Green Space, Blue Space, Our Space
Greenhouse Lasses
English - March 25, 2020 15:57 - 53 minutes - 122 MB - ★★★★★ - 15 ratingsSociety & Culture Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
Ever wonder what it’s like to protect public spaces and communities, from parks across the Garden State to the Amazonian Rainforest? Us, too! Join us as we chat with Jamie Carpenter, Program Specialist with the New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection. In this episode, Jamie tells us about volunteering in the Brazilian Amazon with the Notre Dame Mission Volunteers International, recounts trekking across the Alaskan wilderness surviving on pancake mix, and reveals which Parks and Recreation character she identifies with alongside her public service experience advancing disaster relief and public land allocation...Notes:
Interested in the activism work Jamie did in Brazil? Get involved! https://www.ndmva.org/
Learn about the Green Acres Program here: https://www.nj.gov/dep/greenacres/ and Blue Acres Floodplain Acquisitions here: https://www.nj.gov/dep/greenacres/blue_flood_ac.html
Learn more about Rayanne Cristine Maximo Franca and many other Brazilian women activists worth your support: https://www.dazeddigital.com/politics/article/45703/1/the-fight-to-save-the-amazon-rainforest-youth-activist-protest
Learn about the land rights activist and Catholic nun Dorothy Stang who was killed and help remember her: https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/religion/sister-dorothy-stang-died-fighting-for-brazils-landless-10-years-later-not-much-has-changed/2015/02/12/c68a64a0-b2f7-11e4-bf39-5560f3918d4b_story.html