Common Ground Radio 11/12/20: Keynote Address – MOFGA Farmer to Farmer Conference – 2020

Producer/Host: C.J. Walke, MOFGA

a) Keynote address given on November 2, 2020
b) Climate resilient farming
c) Climate change impacts on farms and food systems

Speaker: Laura Legnick, Cultivating Resilience, LLC, Asheville, NC

About the host:
C.J. Walke, host of Common Ground Radio, has been involved in Maine agriculture for over 20 years and has worked in numerous capacities for the Maine Organic Farmers and Gardeners Association (MOFGA) starting in 2006. Since 2012, C.J. has worked as farm manager for College of the Atlantic’s Peggy Rockefeller Farms in Bar Harbor, Maine, where he works with students to grow organic fruits, vegetables and livestock products. He holds degrees in park management/environment education and library science. Common Ground Radio debuted in June of 2010 and C.J. has been the show’s host since 2014.

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Notes from the Electronic Cottage 11/12/20: Tech Ballot Initiatives

Producer/Host: Jim Campbell

While everyone was paying attention to our nail-biter presidential race in the 2020 election, it was easy to overlook several ballot initiatives that were also voted on around the country which affect consumer rights in the digital world. The results were very positive for consumers, as voters approved key initiatives in three states by majorities that would make any politician drool.

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Talk of the Towns 11/11/20: Creating a Geopark for Maine

Producer/Host: Ron Beard

What makes the geology of present-day Maine especially compelling to you?
What is a Geopark and how would it work?
What have you been working on in the past year as you have drafted a vision for a Maine Geopark?
Within a geopark, there are geosites (sites of geological importance– provide examples from Damariscotta, Fort Knox and Lubec.
How would creation of a Geopark serve the interests of
Local communities (pride of place, economic opportunity)?
Visitors to the state and localities?
Geologists and students of geology?
If you and your colleagues are successful and we jumped in our time-machine and came back to explore the Maine Geopark in ten years time, what might we see? what might we experience? What new knowledge might have been uncovered?

Guests:
Sarah Hall, Professor of Geology, College of the Atlantic
Sahra Gibson, 2020 graduate, College of the Atlantic
Joe Kelly, Emeritus Professor of Geology, University of Maine
Don Hudson, International Appalachian Trail, Emeritus Director, Chewonki

About the host:
Ron Beard is producer and host of Talk of the Towns, which first aired on WERU in 1993 as part of his community building work as an Extension professor with University of Maine Cooperative Extension and Sea Grant. He took all the journalism courses he could fit in while an undergraduate student in wildlife management and served as an intern with Maine Public Television nightly newscast in the early 1970s. Ron is an adjunct faculty member at College of the Atlantic, teaching courses on community development. Ron served on the Bar Harbor Town Council for six years and is currently board chair for the Jesup Memorial Library in Bar Harbor, where he has lived since 1975. Look for him on the Allagash River in June, and whenever he can get away, in the highlands of Scotland where he was fortunate to spend two sabbaticals.

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BoatTalk 11/10/20: new local news, rerun of art paine and steve callahan from 2013

Producers/Hosts: Mike Joyce & Alan Sprague

-interview with Steve Callahan and Art Paine from 2013
-mike, jon, and alan talk about local boatyard news

guest: Jon Johansen roving reporter

About the hosts:

Alan Sprague a.k.a. Flounder of the Soul Show, has been a programmer at WERU since the glaciers receded. For thirty years at community radio he has worked his way from being an unpaid volunteer to being an unpaid volunteer today, and he says he’s worth every cent of it. In 2003 he and Mike Joyce started the monthly call-in show Boattalk which has become a boating related show without piers (pi). Mike and Alan met many years ago while both were working at the Hinckley Company. Alan was the head service carpenter at the Hinckley skunkworks called Bass Harbor Marine or sometimes Kibbee’s Kennels. He worked there for nearly thirty years and saw yachts of stories to tell yawl. As part of Boattalk they organize the annual WERU Boattalk Cruise in late June for a fun pot-luck trip up Somes Sound, America’s former fiord. Quite cunning Mike and Alan are to work a free scenic boat trip with fine food for themselves.

Mike Joyce bio to follow

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