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Heavy Weather (Part II)

From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
Length: 29:00

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On this edition, we’ll hear part two of a documentary called Heavy Weather, produced by freelancer Barbara Bernstein. She’ll look at how climate change is creating new challenges in urban communities as they recognize the need to think and act sustainably. Read the full description.

Heavy_weather_photo_small On this edition, we’ll hear part two of a documentary called Heavy Weather, produced by freelancer Barbara Bernstein. She’ll look at how climate change is creating new challenges in urban communities as they recognize the need to think and act sustainably.

‘Heavy Weather’ was written, narrated and produced by Barbara Bernstein and is a production of the Media Project and Feather & Fin Productions. Barbara Bernstein and her program, ‘Heavy Weather' were provided funding by the Regional Arts and Culture Council, the Oregon Council for the Humanities, an affiliate of the National Endowment for the Humanities and the Ralph Smith Foundation.

Featuring: Kathleen Sayce, Shorebank Pacific ecologist and science officer, Ilwaco, WA; Eric De Place, Sightline Institute senior researcher, Seattle, WA; Dean Marriott, Portland's Environmental Services director; Kathleen Dean Moore, Oregon State University philosophy professor; Rex Burkholder, Portland Metro council member; Ethan Seltzer, School of Urban Studies and Planning at Portland State University director; Sam Adams, Mayor of Portland, OR; Tim Leavitt, Mayor of Vancouver, WA; Mary Wahl, manages the watershed services group at Portland’s Bureau of Environmental Service; Guy Dauncey, author and activist in Victoria, British Columbia; Clare Carver, Big Table Farm co-owner; Joel Salatin, Polyface Farm owner; Jill Kuehler, Friends of Zenger Farm director; Michele Knaus, Oregon’s Friends of Family Farmers grassroots organizer; Eliza Davenport, Lents International Farmers’ Market manager.

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Piece Description

On this edition, we’ll hear part two of a documentary called Heavy Weather, produced by freelancer Barbara Bernstein. She’ll look at how climate change is creating new challenges in urban communities as they recognize the need to think and act sustainably.

‘Heavy Weather’ was written, narrated and produced by Barbara Bernstein and is a production of the Media Project and Feather & Fin Productions. Barbara Bernstein and her program, ‘Heavy Weather' were provided funding by the Regional Arts and Culture Council, the Oregon Council for the Humanities, an affiliate of the National Endowment for the Humanities and the Ralph Smith Foundation.

Featuring: Kathleen Sayce, Shorebank Pacific ecologist and science officer, Ilwaco, WA; Eric De Place, Sightline Institute senior researcher, Seattle, WA; Dean Marriott, Portland's Environmental Services director; Kathleen Dean Moore, Oregon State University philosophy professor; Rex Burkholder, Portland Metro council member; Ethan Seltzer, School of Urban Studies and Planning at Portland State University director; Sam Adams, Mayor of Portland, OR; Tim Leavitt, Mayor of Vancouver, WA; Mary Wahl, manages the watershed services group at Portland’s Bureau of Environmental Service; Guy Dauncey, author and activist in Victoria, British Columbia; Clare Carver, Big Table Farm co-owner; Joel Salatin, Polyface Farm owner; Jill Kuehler, Friends of Zenger Farm director; Michele Knaus, Oregon’s Friends of Family Farmers grassroots organizer; Eliza Davenport, Lents International Farmers’ Market manager.

Broadcast History

Program #18-10- Begin date: 5/5/10. End date: 5/19/10.

Timing and Cues

Total run time is 29 minutes (no hard breaks)
-Optional cutaway at 1:00
-Optional (floating) cutaway between 12:00 and 20:00
-Music in/out.

Related Website

www.radioproject.org