Grit

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Grit is a podcast on WMPG exploring how Mainers respond to challenges and issues like the coronavirus pandemic, racism and climate change through interviews and personal stories. grit: courage, backbone, spirit, moral fiber, toughness, tenacity, gumption, guts, spunk.

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    episode 22 - Maine Youth for Climate Justice and 350Maine

    Today we talk with Julia St Clair and Amy Eshoo and hear how Maine Youth for Climate Justice and 350Maine are working together.

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    episode 21 - Poetry for Earth Day

    On Earth Day the Natural Resources Council of Maine teamed up with the Telling Room for an afternoon webinar showcasing inspirational environmental poetry written by Maine youth moderated by Samaa Abdurraqib. Here are the young Maine poets reading their original poems plus a poem from Samaa and a poem and an Earth Day message from Governor Mills. In the second half of the show we hear from Peter Dugas, KC Hughs and Peter Munroe talking about the Citizens Climate Lobby.

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    episode 20 - Pine Tree Amendment part 2 - Do you have a right to a healthy environment?

    You have a right to free speech and the right to own a gun, but a right to clean air, land and water? You may be surprised to hear the answer in our conversation with the women behind the Pine Tree Amendment: Andy Burt and Michelle Henkin along with Maya van Rossum, author of The Green Amendment and the founder of Green Amendments For The Generations. This is part 2 of 2 episodes on the Pine Tree Amendment. Later in the episode we will hear the new single from Percy Hill.

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    epiosode 19 - Pine Tree Amendment Part 1: Do you have the right to clean air & water?

    You have a right to free speech and the right to own a gun, but a right to clean air, land and water? You may be surprised to hear the answer in our conversation with the women behind the Pine Tree Amendment: Andy Burt and Michelle Henkin along with Maya van Rossum, author of The Green Amendment and the founder of Green Amendments For The Generations. This is part 1 of 2 episodes on the Pine Tree Amendment.

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    episode 18: Behind the Scenes at WMPG

    Today we take you behind the scenes at WMPG and talk with Dale Robin Goodman, Jessica Lockhart and Jim Rand….

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    episode 17 - NRCM vs CMP

    Sue Ely, Climate and Clean Energy Policy Advocate and staff attorney for the Natural Resources Council of Maine explains why NRCM believes Central Maine Power’s 145 mile high voltage transmission line, a project planning to carve a 150 wide path through the Maine North woods in order to transfer Canadian hydro power to Massachusetts is a bad deal for Maine.

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    episode 16 - Facing Climate Change and Racism at USM

    A conversation with USM faculty members Aaron Witham, Assistant Director of Facilities Management for Sustainability and William Johnson, Director of Intercultural Student Engagement.

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    episode 15

    Fridays for Future and a Conversation about Racism Heloise and Elisabeth, 8th graders from King Middle School in Portland are bringing attention to climate change Friday afternoons on the steps of City Hall. In the second half of the show we discuss how some religious communities in Portland are dealing with racism. Allen Ewing Merrill, executive director of the BTS Center (the organizational successor to Bangor Theological Seminary) in Portland; Reverend Ben Shambaugh, Dean of St Luke's Cathedral in Portland and Liz Parsons, an environmental activist and also a member of St Luke's Cathedral share their thoughts and experiences.

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Grit is a podcast on WMPG exploring how Mainers respond to challenges and issues like the coronavirus pandemic, racism and climate change through interviews and personal stories. grit: courage, backbone, spirit, moral fiber, toughness, tenacity, gumption, guts, spunk.

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