Radio Project Update

Here is a progress update from Marilyn Welker:

102.1 FM - Local Power Community Radio Is Happening!

With support from so many of you for assistance and offers to help, willingness to produce programming, and ongoing encouragement and support, we anticipate being on air by late April.

WHAT: WCRS, 102.1 FM, the voice of Simply Living

WITH WHOM:

WCRX, 102.1 FM, the voice of Bexley Public Radio Foundation, is currently on air from 11a.m. to 1 p.m. Mon. through Fri., rebroadcasting simultaneously on 98.3 FM.

WCRC, 102.1 FM, the voice of Community Refugee & Immigration Services, will also begin broadcasting within the next few months.

We anticipate rebroadcast support from 98.3 FM, owned and operated by the Columbus Institute for Contemporary Journalism.

Our station (transmitter w/ antenna and equipment) is built, thanks to extraordinary effort by Eugene Beer!

Next steps:

Short term: Finalize agreements with our broadcast partners. Finalize music licenses and program permissions. Comply with FCC requirements. Produce playlists and broadcast!

Longer term: Write business plan. Build studio. Develop capacities to produce our own local programming. Build community partnerships and larger constituency to support community radio.

Your Simply Living Radio Steering Committee: Eugene Beer, Jenny Floch, Rich James, Jim Kammerud, Kris Keller, Bruce Reed and Marilyn Welker, with valued long distance support from Ken Kraska.

The excitement is growing--Columbus is the largest U.S. city to have a low power community radio station. Your station--your voice for what matters!

Top get involved contact the Simply Living office at 614/447-0296.

More Hip Than Hippy

"Living a green lifestyle" is what podcast host Dori and Val educate listeners on each week on More Hip than Hippie. This is a sometimes silly, but generally informative podcast about making green consumer and lifestyle choises. They interview guests, comment on news items and explore a green theme in depth in each podcast. They also sample and review beer and chocolate, two ingredients that fuel their rants.

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Here are some show notes from this episode:
"Danny Seo is in the house! Perhaps you know him as Editor at Large for Organic Style Magazine, Author, or Television Personality. We know him as one of the coolest guys in the "green" world. He has a new book called "Simply Green Parties" and he's here to discuss it, how he got his inspiration and he dishes on Oprah.

Finds & Hip News:

• Yes, this was posted on the forum, but promised to post it here. Chocolate that won't melt.
• Both Cold Play and Pearl Jam have “cleaned up” their tours by committing to offset carbon pollution. Right on!
• From Eco-Alert “Take a Cue from Canada” (eh?)

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Fun with natural objects

Here is a fun piece from the June 16, 2005 installment from Rocketboom. It is not audio, but it is fun. Nature + human creativity = Art


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Towards Universal Health Care

This podcast is produced by Radio Open Source, an effort to merge blogging communities with a radio broadcast. The Open source web site says:

"Open Source is a conversation, four times a week on the radio and any time you like on the blog. We designed the show to invert the traditional relationship between broadcast and the web: we aren’t a public radio show with a web community, we’re a web community that produces a daily hour of radio."

(Open Source was conceived and developed by Christopher Lydon and Mary McGrath. A joint production of Open Source Media Inc. and the University of Massachusetts-Lowell, Open Source is presented by WGBH Radio Boston and distributed by Public Radio International (PRI).)

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From the show notes:

Yesterday the Massachusetts legislature passed a bill that would make the state the first in the nation to mandate nearly universal health care coverage for all its residents. The plan pieces together coverage through government subsidies to private plans for the “working poor,” and tax penalties to businesses and private individuals who can afford care but do not purchase it. According to the Times, the plan is expected to cover about 95 percent of the state’s uninsured population within three years, and Governor Mitt Romney says he will sign the bill with gusto. So is this new plan the start of something different?

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Environmental Health - Critical Local Needs and Global Opportunities

This is a recording of a talk presented by Dr. Gary Silverman, Director of the Environmental Health Program at Bowling Green State University, at Columbus State Community College on April 19, 2006.

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Also view this talk with his photos and slides.

He explores how protecting the health of the environment protects the health of people. He compares key environmental parameters and their control in the U.S. with prevailing environmental conditions in parts of the less economically developed world.

Dr. Silverman is Professor and Director of the Environmental Health Program at Bowling Green State University. He has received two Fulbright grants to work abroad - the first in Malaysia in 1996 and the second in Costa Rica in 2005. He also has worked with institutions in China, Russia, and Mexico examining environmental conditions and cultural responses. Dr. Silverman is also a longtime member of the State Board of Sanitarian Registration for Ohio.


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