Congratulations to AIR members, Deb George and Nancy Solomon, for their Peabody Awards.
The Great Textbook War (West Virginia Public Broadcasting)
Terry Kay Productions (edited by Deborah George)
This thoughtful, balanced and gripping radio documentary shows how a 1974 battle over textbook content in rural West Virginia foreshadows the “culture wars” still raging.
Mind the Gap: Why Good Schools Are Failing Black Students (KLCC Radio)
Nancy Solomon
Independent producer Solomon exhibited great empathy for the students and teachers at the suburban New Jersey high school she studied, meanwhile asking tough, necessary questions.
photo credit: joiseyshowaa/Flickr Creative Commons
An island that India and Bangladesh have argued over for nearly thirty years has disappeared due to rising sea levels. The rising sea levels in that region are one of the subjects in Dan Grossman’s public radio documentary on climate change, Heat of the Moment. Other subjects explored in the program are the heat wave in France several years ago that killed over 40,000, and severe droughts in South Africa. http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/36020131/ns/us_news-environment/
Rising Sea Level in India (segment information)
HEAT OF THE MOMENT: INSIDE OUT — A new WBUR Documentary for the Inside Out series. First hand accounts from across the globe and expert analysis present a new and unique perspective on global warming. Science journalist Daniel Grossman takes us to places where the effects of climate change are acutely felt: Visit the Catacombs of Paris during a deadly heat wave, India’s Sunderbans jungle and the rising sea, and South Africa with scientists engineering food to survive with less water.
PERFECT content for Earth Day (April 22nd)
LENGTH: 59 minutes
AVAILABLE: PRX, Content Depot, CD
Dan Grossman will travel to South America in April to report on an indigenous climate summit in Bolivia.
He’ll also report from Amazonian Ecuador. Ecuador has proposed an innovative plan to combat global warming and preserve biodiversity. The country will leave a billion barrels of oil beneath the biologically-diverse Yasuni park permanently underground—if the world compensates the Andean nation. Will the plan work?
Find out more on Dan’s South American blog.
Now you can find Dan’s Copenhagen blogs all in one place: the new Copenhagen 2009 page of his website.
What do people around the world think about global warming? Find out on the People Speak page of Dan’s website.
His new video pages also include Rising Water, Dan’s video about sea level rise on the Bay of Bengal. The 8-minute documentary was broadcast 5 times last month on LinkTV. It will be broadcast again later this year.
Peruse Dan’s Awesome Animals page. If you’ve wondered how a caterpillar turns into a chrysalis and then becomes a butterfly, click here. (If you haven’t wondered, you might enjoy these cool videos anyway.)
