BLUE PLANET ALMANAC™

Blue Planet Almanac news blog is still active while a new book is being prepared on consciousness & sustainability. Blue Planet Almanac radio and the hors d’oeuvres of Thursday’s News@7 Environmental Super-Segment both aired on the HealthyLife.net radio network, and were archived. With over 3 million listeners monthly in all 50 United States and over 100 other nations, HealthyLife.net is also carried in Windows Media News + Talk, and is a member station of the National Association of Broadcasters.

Helmed by host and creator Mike Austin, Blue Planet Almanac radio aired from January 2009 through March 28th, 2011, and offered thoughtful perspectives on conscious, green living on our favorite planet. It featured fascinating interviews, news and product reviews. The Environmental News Super-Segments were also produced and hosted by Mike Austin.

Lifestyles of health and sustainability are encouraged here – including science and policy of importance to Earthlings. At this news site are links to stories, news and reviews from the radio hour, where listeners and Web surfers can reflect. Blue Planet Almanac provides good choices for Earthlings.

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• AUDIO of 2010 BLUE PLANET ALMANAC SHOWS

  Some 2009 shows -

• AUDIO of BLUE PLANET ALMANAC 5-12-09 SHOW

  • National Geographic’s recognition of Alexandra Cousteau as Emerging Explorer shows that she has developed and cultivated her own voice in Mother Earth’s favor. Because of her experience and perspective, Alexandra founded Blue Legacy – and these days its principal project is Expedition: Blue Planet. Imagine trekking for 100 days across five continents to chronicle what our specie is doing and what needs to be done and you’ve got an intimation of what her and her fellow explorers are up to.
  • Documentarian, producer and director Ian Connacher discusses his excellent new film, Addicted to Plastic, now showing on the Sundance Channel.

• AUDIO of BLUE PLANET ALMANAC 4-14-09 SHOW

  • Author of You Are Here: Exposing the Vital Link Between What We Do and What That Does to Our Planet” -Thomas M. Kostigen - discusses with Mike his far-flung fact-finding expeditions to places like Southeast Asia’s Borneo, China’s Linfen City, Alaska’s Shishmaref Village, The Amazonian jungle and The Pacific Ocean’s Eastern Garbage Patch and more.
  • Listeners discuss with Tom and Mike about how the United States attitudes and accomplishments compare with the rest of the world, and what cultures Tom has seen which tend toward using natural products and living.

• AUDIO of BLUE PLANET ALMANAC 3-10-09 SHOW

  • Marianne Barner, IKEA’s Head of Social Initiative
  • The UN announced that IKEA is now UNICEF’s largest corporate partner:“…with this donation, IKEA Social Initiative has become the agency’s biggest corporate partner, with total commitments of more than $180 million from 2000 to 2015.”

• AUDIO of BLUE PLANET ALMANAC 2-10-09 SHOW

  • Thomas E. Lovejoy, III, eminent biologist, author, creator of the PBS show, Nature and champion of a sustainable, green Earth discusses…
  • Species diversity, energy use, prospects for mass extinction mammals.
  • Tom is believed by many to be the most important environmentalist of the last century and – the first person credited with Debt-for-Nature Swaps which reduce or retire a developing nation’s debt when a country sets aside large tracts of land for conservation – credited with popularizing the term “biological diversity” in print, in 1980- and introduced the world to the issue of tropical deforestation.
  • See also Dr. Warren Allmon’s introduction of  Tom in this recording of Cornell’s April 2008 Earth Week lecture – and slides from Tom’s Climate Change Presentation are here. Allmon mentions these among Tom’s many accomplishments
  • Tom is currently Biodiversity Chair for the H. John Heinz III Center for Science, Economics and the Environment. He chairs The Scientific and Technical Advisory Panel of The United Nations Environment Programme, which advises its The U.N.’s Global Environment Facility, as well as served on science and environmental councils or committees under the Reagan, Bush and Clinton administrations.

• AUDIO of BLUE PLANET ALMANAC 1-13-09 DEBUT SHOW
  

  • Dr. Ellis Jones’ Better World Shopping Guide
  • bioamplification – which affects how people, animals and plants bring toxic substances into their bodies via food.
  • Consumer products containing palm oil and palm derivatives and how they directly affect climate change, global warming and destruction of important rainforests. See also the Blue Planet Almanac blog entry here about palm products and agribusiness.
  • Charity Navigator where anyone can get important, reliable information on a wide variety of nonprofits
    
  • The United Nations Environment Programme Yearbook 2008