Now Playing

Loading streams...

Podcasts & RSS Feeds

Radio Green Earth on HD2RSS
All ContentRSS
View all podcasts & RSS feeds

Radio Green Earth on HD2

Thursdays at 9:30 a.m.
Missy Strauss, Jim Jackson

Environmental Education for Public Radio

Genre: 
News/Talk

Pages

Movies
12:01 am
Wed March 28, 2012

In Japan, 'Sliced-Up Actors' Are A Dying Breed

Next imagePrevious image
Credit Toei Kyoto Studio Park
Fukumoto in one of the numerous period costume dramas he has acted in for the Toei Company's film studios since he began work there in 1959.
Credit Toei Kyoto Studio Park
Seizo Fukumoto (right) falls to the sword of the leading man in one of Japan's chanbara or samurai films. Fukumoto is known as Japan's leading kirareyaku, or "chopped-up actor."
Credit Toei Company
Over a career spanning five decades, Fukumoto has been killed more than 50,000 times on screen in samurai and ninja films, with some work in gangster flicks as well.
Share
E-mail
Comments
By

Japan is home to Asia's oldest and largest motion-picture industry, with its own unique genres and traditions. While every film industry has stuntmen, only Japan has a class of actors whose main job is to be sliced and diced by samurai sword-wielding protagonists. But the decline of period dramas means that this class of actors is literally a dying breed.

Read more
Art & Design
7:36 am
Tue March 27, 2012

Semi-Nude Painting Smuggled Into Canadian Museum

Share
E-mail
Comments
By editor

It took a while, but guards at Canada's Glenbow Museum finally noticed a new acquisition in the gallery: An oil painting of a semi-nude woman. An anonymous note said the donor's late father did the painting and had always wanted his work in a museum.

Around the Nation
7:25 am
Tue March 27, 2012

Misbehaving Parents Ruin Easter Egg Hunt

Share
E-mail
Comments
By editor

Originally published on Tue March 27, 2012 7:27 am

Transcript

DAVID GREENE, HOST:

Read more
Law
4:00 am
Tue March 27, 2012

Supreme Court To Delve Into More Health Care Questions

Share
E-mail
Comments
By

At the Supreme Court, lawyers and justices will continue to spar over the new health care law. Tuesday's debate will center on whether the requirement that everyone carry health insurance — the individual mandate at the heart of the law — is constitutional.

Business
4:00 am
Tue March 27, 2012

Business News

Share
E-mail
Comments
By editor

Apple CEO Tim Cook has flown in to China to meet with government leaders. He's trying to work out issues ranging from trademark concerns to treatment of local factory workers who make Apple products.

NPR Story
4:00 am
Tue March 27, 2012

21st Century Vietnam Leaves War In The Past

Share
E-mail
Comments
By editor

Hanoi, Hue, Danang and Saigon, were city names that were stamped on the American psyche a half-century ago, when the U.S. waged war in Vietnam. The once war-torn, Southeast Asian nation has made great strides to leave its troubled past behind.

Business
4:00 am
Tue March 27, 2012

Jobs Act Could Expand Funding For Start-Ups

Share
E-mail
Comments
By editor

Lawmakers in the House are expected to vote on a jobs act Tuesday. Part of the legislation would allow the public to make investments in start-up companies and small businesses. These companies could raise money online or through social networks. The bill would lift SEC regulations that restrict soliciting investors.

Business
4:00 am
Tue March 27, 2012

Harrisburg Residents May Foot Police Bill

Share
E-mail
Comments
By editor

The Pennsylvania capital Harrisburg is more than $300 million in debt. The budget is controlled by a state-appointed custodian. City and law enforcement services are under strain and residents worry violent crime may be growing.

Business
4:00 am
Tue March 27, 2012

The Last Word In Business

Share
E-mail
Comments
By editor

Originally published on Tue March 27, 2012 7:20 am

Transcript

DAVID GREENE, HOST:

And our last word in business today is: billion euro real estate. That's how much artist Frank Buckley's Dublin apartment cost. In theory, he actually got the materials for free from Ireland's central bank.

The walls, furniture and detailing in his apartment are all made from bricks of shredded euro notes. Buckley estimates each brick contains 40 or 50,000 euro's worth.

FRANK BUCKLEY: I collected two trailer-fulls of shredded notes - 1.4 billion euro.

Read more
Shots - Health Blog
12:01 am
Tue March 27, 2012

In Haiti, Bureaucratic Delays Stall Mass Cholera Vaccinations

Next imagePrevious image
Credit John W. Poole / NPR
Joseph Francis, 54, says he came to this cholera clinic in Haiti's capital, Port-au-Prince,after becoming so dehydrated he could barely walk. Cholera has killed more than 7,000 Haitians since the first outbreak of the disease in October 2010. At the start of the rainy season, cases are once again beginning to climb.
Credit John W. Poole / NPR
Cots are lined up in a Port-au-Prince cholera clinic run by GHESKIO, a Haitian medical group. GHESKIO is helping to organize a huge pilot project to vaccinate some 100,000 Haitians against cholera. Tens of thousands of people have signed up to participate. The health workers have been trained, and the vaccine is waiting in coolers. But the campaign is bogged down in bureaucratic red tape.
Credit John W. Poole / NPR
A GHESKIO worker walks through a tent camp in Port-au-Prince with a megaphone, warning people about the danger of cholera and the need for sanitation and clean water.
Credit John W. Poole / NPR
A sign produced by Haiti's water authority warns about the dangers of diarrhea and shows how to treat it — lots of fluids and a trip to a health clinic.
Credit John W. Poole / NPR
Residents of the Port-au-Prince slum Cite de Dieu step gingerly over a stream of sewage. Aid workers had planned to be finished with the vaccination program before the spring rains, when widespread flooding can bring cholera directly into people's homes.
Credit John W. Poole / NPR
Nadia Simone stands in front of her house in Cite de Dieu. She says she has been trying to get a trash-clogged ditch next to her house drained because she knows it brings cholera right to her doorstep. Last year cholera made her young daughter very sick. "I don't want cholera to come back to my house," she says.
Credit John W. Poole / NPR
A lone pig roots through trash along a sewage canal that runs from the center of Port-au-Prince through Cite de Dieu. During the rainy season, the canal overflows its banks and fills nearby houses with sewage.
Credit John W. Poole / NPR
A GHESKIO worker goes door to door in Cite de Dieu. As part of the planned vaccination campaign, an army of health workers has gone out to inform Haitians about cholera and sign them up to get the vaccine.
Credit John W. Poole / NPR
A makeshift latrine hangs over Port-au-Prince Bay at the edge of Cite de Dieu.
Credit John W. Poole / NPR
Rice farmers work the fertile fields of Haiti's rural Artibonite River valley, which lies downstream from the site of the original cholera outbreak.
Credit John W. Poole / NPR
Most people in this rural part of Haiti, near Saint-Marc, get their water from the Artibonite River. Though the river is known to be contaminated with cholera, few can afford chlorine tablets to purify the water.
Credit John W. Poole / NPR
Esperante Jean-Louise, who goes by Fifi, got cholera last year. The experience was terrifying, she says: "I first felt it in my head. And then once I started vomiting, I had diarrhea at the same time. I couldn't stand up — I was near death."
Credit John W. Poole / NPR
Rice farmer Alexis Rochenel, Fifi's husband, shows his blank cholera vaccination card. People will need two doses of vaccine spread over several weeks. Health workers could have been finished with the first round of vaccinations by now. But they're still waiting for the government to sign off on the project.
Credit John W. Poole / NPR
A young girl cools off from the midday heat in an irrigation canal near Saint-Marc. People in this area were chosen for the pilot vaccination program because they draw their water from the contaminated Artibonite River.
Credit John W. Poole / NPR
Men bathe in the evening in a branch of the Artibonite River outside Saint-Marc. Haiti's cholera outbreak began about 60 miles upstream from here. Well over a half-million have gotten sick.
Credit Photos by John Poole / NPR
A makeshift latrine hangs over Port-au-Prince Bay at the edge of Cite de Dieu.
Credit John W. Poole / NPR
A young girl bathes in an irrigation canal. The canal and nearby river are the primary sources of water for most people who live in the country around Saint-Marc, Haiti.
Share
E-mail
Comments
By

Originally published on Wed May 23, 2012 10:56 am

A hundred thousand people in Haiti are ready and waiting to get vaccinated against cholera.

The vaccine is sitting in coolers. Vaccination teams are all trained. Willing recipients are registered and entered into databases.

The impending mass vaccination project aims to show that vaccinating against cholera is feasible in Haiti. It has never been done in the midst of an ongoing cholera epidemic. So far, more than 530,000 Haitians have fallen ill with cholera, and more than 7,000 have died.

Read more

Pages