WPKN Community Radio

The Farm Stand celebrates Women's History Month by focusing on a key figure in the birth of the environmental movement: Rachel Carson. Our guest Donna Merrill, discusses Carson's life before the publication of her book Silent Spring and shares the way in which Rachel Carson inspired her to go on to found the Pollinator Pathway project.

Panel: Richard Hill, Laura Modlin, Steve Munno and Chris Ferrio

-California braces for its 12th significant atmospheric river storm this year

-U.N. says an urgent course correction needed to tackle the climate emergency,

-Biden administration approves the massive Willow oil drilling project in Alaska,

-Minnesota monitoring cleanup of 400,000 gallons of radioactive water

-The world is facing an imminent water crisis

-Department of Energy puts $315 million toward modernizing nations electrical grids

-Significant rise in CO2 emissions from the global power sector unlikely

-North America’s first zero-emission train will start running

* Recent Bank Failures Underscore Need to Toughen Federal Regulation; James S. Henry, economist, attorney, investigative journalist, Global Justice Fellow at Yale University; Producer: Scott Harris.

* 20 Years Later, Echoes of US Iraq Invasion in Russia's Ukraine War; Medea Benjamin co-founder Code Pink & Nicolas Davies, author and Code Pink researcher; Producer: Scott Harris.

* Elder ‘Stop Cop City’ Activists Target Contractor building Atlanta’s Militarized Police Training Facility; Kendall Hale, a member of the group Rocking Chair Rebellion; Producer: Melinda Tuhus.

GM- Steve di Costanzo

Goddess Tymani Rain is a CT artist, activist and poet. She currently holds the title of 17th ranked International Poet of 2021, and 3rd place in the New Haven MLK Poetry Slam 2023. She slams, and features across the US and on international platforms, She also curates and assists writing workshops, offers mentorship for youth and adults. Every 1st and 4th Wednesday of each month she hosts “Poetz Realm Open Mic” at BPT CREATES in Bridgeport, CT.

She reads a poem as part of our WPKN 'Women's History Month'

Ed Pitaro who has been involved with non-profit legacy giving at Planned Parenthood and Consumer Reports

GM Host: Steve di Costanzo

Dr. Jennifer Reynolds-Kaye the director of the Housatonic Museum of Art will talk about their Spring series lecture. Jennifer Reynolds-Kaye most recently served as a consultant at Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in New York City, and as an Art History lecturer at Manchester Community College in Manchester, Connecticut. She held previous positions at a variety of museums and organizations, including the Yale Center for British Art and the Yale University Art Gallery. She received her Ph.D. in Art History from the University of Southern California, and participated in the Getty Leadership Institute NextGen program, among others.

Today at 12noon WPKN’s General Manager Steve di Costanzo does his monthly GM REPORT TO THE LISTENERS. Today he will be talking about the recent WPKN event at The Quick Center for the Arts with the modern dance company Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane & Company. Steve will also talk with curator Martha Willette Lewis about the Sound & Vision II gallery show at the Institute Library in New Haven. Steve introduces a new volunteer, Ed Pitaro who has been involved with non-profit legacy giving; Dr. Jennifer Reynolds-Kaye the director of the Housatonic Museum of Art will talk about their Spring series lecture; also Tymani Rain CT artist, poet and activist. She slams, curates, and acts as a mentor for youth. We will also talk with Brendan Toller, the Marketing Manager of Verso Studios at The Westport Library. He will talk about the upcoming VERSOFEST that WPKN is a media partner for.

Thank you to WPKN 89.5 FM for hosting today's discussion - "The Arts and Social Justice." CFJ's President and CEO Debra Greenwood, left in the photo, joined Edith Boyle, President and CEO of LifeBridge, to discuss how the arts can help organizations such as ours in the work we do. On the right is David Green, Executive Director, Cultural Alliance of Fairfield County.

My guest is Lorena Venegas, a resident of East Haven, CT. and a community member of both “10,000 Hawks' ' and “Keep Tweed Small” will tell us about her group's efforts to educate the public about the cumulative environmental impacts of the airport expansion proposed by Tweed Airport in East Haven.

My guests on “Digging in the Dirt" Monday afternoon are two committed environmentalists, renowned American landscape Artist April Gornik and McArthur fellow Carl Safina. Their respective organizations, The Church and the Safina Center are doing wonderful work in their own creative ways. They are coming aboard to talk about the April 1st Creativity Conference to be held at the Church. which is located in Sag Harbor long Island.