Podcast appearances and mentions of maeve conran

This week on Regional Roundup, we hear how many of our beloved outdoor spaces are being loved to death as increasing numbers of tourists flock to the region. This show explores how local communities are grappling with the challenge of preserving their natural landscapes while sustaining their economies. From overcrowded trails to endangered ecosystems, this piece sheds light on the delicate balance between growth and conservation. This show is a collaboration between Clark Adomaitis, Maeve Conran, Gavin McGough, Lily Jones, and Hattison Rensberry. - Show Notes - • A feature about the impact of social media influencers on our outdoor spaces. (KDNK) • A feature on a historic train in southwest Colorado switching from coal to oil. (from KSJD/KSUT) • A feature on a the U.S. Forest Service's efforts to tally visitors on southern Colorado. (KHOL) • A feature on the timed entry system at Rocky Mountain National Park (RMCR) • A feature on the danger of spreading invasive species into delicate ecosystems. (KDNK)

Today we hear from our partners at KGNU about a traveling Smithsonian exhibit that is currently on display at the John Wesley Powell River History Museum in Green River. We also hear from Rocky Mountain Community Radio's Maeve Conran about western Colorado's approach to managing the spread of Japanese Beetles.

In this episode, I chat with Arsen Kashkashian, head buyer and general manager at the Boulder Book Store in Boulder, Colorado. I asked him about the plethora of local authors, such as Jon Krakauer and Stephen Graham Jones, hiking, books in translation, and Allen Ginsberg's time in the Boulder community.Arsen received the 2006 Gordon Saull Award for outstanding bookseller from the Mountains and Plains Independent Booksellers Association. Maeve Conran and Arsen Kashkashian host the monthly KGNU-Boulder Book Store Radio Book Club.Boulder Book StoreReprieve, James Han Mattson Marcel ProustBreakfast at Tiffany's, Truman CapoteTo Break a Covenant, Alison AmesStephen Graham JonesKaye GibbonsPercival Everett Cloud Cuckoo Land: A Novel, Anthony Doerr Burntcoat: A Novel, Sarah Hall The Temps, Andrew DeYoungStephen King Joe Hill Stargazing, Jen Wang John Krakauer The Trojan War Museum: and Other Stories, Ayse Papatya Bucak The Odyssey, Homer, translated by Emily Wilson Gloriana: Or, The Unfulfill'd Queen, Michael MoorcockSupport the show (https://paypal.me/TheBookshopPodcast?locale.x=en_US)

Over the summer, TRNN Editor-in-Chief Maximillian Alvarez traveled to Wisconsin to report on a crucial struggle that has been largely ignored by corporate media. Residents of rural Polk, Burnett, and Crawford counties in Western Wisconsin have been embroiled in battles over the proposed construction of industrial "hog factories" in their communities, which would collectively house roughly 34,000 hogs. These concentrated animal feeding operations (CAFOs) would also produce millions and millions of gallons of liquid manure a year, and residents fear they could cause irreversible damage to their land, air, water, property values, and ways of life.What's happening in Wisconsin is part of a larger historical shift that has seen Big Agriculture and factory farming take over an industry that used to be dominated by small and mid-sized farms. The government-aided rise of industrial agriculture and meat production has pushed the independent farmers who still remain in operation today to the brink of extinction. As part of a special collaboration between The Real News Network and In These Times magazine for “The Wisconsin Idea,” Alvarez, Cameron Granadino (TRNN), and Hannah Faris (In These Times) went to Crawford, Polk, and Burnett counties to speak with residents about their concerns and about their struggles to defend themselves against Big Agriculture and the factory farming industry. You can watch their full documentary report here: https://therealnews.com/factory-farms-pose-an-existential-threat-for-rural-wisconsin-communities.In this special Working People episode, we follow up on the reporting Alvarez, Granadino, and Faris did over the summer and speak with a panel of folks who were involved with producing and publishing those reports. We also update listeners on the ongoing struggles in Polk, Burnett, and Crawford counties to halt—or, at least, adequately regulate—the proposed CAFOs. Guests on this panel include: Forest Jahnke, Program Coordinator for the Crawford Stewardship Project; Lisa Doerr, an independent hay farmer & resident of Polk County; Hannah Faris, associate editor of "The Wisconsin Idea" at In These Times; and Maeve Conran, Program Director for Free Speech TV and host of Just Solutions.

Over the summer, Max traveled to Wisconsin to report on a crucial struggle that has been largely ignored by corporate media. Residents of rural Polk, Burnett, and Crawford counties in Western Wisconsin have been embroiled in battles over the proposed construction of industrial "hog factories" in their communities, which would collectively house roughly 34,000 hogs. These concentrated animal feeding operations (CAFOs) would also produce millions and millions of gallons of liquid manure a year, and residents fear they could cause irreversible damage to their land, air, water, property values, and ways of life.  What's happening in Wisconsin is part of a larger historical shift that has seen Big Agriculture and factory farming take over an industry that used to be dominated by small and mid-sized farms. The government-aided rise of industrial agriculture and meat production has pushed the independent farmers who still remain in operation today to the brink of extinction. As part of a special collaboration between The Real News Network and In These Times magazine for “The Wisconsin Idea,” Max, Cameron Granadino (TRNN), and Hannah Faris (In These Times) went to Crawford, Polk, and Burnett counties to speak with residents about their concerns and about their struggles to defend themselves against Big Agriculture and the factory farming industry. You can watch their full documentary report here.  In this special Working People episode, we follow up on the reporting Max, Granadino, and Faris did over the summer and speak with a panel of folks who were involved with producing and publishing those reports. We also update listeners on the ongoing struggles in Polk, Burnett, and Crawford counties to halt—or, at least, adequately regulate—the proposed CAFOs. Guests on this panel include: Forest Jahnke, Program Coordinator for the Crawford Stewardship Project; Lisa Doerr, an independent hay farmer & resident of Polk County; Hannah Faris, associate editor of "The Wisconsin Idea" at In These Times; and Maeve Conran, Program Director for Free Speech TV and host of Just Solutions.  Additional links/info below... Crawford Stewardship Project website, Facebook page, and Twitter page Free Speech TV website, YouTube channel, Facebook page, and Twitter page Maximillian Alvarez, Cameron Granadino, & Hannah Faris, The Real News Network, "Factory Farms Pose an 'Existential Threat' for Rural Wisconsin Communities" Maeve Conran, Just Solutions, "Rural Wisconsin Communities Battle Industrial Scale Hog Farms" Simon Davis-Cohen, In These Times, "'In for a Fight': Rural Wisconsinites Resist Influx of Industrial Hog Facilities" Hannah Faris, In These Times, "A Wisconsin Hog Farm Would Produce 9.4 Million Gallons of Manure a Year. Nearby Residents Live in Fear" Permanent links below... Working People Patreon page Leave us a voicemail and we might      play it on the show! Labor Radio / Podcast Network website, Facebook page, and Twitter page In These Times website, Facebook page, and Twitter page The Real News Network website, YouTube channel, podcast feeds, Facebook page, and Twitter page Featured Music (all songs sourced from the Free Music Archive: freemusicarchive.org) Jules Taylor, "Working People Theme Song"

A proposal for what could be the state’s largest fracking site is drawing community opposition in Boulder County, including from a group of high school students. Maeve Conran reports from KGNU. This story is part of a collaboration of Rocky Mountain Community Radio Network stations, reporting on fossil fuels.

The Colorado Oil and Gas Conservation Commission was tasked with overhauling oil and gas rules after SB-181 was passed in 2019. A central part was giving local communities more authority to regulate the industry. But two Front Range counties have different ideas of what local control means. KGNU's Maeve Conran reports.

Arsen Kashkashian, Liesl Freudenstein, and Stephanie Schindhelm of the Boulder Bookstore join Maeve Conran to share their favorite books of 2019 in our annual end of year Best Books of the year show.

In the first feature (start time 1:00) KGNU's Maeve Conran speaks with Antonia Malchik, author of A Walking Life.  This book  explores the relationship between walking and our humanity, how we have lost it through a century of car-centric design, how we can regain it and more.  This part of the interview, produced especially for How On Earth, focuses on the science behind what makes us able to walk.  For a pedestrian, walking is a simple as putting one foot in front of another, right?  Well from a scientific perspective, there's quite a bit to it. In the second feature (start time 13:10), Chip Grandits speaks with Dr. Detlev Helmig, Associate Research Professor at the Institute for Arctic and Alpine Research.  He is one of several Boulder area climate scientists preparing for The MOSAIC expedition, the largest ever Central Arctic research expedition.  In September 2019 A German research icebreaker the Polarstern will head northeast from Tromsø, Norway where it will spend an entire year caught up in the shifting Arctic ice.  Dr. Helmig talks about the need to improve climate models of the poles, what motivates a such complex, expensive and dangerous expedition and what motivates scientists to take a 2 month stint on board the Polarstern trapped in the Arctic ice. Host: Chip Grandits Producer: Chip Grandits Engineer: Chip Grandits Additional Contributions: Maeve Conran Executive Producer: Joel Parker Listen to the show:

Arsen Kashkashian, head buyer, Liesl Freudenstein, head of children’s books at the Boulder Bookstore and Nicole Sullivan of the Book Bar in Denver join Maeve Conran of […]

This program is made possible by .  (Please note: this program for the October 2018 KGNU Fund Drive is posted with community pledges. If you would prefer to listen to the full Bethany McLean interview without these, it will be posted separately shortly.) #Saudi America - How US #fracking is unsustainable, with Bethany Maclean (c.f. Enron expose) Bethany McLean may be reached at  The US fracking industry has boomed so much that America is producing enough oil that the country is now a formidable player in the global market. But Bethany McLean, the author of Saudi America: The Truth About Fracking and How It’s Changing the World, says financial risks are lurking beneath the surface. The US fracking industry was able to grow so quickly on the back of ultra-low interest rates. This is unsustainable, she says, because interest rates are rising and fracking companies have hundreds of billions of dollars of debt.  It’s made even worse because for many of them, the cost of operations is more than they are bringing in from production. McLean compares it to the dot-com bubble that burst at the start of the century. “As long as investors were willing to believe that profits were coming, it all worked — until it didn’t,” she wrote. (This show is reproduced here with the kind permission of @RadioMaeve, KGNU News Director, Maeve Conran.)

This week's show offers two features: Global Biodiversity (start time: 1:22): Scientists, NGOs and government representatives from nearly 200 countries have been gathering in Cancun, Mexico, for the UN Biodiversity Conference, known as COP13. They're meeting to promote protocols and strategic actions related to biological diversity, climate change, food security, and even citizen science.  Gillian Bowser, a research scientist at Colorado State University, has studied international climate and biodiversity conventions, while working on issues such as women in sustainability, as well as citizen science. She discusses with host Susan Moran the importance of COP13, and the impact of citizens in scientific studies, such as identifying and tracking butterflies, birds and other species. Scientists' Letter to Trump (start time: 12:09) Last week roughly 800 earth and planetary scientists, as well as energy experts, sent an open letter to president-elect Donald Trump, urging him to take six concrete steps to address climate change and to help protect “America’s economy, national security, and public health and safety.” Trump has called global warming a concept created by China to make U.S. manufacturing non-competitive, and he has picked a climate change denialist to lead the Environmental Protection Agency. Many scientists fear that a Trump administration will drastically decrease federal funding for climate research. Indeed, the Trump transition team has already issued a questionnaire to the Department of Energy to identify employees and contractors who have worked on climate change research. Alan Townsend, an ecologist at the University of Colorado Boulder and one of many Colorado scientists who signed the letter, discusses these issues with hosts Maeve Conran and Susan Moran. Hosts: Maeve Conran, Susan Moran Producer: Susan Moran Engineer: Maeve Conran Executive Producer: Beth Bennett Listen to the show:

Welcome to the Spring Pledge Drive edition of How On Earth. I'm this quarter's Executive Producer, Jim Pullen. We, the How On Earth team, encourage you to take a different take on the world, to examine assumptions, ideas and evidence critically. The great philosopher of science Karl Popper, a champion of the essential role of refutation in science, wrote in The Poverty of Historicism, For if we are uncritical, we shall always find what we want: we shall look for, and find confirmations, and we shall look away from and not see, whatever might be dangerous to our pet theories. Consider our relationship with the rest of the natural world... Do we humans have a special vitality that sets us apart or can we be best understood as just another smart ape? It's an essential question. In our feature interview, our guest scientist, bat biologist and Animal Planet host Dan Riskin, challenges us to reconsider--humorously, disgustingly, creepily, scarily--our perceptions of nature. Dan fields questions like, what's wrong with 'natural' marketing? Are killer whales cuddly? Should we feel sympathy for bed bugs? Is a father's love the same for humans as for water buffaloes? How we can acknowledge nature in its rich complexity and have a just and loving world beyond the grip of natural selection? All this and botfly on the brain. Dan got me thinking--a good thing--and I think he'll get you thinking too! Your support during KGNU's pledge drives is critical to keeping us on the air, so a huge thanks to our listener-members who pledged during the drive! If you haven't yet joined the team, now(!) is the right time to fortify The Show That Makes You Smarter and community radio, KGNU! Pledge securely online at kgnu.org or call 303-449-4885. Pick up one of our great science book thank-you gifts, too. Many thanks to Beth Bartel, Maeve Conran, and Joel Parker for hosting the pledge drive show! (Go here for the pledge show with the rich banter.) Thanks again! Jim and the How On Earth team Listen to my interview with Dan Riskin:

Bono, Imelda Kenny and Maeve Conran talk about their fathers: Bob, 'Gally' and Desmond; all since deceased. Bono slept beside his father as he died, Imelda learned to talk to her father and Maeve recorded one of her last visits to her father. (RTE Ireland)

Maeve Conran’s story about the Maria Rogers Oral HistoryProgram aired on KGNU on May 31, 2012. Conran, Co-Director of News for the Boulder public radio station begins her story like this:  “The Carnegie Library in Boulder feels more like a museum. Housed in an historic building on Pine Street, there’s that hushed silence that harks […]