WPKN Community Radio

WPKN Community Radio

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  • GaiaGram # 217 Environmental Headlines from around a planet in crisis
    -June 2024 was the warmest June since 1850.
    -Climate change drought affecting worlds crops negatively
    -Seven out off ten people want to switch to clean energy
    -Puerto Rico filed suit against fossil fuel companies
    -EPA is weighing controversial geoengineering ocean experiment
    -Abu Dhabi Mangrove Initiative to plant 100 million Mangrove trees
    5 min
  • John Nichols on the fate of our democracy in 2024
    Special guest John Nichols, National Affairs Correspondent for The Nation Magazine, analyzes the current state and fate of our democracy as the 2024 presidential election fast approaches.
    Panel: Scott Harris, Ruthanne Baumgartner and Richard Hill
    Interview conducted on July 13, 2024
    54 min
  • Clean Short Beach -- Stop Poo-llution!
    The campaign to clean up dog poop pollution at Johnson Beach in the Short Beach district of Branford, CT.
    Ann Davis, citizen scientist, and Amy Scholtz, Deputy Director of the East Shore District Health Department, discuss the project to remediate the extremely high bacteria levels measured at this small beach on the Connecticut shoreline.
    Interview by Richard Hill and Diane Lauricella, July 18, 2024
    28 min
  • 7/17/24-J.D. Vance Divides, Not Unites as Project 2025 Repels; Reversing Congestion Pricing Decision
    * GOP Uses Assassination Attempt to Shut Down Condemnation of Trump's Authoritarian Agenda; Michael Podhorzer, former political diretor and assistant to the president of the AFL-CIO for strategic research; Producer: Scott Harris.
    * Poll Finds Americans Reject and Fear Trump's Right-wing Extremist 'Project 2025' Agenda Bryan Bennett, senior director of polling & analytics at the Hub Project Producer: Scott Harris
    * Activists Working to Reverse NY Gov. Hochul’s “Pause” on NYC Congestion Pricing Plan Michael Gerrard, an attorney working to see the congestion pricing plan program revived and implemented Producer: Melinda Tuhus
    Between The Lines - 7/17/24 ©2024 Squeaky Wheel Productions, Inc.
    29 min
  • GaiaGram #216 Environmental Headlines from around a planet in crisis
    -Over a million homes and businesses remained without power in Texas
    -California ties or breaks heat records this week
    - heatwave is forecast to continue across Europe
    -Melting of North America’s largest icefields has accelerated
    -Bridgeport’s Seaside Beach closed due to bacteria levels
    -Shell documents point to company knowledge of Climate change
    -UK’s new Labour Government increasing solar power deployment.
    5 min
  • Gloria Frazee of Rewild Long Island #2
    I want you to welcome back Gloria Frazee of ReWild Long Island. At ReWild, Gloria is co-chair of the Social Media & Web Committee and co-leader of the ReWild/South Fork chapter and now is a regular contributor to this program. Gloria will be joining me every 2nd Thursday of the month during the 12 noon hour.
    16 min
  • Carl Safina - Ecologist Author "Owls In Our Yard"
    I'd like to welcome back Dr. Carl Safina from the Safina Center to Digging in the dirt. Carl has taken the story of his previous book "Alfie and Me" to another level and created a picture book for children called "Owls in our yard" !
    Carl is a good friend of Digging in the Dirt and WPKN radio. Dr. Safina is the endowed chair for Nature and Humanity at Stony Brook University. A MacArthur “genius fellowship" winning ecologist and founder of the Safina Center.
    25 min
  • Kaitlyn Kimball CitySeed Director of agriculture
    I'd like to welcome to Digging in the Dirt, Kaitlyn Kimball Director of agriculture for CitySeed up in New Haven. CitySeed has a mission to create a healthy, sustainable, and just food system for all.” We will be talking about CitySeed's fabulous Farmers Markets.
    Kaitlyn is also Owner of Sunset Organic farm in Naugatuck Ct. with Lawrence Passeck . Sunset is a USDA Certified
    Organic vegetable and flower farm focused on sustainability and community.
    14 min
  • Spotlight on Arts and Culture — July 2024 — Fairfield County Community Foundation
    On the July 2024 episode of Spotlight on Arts and Culture, we discuss arts equity, philanthropy, and community impact. We are joined by Fairfield County's Community Foundation's Julian Pierce, the Director of Economic Opportunity, and Lutonya Russell-Humes, the VP of Grants and Programs. We announce the 2024 Arts in the Service of Equity grantees, the power of arts and culture as an anchor to where we live and how we live, art as a driver of the local economy.
    1 hr
  • 7/10/24 - SCOTUS Ruling on Immunity, Chevron Doctrine; Time for Joe to Step Aside?
    * Shocking Supreme Court Ruling Granting Presidential Immunity Enables Future Autocrats; Marge Baker, Executive VP for Policy and Program with the group People For the American Way; Producer: Scott Harris.
    * Supreme Court Chevron Doctrine Ruling Jeopardizes Countless Federal Regulations; David Doniger, Senior Attorney, Strategist for Climate & Energy with the Natural Resources Defense Council; Producer: Melinda Tuhus.
    * Democrats Balk at Going Public with Rising Concern that Joe Biden Unable to Defeat Donald Trump; Stewart Lawrence, a long-time Washington, DC-based policy consultant; Producer: Scott Harris.
    ©2024 Squeaky Wheel Productions, Inc.
    29 min

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