Your Community Spirit

Happenings include several minutes of this episode going unrecorded due to Treesong’s absent-mindedness. News includes Senate environment committee approves climate bill; part of Healthy Forests law struck down for skirting eco-reviews; states petition EPA to regulate airline emissions; green group tests toys for toxics, publishes results online; severe precipitation in US increased over past half century; Brad Pitt wants your help with green building project; UN climate conference opens in Bali; Australia ratifies Kyoto; and US could slash emissions at little cost with boosted efficiency.

Happenings include holidays; Farmer’s Market; Vigil for Peace; Habitat for Humanity; Good Samaritan Cookbook fundraiser; Annual Mission Yard Sale; Hero Fest 2010. News includes EPA cooling tips; humans must leave Earth to survive; obesity, chemical exposure causing some girls to hit puberty at age 7; 100+ quick rebuttals to climate change deniers; weekend without oil; Obama panel urges U.S. backing for clean coal.

News includes Protests Are Putting Serious Dent In Tar Sands Expansion; Indonesia’s Huge Fires Might Be The Worst Climate Change Crisis On Earth Right Now; West Virginia Power Company Admits Coal Is Doomed; Elevated CO2 Levels Directly Affect Human Cognition; How Tanzania Plans To Light Up A Million Homes With Solar Power. Happenings include Safe Zone Halloween Party; Take Back The Night; Farmers Market; Great Carbondale Pumpkin Race; Labyrinth Walk.

Happenings include This Day in History; Open Minds roundtable; and the Grove of Southern Illinois. News includes reducing unwanted catalogs in the mail; green resolutions; 215 climate scientists sign declaration urging action; US avoids action at climate meeting and announces alternative climate meeting; and Greenland ice sheet is melting.

Happenings include holidays; start of the Fall semester; Rice and Spice Slow Food Dinner; Emergency Tour; Farmer’s Market; Vigil for Peace; Hero Fest 2010. News includes controversy over Ten Commandments monument; Americans don’t know jack about energy savings.

News includes Bernie Sanders Wants To Ban New Offshore Drilling And Fossil Fuel Development On Federal Land; Residents Taking Back Polluted California City; Is The Rest Of The World’s Climate Action Saving The U.S. Billions Of Dollars; Daylight Saving Time Really Does Suck; Most Americans Accept That Climate Change Is Real But Don’t Care Much About It. Happenings include Farmers Market; November Vigil For Peace And Justice: Let’s Stop Making Enemies; Merchants Of Doubt Film Showing; I Can Read Annual Fundraiser; Science Center’s Science Of Cocktails Fundraiser; Labyrinth Walk.

Happenings include This Day in History; Film Friday at the Big Muddy IMC; and the Winter Solstice. News includes the energy bill; Tory leader lauds ‘Green Coal’; US warmer than normal in early 2008; digital fires courtesy iYule; colleges around the country take green steps; tax incentives for clean energy not yet renewed, but may soon be; US House passes toy safety bill; EPA won’t let California enact vehicle greenhouse gas limits; British scientists tells women to stop drooling over gas guzzling males; fat fueled speedboat undertakes second circumnavigation effort; Al Gore runner-up for Person of the Year; and Hybrid Technologies will convert your gas guzzler to a full electric.

Happenings include holidays; International Coffee Hour; Critical Mass; Iftar at Rice and Spice slow food dinner; Watermelon Welcome; Environmental Ethics talk by Treesong; Art as Visual Poetry; Farmer’s Markets; Vigil for Peace; Habitat for Humanity; Art of Living course. News includes Prius soon losing its silence; climate change altering English language; homemade preserves.

News includes Electric Cars Are Better Than Gas Cars When It Comes To Emissions; Major Greenland Glacier Collapsing; Push To Employ Veterans In Solar Industry; Controversial Climate Fund Scrambles To Fund Its First Projects; Peabody Settlement Shows Muscle Of Law Now Aimed At Exxon. Happenings include Third Annual Carbondale Community Arts University; Farmers Market; Labyrinth Autumn Work Day; I Can Read Annual Fundraiser; New Humanist Forum: Religious Humanism In The 21st Century; Carbondale In Thanksgiving; Transpoetic Playground; Cousin Andy’s Presents: Amy Kucharik.

Happenings include holidays; Hero Fest 2010; Thai food at Rice and Spice; Farmer’s Market; Carter and Connelley at Darn Hot Peppers; Warming Water and Fragile Frogs presentation by Sierra Club. News includes the benefits of organic vs conventional; new oil disaster; ten green stories to amaze your friends.

News includes France Forbids Massive Climate March In Wake Of Paris Attacks; How Climate Activists Plan To Mobilize In Paris Without Marches; Economy Would Gain Two Million New Jobs In Low-Carbon Transition; BP Could Claim A Massive Tax Write-Off From Deepwater Oil Spill Penalties; Morocco Will Soon Become World’s Solar Energy Superpower. Happenings include Movie And Pizza Party; Cousin Andy’s Presents: Amy Kucharik; Farmers Market; Green Earth Monthly Workday; Empty Bowls; Memoir Writing Workshop.

Happenings include the WDBX Fall Membership Drive; holidays; Pakistani / Southern Indian at Rice and Spice; Farmer’s Market; Fall Work Day at Gaia House Interfaith Center; Vigil for Peace; Cache River Days; SIUC Carbondale Days of Service; Shawnee National Forest Work Days; Teacher Workshop, River Watch Discovery; Parenting Support and Discussion Group; Two Journeys Down a Rocky Road; Solar Knowledge for Beginners; Introduction to Environmental Ethics. News includes climate zombies; use your laptop to solve global water crisis; our food system gulps energy.

SNEAK PREVIEW FOR WEB LISTENERS! Treesong has used his Time and Correspondence magic to bring web listeners this episode of Your Community Spirit several days early. Happenings include holidays; WDBX Membership Drive; Chinese food for Rice and Spice; Farmer’s Market; Vigil for Peace; Green Earth workday; Crab Orchard cleanup; Art of Living course; Introduction to Environmental Ethics; Solar Knowledge for Beginners course; Sustainable Living Expo; IL Native Plants Society. News includes rebranding for High Fructose Corn Syrup; infamous factory farmer Jack DeCoster may be largest U.S. chick magnate; thick layer of oil on ocean floor after BP disaster; White House challenged to put up solar; China overtakes U.S. as best country for green investors; Congress may someday consider Renewable Electricity Standard.

Interview with Kathleen Logan Smith, Director of Food Works about the Food Works Fall Feast.

Happenings include holidays; Hug a Vegetarian Week; Taste of Downtown at Rice and Spice; Farmer’s Market; Green Earth Spruce-Up Day; Vigil for Peace; Wind Power Forum; WDBX. News includes Heartland Solar Tour; Stephen Colbert becomes a farm worker; carrot vending machines and bulk wine dispensers both become a thing.

Interview with Kristine Adams about her memoir writing workshops.

Happenings include holidays; Sun Foods at Rice and Spice; Farmer’s Market; Vigil for Peace; Church and State discussion for Ralph Anderson Interfaith Dialog; GLBT History Month; Community Pride Picnic; L(GBT)eadership Retreat; Further Off the Straight and Narrow discussion of GLBT in the media; Acts of God discussion of claims that acts of God are a judgment against humanity. News includes Heartland Solar Tour; President Nasheed talks about climate change and his nation’s survival; Living Building Challenge goes beyond LEED standard; economic growth doesn’t necessarily make us happier or more eco-friendly; Obama pledges to use the whole weight of the Presidency to address climate change.

News includes Hundreds Of Thousands March For Climate In Record-Breaking Day Of Action; Environmental Justice Groups Not Impressed With Expected Paris Agreement; Indigenous Women On Front Lines Of Climate Change; Most Americans Want Global Agreement On Climate; New Global Alliance Signs On 121 Sun-Drenched Countries To Fund Solar Power Tech. Happenings include Farmers Market; Vigil: Time For Action On Climate Change; Lights Fantastic Parade; Southern Illinois Alternative Gift Fair; Labyrinth Walk; New Humanist Forum.

Happenings include holidays; Latin foods at Rice and Spice; Farmer’s Market; Vigil for Peace; Free Lecture by Tibetan Rinpoche Kiljung Jigme; Election 2010 Candidates Forum; GLBT History Month; Laramie Project play at Varsity Center for the Arts; SIUC Homecoming Parade; National Coming Out Day; Identities Film Fest. News includes solar panels on the White House; controversial climate change commercial features exploding children; Mad Men actor rides public transit to work; Presidential commission issues scathing report; White House dismisses scathing report.

Interview with Kathy Renfro, Executive Director of Carbondale Park District, about the Super Splash Park.

Happenings include holidays; Northern Indian food at Rice and Spice; Laramie Project at Varsity Center for the Arts; Farmer’s Market; Vigil for Peace; World Religions; Non-Violent Communication; It’s Not Just Your Grandmother’s ERA. News includes a blatant misspelling of Rich Whitney’s name on electronic ballots; think tanks say dump cap and trade, put billions into renewables; car recycling bins; corn waste fuel; Obama wobbles on oil; Aur’s electric vehicle now has all of the required parts.

Interview with Cindy McGee, Executive Director of the Night’s Shield Children’s Shelter.

Happenings include holidays; Treesong’s trip to zombie apocalypse land; Lebanese cuisine at Rice and Spice; Farmer’s Market; Vigil for Peace; Guided Soundwalk of SIUC Campus; concert by yogic monk Dada Veda; 24 Hour Koran Reading; Illinois State Senate energy hearings in Chicago. News includes Germany scaling back on growth of solar; 8 medical technologies that seem straight from sci-fi; Monsanto pays farmers to spray rivals’ herbicides; Lady Gaga meat outfit not an ecological choice for Halloween; putting out the recycling could save your life.

News includes Global Climate Deal Close To Finishing Line; ExxonMobil Warns Of Catastrophic Global Warming; Oil Industry Is About To Get A Big Gift From Congress; Indigenous Leaders In Paris Issue Declaration Calling For The End Of Fossil Fuel Extraction. Happenings include Farmers Market; New Humanist Forum; Freecycle Shop; Transpoetic Playground; Movie And Pizza Party.

Happenings include holidays; Atomic Cafe film and discussion at Big Muddy IMC; Costumed Critical Mass; Muslim-American Cuisine at Rice and Spice; 24 Hour Koran Reading and Teaching; Farmer’s Market; Vigil for Peace; Forgiveness as an Act of Faith at the Ralph Anderson Interfaith Dialog; Election Day; Food Works Fall Feast Dinner. News includes China outpacing the U.S. in wind energy; Schwarzenegger and Cameron join forces to protect climate legislation; Reverse Trick or Treating challenges spooky unfairly traded candies.

We’re switching around the format of the show: news, holidays, happenings. Music includes Yeo Vally’s organic dairy rap. News includes leftover tips from Energy Awareness Month; EPA proposes endangered species status for two freshwater mussels; Happy Meals banned in San Francisco; EPA catches environmental fugitive. Happenings include International Coffee Hour; Malaysian cuisine for Rice and Spice; film showing at Big Muddy IMC moves to Sundays; Farmer’s Market; Vigil for Peace; Habitat for Humanity; SIUI5 conference; Nature’s Highlights presentation from Shawnee Group Sierra Club; Real Life Superhero talk by Treesong.

News includes Green Groups Deeply Divided On Whether Paris Agreement Is Win Or Loss; Company Is Bottling Air In Canada And Selling It To China; Paris Climate Pact Sinks Coal Stocks And Lifts Renewable Energy; Big Oil Just Won Another Round In Congress; North Carolina Town Bans Solar For Fear It Will Suck Up All Energy From Sun. Happenings include Movie And Pizza Party; Cousin Andy’s; Farmers Market; Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Community Celebration.

News includes cruise ship going off grid for vacationers; the 10 R’s of green living; the hottest ideas coming out of Greenbuild 2010; paint and seed grenade launcher aims to bomb the blight out of America; anti-advertising billboard showcases the clean air around it. Happenings include Turkish with Selin at Rice and Spice; Farmer’s Market; Vigil for Peace; Lobby Day to Repeal the Death Penalty; DAVID ROVICS returns to Carbondale; Annual Vegetarian Thanksgiving; Gaia House Interfaith Center capital campaign. The closing song is Behind the Barricades by David Rovics.

Happenings include Rosetta Summer Sidewalk Sale; Fiction Book Club; RBF Dome recognition; Veterans for Peace; March through the Arch in St Louis; and local artist Matty Shannon blows glass at the Neighborhood Co-op. News includes pollution causing 40 percent of all deaths; 1998 second hottest year on record; hospitals opt for less toxic equipment; electric cars getting cheaper; and solar powered mouse being tested.

Happenings include holidays; Agriculture Industry Day; International Coffee Hour; final clean-up at Big Muddy IMC; Rice and Spice; Conflict and Negotiation presentation; Farmer’s Market; Vigil for Peace; numerous events for Fuller Dome Transformation Initiative; numerous events for Earth Day at SIUC Student Center.

Happenings and news were not written down for today. I’ll bet we talked about local happenings and climate change news!

Happenings include holidays; International Coffee Hour; Rice and Spice; Climate Change discussion at International Student Forum; Local Foods with Farmer Steve Smith at Rice and Spice; Farmer’s Market; Vigil for Peace; Habitat for Humanity Workday; Thinkfast 24 hour fast in support of those who go without; Cedar Lake cleanup day; Cache River Nature Fest; Sex and the Soul discussion; Palestine film showing. News includes renaming Earth Day; 40 people who are redefining green; hopensource.org; go green by quitting smoking; Monsanto’s Roundup Read bad for soil; U.S. military shrinking carbon bootprint; 7 great uses for industrial hemp.

Happenings include Irish Fest celebration dinner; several SEC events; critical mass; and the Peace on Earth party. News includes the 11th Hour; vegetarians reducing eco footprint; green tips for your car; New Orleans playgrounds contaminated with arsenic; near record temps in 2006 due to climate change; carbon dioxide contributes to ungrassing of grasslands; bambo motorcycle helmet; curbing air pollution from coal plants results in more ash in landfills; and unique hybrid for greens who want to look conspicuous.

Happenings include holidays; International Coffee Hour; Bengali at Rice and Spice; Habitat for Humanity; Vigil for Peace; Annual Hazardous Household Chemical Collection; Photographing Birds; 20th Annual Heartwood Council. News includes MyFootprint.org; Peabody Energy exec misleads during coal debate; Veggie Double Down; world’s first carbon negative car; UK homes heated by human feces; Amazon deforestation down 51 percent; photographers explore urban forests; bio-sensing briefs track your vitals.

Happenings include a 9/11 film at the Big Muddy IMC; Student Environmental Center picnic; and a closing reception for Lauren Zadikow’s art show. News includes fuel economy stickers; declining penguin population due in part to climate change; Pope urges youth to care fore planet; and UN climate meeting ends with whole lotta nothin.

Happenings include holidays; International Coffee Hour; Cinco de Mayo (Mexican Food) at Rice and Spice; Food Fight barn film screening and acoustic jam; Black and Blue Derby Prom; Vigil for Peace; Farmer’s Market. News includes hundreds of thousands of gallons of oil leaking into the ocean; strange toxic chemicals being used to clean it up; and pay phones being turned into car charging stations.

Happenings include Why We Fight; old tire collection; orange ribbon anti-torture campaign; GLBT resource center open house; Student Environmental Center meeting; Apple Fest; and the Pig Out. News includes climate change decreasing agricultural output; US climate change research found inadequate; bill to phase out incandescents; religious leaders hold climate change symposium; and municipalities encourage student walking.

Happenings include holidays; Ethiopian at Rice and Spice; Farmer’s Market; Habitat for Humanity; Vigil for Peace; Gaia House Open House; Bike to Work Day; Downtown Art and Wine Fair. News includes new British government releases green platform; polls offer mixed reviews among Americans on climate, energy, oil drilling; libraries offer Kill a Watt energy use meter for loan.

Happenings include Iraq Moratorium Walk-Out; Darfur event; Forbidden Philosophies; SEC meeting; Bioneers; and the Bucky Dome. News includes record sea ice melting; San Francisco plans hour of darkness; pesticides up to no good; investors petition to require corporate disclosure of climate risk; Vatican aims for carbon neutrality; Army Corp halts work on destructive Missouri river project; DNA testing settles claims of chem exposure; and car greening.

Happenings include holidays; Bike to Work Day; Trails of Awareness fundraiser; Italian with Melissa at Rice and Spice; two Farmer’s Markets; Vigil for Peace; Habitat for Humanity workday; Downtown Art and Wine Fair; Local Beach Opening; 20th Annual Heartwood Council. News includes wine bottle reuse; Obama takes aim at oil companies over slick; Mineral Management Services run by oil industry; some Americans think environmentalists caused oil spill; government officials take BP figured on oil spill at face value; 16 tips for avoiding climate burnout.

Happenings include Hug a Vegetarian and Kiss a Vegan Day; and International Day of Non-Violence. News includes Brad Pitt pledges $5 million for green New Orleans homes; Bush hosts climate change discussion; banks pressure Bush to act on climate change; Dell pledges to go carbon neutral; EPA may approve toxic alternative to ozone-depleting pesticide; companies disclosing and mitigating emissions; Wal-Mart tracks some suppliers’ energy efficiency; nations agree to phase out ozone-depleters faster; and Greenpeace ranks tech companies on eco record.

Happenings include holidays; Sustainable Transportation Tour homecoming; French cuisine at Rice and Spice; Farmer’s Market; Vigil for Peace; Habitat for Humanity; 20th Annual Heartwood Council. News includes EPA response to oil spill; 350.org response to oil spill; Obama halts new offshore leases, stumps for climate bill; Obama preaches green tech gospel to California choir.

Happenings include National Solar Tour; Heartland Bioneers; GLBT events; and Rally for Reproductive Justice. News includes climate campaigners nominated for Nobel Prize; Times Square New Years Goes Green; Senate may soon vote on sea treaty; Congress moves ahead on climate legislation; China phases out incandescents; UK judge rules Inconvenient Truth partisan but still suitable for schools; states adopt decoupling plan to encourage energy efficiency; and fair trade market boosted by consumer demand.

Happenings include holidays; Rice and Spice; Farmer’s Market; Vigil for Peace; Habitat for Humanity; Soldiers Speak Out film screening. News includes Treesong’s reflections on Heartwood Forest Council; ‘BP Spill Bill’ instead of climate bill; world’s ecosystems provide services equal to global income.

Happenings include Richard Gilewitz at Cousin Andy’s Coffeehouse; National Solar Tour; Heartland Bioneers; Clean Car Wash by Sierra Club and SEC; Ralph Anderson Interfaith Dialog; Co-op Supper Club; and the Shawnee Trash Bash. News includes organic lawn care on National Mall; big biz coalition pressures suppliers to report carbon emissions; Dannon pays fines for pollution; publisher produces eco-friendly Bible; utility pays billions in acid rain settlement; and a man walks from UK to India.

Happenings include holidays; Muslim American Goodness at Rice and Spice; tour of Gaia House and Labyrinth Peace Garden; performance of Bartram’s Flowers; Farmer’s Market; Vigil for Peace; Habitat for Humanity Workday; Bitch and Stitch (conversation and stitching); Carbondale Swings; Midwest Renewable Energy Fair. News includes dishing out blame pie for Gulf Oil Disaster; video games save planet; Advanced Energy Solutions and Your Community Spirit anniversary; sustainability is the next business mega-trend.

Happenings include Bioneers; Take Back The Night; Grand Opening of new Green Earth trail; Sierra club trash bash; Brat Pack; and Vulture Fest. News includes… BIONEERS!

The first 15 minutes of the show were not recorded due to human error. Happenings include Midwest Renewable Energy Fair (not recorded); Native American at Rice and Spice; Farmer’s Market; Habitat for Humanity; Vigil for Peace; Green Earth Work Day; History of Giant City State Park and Building of the Lodge; Bitch ‘n’ Stitch; Carbondale Swings. News includes twice as much oil leaking; embattled BP chief faces angry U.S. lawmakers; oil spill underscores need for Gulf-area economies to diversify; New York solar bill could generate 22,000 jobs.

News includes The Whole World Is Breaking The Law By Ignoring Climate Change; Want To Fix The Climate? First We Have To Change Everything; Spain Got 47 Percent Of Its Energy From Renewables In March. Happenings include Carbondale Community Farmers Market; Environmental Justice Vigil; LOGIC Herb Spiral; Transpoetic Playground.

Happenings include Power Generation: Concert for Climate Change; student-led candlelight vigil and march for peace; critical mass; American Blackout showing at Big Muddy IMC; contra dancing; presentation by Nobel Peace Laureate; Veggie Thanksgiving next month; and Peace Coalition march for peace. News includes UK wrangling over air-freighted organic foods; sprawling homes susceptible to wildfires; White House waters down CDC climate testimony; ceiling fans help energy efficiency year round; fossil record study predicts climate change could fuel mass extinction; mining law reform bill pending; fewer hunters means less hunting for conservation; predictions argue Peak Oil has come and gone; and phasing out leaded gasoline may have reduced crime rate.