Producer/host: Jim Campbell
Category: Specials
WERU Special: Mitch Lansky on Sustainable Forestry 2/27/07
Producer/host: Dave Evans
Topic: Mitch Lansky, author of “Beyond the Beauty Strip: Saving What’s Left of Our Forests” (1992, Tilbury House) and editor of “Low Impact Forestry: Forestry As If the Future Mattered” (2006, Maine Environmental Policy Institute)
To learn more about Low-Impact Forestry and read some of Mitch’s writing, go to www.lowimpactforestry.org
From http://www.meepi.org:
Mitch Lansky was a founder of the Maine Low-Impact Forestry Project, project director for the Northern Appalachian Restoration Project, a writer for the Northern Forest Forum and Atlantic Forestry Review, and a contributor to several books.
He was a participant in the creation of the Maine Forest Biodiversity Project’s book, Biodiversity in the Forests of Maine: Guidelines for Land Management. He served on the advisory board of the Maine Environmental Policy Institute. He has been on various government committees and task forces, including a legislative Round Table on forest labor and economic issues. Mitch, a graduate of the University of Pennsylvania, is a long-term resident of Wytopitlock, a small forest-based community in northern Maine.
Mitch Lansky is currently working as a town manager.
He can be contacted at 112 Mill Road, Reed Plantation, Maine 04497
WERU Special: Local Panel on Homelessness 2/20/07
Producer/host: Amy Browne
Guests: Brook Minner, Shelter Services Coordinator, Spruce Run; John Costello, Executive Director, Shaw House; Sister Lucille McDonald, Administrator, Emmaus Homeless Shelter; Dennis Marble, Executive Director, Bangor Area Homeless Shelter
FMI:
Spruce Run, 1-800-863-9909, www.sprucerun.net
Emmaus Homeless Shelter, 1-207-667-3962, www.emmaushomelessshelter.org
Shaw House, 1-866-561-SHAW
Bangor Area Homeless Shelter, 207-947-0045
WERU Special 12/28/06: William McDonough at COA
Producer/host: Jim Campbell
William McDonough is a world-renowned architect and co-author of “Cradle to Cradle: Remaking the Way We Make Things”. He spoke about designing for human and ecological health at the 14th annual conference of the Society of Human Ecology at the College of the Atlantic (COA) in October 2006
WERU Special 12/26/06: Venezuela and SOA Watch
Producer/host: Carolyn Coe
FMI: www.soaw.org
WERU Powerful Peace Special 11/30/06
Producer/host: Sonia Turanski
Topic: “Women in World Religions: Discrimination, Liberation & Backlash”, a recorded speech by Professor Rosemary Radford Ruether, Feminist Theologian
Differing treatment of women in Judaism, Christianity, Islam, Hinduism, Jainism and Buddhism. Comparitive areas of discrimination for women in the world religions.
Comparitive areas of advancement for women in the world religions.
WERU Special 11/28/06: Author John Howe on “The End of Fossil Fuel”
Producer: Eric Olson
Recorded at the Good Life Center in Harborside, Maine, June 2006
Senate Candidates debate, part 2
Candidates Debate, part 2 (aired on Women’s Window 11/5/06)
U.S. Senate candidates debate held at Colby College in October 2006 and recorded by Marge May. (Part 1 aired on Weekend Voices 11/5/06)