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Two activists tree-sit to oppose mountaintop removal coal mining in WV listen
07/20/11 Seán KinaneWMNF Drive-Time News Wednesday Listen to this entire show:
Tags: mountaintop removal, coal, West Virginia, Energy, environment, tree-sit
Two activists in West Virginia are using a risky tactic to try to stop a mountaintop removal coal mining operation. Becks Kolins and Catherine-Ann MacDougal are sitting on platforms in trees about 80 feet above the ground within 100 yards of active blasting from a mine on Coal River Mountain. Charles Suggs is a former Tampa Bay resident and is a volunteer with the RAMPS Campaign.
Suggs adds that Alpha Natural Resources is blasting dangerously close to a sludge ...
Be the first to commentOpen phones to discuss results of 2011 Legislative session
05/09/11 Robert LoreiRadioactivity: Live Call-In (Friday)
Tags: Florida state legislature, budget, teachers, public employees, environment, abortion
Good morning, welcome to Radioactivity. I'm Rob Lorei. Today we'll open the phone lines and get your comments about the state legislative session which ended early in the morning this past Saturday.
Be the first to commentAssessing the damage of the 2011 FL Legislative session with USF St. Pete Professor Darryl Paulson
05/06/11 Lisa Marzilli, Beth BellLast Call Friday Listen to this entire show:
Tags: Florida Legislature, Darryl Paulson, 2011 Legislative session, voting, education, environment, women's issue, labor
The 2011 Florida legislative session, scheduled to end Friday, reportedly progressed into the wee hours of Saturday morning and ended with GOP lawmakers turning on themselves. The St. Petersburg Times says "It was a rocky end to one of the most ambitious and ideological sessions in modern history..."
To help us better comprehend the relentless, 60 day GOP assault on women's rights, worker's rights, voting rights, healthcare, education and the environment we are joined on Friday's Last Ca...
Be the first to commentEarthFirst fights to save Florida forest from biotech development listen
04/08/11 Kelly BenjaminWMNF Drive-Time News Friday Listen to this entire show:
Tags: Scripps, EarthFirst, Gwen Margolis, Panagioti Tsolkas, environment, tree-sit
In South Florida, a battle is brewing between environmental activists and biotech company Scripps Florida over the last remaining forest land in Eastern Palm Beach County. But the battle is about much more than saving a piece of forest land from development.
If you happened to be driving down Interstate-95 near Jupiter, Florida last month you might have seen an interesting sight: Two people, camped out 30 feet up in a pine tree with a banner reading "Defend this Forest."
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Coral reefs can be damaged through global trade in corals and reef animals listen
03/30/11 Matthew CimitileWMNF Drive-Time News Wednesday Listen to this entire show:
Tags: corals, coral reefs, aquarium, Stetson, environment, climate change
Coral reefs, like those found in Florida, are a vital economic and ecological resource. But WMNF’s Matthew Cimitle reports, reef ecosystems can be damaged though the international trade in corals and reef organisms.
According to the Global Coral Reef Monitoring Network, coral reefs provide $375 billion a year in goods and services through tourism, shoreline protection, food, and sources of new medicine. They are also believed to be more biologically diverse than rainforests. But Cara Coo...
Be the first to commentLeague of Conservation Voters releases environmental scorecard for Congress on spending measure listen
03/18/11 Seán KinaneWMNF Drive-Time News Friday Listen to this entire show:
Tags: environment, budget, Congress, Kathy Castor, Bill Young, appropriations, EPA, water, Gus Bilirakis, Vern Buchanan, Richard Nugent
The League of Conservation Voters has released a special edition of its environmental scorecard for Congress on an appropriations measure with two dozen amendments. Alex Taurel is a legislative representative at the League of Conservation Voters.
Be the first to comment"The national environmental scorecard, which the League of Conservation Voters puts out annually, it's been the nationally accepted yardstick to rate members of Congress on environmental, pu...
One of Florida's leading environmentalists talks about the Governor's budget & Florida Forever land preservation program
02/07/11 Robert LoreiLast Call Monday Listen to this entire show:
Tags: Audubon, Florida Forever, Rick Scott, budget, environment
The governor will announce his proposed state budget tomorrow and here to talk about the budget, preserving the state's environment and the Florida Forever land preservation program is the executive director of Audubon of Florida, Eric Draper.
Be the first to commentScience Cafe in St. Pete debates causes of Climate Change listen
01/26/11 Matthew CimitileWMNF Drive-Time News Wednesday Listen to this entire show:
Tags: climate change, science, environment, sea-level rise
In his State of the Union address, President Barack Obama didn’t mention climate change. But the topic was at the forefront last night at the Pier Aquarium’s science café meeting in St. Petersburg.
More than a year removed from the stalemate at the climate conference in Copenhagen and another two months after a follow-up meeting in Cancun, there is still no binding global agreement to cut greenhouse emissions. Without those cuts, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change predicts that...
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01/10/11 Jon ButtsRadioactivity: Live Call-In (Friday) Listen to this entire show:
Tags: farming, organic, organic farming, chickens, law, environment
On today’s program our special guest was Jono Miller a teacher at New College and resident of Sarasota. Jono’s heading up an effort to get an ordinance adopted by the city of Sarasota to allow backyard chickens on January 18. His initiative is called CLUCK (Citizen’s Lobbying for Urban Chicken Keeping) and you can check out the blog at sarasotacluck.blogspot.com.
Plus founder and executive director of Tampa Premier Community Supported Agriculture proj...
Be the first to commentEndangered whooping cranes to arrive at Chassahowitzka listen
12/14/10 Matthew CimitileWMNF Drive-Time News Tuesday Listen to this entire show:
Tags: wildlife, environment, whooping cranes, Chassahowitzka
Five whooping cranes, led by ultra light aircraft, should arrive to the Chassahowitzka National Wildlife Refuge in Crystal River by Friday. It’s the tenth straight year the endangered birds have traveled to Florida.
Ten whooping cranes from the reintroduced eastern United States flock began flying south from the Necedah National Wildlife Refuge in Wisconsin on October 10. Over 60 days later the birds have traversed seven states and 1200 miles and are within sight of reaching their winter...
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