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Calla Rose Ostrander explores how stars are born and wishes KVNF listeners Cosmic Love this Valentines Day.
These nebula star nurseries are full of movement, stellar winds and massive turbulence, that shapes denser gases and dust into cloud-like formations. Over many thousands of years groups of clouds coalesce around each other and as they come close, the gravitational force created by their mass pulls them in until they collapse together and become combined even denser masses. The density of this matter causes the core of what will, 50,000 years later become a star.
The density of this “proto-star” continues to increase even as its matter shrinks, condensing and compressing until fountains of excess material eject from its poles spewing new elements into space. Around it’s new axis it spins, and a large cloud or disk of dust emanates from its center. Like a spinning ice skater’s skirt this cloud twirls around the star, which again begins to gather mass as particl
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This Local Motion features parts of Allan Savory s presentation Hope for Humanity in Holistic Management from the 9th Annual Western Colorado Food and Farm Forum.
Allan Savory was born in Zimbabwe and educated in South Africa. In the 1960s he made a significant breakthrough in understanding what was causing the degradation and desertification of the world’s grassland ecosystems and, as a resource management consultant, worked with numerous managers on four continents to develop sustainable solutions.
In 1992 Savory and his wife, Jody Butterfield, formed a non-profit organization in Zimbabwe, the Africa Centre for Holistic Management, AND In 2009 Savory, Butterfield, and a group of colleagues co-founded the Savory Institute in Boulder, Colorado to serve the world through an international network of entrepreneurial innovators and leaders committed to serving their regions with the highest standards of Holistic Management training and implementation support.
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100% of the state of Colorado is in drought. It’s the middle of winter and this kind of thing is extraordinarily unusual. The southwestern areas are in extreme drought, the worst category. These areas are reporting between 39-1% of normal snowpack. This is a serious condition because water is something we all (humans and every other form of life) rely on. It s also something we can all do something about.
In light of this situation the state of Colorado took an action its only done once before (in the summer), and activated what they call the Municipal Drought Response in December 2020. Normally cities don t make decisions about water restrictions until spring but even if we do manage to make it to a normal snowpack during the rest of this winter, we will still be in drought when the spring of 2021 arrives.
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Ghost Tapes is a modern soul, funk and R&B band out of Denver, CO. On their second full album, FIG, the band explores themes of stuggle, death, rebirth and growth. KVNF s Kori Stanton talks with all five members via Zoom just before the album release. This program features the debut of Ghost Tapes song Spilled Milk which was written by the band s lead singer Ishka B. Phoenix about the late Denver musician and artist Colin Ward. Ranging from sweet, poetic musings to aggressive, righteous indignation, FIG delivers audiences juicy, ripened offerings that satify the craving for purposeful, powerful, and honest music.
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Denver based folk/hip-hop/electronic duo Grim & Darling talk with KVNF about their recent album release Three. After a little break Colorado musicians Jessa Love and Jordan Polovina found themselves back in the studio during the 2020 pandemic.
Appropriately titled this is the duo s third album. The duo describes Three as a good balance of both Jessa and Jordan. Be on the look out for more new music from Grim & Darling in 2021.
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