Author: Community Radio WERU FM

Conversations on Science and Society 09/05/06

Producer/Host: Jim Campbell
Topic:
Have you ever gone on an airplane trip to a place many time zones away, and for a few days after you arrived, felt a bit out of sync with your surroundings?
Or maybe you have a difficult time adjusting to the vastly different amounts of light available in a Maine summer and winter – and this is the time of year you really begin to notice it.
These feelings are a natural physical result of biological clocks built into our systems. Alan Rosenwater is our guest, and he has spent decades studying the phenomenon of circadian rhythms in animals and people.

RadioActive 08/31/06

Hosts/Producers: Amy Browne and Meredith DeFrancesco

An interview with Derrick Jensen, award winning, best selling author of several books, most recently Endgame Volume 1: The Problem of Civilization and Endgame Volume 2: Resistance
www.derrickjensen.org

Derrick Jensen and musician Dana Lyons will be in Rockport, Maine on September 9, 2006 at a benefit for the Audubon Expedition Institute (FMI: Jasper Montgomery, 207-338-5859)

WERU Special 8/31/06 Pesticides

Producer/host: Meredith DeFrancesco
Interviews with several people concerned that the chemicals sprayed on Maine’s blueberries pose a public health risk
Guest: Bob Jones, Maine Coalition for Alternatives to Pesticides (bjonesinn2@yahoo.com, 207-664-6190); Shelly Davis, Farm Worker Justice, one of the litigants in the United Farmworker lawsuit against the EPA; Dr. Mike Roland, Medical Director of the Maine Migrant Health program and a participant in the EPAs Migrant Clinician Network; Jody Spear, activist with Citizens for Reform of Pesticide Spraying (CROPS) (jodyspear@hotmail.com); Jane Lynch, organic blueberry grower

Notes from the Electronic Cottage 08/31/06

Producer/host: Jim Campbell
Topic: Do you rely on the news from established news organizations like Reuters? Maybe you go to U.S. Government sites to seek objective information that your tax dollars have paid for. Alas, these days it’s difficult to really trust either source of information. Reuters just discovered photos it had put on the web from the battlefront in Lebanon had been doctored in Photoshop, and the U.S. Government has been classifying an increasing amount of information as secret, and doctoring or removing from its web sites information that isn’t classified. What’s a citizen to do?

Voices 08/30/06

Producer/Host: Amy Browne

Topic: Profiles of two Maine based groups working with international communities. Interviews with Alexander Petroff of the Topsham (Maine) based group Working Villages International, and Patrick Manley, of the Washington (Maine) based Masons on a Mission.

Working Villages International, www.workingvillages.org, is working with communities in the DR Congo, to create sustainable villages. From their website: Working Villages International /Villages de l’Avenir is a new NGO, established for the purpose of promoting the development of sustainable communities stressing low cost appropriate technology and the use of local materials and skills, with the goal of raising the standard of living and improving the quality of life of the people living in them. WVI’s goal is to promote practices which emphasize agricultural independence and community self-sufficiency in conjunction with sound environmental practices.

Masons on a Mission, www.midcoast.com/masonsonamission, work with Maya families in Guatemala, replacing hazardous three stone fires with less smoky stoves built from local materials. From their website: Our mission is mobilize North American masons and other interested parties to build safe masonry cook stoves for impoverished Maya in Central America, and to train local Maya in cook stove construction in order to improve public health in the region.
Masons on a Mission (MOM) is now a IRS tax exempt charitable foundation, and part of the National Heritage Foundation. All donations made to MOM are tax deductible.
We are replacing what are known as 3 stone fires, with hand built masonry cook stoves, known locally as estufas, or la plancha. The 3 stone has a fire in the middle of 3 stones set as a triangle, with a metal plate (often the lid from a 55 gallon drum) laid over the top to cook on. These 3 stone fires are commonly located within a dwelling, providing heat as well.
This February 2007 we will be based in San Marco la laguna, again building estufas in the that area. We will also accept donations earmarked for buying emergency supplies, beds, blankets, water filters, food etc for the people of San Marcos, who are still digging out from under 6 feet of rock and gravel that slammed thru town during Hurricane Stan a year ago.

Talking Furniture Greatest Hits, VII (Part 3, Tracks 27-31)

by Dave Piszcz, aka Radio Jones

“The indigenous satirist must make use of the materials at hand within the immediate environment. In some places in the world, people build houses of sticks plastered with muck or even cow dung. Fortunately, the vast American socio-political landscape provides a wealth of manure which can be sculpted into the wattle-and-daub audio artwork contained herein”

“Thanks for your ears. Your hearts and minds remain under your own guidance at all times. ILLEGITIMATI NON CARBORUNDUM!” –Radio Jones
Talking Furniture’s Greatest Hits, V. II. written, produced, directed and performed at Talking Furniture Studios, Searsmont, Maine, USA, PO Box 71, 04973