Greetings Earthlings. We do not suffer fools gladly on this show and in this day and age there are so many out there, and given they are malicious fools, we are forced to push back against their evils. Michael Kellett of Restore the North Woods joins us to jest about the fools trashing our forests and our patience.

Our Enviro Show Quote of the Week seems fitting:

It is difficult to free fools from the chains they revere.

- Voltaire

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Greetings Earthlings. Once again it's time to remind certain despots to "Beware the Ideas of March". Their tendency to overstep can get them into deep trouble and others may act hastily in response. As a matter of fact, a LOT of others are already protesting about His Malignancy overstepping across the "empire". His fake DOGE department alone has created chaos across scores of government agencies. As a result lawsuits are being lodged and protests are increasing. DOGE fanboy, Elon Musk is watching sales of his Tesla cars and truck tank worldwide and more protests and sabotage at his dealerships & charging stations. At the same time, climate emergency protests continue, some initiated by scientists. Jamie McGonagill, Haley McHatton & Peter Watson of XR Boston join us to talk about their protest at Hanscom Airfield near Walden Pond.

Time for the Enviro Show Quote of the Week and this one is spot on with regard to our guests this week:

“Let your life be a counter-friction to stop the machine. What I have to do is to see, at any rate, that I do not lend myself to the wrong which I condemn.”

― Henry David Thoreau, Civil Disobedience

The Enviro Show on WXOJ-LP (103.3 fm) and streaming at www.ValleyFreeRadio.org from Florence, MA every other Tuesday, 6:00 to 7:00pm. rebroadcast Thursdays at 2pm. in MA. Also, we are on air at WMCB, (107.9fm) streaming at http://wmcb.net/Listen.html in Greenfield, Saturday 5pm & Sunday 9pm & Monday at 6pm, and at WMNB-LP 107.1fm Wednesdays at 6pm. Also Tune-in at https://tunein.com/radio/Valley-Free-Radio-WXOJ-LP-1033-s50205/. > "The best antidote to despair is action!".

Greetings Earthlings. When you hear Audubon you probably think of birds, right? Yes, the group does a lot on birds but what about logging in forests? Silvia Solaun and Katherine Evans of New Jersey Forest Watch/Friends of Sparta Mountain return to the show to explain as we complain.

Our Enviro Show Quote of the Week:

A growing number of governments and non-state actors are pledging to be carbon-free – and obviously that’s good news. The problem is that the criteria and benchmarks for these net-zero commitments have varying levels of rigor and loopholes wide enough to drive a diesel truck through. We must have zero tolerance for net-zero greenwashing.

- UN Secretary General António Manuel de Oliveira Guterres

The Enviro Show on WXOJ-LP (103.3 fm) and streaming at www.ValleyFreeRadio.org from Florence, MA every other Tuesday, 6:00 to 7:00pm. rebroadcast Thursdays at 2pm. in MA. Also, we are on air at WMCB, (107.9fm) streaming at http://wmcb.net/Listen.html in Greenfield, Saturday 5pm & Sunday 9pm & Monday at 6pm, and at WMNB-LP 107.1fm Wednesdays at 6pm. Also Tune-in at https://tunein.com/radio/Valley-Free-Radio-WXOJ-LP-1033-s50205/. > "The best antidote to despair is action!".

Greetings Earthlings. It's time to return to The River, our beloved Connecticut River still being subjected to all sorts of abuse by FirstLight corporados, even to the point of running her backwards while pumping out all the contents (live or otherwise) at the Northfield Mountain Pump Storage facility or, as we often call it here, the Shad-o-matic Fish Blender. Karl Meyer returns to the show to talk about that and the FirstLight 401 Water Quality Certification Application process hearing on Wednesday February 19 at the Cohn Family Dining Commons, Greenfield Community College, One College Drive, Greenfield, MA at 6pm with a Standout at 5pm we hope you'll join.

The Enviro Show Quote of the Week:

"Right now, the current administration is operating in outright defiance of our federal courts and declaring them powerless. By all marks, we’ve entered the early stages of full-blown fascism. And if there’s one thing we know about fascism, it’s that wars on the vulnerable keep them fired up. You’re already seeing so many pundits and opinion columnists scratching their heads, wondering how we got here. When you look at the history of this country, there’s not much of a difference between 17th-century puritanical America and fascism. We didn’t “get” anywhere. We were always like this."

- Jessica Wildfire

The Enviro Show on WXOJ-LP (103.3 fm) and streaming at www.ValleyFreeRadio.org from Florence, MA every other Tuesday, 6:00 to 7:00pm. rebroadcast Thursdays at 2pm. in MA. Also, we are on air at WMCB, (107.9fm) streaming at http://wmcb.net/Listen.html in Greenfield, Saturday 5pm & Sunday 9pm & Monday at 6pm, and at WMNB-LP 107.1fm Wednesdays at 6pm. Also Tune-in at https://tunein.com/radio/Valley-Free-Radio-WXOJ-LP-1033-s50205/. > "The best antidote to despair is action!".

Greetings Earthlings. Has it occurred to you lately that the present managers of our Public Lands are not protecting or preserving them? Longtime listeners to this show know we have. Zack Porter, Executive Director of Standing Trees returns to the show to explain why and offer solutions.

The Enviro Show Quote of the Week-

What an extraordinary gift trees are and how many things we can learn from them, if only we know how to watch, to see, to give them the love and attention that we give to friends!

- Susanna Tamaro

The Enviro Show on WXOJ-LP (103.3 fm) and streaming at www.ValleyFreeRadio.org from Florence, MA every other Tuesday, 6:00 to 7:00pm. rebroadcast Thursdays at 2pm. in MA. Also, we are on air at WMCB, (107.9fm) streaming at http://wmcb.net/Listen.html in Greenfield, Saturday 5pm & Sunday 9pm & Monday at 6pm, and at WMNB-LP 107.1fm Wednesdays at 6pm. Also Tune-in at https://tunein.com/radio/Valley-Free-Radio-WXOJ-LP-1033-s50205/. > "The best antidote to despair is action!".

Greetings Earthlings. The rein of His Malignancy The Mad King 2.0 is upon us. Buckle up, rough road ahead but we need each other to guide the way. Remember the words of FDR to help show us the way, "We have nothing to fear but fear itself". That said, we must defend the land and its inhabitants under this Administration, the oligarchs and anti-American freak shows like the New Apostolic Reformation, especially regarding our forests and all the critters. Dr. Dominick A. DellaSala, Chief Scientist for Wild Heritage, a project of Earth Island Institute returns to the show for a look into the past and the future.

And we have a good Quote of the Week to take us to our interview:

The largest logging projects I’ve ever seen are targeting the last, best remaining old growth trees left in the country....We have a rogue agency in the Forest Service that is trying to benefit the logging industry before reforms take place. The situation is rampant as far as I can tell and it risks squandering a once-in-a-generation opportunity to protect these incredible forests.”

- Chad Hanson, a forest ecologist and co-founder of the John Muir Project.

Mongabay commentary by Dominick DellaSala- “How the U.S. got no old growth forest protections from the Biden Administration” can be found at this LINK

The paper discussed in this episode "Measuring forest degradation via ecological-integrity indicators at multiple spatial scales" by Dominick A. DellaSala, et al. can be viewed at this LINK

The Enviro Show on WXOJ-LP (103.3 fm) and streaming at www.ValleyFreeRadio.org from Florence, MA every other Tuesday, 6:00 to 7:00pm. rebroadcast Thursdays at 2pm. in MA. Also, we are on air at WMCB, (107.9fm) streaming at http://wmcb.net/Listen.html in Greenfield, Saturday 5pm & Sunday 9pm & Monday at 6pm, and at WMNB-LP 107.1fm Wednesdays at 6pm. Also Tune-in at https://tunein.com/radio/Valley-Free-Radio-WXOJ-LP-1033-s50205/. > "The best antidote to despair is action!".

Greetings Earthlings. Another year, another time to remind: "It's the Climate Crisis, Stupid!" The more they throw at us the more we dig in. Kevin A. Young, Associate Professor of History at UMass Amherst joins us to ring in the New Year with observations recently published in Truthout titled "12 Ways We Can Exploit Fossil Fuel Industry Vulnerabilities — Even Under Trump." He also works on campus with this group.

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Greetings Earthlings and Happy Yuletide. The term "Yule" was misappropriated from Germanic Pagans by proselytizing Christians as part of the Christmas observance. Wiccan priestess, Laura Wildman-Hanlon returns to the show to set the record straight on that and to share various Pagan celebrations of the longest night.

How about an Enviro Show Quote of the Week to take us to our interview?

"The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom." - Isaac Asimov

We've got a twofer for you this week. First Laura Wildman-Hanlon gets us into the Winter Solstice, then Susan Masino talks about finding and protecting wildlands in Massachusetts.

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Greetings Earthlings. Our forests are still under siege and the culprits are all around us. Like we say, Biomass is a biomess. Irina Costache and Regine Spector, Corresponding authors of "Feeding the zombie plant: The struggle over biomass in the United States" Department of Political Science, University of Massachusetts, Amherst join us for the interview.

This brings us to our Quote of the Week:

The Earth will not continue to offer its harvest, except with faithful stewardship. We cannot say we love the land and then take steps to destroy it for use by future generations.

– John Paul II

The Enviro Show on WXOJ-LP (103.3 fm) and streaming at www.ValleyFreeRadio.org from Florence, MA every other Tuesday, 6:00 to 7:00pm. rebroadcast Thursdays at 2pm. in MA. Also, we are on air at WMCB, (107.9fm) streaming at http://wmcb.net/Listen.html in Greenfield, Saturday 5pm & Sunday 9pm & Monday at 6pm, and at WMNB-LP 107.1fm Wednesdays at 6pm. Also Tune-in at https://tunein.com/radio/Valley-Free-Radio-WXOJ-LP-1033-s50205/. > "The best antidote to despair is action!".

Greetings Earthlings. Have you heard about The Sand Wars? We'll be focusing on Southeastern Massachusetts Pine Barrens here but it's happening across the planet because not all sand is alike. Melissa Ferretti, 4th term tribal chairwoman of the Herring Pond Wampanoag Tribe and Meg Sheehan, environmental lawyer and coordinator of Community Land and Water Coalition join us to dig into the issue. At the same time we will be celebrating MA Governor Maura Healey's issuing an Executive Order granting state recognition to the Herring Pond Wampanoag Tribe. The Sand Wars are taking place on or near tribal lands.

Our Enviro Show Quote of the Week is from The Prez's climate guy:

“This is not the end of our fight for a cleaner, safer planet. Facts are still facts. Science is still science. The fight is bigger than one election, one political cycle in one country. This fight is bigger, still, because we are all living through a year defined by the climate crisis in every country of the world.”

- John Podesta

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