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A conversation on conservation

On the July 10 Wake-Up Call, Rick talks with David Hannah of Wild Virginia, a local group dedicated to forest conservation and preserving the wilderness.

 
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WNRN Wake-Up Call: Amputees

Host Rick Moore speaks with Don Crosby (above knee amputee; Vietnam War Veteran), Dawn Cornell (below knee amputee; fork lift accident), Judy Martin (below knee amputee; medical, diabetic/vascular) and Mary Grant (Orthopedic Surgery Prosthetics [Limbs on the Go support group]) about their stories, the problems that come with being an amputee, and more.

 
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WNRN Wake-Up Call: Uranium Mining

Rick Moore speaks with Cale Jaffe (Senior Attorney at Southern Environmental Law Center) about uranium mining and the negative aspects of mining in Virgina. Uranium mining was banned in 1982 by the Virginia general assembly. Uranium is radioactive and can be very dangerous, especially to bodies of water during major storms, and it has been linked to cancer.

 
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WNRN Wake-Up Call: Mountain Top Removal

Host Rick Moore talks with JW Randolph (Appalachian Voices Legislation associate) (in the studio) and Austin Hall (on the phone) (National Field Organizer) about mountain top removal.This practice has harmful effects on things such as the environment and human health. The process takes off tops of mountains to retrieve coal.During this process the material goes into bodies of water and pollutes them. However, many people argue that coal has been used for many things throughout the years and thus support mountain top removal.

 
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WNRN Wake-Up Call: Oil & Offshore Drilling

On the August 22 edition of the Wake-Up Call, Rick talks with Deborah (senior attorney of SELC) and Marirose Pratt (associate attorney of SELC) about the oil spill, offshore drilling, and concerns about it. SELC stands for the Southern Enviromental Law Center, which has offices in VA, and other places that have been effected by the oil spill. One of the main concerns of the SELC is that BP has violated the endangered species act by not treating the endangered effected by the spill properly. A vast Overall, we need to reduce our dependency on oil.

 
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WNRN Wake-Up Call: Global Warming

Host, Rick Moore speaks with Bill Antholis (managing director and senior fellow of the Brookings Institution, and co-author of the book Fast Forward: Ethics and Politics in the Age of Global Warming)
about global warming. If this warm weather pattern continues, it can have a negative effect on lifestyles, such as the production of agriculture. Obama has taken necessary steps by establishing the Copenhagen Accord, which has China and India cut back on the greenhouse gases being emitted into the air. Did you know that the people in America are one of the main causes of global warming?!?

 
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The Importance of Nature for Children

On the August 30 edition of the Wake-Up Call, host Rick Moore talks with Kate White of Charlottesville’s Belvedere Neighborhood, joined by realtor Jim Duncan, about the importance of encouraging children to play outside and getting back in touch with nature.

 
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The Meadowcreek Parkway: A Long and Winding Road

On the April 12 edition of the Sunday Morning Wake-Up Call, host Rick Moore opens with a conversation with Ari Daniels of the Earth Week Eco-Fair, scheduled for this coming Saturday, April 18, at the Charlottesville Pavilion, a free event spreading knowledge about how to repair and conserve our environment, with green-minded businesses, government organizations, conservationist societies, local food producers, natural health care practitioners, along with live music, speakers, children’s activities, and more.

Rick then turns to a conversation with John Cruikshank of the the Piedmont Group of the Sierra Club and Stratton Sallidis of the Coalition to Preserve McIntire Park about efforts to stop the controversial Meadowcreek Parkway, a project to build a road through Charlottesville’s largest public park that has been in the planning stages for 40 years.

 
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The SELC on offshore drilling

On the February 8 edition of the Sunday Morning Wake-Up Call, Rick talks with Kay Slaughter and Deborah Murray of the Southern Environmental Law Center about offshore drilling in Virginia.

 
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An examination of ‘Buy Local, Eat Local’ in Charlottesville

This week on WNRN’s Sunday Morning Wake-Up Call the conversation is all about the ‘Buy Local, Eat Local’ food scene. Area restaurateurs Kate Collier (Feast!) and Will Richey (Revolutionary Soup) join Melissa Harris and Jennifer Seidel from the new Flavor magazine along with host Rick Moore to discuss independent farms and sustainable agriculture. How do current Virginia laws help the large, industrial food system while hurting area farmers? How is it financially viable for a small restaurant to use better tasting but more expensive foods? Exactly what is a super-model vegetable and why are they to be shunned? What can you do to help this concept continue its growth?

     
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