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Dr. Teri Knowles on Gulf Cetacean mortality post BP (audio/mpeg 24.6MB)
Dr Teri Knowles lectures the NAS RESTORE group and interested parties on causes of cetacean mortality in the Gulf. BP killed about half the dolphins of the mississippi river delta, and more than a third of the dolphins in Barataria. Birthing success dropped to one in eight from a baseline of roughly 7 in 8. It is estimated that it will take the Northern Gulf Dolphin populations 40 years to recover, and perhaps longer, depending on prey availability and changes to habitat. The good news is...
Posted: Fri, Oct 23, 2015 5:34am PDT
Antonia Juhasz at Gulf Restoration Network (audio/mpeg 21.7MB)
Antonia Juhasz gives an update from her ALVIN trip to the bottom of the gulf of mexico, here the wreckage of the Deepwater Horizon remains, along with thousands of miles of BP's oil. Antonia explains how movements in the Gulf have activated resistance to drilling in the Arctic. 23 min...
Posted: Thu, Oct 15, 2015 10:49pm PDT
Scott Eustis, Jonathan Henderson and Britney Penouilh on the 2015 Anba Dlo Water Festival (audio/mpeg 12.1MB)
Jonathan Henderson of Gulf Restoration Network and Britney Penouilh discuss the Anba Dlo water festival Saturday October 17th, 2015. In the morning, there's a walk and learn at the healing center on St Claude, with the New Orleans Water Collaborative. at noon, political and government leadership on wetlands restoration and clean water policies. after four, things open up into festival, art and music. And at midnight, a ceremony....
Posted: Thu, Oct 15, 2015 6:51am PDT
Interview with Dine/Navajo folks on Mine spill in Animas river NM on setting the standard (audio/mpeg 5.5MB)
Interview with Dine/Navajo about Mine spill in Animas river New Mexico on setting the standard, with Patrick Kincaid Indigenous ecologist and Kim Howe, a full time farmer talking about the crisis of the crops with polluted water....
Posted: Fri, Aug 14, 2015 4:29pm PDT
Dan Favre of Bike Easy on the recent death on Canal and Broad (audio/mpeg 11.7MB)
Dan Favre sits down with us to discuss monday's death of a 57 year old man at the wheels of a dumpster truck. He defines the "right hook" and the need to cite drivers for deaths of new orleanians who ride bicycles. also discussed is the upcoming Bicycle and Pedestrian Safety Committee meeting on August 21st....
Posted: Fri, Aug 7, 2015 7:28am PDT
Hidden Mississippi: War on Water (audio/mpeg 6.0MB)
clean read of War on Water, part of Hidden Mississippi series for antigravity read and recorded and broadcast with permission from the author
http://www.antigravitymagazine.com/2014/11/hidden-mississippi-war-on-water/
a short History of the abandoned physical computer for the MR&T flood control system outside of Jackson....
Posted: Wed, Jul 8, 2015 7:35pm PDT
Hidden Louisiana: the German Coast (audio/mpeg 7.7MB)
The southwestern rim of Lake Pontchartrain, commonly referred to as the German Coast, is a composite of landscapes both real and imagined, their details spread ...
Posted: Fri, Nov 27, 2015 10:54am PST
Hidden Louisiana: Bayou St Malo (audio/mpeg 5.5MB)
Clean reading of Hidden Louisiana: Bayou St Malo by Breonne Dedecker
read with permission
http://www.antigravitymagazine.com/2015/03/hidden-louisiana-bayou-st-malo/
A visit to a long abandoned Maroon colony evokes an echo of desolation of past struggles....
Posted: Wed, Jul 8, 2015 7:23pm PDT
Howard Watkins (audio/mpeg 13.1MB)
Howard Watkins told us about his Photographic Archive Project and the exhibit of his work in the CSU-Fresno library....
Posted: Sat, Jun 27, 2015 3:40pm PDT
Global Warming (audio/mpeg 17.7MB)
a conversation about Global Warming with Jim Grant who spoke about the Catholic Church’s view on this issue and Tom Cotter who talked about local grassroots org...
Posted: Sat, Jun 27, 2015 3:40pm PDT
Tenants Together (audio/mpeg 15.3MB)
We talked to Dean Preston, the executive director of Tenants Together and local TT organizer Simone Cranston-Rhodes about tenant rights and the struggle to impr...
Posted: Sat, Jun 27, 2015 3:40pm PDT
Interview: Westin Campo - 350 Louisiana (audio/mpeg 15.1MB)
350Louisiana calls on New Orleans city council to mandate 20% renewable energy by 2020....
Posted: Fri, Jun 19, 2015 8:12am PDT
Martha Huckabuy from St Rose Community One Voice on the need for fenceline air monitoring (audio/mpeg 10.9MB)
Martha Huckabuy of St Rose Community One Voice describes her experiences living next to the Shell / IMTT oil transport facility, which has doubled in size in the past year, as the United States exports more and more oil to other nations. Martha and st Rose was disturbed by noxious odors from the Shell / IMTT facility and testifies to the Natural Resources committee of the Louisiana house of Representatives on the need for fenceline monitoring...
Posted: Fri, May 15, 2015 9:26am PDT
Desmoines Water Works Suing Drainage Districts Over Nitrate Pollution (audio/mpeg 3.7MB)
The Desmoines Water Works is suing drainage districts for not properly regulating nitrate pollution. This may have an impact on the "dead zone" in the Gulf of Mexico, which is caused in part by agricultural runoff in the Mississippi River....
Posted: Thu, May 7, 2015 10:31pm PDT
Dan Bacher Speaks Out About Water (audio/mpeg 15.1MB)
Pam Whalen interviewed Dan Bacher on the Street Heat radio show heard on KFCF 88.1 FM Friday, April 24. The 16:31 minute audio starts out with a brief clip of Mark Arax speaking at a water conference earlier that day and then Dan’s comments about and solutions to the water crisis in California....
Posted: Sun, Apr 26, 2015 8:39am PDT
How Blue is Your Valley? (audio/mpeg 26.7MB)
Mark Arax keynote address at the Community Conference on Water in the San Joaquin Valley (April 24, 2015 in Fresno California). Audio - 29:06 minutes....
Posted: Sat, Apr 25, 2015 4:47pm PDT
Pearl River conference (audio/mpeg 2.9MB)
3 minute piece on american river endangered river nomination pearl river...
Posted: Thu, Apr 16, 2015 5:52pm PDT
Occupy the Farm, the film, opening Tuesday, 03.31.2015, Oakland (audio/mpeg 1.7MB)
Occupy the Farm, a film about the 2012 struggle to claim 20 acres of a historic 100 acre farm for community farmers in Albany, will open at the New Parkway theatre in Oakland on Tuesday, March 31st. The University of California owns the land and it has granted one acre to the community farmers working with the University's Department of Natural Resources. Another 5 to 7 acres has been alloted to University research on corn genetics, and the rest has been promised to a big box grocery store ...
Posted: Sat, Mar 28, 2015 9:17pm PDT
Rock Palmero III from TELS 2015 on the decades of litigation from LA oil and gas fields (audio/mpeg 42.6MB)
An introduction to Legacy Lawsuits in the energy sacrifice zone of the United States, the Louisiana coast....
Posted: Mon, Mar 16, 2015 5:08pm PDT