Notes from the Electronic Cottage 10/18/07

Producer/host: Jim Campbell

Topic: Today, let’s check up on a few recent technological developments that will affect our lives in both cyberspace and physical space, ranging from new Onstar technology that can override your control of the engine in your car to new microwave weapons that can humanely fry people. Technology is great, technology is dangerous – take your pick.

Common Health 10/17/07

Producer/host: Jim Fisher

Topic: Healthy Buildings

What is a green building?  What are the health affects of buildings on humans?  What can we do to fix an unhealthy home?

Guests: Naomi Mermin, Healthy Building Consultant, naomi.mermin@maine.rr.com;  Bruce Stahnke, Green Building Designer with Stahnke and Kitagawa Architects in Brooksville, Maine, bstahnke@hypernet.com

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Voices 10/16/07

Producer/host: Amy Browne

Contributor: Jan Kloub

Today a tribute to syndicated columnist and populist Molly Ivins. Ivins died of in January 2007 and this summer several of her friends gathered at the WERU Full Circle Fair to share their memories. The panel included her long-time assistant or “chief of stuff” Betsy Moon, election reform activist Granny D, fellow columnist and author Hal Crowther, and artist Rob Shetterly.

Molly Ivin’s final book “Bill of Wrongs the Executive Branch’s Assault Against America’s Fundamental Rights” published by Random House, goes on sale October 23rd.

FMI:
You can read the Texas Observer’s tribute to Molly Ivins at their website, texasobserver.org. The link is still at the top of the home page.
To see the portrait Rob Shetterly painted of Ivins, go to the website americanswhotellthetruth.org
Hal Crowther’s essay “That’s All She Wrote: Remembering Molly Ivins” can be found at www.indyweek.com