RadioActive 2/25/16

Producer/Host: Meredith DeFrancesco

Issue: Environmental and Social Justice

Program Topic: A Climate to Thrive: Mount Desert Island moves towards energy independence by 2030

Key Discussion Points:
1) On January 24th, MDI Climate Solutions kicked off A Climate to Thrive, a local initiative whose goal is to move Mount Desert Island to energy independence by 2030.
2) Over 200 people attended the event on January 24th, and have divided the work going further into seven tracks, covering solar energy, other alternative energy, conservation and building, transportation, waste, local food and policy.
3) The project will have a particular focus on solar power, building on the current solar initiatives on Mount Desert Island. This will include more solar farms and arrays for residential and municipal purposes, and discount purchasing of solar panels through pooled buying.

Guests:
Gary Friedmann, Bar Harbor town councilor, climate activist, A Climate to Thrive advisory board

About


www.facebook.com/AClimatetoThrive/?fref=nf
www.revisionenergy.com/events

Johannah Blackman, program manager for A Climate to Thrive
[email protected]

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Maine Currents 2/24/16

Producer/Host: Amy Browne

Indigenous rights attorney Sherri Mitchell of the Penobscot Nation, has been a regular guest here on WERU, and if you were tuned in this morning at 10, you heard the new Pacifica network show she cohosts called “Love (and Revolution). Today on Maine Currents we’re bringing you to a talk Sherri Mitchell gave at the University of Maine last week called “Ending Conquest Activism”.

FMI re “Love (and Revolution) radio”: us2.campaign-archive2.com/?u=52edd9c637ac7dc6228813e39&id=842fbb908f

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Maine Arts Alive 2/23/16

Host: Michael Donahue
Engineer: Amy Browne

Program Topic: Promoting Maine Arts & Artists

Key Discussion Points: Statewide Arts Education Census, Commission Updates, Artists in Schools

Guests:
Julie A. Richard, Executive Director, Maine Arts Commission
Argy Nestor, Director of Arts Education, Maine Arts Commission
Catherine Ring, Executive Director, New England Institute for Teacher Education

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