24/7 Stream
Specials and Highlights
First Aired - 01/05/2012 02:00PM
Download MP3 (Full Episode)
Download MP3 (Full Episode)
Hosted By
Sponsored by
This week on We Dig Plants Carmen & Alice explore the history of parks in New York City with John Krawchuk, Director of Historic Preservation of New York Parks & Recreation. Learn about the story of Fort Greene Park (then known as Washington Park), Brooklyn's first park! Find out what renovation plans are in store for this beautiful historic park. This episode was sponsored by Fairway Market.
"So many of the great landscape architects worked on Fort Greene Park. It was Brooklyn's first park."
--John Krawchuk, Director of Historic Preservation of New York Parks & Recreation on We Dig Plants
Update Required
To play the media you will need to either update your browser to a recent version or update your Flash plugin.
We Dig Plants: Fort Greene Park (17:32)
Tags:
Alice Marcus Krieg, Carmen DeVito, Groundworks Inc., Director of Historic Preservation, New York Parks & Recreation, John Krawchuk, pale male, hawk, Central Park, Fort Greene Park, Brooklyn, Prospect Park, New York Harbor, Walt Whitman, Washington Park, British Occupation,To comment on this episode click here. There are currently Comments
First Aired - 04/05/2009 09:00AM
Download MP3 (Full Episode)
Download MP3 (Full Episode)
Hosted By
Sponsored by
This week's Q Report is about beginnings: the roots of the mind, new connectivity in rural America, and reclaiming pre-industrial food systems.
Update Required
To play the media you will need to either update your browser to a recent version or update your Flash plugin.
Verizon Introduces 4G Wireless in Rural America (10:18)
Tags:
haves and have nots, roots, quotidian, Mark Marabella, 4G technology, Underground Wireless, Obama: information is power, Introduction, Gomorrah, Elitism,Community in the Brain (9:53)
Tags:
moral center hard wired in brain, feelings and brain activity, National Geographic, Trolley Car Experiment, Bill Clinton, Daniel Langleben, Mind Scan, MRI,Brooklyn Monument in Fort Greene Dedicated to Revolutionary War Prisoners (12:14)
Tags:
Brooklyn Cyclone, Marty Markowitz, Revolutionary War, Fort Greene, Stanford White, Prisoners of War, Eric Schlosser, Food Inc., Robert Kenner, HBO: Death on a Factory Farm, Brownfield Ag News for America,To comment on this episode click here. There are currently Comments
