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News Here! THE LONG VIEW is looking for a new host!

Though not a paid position, the social media implications are awesome (i.e., great exposure for the host) and on this website you can promote your sustainability-focused business! We welcome interest from the Greater Lowell Community for the Host role. Please email: isacann at gmail. The committment is for those who can commit to the timeslot, maintaining the program as a professional priority. [additional The Long View website pages are not being updated currently, so they have been "unlinked" for now]

Most Recent Shows

June 18, 2009 Ron Martino interviews Mary Williamson, Development and Marketing Director of the Essex National Heritage Commission, its mission: to preserve and promote the historic, cultural and natural resources of Essex County, MA. Visit essexheritage.org for more information. We'll hear about their wonderful programs and projects including their signature summer event, "Trails and Sails"

June 11, 2009 Ron Martino interviews Kristen Overlock and Anna Forkan the founders of Revitalive, a full service raw & living foods education and wellness center. We'll learn about the growing trend towards eating 'live foods and raw foods' and about the regular 'raw luck' potluck dinners . As part of their focus on personal wellness they provide colon hydrotherapy, nutritional microscopy, living food cleanses, raw food prep classes, detox programs, support groups and community events. Listen in as we explore their ideas of how eating healthy this way contributes to personal sustainability.

April 30, 2009 Join host Ron Martino when he interviews Dr. John Warner about the emerging field of “Green Chemistry”. Dr John Warner is the President and CTO of the Warner Babcock Institute for Green Chemistry and author of the seminal book Green Chemistry Theory and Practice. In a world dipped in chemical products and byproducts, Dr. Warner's groundbreaking insights bring hope for improving our environment and bring new green jobs to our economy by adopting these new approaches. Hear why Governor Schwarzenegger asked John to help lead a strategic green jobs effort in California. www.warnerbabcock.com/

April 23, 2009 Meet author Deborah Cramer who's new book has been praised by Al Gore and E.O.Wilson and who has been compared to Rachel Carson of the 21st Century. The challenges translating complex and nuanced science for the general public are many. In the case of the ocean, the gap in understanding between scientists and the public may better described as a chasm. People love the sea, but fail to understand why the sea and its health really matter. Smithsonian Ocean: Our Water Our World suggests that many people’s assumptions about the ocean are wrong, that for too long we have confused immensity with immutability. The book invites people to reconceive their ideas about the ocean, to consider that in ways we have never imagined and science is just beginning to describe, all life, including ours, depends on the sea. www.smithsonianocean.com

April 9, 2009 Tune in to hear about "Transition Towns" a world wide movement to form social networks to help cities position themselves to survive and thrive in a post carbon future. Host Ron Martino will speak with engineer Niall Robinson and artist John Brown who are leading the formation of a local group as part of "Transition Massachusetts". We'll talk about their motivation, their techniques and goals and invite our audience to see if they want to participate. The tagline of Transition Massachusetts is "Community Resilience, Self-Reliance, Renewable Energy & Cooperation"

April 2, 2009 Host Mark Myles is featuring the Lowell Film Festival. The theme of this weekend's Lowell Film Festival is Food, Fair Trade, and the Global Economy. Asparagus, hamburgers, and child labor are just a few subjects of the Festival's many features and live panels. LZ Nunn, Director of Lowell’s Office of Cultural Affairs and Special Events, will join guest host to talk about the variety of films and guests that will highlight the Festival and what audiences can expect at this exciting city-wide event.

Tune in March 26, 2009 Host Ron Martino interviews Writer/Director Lorre Fritchy in a sneak preview of her behind-the-scenes adventures in independent filmmaking, during the Opening Night Reception of the Lowell Film Festival on Friday, April 3rd. With the global economy, fair trade, garment production, and sustainability being major festival themes, Fritchy’s feature film MILLIES will touch on all of them. Written and Directed by Fritchy, MILLIES is the story of a group of mill workers who return from 1912 to guide a bankrupt, modern-day mill owner who discovers "her" future threatens "their" past.

Thursday March 19, 2009 Explore the workings of Cider Hill Farm "a sustainable microcosm" of food, fuel and nature in Amesbury as host Ron Martino interviews farmer and entrepreneur Glenn Cook. Cider Hill Farm, along with its eggs and honey, produces a huge variety of fruits, vegetables, as well as its own wind energy from 3 turbines, and heats its greenhouses with the orchard tree trimmings. Home to a wide variety of wildlife, including the occasional visiting black bear or moose, Cider Hill Farm demonstrates the great sustainable potential of Merrimack Valley farming

Thursday March 12, 2009 Slow Food continues its run as Guest Host Mark Myles brings back Jennifer Hashley, this time in her capacity as Director of the Tufts New Entry Sustainable Farming Project. This Lowell-based project not only assists people with limited means to get into farming, its also a great resource for Lowell-area people to buy great local produce.

Thursday March 5, 2009 Long View Guest Host Mark Myles returns to the subject of Slow Food with Pete Lowy and Jen Hashley, the proprietors of Pete & Jen's Backyard Birds. Pete and Jen raise their chickens the old fashioned way - feeding them organic grains and pasture grass, collecting eggs by hand, and selling them from their barn themselves. Find out why "old" techniques are the latest thing in agriculture - and why.

Thursday Feb 19, 2009 Are you in the process of re imagining or repositioning your career? Tune in as Ron Martino and Joel Radford discuss what comprises a sustainable career mix and how using creativity, left and right brain skills, and consultant type analytics might help people navigate tough time economic times. Joel is a strategic management consultant who has helped many companies develop focused strategies. He is also an aspiring Novelist who is using his own strategic skills to have his book published.

Thursday Feb 12, 2009 Lowell's NE Quilt Museum is featured as Ron Martino talks to Christine Inge and the Museum's art historians and educators, all practicing quilters themselves about the resurgence of this folk art form and the Museum's own role in helping nurture the art and craft. Quilting has many sustainable practices such as its frequent use of recycled fabrics, it provides community building creative outlet and sociability to it makers, and historically has been a self sufficiency skill for early colonial women and delta sharecroppers alike. http://www.nequiltmuseum.org/

Feb 5, 2009 new guest host, Mark Myles interviews Ron Martino. Ron is promoting local food, which includes farmers markets and CSAs in the Merrimack Valley. They will also looking at the world wide Slow Food movement which seeks to be an antidote to "fast food" and industrialized agriculture.

Jan 29, 2009 Host Ron Martino interviews architect Andrew Sidford about using good design to make our homes more sustainable. Andrew's reputation has grown regionally and nationally as his innovative sustainable designs have been seen and experienced. His philosophy of "the experience of space, rather than the size of the building" has melded aesthetics, sustainability and costs to produce beautiful homes, some of which can be seen here in the Merrimack Valley. We'll ask Andrew about the traditional 3-decker multifamily house and how that might be reconceived as more sustainable. Learn more about Andrew: www.asidfordarchitects.com

Jan 22, 2009 Host Ron Martino interviews Andrew Witherbee.

Jan 15, 2009 Ron Martino will be interviewing Ari Herzog on social media specifically on the topic "New Media and the Public Forum", an exploration of the use of new media in the recent election and expected efforts in the area of "E-Government" in the new administration.

Please check out the slide show (right) that illustrates how and why President Elect Obama's social media strategies were so successful. Presented by Brent Leary of CRM Essentials via Web2Marketer.com It has great pointers!

Jan 8, 2009 Tune in to hear host Ron Martino interview Peter Strattner, CEO of Green Cocoon, an innovative supplier of soy based insulation. This breakthrough form of foam insulation is healthier than fiber glass, is non-carcinogenic, resists mold and allergens and is easy on the planet. And better yet, this remarkable sustainably grown product can save home owners 50-70% on their cooling and heating bills when compared to traditional fiber glass. Soy based insulation can generate savings on HVAC equipment and installation of over $20,000 on a 4200 square foot house. Learn more at The Green Cocoon

Christmas Special from Voices of Our World. Christmas tales from around the world are told by Maryknoll Missioners. Excellent Christmas music clips are also featured between the stories. This is a really nice production that our listeners will enjoy very much, no matter their religious pursuasion, the stories of our common world.

December 18, 2008: Ron discusses carbon offsets and reforestation with social entrepreneur Jeff Krumrine. Working via "Green Puppy", an online carbon footprint calculating engine, Jeff then helps people offset their footprint via tree planting in Central America. "Green Puppy"'s process helps reduce global warming while providing jobs and a healthy environment for indigenous peoples.

December 11, 2008: Solar Power consultant and UML graduate Dr Ujjwal Bhattacharjee will enlighten us this week with "The Economics of Subsidizing Solar Power" and we will hear why Massachusetts and only a few other states understand the importance of funding to stimulate a solar energy industry. Dr John Duffy, Director of the UMass Lowell Solar Energy Project, will join Ujjwal and The Long View Host, Ron Martino, to address some of the other breakthrough research he and other graduate students like Ujjwal are working on.

December 4, 2008: Please tune in to listen to host Ron Martino chat with Energy Egghead Director Tim Gould. We'll learn about the techniques and tips that Energy Eggheads uses to help home owners and businesses reduce their energy needs. With winter upon us, you'll want to listen in to hear ways you might save money, energy and ultimately the planet.

November, 13, 2008: Hosts Ron Martino and Elizabeth Rose interview community development worker Matthew Paneitz from Long Way Home located in Guatemala. Matt Paneitz will describe his program which has been using recycled materials to build structures for housing and soon.....for a school. Long Way Home has discovered the economical and environmental benefits of using tires, recycled non-perishable trash and soda bottles filled with trash. This innovative approach makes good sense in a country where poverty is at 56% of the population.

Thursday, November 6, 2008: Host Ron Martino interviews Molly Ettenborough of the newly formed Greater Newburyport Eco Collaborative (GNEC). The Collaborative is a unique collaboration of the City of Newburyport, the Chamber of Commerce and the Environmental Network including SEED. By promoting a "Greener Greater Newburyport", GNEC will encourage, green jobs, lower energy costs, and a more sustainable community. The kick off effort will be on November 14-15th when they will host a public welcome Environmental Expo featuring green builders, alternative energy firms, as well as green "health and home" products and services.

Thursday, October 30, 2008, 10:10 am: Host Ron Martino interviews well known NY based animal law attorney, James F. Gesualdi, to discuss "lawyering from the heart: legal, practice and life lessons from my decades with the dolphins". A year after he graduated from law school, Jim Gesualdi's career "went south", to the Florida Keys that is. There, he spent a week with dolphins and cancer survivors. The experience transformed his life and reshaped his practice. Mr. Gesualdi will share the story of his 19-year journey in the emerging practice area known as Animal Law, including the Animal Welfare Act, the Marine Mammal Protection Act, environmental review, intellectual property, etc.

Thursday, October 23, 2008, 10:10 am: Elizabeth Rose will interview the teens that compose the backbone of the Pepperweed Project and the Gulf Of Maine Institute, two non-profits that have joined forces to engage citizens in the eradication of the invasive plant species. Pepperweed perennial. John Halloran of GOMI will be on hand as well to talk about these teens and their important work to save the Great Marsh.

Thursday, October 9, 2008, 10:10 am. Host Ron Martino interviews Odonata Village community members Mark Schultz and Lyra Engle. They will talk about their plans to build a local sustainable development based community; a new subdivision, a village setting designed with a strong concern for the environment, each home on its own lot but with common play and conservation areas, using state of the art energy systems. Odonata's efforts and others like them are the raison d'etre for The Long View!

Thursday, September 18, 2008, 10:10 am: Elizabeth Rose, guest host of The Long View, welcomes John Halloran of the Gulf Of Maine Institute (GOMI) and Sarah Janson of the Parker River National Wildlife Refuge. They will speak about the Pepperweed Project, which is a citizen project initiated by and lead by young people. Its purpose is to eradicate the spread of the invasive non-native plant called Pepperweed (Lepidium latifolium) which is a hardy non-native perennial that can grow into a monoculture if left unchecked. It is particularly worrisome in the Great Marsh which stretches from Plum Island to Gloucester because it threatens salt marsh hay, an important source of nutrition and breeding habitat for many animal species. The Pepperweed Project involves the hand pulling of plants every spring. Tune in and find out whether the Project is making headway against this invasion.

Thursday, September 11, 2008, 10:10 am: tribute programming

Sept 4, 2008: Let's talk about women! Guest Host Ari Herzog interviews entrepreneur Susan Caldwell, founder and publisher of Applaud Magazine, a New Hampshire's women's magazine that celebrates the accomplishments and triumphs of area women. Tune in and let's "applaud" women who are making great strides to better the world!

August 28, 2008: Host Ron Martino interviews Sue Levesque about food safety …for pets. Sue, a nurse, tells how she consulted an animal expert when *SASSY her pet parrot came down ill and she learned that the "bottom of the silos" moldy grain and seed products sold by most pet shop was shortening parrot’s lives by as much as 40 years! If you have a pet, you’ll want to tune in and learn more about the necessity for giving them healthy natural foods. *Sassy Sally is a Solomon Island Eclectic parrot.

August 21, 2008: Ron Martino interviews Bill Powell about Vintage Sports Car restoration. Bill, a long time fan of British Sports cars will explain how this long standing hobby takes on new "green meaning" in our current environment. 'Ever want to tool around in a cool British Racing Green convertible? Tune in and learn more about the Austin Heally currently in the shop or the Jags and other Austins Bill has rebuilt. The MK 3000 Austin has appeared in numerous movies and TV programs and is so iconic, that even "The Simpsons" wrote one into the script.

August 14, 2008: Guest Host Ari Herzog interviews Maggie Battista. They will talk about local food, boutique restaurants and old-fashioned hospitality. After 12 years as a community builder on sites like Lycos, Tripod, and TripAdvisor, Maggie discovered the vibrant real-world communities that emerge around food. She started EatBoutique.com to celebrate exceptional food experiences derived from entrepreneurial spirit, pure ingredients and great service, and regularly drives long distances for an amazing night with a great chef, farmer or host.

August 7, 2008: Merrimack Valley writer and film maker Lorre Fritchy is interviewed by host Ron Martino. MasterPeace Productions is a writing and independent film/video production company whose founder and director, Lorre Fritchy, believes in the power and responsibility of storytelling. Founded in June 1997, MasterPeace Productions began on Boston's North Shore in Newburyport, Massachusetts. In 2001, MasterPeace relocated to the historic, culturally diverse, and picturesque mill city of Lawrence, Massachusetts. Lorre's current film is "Millies" (http://www.milliesmovie.com/).

July 31, 2008: Taking "The Long View" comes naturally at the First Parish Church of Newbury which has been engaged in various missions since 1635! Listen in as host Ron Martino interviews Pastor the Rev. Nancy Havrington and Deacon Erin Stack about the church community's decision to "Go Green" and focus on their stewardship of both Earth and Spirit. The FPC has opened its land to community gardeners, a local CSA, and the GAL -Green Artist League. As the First Parish Church re-imagines itself in the context of the 21st century its become a leader in environmental 'ethics in action' in the Merrimack Valley.

July 24, 2008: Tune in to hear Rob Howe, a partner with Sustainovation speak with host Ron Martino about coaching Massachusetts government on "Going Green". Rob and one of his colleague recently provide a primer on sustainability to a combined State House group including the Massachusetts House Committee on Science, the Science and Technology Caucus and the Joint Committee on Environment, Natural Resources and Agriculture. The session was arranged by Rep. Cory Atkins, of Concord, MA.

July 17, 2008: Ron interviews Mark Guay, Chairman of the Board of the Customs House/Maritime Museum in Newburyport. They'll explore clipper ship history and current day economic development through the eyes of an environmentalist. He'll chat with Mark about the great progress being made at a re-invigorated Customs House, its collections, its scholarship, and its recent visit by Governor Patrick. Mark sees the health of a community closely linked to the health of our environment and sees preservation is a key tool for environmentalism.

July 10, 2008: Tune in to learn about the Socrates Cafe', an "Citizen Philosophy" a worldwide phenomenon. Hear from guests Elaine Mawhinney, Professor of Western Lit at NECC and Allan Casebier Professor Emeritus, University of Southern California. Elaine leads a Socrates Cafe circle in Newburyport. Meeting twice a month they discuss a topic of the evening like the nature of truth, athletic ethics, or environmental justice. Allan taught Film School students at USC using classic films illustrating philosophical questions. His career thrust was always to make philosophy and its tools a part of the development of every citizen.

July 3, 2008: Join Erin Stack of the Green Artists League as she speaks about building Eco Awareness through Art in their new project "The New EdenCollaborative" on The Long View July 3rd. The Green Artists League (GAL) is an interdisciplinary collective of artists who have come together to create Public Art that addresses the global environmental crisis. Viewing art as an agent for transformation, GAL engages the public through interactive art experiences. New Eden Collaborative project involves GAL collaborating with the First Parish Church of Newbury, organic community gardeners, and the growers and shareholders of the Greater Newburyport CSA (Community Supported Agriculture) in an experiment in sustainable community. Visit www.greenartistsleague.com

June 26, 2008: Derek Mitchell from the Fresh Roots program in Lowell will bring 2 teens to the studio to talk about their excellent city youth farming program. "Fresh Roots is a by teens for teens program consisting of three parts:the Farm Program, Business Program, and Culinary Program. It is designed to give teens job experience, help them to contribute to their community, and give them something to put on their resume that almost any college will go crazy for. Not to mention the relationships that are built.".

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