RadioActive 1/9/14

Producer/Host: Meredith DeFrancesco

Issue: Environmental and Social Justice

Program Topic: Mining Bill at BEP; Divestment from Fossil Fuels

Key Discussion Points:
a) Today we discuss the ongoing moves to change Maine’s mining laws,which open the state up to metallic mining, without regard for environmental consequences or adequate industry clean up responsibilities.
b)Tomorrow the state Board of Environmental Protection (BEP) is expected to approve a new set of rules, which would send it on the legislature.

We also look at the movement to divest colleges and universities from the fossil fuel industry, and a bill in the state legislature which would similarly divest Maine Public Employees Retirement System.

Guests:

A) Beth Ahern, Maine Conservation Alliance; Maine Mining Watch
www.maineminingwatch.org/

B)Sarah Linnekan, climate activist with 350 Maine

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Notes from the Electronic Cottage 1/9/14

Producer/Host: Jim Campbell

Folks who use Netflix benefit from the suggestions that Netflix makes about other movies they might enjoy. But how does Netflix know? One way is by classifying movies into microgenres. And data brokers use the same sort of categorization techniques but they are using them on us, not on movies. The story is available in this Senate Committee Report from December, 2013. www.commerce.senate.gov/public/?a=Files.Serve&File_id=0d2b3642-6221-4888-a631-08f2f255b577

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