For our first show in the new year, we played a couple of features from our archives. One about jobs in geography, and another with Michael Runtz, on a talk he gave last year entitled ‘Sex, Flies, and Videotape’. Also, next week is the Yes You Can! conference at Carleton, with SPF’s Robyn Penney . . . → Read More: January 6, 2011: Happy New Year
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This morning on the show we heard the first feature from new SPF’er Chris Mineau, about industrial agriculture, and Henry and Robyn talked about their fourth year undergrad geography theses, and their process so far. Pierre Mineau: Industrial Agriculture By: Chris Mineau, Regular SPF Contributor For her first feature, Chris discusses the . . . → Read More: December 16, 2010: Industrial Agriculture  Carleton Geography Undergraduate Thesis: Research and Ethics Clearance [12:02] Play Now | Play in Popup | DownloadThe CKCU Funding Drive: Visit their website at www.ckcufm.com and support community radio! The CKCU Funding Drive It’s that time again; the annual CKCU Funding Drive! During the 3 week period, the station raises money toward their operating budget for the year, and every show kicks in to help them reach their $110,000 target. . . . → Read More: October 28, 2010: Funding Drive Show I David Suzuki, answering questions during his Legacy Lecture given as part of the 2010 Writer’s Festival. The David Suzuki Legacy Lecture: Writer’s Festival 2010 By: Robyn Penney & Henry Hawkins, Regular SpF Contributors David Suzuki was in Ottawa this past week as part of the annual Writer’s Festival, and gave his Legacy Lecture speech. . . . → Read More: September 30, 2010: The David Suzuki Legacy Lecture An olde world map from 1570, made by Abraham Ortelius and referred to as the ‘first world atlas’ The Madgic Department – Overview By: Susan Jackson, Head of MADGIC This morning we launched a new recurring feature on the show from The MADGIC Department here at Carleton University in the MacOdrum . . . → Read More: September 23, 2010: The Madgic Department Madgical Moments: Episode 1 - Earthquakes in the Ottawa Region [2:51] Play Now | Play in Popup | DownloadSunspots seen in ultraviolet light; hear all about the sun being out of sync in this week’s Environmental News. This week on the show we heard from John Wall with a discussion on getting job with a Geography degree. What are employers looking for, and how should geographers sell themselves in a job market? . . . → Read More: June 17, 2010: Jobs In Geography John Wall: Advice for Getting Jobs With A Geography Degree [14:32] Play Now | Play in Popup | DownloadIn honour of fathers day John Wall started the show off with a discussion on how he and his partner work together to integrate the environmental concepts into raising a child. John spoke of a number of useful tool and resources available to young fathers (and mothers) and gave a few words of wisdom . . . → Read More: June 25, 2009: Growing Up – Environment and Education On the May Long weekend SPFer Matt Street went camping at Sand Banks Provincial Park and took along his audio recorder. He recorded some interesting sounds, but he particularly liked this story that was read around the campfire. Listen carefully and you can hear the fire and the frogs in the background. The Story . . . → Read More: May 21, 2009: Campfire Stories And Karate Kids Is publicly funded research available to the public? On this show Dr. Harald Bauder from Ryerson University discussed the academic publishing industry with Carol Hunsberger. They talked about the challenges that come with a system where the distribution of knowledge is controlled by a few publishing companies, as well as some opportunities to make . . . → Read More: November 27, 2008: Academic Publishing The first of our funding drive shows brought in $320 in pledges. Thanks to everyone who donated to keep CKCU running for another year! Matt Street reported on another fundraising effort: a pumpkin carving contest in Ottawa that raised money for low-income Kenyan children to attend secondary school through the Canada Mathare Education Trust. . . . → Read More: October 30, 2008: The Funding Drive |
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