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Why the Planet Needs a Free Press
Listen above or download. Running time: 5 minutes, 15 seconds.
Joel Simon, the executive director of the Committee to Protect Journalists, reads his essay from OnEarth's Winter 2009 issue, "Why the Planet Needs a Free Press."
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A Worm's Eye View of Global Warming: Talking with Poet Elton Glaser
Listen above or download. Running time: 9 minutes, 42 seconds.
Poet Elton Glaser recites his poem, "Ozone Alert," and talks with Zachary Sussman about strange weather in Ohio, mourning his hometown of New Orleans, and shaping tragedy into art.
Ozone Alert
The last of June burns to the third degree,
Sun swelling like a blister on the sky.For once, I'd rather be breathing out
Little clots of cold from a thin winter.Robins fan themselves with their hot wings
And worms slink deeper for some dark relief.From the bossy radio, warnings not to gas a tank
Or blaze a barbecue with forbidden fuel.Good citizen that I am, I won't mow the lawn
Or let asthmatic joggers run their noonday routes.I won’t open a hydrant in the street, even though
Every pore on me opens like a spout.Wherever the wind's gone, I want to go, too.
Leaves hang like the tongues of tired dogs.Others may shade themselves in the cool of movies
Or float over the chlorine ripples of a pool.Should I shut the windows tight and...
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What Makes an Eco-Town Green: Rethinking Main Street with NRDC Smart Growth Director Kaid Benfield
Listen above or download. Running time: 6 minutes, 53 seconds.
Kaid Benfield, Director of NRDC's Smart Growth Program, talks with Emily Voigt about taking a cue from historic districts and the imminent death of American sprawl.
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A Farmer's Quest for a Truly Local Brew
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Farmer Rick Pedersen talks with Emily Voigt about bringing hops back to New York state, and the challenges of producing a truly local beer.
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» Read "In Search of a Homegrown Beer," from OnEarth's Winter 2009 issue -
Writing Nature Poetry in Brooklyn: A Conversation with Colin Cheney
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Poet Colin Cheney recites his poems, "South Brooklyn Casket Co." and "Roof-meadows," talks with Zachary Sussman about nature in urban spaces, and reads students' haiku from the River of Words project.
South Brooklyn Casket Co.
The casket makers by the Gowanus
have no dead to speak of, no dead
to question on the opening of other worlds.
School of milky fry, pulsing jellyfish,
a bag of oysters hung from the bridge:
each a place-holder.
The emptied cemetery November was
left me speaking through the throat-song
of a beauty rose, harmonium
& disturbance sustained on a single breath.
By the deli, the tang of last night’s sewage
on my tongue, a Jehovah’s Witness asks if I’m saved.
I say a woman I followed over the green water
this morning had the word Feel
tattooed on her neck, or maybe
I only want to tell him this, believing the scrawl
on that last vertebrae
marks the tunnel bearing tide from the buttermilk
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Bees in Trouble
Some scientists suspect that pesticides are the cause of plummeting bee populations, which could have serious consequences for pollination and production of food crops.
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Alan Burdick: Welcome to My Paperless World
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Science writer Alan Burdick reads his humorous essay, "Welcome to My Paperless World."
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Dreaming of a Paperless Life
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Author Alan Burdick talks with Emily Voigt about his ongoing fantasy of leading a paperless life and his upcoming book about finding, saving and wasting time.
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Poet Kevin Stein on Changing the Course of the Environmental Nightmare
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Poet Kevin Stein recites his poem, “Mowing the Lawn,” and talks with Zachary Sussman about summertime, politics, and the global repercussions of our everyday lives.
Mowing the Lawn
Putt putt, I ride on fossil fuel, the juice of fern and leaf,
the muck of once-was. Putt putt, I warm our globe
one green acre at a time. As a boy, I mowed without gas power
as does my buddy Dean: Green Dean. Back then as now
it was economics not ecology. Have you priced a hybrid?I pushed, I sweated, I earned a man’s allowance,
not unlike Tag, the bow-legged Japanese gardener
who plucked the lawn's eyebrows for my grandmother,
she of blue hair and lace gladiolas terraced along
the terra cotta porch. She of the voice that curdled milk.Tuesdays he made landfall, hurricane of shears and clippers,
toting the lone mower he’d not so much push as chase.
Tag had no time for lost time, though just to be sure... -
Poet Alison Hawthorne Deming on What Nature Teaches -- If We Listen
Poet and essayist Alison Hawthorne Deming reads her essay "Brief Encounter on The Savanna," and talks with Emily Voigt about interpreting elephants, the importance of animal stories, and how our better intentions can be fueled by the simple contemplation of natural beauty.
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