WPKN Community Radio

WPKN Community Radio

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  • Vicki Hird - Rebugging the planet - Digging in the Dirt
    My guest on this "Digging in the Dirt" is Vicki Hird. Vicki is Head of the Sustainable Farming Campaign for Sustain: The Alliance for Better Food and Farming and she also runs an independent consultancy in the UK. An experienced and award-winning environmental campaigner, researcher, writer and strategist working for the past 30 years mainly in the food, farming and environmental policy arena. She is here today to talk about her latest book - Rebugging  the Planet - The Remarkable Things that Insects(and Other Invertebrates) Do – and Why we need to love them more. Chelsea Green Publishing
    31 min
  • Home Page Radio - The Gift of HOME
    Thursday, November 25, 2021, 12 noon WPKN 89.5 FM www.wpkn.org
    Host: Duo Dickinson
    14 of this year’s Home Page guests from Minnesota, Los Angeles, New Hampshire, Brooklyn, and even Connecticut offer their perspective on what they are grateful for in our homes. From a window, mud room, kitchen table, history, to garden and more – the variety of love is heard in words, poem, and imagery. A great accompaniment to driving stuffing and stuff.
    The noise of “The Holidays” is beginning to well up to deafening. We are bombarded with costs – monetary, emotional and physical. But we have those we love, and this week we see more of them. Rather than the absurdity of Zoom, this year we go back, we return to each other.
    We leave, and come, to homes. These last two years we have come to know our home, and what we love and hate in our home. Where we live is greater with us than at any time since the automobile projected us out into the world.
    Sequestration and fear of disease has meant that we know our homes more than any generation since World War 2. That means, this week, it is a good time to hear what we are thankful for in our homes. Each of us, all of us. HOME PAGE has a dozen guests, from the 36 we have heard from over the last year and we return to their perspectives.
    As you drive to home, stuff a turkey, await the love of the distant, listen to an hour and a dozen voices answering:
    “What are you grateful for in your home?”
    1 hr 1 min
  • John Conroy - Docent for California Elephant Seals Rookery
    My guest on this program is my friend John Conroy, whom I went to H.S. with. He was telling me about his new interest as a Docent for Elepahant seals in the San Louis Obispo California area. Some of the males can be as large as 5000 lbs. I thought it would be interesting to hear all about his experiences on "Digging in the Dirt".
    John has had a life long interest in nature, the wild and wildlife. He got involved with the Elephant Seal rookery when he saw an article in the paper about it and the people that volunteer there.
    26 min
  • Between The Lines - 12/8/21 @2021 Squeaky Wheel Productions. All Rights Reserved.
    *Supreme Court Appears Poised to Overturn Roe v. Wade, Women’s right to Abortion Jenny Ma, senior attorney at the Center for Reproductive Rights Producer: Melinda Tuhus
    *Sounding the Alarm: Trump-Era Program Threatens Future Privatization of Medicare Kay Tillow, chair Kentuckians for Single-Payer Health Care Producer: Scott Harris
    *After Years of Corruption and Violence, Progressive Candidate Wins Honduras Presidential Election Suyapa Portillo Villeda, asst. prof. of Chicanx, Latinx and Transnational Studies at Pitzer College Producer: Scott Harris
    29 min
  • The City Of Bridgeport Zones Remington Woods For Development
    Host Mike Merli speaks with Lela Florel, founder of Preserve Remington Woods.
    Remington Woods is a 422 acre forest community in Bridgeport and Stratford, that for several years, has been threatened with destruction in the name of commercial / residential "development."
    On November 16th, the Planning and Zoning Commission held a public hearing during which there were several hours of testimony from well over a hundred people, speaking on the need for preserving the Remington Woods.
    Then, a few days ago on December 1st, the Connecticut Post ran an article that said the Planning and Zoning commission had decided this week to change the designation for the woods from “light industrial” to “residential office center.”
    Lela shares thoughts on the Commission's decision this week, and the next steps in the struggle to preserve Remington Woods in its entirety as a wildlife nature preserve.
    For more info on the hearing:
    https://www.ctpost.com/news/article/Dozens-pack-zoning-hearing-to-preserve-16629613.php
    For more info on the Planning and Zoning Commission's decision:
    https://www.ctpost.com/news/article/Bridgeport-OKs-some-development-at-Remington-Woods-16667114.php
    For more information on Preserve Remington Woods, and ways to take action:
    www.preserveremingtonwoods.com/
    27 min

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