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Playlist: Finland

Compiled By: Eva Breneman

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Into Eternity

From Making Contact | Part of the Making Contact series | 29:00

The nation of Finland is building an underground cave, to hold thousands of tones of nuclear waste, for at least 100 thousand years. We hear excerpts of the film, “Into Eternity”, which explores the logistical and philosophical quandaries around the construction of something that if it works, might very well outlast the entire human race.

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Our world is generating more and more nuclear waste, but has no permanent place to dispose of it.  But the nation of Finland has a plan. They’re building an underground cave, to hold thousands of tones of nuclear waste, for at least 100 thousand years.  On this edition, we hear excerpts of the film, “Into Eternity”, which explores the logistical and philosophical quandaries around the construction of something that if it works, might very well outlast the entire human race. 

 

Special thanks to Specialty Studios.

 

Featuring: 

Timo Äikäs, Onkalo Executive Vice President of engineering; Timo Seppälä, Onkolo Senior Manager of Communications; Juhani Vira, Onkolo Senior Vice President of research; Esko Roukola, Nuclear Waste and Material Regulation advisor to Finland’s Radiation and Nuclear Safety Authority; Wendla Paile, Chief Radiologist on Health effects of radiation for Finland’s Radiation and Nuclear Safety Authority; Mikael Jensen, analyst for Sweden’s Radiation Safety Authority; Berit Lundqvist, Sweden’s
Nuclear Fuel and Waste Management Science Editor; Peter Wikberg, Swedish Research Director of Nuclear Fuel and Waste Management; Carl Reinhold Bråkenhielm, Swedish National Council for Nuclear Waste theology professor; Sami Savonrinne, Onkolo Blaster

Profile in Peace: Martti Ahtisaari (Peace Talks Radio) [29:00]

From Good Radio Shows, Inc. | Part of the Peace Talks Radio: Weekly Half Hour Episodes series | 28:59

In this episode, 2008 Nobel Peace Prize winner Martti Ahtisaari from Finland. It's Peace Talks Radio, the series on Peacemaking and Nonviolent Conflict Resolution.

Martti-ahtisaari_small Martti Ahtisaari is a former Finnish President who also has over 30 years of international mediation experience, negotiating agreements of various kinds in Namibia, Indonesia, Northern Ireland and Kosovo.  He talks with Paul Ingles about his mediation style.

Vanishing and Re-emerging: Reviving Biological and Cultural Diversity

From A World of Possibilities | 54:57

Around the world, languages, cultures and ecosystems are disappearing at an alarming rate, erasing richness vital to our survival.

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Around the world, languages, cultures and ecosystems are disappearing at an alarming rate, erasing richness vital to our survival. Based on interviews conducted at a major international conference on biocultural diversity held at the American Museum of Natural History in New York in April 2008, this program examines how diversity is also re-emerging even as the old ways are dying.

This program was funded by The Christensen Fund.

Guests: 
Rick Stepp, Associate Professor of Anthropology and Latin American Studies, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida, US
Tero Mustonen and Vyacheslav Shadrin, The Snowchange Cooperative, Finland; Head, Yukaghir Elders Council
Gary Paul Nabhan, Founder, Renewing Americas Food Traditions, Southwest Center, University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona, US
Alejandro Argumedo, Founding Member and Co-Chair, Call of the Earth Steering Committee, Cusco, Peru
Eleanor Sterling, Director, Center for Biodiversity and Conservation, American Museum of Natural History, New York, New York, US
Jules Pretty, Professor of Environment and Society, University of Essex, UK