RadioActive 2/18/16

Producer/Host: Meredith DeFrancesco

Issue: Environmental and Social Justice

Program Topic: The Climate Change Institute and Reversing Falls Sanctuary’s Speaker Series on Climate Change

Key Discussion Points:

1) The Reversing Falls Sanctuary in Brooksville has begun it’s Lenten speaker series, called “Caring for the Earth, Our Common Home”, most specifically focusing on climate change. It kicked off last Sunday and will run weekly through March 20th.

2) We interview last week’s speaker, Dr Paul Mayewski, director of the Climate Change Institute and professor at the University of Maine, Orono.

3) The Reversing Falls Sanctuary is spearheading or involved with a number of local initiatives, including a green house project, participation in a state wide weatherization initiative (“Window Dressers” ), development of the Brooksville Community Solar Farm and work in the Transition Towns movement.

Guests:
Dr Paul Mayewski, director of the Climate Change Institute, professor at University of Maine, Orono.

Information

Anne and Tony Ferrara, Reversing Falls Sanctuary and RFS Community Climate Change Initiative
reversingfalls.org/2016-lenten-series-caring-earth-our-common-home

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Notes from the Electronic Cottage 2/18/16

Producer/Host: Jim Campbell

There has been lots in the news about how encryption technology is making it possible for criminals to “go dark” and make law enforcement and intelligence gathering difficult if not impossible. The remedy suggested is to make decrypting messages at the command of government into law. Is that a good idea? A spate of reports issued in February of 2016 don’t think so.

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Maine Currents 2/17/16

Producer/Host: Amy Browne
Engineer: John Greenman

Each year we kick off our live, overnight special coverage of the national Homelessness Marathon by checking in with folks from some of the local shelters to get an update on homelessness in this area. Today we’ll be talking what resources exist, how to access them, what is needed and what the community can do to help, with representatives from HOME in Orland and the Bangor Area Homeless Shelter

Guests:
Tracey Hair, Assistant Director and Gerald Botta, Shelter Dept., HOME Inc in Orland
Rowena Griffen, Executive Director and Dennis Pegues, Overnight Worker, Veteran and former guest at Bangor Area Homeless Shelter

FMI:
www.homemmausa.org/ www.bangorareashelter.org/

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