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Daphne Dixon is Co-founder and Executive Director at Live Green Network in Ct. Daphne along with Alyssa Murphy went on a coast to coast EV road trip, going from one United States coast to another

in a Ford Mustang Mach-E all-wheel drive EV. In the middle of this trip Daphne came on Digging in the Dirt to fill us in on what was going on and now she is back to give her final report and assessment of what happened on this unique trip and talk about the future of electric vehicles.

Spotlight On Arts & Culture | August 8, 2022 | The Levitt Pavilion + Other Great Free Concert Venues This Summer

Hosted by David Green of The Cultural Alliance Of Fairfield County.

For our August show we turned our attention to some of the great free concert series in our region. Our main focus was on The Levitt Pavilion for the Performing Arts in Westport. For almost 50 years, this community-based, magical performance space has welcomed performing artists from all genres and from the local to the internationally known. With a few fundraising concerts, it otherwise offers mostly free concerts. We interview Freda and Carleigh Welsh, the driving forces behind The Pavilion and its commitment to creating a strong community through music and the other performing arts. We also hear from Bennie Wallace, renowned saxophonist with BackCountry Jazz, who created the Greenwich Jazz Festival, and from Paul Frucht, Artistic Director of the Charles Ives Music Festival.

* Proposed Senate Bill Requires Medicare to Negotiate a Short list of Drug Prices; Steve Knievel, Advocate with Public Citizen’s Access to Medicines Program; Producer: Scott Harris.

* Senate Bill Proposes New 15% Corporate Minimum Tax, Closes Carried Interest Tax Loophole; Maura Quint, Wealth Tax Campaign Director with Americans For Tax Fairness; Producer: Scott Harris.

* Roanoke’s Once Vibrant African American Community Remembered; Jordan Bell African American History Guide, Roanoke, Virginia; Producer: Melinda Tuhus.

The Native Americans are the First People of the United States, yet they are forced to live on reservations on their own land. The Indigenous People seem to be the unseen, and uncared for citizens on their own land. Politicians forget Native People, and the wider society do not remember the Indigenous people are still here. There is one person who do not forget his own people, and he is Tiokasin Ghosthorse. A member of the Cheyenne River Lakota Nation of South Dakota, Tiokasin is a multi-talented and multi-faceted human being who cares about his people and their many challenges.

Please listen this conversation as Tiokasin Ghosthorse fields questions from host of the show, Garnett Ankle.

Valerie Richardson speaks with Beth Caruso, Sarah Jack, and Laura Secord who are working to get exoneration for the women and men who were wrongly accused (and sometimes executed) for being witches in seventeenth-century Connecticut.

Most people think of Salem, Massachusetts, as the center of witch hysteria in the early colonial period. However, several dozen individuals in Connecticut were charged as witches. The first known case was Alse Young, who was hung in 1647 in Windsor, Connecticut. Author Beth Caruso tells the story of “Alice Young” in her novel One of Windsor: The Untold Story of America’s First Witch Hanging. Many descendants of these wrongly accused witches have joined the cause including Sarah Jack, a descendant of the Binghams, a mother and daughter who were accused of witchcraft in Connecticut in the 1690s. She is also one of the leaders of the CT Witch Trial Exoneration Project. Poet Laura Secord is related to both Lydia Gilbert and Katherine Harrison who were also accused of witchcraft in Connecticut.

Manchin and Democrats reach a deal on economy and Climate

Record rainfall hits many areas of the U.S.

Greenland Lost 6 Billion Tons of Ice in 3 Days

Himalayas to lose between one third and two thirds of its ice by 2100

U.S. Wildfires double over 2021

Monarch butterfly fluttered closer to extinction

James Lovelock, the creator of the Gaia hypothesis passes at 103

* DOJ Lags on Investigating Trump & GOP Coup Attempt Ron Fein, legal director with the group Free Speech For People Producer: Scott Harris

* With Senate Stalled, Pressure Growing on Biden to Take Immediate Action on Climate Crisis Jim Walsh, policy director with Food and Water Watch Producer: Scott Harris

* Virginia Group Demands Pentagon End Open Pit Burning of Toxic Military Munitions Alyssa Carpenter, co-founder and co-chair of the group Citizens for Arsenal Accountability Producer: Melinda Tuhus

I’m pleased to welcome back to “Digging in the Dirt… Gardener, author, educator, podcaster blogger and frequent collaborator with Joe Lamp’l of the Joe Gardener TV show… Craig LeHoullier.

In addition Craig wrote one of the great books on tomatoes, It's called Epic Tomatoes. Beautiful to look at and a very good resource for all of us tomato geeks.

Extreme heat affects the entire Northern Hemisphere

Heatwave grips much of the US south and west

More extreme water cuts all but certain in the US Southwest

UN says The choice is, "Collective action or collective suicide”

Australia's environment is in severely deteriorating state

Powerful thunderstorm swamps New York City

The Ponca Tribe of Indians of Oklahoma recognize the “immutable Rights of Rivers''

GaiaGram #111 Environmental Headlines from around a planet in crisis. by WPKN Community Radio