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Hazel Kahan, long-time interview host, discusses her shows Tidings and North Fork Works and describes her journey from a successful publicist in the corporate world to a talk show host on WPKN.
Interview by Richard Hill

Small Farms Report with Steve Munno of Massaro Farm in Woodbridge, CT.

Entomologist and ecologist Doug Tallamy is professor in the Department of Entomology and Wildlife Ecology at the University of Delaware. Doug discusses the ways we can create sustainable ecosystems by supporting "keystone" and native plants in our back yards that link together with forests and protected parklands.

Interview by Richard Hill

-Dubai recorded a year’s worth of rain in just 12 hours
-Hurricane season expected to be the worst on record
-(EPA) finalizes rules on “forever chemicals” in drinking water
-Corporations urgently need to halve their emissions before 2030
-US DOE to speed up the connection of clean energy to the grid.
-Peak wildfire season is heating up the Garden State,

*In a First, Biden Administration Poised to Sanction Israeli Military Unit for Human Rights Abuses Richard Silverstein, publisher of Tikun Olam, a blog addressing Israeli national security issues; Producer: Scott Harris.
*Student Hunger Strikers Call for Yale Divestment from Companies Providing Weapons to Israel Yale Hunger Striker, Interviews and megaphone street announcements Producer: Melinda Tuhus.
*Victory in European Climate Crisis Lawsuit Could Influence Parallel Efforts in the US & Around the World Kiley Price, a reporter with the online publication Inside Climate News Producer: Scott Harris.

On the April 21, 2024 episode of Mic Check, host Mike Merli speaks with Omar Antar, the Founder of the CT Palestine Alliance, a confederation of Jews, Muslims, Christians, and other citizen groups, working to move the state of Connecticut and the nation toward peace & justice, in particular in Palestine.

Omar discusses the Alliance's work, which includes organizing to shift municipal and state-level elected officials to support an immediate and permanent Ceasefire in Gaza.

For more on the CT Palestine Alliance:
www.palestinect.com

To access the Palestine Voter Pledge:
www.bit.ly/palestinepledge

- Bogota Colombia is rationing water due to drought
- Morocco's second-largest reservoir drying up
-new scientific method pinpoints microplastic pollution 'hotspots'
-Court finds climate crisis involves human rights violations.
-7 countries generate 100% of electricity from renewable energy
-The EU’s Green Claims Directive rules
-Sea otters help kelp forest ecosystems