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Protecting our watershed
League of Women Voters Washtenaw County - February 05, 2022 23:16 - 1 hourKris Olsson joined the Huron River Watershed Council in 1992. She specializes in GIS analysis, landscape ecology, and local land use planning and ordinance development. Kris works with local governments and land protection organizations on promoting land use planning and policies that protect th...
Zero Waste - the future of recycling
League of Women Voters Washtenaw County - January 30, 2022 05:00 - 1 hourA few of the problems with recycling as we’ve been practicing it include: Consumer products are packaged in half a dozen different types of confusingly-labeled “plastic,” most of which is not recyclable at all, or is made unrecyclable by hard-to-remove labels. Directions for consumers wishing ...
Detroit's most polluted zip code
League of Women Voters Washtenaw County - January 22, 2022 05:00 - 1 hourDr. Edwards was born in South Wales, UK, and received his PhD in Atmospheric Chemistry from the University of Leicester, UK. He did postdoctoral research work at the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) in Boulder, CO and Purdue University in Indiana. Now an Associate Professor in the...
Environmental Justice and Federal Policy
League of Women Voters Washtenaw County - January 15, 2022 05:00 - 1 hourLeague of Women Voters of Washtenaw County & Theresa Reid host Kyle Whyte, PhD What can we learn from indigenous leaders as we try to find morally responsible and effective solutions to this man-made crisis? How do we ensure that proposed solutions do not further hurt the black, brown, indigeno...
solar installations on agricultural land
League of Women Voters Washtenaw County - January 08, 2022 05:00 - 1 hourCan agriculture and solar power exist in a mutually beneficial relationship? Yes, but for that to happen communities need to be deliberate in defining what agriculture looks like. Professor Gould introduces a new publication titled Planning & Zoning for Solar Energy Systems: A Guide for Michigan...
National Carbon Pricing
League of Women Voters Washtenaw County - January 04, 2022 18:39 - 1 hourMary Garton is a nurse and educator, now retired. She is involved in climate action at the local, state, and national level, but focuses on at the national level. Mary has participated in 28 lobby meetings with 15 different members of Congress or their legislative aides, both on Capitol Hill and...
She Took Justice
League of Women Voters Washtenaw County - October 29, 2021 04:00 - 1 hourGloria J. Browne-Marshall teaches classes in Constitutional Law; Race and the Law; Evidence; and Gender and Justice. She taught in the Africana Studies Program at Vassar College prior to joining the faculty of John Jay. She is a civil rights attorney who has litigated cases for the Southern Pove...
Justice Reform in Washtenaw County
League of Women Voters Washtenaw County - October 22, 2021 04:00 - 1 hourThe U.S. incarcerates a higher percentage of its citizens than any other country in the world: with 5% of the world’s population, we have nearly 25% of the world’s prisoners. The U.S. spends tens of billions of tax dollars annually to keep more than 2 million men and women in prison – a vast inc...
Criminal Justice Collaborative
League of Women Voters Washtenaw County - October 15, 2021 04:00 - 1 hourWashtenaw County’s Criminal Justice Collaborative Council (CJCC) works to develop collaborative plans, programs, and positions to reduce systemic stumbling blocks to the efficacy and fairness of our criminal legal system. The members of the CJCC include 20 elected and appointed leaders in crimin...
Citizens for Racial Equity in Washtenaw
League of Women Voters Washtenaw County - October 08, 2021 04:00 - 1 hourThis podcast appeared originally as a video event. To see the graphic displays , please visit https://www.citizensforracialequitywashtenaw.org/crew-s-report To view the animation created by UM Penny Stamps students, please see https://www.citizensforracialequitywashtenaw.org/community-toolkit ...
Stopping the Prison Pipeline
League of Women Voters Washtenaw County - September 30, 2021 17:32 - 1 hourhttps://www.miyouthjustice.org/ The phrase school-to-prison pipeline describes the way strict discipline, in the form of suspensions and expulsions for simple infractions, falls disproportionately on Black and Brown students and pushes them out of school and into the growing system of mass inca...
Policing, Justice, and Community with Anthropologist Kevin Karpiak, PhD
League of Women Voters Washtenaw County - September 14, 2021 20:02 - 1 hourHuman societies go back thousands of years; policing as an institution for maintaining societal order is only 150 years old. Previous cultures had many ways of controlling behavior for the common good without the police. How did the institution as we know it arise? How might we move toward a sys...
Policing the Police with ICPOC Chair, Lisa Jackson, PhD
League of Women Voters Washtenaw County - August 26, 2021 22:49 - 1 hourSpecial guest, Lisa Jackson, PhD on the topic: How do we police the police? Dr. Lisa Jackson, current Chair of the Ann Arbor Police Oversight Commission, noted behavioral neuroscientist and professor of Psychology at Schoolcraft College, speaks on the commission's work. Resources cited in this ...
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