Around Town 2/23/23: A Climate to Thrive Offers Free “Climate Ambassador” training

Producer/Host: Amy Browne

This week:
A Climate to Thrive is launching a statewide program to train Mainers to be climate ambassadors in their local communities. The statewide Climate Ambassadors program, which begins on March 9, will help participants tap into their unique skills and networks to take meaningful climate action and inspire others to join them. The virtual program is open to all Mainers free of charge. Naomi Albert, Project Manager, joins us with all the details.

More information about the program is available here

About the host:
Amy Browne started out at WERU as a volunteer news & public affairs producer in 2000, co-hosting/co-producing RadioActive with Meredith DeFrancesco. She joined the team of Voices producers a few years later, and has been WERU’s News & Public Affairs Manager since January, 2006. In addition to RadioActive, Voices, Maine Currents and Maine: The Way Life Could Be, Amy also produced and hosted the WERU News Report for several years. She has produced segments for national programs including Free Speech Radio News, This Way Out, Making Contact, Workers Independent News, Pacifica PeaceWatch, and Live Wire News, and has contributed to Democracy Now and the WBAI News Report. She is the recipient of the 2014 Excellence in Environmental Journalism Award from the Sierra Club of Maine, and Maine Association of Broadcasters awards for her work in 2017 and 2021.