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Audible Cafe Radio Show and Podcast

26 episodes - English - Latest episode: about 3 years ago - ★★★★★ - 1 rating

Audible Café explores the natural world, wildlife, sustainable living, and that thing called climate change. We meet fascinating people who are embracing new ways of treading more lightly on the earth. We champion other species and seek to meet them where they are in all their wild and wooly glory.

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Episode 25: Mary Stucklen with Berkshire Zero Waste

March 23, 2021 00:13 - 26 minutes - 60.3 MB

Hi and welcome to Audible Café! Today, I’m sharing my interview with Mary Stucklen of Berkshire Zero Waste about a new initiative of theirs, WasteLess Restaurants. They’re having a Kickoff Event on March 23rd online. So, anyone who owns a restaurant, cafe, or food business that serves customers directly, or if you work for one of these establishments, this show is for you! There will be exclusive discounts announced at the event, specific to qualifying businesses. And $400 worth of d...

Episode 24: Kelly Fuller with Western Watersheds Project

March 09, 2021 00:47 - 45 minutes - 104 MB

Welcome to the Audible Café! Today, I’m sharing my conversation with Kelly Fuller, the Energy and Mining Campaign Director for the Western Watersheds Project, which has headquarters in a number of western states. We talked about the proposed lithium mine in Thacker Pass, Nevada, a project that WWP and others oppose on the grounds that it will destroy an important ecosystem and habitat for a number of unique species. “Thacker Pass is critically important to wildlife because it connects th...

Episode 23: Max Wilbert from Protect Thacker Pass, NV

February 10, 2021 01:50 - 42 minutes - 98.4 MB

Today I’m sharing my conversation with Max Wilbert, one of the activists occupying Thacker Pass, Nevada, up in the northern-central part of the state, to protest a proposed lithium mine there. He and his fellow protesters have been camping on this land, currently governed by the Bureau of Land Management (BLM), in winter conditions at about 5,100 feet elevation, so it’s cold and snowy. But the beauty of the pass and their belief in the cause sustains them, though their numbers are few. Whe...

Episode 22: Laura Haight, Partnership for Policy Integrity (PFPI)

January 25, 2021 16:05 - 48 minutes - 110 MB

In today's show, I talk with Laura Haight, U.S. Policy Director at the Partnership for Policy Integrity, or PFPI. PFPI uses science, policy analysis and strategic communications to promote policies that protect climate, ecosystems, and people. From the PFPI website: Laura Haight has extensive experience working on environmental, energy, and health care policy, and has been instrumental in passage of dozens of state and local laws to promote clean energy, reduce pesticide use, increase recy...

Episode 21: Dogwood Alliance w/Scot Quaranda

January 17, 2021 00:18 - 55 minutes - 127 MB

Welcome to Audible Café! Today I’m speaking with Scot Quaranda of the Dogwood Alliance. From their website: “For over 20 years, Dogwood Alliance has worked with diverse communities, partner organizations and decision-makers to protect Southern forests across 14 states. We do this through community and grassroots organizing, holding corporations and governments accountable and working to conserve millions of acres of Southern forests.” And one of their major campaigns is called “Our Forests...

EPISODE 20: Put Peaker Plants in the Past w/Rosemary Wessel of No Fracked Gas in Mass

January 09, 2021 16:07 - 50 minutes - 116 MB

Welcome to Audible Café! Today’s show features Rosemary Wessel, Program Director of No Fracked Gas in Mass, a program of the Berkshire Environmental Action Team, or BEAT. No Fracked Gas in Mass started as a passion project originally created by Rose and others to stop the now-defeated Kinder Morgan Northeast Energy Direct pipeline, a huge fracked gas pipeline project that would have brought fracked gas from Pennsylvania across New York, the full length of Massachusetts, up to New England, ...

Wendell State Forest Alliance Lawsuit to Protect the Forests

December 18, 2020 22:01 - 1 hour - 137 MB

Welcome to Audible Café Podcast! Today, my guests are Gia Neswald and Glen Ayers of the Wendell State Forest Alliance. Their group brought a lawsuit against the Massachusetts Dept of Conservation and Recreation, or DCR and Secretary Kathleen Theoharides of the Exec. Office of Energy and Environmental Affairs, to HALT the logging of forestlands in Wendell State Forest. The goal of this and other actions they have and intend to take is to stop DCR’s improper and illegal commercial logging in...

Episode 18: Northeast Wilderness Trust, with Sophi Veltrop

November 18, 2020 22:08 - 36 minutes - 83.2 MB

Welcome to Audible Café, where we celebrate wildlife and nature, and talk with people who are working to protect and restore the earth. Today I am excited to share my interview with Sophi Veltrop, Outreach Coordinator for the Northeast Wilderness Trust based in Vermont. The Northeast Wilderness Trust believes that “wild nature deserves the freedom to flourish. On forever-wild lands people take a step back and natural processes unfold freely. The 37,000+ acres of wildlands safeguarded by ...

Episode 17: “The Issue with Tissue” w/Jennifer Skene of NRDC

July 06, 2020 15:24 - 49 minutes - 114 MB

The Issue with Tissue, A Report from NRDC Please note: excerpts in the bullet list below are taken verbatim from the 2019 report This week I am happy to share my conversation with Jennifer Skene, international law fellow with NRDC and lead author of The Issue with Tissue Report that details the destruction of the boreal forest as a result of clear-cut logging. The boreal forest is a precious forest ecosystem that lies just below the Arctic Circle. It spans 1.9 billion hectares and repr...

Episode 16: BEAT and Food & Water Watch vs. FERC

May 26, 2020 00:38 - 34 minutes - 47.7 MB

Welcome to the Audible Café Radio Show/podcast!  Today, I’m happy to share my interview with Jane Winn of the Berkshire Environmental Action Team (or BEAT) and Rosemary Wessel of No Fracked Gas in Mass (a program of BEAT). We talked about a lawsuit that BEAT and the Food & Water Watch have brought against the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) in approving a fracked gas infrastructure project without meeting the requirements of the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) requirin...

Episode 15: Helia Native Nursery in Alford, Mass

May 06, 2020 14:22 - 49 minutes - 57.2 MB

Welcome to the Audible Café Radio Show & Podcast! Today I’m happy to share my interview with Bridghe McCracken and Amillie Coster of Helia Native Nursery in Alford, Massachusetts. Helia’s mission is to protect native plant diversity, and as you’ll hear, there is a lot more to it than fencing off a section of land and letting it go wild. Although, sometimes, that is just what is required. Helia works with a sharp eye to the threat of climate change, pollution, and development on the eco...

Four Kings Day presented by Manos Unidas

February 22, 2020 01:24 - 33 minutes - 46.6 MB

Welcome to Audible Café! I am so happy to bring you today’s show about the "I Have A Dream” / “Yo Tengo Un Sueño”  Four Kings Community Event taking place FRIDAY, February 28, 2020 from 5:00 to 8:00 p.m. at the Whitney Museum of Art, 42 Wendell Ave, Pittsfield MA. My guests today are: Anaelisa Jacobsen — Founder and co-director of Manos Unidas Multicultural Education Cooperative Mariam Orengo — Co-director of Manos Unidas Kristina Cardot — Owner and artist at The Funky Phoenix, a salvage...

Episode 13: Alice Arena of FRRACS

February 06, 2020 00:54 - 1 hour - 76.1 MB

Hi and welcome to Audible Café. Today, I bring you my interview with Alice Arena, Executive Director of the Fore River Residents Against the Compressor Station, or FRRACS. Their website is nocompressor.com. The Weymouth Compressor Station is part of the proposal for Atlantic Bridge, a SPECTRA Energy pipeline project that pumps fracked gas from fracking fields in the midwest through New England to…where? to whom? Well, that’s a good question. The story has continued to change as the compa...

Episode 12: Special Edition - "Under Pressure" Documentary Screening Event.

November 05, 2019 14:39 - 48 minutes - 51.1 MB

Welcome to the Audible Café podcast! Today’s show is a Special Edition tied to an event happening in Pittsfield, Massachusetts on Thursday. Even if you can’t get to the event, I hope you’ll listen, because today we’re talking about the dangers and implications of using fracked gas as an energy source for heating and cooking, and for making electricity. And about one terrible disaster — not the first, unfortunately probably not the last  that resulted from piping fracked gas under extremely...

Episode 11: Charley Eiseman, Freelance Naturalist and Bug Tracker Extraordinaire

October 05, 2019 16:05 - 1 hour - 73.6 MB

Thank you for listening to the Audible Café podcast! Today I am very happy to share my interview with freelance naturalist, photographer, and intrepid Bug Tracker, Charley Eiseman. Charley stalks all manner of critters alone or with his wife, Julia, in the woods and fields of his native Massachusetts and across the US. Since 2011, he has focused his attention and his camera extensively on leafminers and galls — of which there are an astounding number — documenting with great care and preci...

Episode 10: Steve Sears of The Stationery Factory in Dalton, Mass 

July 20, 2019 17:50 - 53 minutes - 47.6 MB

Thank you for listening to the Audible Café podcast. In today’s episode, I am airing my interview with Steve Sears of Dalton, Mass. (This interview was taped back in the winter, so our discussion of the cold weather might surprise you given that it’s over 90 degrees today!) My short hiatus turned into several months out of touch, so forgive me for my absence. But we’re BACK! And I’m excited to be lining up some really interesting interviews that I will share with you as they happen. Stev...

Episode 9: Jeff Ruch of PEER (Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility) (Part 2 of 2)

January 25, 2019 21:22 - 56 minutes - 58.7 MB

Thank you for listening to the Audible Café podcast. With our public employees enduring the fifth week of their forced furlough during a government shutdown resulting from the actions of a despotic and vindictive President Trump, this interview — and my interview with Kyla Bennett from PEER last week — couldn’t be more timely. In today’s episode, I am sharing my interview with Jeff Ruch, Executive Director of PEER - Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility. PEER is a watchdog of...

Episode 8: Kyla Bennett of PEER (Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility)

January 11, 2019 18:27 - 51 minutes - 48 MB

Today, my guest is Kyla Bennett. Kyla is the New England Director and the Director of Science Policy for PEER, which stands for Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility. PEER’s purpose is to protect public employees who protect our environment. And what could be more needed, today, than this? Kyla previously worked at EPA Region 1 (New England) for 10 years as a wetland permit reviewer and as the Region's Wetlands Enforcement Coordinator. Kyla first became involved with PEER in th...

Episode 7: Buffalo Field Campaign, with Mike Mease

November 16, 2018 21:35 - 53 minutes - 49.4 MB

Welcome to the Audible Café Podcast! Today, my guest is Mike Mease, Campaign Coordinator and Co-Founder of the Buffalo Field Campaign. The Buffalo Field Campaign is the only group working both in the field and in policy arenas to stop the harassment and slaughter of America’s last truly wild, genetically pure buffalo in America. These buffalo are the direct descendants of the 30 to 60 million buffalo that used to roam continental North America, and their herd currently contains less than 4...

Episode 6: Jennifer Browdy - Writer, Teacher, Editor, Coach

August 24, 2018 19:47 - 38 minutes - 36.1 MB

Welcome to Audible Café, where we get together to talk about nature, wildlife, wilderness, conservation, environmental protection, climate change, and things related. Today, I’m airing my interview with Jennifer Browdy, who is a writer, teacher, editor, and coach. She is deeply committed to opening up conversations in person and online that are relevant to our times, and to helping others find expression through their writing. Memoir is a grassroots sort of genre, inviting anyone and eve...

Episode 5: International Dark Sky Association Exec. Dir. Scott Feierabend

August 11, 2018 02:25 - 44 minutes - 41.4 MB

Welcome to Audible Café, where we spend time together celebrating and learning about the natural world, wildlife, and sustainable living.  In today's episode, I talk with Scott Feierabend, the Executive Director for the International Dark Sky Association based in Tuscon, Arizona. The Dark Sky Association’s mission is to reduce light pollution and its environmental impacts. Scott has an incredible background working for more than 30 years to conserve and restore our natural environment....

Episode 4: Jen Parrilli, The Mayor of FungiTown

August 06, 2018 20:17 - 16 minutes - 14.9 MB

Welcome to the Audible Café where we spend time together each week to explore the natural world, wildlife, sustainable living, and climate change. The week of July 23rd, I attended Podcast Movement 2018 in Philadelphia, where I met and talked with Jen Parrilli, The Mayor of FungiTown. It was quite an honor to meet such a dedicated aficionado of fungi. She is devoted to sharing all she knows and more with us as she digs into the fascinating subject of fungi — that’s molds, mushrooms and m...

Episode 3: Allan Fierce & Jane Winn on the (Dysfunctional) Massachusetts Legislature

July 20, 2018 14:45 - 41 minutes - 38.2 MB

Greetings from the Audible Café podcast, where we spend time together each week to explore the natural world, wildlife, sustainable living, and climate change. On this week's episode, I spend time talking with Allan Fierce, Legislative Coordinator for the Massachusetts Chapter of Elders Climate Action, and Jane Winn, Executive Director of the Berkshire Environmental Action Team (BEAT). “At the very end of the day, the House and Senate have been unable to agree on climate and energy legis...

Episode 2: Natalie Narotzky with the Urban Sustainability Directors Network (USDN)

July 13, 2018 13:29 - 53 minutes - 49.3 MB

Today, I’m sharing my interview with Natalie Narotzky, Program and Communications Manager for the Urban Sustainability Directors Network (USDN).  From their website: "The Urban Sustainability Directors Network (USDN) is a peer-to-peer network of local government professionals from communities across the United States and Canada dedicated to creating a healthier environment, economic prosperity, and increased social equity. Our dynamic network enables sustainability directors and staff to ...

Episode 1: The Old Stone Mill Center for Arts and Creative Engineering in Adams, MA

July 06, 2018 09:00 - 39 minutes - 36.7 MB

Hi, and welcome to Audible Café, where we spend time together each week to explore the natural world, wildlife, sustainable living, and climate change. Today, I’m sharing my interview with Leni Fried and Mike Augspurger, who founded the Old Stone Mill Center for Arts and Creative Engineering in Adams, MA. Also featured is Rosemary Wessel of No Fracked Gas in Mass renown, who is the Mill's green energy consultant and a founding volunteer. The Old Stone Mill Center for Arts and Creative ...

Welcome to the Audible Cafe Podcast and celebrate the natural world with us

June 23, 2018 16:56 - 3 minutes - 7.64 MB

Welcome to Audible Café with Judy Eddy, a radio producer and host from the Berkshires in western Massachusetts. Audible Café is a weekly show that will explore and celebrate the natural world, wildlife, sustainable living, and climate change. The show will be a nourishing, inspiring place where we will visit with people who are making positive change in the world and who are passionate about learning to live full lives in new ways! Discover more at www.audiblecafe.com. Please join us each we...

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