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The Groundhog Day Enviro Show, 2/2/10, 6:30pm

January 27th, 2010 Posted by Enviro Show

Greetings Earthlings. Happy Groundhog Day! We leave poor Punxsutawney Phil to his lame-ass jailers (unless some liberation is afoot, let us know!) and get the real story on woodchucks from Christine Maher at the University of Southern Maine. Her primary research focuses on woodchuck behavior and ecology. We’ll also have a look at woodchucks being captured and used as lab experiments and the all-out war on chucks by suburbanites. Did we say Happy Groundhog Day? How about Happy Imbolc? It’s the festival of the Maiden, for from this day to March 21st, it is her season to prepare for growth and renewal. Brighid’s snake emerges from the womb of the Earth Mother to test the weather, (the origin of Groundhog Day), and in many places the first Crocus flowers began to spring forth from the frozen earth. Now you know! As always, we checkout the latest news in The Enviro Show Echo Chamber; checkout Obama’s record in our Meet the New Boss segment, do some E-Valley-uation, and go for the Quote of the week, but first it’s time for………….
Revenge of the Critters! You guessed it: Groundhog attack! A little correction here, the critter in the film “Caddyshack” was a gopher from the family Geomyidae. Groundhogs, or woodchucks are from the family Sciuridae BUT several ground squirrels of the family Sciuridae are often called gophers…..got it? Read more on The Groundhog Day Enviro Show, 2/2/10, 6:30pm…

A Baha’i Perspective 01.23.2010

January 23rd, 2010 Posted by Warren Odess-Gillett

Warren Odess-Gillett interviews Mehr Mansuri. Mehr grew up in Iran, England and the US. She left Iran to go to boarding school in England just before the Islamic Revolution. She came to the US after high school to go to university. After university she developed a thriving acting career. She also uses her voice over talents for audio books, one of which is Saffron Kitchen, where she provides about eight characters. She recently helped in the film “Precious” casting the children and directing the children. She is the co-founder of the non-profit organization Children’s Theatre Company.

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A Baha’i Perspective 01.16.2010

January 16th, 2010 Posted by Warren Odess-Gillett

Warren Odess-Gillett interviews Adrienne Carter, a mental health counselor who has worked with Doctors without Borders in Kosovo, Kashmir, Sri Lanka, Sierra Leone, Nigeria, Malaysia, Russia, South Africa, and, Myanmar.

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A Baha’i Perspective 01.09.2010

January 9th, 2010 Posted by Warren Odess-Gillett

Warren Odess-Gillett interviews Jane Jensen. Warren’s interview with Jane is a sequel to his interview with Paul Jensen. Jane’s sister became a Baha’i first. At first Jane gave no thought to her sister’s belief, even as she passed and ignored the Baha’i House of Worship in Wilmette, IL just about every day. Once her sister got married, her brother-in-law gave her a book called “Thief In The Night”. It was that book that got her to consider the Baha’i Faith more seriously. Her life totally took a different turn after becoming a Baha’i.

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A Baha’i Perspective 01.02.2010

January 2nd, 2010 Posted by Warren Odess-Gillett

Warren Odess-Gillett interviews Paul Jensen. Paul grew up in Denmark during WWII. He had a very adventurous spirit that took him first to Canada, then to the US, and then after becoming a Baha’i to the Bahamas and Panama.

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The Living Simply Enviro Show, 1/5/10, 6:30pm

January 1st, 2010 Posted by Enviro Show

The Living Simply Enviro Show

Greetings Earthlings. How about a New Years resolution (or should that be revolution?) to live simply so others can simply live? Jonathan & Susan von Ranson call-in to talk about their efforts in Wendell. As usual we wander into the Enviro Show Echo Chamber for some recent news. Also we return to the Quote of the Week and our E-Valley-uation segment, but first it’s time for…. Revenge of the Critters! alien carp turn the tables on fisherfolk & G-men!

In The Enviro Show Echo Chamber this op-ed in the New York Times reminds us that “To Save the Planet, [we must] Save the Seas!” (but watch that REDD hype!).

The Enviro Show Quote of the Week comes short & sweet from south of the border:

“If the climate were a bank, the US would have saved it.” – Hugo Chavez

A Baha’i Perspective 12.26.09

December 26th, 2009 Posted by Warren Odess-Gillett

Warren Odess-Gillett interviews Jack McCants, who was an ordained Methodist minister when he ran into the Baha’i Faith.

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Another Winter Solstice Enviro Show, 12/22, 6:30pm

December 18th, 2009 Posted by Enviro Show

Greetings Earthlings. Happy Winter Solstice to you and yours! Yes, it’s old-time religion time; not the far-right’s “War on Christmas” blather so much as a look at the very real ongoing War on Paganism! Laura Wildman, Priestess and Third Degree, Gardnerian Witch joins us along with our old friend and Mass Earth First!er, Penny Novack to celebrate The Winter Solstice. Sorry, we’ll probably be fully clothed and bonfires are not allowed in the studio, but we’ll do our best to do justice to all things pagan. As always, we checkout The Enviro Show Echo Chamber, the Meet the New Boss segment and E-Valley-uation, but first it’s time for….Revenge of the Critters! Penguin attack!. That’ll teach you humans to warm the globe!

A Baha’i Perspective 12.12.2009

December 12th, 2009 Posted by Warren Odess-Gillett

Warren Odess-Gillett interviews Robert Sapiro. Robert loved both sports and acting, but acting became his predominant interest growing up. Then the last few years in high school he also discovered his enjoyment in painting. Robert went to the School of the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston studying painting. During his last year there, he became very interested in poetry. After college, he discovered the inner-comedian inside him. Robert describes how it was the Bahá’í art of consultation that attracted him to the Bahá’í Faith

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The Sanitized Biomess Enviro Show: 12/8, 6:30pm

December 3rd, 2009 Posted by Enviro Show

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Greetings Earthlings. Sick & tired of dirty old biomass incineration? Looking for a cleaner image? New terms? How about biomass pellets? Meg Sheehan calls in once more to cast more sunlight on the Biomess. In our E-Valley-uation segment local liberal pols climb in bed with the developers! We’ll check-in with The Enviro Show Echo Chamber and “Meet the new Boss”, but first it’s time for…Revenge of the Critters! Humboldt squid swim-in!

It’s a Foursome in our E-Valley-uation Segment. The Montague Reporter informs us that the former Montague dump site once considered for a toxic ash dump may now be utilized as a solar energy site. Talk about best use! Also this: as reported in The Valley Advocate, some unlikely local reps seem to be greasing the skids for extermination of endangered species. We brought up this attack on the Massachusetts Endangered Species Act months ago but would anyone listen to a bunch of pagan dirt-worshippers like us? Hrrumph! Finally, can Co-op Power really pull-off a “sustainable” biomass pellet operation in Greenfield? Checkout the pitch here (scroll down a few paragraphs). We guess you can register your thoughts on their survey too, no? Hopefully we’ll be getting a short call from Rev. Billy about the Shopocalypse and his gig in Greenfield on the 19th.

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