After the Jump
LIVE 11 - 11:30am EST
First Aired - 12/08/2011 02:00PM
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This week on We Dig Plants gets down and dirty with the Gowanus Canal. Joined by Jeff Hutchinson and Erikof the Gowanus Canal Conservancy hosts Alice Marcus-Krieg and Carmen DeVito talk about what the Conservancy is doing to follow their mission to be a "steward for the preservation, restoration and green development of the Gowanus Canal and its environs for the greater good of the community", from their compost project to volunteerism. This episode is sponsored by Fairway Market.
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What's Growing in the Gowanus? (16:35)
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Gowanus, We Dig Plans, Alice Marcus-Krieg, Carmen DeVito, Fairway Markets, Gowanus Canal, industrial plants, pollutants, PCB, pesticides, cholera, Gonorrhea, Jeff Hutchinson, Gowanus Canal Conservancy, landscape architecture, dance, compost experts, volunteering, art and gardening, Grow NYC, compost projects, greenmarkets, DSNY, Department of Sanitation, industrial Brooklyn,Community Supported Composting (5:00)
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artists, composting, food scraps, Brooklyn is a small town, barge, promoting development, Superfund, conaminants, dredge, oysters, cormorans, Virginia creeper, combined sewer overflows, green jobs, community supporting composting, Cornell Waste Management Institute, Worms Eat My Garbage,To comment on this episode click here. There are currently Comments
First Aired - 01/06/2010 08:00PM
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This week's theme on Burning Down The House is Leather Architecture.
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Burning Down The House Introduction (13:09)
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Curtis B. Wayne, Burning Down The House, Fairway Market, Steve Jenkins, olive oil, cheese, retail meat, Argentina, Buenos Aires, cattle, food, happy cow products, interior built environment, reconstituted leather, BBQ, cows are killed for meat not leather, the hides are left over, industrial waste scraps, bonded leather, recycled leather, natural grain, shoes, leather goods, 5% of leather scraps get taken advantage of by the bonded leather industry, its not a product that has much demand, leather is one of the oldest materials for design, industrial presentation,Leather Architecture (28:32)
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CMYK, Kid Robot, bicycle, batteries, foldable, 15 to 18 pounds, racing bike, bicycle industry, old paradimes, scooter, Razor Scooter, motorized scooters, mopeds, moped, gopeds, goped, bull riding, American bucking bulls, cowboys, leather architecture, urban cowboys, money has never been an issue, Argentine culture, bartering, tuition, reclaimed lumber, larger accessories, furniture design, leather chair, tetrahedral, liquid leather, leather is skin,Product Quality, Consumer Education & Production Trends (17:47)
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growing a shoe from a petri dish, economic crisis, sometimes processed products are cheaper than the raw material that the product was made from, consumer education, media, production capability, consumer electronics, cheap and disposable, makes you feel rich, China, we don't need anymore cheap stuff, over saturation, we don't need blu ray players just yet, repurchasing, we stopped caring about what we were buying, iPods, Apple, product quality, MoMa, customers are avoiding products made in China, Argentina, next live show is A Taste Of The Past tomorrow at noon!,To comment on this episode click here. There are currently Comments
First Aired - 03/29/2010 01:00PM
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Trina Hahnemann & Claire Hartten come by to talk about Danish cooking, composting & Scandinavian recipes.
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Let's Eat In Introduction: Composting & Cooking In Denmark (16:27)
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Cathy Erway, Let's Eat In, Heritage Radio Network, Tekserve, www.tekserve.com, Jack Inslee, Jimmy's No 43, Copenhagen, Denmark, The Nordic Diet, Anne Saxelby, Saxelby Cheesemongers, Jimmy Carbone, Union Square Green Market, Trina Hahnemann, Kerry Trueman, trasnforming the roof of the Essex Street market, composting, pig pen, Vienna is up to 40% composting, Dirt Cafe Project, eco systems, garden scraps, cooking in Denmark, you can't work in a kitchen in Denmark without windows and sunlight, regulations, it's easy to control a small country, Scandanavia, strawberries,Scandanavian Cooking & Rye Bread (15:24)
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The Scandinavian Cookbook, open sandwiches, marinated herring, open faced sandwiches, there is no brunch in Denmark, working class meals, sourdough starter, rye bread, healthy bread on poor quality flour, vitamin K, protein, whole grain, Claudia Keel, rising glutton sensitivities, oyster shell collection, Slow Food Copenhagen, Dirt Cafe Project, mapping, romantic foods, best date food?, lobster and gnocchi in chili sauce with a glass of champagne, Mike Osinsky, oysters, sushi, The Three Chimneys Restaurant, http://trinahahnemann.com, Smørrebrød, www.dirtcafe.com,To comment on this episode click here. There are currently Comments
