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September 29, October 6 - Reaching 20% of Electricity from Wind by 2030
The American Wind Energy Association's Hans Detweiler talks through the AWEA and Dept of Energy's report on how to get to a fifth of the nation's electricity from wind by the year 2030. Taped August 10th, 2008 at the Illinois Renewable Energy Association's annual fair in Oregon, Il. Two parts.
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September 15, 22 - The End of Cheap Fossil Fuel
Energy policy analyst and industry regulator Robert Lieberman muses on the implicactions of the end of the era of cheap energy. Two parts. Taped August 9th, 2008 at the Illinois Renewable Energy Association's annual fair in Oregon, Il. Two parts.
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August 25, September 8 - A Carbon-Free, Nuclear-Free Roadmap
Dave Kraft of the NEIS presents a plan to convert nationally to renewable electrical energy generation with no carbon emissions and without resort to nuclear energy by the year 2050 in this 2-part presentation. Taped August 9th, 2008 at the Illinois Renewable Energy Association's annual fair in Oregon, Il. Two parts.
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August 11, 18 - Jim Hightower
Columnist, NPR commentator and author of
Swim Against The Current: Even A Dead Fish Can Go With the Flow provides the keynote address at the Midwest Renewable Energy Association's annual fair in Custer, Wisconsin.
Two parts.
We apologize for technical difficulies resulting in no playback on Channel 17 on August 18. We will endeavor to reschedule.
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August 4 - This Land is Your Land
In Part 3, Michael Bell concludes, followed by Ron Doetch.
Recorded June 21, 2008 at the Midwest Renewable Energy Association's annual fair in Custer, Wisconsin.
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also - Caretaker in the Park
Richard Davis: Caretaker at The Park is a documentary short
taking us inside the working life of Richard Davis, gardener/ caretaker at a local city park in Los Angeles, California. Richard shares his perspective on what it’s like caring for a big city park, taking pride in a job you wouldn’t know makes such a positive impact on the neighborhood.
Thanks to producer/director Tony Okun for making it available to GreenScreenMC.
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July 21, 28 - This Land is Your Land
Parts 1 & 2 of a 3-part panel discussion on issues of food, water, energy and the land
with Michael Fields Agricultural Institute co-founder Christopher Mann, former Ambassador Carol Moseley Braun,
Michael Fields executive director Ron Doetch, rural sociologist Professor Michael Bell and green developer Peter Scherrer. Part 1 features introductory remarks
by Christopher Mann and Carol Moseley Braun. In Part 2, Carol Moselely Braun
concludes,followed by Professor Michael Bell.
Recorded June 21, 2008 at the Midwest Renewable Energy Association's annual fair in Custer, Wisconsin.
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July 7, 14 - John Richter - The Wolf is at the Door
John Richter of the Institute for Sustainable Energy Education explains in this update to his Crude Awakening presentation why he thinks peak oil (the beginning of the end of global supply) has already arrived, and what we and our leaders need to be doing now to transistion away from petroleum. Two parts.
Recorded June, 22, 2008 at the Midwest Renewable Energy Association's annual fair in Custer, Wisconsin.
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June 23, June 30 - The Real Payback from Renewable Energy.
Michael Vickerman, Executive Director of Renew Wisconsin, explains the true returns of owning an alternative energy generating system. Two parts.
Recorded August 12, 2007 at the IREA's Sixth Annual Illinois Renewable Energy and Sustainable Lifestyle Fair, Oregon, Il. - Repeat showing. Two parts.
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June 16 - Voices of the Land - Part III
The conculsion of readings by Joel Greenberg from his book Of Prairie, Woods and Water with music and readings by Tom and Chris Kastle, which brings to life the voices of early settlers and visitors to the Chicago region and their impressions of the natural surrounds. Taped April 27th, 2008 at Garfield Farm Museum in Kane County. Event produced with a grant from the Illinois Humantities Council.
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June 9 - Voices of the Land - Part II
Second installment of readings by Joel Greenberg from his book Of Prairie, Woods and Water with music and readings by Tom and Chris Kastle, which brings to life the voices of early settlers and visitors to the Chicago region and their impressions of the natural surrounds. Taped April 27th, 2008 at Garfield Farm Museum in Kane County. Event produced with a grant from the Illinois Humantities Council.
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June 2 - Voices of the Land
Part 1 of readings by Joel Greenberg from his book Of Prairie, Woods and Water with music and readings by Tom and Chris Kastle, which brings to life the voices of early settlers and visitors to the Chicago region and their impressions of the natural surrounds. Taped April 27th, 2008 at Garfield Farm Museum in Kane County. Event produced with a grant from the Illinois Humantities Council.
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May 19th - Organic & Local Eating
Portion of a discussion led by Haje Black and Michelle Perry of Salute! Farm and Vinyard at Diggins Library in Harvard
on April 15th, 2008. Where can you find locally produced food? Try www.localharvest.org.
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May 12th - Chad Pregracke - His MIssissippi River Cleanup
Can one man galvanize an entire region to take pride in America's river and clean up decades of abuse?
Living Lands and Waters founder Chad Pregracke's persistence in his on-going mission resulted in bargeloads of tires, drums and refrigerators being pulled-out of the heartland's waterway.
Recorded January, 2008 at the
Land Conservancy of McHenry County's annual meeting.
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May 5th - Alisa Smith - The 100 Mile Diet: A Year of Local Eating
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With declining oil and global warming a concern, why ship a vegetable 1,500 miles from farm to plate? To challenge this practice, Alisa Smith and J.B. MacKinnon ate foods grown within 100 miles of home for one year. They discovered community, old-fashioned skills and the best-tasting food of their lives. Alisa Smith is co-author of The 100 Mile Diet: A Year of Local Eating (published in the U.S. as Plenty: One Man, One Woman and a Raucous Year of Eating Locally).
Recorded August 12, 2007 at the
IREA's Sixth Annual Illinois Renewable Energy and Sustainable Lifestyle Fair, Oregon, Il.
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March 24, 31 - The Home Landscape, Naturally
Parts 1 and 2 of a presentation by Keith Nowakowsi, author of Native Plants in the Home Landscape for the Upper Midwest on how he approached his own home's native landscaping.
Taped February 23rd at the Wildflower Preservation and Propagation Committee's Natural Landscaping Seminar held at McHenry County College.
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March 3, 10 - Ed Collins on the History of Oak Communities in McHenry County
Parts 1 and 2 of a 3-part program in which MCCD's staff ecologist presents the district's Oak Loss Study, a visual representation of the changes in the distribution of oak forest over 150 years, and the hope for what remains. Taped February 23rd at the Wildflower Preservation and Propagation Committee's Natural Landscaping Seminar held at McHenry County College.
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Feb 18, 25 - Environmental Challenges in the 21st Century & Potential Solutions
William M. Stigliani, Ph.D., of the University of Northern Iowa in Cedar Falls, describes some transformative, emerging green technologies in this 2-part presentation. Taped August 2007 at the IREA's Illinois Renewable Energy Fair, Oregon Il.
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Feb 11th - The Land First Initiative - Part 3
Conservation developer Jack Porter providing an example of how one development in the county successfully employed conservation design techniques, followed by audience question & answer.
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February 4th - The Land First Initiative - Part 2
Real estate attorney Joe Gottemoeller, conservation design consultant Dennis Dreher, USDA NRCS's Dave Brandt and The Land Conservancy's Lisa Haderlein describe the proposed ordinance ammendments, what they mean for developers, how conservation design works, where and when its requirements would be triggered, and how preserved natural features would be protected after the work is complete.
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January 28th - The Land First Initiative - Part 1
First of a 3-part presentation of the proposed county Land First Initiative subdivision ordinance additions that permit and require groundwater and habitat-friendly conservation
design techniques when site-specific trigger conditions are met.
The proposal has gone into one-month review by the McHenry County board for a vote in February.
In part 1, The county board's Ken Koehler and Barbara Wheeler introduce the presentation, followed by a sketch of the county's natural heritage given by MCCD's Ed Collins. Program sponsored by Imagine McHenry County and taped at McHenry County College Jan 15, 2008.
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