Wishing you a 
New Year full of hope!  
Planet Philadelphia
​4-5:00 PM today

Listen to our wide ranging conversation with Dr. Nicola Ferralis about some promising trends, breakthroughs and developments in future technology which could help with climate change, including something his own lab at MIT is working on: a system for electricity-free cooling material inspired by camel fur of all things. 

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Planet Philadelphia environmental radio show 4-5:00 PM Friday 12/18/20:
It’s the holiday season, so we wanted to have something light-hearted, that would appeal to children/youth as well as the young at heart and, additionally, talk about how radio fits into communicating about the environment.
Guests on this show will be:

 Julie Be and Anya Rose are a folksy duo who write music for children and other childlike people, songfully advocating for positivity, social justice, and silliness.  Together they call themselves “Ants on a Log”. And Thomas Cassetta and Joanna Wikander  are station manager and program director respectively of GTown Radio station, the community-based radio station which hosts Planet Philadelphia talking about the role of community-based radio in communicating with local neighborhoods and reaching out to the wider world about the environment.

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Planet Philadelphia today, ‪Friday, December 4 @ 4:00 PM

On today's Planet Philadelphia we will be talking with Ben Kalina and Jen Schneider who have collaborated on directing/producing/writing and filming a recent NOVA science documentary airing on PBS entitled "Can We Cool the Planet?." They are award-winning film makers who have worked together before. Both have long been interested in environmental issues. Their documentary explores some of the extreme options that may be required to deal with climate change. 

Also on this show we hear from Liz Robinson on the state of energy politics in Harrisburg. Pennsylvania is the third largest emitter of greenhouse gases in the US and one of the largest regional sources of electric power. What we do here matters far beyond our borders. And Liz has extensive knowledge about all this. She fills us in on what’s happening right now and what might be coming our way. 

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Tune in to Planet Philadelphia 4-5:00 PM today for our new show about young people and the environment with guests:

John Campbell is a junior in a Roman Catholic high school in Philadelphia and the organizer/contact for the Philadelphia chapter of Fridays for the Future, an international youth group that works to prevent environment degradation and limit climate change. 

Bert Myers, Director of the Environmental Education and Information Center at the Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection (DEP), and Tara Muenz is Assistant Director of Education at Stroud Water Research Center. 

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Continuing our series of interviews about waste.  During the pandemic, waste and trash issues have significantly worsened in some cities, including Philadelphia, although they are always important environmental issues.  We will be emphasizing some significant types of waste:  food and e-waste.   

Planet Philadelphia environmental radio show 4-5:00 PM today:

• Haley Jordan and Helena Rudoffare both in the Philadelphia’s government Office of Sustainability.Hayley is the Program Coordinator of a program to minimize waste and implement policies within the City’s municipal agencies in support of its Zero Waste goals.  Helena is a Program Coordinator of a program working with residents and businesses to achieve Zero Waste and also coordinates several recent food waste initiatives.  They will be talking about waste in general, and several of Philadelphia’s newest waste management programs, with an emphasis on food waste.

• Jordan Howell is a professor of sustainable business at Rowan University.  He has a joint appointment in the Dept. of Geography, Planning & Sustainability and the Dept. of Management and Entrepreneurship.  He is the Program Coordinator for the Environmental & Sustainability Studies offerings at Rowan.  Professor Howell has studied the performance of markets for recyclable materials and the history and future of waste management.  He will be discussing the management of e-waste. 

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Tune in to Planet Philadelphia  4-5:00 PM today (Friday 10/16/20) for our conversation with Matthew George, the creator of the project to clean up trash Germantown and spur more community engagement.

 

Matthew George. Photo credit: Linette Kielenski 

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Pre-election Show
Information for Environmental Choices
Planet Philadelphia 4-5:00 PM Today, (10/2/20)

Tune in today to hear our Planet Philadelphia guests talk about the importance of reporting on our environment and how it can inform the citizenry on environmental positions of federal and state candidates when voting:

Sharon Friedman is Professor and Director of the Science and Environmental Writing Program in the Department of Journalism and Communication at Lehigh University. Sharon will be talking about the state of environmental journalism, what makes for good journalism in this area, and how to evaluate environmental media.

Liz Robinson is the founder of the Energy Coordinating Agency and the Keystone Energy Efficiency Alliance. Liz has been our correspondent from Harrisburg (capital city of PA). She will be reporting on the environmental/climate platforms of our presidential candidates and of our state legislature.

For more informationa about Planet Philadelphia environmental radio show go to www.planetphiladelphia.com.

Although the stories in this show are about the Philadelphia region or Pennsylvania, we think the process by which these stories evolve, plus their successes and failures in promoting environmental goals, is instructive to the country as a whole and potentially abroad.

Tune in to hear these guest and more on Planet Philadelphia environmental radio show 4-5:00 PM today:

Peter Winslow is president of A Smart Collaboration, an LLC which promotes collaboration among groups to bring about environmental and socially responsible goals. 

Robert B. McKinstry is a Fellow of the American College of Environmental Law and a Fellow of the American Bar Institute.  His specialty is environmental climate change and sustainability law and policy. 

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Turbine Inspector by Dennis Schroeder/NREL 

Today's episode of Planet Philadelphia, Friday, September 4, at 4 pm, will focus on labor and the environmental movement, featuring Dr. J. Mijin Cha, Assistant Professor at Occidental College in the Urban and Environmental Policy Department and Fellow at the Worker Institute at Cornell, and Peter Handler, group leader of the Philadelphia Chapter of Citizens Climate Lobby (CCL). 

Planet Philadelphia  environmental radio show airs
4-5:00 PM EST 1st and 3rd Friday each month at
WGGT-LP 92.9 FM in Philadelphia & at gtownradio.com.

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