Green Radio: WCRS

Radio Project Update

2007-03-30T13:28:00.000-07:00

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

2006-07-24T13:37:00.000-07:00

"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

2006-06-16T07:09:00.000-07:00

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

2006-05-10T18:54:00.000-07:00

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

2006-04-25T12:37:00.000-07:00

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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Willits, CA: Peak Oil Ready?

2006-04-11T19:18:00.000-07:00

Jason Bradford, founder of the Willits Economic Localization (WELL), speaks with Global Public Media’s David Room about climate change, oil peak, and how Willits is preparing for an energy-constrained future. He discusses how WELL got started, the efforts of the group, and their progress.

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This interview was first podcast on May 2, 2005.

What do you think of this interview? How should the radio station address the Peak Oil issue?

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How to use this blog

2006-04-07T11:41:00.000-07:00

Listen. Read. Respond.

And now the technical details.

Leaving comments: Click on the comments link at the bottom of an entry. Comment on the written post or linked audio file. Remember we are trying to shape the programming of WCRS. So tell us more than whether or not you liked, agreed or disagreed with a post. (We'll take that too. That's good conversation.) Tell us how we might treat the same topic or idea on WCRS. What local flavor can we add? What creative production technique could we use? What perspective is missing that we could add? Who can tell the story?

Listening to audio: Each entry that contains audio will have a "download" link. Clicking on that link will launch an application on your computer that can play the file (such as Quicktime or Windows Media, etc., depending on your configuration). Or you can right click the file and save it to your computer to open later.

Subscribing to podcasts/blogs: The best way to access the audio is to subscribe to the blog feed. Using iTunes or similar software, you can have the software automatically check for new audio postings and download them to your computer where they can be played. iTunes and Juice are two popular "podcatchers."

For iTunes, download and install the software (it works on PC and Mac.) Once you install and launch iTunes, select the "advanced" menu at the top of the screen and select "subscribe to podcast." In the box that opens, paste in the address for the subscription feed for the blog.

Where is the subscription feed? Click the subscribe button on the top of the right side navigation box on the home page of this blog. Copy the address the page that opens. Paste that into iTunes. iTunes will automatically check for new podcasts and, depending on how you set your preferences in iTunes, will download one or more audio files. You can play the file in iTunes and you can transfer it to an iPod or other MP3 player.

You can also subscribe to the text entries for the blog. There are many different "news readers" or "RSS readers" to choose from. Here is a PC Magazine article on RSS reader options.

Home Grown

2006-04-07T09:42:00.000-07:00

This podcast is from the public radio syndicated program: Living on Earth. It orignally aired the week of September 23, 2005. The show notes say: " Writer Bill McKibben takes on a bet that he can make it through a winter eating food grown only in his native Vermont."

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This was McKibbon's first experiment with audio reporting and he writes about his experience in "The Pen is Easier than the Mic."

"I have spent my life as a writer. By that I don't mean anything too fancy—I've written thousands upon thousands of pieces, most of them short: write-ups of basketball games and city council meetings, Talk of the Town stories and book reviews and editorials. I've also written books and long magazine pieces and so on—but the point is, I'm not afraid of writing short."

"But I was afraid of writing radio."

The End of Education

2006-04-04T19:53:00.000-07:00

This podcast from the University of British Columbia's Global Citizenship Seminar Series. In this podcast, Dr. David W. Orr, who is a Professor and Chair of the Environmental Studies Program at Oberlin College, speaks on the topic of "The End of Education." The show notes state:

"Dr. Orr's talk is intended to be a follow up to one of his famous essays, "What is Education For" (published over 20 years ago). This essay was based in part on a commencement address to a graduating class at Arkansas College, and explored "six myths about the foundations of modern education, and six new principles to replace them." His talk will seek to connect sustainability, education and politics through careful consideration of how and what the university community learn in an effort to achieve "ecological literacy" for all."

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What is the Columbus Community Radio Project?

2006-04-04T19:36:00.000-07:00

Description coming soon...

Give Five for Community Radio

2006-04-04T19:00:00.000-07:00

What do you want to hear on Columbus Community Radio? Consider the guiding principles of Simply Living:

Simplifying our lives
Greening the earth
Healing toward wholeness

How would these themes be reflected in radio content that was global in perspective and local in relevance? Let us know by suggesting five topics you would like to hear addressed and five individuals you would like to hear interviewed or reported on your community radio station. Use the comments area of this blog post to offer your suggestions.