The Story Walking Radio Hour Archives with Wendy Fachon
Difference Makers: Cultivating Climate Literate Students
04-05-21 Difference Makers: Cultivating Climate Literate Students Guest: Jeanine Silversmith, Executive Director of the Rhode Island Environmental Education Association (RIEEA) A survey conducted by the Kaiser Family Foundation found that nearly half of American...
Great Streets: Safe, Walkable, Bikable, Equitable and Sociable
03-02-21 Great Streets: Safe, Walkable, Bikable, Equitable and Sociable Guest Martina Haggerty, Special Projects Director at the City of Providence Department of Planning and Development The City of Providence's Great Streets initiative is an established framework for...
Creative Activism: Art for Environmental Advocacy Guest Melissa Guillet, Founder of 15 Minute Field Trips™
02-01-21 Creative Activism: Art for Environmental Advocacy Guest Melissa Guillet, Founder of 15 Minute Field Trips™ The Law of Inspired Action states the premise that if we take action toward an intended goal, such as increasing people's appreciation of and...
Redefining Wildlife and Conservation Outreach
01-04-21 Redefining Wildlife and Conservation Outreach Guest: Mary Gannon, Wildlife Outreach Coordinator for the Division of Fish and Wildlife In claiming land and water resources for our own use, humanity has engendered the fragmentation of grassland, forest and...
Offsetting Schools’ Paper Usage, One Tree At a Time Guests: Lizzy Elsner and Sethu Odayappan, Co-founders, Tree-Plenish
12-07-20 Offsetting Schools' Paper Usage, One Tree At a Time Guests: Lizzy Elsner and Sethu Odayappan, Co-founders, Tree-Plenish Tree planting is a natural solution to mitigating climate change. Cities, constructed vast areas of hard impermeable surfaces, have given...
Environmental Action During the Pandemic and How to Maintain Momentum
11-02-20 Environmental Action During the Pandemic and How to Maintain Momentum Guests: Eric Magers, Sara Spellman, Ashley Desrosiers, Seaside Sustainability Located in Gloucester, MA, Seaside Sustainability provides project-based learning, meaningful internships for...
Leaving a Greener Legacy: Choices for Natural Burial
10-05-20 Leaving a Greener Legacy: Choices for Natural Burial Guest Ann Porto, Psy.D. Volunteer Board Member, Funeral Consumers Alliance With people becoming more environmentally and economically conscious in their everyday life purchasing decisions, such as food and...
Virtual Environmental Learning Guest Lauren Parmelee, Senior Director of Education at the Audubon Society of Rhode Island
09-07-20 Virtual Environmental Learning Guest Lauren Parmelee, Senior Director of Education at the Audubon Society of Rhode Island. When social distancing restrictions were introduced and schools were closed in response to COVID-19, environmental education...
What is Geoengineering? Awareness and Understanding with guests Rachael McIntosh and Susan Clarke
08-03-20 What is Geoengineering? Awareness and Understanding with guests Rachael McIntosh and Susan Clarke Geoengineering as the intentional manipulation of the environment, involving nuclear, biological, chemical, electromagnetic, and/or other physical-agent...
Developing a Sustainable Textile Industry for the 21st Century Guest Amy DuFault, Sustainable Fashion Journalist & Organizer, Southeastern New England Fibershed
07-06-20 Developing a Sustainable Textile Industry for the 21st Century Guest Amy DuFault, Sustainable Fashion Journalist & Organizer, Southeastern New England Fibershed How deeply do people consider the environmental impact of their clothing purchases?...
Shopping the Online Farmers’ Market: Guests Patrick Straus and Brandon Monti, Co-founders of Freshconn
06-01-20 Shopping the Online Farmers' Market Guests Patrick Straus and Brandon Monti, Co-founders of Freshconn This episode will explore the online approach to food quality, value, safety, security and sustainability. While COVID-19 has highlighted weaknesses and...
Wild Weed Wisdom: Gather and Give
05-04-20 Wild Weed Wisdom: Gather and Give Guest: Katrina Blair, Founder of Turtle Lake Refuge and Author of The Wild Wisdom of the Weeds This episode of the Story Walking Radio Hour will explore an innovative approach to food security – the foraging of wild weeds....
Keep Earth Beautiful: Stop Litter, Recycle and Engage in Ecotourism
04-06-20 Keep Earth Beautiful: Stop Litter, Recycle and Engage in Ecotourism Guests Donna Kaehler, Director for Keep Blackstone Valley Beautiful, and James Toomey, Director of Marketing, Blackstone Valley Tourism Council As the 50th anniversary of Earth Day arrives in...
Earth Care Composting for Climate Restoration
03-02-20 Earth Care Composting for Climate Restoration Guest Jayne Merner Senecal, Owner of Earth Care Farm How much of a difference can we make by composting? When we compost our food scraps and yard waste instead of dumping it into a landfill, we help build a system...
The Amazing World of Solar Energy: Guests Dana Goodman, Solar Consultant at NEC Solar, and Tom Seiter, Homeowner and Business Owner
02-03-20 The Amazing World of Solar Energy: Guests Dana Goodman, Solar Consultant at NEC Solar, and Tom Seiter, Homeowner and Business Owner In the face of ocean acidification and climate change, we are witnessing a revolution in the energy industry. Technological...
What is Environmental Literacy?
01-06-20 What is Environmental Literacy? Guest Rachel Holbert, President of Rhode Island Environmental Education Association (RIEEA) In a national survey undertaken a year ago, the percentage of Americans who say global warming is personally important hit a record...
Building Local Food Systems Through Community
12-02-19 Building Local Food Systems Through Community Guests: Leigh Vincola, Market Manager, Farm Fresh Rhode Island, and Susan Murray, Market Manager and Farmer, Coastal Foodshed The majority of produce sold in New England supermarkets is shipped all the way from...
Achieving the Vision of a Tobacco-Free Environment with guest Bob Houghtaling, Director of the Eastern States Youth to Youth Conference
11-04-19 Achieving the Vision of a Tobacco-Free Environment with guest Bob Houghtaling, Director of the Eastern States Youth to Youth Conference In this episode we explore the topic of tobacco use and its effect on our environment, our health, our society and our...
Voyaging into an Ocean of Plastic with guest Captain Breezy Grenier
10-07-19 Voyaging into an Ocean of Plastic with guest Captain Breezy Grenier Ocean pollution is as vast as the ocean. We can begin to solve this problem with education. In the last episode we talked about cleaning up our rivers and waterways. We talked about how...
Following in the Flow to Clean Up Our Waters, with guest Bonnie Combs, Marketing Director, Blackstone Heritage Corridor
09-02-19 Following in the Flow to Clean Up Our Waters, with guest Bonnie Combs, Marketing Director, Blackstone Heritage Corridor Clean water is one of our most important resources. It sustains our lives, our health, our economy and our natural environment. When it...