voice of bainbridge

Who is blogging on Bainbridge

A quick visit to Julie Leung's blog has incited me to start compiling a list of the bloggers located on Bainbridge. I basically copied Julie's effort. Lots of good pictures (you can admire Moon over Winslow by Chris Holmes and Smiling Beluga by Julie Leung) and plenty of interesting content. Maybe we should get together one of these days to talk about blogging and share our experiences with the people who would like to know more about the new media?

Mary Doria Russell: A Thread of Grace

Mary Doria Russell gave a presentation full of energy to a packed audience at Eagle Harbor Bookstore.
I hope our recording (23 min) will allow you to enjoy her dynamism and her humor. Unfortunately she inadvertently dropped the lapel mike after about 15 minutes: raise the volume and you should be able to hear the end of her talk. We did not post the question and answer session: we still have to figure how to record the questions. Sorry!
Thank you to Eagle Harbor Books for the hospitality.
Listen

Rachel goes to China

After Thanksgiving Rachel Pritchett, Editor of the Bainbridge Islander accompanied to Central China a medical mission sponsored by the Lutheran Church.
She talks about this trip that ended abruptly when the Chinese officials asked the group of US health professionals to leave the country before the end of their planned visit.
She describes the dire conditions in the schools she visited.
Listen

Iranian blogger sentenced to 14 years in prison

Arash Siardhi has been sentenced to 14 years in jail according to Reporters without borders. A few days earlier another blogger, Mojtaba Lofti  was sentenced to 3,5 years.
What can be done to help them?

Birds by Janie Cribbs

Surfing the web to see what is available on line about life on Bainbridge I found this yellow cherry bird by artist Janie Cribbs, now exhibited at  Gallery Fraga. Their site is very nice and also includes the current exhibit Romancing the city by Janet Marsten, see below At four swallows.

Free Mojtaba and Arash

No post today. Freedom for the iranian bloggers.

Choose an embassy on this list and send them an email.

4 minutes about podcasting

Why get into podcasting and how?
Because this is the future. Now.
Thank you Lisa (she created the video).

BirdNote premieres Monday, Feb. 21

Seattle Audubon and KPLU Announce New Radio Series
BirdNote

The Seattle Audubon Society and KPLU-FM 88.5 today announced BirdNote, a new radio series featuring the rich sounds and intriguing ways of birds in the Pacific Northwest.

BirdNote is designed to transport listeners out of the daily grind and into the natural world.

A different BirdNote spot will air each week day from 8:58 to 9 a.m. on KPLU-FM 88.5 following NPR's Morning Edition show.

Listen to the first program about the bald eagle.

A quote in an interesting interview

From the interview of Karen Hundt, director of the Planning & Design Studio in Chattanooga, Tenn in Grist Magazine

What environmental offense infuriates you the most? 

Clear-cutting every tree in a new subdivision and then naming the subdivision something like Forest Acres or The Orchard.

Looking forward

This is just to let you know (following the previous post that could maybe sound a little pessimistic) that I am working on new web radio developments. 

Stay tuned!

Have a great week-end

 

Chronological list of audiofiles 2004

List of audio files recorded (number of minutes) by Philippe Boucher for Voice of Bainbridge from March 31 to October 6, 2004
This is a chronological log. Most but not all of the recordings have been posted on the site.

Bainbridge Trees: description of the project

Bainbridge trees is a cyber-celebration of the trees of Bainbridge Island and the people who care for them using the new internet-based tools that allow a community to express itself and communicate by blogging , recording and broadcasting via digital audio and podcasting.

Bainbridge Trees: the budget

PROJECT BUDGET:  BAINBRIDGE TREES

 

PROJECT INCOME:

 

Business support (sponsoring) ……………………………………………….  $1200

 

Individual Donors  ……………………………………………… $1200

 

Foundation ………………………………………………   $1200

 

Government support: ……………………………………………… $ 1200

 

TOTAL PROJECT INCOME ………………………………………. $ 4800

 

PROJECT EXPENSES:

 

Personnel:

 

Producer/editor  (1 position at $ 25 per hour) …………………………. $ 2400

 

Outreach and promotion (1 position at $ 25 per hour) ………………………. $ 2400

 

Equipment (purchase) 1 digital camera + 1 additional portable digital recorder $ 400

 

Space/Facility (contribution to broadcast server, subscription for blog server) $ 400

 

Promotion/Marketing ……………………………………………………… $ 400

 

 

TOTAL PROJECT EXPENSES ………………………………….   $ 6000

 

 

  TOTAL PROJECT EXPENSES  $ 6000

 

  LESS PROJECT INCOME  $ 4800

 

  AMOUNT REQUESTED FROM BIAHF $ 1200

 

COMPLIANCE AGREEMENT:

It is understood that any funds allocated as a result of this application are to be used fro the purpose set forth herin. Further more it is understood that the organization receiving funds agrees to comply with the following:

a) the Civil Rights Act of 1991 which prohibits discrimination on the basis of race, national origin, or color;

b) Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972 which prohibits sex discrimination in education programs or activities;

c) The Americans with disabilities Act of 1990, which requires that all persons be given equal opportunity to participate in programs services. Signatures required

Applicant Authorizing Official, Fiscal Director, Project Director:

Philippe BOUCHER Date:

March 1 2005

Bainbridge Trees as artists

This is a copy (slightly edited) of a letter of support I included in the grant application, on behalf of key participants (who cannot write).

The Bainbridge Trees project as an artistic (and humanistic) challenge.

Choosing trees as a subject is an ambitious challenge.

Trees don’t talk: can people be eloquent about trees?

As far as we know this is the first attempt of this type for a web-radio (and traditional radio?) program. I think it is about time we have such a TreeTalk program.

Creation of VoB Chronology

Creation of Voice of Bainbridge – Chronology of events – Feb 2003 / Sept 2004

 

February/March 2003: meetings with BIB (Bob Haslanger) about the creation of a community radio on Bainbridge. No outcome.

 

Dec 2003: Drafts of the Earthcom project submitted in early 2004 to the Brainerd, Bullitt and Russell Family Foundations.

 

Feb 2004: Proposal for the creation of Globalink-radio for the International Union Against Cancer

 

Feb 17: Visit to Voice of Vashon on

Vashon Island

and meeting with their engineer, Steve Allen.

 

Feb 26 2004

: Acquisition of a portable digital MP3 recorder and lapel microphone

from PoGo! Products ($ 190)

 

Feb 27: Application for the KUOW Venture Fund ($10K for 3 months): Earth Series

 

March 13: Letter to the editor (Bainbridge Review) about a web radio for Bainbridge

 

March 23: Acquisition of the equipment necessary for the digital recording of phone interviews

 

March 31: First recording of a public event : Story telling at the Bainbridge Library

 

April 24: First interview: Glenn Burkhart in

Seattle

for the book Defending Wild

Washington

.

 

May 4: Submission to the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation pioneer ideas program about the

production

of digital audio programs

 

May 6: Visit to the KUOW Board meeting.

 

May 13: Memo for the communication directors of environmental groups about digital audio

production

 

May 23: Acquisition of a digital audio editing software (Goldwave) for $40.

 

May 31: Production of  5 interviews for Globalink-radio for World No-Tobacco Day

($ 1.000 contract)

 

 

June 15: Acquisition of a MP3 CD maker software from Qwerks ($ 25)

 

June 22: Interviews of artists Michele Van Slyke and Pegy Brunton.

 

June 24: Email from

Lisa Renstrom

, Chair of the Executive Committee of the Sierra Club (National) in response to my suggestions about how the Club should use digital audio.

 

End of June: Posting of the first recordings on the new Voice of Bainbridge website graciously created and hosted by Bainbridgeisland.org

 

 

June 25: Interview of City Council member Bill Knobloch

 

July 8: Interview with

Chris

ti Norman,

Washington

 

State

Audubon Society

and discussion with Hilary Hilscher, Communication Director about the

production

of a pro-environment program including

info

rmation about birds and bird songs.

 

July 19: Article about Voice of Bainbridge in the

Bremerton

Sun.

 

July 20:

Chris

Peterson, ED of Seattle Audubon announces her plans for the

production

of a 2 min audio segment Bird Note to be aired on public radio.

 

July 24: Article about Voice of Bainbridge in the Bainbridge Islander.

 

July 28: Article about Voice of Bainbridge in the Bainbridge Review.

 

July 30: Meeting with

Paul Travis

about the elaboration of a business plan.

 

August 5: Self interview about VoB and the revolution in broadcasting.

 

August 17:

Lisa Renstrom

asks me to work with the Communications and Education Governance Committee of the Sierra Club (one of the 6 committees reporting to the Board of Directors).

 

August 19: Interview with Darlene Kordonowy, Mayor of

Bainbridge

Island

.

 

August 26: Email contact with Brian Back publisher of the Sustainable Industries Journal (www.sijournal.com) and the Chinook Book (www.chinookbook.net) about a potential partnership in the

production

of the weekly pro-environment program.

 

September 2: Interview with Paul Johnson, Mechanic with Classic Cycle, beginning of the regular Biketalk program.

 

August 27:

Lin Kamer-Walker

offers to design a logo for Voice of Bainbridge.

 

August 27: Donors wishing to remain anonymous offer a $300 budget for advertising Voice of Bainbridge’s programs in the Bainbridge Islander sent weekly to all households.

 

September 2: Proposal to produce a series of programs for ABC (meeting with Charles Schmid). No  result.

September 6: Request to the City’s non-motorized transportation committee for financial support for Biketalk.
No result.

September 7/8: Voice of Bainbridge reports from the Prowalk/probike conference in

Victoria

thanks to the sponsorship of Squeakywheels to cover travel expenses (23 recordings posted). Contacts with potential partners for Bikewalk.

 
September 9: Meeting with Steven Gilbert PhD, UW professor and KUOW board member about the

production

of programs devoted to environmental issues and groups.

 September 10: Offer of recording and interview services for the City’s Winslow Tomorrow project.

September 21: Recording of the Community Forestry Commission. Proposal to record a 5/10 min brief after each meeting.
No result.

September 28: Recording of the second Town Hall meeting for the

Central

Ward

District

.

September 29: Launch of the blog http://vobis.blogspot.com

Start of the reflexion about combining digital audio with the blog tools.

 

October 2: Publication in the Bainbridge Islander of the first ad for VoB

 

 

Looking back at Voice of Bainbridge

I started working on projects to develop digital audio programs in February 2004.

I just reread the Earth Communication proposal I wrote on February 10 2004: it is certainly too ambitious in its multimedia scope (it blends print, web and audio) but I believe it is still an accurate assessment of the way environmental groups neglect radiobroadcast and the new digital tools.

I submitted this plan to 3 local foundations with an interest in environmental issues: Bullitt, Brainerd and Russell Family. The latter never answered back while the first two responded negatively.

Rex Weyler about Greenpeace

Rex Weyler author of Greenpeace, how a group of ecologists, journalists and visionaries changed the world,  published by Raincoast Books (on recycled paper) talks at Eagle Harbor Bookstore about how it all started:
The founding of Greenpeace, from the late-1960s to the formation of Greenpeace International in 1979, including intimate personal stories, sea voyages, triumphs and failures, internal clashes, and the influence of Quakers, Buddhism, Gandhi, the civil rights movement, political street theatre, media theory, and other cultural inspiration.  Listen

Winning the oil end game, by Amory Lovins

We are happy to be back with this recording of the conference given by Amory Lovins this Friday at Islandwood.
Amory who comes to the island to teach at the Bainbridge Graduate Institute created by Gifford Pinchot explained to a full house the argument of his most recent book, Winning the oil end game.
He showed how super-efficient cars could be built very rapidly, how alternate bio-fuels could be economically developed and energy wastes eliminated to the extent this country's oil dependency would disappear.
A very compelling argument.   Listen  (57 min)
Thanks to radioa4all.net for hosting the recording.
The book can be downloaded for free.
We recommend a visit to the site of the Rocky Mountain Institute.

More recent posts

February 13    Rex Weyler about Greenpeace

February 11  Amory Lovins about Winning the Oil End Game

January 31  Gifford Pinchot on KUOW