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First Aired - 01/31/2013 01:00PM
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Orion Magazine has been producing thought-provoking, progressive journalism for thirty years. On this week's episode of The Farm Report, Erin Fairbanks is chatting with Orion's Outreach Director, Erik Hoffner. Tune in to hear Erik talk about the ecology-focused lens with which Orion views all sorts of social issues. Learn about the magazine's roots in New York City, and why the operation moved to Western Massachusetts. Hear Erik and Erin talk about the unknown health factors of nanotechnology, and how nanoparticles may be damaging to the environment and individual health. Learn about several of Orion's freelance contributors, and what they have to say about topics like hydrofracking and environmentalism. This program has been brought to you by Hearst Ranch.
"So many good things are happening in New York with urban agriculture, and with public art using the landscape." [11:00]
"The health of our ground water for the next hundred years is worth more than ten years of fuel." [26:10]
-- Erik Hoffner on The Farm Report
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Ecology Issues (20:22)
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Orion, magazine, Erik Hoffner, ecology, media outlets, Michael Pollan, local, organic, Bill McKibben, advertisement-free, freelance, Flying Pigs Farm, farm manager, podcast, non-profit, Wendell Berry, film festival, book review, Barry Lopez, grass roots, local food systems, watershed restoration, Western Massachusetts, fundraising, subscriptions, Straight, No Chaser, nanotechnology, additives, ecosystem, toxicity, Center for Food Safety, DDT, BPA, GMO, asbestos,Fracking & Conservation (22:00)
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The Dark Ecology, Ted Kaczynski, neo-environmentalism, local conservation, science, cancer, writing, data, lyricism, fracking, ground water, Sandra Steingraber, irrigation, cheap gas, new media, print publications, Jeanne Hodesh, yogurt, milk, butter, European-style butter, fancy, imported butter, CreamLine, homogenized, heavy cream, production, Ronnybrook Farm Dairy, cocoa, pudding, ice cream, whole milk, Superbowl, dip, spring, Groundhog Day, Weekend Warriors, cooking demos, chili,To comment on this episode click here. There are currently Comments
First Aired - 01/10/2010 12:00PM
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Patrick Martins & Brian Kenny Live From The Hearst Ranch and Erik Hoffner of Orion Grassroots Network.
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The Main Course Introduction (10:00)
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The Main Course, Katy Keiffer, Patrick Martins, A16 Restaurant, sheep wrangling, chinese food,Patrick Martins & Brian Kenny Live From The Hearst Ranch (50:00)
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San Simeon, Hearst Ranch, Hearst Castle, Texas Longhorns, college football, Brian Kenny, Patrick Martins, Brian is the director of the cattle program at the Hearst Ranch, division manager of Hearst Ranch beef, it's not a traditional cattle ranch, there are two major properties, the Hearst Ranch is ten times the size of Manhattan, Angus, Shorthorn, Murray Gray, Hereford, George Hearst, a true grass fed operation, rolling hills of cattle, California, spreadsheet cowboy, sustainability, corporate agriculture, Steve Hearst, Ted Turner, bison, meat industry, commodity beef market, seasonality, cow calf operation, economics, calves are sold at 6 months old, they are called wieners, private trading, you can make more money by adding weight, the heavier the cattle the lower the price per 100 weight, corn is cheaper than grass, cattle has a sort of over/under pricing system, everyone wants choice or prime, of all cattle in the united states 4-6 percent is prime, three of four months on grass, how does stockman make any money?, what makes a savvy stockman?, the stockman sells to a feedlot, restaurant guys are looking for high choice, waltz across Texas, Brian Kenny sings!, branding, www.meatingplace.com, marbling, Harry Caray, Vassar, the feed lot, Michael Pollan, California Cattlemen's Association, Dr. Buzzkill, twitter, small attention spans, http://www.hearstranch.com,Erik Hoffner of Orion Grassroots Network (14:30)
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Erik Hoffner, Heritage Foods, rare breeds, geese, The Orion Grassroots Network, The Orion Society, The Orion Magazine, nonprofit 25 year old magazine, ecological intelligence, climate change, jobs in the green sector, Hudson River Valley, Heifer International, they buy livestock for citizens in developing countries, they work to uplift people through sustainable agriculture, protein for children, sustainability, breaking the cycle of poverty, photography exhibit, Poland, heritage breed program, farmers, heritage breeds are very independent, Walker Evans, Poland is a lot like a third world country, olive groves, value added agriculture, milking cows, Smithfield has made a huge investment in Poland, Eastern Europe,Erik Hoffner of Orion Grassroots Network Part 2 (45:30)
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Polish Red Cattle, cream content, milk, cheese, agriculture infrastructure, agro tourism, Poland has a huge problem, brain drain, Warsaw, London, Madrid, computer work, Roberta's, rooftop garden, farming, sustainability, Midwest, agricultural bread basket, Peter Pringle, more tags coming soon,To comment on this episode click here. There are currently Comments
First Aired - 03/29/2010 12:00PM
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Michael Hamburg returns again to talk more about stars and our universe.
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The Naturalist Introduction: Properties of a Star (11:40)
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Bernie Wides, The Naturalist, Heritage Radio Network, Michael Hamburg, how many stars can you see in New York City?, maybe 2,500 on a clear moonless night, life span of stars, classification of stars, stars are not identical, they die different types of deaths, why are stars different?, the more mass a star has the denser it is, hotter nuclear fires, electromagnetic radiation, the hotter you are the shorter you live, HR diagram, the color of the star tells us how hot it is, Orion, blue white stars are the hottest, Rigel, red dwarfs, the universe is less than a trillion years old, Hertzsprung-Russell diagram, energy and matter, Albert Einstein,What Happens To Stars When They Die? (11:12)
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what happens to stars when they die, leave a comment!, stars are slaves to physics, the sun will never have a violent end, it will slowly swell turn red and become a red giant, white dwarf, the bigger the star the bigger the fall, blue giant, supernova, creating elements, black holes, galactic black holes, Blazar, bi polar jets, pulsar, rapidly spinning neutron star, Hearst Ranch,Wormholes, Black Holes & Dark Matter (12:12)
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wormhole, wormholes, wormholes are speculation not fact, gravity, Einstein's theory of relativity, do black holes come out somewhere else?, objects bend space, stars, galaxies, Milky Way, everything you can see in the night sky is in our galaxy, you might be able to see the Andromeda galaxy, our galaxy is sweeping up all the things orbiting it, most of our universe is unknown, the universe is likely bigger than we think, observable universe, dark matter, all mass has gravity, we can't see dark matter, planets glow like stars, Mars, Saturn, www.skyandtelescope.com, www.space.com,To comment on this episode click here. There are currently Comments
