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  • Ep: 039 - Environmental Quiz

    Time for a POP Quiz Everybody! Play along with us this week and see how many questions you get right, It’s time to take your “Environmental quiz!”  In this episode Clarice is in the hot seat and Marisa is your game show host firing off environmental questions and seeing how many questions they can answer correctly.  Play along with us and let us know how you did! 

    17 min
  • Ep: 038 - Strain on the Grid

    Strain on the Grid refers to drought, in power, in electric power and other sources of power. The grid generally refers to the infrastructure that a utility puts in place to provide power from the generator to the user.

    When you hear the word “grid” most people think of, Electricity, and now that the weather is warming up, what does that mean for the Grid?  What does a rolling blackout mean?   What can you do to be ready if the grid goes down.  So in this episode we are going to discuss… Yup You guessed it, The Grid.

     

    Take a listen.

    17 min
  • Ep: 037 - Wetlands Reestablishment

    This week we are talking about Wetlands, but specifically Wetlands reestablishment. If you’ve been with us for a while we did a basic overview of wetlands in episode 9 (click here to listen). Today however we want to focus more on Wetlands reestablishment, which is rebuilding something that was formerly a wetland but has been impacted to such an extent that it’s lost its functions and values.

    So what happens when someone negatively Impacts a wetland? Do you restore it in the same location? What happens? Take a listen as we answer these questions and more.

    21 min
  • Ep: 037 – Wetlands Reestablishment
    This week we are talking about Wetlands, but specifically Wetlands reestablishment.  If you’ve been with us for a while we did a basic overview of wetlands in episode 9 (click here to listen).  Today however we want to focus more on Wetlands reestablishment, which is rebuilding something that was formerly a wetland but has been impacted to such an extent that it’s lost its functions and values.
    So what happens when someone negatively Impacts a wetland? Do you restore it in the same location?  What happens?  Take a listen as we answer these questions and more.
    21 min
  • Ep: 036 – Drought
    This weeks topic we are talking about the drought out in California. (insert eye roll we know). But why?  It started around the time Marisa was a freshman in college when her college professor stated "the root of all issues on this planet stem from overpopulation".  When we put pressure on resources that are shared by everyone, those resources start to become scarce.  So what does this have to do with a drought?  Take a listen and find out!
    12 min
  • Ep: 035 – Special Guest, Executive Director of Bird’s Eye Cape Wildlife Center, Zak M
    We have a very special episode for you this week! We have a very special guest, Zak Mertz, (a.k.a. Superfund Zak) who is the Executive Director of Bird's Eye Cape Wildlife Center, a part of the New England Wildlife Center. We are going to hear Zak's personal story, and cover a full range of wildlife topics. We cover squirrel season, climate change, weather patterns, the harrowing tale of an angry mother raccoon and more.
    About the New England Wildlife Center: The nonprofit New England Wildlife Center (a.k.a, the Center or NEWC) is a grassroots, entrepreneurial venture, launched by a group of Massachusetts citizens 33 years ago.With a development department of two, and no outside help, the Center completed an $8 million capital campaign to build the first-in-the-nation wildlife hospital and science education facility constructed to green LEED (Leadership in Environmental and Energy Design) specifications.
    Learn more about the New England Wildlife Center's work at www.newildlife.org.
    35 min
  • Ep: 034 – Cross Examination in an Administrative Hearing
    We start this week’s show off with a friendly Public Service Announcement…. Don’t put your recycling in plastic bags… Thank you.  O.K.!  Now the topic we are covering this week is Cross Examination.  Reason for this is, something that has happened recently at an administrative hearing and the decision the Providence superior court has made about it.
    But first, what it an Administrative hearing? An administrative hearing, it's sort of like you're in court, they follow the rules of evidence. They follow the rules of civil procedure to a certain extent, and companies have to be represented by an attorney. If you're an individual, you can go in pro se.
    So here is a question for you, if you are an individual and you go pro se, can you cross examine a person or persons?  Take a listen as we dig deeper into cross examination during an administrative hearing. The result might shock you.
    17 min
  • Ep: 033 – Animal Crossing
    We start the show off recapping the last episode on Earth Day. Did you know Earth Day is our Second favorite day, next to our birthdays!  We get back on track and discuss a very interesting article about how big cats in California were being killed on the ten-line highways out there.  Sad story, however there is a twist! There has been talk of building overpass for Animal crossing over these big highways.  The good news now is, they are putting that into place.  Take a listen as we discuss what this project will look like and how this will better the environment around these areas.
    16 min
  • Ep: 032 – Earth Day
    This week we celebrate Earth Day.  Earth Day started on April 22nd, 1970, and created by Senator Gaylord Nelson. So in this episode we are going to discuss how Earth Day came into what it is today, what it is and it’s focus. We are also going to talk about how they spread the word back then when there wasn’t social media. Can you name some government organizations that might have been created from this day? We discuss that as well. Take a listen.
    17 min
  • Ep: 031 – Plogging & MS Four Permit
    The month of April has been designated as Earth Month and we start the show off buy sharing an article we recently have seen about an activity that people are taking part in called… Plogging.  Plogging started in Sweden in 2016. plogging is a combination of jogging while picking up trash.  So next time you are out on your daily jog, pick up some trash and join the “plogging” movement.
    Now besides that, we also cover Stormwater Management.  We spoke about this a bit in a previous episode, however, lately we have noticed that the street sweepers are out in most towns in and around our area so they might have some deadline or some state requirement that must be met called a MS Four Permit.  So why is this important?  It's a permit that every municipality has to comply with. It's a permit that exists as a result of something called a  federal Clean Water Act. In Rhode Island, there is a Rhode Island counterpart to that federal act, which allows the state of Rhode Island to be responsible for compliance with the federal Clean Water Act at the state level.  What does that have to do with the street sweeping? And does that actually have an environmental impact? Take a listen and find out.
    12 min

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