Frani Halperin
Frani Halperin is an Executive Producer at H2O Radio. Frani's interest in water and the environment started when she was a Girl Scout in Southern California. Someone’s father, who was less enthusiastic about cookie sales and sewing and more driven to make outdoorswomen of the young ladies, led the troop to acquire a reverence for the natural world, which she holds to this day. Frani chose to get a degree in landscape architecture (at the University of California, Berkeley) with the hope of developing open space plans, but also to design urban places that would be more green and on a human scale. Ultimately, she expanded her design repertoire to print—and eventually digital—media, and her devotion to the environment only strengthened. In 2013, she merged her design skills and passion for the natural world with an affection for radio and the result was H2O Radio, which she founded with Jamie Sudler. “Being able to produce stories that engage and inform about water issues, in addition to being able to stoke my creativity as a storyteller, is my ultimate dream come true."
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Women make up half the population, so the cars they choose to drive matters — especially if they’re electric vehicles that can wean us off fossil fuels. -
We study history to learn from the past. But what if the pages in a history book melt away? A library just west of Denver is trying to preserve clues of antiquity before they become “cold cases” that could never be solved. -
What to do when stuff breaks? From a toaster to a tablet, it's often less frustrating and more tantalizing to just buy something new — but a growing number of people around the world want you to pull up to a table at a Repair Café instead. -
It’s summer, and along with barbecues, beach days, and gardening, it’s the time of year for severe storms. Although the National Weather Service has many forecasting tools at its disposal, there are blind spots where alerting the public about hazardous situations can be hard to achieve. That’s where “SKYWARN®” comes in.
