WERU 89.9 FM Blue Hill, Maine Local News and Public Affairs Archives
Audio archives of spoken word broadcasts from Community Radio WERU 89.9 FM Blue Hill (weru.org)
Renewable Radio brings experienced installers, researchers, and users of renewable energy resources to a call-in program on WERU. 1st Friday of every month. More info at http://www.weru.org/spokenword.html#RenewableEnergy
Producer/Host: Dave Evans
Studio Engineer: Amy Browne
Topic: Transition to sustainable fuels
How do we reduce our use of fossil fuels? How do you plan changes to a building to switch to renewable fuels? What are some promising alternative fuel developments?
Guest: Pat Coon, ReVision Energy
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Producer/Host: Dave Evans
Studio Engineer: Amy Browne
Topic: Wood heat
How can one dry wood quickly? Should a woodstove air intake be connected to outdoor vents or draw in indoor air? What are Russian stoves and what are gasification boilers?
Guests:
Peter Lammert, Forester, Maine Forest Service; Jim Rocket, Evergreen Home Solutions
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Producers/Hosts: Dave Evans & Bruce Maanum
Topic: Co-op Wind Turbines
What kind of wind-turbine installation do today’s guests have planned for Vinalhaven? How are co-op members paying for this project? How can a community group start a similar project?
Guests:
Chip Farrington, General Manager, Fox Islands Electric Cooperative
George Baker, on Board of Swan’s Island Electric Cooperative; Professor, on sabbatical, Harvard Business School
Producer/Host: Dave Evans
Topic: Maine Energy Policy
What programs does Maine have to address this winter’s oil costs? Where can people find out about Maine energy programs? Why doesn’t Maine offer more financial incentives?
Guest: John Kerry, Director of the Governor’s Office of Energy Independence and Security
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Producer/Host: Dave Evans
Topic: Sunspaces as supplementary heat sources
Can a sunspace reduce heating bills? What makes an efficient sunspace design? Are there particular construction details that are important for sunspaces?
Guest: Bruce Stahnke, Architect, Stahnke & Kitagawa Architects
Recorded with a live audience and audience participation at the 2008 Full Circle Fair, 7/27/08, in Blue Hill, Maine
Producer/Host: Bruce Maanum and Dave Evans
Topic: Biochar
What is biochar? How can biochar help with my garden? How can it help climate change?
Guest: Julie Major, PhD Candidate, Cornell
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Producer/Host: Dave Evans
Topic: Get your house off oil
This show contains more information than planned about oil burners in esponse to listener’s questions about how to reduce their oil heating bills. Pat Coon has learned lots about oil burners while adding solar
and wood heating equipment to existing oil-burner installations
How can I reduce oil use for heat and hot water? Do on-demand water heaters help? Can solar water heaters help with space heating?
Guest: Pat Coon, co-owner RE Vision Energy
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Producer/Host: Dave Evans
Topic: Root Cellars
Why build a root cellar? What foods store well in root cellars? How would someone build a root cellar?
Guests: Leslie Cummins & Tim Seabrook, Owners of 5-Star Nursery and Orchard, North Brooklin, Maine, 207-359-2282
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