Some scientists are predicting this year’s Atlantic hurricane season will be extremely active as a La Niña develops amid ocean warmth linked to global warming. We discuss the science behind these factors and how people along the Atlantic and Gulf coasts can stay safe. 
Also, the Biden Administration EPA recently awarded $20 billion to organizations who will turn around and offer low-interest loans to help communities participate in the clean energy transition. The program is catalyzing far more private capital and will help fund projects like insulating homes and replacing gas heating and cooking with heat pumps and induction stoves. 
And in her poems, Catherine Pierce grapples with unfolding climate disaster and other 21st century perils, and the ways they reframe parenting. She shares poems from her books Danger Days and The Tornado Is the World and reflects on finding beauty and calls to action during the Anthropocene.
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Supercharged Hurricane Season, Big Cash for Clean Energy, Poetry and more.

DEMO UBER SUCKY VERSION BEWARE!!!!!!

YOU WILL MAKE FUN OF US

Song by James Curwood
Guitar: Dave Lyden
Bass, Drums: James Curwood
Inspiration: You know who you are

When you call
The phone rings
But I don't pick it up
Because it's so wrong
When you're gone
So long

Phone Rings

Maybe Won't

Days Go By

Fly Away

Crazy (feat. Carly Johnson) [Prod. Omito]

Living on Earth with Steve Curwood is the weekly environmental news and information program distributed by Public Radio International. Every week approximately 300 Public Radio stations broadcast Living on Earth's news, features, interviews and commentary on a broad range of ecological issues. The show airs in 9 of the 10 top radio markets and reaches 80% of the US.

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