Episode 42 starts with eclipse highlights and legislative seminar before discussing headlines (audio)

FM #1176 = This is the Franklin Matters radio show, number 1176 in the series. 

This session of the radio show shares my conversation with Ted McIntyre, Franklin resident and climate activist. We met to record in the Franklin TV & Public Radio studio on Tuesday, April 16, 2024.  

We continued making sense of climate on an almost extemporaneous discussion similar to what we recently had. Starting with highlights from Ted’s experience of the eclipse, and with my highlights from the Citizen Legislative Seminar where I spent 2 days in State House.

• NY Attorney General sues meat producer https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/feb/29/new-york-jbs-climate-lawsuit

• Meat a contributor https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2024/apr/04/us-banks-sabotaging-own-net-zero-plans-by-livestock-financing-report-claims 

• 80/20 rule strikes again https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2024/apr/04/just-57-companies-linked-to-80-of-greenhouse-gas-emissions-since-2016 

• How to spot five of the fossil fuel industry’s biggest disinformation tactics https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/apr/14/climate-disinformation-explainer?CMP=share_btn_url 

This discussion continues our journey understanding the MA roadmap toward net zero and while it helps me “make sense of climate”, we hope it helps with your understanding as well. 

If you have climate questions or Franklin specific climate questions, send them in and we’ll try to answer them in a future session.  

The conversation runs about 43 minutes. Let’s listen to my conversation with Ted.

Audio link ->   https://franklin-ma-matters.captivate.fm/episode/fm-1176-making-sense-of-climate-42-04-16-24

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** See the page that collects all the “Making Sense of Climate” episodes -> https://www.franklinmatters.org/2022/02/making-sense-of-climate-collection.html 

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We are now producing this in collaboration with Franklin.TV and Franklin Public Radio (wfpr.fm) or 102.9 on the Franklin area radio dial.  

This podcast is my public service effort for Franklin but we can't do it alone. We can always use your help.

How can you help?

• If you can use the information that you find here, please tell your friends and neighbors

• If you don't like something here, please let me know

Through this feedback loop we can continue to make improvements. I thank you for listening.

For additional information, please visit www.franklin.news/ or  www.Franklinmatters.org/ 

If you have questions or comments you can reach me directly at shersteve @ gmail dot com

The music for the intro and exit was provided by Michael Clark and the group "East of Shirley". The piece is titled "Ernesto, manana"  c. Michael Clark & Tintype Tunes, 2008 and used with their permission.

I hope you enjoy!

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Episode 42 starts with eclipse highlights and legislative seminar before discussing headlines (audio)

Franklin.TV: Eclipse, It Happened!

by Pete Fasciano, Executive Director 04/14/2024

Major networks covered the eclipse – live – from several locations across the U.S. TV stations along the path of totality had their own local news teams weighing in. Good coverage. Lots of fanfare and cheers. Then – on to the next news cycle.

Franklin.TV was also covering the eclipse – at the precise centerline of totality, four miles North of St. Albans, Vermont. Precise? Within a hundred feet or so, in the Champlain Country Club’s parking lot. This is where the more seasoned and serious eclipse trackers headed. For some, this was their third. Others, their fifth. We interviewed several as they set up computerized tracking systems. We learned much about eclipses, the science, and the humanity as well.

“Lots of folks headed to the park in downtown St. A’s . That’s gonna be a mosh pit. This is exactly where you want to be.” (Good advice.)

The experience of totality is quite literally other worldly.

While Sun and moon may be small against the sky, the vast scope of it completely envelopes you because the entire sky

A 360-degree wraparound ecliptic ‘sunset’

above becomes as dark as a new moon night. (Only a new moon can eclipse the Sun.) Then, the unexpected. We were on somewhat higher open ground at a golf course. While we were centered in the deep cone of totality, the far horizon all around us was still lit, and we experienced a glorious, 360-degree wraparound ‘sunset’ effect.

Our new friends – the eclipse chasers went silent, some had tears of joy. We were all totally together in the moment. They’re also providing some additional images. Our eclipse special will be completed later this year. What might we reveal? For now, we’ll just have to keep you in the dark.

Thanks for listening to 102.9 wfpr●fm. 

And – as always – thanks for watching.

Get this week's program guide for Franklin.TV and Franklin Public Radio (wfpr.fm) online  http://franklin.tv/programguide.pdf   

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Bringing the stars Indoors - Thursday, March 21 at 6:30 PM

Explore the stars in comfort without the light pollution and travel! This presentation will explore Stellarium; an open source project showing a realistic sky in 3 dimensions. 

We’ll be distributing glasses for the solar eclipse at this event!

Shared from -> https://www.franklinma.gov/franklin-public-library/bulletins/bringing-stars-indoors 

Stellarium - open source sky viewing software https://stellarium.org/

Be safe with the proper Eclipse viewers -> https://eclipse.aas.org/eye-safety/viewers-filters 

Bringing the stars Indoors - Thursday, March 21 at 6:30 PM

Jalapeño enhances flavors and starts our Making Sense of Climate episode this time (audio)

FM #1159 = This is the Franklin Matters radio show, number 1159 in the series. 

This session of the radio show shares my conversation with Ted McIntyre, Franklin resident and climate activist. We met to record in the Franklin TV & Public Radio studio on Tuesday, March 12, 2024.  

We continued making sense of climate on an almost extemporaneous discussion similar to what we recently had. The topic list:

• Pickled jalapeño, blueberry, strawberry, raisins, & flax seed added to steel cut oats

• State of the Union, Inflation Reduction Act

• Conservation land, rewilding to restore carbon balance

• Gulf Stream, and implications of climate change

• Boston Globe article on smart electrical panels

• Stranded asset, reuse with geothermal possible

• Total eclipse, April 8

This discussion continues our journey understanding the MA roadmap toward net zero and while it helps me “make sense of climate”, we hope it helps with your understanding as well. 

If you have climate questions or Franklin specific climate questions, send them in and we’ll try to answer them in a future session.  

The conversation runs about 47 minutes. Let’s listen to my conversation with Ted.

Audio link -> https://franklin-ma-matters.captivate.fm/episode/fm-1159-making-sense-of-climate-40-03-12-24

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Boston Globe article on monitoring devices for electricity in the home

https://www.bostonglobe.com/2024/03/07/nation/want-to-electrify-your-home-it-might-need-this-upgrade-first/ 

“Ministry of the Future” - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Ministry_for_the_Future 

** See the page that collects all the “Making Sense of Climate” episodes -> https://www.franklinmatters.org/2022/02/making-sense-of-climate-collection.html 

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We are now producing this in collaboration with Franklin.TV and Franklin Public Radio (wfpr.fm) or 102.9 on the Franklin area radio dial.  

This podcast is my public service effort for Franklin but we can't do it alone. We can always use your help.

How can you help?

• If you can use the information that you find here, please tell your friends and neighbors

• If you don't like something here, please let me know

Through this feedback loop we can continue to make improvements. I thank you for listening.

For additional information, please visit www.franklin.news/ or  www.Franklinmatters.org/ 

If you have questions or comments you can reach me directly at shersteve @ gmail dot com

The music for the intro and exit was provided by Michael Clark and the group "East of Shirley". The piece is titled "Ernesto, manana"  c. Michael Clark & Tintype Tunes, 2008 and used with their permission.

I hope you enjoy!

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You can also subscribe and listen to Franklin Matters audio on iTunes or your favorite podcast app; search in "podcasts" for "Franklin Matters"

Jalapeño enhances flavors and starts our Making Sense of Climate episode this time (audio)

Listen in as Mitzi & I talk about the March happenings at the Franklin Library (audio)

FM #1152 = This is the Franklin Matters radio show, number 1152 in the series. 

This session shares my conversation with Mitzi Gousie, Programming and Outreach Librarian with the Franklin Public Library. We had our discussion at the Franklin TV Studios on Wednesday, February 28, 2024.

 

We talk about 

• Reviewed the regular open hours, and month ending holiday times

• Library events for March 2024

• Kiddos, or “littles”

• Family

• Adults

The show notes include links to the Library page and to the calendar of events where registration for some of the events is required/recommended..

The recording runs about 32 minutes, so let’s listen in. Audio link -> https://franklin-ma-matters.captivate.fm/episode/fm-1152-franklin-public-library-march-2024-highlights-02-28-24

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Mitzi Gousie’s email -> mgousie@minlib.net 

Event highlights we covered in this conversation

https://www.franklinma.gov/franklin-public-library/news/march-2024-franklin-library-news-events 

Franklin Public Library page ->  https://www.franklinma.gov/franklin-public-library 

Library Calendar of Events ->  http://www.eventkeeper.com/mars/xpages/F/FRANKLIN/ekp.cfm 

Stellarium - open source sky viewing software https://stellarium.org/

Eclipse viewers -> https://eclipse.aas.org/eye-safety/viewers-filters 

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We are now producing this in collaboration with Franklin.TV and Franklin Public Radio (wfpr.fm) or 102.9 on the Franklin area radio dial. 

This podcast is my public service effort for Franklin but we can't do it alone. We can always use your help.

How can you help?

• If you can use the information that you find here, please tell your friends and neighbors

• If you don't like something here, please let me know

Through this feedback loop we can continue to make improvements. I thank you for listening.

For additional information, please visit Franklinmatters.org/  or www.franklin.news 

If you have questions or comments you can reach me directly at shersteve @ gmail dot com

The music for the intro and exit was provided by Michael Clark and the group "East of Shirley". The piece is titled "Ernesto, manana"  c. Michael Clark & Tintype Tunes, 2008 and used with their permission.

I hope you enjoy!

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You can also subscribe and listen to Franklin Matters audio on iTunes or your favorite podcast app; search in "podcasts" for "Franklin Matters"

Listen in as Mitzi & I talk about the March happenings at the Franklin Library (audio)

Join Today: Eclipse Soundscapes Project (video)

The Eclipse Soundscapes Project is a NASA Citizen Science project funded by NASA Science Activation that is studying how eclipses affect life on Earth during the April 8, 2024 total solar eclipse. Eclipse Soundscapes will revisit an eclipse study from almost 100 years ago that showed that animals and insects are affected by solar eclipses! Like this study from 100 years ago, Eclipse Soundscapes has asked for the public's help. Eclipse Soundscapes will use modern technology to continue to study how solar eclipses affect life on Earth! (Say "Eclipse Soundscapes" five times fast!)

So, how can you help Eclipse Soundscapes? Eclipse Soundscapes will be collecting your multi-sensory observations and recorded sound data (through an audiomoth - free with application!) from the April 8, 2024 total solar eclipse. The observations and sound data collected will help Eclipse Soundscapes understand the impact of the 2024 solar eclipses on various U.S. ecosystems.

How you can participate in the Eclipse Soundscapes Project:

Eclipse Soundscapes

There are many different ways you can participate in the Eclipse Soundscapes Project and support its scientific mission. You can choose just one role or several of the roles linked below. 

Eclipse Soundscapes recommends that ALL participants complete the Apprentice role first, which is free and online. After that, you can choose to engage in any of the other roles. All are very important to the success of the Eclipse Soundscapes Project!

To learn more about Eclipse Soundscapes Project and how you can participate visit here: https://eclipsesoundscapes.org/roles/

Need a spot to observe or want to organize a group to complete Project? Reach out to Breeka Li Goodlander with the Conservation Department and be sure to check out any of our Conservation Areas or Lands throughout Town. You'll be sure to see or hear something. 

Best Fishes and Worm Regards,

Your Friendly Neighborhood Scientist

Eclipse Soundscapes is an enterprise of ARISA Lab, LLC and is supported by NASA award No. 80NSSC21M0008.

Shared from -> https://www.franklinma.gov/conservation/news/join-today-eclipse-soundscapes-project

NASA Sun & Space announce new interactive tool: The Eclipse Explorer

"Hot news! 

NASA has unveiled an exciting new tool: the Eclipse Explorer. It's an interactive map that has layers of features to explore the upcoming annular solar eclipse.

Try it out and toggle your way into the solar eclipse!

Investigate here: https://t.co/VHGqlveUhu"

Shared from -> https://t.co/Is9R5v3HVg

NASA Sun & Space announce new interactive tool: The Eclipse Explorer

NASA Sun & Space: "ring of fire" eclipse - Oct 14

NASA Sun & Space (@NASASun) posted on Mon, Aug 14, 2023:

"We are exactly 2 months away from the "ring of fire" solar eclipse on Oct. 14!

Whether you are traveling hours away to see the eclipse or watching it from your front porch—the most important thing to prepare for is safety.

Here's what you need to know: https://t.co/Nynk7imGMe"

Shared from -> https://t.co/PTmlTsxVr1

NASA Sun & Space: "ring of fire" eclipse - Oct 14