Producer/host: Jim Campbell
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Producer/host: Dave Evans
Topic: Mitch Lansky, author of “Beyond the Beauty Strip: Saving What’s Left of Our Forests” (1992, Tilbury House) and editor of “Low Impact Forestry: Forestry As If the Future Mattered” (2006, Maine Environmental Policy Institute)
To learn more about Low-Impact Forestry and read some of Mitch’s writing, go to www.lowimpactforestry.org
From www.meepi.org:
Mitch Lansky was a founder of the Maine Low-Impact Forestry Project, project director for the Northern Appalachian Restoration Project, a writer for the Northern Forest Forum and Atlantic Forestry Review, and a contributor to several books.
He was a participant in the creation of the Maine Forest Biodiversity Project’s book, Biodiversity in the Forests of Maine: Guidelines for Land Management. He served on the advisory board of the Maine Environmental Policy Institute. He has been on various government committees and task forces, including a legislative Round Table on forest labor and economic issues. Mitch, a graduate of the University of Pennsylvania, is a long-term resident of Wytopitlock, a small forest-based community in northern Maine.
Mitch Lansky is currently working as a town manager.
He can be contacted at 112 Mill Road, Reed Plantation, Maine 04497
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Producer/host: Ron Beard
Topic: Opportunities and Challenges in Non-Profit Leadership in Downeast Maine
Guests: Dwayne Shaw, Downeast Salmon Federation/Downeast Rivers Land Trust; Mary Laury, Schoodic Arts for All; Gary DeLong, Maine Seacoast Mission; Alan Furth, Cobscook Community Learning Center
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Producers/hosts: Meredith DeFrancesco and Amy Browne
Topics: Interview with Richard Paget and Abby McMillan, two local activists working on efforts to impeach Bush and Cheney (www.maineimpeach.org); and an interview with Zachary Heiden, Staff Attorney for the Maine Civil Liberties Union, regarding the Verizon case (www.mclu.org)
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Producer/host: Jim Campbell
Topic: Are you old enough to remember the Betamax vs. VHS wars of the early 1980’s?
Don’t worry if you’re not – we’ll all have a chance to watch a similar
struggle go on today. This time it’s Blu-ray vs. HDD and it will affect what
kind of DVD player you have in your living room for years to come. What the
heck is this struggle all about, and what does it mean to you? Give a
listen.
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Producer/host: Amy Browne
Guests: Brook Minner, Shelter Services Coordinator, Spruce Run; John Costello, Executive Director, Shaw House; Sister Lucille McDonald, Administrator, Emmaus Homeless Shelter; Dennis Marble, Executive Director, Bangor Area Homeless Shelter
FMI:
Spruce Run, 1-800-863-9909, www.sprucerun.net
Emmaus Homeless Shelter, 1-207-667-3962, www.emmaushomelessshelter.org
Shaw House, 1-866-561-SHAW
Bangor Area Homeless Shelter, 207-947-0045
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Producers/hosts: Rhonda Frey and Meredith DeFrancesco
Topic: History of Federal Indian Law and Policy: What were some of the treaties tribes had with the United States and how did Indian Law and policy evolve? Discussion of the issues of tribal self-determination, tribal sovereignty, trust responsibility, and the historic and current role of the Bureau of Indian Affairs
Guest: Thomas Bird Bear, Adjunct Professor of Indian Law at the University of New Mexico
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