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#531 Join a Moving Planet Event on Sept 24 at Moving-Planet.org (Climate)
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Act 1: Obama continues Bush terrible standard of air quality – Ring of Fire
Song 1: Sweet Disposition – Conditions
Act 2: Coverage of Obama’s EPA announcement on ground-level smog – Counterspin
Song 2: Turn Up the Sun – Don’t Believe the Truth
Act 3: Joe Romm says Obama’s hold on smog reform worse than Bush – Countdown
Song 3: Total eclipse of the heart – Nikki French
Act 4: Obama Screws Environment With Smog – Young Turks Air Date: 9-06-11
Song 4: Show Me What I’m Looking For – Coming to Terms
Act 5: Secret Koch Bros tapes and Perry continues to deny climate change – Green News Report Air Date: 9-8-11
Song 5: Soy – ¡Volare! – The Very Best of the Gipsy Kings
Act 6: Interview with Daniel Yergin on renewable energy – Colbert Report Air Date: 9-21-11
Song 6: Put Your Records On (Acoustic) – Put Your Records On – Single
Act 7: Climate change is dull – Harry Mason
Song 7: World On Fire – Closer – The Best of Sarah McLachlan (Deluxe Version)
Act 8: Sen. Bernie Sanders against building Tar Sands oil Pipeline – Green News Report Air Date: 8-18-11
Song 8: There’s Something Wrong – Out of It
Act 9: Protesting Obama to Stop Keystone Corrosive Oil Pipeline in Alberta’s tar sands – Majority Report Air Date: 8-22-11
Song 9: Excuse Me Mr. – Tragic Kingdom
Act 10: 250 arrested at Keystone XL protest – Green News Report Air Date: 8-25-11
Song 10: The Lucky One – New Favorite
Act 11: For Protesters, Keystone Pipeline Is Line In Tar Sand – NPR Air Date: 9-2-11
Song 11: Free to decide – The Cranberries
Act 12: Obama about to approve Keystone XL pipeline – Green News Report Air Date: 9-11-11
Song 12: Moving Planet – September 24th, 2011: A Day to Move Beyond Fossil Fuels – 350.org
Act 13: Discussing the Keystone XL pipeline after 1000+ protester arrests – Ring of Fire
Final comments on Sept 24 Moving Planet day of action
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Molly Haigh on the Sept 24, 2011 Moving Planet Event – The Green Scene
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#524 Fighting to avoid game over (Climate Change)
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Act 1: Sen. Bernie Sanders against building Tar Sands oil Pipeline – Green News Report Air Date: 8-18-11
Song 1: The Safety Dance – The Silver Collection
Act 2: Exxon Montana Oil Spill Lies – Young Turks Air Date: 7-06-11
Song 2: 350.org Because the world needs to know – 350.org
Act 3: Protesting Obama to Stop Keystone Oil Pipeline in Alberta’s tar sands – Majority Report Air Date: 8-22-11
Song 3: A Change Is Gonna Come – Learning to Bend
Act 4: Activist McKibben: Tar Sands pipeline is climate game over – Countdown
Song 4: Show Me Something New – Work
Act 5: Global Warming Denyers, RicK Perry’s Climate Gate – Green News Report Air Date: 8-18-11
Song 5: Soft serve – Soul Coughing
Act 6: Fox Rips Huntsman On Global Warming – Young Turks Air Date: 8-29-11
Song 6: Turn Back Time – Eternity
Act 7: Scientists Trace Heat Wave To Massive Star At Center Of Solar System – The Onion
Act 8: Conservatives Avoid Global Warming Talk During Heat Wave – David Pakman Air Date: 7-27-11
Song 8: Little Furnace – Sword & Sworcery LP – The Ballad of the Space Babies
Act 9: Fox Anchor’s Global Warming Question Leaves Bill Nye Speechless – Media Matters Air Date: 7-28-11
Song 9: Science Is Real – Here Comes Science (Audio + Video Version)
Act 10: Heatsteria – Colbert Report Air Date: 8-09-11
Song 10: Under the Sea – Little Mermaid – An Original Walt Disney Records Soundtrack (Special Edition)
Act 11: Thom Hartmann talks about Al Gore’s Rolling Stone article – Thom Hartmann
Song 11: La valse d’Amélie (Orchestra Version) – Amélie (Sountrack from the Motion Picture)
Act 12: Fox News Declares War on SpongeBob SquarePants – Media Matters Air Date: 8-4-11
Act 13: Record Breaking Temps, James Inhoff thinks it’s a Conspiracy – Green News Report Air Date: 8-23-11
Song 13: Kilimanjaro – One
Act 14: Miners Trapped In Life-Threatening Mining Jobs – The Onion Air Date: 8-16-11
Song 14: BotL Promo (Instrumental) – Chris Priest
Act 16: Why Is Tim DeChristopher the One in Prison? – The Progressive Air Date: 7-28-11
Voicemails:
Kudos on handling controversies and suggested topics – John In Tulsa, OK
Thoughts on boycotts – Matt from Alabama
Voicemail Music:
Loud Pipes – Classics
Final comments breaking down Daryl’s pro-meat voicemail
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GOP Not Eager To Help Hurricane Victims – Young Turks Air Date: 8-29-11
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#510 The dangers of inaction (Climate Change)
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Act 1: New effects of Climate Change – Green News Report
Song 1: Edge of the Ocean – Long Distance
Act 2: Mark Ruffalo on Fracking Up – Countdown Air Date: 07-14-11
Song 2: Zebra – Teen Dream
Act 3: Drilling for Natural Gas (Fracking) – BBC News Quiz – Air Date: 06-03-11
Song 3: The Mistakable Mr. Smith – Frequency
Act 4: Standing room only (Population and the environment) – Need to Know
Song 4: Standing – Empires
Act 5: Massey Energy’s murderous lies – Jim Hightower
Song 5: The Fiddler’s Ballad – Jen Osha w/Wolf Creek Session
Act 6: Republicans Politicizing Global Warming – Counterspin Air Date: 06-16-11
Song 6: Living Planet – Roots, Rock & Revolution
Act 7: Norfolk Virginia’s Seawater problem – Need to Know – Air Date: 06-24-11
Song 7: Deep In the SweetWater (Remix by Joseph Bishara) – My Fever Broke
Act 8: Saudi Prince wants to deter alternative energies and the UN Reports on Global Green House Gas Emissions – Green News Report
Song 8: I Predict a Riot – Employment
Act 9: Wind Turbine Issues – Green.tv Air Date: 07-14-11
Song 9: Winter Winds – Sigh No More
Act 10: Massey Energy’s man-made hell hole – Jim Hightower Air Date 07-14-11
Song 10: Ghosts – Reservoir
Act 11: Story of coal documentary film Mountaintop Removal – Need to Know Air Date: 06-17-11
Voicemails:
Story of coal documentary film Mountaintop Removal – Need to Know Air Date: 06-17-11
KY devastated by coal as well – Raven from Louisville, KY
Call to action: join US Uncut Philly – Kevin from Philadelphia
Thanks for police state episode hidden stories – Carlos From Chicagoland
Voicemail Music:
Loud Pipes – Ratatat
Final comments on an update to the Messaging Works idea
Bonus iPhone/iPod Touch App Content:
The civil war over climate change – Need to Know
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#502 Making the connection (Climate)
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Act 1: Coal Lobby Warns Wind Farms May Blow Earth Off Orbit – The Onion
Song 1: Actual coal propaganda song – Crazy, right?
Act 2: A link between climate change and Joplin tornadoes. Never. – Bill McKibben OpEd
Song 2: Arclight – Empires
Act 3: Great Lakes May Beat Atlantic To Offshore Wind – NPR
Song 3: Winter Winds – Sigh No More
Act 4: Gore Slams Obama On Climate Change – Young Turks
Song 4: A Few Honest Words – Learning to Bend
Act 5: Canadian Oilverlords – Daily Show
Song 5: I Can See Clearly Now – We All Are One: The Best of Jimmy Cliff
Act 6: Nebraska Nuclear Power Plant on Verge of Shutdown, Media Ignores- David Pakman- Air Date: 06-21-11
Song 6: Wonderwall – The String Quartet Tribute to Oasis – Decadence & Vanity
Act 7: Memo to Conservatives: Solar Physicists are NOT Climate Scientists – Media Matters
Act 8: Yacht Maker Now Navigating Wind Power Industry – NPR
Song 8: Blowin’ In the Wind – The Essential Bob Dylan
Act 9: Oil Anthem – Mark Fiore
Song 9: American Music – Permanent Record: The Very Best of the Violent Femmes
Act 10: RFK Jr – The Last Mountain – Thom Hartmann Air Date: 06-03-11
Song 10: For Greener Pastures – Glen Simpson
Act 11: Now We Have To Wage War On Grolar Bears – Lee Camp
Song 11:Polar Bear – Make Some Noise
Act 12: A turning point we can’t afford to ignore – Johann Hari
Voicemails:
Critique of media bias discussion – TC from State College, PA
Reaction to Lee Camp vs Limbaugh – Patrick from Dallas
Completely wrong interpretation of the Limbaugh Vs Lee Camp comparison – Cliff from the University of Maine
Voicemail Music:
Ghostwriter – Deadringer
Final comments correcting Cliff from U of M and pre-announcing an announcement about the website
Bonus iPhone/iPod Touch App Content:
President Bachmann Will Allow You to Buy Any Light Bulb You Want – Daily Show
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