Gliese 581 d. Such a catchy name eh? You probably have never heard of it. It is 20 light years away, but in late April 2009 new observations by the original discovery team concluded that the planet is within the habitable zone where liquid water, and therefore, life, could exist.
Some of you may have heard of SETI. SETI or Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence, conducts legitimate science research, searching for extraterrestrial life by looking for some signature of its technology. For years people have been sending radio waves into space on the off chance that there will be a response. Beatles songs, TV shows, radio broadcasts have all been shot into space. Now an Australian website is letting you text into space.
Unless you live in an eco village or other form of intentional community, you’re probably curious about the lifestyle. You’ve probably already got some images stuck in your head (I know the commune from Easy Rider always comes to my mind). You may even cling to a few stereotypes. But, as you’ve seen here at Planetsave, contemporary eco village life doesn’t necessarily conform to those stereotypes… it can be both hip and hippie, modern and simple, and, above all, deeply green.
Don’t take my word for it, though — I don’t live in an intentional community. Nathan Brown does, however, and today, he’ll be talking to folks at AwakeNow! Radio about his life at northeast Missouri’s Dancing Rabbit eco village (yep, the same place that PS contributor Brian Liloia lives).
GreenTalk Radio host Sean Daily speaks to Henrik Fisker, CEO and lead designer of Fisker Automotive. Henrik Fisker is not your average green car designer. Considered something of a legend in the luxury automobile industry, the 45-year old master designer is famous for an array of well-known luxury class automobiles including the BMW Z8, Aston Martin DB9 and the Aston Martin V8 Vantage.
So let’s say you’re a green business owner. Or an environmental non-profit. Or a green blogger. No matter what you do, on a basic level, you want more people to know about what you do. Advertising can work. An online presence in social media/network outlets can work. But what if you want people to hear your voice - your real voice, on the radio?
Sure, you can contact radio stations and podcast creators and make a case for being invited on. But for the most part, it’s on their terms. But what if you could just go and make an appointment to be on a show, shape the content, and be interviewed by someone who gets it, is interested in what you’re up to, and will engage you in a conversation rather then just be a dry question asker?
Community radio is a low cost method that can be employed to reach many poor and marginalized parts of Africa and the developing world with a message of how to protect the environment.
Radio, as a means of communication, is very personal, and can deliver messages right to the hearts of listeners.
Community radio can be very empowering to communities because it can inspire people to look at their needs, discuss their problems and look for solutions in a conversational manner.
Because of its conversational quality, community radio can make people become intimately involved with their own individual reality. Oral communication is deeply rooted in many African societies, and community radio can easily tap into this aspect of lived reality, and influence it to propagate environmentally friendly solutions.
You know that old saying about having a ‘face for radio’? As mean as the old saying is, it essentially implies that a person on television is not particularly good looking and that they would be better off applying their talents, journalistic or otherwise, to the radio-waves. Got it? Okay, put it this way, I think I have a ‘voice for television’.
Whenever I hear a recording of my voice I always think it sounds really weird. And although it seems like I’m implying that I have a ‘face for television’, I’m not (my twice-broken nose, gave me a nice nasally-twang, and a mighty proboscis that may be unfit for television).
What I’m saying is that XM Radio listeners were “treated” to eight minutes of yours truly today on Channel 130, “POTUS ‘08” (Politics Of The US), XM’s politics talk channel.
Head over to eBay to bid on a solar-powered Lifeline radio autographed by Tom Hanks. Proceeds from the auctions will benefit the Freeplay Foundation, which provides these radios to African communities that would otherwise be without reliable access to information.
Last week I was interviewed by Timber Talk, a forestry radio station in Arkansas, which coincidentally took place at the North American International Auto show in Detroit, Michigan. Timber Talk approached me last fall after reading a post on VegTruck.com that dealt with using straight vegetable oil as a fuel source.
Fun fact: Timber Talk radio covers a population of 2,400,000 in three states.
Calling all green NPR listeners: Have you ever wondered what it would take to green-up your local public broadcasting station (or any media organization for that matter)?
Well wonder no more! This past month, our country witnessed another first in the world of green when Northern California’s KQED became the first ever carbon neutral public broadcasting station. For those of you new to the world of carbon offsets, this simply means that KQED
Dean’s Beans, a Massachusettes-based organic coffee company, has partnered with non-profit, indigenous rights organization, Cultural Survival, to present a weekly radio program for Guatemalan coffee farmers.
"Coffee Talk" will include information on global market prices, growing and processing techniques, and the benefits of organic crop certification. Dean’s Beans founder, Dean Cycon, wanted to reach out to rural, farming co-operatives with limited access to television, print media and internet and give them information and
Last week I was interviewed by 
Calling all green NPR listeners: 
Dean’s Beans, a Massachusettes-based organic coffee company, has partnered with non-profit, indigenous rights organization, Cultural Survival, to present a weekly radio program for Guatemalan coffee farmers.
