RadioActive 9/24/09

Producers/Hosts: Amy Browne and Meredith DeFrancesco
Topics: Mainers protest as LURC approves Plum Creek’s plan for the largest development in the state’s history, and a report-back from the Climate Change meetings taking place at the U.N. this week. We talk with Dr. Rachel Smolker, an organizer with Climate SOS and the CoDirector of Biofuel Watch. She has been in New York this week, monitoring the meetings, along with members of Rising Tide North America.
FMI: www.climatesos.org/ www.risingtidenorthamerica.org/wordpress/what-is-rising-tide/

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Notes from the Electronic Cottage 9/24/09

Producer/Host: Jim Campbell

Phone calls these days travel many different ways – through regular old land lines, through wireless connections using cell phones, and increasingly, over the Internet. But what will these new alternatives mean for people who don’t have cell phones or high speed internet connections? What will happen to “safety net” features in the old phone system such as universal access and even public pay phones? We don’t know yet but the day is coming fast when we’ll have to decide.

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