Planet Philadelphia

R Merriman-Goldring with Philly Thrive  talks about their organizing for Environmental Justice in Gray's Ferry, a neighborhood in South Philadelphia with many environmental justice challenges. Listen to Planet Philadelphia on your radio dial at 92.9 FM in NW Philadelphia or gtownradio.com, 4-5:00 PM ET the 1st & 3rd Friday/month. www.planetphiladelphia.com.

Peter Winslow, through line wrap up . Listen to Planet Philadelphia on your radio dial at 92.9 FM in NW Philadelphia or gtownradio.com, 4-5:00 PM ET the 1st & 3rd Friday/month. www.planetphiladelphia.com .

Kay Wood talks with Tim Brown , Organizing Director for Philly Neighborhood Networks. Listen to Planet Philadelphia on your radio dial at 92.9 FM in NW Philadelphia or gtownradio.com, 4-5:00 PM ET the 1st & 3rd Friday/month. www.planetphiladelphia.com .

G-Town Radio Station Manager Tom Casetta interviews Mason Carter , Germantown Resident and SEP Citizen Advisory Committee. Listen to Planet Philadelphia on your radio dial at 92.9 FM in NW Philadelphia or gtownradio.com, 4-5:00 PM ET the 1st & 3rd Friday/month. www.planetphiladelphia.com .

Rev. Dr. Jessica Moerman is a climate and environmental scientist, pastor, educator, and serves as the President and CEO of the Evangelical Environmental Network. She will discuss why this new charge is significant. Listen to Planet Philadelphia on your radio dial at 92.9 FM in NW Philadelphia or gtownradio.com, 4-5:00 PM ET the 1st & 3rd Friday/month. www.planetphiladelphia.com .

Leonard Nakamura , emeritus economist at the Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia, will discuss why accurate measurement is vital to deal with climate change, and humanity’s role in the world. Listen to Planet Philadelphia on your radio dial at 92.9 FM in NW Philadelphia or gtownradio.com, 4-5:00 PM ET the 1st & 3rd Friday/month. www.planetphiladelphia.com .

Strategy to conserve water by taxing farmers for groundwater: Ellen Bruno, Assistant Professor, UC Berkley, and Katrina Jessoe, Associate Professor, UC Davis. Listen to Planet Philadelphia on your radio dial at 92.9 FM in NW Philadelphia or gtownradio.com, 4-5:00 PM ET the 1st & 3rd Friday/month. www.planetphiladelphia.com  

PA Farm Bill: Doug Wolfgang, Exec. Dir. of the State Conservation Commission. Listen to Planet Philadelphia on your radio dial at 92.9 FM in NW Philadelphia or gtownradio.com, 4-5:00 PM ET the 1st & 3rd Friday/month. www.planetphiladelphia.com

Climate Conscious Farm Bill: Pennsylvania Farmers Union’s President Michael Kovach, multiple-species, grass-based regenerative livestock farmer in Mercer County. Listen to Planet Philadelphia on your radio dial at 92.9 FM in NW Philadelphia or gtownradio.com, 4-5:00 PM ET the 1st & 3rd Friday/month. www.planetphiladelphia.com  

Tammy Murphy, Advocacy Director of Pennsylvania Physicians for Social Responsibility, on Gov. Shapiro’s agreement with gas driller CNX to reduce the effects of natural gas drilling in the state. PSR is very opposed to the agreement. Planet Philadelphia  airs 4:00-5:00 PM 1st & 3rd Friday/month on  WGGT-LP 92.9 FM  in NW Philadelphia &  gtownradio.com . More information at www.planetphilade...

Elaine Fulz, Keon Monroe, Don Campbell & Karen Melton from Citizens’ Climate Lobby discuss their successful effort to dissuade the Philadelphia 30th Street train station from dropping steam power to go to natural gas. Planet Philadelphia  airs 4:00-5:00 PM 1st & 3rd Friday/month on  WGGT-LP 92.9 FM  in NW Philadelphia &  gtownradio.com . More information at www.planetphiladelphia.com .

Pamela Darville & Peter Furcht are from POWER Interfaith’s Climate Justice and Jobs team talk about POWER’s successful campaign convincing the state’s PUC to reduce requested PGW natural gas rate increases. Planet Philadelphia  airs 4:00-5:00 PM 1st & 3rd Friday/month on  WGGT-LP 92.9 FM  in NW Philadelphia &  gtownradio.com . More information at www.planetphiladelphia.com .

Ginger Scoggins   mechanical engineer, president/co-owner of the firm Engineered Designs, and ASHRAE president . She will be talking about the new goals for the society, “tackling the climate crisis”, and what she sees the role of the society and of engineers in that endeavor. Planet Philadelphia  airs 4:00-5:00 PM 1st & 3rd Friday/month on  WGGT-LP 92.9 FM  in NW Philadelphia &  gtownradi...

Samir Patel , Project Architect at Digsau architectural firm and an adjunct professor at Drexel University, discusses issues in building sustainably from an architectural point of view. Planet Philadelphia  airs 4:00-5:00 PM 1st & 3rd Friday/month on  WGGT-LP 92.9 FM  in NW Philadelphia &  gtownradio.com . More information at www.planetphiladelphia.com .

Professor of Chemical Engineering and Biomedical Engineering at Pennsylvania State, Dr. Amir Sheikhi, talks about a new sustainable eco-friendly alternative to conventional rare earth elements extraction methods. To hear Planet Philadelphia tune your radio dial to 92.9 FM in Philadelphia or at gtownradio.com 4-5:00 PM ET the 1st & 3rd Fridays/month. Podcasts are available shortly after broadca...

In this show MIT Professors Franz-Josef Ulm and Admir Masic, PhD, tell us about their discovery in making carbon-cement supercapacitors that could help solve our energy storage problems. To hear Planet Philadelphia tune your radio dial to 92.9 FM in Philadelphia or at gtownradio.com 4-5:00 PM ET the 1st & 3rd Fridays/month. Podcasts are available shortly after broadcast at planetphiladelphia.c...

Lithium-Ion Battery Inventor and Nobel Prize Recipient John Goodenough died recently at 100 years old. We replay an interview we did with him in 2017 about a new kind of battery more environmentally sustainable his team were developing. Listen to Planet Philadelphia on your radio dial at 92.9 FM in NW Philadelphia or gtownradio.com, 4-5:00 PM ET the 1st & 3rd Friday/month. www.planetphiladelph...

Mark Harris, Anthropocene Senior Editor and investigative science and technology reporter will discuss his observations on which governmental policies have been helpful and which ineffective in reducing greenhouse gas use worldwide. Listen to Planet Philadelphia on your radio dial at 92.9 FM in NW Philadelphia or gtownradio.com, 4-5:00 PM ET the 1st & 3rd Friday/month. www.planetphiladelphia.c...

Dr. Zhifeng Ren is an M.D. Anderson Chair Professor in the Department of Physics and also Director of the Texas Center for Superconductivity, both at the University of Houston. He specializes in carrier mobility among many other things. He discusses a plan for a multifunctional highway system incorporating superconductor levitated vehicles and liquefied hydrogen. If the system were built, it would...

Johanna Bozuwa, Executive Director at the Climate and Community Project. She talks about the Project’s study describing the way the U.S. can shift to EVs without widespread, destructive mining. Listen to Planet Philadelphia on your radio dial at 92.9 FM in NW Philadelphia or gtownradio.com, 4-5:00 PM ET the 1st & 3rd Friday/month. www.planetphiladelphia.com | @planetphila

Maya Domeshek and Angela Pachon discuss a new study from the Kleinman Center showing the benefits for the environment and Pennsylvania’s revenue of joining the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative (RGGI). Listen to Planet Philadelphia on your radio dial at 92.9 FM in NW Philadelphia or gtownradio.com, 4-5:00 PM ET the 1st & 3rd Friday/month. www.planetphiladelphia.com | @planetphila

State Senator Nikil Saval (D-Philadelphia) talks about the Whole Home Repair program and how it could help people with needed repairs. Listen to Planet Philadelphia on your radio dial at 92.9 FM in NW Philadelphia or gtownradio.com, 4-5:00 PM ET the 1st & 3rd Friday/month. www.planetphiladelphia.com | @planetphila

Dr. John Harte, Distinguished Professor of the Graduate School Ecosystem Sciences at the University of California in Berkeley, CA,talks about why he includes reproductive freedom as one of the solutions addressing climate change. Listen to Planet Philadelphia on your radio dial at 92.9 FM in NW Philadelphia or gtownradio.com, 4-5:00 PM ET the 1st & 3rd Friday/month. www.planetphiladelphia.com...

Our July 1st show featured an interview with the beloved local NBC TV news meteorologist, Glenn “Hurricane” Schwartz, recently retired. He spoke with us about how TV weather reporters present the science of climate change and the weather. Later that evening PBS News broadcast a similar story telling essentially the same story we’d just broadcast. Listen to Planet Philadelphia on your radio dial at...

Climate change and the U.S. Supreme Court with Prof. Richard Frank, Environmental Practice and Director of the U. C. Davis School of Law’s California Environmental Law & Policy Center. Listen to Planet Philadelphia on your radio dial at 92.9 FM in NW Philadelphia or gtownradio.com, 4-5:00 PM ET the 1st & 3rd Friday/month. www.planetphiladelphia.com | @planetphila