[Imc-newsroom] Life in the Bike Lane

[Pauline Bartolone]

The Life in the Bike Lane WEFT morning drop-in started airing Mondays and 
Wednesdays in the month of May. For a very hectic and transitional month to 
start producing this program, I think a sturdy foundation is developing.

I have developed many contacts and program ideas that could be easily passed 
on to others who would be interested in following up on them.
I was the one who proposed the drop-in for the IMC, but I assumed I would be 
among many producers. Help make this be true. I will be away for a few weeks 
in June, and it would be nice if a few people volunteered to help out with 
some shows.

So maybe I have to make the invitation more explicit. I invite anyone to 
come up with a show idea, perform interviews, do audio editing, or produce 
an entire show. Its a great way to start out with audio production and media 
production in general. The drop-ins are only up to 5 minutes long. Thanks to 
Paul K, we have an excellent and amusing intro and outro.

Let me offer some contacts/features ideas I rounded up that could be passed 
on. Email me back if you are interested:

1.Folks from the Green Party said that they would be involved in a show 
about:   -renewable energy in Champaign County
         -municipality owned utilities
         -police review board

2.Bike lanes on green street. I already have an interview and some text that 
could be read, it just needs a couple more short interviews and it would be 
a great piece.

3. Community gardens:
         Beardsley Park Neighborhood Garden
         Oregon plot community/permaculture garden

4. Buying locally produced food: Food co-ops
         I interviewed someone from Common Ground already, just a      
couple of more interviews needed.

5. The 40 acre hog farm coming to Champaign county- Bellflower dairy farm- 
Factory farms in our community

6. Marc Miller of the Prairie Rivers Network said he could contribute 
something- Someone could interview him about the Emberass River being 
recently channelled due to urban growth, or the Black Beauty Coal mine 
issue.

7. University growing south

8.Assesment of the Campus Area Transportation Study (CATS)

9. Other Sustainable Transportation issues such as a high speed rail system 
in Illinois.

These are just some ideas that I thought I would throw out there.
What else can I say to make this project sexy?

Thanks, Pauline

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