Hello from one of the new kids on the air!

I'm Chris Thody and I hosted my first earth2lincoln radio show on Monday. What fun! I work for the Tern and Plover Conservation Partnership as an Outreach Coordinator. My first guest was Mary Bomberger Brown, who is the Program Coordinator for the Partnership.

The Tern and Plover Conservation Partnership helps protect federally and state endangered Interior Least Terns and federally and state threatened Piping Plovers, little birds that nest on sand. Nesting areas in Nebraska include river sandbars, sand and gravel mines, and lakeshore housing developments. The Partnership works together to both protect the birds and allow necessary activity at the housing areas and mine sites.

For more information about Interior Least Terns, Piping Plovers, and the Tern and Plover Conservation Partnership, visit our website at http://ternandplover.unl.edu
During our program Mary mentioned a couple of upcoming events. Here is that information:
Tuesday, February 23 - The Annual Nebraska Tern and Plover meeting will be held at Hardin Hall, 3310 Holdrege Street, Lincoln, NE. Registration is from 9:30 to 10:45.

A poster session, and short monitoring and reporting workshop start at 9:30 a.m.; the general welcome starts at 10:45 a.m. and presentations run from 11:00 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. Lunch will be served (a free will donations gladly accepted). At 6:00 p.m. there will be a reception to celebrate the 10th anniversary of the Tern and Plover Conservation Partnership. Registration is free for this event. You can view the complete schedule (subject to last minute changes) at http://ternandplover.unl.edu
Contact Chris Thody at cthody2@unl.edu or 402-472-8741 for more information and to register.

March 18-20 - The 40th annual Rivers and Wildlife Celebration (crane festival) will be held at the Holiday Inn Convention Center in Kearney, Nebraska. Come out and see the most spectacular Sandhill crane migration in the world, where nearly half a million of these birds stop and bulk up for their journey north. For more information, visit the Audubon Nebraska website at www.audubon.nebraska.org.

Thanks for listening to earth2lincoln, and I hope you'll tune in every Monday from 6 to 6:30 p.m.!

Chris

January 18th 2010 Bioneers and Lonesome Traveler

Hey folks!
It was great to participate in the show today! Here are the details of the events covered.
Bioneers Potluck:
Their website: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/lincolnbioneers/
Jackie will host a Bioneer gathering on January 28, 2010 at 6:30 pm. There will be a potluck and a 30 minute DVD from the October 2009 conference "Joanna Macy- The Hidden Promise of our Dark Age: Discovering our Wisdom, Strength, and Beauty in the Midst of a Crisis". For location and to RSVP, please call 435-1975.

Lonsome Travelers website: lonesometraverlerband.com
The veggie bus demonstration will be at 6:15pm at the 7th street loft at 7th and K Street. The show will be at 7:30pm.
Thanks for listening and making Earth2Lincoln more than just a radio show!
Adam Hintz

Earth 2 Lincoln 10-26-09

This is part II of our series talking with environmental studies majors at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. Sammy and Justine, senior Environmental Studies majors, were our guests last night. Click below to listen to the show:

Earth2Lincoln 10/26

Tonight's Earth2Lincoln will feature part 2 of our series discussing issues with UNL environmental studies students. Join us tonight at 6 p.m. on KZUM 89.3 FM in Lincoln and online at www.kzum.org

Check back this evening for streaming audio from tonight's show.

350-A Day Of Action

350--The most focused and coordinated day of climate action approaches rapidly. A dizzying frenzy of mountain climbs, underwater demonstrations in island nations, bike rides, rallies, and speeches will take place across the globe, underscoring the indisputable consensus: we need action, right now--based on sound science--to protect our planet. For more information, click here. For a challenge, Dutch and Polish translations are available on the website.

The even better news. Lincoln has two critical events for 350! The first is a post-Nebraska football recycling and clean up session, this Saturday, October 24th. Interested individuals should meet at the west end of the Vine Street parking loop at 2:30 p.m. Gloves and bags are provided. Enthusiasm is self-supplied.

And on Sunday, October 25th at Noon, hundreds of bikers will mass on the north side of the Capital building. We will ride through downtown as a collective call to awareness and call to action.

For more information, auditory stimulation in the form of a KZUM PSA:



Both of these events are sponsored by the University of Nebraska-Lincoln Progressive Student Coalition. They have a nifty website, available right here.

Hyde Observatory--Observing Solar Since 1978

Hyde Observatory is a stacked facility. As a community access astronomical observatory, it regularly opens its doors to sky-gazers. But it also has been at the vanguard of solar energy. Since 1978, or for some 11,315 days, the Observatory has metamorphosed sun rays into pure, clean energy. The photovoltaic panels adorning the rooftop now provide 40% of the building's energy--while any extra energy is funneled back to LES.

Erik Hubl, a Lancaster County G.I.S. Engineer and Hyde Observatory volunteer, shares his insights into Hyde's solar past and solar future:



Click HERE to view a Hyde Observatory solar PowerPoint stocked with charts, graphs, photos, tables and more!

Earth 2 Lincoln 10/5-Ethanol

University of Nebraska-Lincoln agronomist and chair of the Nebraska Center For Energy Sciences Research, Dr. Kenneth Cassman, shared his research and insights into corn ethanol's current and future role in the domestic energy equation.

The United States is the world's leading ethanol producer, with production of over 9 billion gallons last year. The 2007 Renewable Fuels Standard calls for 36 billion gallons of ethanol by 2022, much of that from the 1-2 punch of corn ethanol furnished by Nebraska and, ugh, Iowa.

Cassman and his colleagues at UNL have developed the BESS or Biofuel Energy Systems Simulator, a software tool to calculate energy efficiency, greenhouse gas emissions and natural resource requirements of corn-to-ethanol production systems. Try it out, here

Finally, stay tuned to legislative news as Nebraska Senator Ben Nelson recently co-sponsored legislation encouraging a higher blend of ethanol (from 10% to 15%) to be sold at gas stations nationwide.

Click here to listen to Monday's program: