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WSHU Public Radio has launched the second season of its acclaimed environmental podcast Higher Ground, with one key difference. This time, the microphone is in the hands of eight-grade Bridgeport students.
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At John S. Martinez Elementary School in New Haven, newly installed garden beds from Common Ground’s Schoolyards Program offer a different approach to learning, and playing in the dirt is bringing kids down to earth.
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Climate change is causing anxiety in young people around the world. In New England, youth activists respond with collective action around food sustainability.
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As states weigh trash-to-energy facilities, neighborhoods in Long Island and Brooklyn, New York, have learned from each other to fight for environmental justice with solutions to a growing organic waste management problem. The strategy in New Haven, Connecticut, is reducing trash that ends up in landfills and incinerators.
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A nearly $224 million sewer project will reduce nitrogen pollution and expand economic development by eliminating about 1,890 cesspools and septic systems in the Mastic-Shirley area of Long Island. Still, environmentalists want more.
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New York joins other states in setting up a commercial kelp farming industry. WSHU’s Higher Ground podcast takes a behind the scenes look.
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Higher Ground tells the stories of communities adapting to climate change. The podcast found that communities, like Mastic Beach, have a hard time telling these stories. So, WSHU brought residents together to review the barriers to addressing rising tides and extreme weather.
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New York voters could decide this week to add “the right to a healthful environment” to their state Bill of Rights. Next year on Election Day, they can choose to put their money where their mouth is.
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Why does Suffolk County want to upgrade its wastewater systems? In an extended interview, WSHU’s J.D. Allen speaks to Suffolk County Water Czar Peter Scully.
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J.D. Allen, host of WSHU's new climate podcast, Higher Ground, speaks with scientist Lesley Thorne about about why whales are moving north so quickly.