RadioActive 7/10/09

Producers/Hosts: Meredith DeFrancesco and Amy Browne

Topic: The urgent impacts climate change will continue to have on food security through out the world. The G8 Summit in Italy this week has said they will examine these issues. Whether any plan will emerge remains to be seen. The leaders of the so-called Group of 8 or G8 countries are meeting in Italy this week in an annual summit to discuss global issues…

Guest: Gawain Kripke, Oxfam America’s policy director
To view report “Suffering the Science: Climate Change , People and Poverty” -www.Oxfam America.org. FMI www.350.org

Talk of the Towns 7/10/09

Producer/Host: Ron Beard, University of Maine Cooperative Extension
Studio Engineer: Joel Mann

Topic: Beyond the Velvet Rope: Stewards of History, Energizers of Community
What are some of the traditional ways we have celebrated and conserved local historical resources leading up until today? What are some examples of traditional success? What happened to “cultural tourism” as a salvation? What are the challenges that traditional approaches have revealed?
Implications for local historic sites and others engaged in conserving and celebrating historical resources?
What does the future hold for historic sites and other resources, in relationship to their communities?

Guests: Joshua Torrance, Executive Director, Woodlawn, and others

Notes from the Electronic Cottage 7/09/09

Producer/Host: Jim Campbell

Two conferences coming up might not make the front pages of the daily paper but they are of great interests to those of us who live part of our lives in cyberspace. Black hat and DefCon take place at the end of July/beginning of August in Las Vegas. Both conferences highlight security vulnerabilities in the electronic world, and it seems that every year some company tries to keep a presenter from speaking because the company’s product has a security problem the company doesn’t want the world top know about. This year is no different.