Episodes
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Food Summit Recap
Audio[audio:http://hughstimson.org/blog/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/wcbn-2012-04-30-120001-EDT.mp3] (Skip through first part of audio to get to show start!) We hosted this conversation with Shannon Brines, Jason Frenzel, and Lucas DiGia, organizers of the April 2012 Local Food Summit. How did the...
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Bird Geek Show!
Listen Here! Listen to this bird-tastic episode of “It’s Hot in Here Radio” with special guest Taylor Forrest of the UM Ornithological Society….complete with bird trivia, sound-bites of Michigan birds, and resources to get started with bird-watching!
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Environmental Ethics + Religion
Listen Here! (Skip through first part of audio to get to beginning of show…) NOTE: In this episode, we erroneously reported that Bill McKibben left 350.org…this is not true! It was an April Fool’s joke that Laura mistook for truth. Please accept our HUGE apology for a news mistake of this...
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Journalism and Environment
Listen Here! why is the news so depressing? can we trust the media to accurately report on environmental affairs? what will/should the future of environmental news + journalism be? Join Kat Superfisky (SNRE) + special guest co-host Phil D’Anieri (famous NPR and PitE legend), along with special...
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The Localization Reader: Adapting to the Coming Downshift
Audio: [audio:http://archive.org/download/hotinhere/wcbn-2012-02-20-120001-EST.mp3] (Scroll past the first 1:30 to get to beginning of show) Join us for this in-depth preview of the recently released book: “The Localization Reader: Adapting to the Coming Downshift.” Dr. Raymond De Young…
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House Greening
Listen here:[audio:http://archive.org/download/hotinhere/wcbn-2012-02-06-120001-EST.mp3] (Fast forward through the first 10 seconds or so to get to start of show!) Matt Grocoff and Joe Trumpey are were the HOUSE today! Co-hosts Rebecca Hardin and Laura Smith conversed with Matt and Joe throughout...
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2012 ReSkilling Festival Preview
Listen Here:[audio:http://archive.org/download/hotinhere/wcbn-2012-01-23-120001-EST.mp3] (Fast forward through the first 10 seconds or so to get to start of show!) Dying to learn how to preserve food, keep bees, meditate or craft string from bark????? Please join us on the radio today as we...
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Groundcover News and Uganda
Audio:[audio:http://annarborcalling.com/wcbn-2012-01-09-120001-EST.mp3] January 9th show with Susan, Rissa, and Marquise of Ann Arbor’s Groundcover News! Later, an interview with Jennifer about her research in Uganda.
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Consumption, Hoarding, Tight-wad Show
Listen Here:[audio:http://archive.org/download/hotinhere/wcbn-2011-12-19-120001-EST.mp3] (Show starts 2 minutes at 35 seconds into the recording!) Consumption is necessary for survival but also produces negative consequences for human health, society, and the environment. Research across domains...
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Poverty and Sustainability: Lessons from (and in) Detroit
Listen Here (Fast forward through the first minute until you get to start of the show!) Delray is one of Detroit’s most impoverished neighborhoods. It is a long-time victim to city planning efforts, sits in the most polluted zip code in the state of Michigan, and is the future home of the bridge...
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Turkeys, Travel and Teleportation
Audio[audio:http://archive.org/download/hotinhere/wcbn-2011-11-21-120001-EST.mp3] (scroll through the first minute and 25 seconds until you get to the show start!) Just in time for the mass exodus from Ann Arbor, SNRE’s own Shelie Miller, a specialist in life cycle assessment and energy, will…
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Environment, Information, and Sustainable Development: the Africa-Asia Nexus
Audio[audio:http://archive.org/download/hotinhere/hotinhere_hour.mp3] From oil wars to heroic computer geeks to strapping GPS devices on cows… Join us for this interview with recently hired faculty in the cluster for research and teaching on “Environment, Information, and Sustainable Development:...
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Talkin’ GMO’s with Jeffrey Smith
Audio[audio:http://archive.org/download/hotinhere/wcbn-2011-10-10-120001-EDT.mp3] Wondering about all this hype and controversy around GMO’s? “It’s Hot in Here Radio” presents an hour of GMO talk, punctuated with some catchy tunes, including, yes, a rap song about GMO’s. Millions of people speak...
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UM Campus Sustainability Variety Show
Audio[audio:http://archive.org/download/hotinhere/wcbn-2011-09-26-120001-EDT_VarietyShow.mp3] Sick of environmental talk being so gloomy-n-doomy? Wish you knew more about what sustainability-related initiatives and events were happening on U-M’s campus? Been hankering for some great tunes about...
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Homegrown Festival Preview
Audio[audio:http://archive.org/download/hotinhere/wcbn20110905.mp3] The righteous Laura Miesler joined us in the studio to chat about the upcoming, also righteous, Homegrown Festival(!) Listen to that conversation here…along with some great tunes by bands that will be at the festival. How can you...
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SELMA Cafe, Farmer Fund, 20 in 20, Tilian, and more!
Audio Part 1[audio:http://hughstimson.org/blog/wp-content/uploads/2011/06/wcbn20110613part1.mp3] Audio Part 2[audio:http://archive.org/download/hotinhere/wcbn20110613part2.mp3] Well first at the start of the show we tried (epic fail) to talk to Scott Brines about the proposed new bridge /...
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May 23: Change. Chicken. Curiosity. Clean Air.
Audio[audio:http://archive.org/download/hotinhere/wcbn20110523.mp3] Join us this week as we check-in and chat change with Kat Superfisky in Brooklyn, John Harnois on his farm in Whitmore Lake, Emily Plews in Columbus, and Michelle Martinez in Detroit! Bam! Lessons Learned The Big Apple is Green,...
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May 16th: A Conversation with Michelle Martinez of the Sierra Club
Audio[audio:http://archive.org/download/hotinhere/wcbn20110516.mp3] The Sierra Club‘s not just about birds anymore. Join us, as we talk fish, hair, toxics, green jobs, energy, environmental justice and more with Michelle Martinez, former UM School of Natural Resources and Environment M.S. student...
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May 9th: Beth Diamond (in the back)
Audio[audio:http://archive.org/download/hotinhere/wcbn20110509.mp3] This week we talk Earth Art, Detroit’s Heidleberg Project, liminality, and jam to some stone cold grooves with Beth Diamond. Beth Diamond An Actual Diamond (No Blood was Shed during the Cutting and Pasting of this Image) Beth is…
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May 2: Rain, Fish, Prostitution and (of course) Nasal Irrigation
Audio[audio:http://archive.org/download/hotinhere/wcbn20110502.mp3]
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Eco-Mendable Actions: A Conversation with PitE Students
Audio[audio:http://archive.org/download/hotinhere/wcbn20110425.mp3] This week on the program, we found some rays of sunshine on a rainy day. Kadie McShirley and Lindsay, two students from the Program in the Environment, joined us in the studio to share their most recent projects and travels. A...
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Why do we Waste?
Audio[audio:http://archive.org/download/hotinhere/wcbn20110418.mp3] We chatted with UM doctoral student about his year-long experiment to go trash-free. See audio link to show below, and learn about how he managed this experiment, blogged about it, and inspired others in the process! Check out...
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Energy, Budgets and Birds (Oh My!)
Audio[audio:http://archive.org/download/hotinhere/wcbn20110411.mp3] Join us for the debut of IHIH’s newest co-hosts Laura (Lolo Smith) and Kat (Superfly) Superfisky! Kerry Duggan, Senior Advisor, Legislative Affairs, Energy Efficiency & Renewable Energy, U.S. Department of Energy joins us to hype...
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April 4th Arborama Show
Audio[audio:http://archive.org/download/hotinhere/wcbn20110404.mp3]
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She’s Superfisky, Yeah!
Audio[audio:http://archive.org/download/hotinhere/wcbn20110331.mp3]
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$hare the Love: IHIH Fundrai$er Edition
Audio[audio:http://archive.org/download/hotinhere/wcbn20110314.mp3] Get in$pired, pick up the phone and pledge your donation @ 734.763.3500. Or, donate online here! Bonu$ Alert: Your donation get$ you some $uper cool WCBN $wag. Like this hot Abe T-shirt for your gift of only 35$: or WCBN pint…
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Beat the Winter Blues! Come on Get Happy!
Audio[audio:http://archive.org/download/hotinhere/wcbn20110228.mp3]
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Ann Arbor Winter 2011 Reskilling Festival
Audio[audio:http://archive.org/download/hotinhere/wcbn20110131.mp3] Want to feel more satisfied in your day-to-day? Always been curious about home funerals/permaculture/meditation/bread-yogurt-kombucha-making/wild winter medicines/getting your garden going, et al? Then listen in as we talk…
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EvoValuation, the Greening of Detroit’s Downtown Synagogue and Some Wise Words from MLK Jr.
Audio[audio:http://archive.org/download/hotinhere/wcbn20110117.mp3]
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Goodbye 2010, Hello 2011
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Nourishing Traditions and Lacto Fermentation
[audio:http://hughstimson.org/blog/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/AnnArborCalled-ep1-128.mp3|titles=Ann Arbor Called – Episode 1] Jeff, David, and Mark interview Francis Farmer about Dr. Weston A. Price, a UM grad who studied healthy traditional people. We learn about how the microflora in our guts…
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COP16 Perspectives and NWAEG
Audio[audio:http://archive.org/download/hotinhere/wcbn20101206.mp3]
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Getting Fresh
Audio[audio:http://archive.org/download/hotinhere/wcbn20101129.mp3] Noam Kimelman of Get Fresh Detroit joins us in the studio to talk about food access in Detroit and his new initiative to put fresh fruits and vegetables in corner stores all over the city. Then we get a call from Jeff who blogs…
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Hello, Wello
Audio[audio:http://archive.org/download/hotinhere/wcbn20101122.mp3] We’re joined in the studio by Cynthia Koenig of Wello, a social venture committed to bringing safe, potable water to the people who need it most. Guest co-host Emily Plews helps us figure out why gratitude is so healthy and why...
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Talkin’ Turkey with John Harnois of Harnois Farms
Audio[audio:http://archive.org/download/hotinhere/wcbn20101115.mp3] Listen in and let John Harnois of Harnois Farms put you in the mood for the most delicious secular holiday of the year – THANKSGIVING! John hand-raises happy, healthy and sometimes heritage turkeys, chickens, geese and ducks.…
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Get Fermented with David Klingenberger of The Brinery
Audio[audio:http://archive.org/download/hotinhere/wcbn20101108.mp3] Global economic meltdown got you down? Then listen in and let David Klingenberger CFO (Chief Fermentation Officer) of Ann Arbor’s own The Brinery stimulate your inner economy. After an exxxtraspecial call-in from from America’s...
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Election Edition: Vote
Audio[audio:http://archive.org/download/hotinhere/wcbn20101101.mp3] Failure to vote is not a protest, it’s just lazy. Tune in to get a sense of the mood in DC – hear from the Michigan League of Conservation Voters on who’s greenest on your ballot – from Emily/Judy about the role of business in...
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October 25 show
Audio[audio:http://archive.org/download/hotinhere/wcbn20101025.mp3]
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Great Lakes, Green Jobs: Environmental Justice, Clean Jobs, and Activism
Audio[audio:http://archive.org/download/hotinhere/wcbn20101018.mp3] This just in: the Detroit Incinerator is officially shut down and the Beehive Collective is soon coming to town! Tune into It’s Hot in Here, Monday from 12-1 on 88.3 WCBN-FM-Ann Arbor, or wcbn.org/listen.html for our “Great…
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Real Time Farms dot com!
Audio[audio:http://archive.org/download/hotinhere/wcbn20101011.mp3] Karl and Cara of RealTimeFarms.com join us live in the studio to tell us about all the goings on around supporting real time information regarding local food and farms.
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Ten-Ten-Ten and more reasons to celebrate it!
Audio[audio:http://archive.org/download/hotinhere/wcbn20101004.mp3] 10/10/10 is just under a week away, and if the fact that the day, month, and year are all the same number isn’t enough reason for you to get out of the house, Bill McKibben’s 350.org International Day of Action is coming to a…
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Appalachia rising
Audio[audio:http://archive.org/download/hotinhere/wcbn20100927.mp3] Our friend Rachel Long joins us in studio to tell us about the grassroots efforts working to end mountaintop removal coal mining in Appalachia. www.appalachiarising.org
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Like a Living Stone
Audio[audio:http://archive.org/download/hotinhere/wcbn20100920.mp3] We’re joined by Amy Heath of Living Stones Community, a farm that partners with the Michigan Prisoner Re-entry Initiative to help returning citizens get back on their feet. We talk about good food and good work and what makes...
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Labor Day show
Audio[audio:http://archive.org/download/hotinhere/wcbn20100906.mp3] A Labor Day show.
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A show about hot things
Audio[audio:http://archive.org/download/hotinhere/wcbn20100830.mp3] Gina and Rachel talk paganism, wildfires, Canada vs. USA for the title of environmental hero/villain, and urban transit on this hot, hot afternoon. We’re joined on the phone line by Rachel Wells of CLEAR Corps, a Detroit…
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Tar Sands: Not Just for Dinosaurs & Prehistoric Mammals
Audio[audio:http://archive.org/download/hotinhere/wcbn20100823.mp3] Petropolis website Hugh tells us all about the Alberta tar sands, which some say are the second biggest oil reserve in the world after the Saudi oil fields. We started on the crenellated* fjords of the British Columbia coast,...
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A Travel Themed Show
Audio[audio:http://archive.org/download/hotinhere/wcbn20100816.mp3] Gillian Ream, co-founder of Michigan Agritours, joins us in the studio to talk about bikes, beers, and the joys of local agritourism. Plus What’s in Season (kohlrabi!), Sarah’s Sustainable Choices (planes, trains, or diesel...
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How to Stay Cool When You’re So Hot
Audio[audio:http://hughstimson.org/blog/wp-content/uploads/2010/08/wcbn20100809part1.mp3] Audio Part 2[audio:http://archive.org/download/hotinhere/wcbn20100809part2.mp3] Listen in to welcome IHIH’s newest co-hostess Sarah – and stay for summer tunes and sustainable strategies to stay cool when...
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Reunion Radio with the Founders of the smallinfinityproject.com
Audio[audio:http://hughstimson.org/blog/wp-content/uploads/2010/07/wcbn20100726part1.mp3] Audio Part 2[audio:http://archive.org/download/hotinhere/wcbn20100726part2.mp3] It’s summer. You’re hot. We’re hot. And guess what? We’ve missed you! Join the It’s Hot in Here family LIVE or LATER for an...
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Real Time Farms & US Social Forum update
Audio[audio:http://archive.org/download/hotinhere/wcbn20100607.mp3] Join Jeffrey Green Bean, Rachel Chadderdon, and DJ Local as they talk with Karl and Cara of Real Time Farms about their recently launched and amazingly fun website that provides real time updates regarding farmers markets near…
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