Features Morgan O’Kane, street artist, banjo player, and activist.
Category: Environment
#1111: Phillip Musegaas of the Hudson River Program
#1110: Artist and Activist Reverend Billy
Features Reverend Billy, of The Church of Earthalujah, a New York City based radical performance community.
#1109: Erika Brenner & Jessica Leinwand
Features Youth Program Manager Jessica Leinwand, Farm & Educational Coordinator Erika Brenner, and students of Food 360, a farm-to-fork job training program that is a collaboration between Family Cook Productionsand Dekalb Farm in downtown Brooklyn.
#1108: Melissa Ennen of the Commons Brooklyn
Features Melissa Ennen, founder of Foodshed Market and The Commons Brooklyn community and educational center in Boerum Hill, Brooklyn.
#1107: Eric Weltman of Food & Water Watch
Features Eric Weltman, senior organizer for Food & Water Watch, talks about the consequences of fracking.
#1106: Juan Carlos of White Roof Project
Features Juan Carlos, Founder of The White Roofs Project. We talk about how Juan is working to reach out to people and communities to partner together to paint thousands of city roofs white, in order to reduce heat and carbon emissions. We discuss Urban Heat Island, model blocks, and the many ways painting roofs white can save energy, money and the planet.
#1104: Glenn Robinson of Bags for the People
Features Glenn Robinson, founder of Bags for the People, delves into the subject or replacing plastic bags with reusable bags. With the motto “sew me, use me, wash me, reuse me.” Glenn is working to educate the public to use less plastic, by learning how to sew bags made from reusable materials. He is on the path to get people to redue, reuse and recycle, in order to promote positive change and earth friendly habits.
#1102: John C. Pfeiffer of Kinetik Energy Solutions
Features John C. Pfeiffer, President of Kinetik Energy Solutions. He discusses the role of home energy assessments.
#1101: Phillip Musegaas of Riverkeeper
Features Phillip Musegaas of Riverkeeper, and discussions on the Indian Point nuclear power plant 38 miles north of New York City, in Peekskill, New York.