Winner of the
64th Annual
Peabody Award
for Radio
Programming!
 A Four Part Series from TTBOOK! |
PART THREE: OUR EARTH
|
Program 09-04-05-A |
Listen! |
 |
 |
 Reykjavik Municipal District Heating Service |
|
Our environment is in trouble. It's not hard to imagine global catastrophe as problems like climate change and overpopulation take their toll. But there's always hope and this hour, we'll introduce you to the visionaries who are making a difference. Like Wangari Maathai, who won a Noble Peace Prize for her extraordinary efforts to plant trees in Kenya. And, Geir Haarde, the former President of Iceland, whose country is now running on over eighty percent green energy
SEGMENT 1:
Thomas Friedman is a Pulitzer Prize winning journalist who writes a regular column for the New York Times. He's also the author of "Hot, Flat and Crowded." He tells Anne Strainchamps why our current crop of environmental initiatives do not add up to a green revolution. Also, Jane Goodall revolutionized the study of primates and forced people to reconsider what it means to be human. She tells Steve Paulson about her decades of work with chimpanzees.
SEGMENT 2:
Hip hop artist DJ Spooky brought a crew to Antarctica and created Sinfonia Antarctica. He tells us how his audio portrait documents the effects of climate change on the continent. Also, Geir Haarde, former Prime Minister of Iceland, tells Jim Fleming that his country has depended on thermal energy for centuries. Thanks to its hot springs, Iceland is 80 percent independent from fossil fuels.
SEGMENT 3:
Paul Hawken is the author of "Blessed Unrest." He talks with Anne Strainchamps about the quantity and variety of people and organizations involved in the global activism movement. Also, Wangari Maathai won the Nobel Peace Prize in 2004. She is dedicated to re-foresting Africa and talks with Steve Paulson about some of her Greenbelt Movement projects. Her memoir is called "Unbowed."
CD copies are available at 1-800-747-7444. Ask for program number 09-04-05-A.
................................................................
|
Paul Hawken, Blessed Unrest: How the Largest Social Movement in History Is Restoring Grace, Justice, and Beauty to the World (Penguin) |
|
|
Thomas Friedman, Hot, Flat & Crowded (FSG) |
|
-
Thomas Friedman’s book “Hot, Flat, and Crowded” has seventeen chapters. What's Chapter 18? Chapter 18 will be a completely new chapter that he’ll add to the next edition of the book: Version 2.0. In it he hopes to include the best ideas and proposals sent in from readers: ideas about clean energy, energy efficiency, and conservation; about petropolitics and nation-building in America; about how we can help take the lead in the renewal of our country and the Earth alike by going Code Green. You can post your suggestions here:
-
SINFONIA ANTARCTICA
Want to hear more of DJ Spooky’s music from Antarctica? Want to view samples of his multi-media piece? Just click here:
http://www.djspooky.com/art/terra_nova.php -
You can also download DJ Spooky’s entire score to TERRA NOVA: SINFONIA ANTARCTICA here:
http://www.djspooky.com/art/terra_nova/Terra_Nova_Full_Score.pdf
- -Going the Distance/ Menahan Street Band/ "Make
the Road by Walking"/ Daptone Records
- -Go Je Je/ Antiballs/ "Government Magic"/
Boscosound Music
- -All music used during the DJ Spooky piece is unpublished
and used by permission from Paul Miller (DJ Spooky)
- -trk 2/ Sigur Ros/ "Ageatis byvjun"
- -Music from a Found Harmonium/ California Guitar Trio/
Echoes/ Inner Knot
- -Che Che Cole/Antiballs/ "Government Magic"/
Boscosound Music
|
Distribution dates:
|
Listen! |
................................................................
Questions and comments can be addressed to: flemingj@wpr.org
Wisconsin Public Radio is a service of the Wisconsin
Educational Communications Board and the University
of Wisconsin-Madison Extension.
Page design and management by Jim Fleming at Wisconsin Public Radio and Sarah Fleming.
© 2009 WHA Radio and the Board of Regents of the University of Wisconsin System. All rights reserved.