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Ghost Loads - Scary Stuff

October 31, 2007


In addition to my numerous local projects I have been working on behind the scenes on an environmental radio program, which began airing last year on CIUT radio in Toronto, Ontario. Around 8 million people fall within the broadcast range of CIUT transmitters and hopefully they will all soon be regular listeners of the Green Majority, which airs Friday mornings between 10 and 11 am. I recorded the pilot episode of the Green Majority with its current host Jordan Poppenk. The pilot spent the next few months queing for a regular timeslot at CIUT to come available. During this time I made a move out of Toronto and beyond the range of CIUT transmitters. As such, my involvement with the show at this time entails maintaining the shows web presence at www.greenmajority.ca and submitting various audio segments (Out of Range is my segment name!) from Owen Sound.

Here is my first Out of Range segment submission to the show, spooky stuff!

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4 Responses to “Ghost Loads - Scary Stuff”

  1. Lynda Says:
    October 31st, 2007 at 11:27 pm

    When I moved north from Toronto, I was looking for ways to make small, sensible changes like you suggest. Switching my house from electric to natural gas for heating seemed like a good idea, but I was disappointed to find very little information on alternatives like heat pumps and solar — you have to hunt down facts from all over the place. We need more easy to find and easy to apply information targeted to ordinary folks — it’s got to go beyond which light bulb to buy. Looking forward to your next broadcast!

  2. mrG Says:
    November 1st, 2007 at 11:02 am

    speaking of ghosts that haunt our nightmares and spooks that stay out of sight, easily the scariest story I’ve heard for 2007 has to be the texas-sized toxic dump they call the North Pacific Gyre (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Pacific_Garbage_Patch) and utter intractableness of the problem, and the deadly prospects it has for percolating up our foodchain. Compared to the 1500 mile wide and 30 foot deep plastic soup of the Gyre, are there really any significant environmental concerns worth the soundbites?

  3. That's a wrap, another Halloween is over » theOwen.com Says:
    November 1st, 2007 at 12:26 pm

    […] that was last night… and then this morning a comment was made on yesterday’s post about Ghost Loads. It addressed the plastic pollution that is aggregating in the North Pacific Gyre. This reminded me […]

  4. mrG Says:
    February 6th, 2008 at 11:35 am

    More news on the Gyre-heap, this time from the UK Independent and an update, the monster is getting bigger and is expected to double its size in 10 years.

    A “plastic soup” of waste floating in the Pacific Ocean is growing at an alarming rate and now covers an area twice the size of the continental United States, scientists have said.

    The vast expanse of debris %u2013 in effect the world’s largest rubbish dump %u2013 is held in place by swirling underwater currents. This drifting “soup” stretches from about 500 nautical miles off the Californian coast, across the northern Pacific, past Hawaii and almost as far as Japan.
    [ The world’s rubbish dump: a garbage tip that stretches from Hawaii to Japan - Environment - Independent.co.uk ]

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