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Cool Tunes For a Hot Planet
by Jckcochran
Songs to inspire action justice for and a cooler planet.
Episodes
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Episode 50: Deep Time
Episode 50 explores the mysteries of Geologic Time with geologist Marcia Bjornerud and composer Niloufar Nourbakhsh, offering musical and scientific perspectives on Earth's multi-billion-year history. We discuss Dr. Bjornerud's award-winning books, Ms. Nourbakhsh's compositions, and other pieces…
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Episode 49-Get Out the Vote featuring Roy Zimmerman, Hattie-Purl & The Poll Cats, Parlour Noir, Lisa Bastoni, Marcia Taylor
Episode 49 of Cool Tunes for a Hot Planet compels us to take action to Get Out The Vote! With the stakes so high it’s not enough to depend on just “likely voters”. How do we encourage and mobilize more voters to register and vote? We know that music has given people hope and inspired action in…
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Episode 47-Keep the Hearth Fires Burning featuring David G Smith, Crys Matthews, Tyler Jenkins & Mary Chapin Carpenter
Episode 47 of Cool Tunes for a Hot Planet is about “keeping the hearth fires burning.” Holding a safe, welcoming place for those with the passion to struggle against the dark forces that sometimes seem to be closing in on us. It's a tribute to those who battle, through acts small and large, to…
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Episode 46: "If Music Is Outlawed, Only Outlaws..."
Welcome to Episode 46. We do a deep dive into what happens when governments and authorities ban music, with examples from Trinidad, India, Afghanistan, Russia, and Brazil. Warren Senders interviews three experts: ethnomusicologist Matthew Rahaim (the 1941-1971 ban on the harmonium on India's...
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Episode 45: Joyful songs featuring James Kahn, Mark Lagerwey, Seth Handelman, and Harriet Jerusha Korim
Episode 45 of Cool Tunes for a Hot Planet addresses our need (as activists and as humans) to care for ourselves and each other. We spotlight songs that celebrate the restorative, healing joy we find in music, humor, nature and dance– and in community, because ––even, or especially in dark times –...
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Episode 44: The Arbornaut
Episode 44 is a profile of “Canopy Meg” — forest ecologist Meg Lowman, whose work revealed the “eighth continent” of life in treetop canopies everywhere. Dr. Lowman talks with Warren Senders about her long career exploring forests all over the globe, and we share music on tree themes (including...
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Episode 43: Democracy's 250th with Steve Earle, The Cashville Trash Pandas, Brock Peters, Alison Moore, & Jean Rohe
Episode 43 of Cool Tunes for a Hot Planet celebrates the 250 thanniversary of our country, with songs of tribute to what America is really all about – the strength of immigrants, and the richness of the diverse cultures they bring to the party; the nobility of the working man and woman, upon…
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Cool Tunes for a Hot Planet-Episode 41
Episode 41 of Cool Tunes for a Hot Planet speaks to the plight of workingclass folks suffering under the thumb of corporate exploitation, the rise of fascist cruelty, and the betrayal of America’s social compact by leaders who seem determined to undermine our ethics and betray our trust. But just...
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Cool Tunes for a Hot Planet-Episode 40
Episode 40 is a dive into the extraordinary world of Climate Choirs, as Warren interviews Chris Hutchings of the UK-based clearinghouse Choirs For Climate. Hear and watch choral singing on environmental themes, including many selections of Hutchings' own music as well as performance excerpts from...
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Cool Tunes for a Hot Planet-Episode 39
Episode 39 of Cool Tunes for a Hot Planet is about honoring the rebirth of springtime, the workers who bring life to the community, and the elders who have held strong to the harmony of the planet despite centuries of opposition and pollution. Building on the mandate of April’s Earth Day, now is...
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Cool Tunes for a Hot Planet-Episode 38
Episode 38 does a deep dive into the back-story of American environmentalism, tracing the roots of the movement back two centuries to the emergence of industrialization in the early 1800s. Warren Senders interviews historian Chad Montrie (University of Massachusetts, Lowell) about his work…
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Cool Tunes for a Hot Planet-Episode 37
Episode 35 of Cool Tunes for a Hot Planet is about working together, in communities both small and large, to overcome the multiple assaults on humanity we all experience now – the rise of fascism, the chaos of pointless wars, the degradation of the climate, propelled by corporate greed and...
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Cool Tunes for a Hot Planet-Episode 36
Episode 36 introduces two skilled and passionate composers, Kris Davis and Sumi Tonooka. Both women have made artistic homes for themselves in the jazz tradition, and both often venture into other realms and genres with great assurance. Although they've never met each other, their recent works…
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Cool Tunes for a Hot Planet-Episode 35
Episode 35 of Cool Tunes for a Hot Planet is all about holding on in the face of the oppressive forces confronting us. Holding on while we resist the violence and injustice – racial injustice, climate injustice, social injustice –with hope. And with song. Now, as in the Civil Rights movement of…
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Cool Tunes for a Hot Planet-Episode 34
Episode 34 — “Lunar New Year, with Rebecca Boyle” Cool Tunes for a Hot Planet is going to the Moon! We celebrate the Lunar New Year with a special all-things-moon episode built around a full-length interview with science writer Rebecca Boyle, whose book, “Our Moon” was a New York Times bestseller...
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Cool Tunes for a Hot Planet-Episode 33
Episode 33 of Cool Tunes for a Hot Planet strikes a somber note to the chaos unfolding in our streets – violence led by agents of destruction wearing ICE uniforms. These are dark times in our country, around which we hope music can shed some light, echo what’s in our hearts, generate a little...
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Cool Tunes for a Hot Planet-Episode 31
Episode 31 of Cool Tunes for a Hot Planet meets the New Year with new resolve to inspire all our listeners to do something healing for our planet. It can be making “good trouble,” as John Lewis once told us; it can be raising awareness with song; it can be coming together in community. Or simply...
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Cool Tunes for a Hot Planet-Episode 31
Episode 31 of Cool Tunes for a Hot Planet meets the New Year with new resolve to inspire all our listeners to do something healing for our planet. It can be making “good trouble,” as John Lewis once told us; it can be raising awareness with song; it can be coming together in community. Or simply...
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Cool Tunes for a Hot Planet-Episode 30
Episode 30 (Season 2) is a profile of the legendary activist collective The Church of Stop Shopping, led by Reverend Billy (William Talen) and Savitri D. Beginning with anti-consumerist actions in New York's Times Square in the 1990s, the church grew into a powerful performing force, with...
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Cool Tunes for a Hot Planet-Episode 29
Episode 29 of Cool Tunes for a Hot Planet enters the holiday season with songs and talk about coming together to make things better. Whether it’s finding peace in sharing voices musically, even in the midst of war; of joining hands to combat social injustice; of convening world leaders to…
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Cool Tunes for a Hot Planet-Episode 27
Episode 27 of Cool Tunes for a Hot Planet starts out with a song about ordinary Americans banding together this month to celebrate No Kings Day. But most of the show will be focused on the disparity between the obvious importance of food and farming, to the struggles that farmers have faced every...
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Cool Tunes for a Hot Planet-Episode 26
Episode 26 profiles the Climate Music Project, a San Francisco-based team that brings together scientists, musicians, and graphic artists to create new ways to communicate climate science. The CMP's innovative multi-media presentations offer hard data with an emotional score and compelling…
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Cool Tunes for a Hot Planet-Episode 25
Episode 25 is a mixed bag of tunes, starting out with Pay Attention by Joyce Johnson Rouse, singing with her group, Earth Mama. It’s a simple – even childlike – doo-wop kind of song that asks us to pay attention to the earth, and all the wonderful things it gives us. But it also makes clear our...
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Cool Tunes for a Hot Planet-Episode 24
Episode 24 — "Old and New Sunlight"When we remember that fossil fuels are simply the sunlight that fell on Earth hundreds of millions of years ago, it changes our perspective on energy use. It's ALL solar power; the only difference is whether it's old or new. All these forms of energy have their...
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Cool Tunes for a Hot Planet-Season 2 Episode 1
Airing September 1 is a special edition of Cool Tunes for a Hot Planet - it's our one year anniversary. We're offering an expanded show this time, with each of our producers looking back on what we've accomplished, and presenting a variety of music videos that stand out as representative of the...
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Cool Tunes For A Hot Planet-Episode 22
Episode 22: Music Beyond Humanity — A Profile of Inter-species Musician David Rothenberg Clarinetist, author, and philosopher David Rothenberg has spent his life making music far removed from the usual contexts of performance stages or recording studios. Rothenberg's collaborators have included...
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Cool Tunes for a Hot Planet-Episode 21
The August episode of Cool Tunes for a Hot Planet is a somber one, commemorating the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki on August 6th and 9th, 1945, ending World War II and unleashing the atomic age. Our feelings about that momentous event have evolved over time, from triumph to uncertainty to...
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Cool Tunes For A Hot Planet-Episode 20
"Thinking About Woody" offers a cornucopia of perspectives on the life and legacy of the great American balladeer Woody Guthrie. Interviews with Guthrie scholars Will Kaufman and Gus Stadler are interwoven with spoken and musical excerpts from Woody himself as well as Pete Seeger, Alan Lomax,...
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Cool Tunes For a Hot Planet-Episode 19
This episode of Cool Tunes for a Hot planet is all about the power of music to help bend the arc of the moral universe. Today we highlight songs about social injustice, asking questions like who are we, and where are we going? Song is the most sacred form of peaceful resistance, and we need to…
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Cool Tunes For a Hot Planet-Episode 18
Changing the climate conversation in India! Episode 18 features passionate performances of Indian classical music in wild settings: rainforests, riverbanks, beaches — and the musicians' fascinating conversations with Indian environmentalists and scientists — all documented in beautifully...
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Cool Tunes For a Hot Planet-Episode 17
The theme of episode 17 is "Planting Hope," which is much needed now. There are four songs in this episode. The first is Mark Lagerwey's "Plant a Tree," which reminds us, if we want to leave a viable planet for our children and our children's children, we need to think on the time scale of the...
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Cool Tunes For a Hot Planet-Episode 16
Cool Tunes For A Hot Planet Episode 16 is all about bees. This fascinating 40-minute video/podcast shares songs and instrumental music from all over the world, along with interviews, history, facts and faces. Meet Rev. Charles Butler, who transcribed honeybee music and turned it into a choral...
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Cool Tunes For a Hot Planet-Episode 15
Episode 15 of Cool Tunes for a Hot Planet kicks off May 1st. May Day has been celebrated for centuries as a celebration of rebirth, fertility, and the mystery of life - and then a further declaration of workers' rights since the late 19th century. But in addition to name-checking May Day, today's...
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Cool Tunes For a Hot Planet-Episode 14
This is Cool Tunes for a Hot Planet’s EARTH DAY episode, offering three very different strains of eco-music. Solartopia, by David Bernz, Harvey Wasserman, and Pete Seeger– the renowned elder statesman of folksong and righteous causes – envisions a day when our energy needs will all be met by the...
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Cool Tunes For a Hot Planet-Episode 13
Global Notes: Meet flautist & composer Linda J. Chase, whose oratorio "For Our Common Home — Resounding Ecojustice" will receive its world premiere in May! Ms. Chase talks about her work with host Warren Senders, and shares excerpts from a preview performance of the music, which blends classical,...
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Cool Tune For a Hot Planet-Episode 12
This week's installment of Cool Tunes for a Hot Planet is an eclectic mix of thematically related songs. Ukrainian Now, by Tom Paxton and John McCutcheon is an ensemble production lamenting the Russian invasion and exhorting us all to come together in support of the embattled Ukrainian people....
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Cool Tunes For a Hot Planet-Episode 11 Global Notes
An interview with Lola Perrin. Lola Perrin's work integrates her original music with the process of bringing audiences into the climate discussion. It's a fascinating and necessary approach to a thorny problem at the boundaries of performance art.
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Cool Tunes For a Hot Planet-Episode 10
This episode focuses on one of the immediate human costs of climate upheaval -- immigration. The refugee population is growing worldwide, accelerated by drought, famine, floods -- all environmental pressures that result from global warming, and will only get worse. The first step in combatting…
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Cool Tunes For a Hot Planet-Episode 3
This special edition of Cool Tunes for a Hot Planet celebrates Indigenous Peoples and their contributions to the environmental movement. muhu'wit, begins by chanting "Toki Toki," a song first recorded over 100 years ago by Lone Woman of San Nicolas Island.Next up is "No More Pipeline Blues (On…
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Cool Tunes For a Hot Planet-Episode 4
In this episode, Lisa Rogers and the Therapy Sisters sing Do Something, an energetic Western Swing song about all the things we can do to reach a sustainable future, politically and ecologically.In Precious Right, Patty Carpenter sings about the sacred right to vote, a right people have fought…
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Cool Tunes For a Hot Planet-Episode 5
Seth Bernard's The Time Has Come asks us to come together now, there's no more time to wait in the fight against the men whose greed is accelerating the climate change that is destroying our planet. The heartfelt lyrics implore us to find meaningful pathways to action, in our shared humanity.Our...
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Coll Tunes For a Hot Planet-Episode 6
In Last Winter, Mark Lagerwey expresses his longtime love of winter weather, and his sadness at its diminishment as global warming eats away at it all over the world. In floods, fires, and heatwaves, the warmth is overwhelming the cold - but we can solve the problem if we just muster up the will...
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Cool Tunes For a Hot Planet-Episode 7
Episode 7, entitled New Moon, New Year, celebrates the December 30th “black moon,” and the impending new year, commencing with Michigander Carrie Newcomer’s video for the song “Sanctuary.” This beautiful song was inspired by a letter she received from her good friend, Quaker writer Parker Palmer,...
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Cool Tunes For a Hot Planet-Episode 8
The release of Episode 8 falls on January 20, 2025: Inauguration Day and Martin Luther King, Jr. Day. Opposite polls of the spectrum, considering who won the presidential election. Our songs for this show cover that gamut, from anger about the man in the White House, to an alternate National...
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Cool Tunes For a Hot Planet-Episode 2
Songs to inspire action for justice and a cooler planet.Featuring Roy Zimmerman's rallying song for social justice, Harriet Jerusha Korim and Purly Gates singing Harriet's ode to Mother Earth, a song from the new Broadway musical premiering September 25, Distant Thunder, sung by Sean…
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Cool Tunes For a Hot Planet-Episode 1
Songs to inspire action for justice and a cooler planet. Spotlighting Grammy-nominated songwriter Eliza Gilkyson, with award-winning Third Actors James Kahn and Kerrville Folk Festival finalist Purly Rae Gates. Broadway veteran Joanna Rush and youth activist Veronica Vevang host and offer…
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Cool Tunes For a Hot Planet-Episode 9
Episode 9 of Cool Tunes for a Hot Planet is all about the water. Oceans, rivers, floods, droughts, and all the ways our waters are affected by climate change: the cost to habitats, to species, to communities – the price we all pay for the effects of global warming. Today’s explorations of this...
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Cool Tunes For a Hot Planet
The release of Episode 8 falls on January 20, 2025: Inauguration Day and Martin Luther King, Jr. Day. Opposite polls of the spectrum, considering who won the presidential election. Our songs for this show cover that gamut, from anger about the man in the White House, to an alternate National...
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