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First Aired - 06/14/2010 01:00PM
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This week on Let's Eat In Cathy spoke to Daniel Bowman Simon of People's Garden NYC and Evan Schoepke of Punk Rock Permaculture. They discussed the art and science of permaculture and what permaculture means to society.
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Let's Eat In Introduction: All The World's Problems Can Be Solved in a Garden (20:54)
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Let's Eat In, Cathy Erway, Heritage Radio Network, Brooklyn Bowl, Daniel Bowman Simon, People's Garden NYC, Town Hall is a great place to see a concert, Black Lips, Evan Schoepke, Punk Rock Permaculture, www.punkrockpermaculture.com, www.permaculture.tv, permaculture principles in packaging design, People's Garden, creating a more sustainable city, White House Organic Garden, Michelle Obama, petitioning New Yorkers for the Town Hall garden, etymology, Gaia, consciousness of the earth, the bridge from death to life, all the world's problems can be solved in a garden, eco city development, co mingled recycling, BP oil spill, natural gas diasasters, One Million Gardens, City Repair, Portland,Get Rid of Your Lawn! (11:48)
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garden means enclosure, garden is a thousand year old word related to yard, what can people do?, get rid of your grass!, you don't need a lawn, Edible Estates, English landscaping of gardens, 1% of water use goes to golf courses and lawns, Stuyvesant Town, www.peoplesgardennyc.org, The Edible Garden, 100 years ago most Americans were growing up on farms, getting kids engaged by putting them in gardens, Farm to School Program, school food, Hungry Filmmakers, a garden is worth a thousand policy papers,To comment on this episode click here. There are currently Comments
First Aired - 09/03/2009 08:00PM
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The Dark Side Of Being Green: Curtis and guest Katy Keifer discuss the overlooked implications of "going green".
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Sustainability and CFL Bulbs (29:20)
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Curtis B. Wayne, architecture, Katy Keifer, green, earthy crunchy, bunkum, sustainable, sustainability, recession, back to the Earth, recycling, heavy metals, incandescent Bulbs, Britain's not making bulbs, saving energy, hoarding of incandescent bulbs, LED lights for smaller spaces, General Electric, Westinghouse, CFL bulbs contain mercury, compact fluorescent lamps, mercury as a toy, EU illegalizing incandescent bulbs, European imperialism and fads, the Weather Underground, current Cold War of electricity, energy commerce battle, electricity merchant states, water as a commodity, Silanus Valley in California, Staten Island garbage dump,Wasting Energy and Efficiency Design (23:21)
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Curtis B. Wayne, architecture, Katy Keifer, Forrest Gump, USDOA, United States Department of Agriculture, data-centers eat energy, US Green Buildings Council, data-service center, 50 percent humidity is optimal for computing machines, LEED, Leadership in Energy and Efficiency Design, VOC, volatile organic compounds, petroleum, nylon sweats, plastics, Slippery Rock, Pennsylvania strip mines, land was raped, prescriptive way of estimating the performance of building, Energy Star, ventilation and prevention of mold, an era of cheap energy, natural air-cooling chimneys, LEED is a marketing tool, LEED certified, efficiency design,Energy Saving and Green Roofs (13:40)
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Curtis B. Wayne, architecture, Katy Keifer, the dark side of green architecture, green roofs, sod houses, garden on a roof-top, Corbeau homes, repurpose Brooklyn roofs, planted roofs can be dangerous, dirt is great insulator, earth, low wavelength infrared energy, planted roofs are efficient, Green Buildings Movement, irrigation of green roofs, sewage treatment plants for green roofs, the grey area, no clear answers, the Accidental Yankee, Little House on the Prairie,To comment on this episode click here. There are currently Comments
First Aired - 07/14/2009 04:00PM
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On this week's At the Root of It, Erin talks with Jaime Smith, professor of wine studies at UNLV, about eco-friendly closures and reducing the carbon footprint of wine production and distribution.
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The Weekly Wine Recap (3:20)
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Testa Wines, Bulgarian customs officers find liquid cocaine hidden in Bolivian wine bottles, Jim Meehan of PDT named Bartender of the Year at Tales of the Cocktail,The Cork Debate Resumes with Jaime Smith (12:13)
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cork, closures, Jaime supports cork because it is natural, cork is perfect sustainable and organic closure, lets in air, does cork taint wine?, misinformation about corked wine, rubber bullets, petrochemical ring attached to non-cork closures, wine loses life, cork lets the wine evolve to maturity, 685 million Brittish pounds lost to cork taint yearly, grades of cork, cork used for insulation lifejackets buoys, cork huge Portuguese industry, wine only a small part of cork industry, not everyone is making wine to age, wine cork recycling, non-cork closures the future for cheap wine,Calculating Wine's Carbon Footprint (19:10)
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consumers often determine a wine's carbon footprint, traveling food and wine miles, choose local wines if you want to stay sustainable, South American wines have largest footprint, ship vs. train vs. plane vs. sailboat transport, organic and sustainable practices at winery most important factor in footprint equation, flavor variation in biodynamic wines, half bottles bad in carbon practice, package wine more sustainably, no to styrofoam packaging, PVC's, oak vs. oak chips, oak flavoring, Jaime professor of domestic wine at UNLV, new world vs. old world, beverage degree at UNLV, tech vs. non-tech, Nicholas Joy, oenoverse,To comment on this episode click here. There are currently Comments
