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HEAT OF THE MOMENT: Inside Out; A One-Hour Climate Special from WBUR-Boston

Combined with Producer Daniel Grossman’s Climate Science Blog

The world will be watching Copenhagen between December 7 and 18. The Copenhagen Climate Conference is the most important meeting of climate negotiations since the Kyoto conference in 1997.

Daniel Grossman, Producer/Host of Heat of the Moment, will be sending multimedia posts on climate science from the Copenhagen Conference for his blog, as well as The World,  National Geographic’s Newswatch blog and the Yale Forum on Climate Change.  Along with diplomats, environmental activists and industry lobbyists; some of the world’s leading climate scientists will be at the Copenhagen conference. Daniel will meet them and produce postings about their research, their insights and their concerns. Daniel Grossman invites you to visit his postings to follow his reporting beginning on the first day of the Conference, on December 7.

LINK to Daniel’s Live Blog on your website:

VISIT Heat of The Moment Dispatches from Copenhagen

And PLAY Heat of The Moment on your station.

AVAILABLE: PRX & CONTENT DEPOT

COST: Free

LENGTH: 59 Min

Newscast Compatable

The California Center for Cooperative Development presents Cooperative Solutions: Stories of Rural Economic Development – two newsbriefs, each under 5 minutes telling how cooperative businesses address critical needs in rural communities, and how listeners can start their own co-op to do the same.

Each of these audio newsbriefs are suitable as news features or PSA’s, and available for download as high-quality MP3s or on CD by request.

Knights Landing Children’s Center

A preschool cooperative that provides high-quality, affordable child care to its parent members.

Listen/Download MP3

Northern California Meat Goat Association

A group of small-scale meat goat ranchers who form a cooperative in order to compete with large foreign importers and to provide a domestic source for consumers.

Listen/Download MP3

Both segments are educational and demonstrate how the cooperative business form is a viable and innovative vehicle for economic development.

Both stories also refer to a companion website that functions as a tutorial for developing a cooperative business, complete with technical documents, contacts, and other resources.

Contact:

Radio stations interested in airing the segments are encouraged to download them from the links above in this email. For more information, contact the California Center for Cooperative Development at (530) 297-1032 or write us at info@cccd.coop. To learn more about cooperative development services offered by CCCD, visit our website at www.cccd.coop.

About CCCD:

The California Center for Cooperative Development (CCCD) is a 501(c)3 nonprofit organization that promotes and supports the myriad of cooperatives in California (housing, childcare, agricultural, arts and crafts, agriculture and energy) with start-up, management, and other technical assistance.