What better way to celebrate our winter solstice than thinking about planet earth and our place upon it? 

Today we talk with guests Roland Wall. Director Patrick Center for Environmental Research at the Academy of Natural Sciences of Drexel University in Philadelphia and Allison Acevedo, Esq., Director of Environmental Justice at the Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection (DEP) about we can do to understand and/or help avoid problems in our own region caused by environmental issues and climate change. 

Tune in 4-5 pm today to Planet Philadelphia 

• Climate change expert, Richard Whiteford, will talk about what the National Climate Assessment means for us here in the Delaware Valley.
• Local environmental activist, Meenah Raval, will discuss PGW’s, deal to move for a new LNG (liquefied natural gas) facility at its Passyunk plant, and why it is a bad idea. 

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Live Guest:

​Roger Clark, Esq., Director of the Clean Energy Fund of the Reinvestment Fund, will be in the studio today to speak with Planet Philadelphia host, Kay Wood, and reporter, Linda Rosenwein, to talk about the Fund’s work to lend to commercial buildings over the last 25 years.  The Fund gives loans for clean and for sustainable energy.  We also will provide information for potential residential loans.

Listen to the interview about our National Trails System:

Steve Elkinton spoke with Planet Philadelphia host, Kay Wood, recently about the National Trails System. He wrote A Grand Experiment; The National Trails System at 50 in honor of the systems 50thanniversary. He wrote about it’s fascinating complex history from its origins to today in honor of National Trails Systems’ 50thanniversary which was on October 2nd.

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• Policy and politics: Dwight Evans
• Media: Chandra Chevannes and Sandra Steingraber on award winning documentary film, “Unfractured”
• Resiliency for museums and cultural institutions: Joyce Lee and Robert Cheetham

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• How will we Americans face up to climate change? The federal government is fighting the groundbreaking climate change lawsuit, Juliana v. the US, at every turn. Even so, October 29th is the trial start date. Attorney Phil Gregory J.D./MBA '80, as co-lead counsel on a federal lawsuit brought by a group of young people accusing the federal government of violating their constitutional rights .
  

• If our Founding Fathers were alive today they could be charged with felonies according to PA Senate SB 652 and SB 754:  For a Country that was started with protest it seems many states are turning their backs on our history. Jenn Quinn, Legislative and Political Director of the Sierra Club Pennsylvania, and  Elizabeth Randol, ACLU Pennsylvania Legislative Director.

• Christine Knapp, Director of Philadelphia’s Office of Sustainability has some breaking green news. She gives the local perspectives on the UN’s recent report Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) and what Philly is doing about it.

Listen 4-5 pm EST today to Planet Philadelphia

Please listen/share/embed this podcast of the great Planet Philadelphia interviews with Anthony Giancatarino and Peter Winslow when they were live in at G-Town Radio this past Friday, 10/5/18.

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After a summer full of huge fires in the West, and while people in the Carolinas are reeling from Hurricane Florence, Planet Philadelphia is marking the first anniversary of Hurricane Maria with guests telling us some ways to prepare for the ever increasing challenges of the climate change crisis.

Listen to Planet Philadelphia 4-5 pm today 

• Preparing for climate change refugees: Julia Menzo will talk about the complexities of climate refugees and the  difficulties when there is so much competition for scarce community resources. 
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• Preserving and improving historic buildings in Germantown: Peter Winslow will talk about rehabbing historic buildings in Germantown to not only keep the wonderful historic character of the buildings but also making them more energy efficient.

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