Notes from the Electronic Cottage 3/1/07

Producer/host: Jim Campbell

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Voices 2/27/07

Producer/host: Amy Browne

Contributors: Andree Bella, Meredith DeFrancesco, Karen Ireland, Carolyn Coe, Matt Murphy, John Greenman

Topics: An interview with Larry Reynolds, a Belfast man who is starting a new high school there, and the premier of two new WERU short features: “The Radio Sumpul Sister Station Report” and “Going and Doing”–that will start airing on Morning Maine starting next week.

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

Weekend Voices 2/24/07

Producer/host: Amy Browne

Contributor: Rob Shetterly

Topic: Artist Robert Shetterly interviews Ross Gelbspan, one of the subjects of Shetterly’s award-winning portraits series and book “Americans Who Tell the Truth”
Gelbspan is a journalist and author of “Boiling Point: How Politicians, Big Oil and Coal, Journalists, and Activists are Fueling the Climate Crisis — and What We Can Do to Avert Disaster”, 2004, (Basic Book), as well as “The Heat Is On: The High Stakes Battle Over Earth’s Threatened Climate”, 1997, (Perseus Books).

For more information:
http://www.americanswhotellthetruth.org
http://www.heatisonline.org