http://www.cchange.net Covering the transformations to social, environment and economic sustainability Wed, 08 Feb 2012 00:08:33 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 Sea Change Radio covers the transformations to social, environmental, and economic sustainability. Change is accelerating in positive and negative directions: the clock is ticking in the race to see which will tip first—the problems or the solutions. Join Sea Change's Host, Alex Wise, as he provides in-depth analysis to help our audience understand possible remedies and potential pitfalls. Sea Change interviews sustainability experts including Paul Hawken, Stewart Brand, Bill McKibben, Van Jones, Lester Brown, and many others. Sea Change airs on over 30 radio stations around the country. Alex Wise clean Alex Wise awise@cchange.net awise@cchange.net (Alex Wise) 2007-2011 Making Connections for Sustainability Sustainability, Climate Change, Human Rights, Environment, Corporate Responsibility, Socially Responsible Investing, Accountability, Stakeholders, Clean Tech, Renewable Energy, Green Jobs, Wealth Divide http://www.cchange.net/wp-content/uploads/cwr-images-archive/SeaChangeRadioTAG_square144_sm.jpg http://www.cchange.net Weekly http://www.cchange.net/2010/03/24/whose-commonwealth-is-it/ http://www.cchange.net/2010/03/24/whose-commonwealth-is-it/#comments Wed, 24 Mar 2010 20:45:07 +0000 Francesca Rheannon http://www.cchange.net/?p=2408 http://www.cchange.net/2010/03/24/whose-commonwealth-is-it/feed/ 0 back to the future,Clean Tech,clean technology,Commonwealth,Dan Juhl,David Bollier,digital sphere,energy expert,green economy,intellectual commons,kerry buckley,mass humanities Journalist and policy strategist David Bollier tells us about the idea of the commons, wind energy expert Patrick Quinlan talks about how wind power in Massachusetts has become a battleground over competing definitions of the commons, (http://www.cchange.net/wp-content/uploads/2010/03/Bollier_photo_June_10082-150x150.jpg) Welcome to the final episode in our Sea Change series, Back to the Future. Journalist and policy strategist David Bollier tells us about the idea of the commons; wind energy expert Patrick Quinlan talks about wind power in Massachusetts and how it has become a battleground over competing definitions of the commons; wind developer Dan Juhl talks about community wind power; and historian Kerry Buckley sums up the lessons of our series. Each month, Back To The Future looks at what we can learn from the past, when we used far less fossil fuels than we do today. We explore practices we can adapt as we move toward a lower carbon future. Last month (http://www.cchange.net/2010/02/17/cool-industry-for-a-cooler-planet/), we looked at how water power in Holyoke, Massachusetts helped fuel the industrial revolution in the U.S. and is powering the birth of a green economy in Holyoke. This month we look at how the ancient idea of the commons can be adapted to ensuring the survival of the ecological commons. We also take the case of wind power in Massachusetts to examine how controversy has erupted over conflicting ways people define the common good. David Bollier (http://www.bollier.org/) is a journalist and policy strategist whose work focuses on the politics, economics and culture of the commons.  He's the editor of the web portal and blog OntheCommons.org (http://www.onthecommons.org/ ) and also co-founder of Public Knowledge (http://www.publicknowledge.org/), a public interest group defending the rights of the  intellectual commons in the digital sphere.  Lately he's been thinking about how to establish a international legal framework for protecting the ecological commons. Patrick Quinlan is Associate Director of the Wind Energy Center (http://www.umass.edu/windenergy/)at the University of Massachusetts-Amherst. He's been actively involved in wind power and clean technology development since 1982.  He was an advisor to the U.S. Office of Science and Technology Policy and worked for the National Renewable Energy Laboratory in the Washington office, serving the Federal wind energy, solar energy, geothermal, and hydrogen technology programs. (http://www.cchange.net/wp-content/uploads/2010/03/juhl_wind-104x150.jpg)Minnesota-based Dan Juhl of Juhl Wind (http://www.juhlwind.com/) is one of America's pioneers in community wind power. Sea Change Radio interviewed him (http://www.cchange.net/2008/07/16/the-community-building-power-of-wind/) originally in 2008. Kerry Buckley is executive director of Historic Northampton (http://www.historic-northampton.org/). He's the author of several books and editor of A PLACE CALLED PARADISE (http://search.barnesandnoble.com/A-Place-Called-Paradise/Kerry-W-Buckley/e/9781558494855). This program is funded in part by Mass Humanities, which receives support from the Massachusetts Cultural Council and is an affiliate of the National Endowment for the Humanities. Francesca Rheannon clean http://www.cchange.net/2010/01/27/back-to-the-future-getting-around-on-rails-and-trails/ http://www.cchange.net/2010/01/27/back-to-the-future-getting-around-on-rails-and-trails/#comments Wed, 27 Jan 2010 20:48:51 +0000 Francesca Rheannon http://www.cchange.net/?p=2312 http://www.cchange.net/2010/01/27/back-to-the-future-getting-around-on-rails-and-trails/feed/ 0 back to the future,cathy stanton,commuter rail lines,craig della penna,francesca rheannon,kerry buckley,light rail,mass humanities,northampton museum,radio series,rail trails,trolley system In this edition of the Sea Change Radio series Back To The Future, Francesca Rheannon talks with historian Kerry Buckley about the heyday of the trolley system in Massachusetts; rail trail promoter Craig Della Penna talks about how rail trails came abo... In this edition of the Sea Change Radio series Back To The Future, Francesca Rheannon talks with historian Kerry Buckley about the heyday of the trolley system in Massachusetts; rail trail promoter Craig Della Penna talks about how rail trails came abo... Francesca Rheannon clean 29:29