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GaiaGram - Environmental Headlines from around a planet in crisis.

I want you to welcome back  Gloria Frazee of ReWild Long Island.  At ReWild,   Gloria is co-chair of the Social Media & Web Committee and co-leader of the ReWild/South Fork chapter and now is a regular contributor to this program. Gloria will be joining me every 2nd Thursday of the month during the 12 noon hour.

Gloria Frazee of Rewild Long Island #2

Chuck Collins of climatecriminals.org is my guest on this "Digging in the Dirt". Chuck  is here to talk about why he believes It’s time to name the names of the individuals delaying climate action and financing the climate crisis, so they can be held accountable.
Chuck Collins  is an American author and a senior scholar at the Institute for Policy Studies in Washington, DC, where he directs the Program on Inequality and the Common Good.   His latest book is a novel, “Altar to an Erupting Sun,” an eco-fiction exploration of the causes of climate disruption.

Chuck Collins of ClimateCriminals.org

Gloria Frazee joins me as a regular monthly guest on Digging in the Dirt. Gloria is co-chair of the Social Media & Web Committee and co-leader of the ReWild/South Fork chapter and its Summer Program for high school students. She is also the founder of ReWild/East Hampton Compost…. in collaboration with the Town of East Hampton.

Rewild LI w/ Gloria Frazee #4

-The Atlantic Ocean is cooling at a record speed 
-The inevitability of rising temperatures due to climate change
-Farmer-first’ successful agrivoltaics projects
-Inflation Reduction Act has sparked a manufacturing boom
-New solar utility-scale operations are largest source of electricity
-Electric car sales growing fastest 
-Americans want to prioritize developing alternative energy

GaiaGram #223 Environmental Headlines from around a planet in crisis

-Weedkiller Dacthal serious health risks to unborn babies, banned.
-Record-setting heat wave in the west
-221 thousand pounds  of dead fish in Greek port
-Worst droughts sweeping across southern Africa
-Multimillion-dollar estates sliding into Pacific Ocean
-Legos, changing its plastics formula to be environmentally friendly.
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GaiaGram # 224 Environmental Headlines from around a planet in crisis.

Gloria Frazee Rewild Long Island #3

-UK set to stop producing any electricity from burning coal
-90% of the planet’s soil is being degraded
-Extinction of hundreds of bird species Threatens other systems
-24 percent of plastic waste comes from just five companies: 
-Africa’s ecosystem threatened by climate change
-Home insurance companies pulling   out of risky states.
-Connecticut sees first human case of new tick-borne disease

GaiaGram # 229 Environmental Headlines from around a planet in crisis.

Director of Agriculture at CitySeed in New Haven which we talked about on a previous segment which you can hear in our podcasts section if you missed it. Kaitlyn is Owner of Sunset Organic farm in Naugatuck Ct. she is back to talk to me now about some of the issues farmers are facing due to some of this extraordinary weather many of us are experiencing.

Digging in the Dirt - Kaitlyn Kimball Cityseed -  Storms Effects On Small Farmers

-Hurricane Milton destroys 500,000 homes at $85 billion cost
-“2024 State of the Climate Report warns of Climate emergency
-Antarctica's glaciers are in serious trouble
-Pesticides aren't always necessary
-United States continues to emit more planet-warming methane 
-Utah’s Great Salt Lake days may be numbered.
-India unhappy with EU Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism tariffs
-12% of Rep’s, and 59% of Dem’s, say  must address climate change

GaiaGram #230 - Environmental Headlines from around a planet in crisis.

The Resistance Roundtable show interviews Branko Marcetic who discusses his recent Jacobin Magazine articles on Biden's horrific Gaza policy; and the apparent decision by the Harris campaign to keep Tim Walz off the campaign trail.
Interview by Scott Harris, Richard Hill and Ruthanne Baumgartner, Oct. 12, 2024

Jacobin Mag's Branko Marcetic: Will Biden's Gaza Policy Tank Kamala's Election Chances?

-Torrential rain in south of France last week, caused severe flooding
-Humanity has thrown the global water cycle off balance “for the first time
-carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions from forest fires have surged by 60%
-Nature is disappearing reports the Living Planet Report 2024
-PestiSCAND device checks for pesticide residues on produce at home
-New self-regulating water desalination system runs on solar power

GaiaGram #231 - Environmental Headlines from around a planet in crisis.

-UN ...To end the climate crisis means it is “crunch time for real”
-California files first-of-its-kind lawsuit against ExxonMobil over plastic
-Once thought extinct the Atlantic Gray whale makes comeback
-Positive news for endangered North Atlantic right whale
-Clean energy jobs grew more  twice the rate of the overall economy

GaiaGram #232 Environmental Headlines from around a planet in crisis.

-Cyclone pounds Chinese province of Hainan with flooding
-Fed’s give 3 Billion for infrastructure  and reduce diesel air 
  pollution.
-Atlantic cod quickly eat over 10 million capelin fish at one time
-Calif. Republicans want delay in carbon reduction policies
-137 organizations that are actively involved in promoting climate 
   disinformation

GaiaGram #233 Environmental Headlines from around a planet in crisis.

-Delhi’ India’s  air quality the equivalent of 49 cigarettes daily
-Storm Bert wreaks havoc on Ireland, flooding, downed trees, power outages nationwide.
-U S Northwest battered by storms
-Mexico’s Vanilla producers estimate they lost about 80 percent of this year's crop.
-Greece, expecting 90% reduction in Chestnut crop yield
-10 billion snow crabs disappeared from the eastern Bering Sea
-Saudi Arabia, the world’s top oil exporter, works against climate agreement

GaiaGram #236 Environmental Headlines from around a planet in crisis.

Laura Modlin interviews Andrew Kupinse about preserving zoning in Easton, CT to protect the water supply in the town’s four reservoirs. They serve 100s of thousands of customers in Fairfield County, Connecticut. 

Originally aired December 1, 2024.

A town with four reservoirs

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GaiaGram # 229 Environmental Headlines from around a planet in crisis.

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