Eco Effect Television & Radio with Charlene on Green
Eco Effect Hawaii is a new green radio and television program on KHON2, CW93, KHNL, KGMB and cable stations across the Hawaiian Islands. Eco Effect TV show is the only community outreach program dedicated to helping Hawaii achieve its absolute goal of 70% renewable energy by 2030. Eco Effect's approach to the sustainable discussion is not about what is bad but what is better. And the Eco Effect weekly broadcast explores large scale and small community approaches, as well as individual solutions for the state to realize its sustainable potential.
Topics will be focused on Healthy People, Renewable Energy, Healthy Plants, Water Resources, and Preserving Land Resources.
Several grave challenges, unique to Hawaii, make it difficult to view sustainability and energy independence through the same lenses as in other geographies or on the mainland. If 90% of Hawaii's energy is imported, how is that affecting Native Hawaiians? What is the real cost to Hawaiians and how aware are they of the issue? The economics of energy independence seems simple, but what are the barriers to generating 70% of that energy locally, the new state goal? Every vehicle, bottle, can, bag, box and wrapper used in the state has to be shipped in and 73% end up at the landfills, while Hawaii has very little land to spare.
Cultural awareness at every stage of every project is key. The sacredness of the dirt, the sand, the water and how to exercise stewardship rather than a spendthrift society. Eco Effect encourages Hawaiians to regenerate, to balance use with reproduction, and the idea to save more than we spend. Eco Effect and Friends of NELHA will seek the expertise of Native Hawaiians, public officials, and community organizations and present a platform for civic engagement to address these issues, and to explore sound solutions. Eco Effect will boost tourism, investment, and new sustainable development for Hawaii and revive a cultural celebration all things eco friendly.
Suspense: Blind Spot
One of the series' earliest successes and its single most popular episode is Lucille Fletcher's Sorry, Wrong Number, about a bedridden woman (Agnes Moorehead) who panics after overhearing a murder plot on a crossed telephone connection but is unable to persuade anyone to investigate. First broadcast on May 25, 1943, it was restaged seven times (last on February 14, 1960) — each time with Moorehead. The popularity of the episode led to a film adaptation, Sorry, Wrong Number (1948), starring Barbara Stanwyck. Nominated for an Academy Award for her performance, Stanwyck recreated the role on Lux Radio Theater. Loni Anderson had the lead in the TV movie Sorry, Wrong Number (1989). Another notable early episode was Fletcher's The Hitch Hiker, in which a motorist (Orson Welles) is stalked on a cross-country trip by a nondescript man who keeps appearing on the side of the road. This episode originally aired on September 2, 1942, and was later adapted for television by Rod Serling as a 1960 episode of The Twilight Zone.
After the network sustained the program during its first two years, the sponsor became Roma Wines (1944--1947), and then (after another brief period of sustained hour-long episodes, initially featuring Robert Montgomery as host and producer in early 1948), Autolite Spark Plugs (1948--1954); eventually Harlow Wilcox (of Fibber McGee and Molly) became the pitchman. William Spier, Norman MacDonnell and Anton M. Leader were among the producers and directors.
The program's heyday was in the early 1950s, when radio actor, producer and director Elliott Lewis took over (still during the Wilcox/Autolite run). Here the material reached new levels of sophistication. The writing was taut, and the casting, which had always been a strong point of the series (featuring such film stars as Orson Welles, Joseph Cotten, Henry Fonda, Humphrey Bogart, Judy Garland, Ronald Colman, Marlene Dietrich, Eve McVeagh, Lena Horne, and Cary Grant), took an unexpected turn when Lewis expanded the repertory to include many of radio's famous drama and comedy stars — often playing against type — such as Jack Benny. Jim and Marian Jordan of Fibber McGee and Molly were heard in the episode, Backseat Driver, which originally aired February 3, 1949.