The Allegheny Front

The Allegheny Front is a weekly radio show that covers environmental issues in Pennsylvania, hosted by Jennifer Szweda Jordan. The program features interviews, stories and commentaries about the environment, energy, and conservation.

The Allegheny Front is a weekly radio show that covers environmental issues in Pennsylvania, hosted by Jennifer Szweda Jordan. The program features interviews, stories and commentaries about the environment, energy, and conservation.

On this week's The Allegheny Front, Walmart helps farmers make compost, foraging for ginkgos and a beef draft. http://media.alleghenyfront.org.s3.amazonaws.com/AF113013_SHOW_FINALMP3.mp3

The Allegheny Front is a weekly radio show that covers environmental issues in Pennsylvania, hosted by Jennifer Szweda Jordan. The program features interviews, stories and commentaries about the environment, energy, and conservation.

The Allegheny Front is a weekly radio show that covers environmental issues in Pennsylvania, hosted by Jennifer Szweda Jordan. The program features interviews, stories and commentaries about the environment, energy, and conservation.

On this week's The Allegheny Front, an historian argues for tougher fracking laws, a Farm Bill update, and a first-time on snowshoes. http://media.alleghenyfront.org.s3.amazonaws.com/AF020114_SHOW_FINAL_mp3.mp3

This week's Allegheny Front is a collection of stories from 2013. http://media.alleghenyfront.org.s3.amazonaws.com/AF010414_Show_Final_mp3.mp3

On this week's The Allegheny Front, a surprising amount of food ends up in landfills each year, rotting and causing harmful greenhouse gases.  A new federal program aims to stop the table-to-landfill stream.  And Caren Glotfelty, director of the Heinz Endowments' Environment Program, is leaving her position, and that's leaving environmental groups wondering what comes next.  Plus a Czech immigrant in West Virginia is taking American independence to heart by embracing his freedom from the energy grid.  All this, and more. http://media.alleghenyfront.org.s3.amazonaws.com/AF080313Show.mp3

On this week's The Allegheny Front, we take you to a busy Pittsburgh traffic tunnel where scientists are in search of soot.  What they find is changing how we see the pollution around us.  And two coal-fired power plants in southwestern Pennsylvania are slated to close.  The reasons for the closures aren't as simple as they seem.  Plus, a hot summer reading list for those with the climate on their minds.  All this, and more. http://media.alleghenyfront.org.s3.amazonaws.com/AT072713Show.mp3

On this week's The Allegheny Front, a long-time park foreman unexpectedly comes face-to-face with a black bear cub.  The encounter informs the way he manages Pittsburgh's largest park.  And a pest known as Hemlock Woolly Adelgid has destroyed trees all along the east coast.  It's been found for the first time in a stand of iconic old-growth hemlocks in Cook Forest.  Plus, an industrialist's daughter turns a sooty family legacy green.  All this, and more. http://media.alleghenyfront.org.s3.amazonaws.com/AF072013Show.mp3

On this week's The Allegheny Front, we're telling stories of summertime!  Scientists are inviting kids to explore the outdoors by taking up magnifying glasses, and searching for ladybugs.  What they find could help determine why ladybug populations are changing.  And many kids, and adults, have great memories of swimming in the lake or playing tag at summer camp.  But for LGBTQ youth, enjoying the outdoors can be more complicated.  Plus, gourmet camping food makes that hot dog on a stick look a little sad.  All this, and more. http://media.alleghenyfront.org.s3.amazonaws.com/AF071313Show.mp3

On this week's The Allegheny Front, we take a look at alternative fuels.  Most people have a propane tank or two around the house to fire up the backyard grill.  However, propane proponents say the fuel, which burns cleaner than diesel, could revolutionize the way we drive.  And Monarch butterflies are fluttering through the Northeast right now, but their numbers are declining.  Plus, in the wake of the shocking firefighter deaths resulting from the blazes in Arizona, a wilderness rescuer and rural volunteer firefighter thinks back on his own training fighting brush fires.  All this, and more. http://media.alleghenyfront.org.s3.amazonaws.com/AF070613Show.mp3

On this week's Allegheny Front, President Obama's new climate change plan calls for reducing carbon and other greenhouse gas emissions from power plants.  But some are calling those goals a "war on coal".  We'll hear thoughts from local organizations and residents.  And a new disease called fire blight threatens New York's booming apple harvest.  Plus an interview with the author of The Power Surge, about taking the energy middle road.  All this, and more. http://media.alleghenyfront.org.s3.amazonaws.com/AF062913Show.mp3

On this week's Allegheny Front, fifth graders cruise Pittsburgh's rivers, learning about ecology outside of science class.  And which native fruit seems more at home in the tropics?  We'll talk pawpaws with a writer who has become an ambassador for the forgotten fruit.  Plus, a photographer captures moments when he and an animal take each other by surprise.  All this, and more. http://media.alleghenyfront.org.s3.amazonaws.com/AF062213Show_0.mp3

On this week's Allegheny Front, a pair of tight biking shorts worn to the office could make you influential.  A new study finds that people who bike and walk to work exert a subtle peer pressure over the people around them.  Also, we preview Josh fox's new film, Gasland II.  Will the "frackumentary" change the shale debate?  And, a visit to a natural history museum reveals how endangered freshwater mussels might fare in the future.  All this, and more. http://media.alleghenyfront.org.s3.amazonaws.com/AF061513Show.mp3