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  • GaiaGram # 168 Environmental Headlines from around a planet in crisis.
    -Montana court rules in favor of the youngs right to a “clean and
    healthful environment”
    -Climate & development has pushed Hawaii into a fiery new age
    -Pacific Northwest gets second major heat wave of the summer
    -Morocco temperature record tops 120 Fahrenheit
    -Spain declares a drought emergency
    -Wind and solar power and renewables are breaking records,
    -India's greenhouse emissions dropped by 33 per cent in 14 yr’s
    -New Jersey to get the nation's biggest offshore wind farm
    5 min
  • Between The Lines - 8/16/23 ©2023 Squeaky Wheel Productions, Inc.
    * US Media Repeating Same Mistakes Covering Trump 24' (Presidential) Campaign; Chris Lehmann is the D.C. Bureau chief with The Nation magazine; Producer: Scott Harris.
    * Civil Disobedience Actions at a European Air Base Links Threat of Nuclear Weapons with the Climate Crisis; Jackie Allen Doucot of the Hartford, CT, Catholic Worker Community; Producer: Melinda Tuhus.
    * Report Charges US Pressured Pakistan to Oust the Nation’s Prime Minister Imran Khan; Abdul Jabbar, Emeritus Professor of Interdisciplinary Studies, City College of San Francisco; Producer: Scott Harris.
    29 min
  • Spotlight on Art's & Culture - Podcast August, 2023
    Host: David Green
    We focused our August "Spotlight" on RiseUP for Arts, a member organization that, though based in Hartford, is active in organizing mural projects around Connecticut, including in our region of Fairfield County. We speak with executive director Matt Conway about how this organization trains artists, negotiates with municipalities and building owners, raises funds and coordinates the completion of amazing murals, often working with young people.
    Other guests include three artists involved in RiseUP projects: Alissa Siegal, Lauren Clayton and John Paul O'Grodnick as well as with building owner Mitchell Kidd, with The Wellbuilt Company, that has sponsored murals in Stamford, and Marc Alan, with the Norwalk Arts & Culture Commission.
    Check out this program and learn about the impact this organization, and the murals it coordinates, are making in our region.
    1 hr
  • GaiaGram # 167 Environmental Headlines from around a planet in crisis.
    -Polls show Americans want next president to aggressively address climate crisis
    -Texas electricity prices briefly spiked over 800% in cost
    -Heavy Rains pummel Beijing causing flooding
    -Iran announces a nationwide two-day holiday due to excessive heat
    -Fossil fuel industry spends big time on advertising and lobbying
    -The EPA closes loopholes allowing companies to emit toxic air pollution
    -Los Angeles is painting roads with a gray coating called “cool pavement”
    -Florida is becoming "uninsurable."
    5 min
  • Antoinette Brim-Bell , Connecticut's Poet Laureate
    State Poet Laureate Antoinette Brim-Bell joined WPKN's Valerie Richardson to talk about her work and her tenure as the state's Poet Laureate.
    She also spoke about an upcoming event where she will be joined by poets Marilyn Nelson, Kate Rushin, and Rhonda Ward. The four poets partnered with the Witness Stones Old Lyme Project and created a verse cycle to capture the forgotten voices of the enslaved in Lyme, Connecticut.
    The poets will talk about their creative process including their work with historian, Carolyn Wakeman, to uncover the stories of the long ago enslaved including Cato, Humphrey, Temperance, and Arabella.
    27 min
  • Bill Lucey Sound Keeper for Save the Sound - Digging In The Dirt
    My guest this afternoon is Save the sounds Soundkeeper Bill Lucey. Bill is a fish and wildlife biologist with more than two decades of experience studying and conserving marine life. He is also an experienced commercial fisherman and environmental educator.
    As your on-the-water watchdog, Bill upholds Save the Sound’s mission to protect and restore Long Island Sound. Bill is backed by Save the Sound’s expert legal team and water monitoring program to help identify polluters and hold them accountable.
    The Soundkeeper is your eyes and ears on Long Island Sound.
    35 min
  • Between The Lines - 8/9/23 ©2023 Squeaky Wheel Productions, Inc.
    * US Democracy Hangs in the Balance as Trump Faces 2020 Election Subversion Federal Indictment; Sasha Abramsky, Nation Magazine contributor; Producer: Scott Harris.
    * Pen America & Penguin-Random House Sue a Florida County School District Over Book Bans; Nadine Farid Johnson, managing director of PEN America Washington and Free Expression Programs; Producer: Scott Harris.
    * Affordable Housing Crisis in the Adirondacks, Echo of a Pervasive Trend Across the U.S.; Tim Rowland, a freelance reporter based in New York State; Producer: Melinda Tuhus.
    29 min
  • Evan Fritz Talks Climate Justice And The Upcoming March To End Fossil Fuels
    On the August 6, 2023 episode of Mic Check, host Mike Merli is joined by Evan Fritz of 350 CT to discuss the upcoming March to End Fossil Fuels, happening on September 17, 2023 in New York City.
    For more on the March to End Fossil Fuels:
    https://www.endfossilfuels.us/
    For more on 350 CT:
    https://350ct.org/
    To register to join 350 CT for the bus trip to the March:
    https://www.eventbrite.com/e/march-to-end-fossil-fuels-bus-tickets-to-nyc-tickets-691002967477?aff=oddtdtcreator
    25 min
  • Nick Ferrauolo Osprey Nation Project Coordinator 2023-7-25
    Nick Ferrauolo is the Project Coordinator of Osprey Nation, a project of the Connecticut Audubon Society.
    Osprey Nation is Connecticut Audubon Society’s citizen science partnership, launched in the summer of 2014, to monitor the health of our state’s Ospreys. During the course of this effort, the numbers of successful osprey nests and human participants have continued to grow, showing the return of these magnificent "fish hawks" from near extinction in Connecticut.
    The goal of Osprey Nation is to create a long-term record of data that will give the conservation community a better understanding of the health of Connecticut’s Osprey population.
    28 min

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