Earthwise 8/3/24: The Toad

Producer/Host: Anu Dudley

About the host: Rev. Dr. Anu Dudley is an ordained Pagan minister and a retired history professor. She continues to teach classes, including the three-year ordination curriculum at the Temple of the Feminine Divine, and others such as History of the Goddess, Paganism 101, Ethical Magic, and Introduction to the Runes. Currently she is writing a book about how to cast the runes using their original Goddess meanings. She lives in the woods off-grid in a small homesteading community in Central Maine.

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The Cosmic Curator 8/3/24: Love is Your True Nature

Good Morning, People! This is your cosmic curator, Tom Yaroschuk, with a look at the stars for the week of August 3 and the days ahead…

About the Host:
Tom Yaroschuk is a Vedic Astrologer. His intention is to help people understand their karma and the issues they may confront to cultivate more fulfilling lives. Tom is writing a memoir of the spiritual lessons derived from his work in a Homeless Day Center in between a career as an award winning television and documentary producer.

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Around Town 8/2/24: Local News, Culture and Events

Host/Producer: Amy Browne

Author/Filmmaker and Belfast resident Jim Merkel’s new film “Saving Walden’s World” will have several showings in Maine in August, including one at the Strand in Rockland this weekend.  When we spoke with him Thursday, he was preparing to sail to the showings but took a quick break to give us an update.

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.

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The Maine Monitor Radio Hour 8/1/24

Producer/host: Amy Browne
Guest: Kate Cough, Editor at the Maine Monitor

The Maine Monitor Radio Hour is a collaboration between WERU-FM and the Maine Monitor, the nonpartisan, independent publication of the Maine Center for Public Interest Reporting.  

Kate Cough, editor at The Maine Monitor joins us this month to talk about her new series on salt water marshes in Maine.   We talk about what inspired the series, what she found in her investigation, and how it builds on her earlier series  The Unstoppable Ocean  

Sinking in Saltwater: Maine’s coastal marshes at risk as sea levels rise – The first piece in the series

The Unstoppable Ocean series  

Other work by Kate Cough

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Climate & Community 8/1/24: Bridging Energy Challenges on Unbridged Islands with College of the Atlantic’s Community Energy Center (Part 1)

Host: Brianna Cunliffe

Description: Climate & Community speaks with Director David Gibson and student workers Adler Garner and Uriel Orozco on their ongoing work through the College of the Atlantic’s Community Energy Center, supporting households on the Cranberry Isles with energy audits and upgrades this summer. In this first part of our conversation, we focus on what’s been done so far, and the unique challenges unbridged islands face and the opportunities that exist to lessen their energy burdens. Learn more about the project at www.MaineUP.org.

Johannah, Brianna, Tanvi, Gus, Corey, and Beth are the team at A Climate to Thrive, a nonprofit working to build a model of community-driven, solutions-focused climate action. Since its origins around a potluck table as concerned neighbors gathered to take action on climate change, A Climate to Thrive, or ACTT, has been supporting solutions on Mount Desert Island and beyond since 2016. Learn more at www.aclimatetothrive.org.

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Around Town 8/1/24: Local News, Culture and Events

Host/Producer: Amy Browne

Shaina Fraser of Families First joins us to talk about their upcoming 7th annual fundraising dinner.

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.

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World Ocean Radio 7/31/24: Spilhaus World Ocean Map

Host: Peter Neill
Producer: Trisha Badger

ABOUT THIS EPISODE
Visualization: it is a powerful tool for understanding beyond data. Visualizations open our minds and enable transformative change through a new way of seeing. This week we’re discussing the Spilhaus World Ocean Map, a projection of earth centered on Antarctica that makes the ocean the focus of an astonishing worldview, pushing the land to the outer edges of the square and re-organizing our global geography around the true natural systems of the world ocean.

WORLD OCEAN RADIO
5-minute weekly insights dive into ocean science, advocacy and education hosted by Peter Neill, lifelong ocean advocate and maritime expert. A catalog of more than 700 episodes offer perspectives on global ocean issues and viable solutions, and celebrate exemplary projects. Available for RSS feed and for broadcast by college and community radio stations worldwide. You will also find this week’s World Ocean Radio episode at Exchange.prx.org, at Audioport.org, WorldOceanObservatory.org where the full catalog of episodes is searchable by theme, and wherever you listen to podcasts.

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Around Town 7/31/24: Local News, Culture and Events

Host/Producer: Amy Browne

The Branch Lake Association’s photo exhibition “Life on Branch Lake Over The Decades” opens at the Ellsworth Public Library today – one of several events happening at the library this summer.  We start today with Berit Becker talking about some of the library’s August events, and then Beth Smart from the Branch Lake Association talks about the exhibition — and as you’ll hear, she and I have a  “small world” moment…

FMI: www.ellsworthlibrary.net 

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.

Theme music: BreakBeat Chemists I, 2015
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