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The Charlottesville Podcasting Network is your source for lectures, radio shows and more from throughout Charlottesville and Albemarle County. Each week we post hours of material for you to listen to. Make sure you stay in touch!

BusinessCast 135 with Ryan Rayborn

Ryan Rayborn

This week we hear from 2nd year student Ryan Rayborn, who tells us about The Darden Art Project or DART. In the headlines: “The Sustainability Forum,” “Darden Forms a New Alliance,” “Small Budget Films,” and “The Invisible Population in Technology.”

 
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Wake-Up Call: Sustainable Population

On the Sept. 20 edition of the Wake-Up Call, host Rick Moore talks with Jack Marshall, President of Advocates for a Sustainable Albemarle Population (ASAP).

 
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Charlottesville-Right Now: Jack Marshall

Jack Marshall, President of Advocates for a Sustainable Albemarle Population joined Charlottesville Right Now to discuss growth and sustainability.

 
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Joel Salatin at New Dominion Bookshop

Joel Salatin

Joel Salatin of Polyface Farm appeared at New Dominion Bookshop on Wednesday, July 29, 2009, to read from his books, Holy Cows and Hog Heaven and Everything I Want to Do Is Illegal. Salatin, a well known figure in the local food movement, spoke at length on the politics of food [...]

 
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Brad Savage of the Corner talks with Bruce and Betty about compact flourescent light bulbs

Brad Savage of the Corner interviews Teri Kent of Better World Betty and Bruce Edmonds of the McIntire Recycling Center every other Friday on matters of sustainability and how people can do their part to go green. On the June 19, 2009 edition: Betty and Bruce tell us how much money can be [...]

 
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Jack Marshall and Brian Czech discuss limits to growth

 

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Jack Marshall, President of Advocates for a Sustainable Albemarle Population and Brian Czech, President of the Center for the Advancement of the Steady State Economy joined Coy Barefoot on WINA’s “Charlottesville–Right Now!” to discuss the limits to growth, both population growth and economic growth.

 
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Natural Heritage Committee seeks funding, staff support for biodiversity efforts

The Albemarle County Natural Heritage Committee (NHC) was formed in July 2005 to advise the Board of Supervisors and other County officials on how the County can preserve its biological character. Since then, they have added information to a biodiversity database, created several data layers in the County’s Geographic Information System (GIS) [...]

 
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James River Green Building Council: Three views on sustainable forestry

What is sustainable forestry and how does it affect our region environmentally and economically?  This lecture organized by the James River Green Building Council Charlottesville Division will answer that question and many others as part of a series of lectures dealing with the LEED Green Building Rating System.

We have assembled three speakers who [...]

 
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The Charlottesville Glocal Food System: Challenges and Opportunities for our Community’s Local and Global Food Sources

What are the true costs of buying food from around the globe? How much food can we grow close to home? Is it enough to support us and can we afford it?

These and other questions inspired a UVA class to conduct assessments of Charlottesville’s glocal (global + local) food system.

The class, consisting of [...]

 
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Exploring Charlottesville’s Earth Week

On this edition of WNRN’s Sunday Morning Wake-Up Call, Amy Predmore and Tatyanna Patten, Co-Presidents of Charlottesville’s Earth Week, join Rick Moore to talk about the 10-day celebration. Predmore and Patten discuss some of the general trends of the environmental movement, as well as the events coming up locally for Earth Week (which [...]

 
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Green Matters: “It pays to be Green”

The Habitat Store hosts “GreenMatters,” a series of lectures on sustainable building. On January 9, Karl Bren with GreenVisions Consulting and Mark Watson with Piedmont Housing Alliance discussed affordable ways to go green, with a focus on available tax incentives from municipal, state, and federal agencies. For [...]

 
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JABA: Innovations for Aging in Community

On October 19, 2007, the organization hosted a one-day conference called Crafting Intentional Communities: Cooperating Living Along Life’s Journey. The event was designed to explore new housing and living innovations for seniors to live, grow and age in community.

In this “thinking outside the box” panel, three Charlottesville-area panelists share information and ideas [...]

 
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