good news about the fight against air pollution.
The 40-year-old Convention on Long-Range Transboundary Air-Pollution, or LRTAP, claims to have reduced emissions of particulate matter and sulphur by
30 to 80% since 1990 in Europe and 30 to 40% in North America. Of course we lag behind. In Europe, these measures have extended life expectancy by a year.
Nitrogen oxide releases have also been halved. Unlike other environmental or climate change conventions, LRTAP puts scientists in the same room as policymakers.
No wonder it's working! Click the link in the right-most column for the entire article.
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full article
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7/3/20
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Abby Hafer / Covid-19 video
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The video version of the audio mentioned below. 25 minutes was played today on WBAI-FM. Here is all of the interview.
Charlie Olson worked his video magic to add graphics that went with what Abby was referring to and video of Donna and I since we were not actually in the WBAI studio at the time.
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You-Tube
video
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7/3/20
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Abby Hafer / Covid-19 audio
The first 25 minutes was broadcast today on WBAI-FM.
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You can hear the science behind the coronavirus crisis and how to deal with it explained in plain English with
information that sound bite radio just does not give you. Abby Hafer is a biologist and author who teaches nursing students
at Curry College in Massachusetts. Dr. Hafer interviewed microbiologists and emergency room physicians to give you even more information
than what she already knew. Donna Stein was on the phone because she had only recently gotten out of the hospital, where she had been treated for the coronavirus.
With listener phone calls. You'll be glad you listened!
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63 min.
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Eco-Logic
audio
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6/26/20
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Birding While Black
Nature For All
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The full video version of today's 25 minute return of Eco-Logic to WBAI. Chris Cooper, of recent viral video fame, a birdwatcher and NYC Audubon Society board
member, talks about potential problems that Black people have when birding and tells why he loves birds so much, with stories of birding adventures in New York City.
Also Dr. J. Drew Lanham,
professor at Clemson University in South Carolina, whose talk at the NY Linneaen Society
inspired this show. They talk of how going into nature is good for our mental, physical and emotional health and that everyone should have that experience.
And they both wax eloquent about the joys of birds and birding.
This is The Environment TV video version of the full episode of Eco-Logic.
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You-Tube
video
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6/26/20
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Nuclear Waste in Local Landfills
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The Nuclear Regulatory Agency is planning a very dangerous change to the way radioactive waste is handled. Some man-made nuclear waste,
mainly from nuclear power, is very long-lasting and dangerous to human health and the environment. Disregarding this danger, the NRC proposes
to let regular landfill operators dispose of this radioactive waste by authorizing them as "specific exempt." This would almost certainly result
in nuclear waste leaks into our water, air, crops, and communities. Tell the NRC and your members of Congress: Don't dump radioactive waste into
our landfills or any other places that are "exempt" from nuclear controls.
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petition
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6/15/20
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China Removes Pangolin Scales
From Traditional Medicine List
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Pangolins might have been saved from extinction by China's removal of pangolin scales from the traditional medicine list. They are now at Class 1
protection, the highest conservation level, which also includes pandas. The listing came thanks to international pressure and to the covid-19 pandemic.
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web
site
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EcoWatch
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6/15/20
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Origin of Covid-19
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Pangolins are the most heavily trafficked animals on Earth. They are probably the source of the genes that allowed the covid-19 coronavirus to infect humans.
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web site.
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BBC
web site
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6/8/20
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Chris Cooper's Seven Joys of Birding
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Chris Cooper, of recent viral video fame, wrote down his "Seven Joys of Birding" in response to people who asked him why he is a birder
in the first place. I put them on the Eco-Logic web site back in 2012. He explains them in
the show we did in 2019.
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6/8/20
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First Black Birders Week
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The first Black Birders Week is taking place as a way to affirm black people's right to be in nature without having to face racism and discrimination.
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web site.
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web site
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6/4/20
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Nature For ALL
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Chris Cooper, of recent viral video fame, a birdwatcher and NYC Audubon Society board
member, has spoken in the past about potential problems that Black people have when birding and in this encore presentation from last July,
you can hear his exact words. As our guest, along with Dr. J. Drew Lanham,
professor at Clemson University in South Carolina, whose talk at the NY Linneaen Society
inspired this show, they talk of how going into nature is good for our mental, physical and emotional health and that everyone should have that experience.
And they both wax eloquent about the joys of birds and birding.
This is The Environment TV video version of the episode of Eco-Logic originally
aired July 2, 2019.
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55
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You-Tube
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6/2/20
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Fracking and Nuclear Waste
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Fracking, nuclear waste and the Halliburton corporation have been associated since at least the 1960s. Check out these 1964 Texas newspaper
articles explaining how vertical hydraulic fracturing was "solving" the nuclear waste problem by injecting it in the ground water!
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print
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5/28/20
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Alexei Kondratiev anniversary
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This is the ten-year anniversary of the passing of one of the greatest people I ever knew, Alexei Kondratiev. Not only was he
one of the most knowledgeable environmentalists I ever knew, who had been on Eco-Logic many times, but his knowledge went far beyond that.
He knew music from all over the world, past and present. He was the most well-read person I'd ever met, having read both
fiction and nonfiction in many languages, prose, poetry and comic books. He spoke over 60 languages, fluent in 13-20 of them
depending on your definition of fluency. He spoke modern languages from all over the world as well as being able to read ancient languages.
When he passed away, I said it was like an entire rare book library burnt down. I realize over the years that there
was only one copy of many of those books. We could talk about nature, history, mythology, prose literature, comic books, music,
geography, food, cooking, and so many other topics. He was one of the best birders I have ever met, recognizing bird calls of birds he hadn't even
seen yet, and he knew where to look for them. His passing created a hole in my heart and my life that will never be filled.
I wrote a longer personal reminiscence not long after he died and there is also one of the
radio show with him in our permanent archives. To the right is a link to a very short,
succinct, brilliant statement from Alexei on the environmental crisis. Ten years is a long time for all of us to be without Alexei Kondratiev.
Special thanks to Pat Yarrow for that photo of Alexei.
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1:40
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Eco-Logic
audio
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5/27/20
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Birding While Black & an unleashed dog
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Christian Cooper is one of the best ear birders I know. He can identify a bird by sight or sound. On Memorial Day of 2020 he was birding
in Central Park's Ramble, an area internationally reknowned for birding during spring migration, and asked someone to follow the rules and put her dog on a
leash while she was in the Ramble. From that came a videoed racial confrontation that went viral, with literally millions of views, covered by mainstream media from CNN to the NY Post.
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1:16 min.
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print & video
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5/27/20
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Birding While Black
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"When going birding, you want to have a pair of binoculars and a field guide and, if you're black, two forms of i.d."
Dr. Drew Lanham, professor at Clemson University in South Carolina, tells what birding while black is like.
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video
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5/24/20
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Help bring Eco-Logic back to the radio !
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Help bring back Eco-Logic!
Please fill out the petition to WBAI management; link to the right.
Environmental information and activism is too important to keep Eco-Logic off the radio.
Thank you!
Ken Gale and Donna Stein
Producers of Eco-Logic
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Petition
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5/24/20
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Changes
in Building Efficiency Responses
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As green architects and solar designers have learned and progressed,
so too have people on their teams. I noticed the changes after
going to the Boston NESEA
Building Energy conferences for many years. First they had to
teach themselves, then teach building contractors that construct
the buildings, then teach real estate people that they had
something special. This audio was originally done for the WBAI
Evening News in 2016. I decided to make my first Blog post here
have to do with solutions to climate chaos.
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4
min.
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Eco-Logic
audio
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5/24/20
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Greta
Thunberg / Climate Strike
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A rally in front of the United Nations to build for the Sept. 20,
2019 student Strike for Climate. Recorded by Peter Elisku. This is
from the
Environment TV web site.
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11
min.
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ETV video
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5/24/20
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Daniel
Ellsberg & many more / Nuclear War
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The worst climate catastrophe that could happen is a nuclear war. This panel discussion at NJ Institute of Technology by Daniel Ellsberg,
Robert Jay Lifton, Zia Mian, Bruce Blair, Kelsey Davenport, Lisbeth Gronlund, Laura Grego, Ray Acheson, and Elaine Scarry was
recorded by Charlie Olson for
The Environment TV.
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43
min.
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ETV video
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5/24/20
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Abby Hafer / Covid-19 podcast #1
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A biologist and author who teaches nursing students
at Curry College in Massachusetts. Dr. Hafer interviewed microbiologists and emergency room physicians to give you even more information
than what she already knew. Donna Stein had only recently gotten out of the hospital, where she had been treated for the coronavirus.
You can hear the science behind the coronavirus crisis and how to deal with it explained in plain English with
information that sound bite radio just does not give you. With listener phone calls. You'll be glad you listened!
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63 min.
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Eco-Logic
audio
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5/24/20
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Abby Hafer / Covid-19 video
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The video version of the audio mentioned above.
Charlie Olson worked his video magic to add graphics that went with what Abby was referring to and video of Donna and I since we were not actually in the WBAI studio.
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65
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You-Tube
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