Author: Sunday Morning Wake-Up Call

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Wake-Up Call: Reducing Your Carbon Footprint

What’s your carbon footprint? Paul Risberg, President of Altenergy Inc., and Roger Canvendish, President of Spotsy Wind Energy, joined Rick Moore on WNRN’s Sunday Morning Wake-Up Call to discuss how the types of energy we use in our homes affect the environment. Does a personal alternative energy system such as a wind turbine or solar thermal system make sense for your home?

Some other topics include the practicality of Net Metering (selling back energy to the grid), using an “energy audit” to find out what parts of your home are wasting the most energy, and how you can get a tax credit for using alternative energy sources.

The Wake-Up Call is broadcast every Sunday at 11 a.m. on WNRN.

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Wake-Up Call: The Job Search for Students

On the June 28, 2009 edition of WNRN’s Sunday Morning Wake-Up Call, Rick Moore holds a discussion about the job market, or lack thereof, for recent high school and college graduates. Carter Hopkins, UVA’s Director of Alumni Career Services and Tom Fitch, Assistant Dean for Career Services at the McIntire School of Commerce discuss the challenges students face and ways they can put the right foot forward.

Hopkins and Fitch discuss the importance of networking services such as LinkedIn and Twitter, the changing purpose of internships and the skills job-seekers can learn to help them both today and when the all-but-inevitable career switch occurs down the line.

By the way, don’t forget you can stay up to date with the Charlottesville Podcasting Network via Twitter, as well!



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Economics Professor David C. Smith on government bailouts

On the November 23rd edition of WNRN’s Sunday Morning Wake-Up Call, host Rick Moore talks with Professor David C. Smith of UVA’s McIntire School and Director of the McIntire Center for Financial Innovation. With CEOs of the “big three” US automakers asking for billions of dollars in federal aid, banks asking for help to free up credit spending, and talks of “negative inflation,” Professor Smith helps sort out the confusing news and what impact all of this may have on our economy.

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Wake-Up Call: Young Local Talent

On the November 9th edition of WNRN’s Sunday Morning Wake-Up Call, Rick Moore chats with local young talents Pilar Marshall and Will Denton. Pilar sings, acts, and dances in productions at Live Arts and other area venues. “Willie DE” is the lead singer for The Wave, a trio that plays regularly at local venues such as Gravity Lounge. Rick plays some music, and talks to the youths about balancing school work, social life, and the drive to perform.

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Wake-up Call: Election Day

On this edition of WNRN’s Sunday Morning Wake-Up call show Pete Ronayne and Jim Sofka, two political analysts, join host Rick Moore to discuss the presidential election of 2008. Some of the issues discussed were: The Bradley Effect, the number of robo calls, Obama’s informercial. and who can still be “undecided” and what are they waiting for? Listen to the podcast and leave your comments.

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Presidential Debate on the Sunday Morning Wake-Up Call

With the election just over two weeks away, Rick Moore invited representatives of the Obama and Mccain campaigns for a discussion of how the race will play out. Oscar Ramirez is Virginia Policy Director for the Obama campaign, and Sean Kenney is a former director of communications of the Republican Party of Virginia.

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Wake-up Call: Foreign Policy in the Middle East

On the October 12th edition of the Sunday Morning Wake-Up Call on WNRN, Uinversity of Virginia Professor Emeritus R. K. Ramazani joins host Rick Moore to talk about foreign policy in the Middle East. Some of the issues dicussed were: Is there a need for a democracy in Middle East? How difficult will it be have one? Do we use Isreal’s safety as an excuse for unnecessary middle east policies? Find out more on this weeks edition of WNRN’s Sunday Morning Wake-Up Call.

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Wake-Up Call: Understanding Single Men in Mid-life

On the October 5th edition of WNRN’s Sunday Morning Wake-Up Call, Rick Moore speaks with Beth Eck, Professor of Sociology at James Madison University, who for the past four years has been engaging in a study of single men in mid-life. Through her studies, Eck has found that there are a lot of assumptions and stigma associated with single men, and many reasons why they have remained single.



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Wake-Up Call: Sports at UVA

On the September 21st edition of WNRN’s Sunday Morning Wake-Up Call, Rick Moore hosts sports enthusiast “Joe” for a discussion of sports at the University of Virginia. Some of the issues discussed were: UVA not allowing signs at sporting events. Where else can the University ban signs? What is a sign? Does being a public university make this illegal? For details, listen to the podcast and express your opinion by commenting after the show!