Episode 6: Jennifer Browdy - Writer, Teacher, Editor, Coach
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Release Date: 08/24/2018
Episode 25: Mary Stucklen with Berkshire Zero Waste
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Today's show features Mary Stucklen of Berkshire Zero Waste about a new initiative of theirs, WasteLess Restaurants.
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Episode 24: Kelly Fuller with Western Watersheds Project
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Featuring 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.
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Episode 23: Max Wilbert from Protect Thacker Pass, NV
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Today's show features Max Wilbert, one of the activists occupying Thacker Pass, Nevada, to protest a proposed lithium mine there.
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Episode 22: Laura Haight, Partnership for Policy Integrity (PFPI)
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Today I discuss the biomass industry 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.
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Episode 21: Dogwood Alliance w/Scot Quaranda
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Audible Cafe talks with Scot Quaranda of the Dogwood Alliance about the forest biomass industry, and what it's doing to the southern forests (and soon coming to your neighborhood).
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EPISODE 20: Put Peaker Plants in the Past w/Rosemary Wessel of No Fracked Gas in Mass
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Today’s show features Rosemary Wessel, Program Director of No Fracked Gas in Mass, a program of the Berkshire Environmental Action Team (BEAT) discussing their Put Peaker Plants in the Past project.
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Wendell State Forest Alliance Lawsuit to Protect the Forests
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Today's show features Gia Neswald and Glen Ayers of the Wendell State Forest Alliance. Their group brought a lawsuit against the Mass. Dept of Conservation and Recreation (DCR) and Secretary Kathleen Theoharides of the Exec. Office of Energy and Environmental Affairs, to halt the logging of forestlands in Wendell State Forest.
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Episode 18: Northeast Wilderness Trust, with Sophi Veltrop
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Today's episode features Sophi Veltrop, Outreach Coordinator for the Northeast Wilderness Trust based in Vermont. We talk about preserving wilderness lands for wild species and the 37,000+ acres they have preserved.
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Episode 17: “The Issue with Tissue” w/Jennifer Skene of NRDC
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This week's episode features Jennifer Skene, international law fellow with NRDC and lead author of "The Issue with Tissue" Report that details the destruction of the boreal forest by clear-cutting by U.S. corporations and the Canadian government to supply virgin tree pulp to produce household tissue products such as toilet paper and paper towels.
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Episode 16: BEAT and Food & Water Watch vs. FERC
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Today's interview is 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)
info_outlineWelcome 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 everyone to tease out the significance of the ordinary moments that, day by day, compose a life. Jennifer Browdy
Jennifer’s books include “What I Forgot….and Why I Remembered: A Journey to Environmental Awareness and Activism Through Purposeful Memoir”published in 2017, which was a Finalist in Autobiography/Memoir in the 2018 International Book Awards. Jennifer also wrote the companion book for writers of purposeful memoir, which was a winner of a 2017 Nautilus Silver Award for creative process. Prior to that, she was co-editor with Jana Laiz and Sahra Bateson Brubeck of "Writing Fire: An Anthology Celebrating the Power of Women’s Words." All three of these books were published by Green Fire Press, an independent publishing company that Jennifer runs with her business partner, Jana Laiz. Earlier in her career, Jennifer edited two powerful compilations of women writing resistance.
Her current project - called “Worldwrights” - a term Jennifer coined - will distill “lessons in life and leadership” from 15 inspiring writer-activists who have used writing to right the world, and who have also written memoirs. I can’t wait for that book to come out, because Jennifer has chosen a number of outstanding leaders from social and environmental justice movements for this project, including former President Barack Obama, Jane Goodall, Eve Ensler, Audre Lorde, Wangari Maathai, Rigoberta Menchu, Malidoma Some, Sandra Steingraber, Terry Tempest Williams, John Perkins, and more.
I talked with Jennifer earlier this month while she was still on her summer writing retreat. I appreciate her taking the time to talk with me when that kind of time away from the day-to-day grind is so precious.
You can start exploring Jennifer’s writing and find her workshops and more at her website (see below). She’s offering online workshops and coaching for those of you not located near western Massachusetts.
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RESOURCES
Jennifer Browdy’s website: www.jenniferbrowdy.com
Jennifer’s Blogs Transition Timesand Writing Life.
To connect directly with Jennifer Browdy, email
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