Sustainable Living Show, November 16, 2009

 Our first guest on today’s program was a young mental health intern who’s trying to promote gardening to improve nutrition, reduce stress, exercise, and for a sense of accomplishment. Matt Fahy will be doing four gardening workshops in Saint Petersburg at the Twigs and Leaves Nursery starting November 28.  Matt’s phone number is 727-488-2597 for more information.   Next up we had a group of Barefoot Gardeners tell us about their Sustainable Living Conference coming up this weekend, November 21 & 22.  To find out more you can visit www.thebarefootgardener.org.  Tom Carroll, and Peg & Jeff Campbell helped answer listeners’ gardening questions for the remainder of the show. Ants seemed to be the hot topic. Tom suggested Boric Acid, Jeff was for urinating on them, and Peg just stays clear.

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Sustainable Living Show, November 2, 2009

Today’s Sustainable Living Program was about alternatives to the car. First we talked to Rob Mears, a Light Electric Vehicles (LEV) dealer in the suburbs of San Francisco. He’s created a great website with everything you’d want to know about the topic of LEV’s www.electric-bikes.com.  Next up we had Karen Kress, with the Tampa Downtown Partnership and a local bicycle advocate. Also, Alan Snel, the Director of South West Florida Bicycle United Dealers (SWFBUD) joined us to talk about local bike related issues. We spent a lot of time talking about bike safety. Some of the main safety issues are: riding in the same direction as traffic, not riding on the side walk, stopping at all stop signs & lights, riding with a helmet, and bicycles must obey all traffic laws same as cars. 

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Sustainable Living Show October 19, 2009

On Today’s Sustainable Living Program about Climate Change our guests included author and international speaker, Bill McKibben, the Reverend Warren Clark with Faiths United for Sustainable Energy (FUSE) and Kate Melges, a volunteer for Green Peace.   McKibben’s many books with environmental themes include ‘The End of Nature’, and he has co-founded a new effort based on the number 350.  Science has given us this number as an acceptable amount of CO2 in our atmosphere in parts per million (PPM).  Although we are nearing 400 PPM of CO2, 350’s efforts are to raise awareness through a day of action on October 24.  This event will take place all over the world, with Kate and Warren organizing efforts in our area.  You can find out about efforts in Tampa Bay, and your area, by going to www.350.org .  Warren will be traveling to Washington tomorrow to meet with our elected leaders in hopes of getting legislation passed on this critical issue.  He asked that we keep him in our thoughts and prayers–and please call your congress person now!

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