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Alternative Fuels/Energy Conservation
FL Solar Power Co-op & Amendments
On Monday’s Sustainable Living program we talked about solar power here in the Sunshine State. There are two solar related amendments to the Florida Constitution coming up. Susan Glickman with the Southern Alliance for Clean...
New Pinellas co-op for rooftop solar power
Pinellas County residents can now join together to negotiate a discount on rooftop solar power; a new cooperative is forming, called St. Pete Solar Co-op, that will let residents negotiate a group volume discount on...
Women’s Show – Platforms…Who reads? We do
We are coming down to crunch time….. This has gone beyond mud fights and something tells me the game hasn’t even begun. The conventions are coming up in just a few weeks. Do the platforms...
Author Leah Y. Parks says America can be completely fueled by renewable energy by 2050
By Rob Lorei On Radioactivity Wednesday we were joined by Leah Y. Parks, who along with S. David Freeman authored the new book All Electric America: A Climate Solution and the Hopeful Future, which posits that cheaper and...
Local Public Transportation Discussion on WMNF’s Sustainable Living
On Sustainable Living Program this week we talked with representatives of two of our local public transportation providers. Our guests were Rose Bruckner, Pasco County’s Transportation Program Coordinator and Bob Lasher, External Affairs Officer with...
Fracking banned in Pinellas County, Florida
The Pinellas County Commission has outlawed fracking within the county limits. The oil and gas drilling technique is also known as hydraulic fracturing and critics, like Environment Florida director Jennifer Rubiello, say it’s dangerous for...
Update on impact of Shell Oil spill in Gulf of Mexico
This month more than 88,000 gallons of oil leaked from a Shell Oil pipeline in the Gulf of Mexico off the coast of Louisiana; for an update on the spill’s effect on wildlife, WMNF News spoke with...
Art project will be part of Hands Across the Sand
Environmentalists who support clean energy, oppose dirty fuels and say no to offshore drilling will join Hands Across the Sand this Saturday at beaches in Pinellas County and elsewhere. The guest on WMNF News’ MidPoint, , Lisa Hinton is...
St. Petersburg seeks ordinance to ban fracking
St. Petersburg City Council will soon consider an ordinance to ban the drilling technique known as fracking and the transportation or storage of fracking wastewater within the city limits; Council vice chair Darden Rice says...
An Angry Woman’s Heart – on From a Woman’s POV
I am getting steamed – really, really steamed. If I hear one more comment on “the women’s card…..” Read Rebecca Solnit’s column, “If Donald Trump Were a Woman and Hillary Clinton Were a Man: Here’s...
An Illegal Hike Across The Heartland – Next on Life Elsewhere
Ken Ilgunas says his new book is about coming to terms with climate change and figuring out what our role as individuals should be in confronting something so big and so out of our hands....
USF students push for an all electric bus system on Tampa campus
BY Rob Lorei On Radioactivity Friday, we talk with two USF students who wants their school to switch to using electric buses on campus. The current fleet of buses that make up the Bullrunner buss...
