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VICTORY IN DOUGLAS COUNTY -- Standing Up For The Homelands
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History was made in
Superior, in front of one of the largest audiences ever to attend a
county board meeting, the Douglas County board re-affirmed their long
standing opposition towards building the huge Arrowhead-Weston
electric line through northwestern Wisconsin. After several emotional
speeches from the board the vote was 15-11 against the electric line.
Nick Vander Puy from the Superior Broadcast Network and some other
reporters interview county board member Mark Liebaert about the
victory. Click Here to listen to this radio story and see pictures. |
Traditional Anishinaabe Way of Life
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Nick Hockings
from Lac du Flambeau predicts terrible things are going to happen
because the dominant, lighter skinned society has chosen not to embrace
an environmental ethic. Nick Vander Puy from the Superior Broadcast Network interviews Nick Hockings about treaty rights and traditional prophecy. Click Here to listen to this radio story and see pictures. |
Birkie Founder Ernie St. Germain
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Still sking,
Ernie
St. Germain and John Kotar (Coe-tar)
are Birkebeiner Ski race founders. The annual Birkebeiner ran last
weekend in northwestern Wisconsin. St. Germaine and
Kotar are among the handful
of skiers who have skied every race since
the first American Birkebeiner race organized by Tony Wise more than
thirty years ago. Earlier last week St.
Germaine’s knee was in such terrible shape he thought he might
never ski again and Kotar more than sixty
years old wasn’t sure he’d be able to finish either. But both St.
Germaine and Kotar crossed the finish line
of the 52 kilometer race this past weekend in Hayward, Wisconsin.
Nick Vander Puy from the Superior Broadcast
Network reports. Click Here to listen to this radio story and see pictures. |
This Wisconsin Family Made A Cozy Solar Home Of Straw
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Dave Jacoby and his family have used NO fossil fuels to heat or cool their cozy northern Wisconsin home insulated with straw bales. The home is heated by the sun and an efficient masonry woodstove. Nick Vander Puy from the Superior Broadcast Network visits their home in northwestern Wisconsin. Click Here to listen to this radio story and see pictures. |
Distributed Generation Here in the Northwoods?
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There’s a revolution going on that some utilities would just as soon you not know about. It’s called distributed generation. It promises to render electric transmission lines and central generating plants obsolete and allow local communities to make and distribute their own green energy. A retired engineer Barry Hanson has written about this movement in the book titled “Energy Power Shift: Benefiting from Today’s New Technologies.” |
Amy Goodman speaks at Energy Fair
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Amy
Goodman is the host of the
Click Here to listen to this radio story and see pictures. |
Glenn Stoddard, Defender of Wild Places
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Glenn
Stoddard, a progressive environmental attorney, fights the giant electric transmission
line slicing across northwestern Wisconsin because he’s from a long line
of conservationists trying to protect the land. Nick Vander Puy from the
Superior Broadcast Network talks with Glenn Stoddard at his family’s
nature preserve Wolf Spring’s Forest, located in northwestern Wisconsin.
Click Here to listen to this radio story and see pictures. |
A Family Man In The Arctic Circle
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Some men dream about building a cabin in the northwoods, hunting
and fishing, and living a rough and tumble life close to the land.
A
Wisconsin native Heimo Korth accomplished this dream. In 1975, the
twenty year old Heimo Korth lit out for Alaska,
built a small cabin, and married a native woman.
The story is recounted by Korth’s cousin James Campbell in the book “The
Final Frontiersman: Heimo Korth and his Family Alone in
Alaska’s Arctic National Wildlife
Refuge Wilderness.”
Korth lives with his wife and two daughters 130
miles above the Arctic Circle, the only settlers for more than 500
miles. Click Here to listen to this radio story and see pictures. |
Steve Kozak Collects Electricity From The Sun
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Neighbor Steve Kozak wants to empower
his students, both literally and figuratively, by teaching them
renewable energy basics. Kozak teaches about energy obtained from
inexhaustible sources, like the wind and sun, at the Lac Courte
Oreilles Ojibwe (Lah-coo-der-ray) (LCO) Community College in
northwestern Wisconsin The five year old renewable energy program is
one of the few renewable energy programs in the country. Nick Vander
Puy from the Superior Broadcast Network reports. Click Here to listen to this radio story and see pictures. |
Menominee Elder and Artist Jim Frechette Jr.
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The Menominee have lived here for thousands of
years. Nick Vander Puy from the Superior Broadcast Network visits a
display of these hard carved figures at the University of Wisconsin
Stevens Point, depicting the Menominee clan system, “The Little
Menominee,” were created by Menominee elder and traditional artist Jim
Frechette Jr., In the first part of a two part series, Vander Puy talks
with Menominee tribal member Mike Hoffman and retired UW Stevens Point
history professor David Wrone about the display. Click Here to listen to this radio story and see pictures. |
Home Town Hero, Senator Gaylord Nelson
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Gaylord Nelson is a
small town boy who changed the world. A former Wisconsin Governor,
Senator, and founder of Earth Day, Nelson’s life is illuminated in a
new biography, “The Man from Clear Lake,” by Bill Christofferson. Nick
Vander Puy from the Superior Broadcast Network traveled to Clear Lake in northwestern Wisconsin
to talk with Nelson, his wife Carrie Lee, and the author. Click Here to listen to this radio story and see pictures. |
Protector of the Water, Winona LaDuke
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Speaking in northeastern Wisconsin around Earth Day, Anishinaabekwe Winona LaDuke talks with Nick Vander Puy about energy policy and eating fish.
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Jerry Smith - Traditional Anishinaabe
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Jerry Smith is a traditional spiritual leader for
Odawa-zaaga-iginging. Sitting out in the woods behind his cabin on the
Lac Courte Oreille reserve Smith talks about traditional Anishinaabe
spiritual practice. Nick Vander Puy from the Superior Broadcast Network
reports. Click Here to listen to this radio story and to see more pictures. |
Maple Syrup - "The Sweet Season"
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It's maple syrup time in the northwoods! An Anishinaabe saying captures the
feeling:
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Mark Liebaert says, "Line could harm grandchildren."
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Neighbor Mark Liebaert is a sixth generation farmer and county board member from Douglas County, fighting the giant electric transmission line As a board member of SOUL (Save Our Unique Lands) Liebaert keeps the resistance alive against the high voltage scar on his homeland. Click Here to listen to this radio story and to see pictures |
Healthy Living with Paul Goellner
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He's close to sixty years old, but he's in great shape to ski his
seventeenth Birkebeiner Ski marathon. Dr. Paul Goellner talks about
health and cross country ski-ing. Click Here to listen to this radio story and see pictures. |
Gene and Mary-Ann
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Gene and Mary Ann Laajala (pronounced Lie-ah-Lah) are a Finnish-American couple who retired to the woods west of Solon Springs. They wanted to garden, feed the birds, and take their grandchildren on horse drawn sleigh rides. But now their retirement years are threatened by the giant Arrowhead-Weston electric line.
Nick Vander Puy from the Superior Broadcast Network visits the Laajala’s on their northwestern Wisconsin homestead. Click Here to listen to this radio story and see pictures. |
Paul Demain
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Living in northwestern Wisconsin Paul DeMain is the editor and
driving force behind the national newspaper “News From Indian Country.”
Paul DeMain practices native spirituality because he believes it’s a
good way to live.
Nick Vander Puy of the Superior Broadcast Network visits with DeMain. Click Here to listen to this radio story and see pictures. |