"Holding hands with Avengrid, What's That They Put In Your Palm?"

(To the tune from George Gershwin's 1937 tune "Nice Work If You Can Get It..."

In the Dept. Of Poetic Justice (and Reckoning) with lyrics for The Great American Wrongbook.

Holding hands with Avengrid, what's that they put in your palm?

Nice work if you can get it. If you can get it, why not try?"

The SEC reports fill in exactly how much their Board is paid.

Were they thinking we'd forget it? Two hundred thousand for work for seven days?

Just imagine CMP waiting at Avengrid's Board Room door, where they'll make sure they get it, the largest paycheck, hey, maybe more.

In one year Avengrid pays their executives more,

than legislators will be earning until two thousand twenty four.

Vote like those who pay you. Hey, do you think they will bail? Ha!

Say "Hasta Luego" to Avengrid, Iberdrola!

Quebec, Massachusetts, CMP want Maine's forests stripped

so they can drive gas guzzlers offload their greed and guilt.

While all of us lie nights awake, wondering if CMP can again

screw up consumer billing under David Flanagan?

Mainers like to pay up, make sure their employees get paid!

But not six figure paychecks for Board Directors for 7 days pay!

Who among you thinks the Board and Management will kiss off

Multimillion dollar paychecks no matter who picks up the cost?

So bringing CMP under the State of Maine's fiscal roof,

Won't they want those paychecks intact? Before they say "Yes", where's the proof!

Holding hands with Avengrid, what's that they put in your palm?

Nice work if you can get it! If you can get it, why not try?

The H.L. Hunley was a civil war submarine whose recovery raised more questions than answers.  On this episode, Rachel Lance discussed her investigation of this subject in her new book, In the Waves.

CurrentCast is a daily, 60-second radio feature that educates the public about water issues, promotes an appreciation for aquatic environments, and encourages an educated discussion about this critical resource. This 4-week round includes the following pieces:

Air Date - Title

Mon., Mar. 2 - Watermarks: Artists are raising water awareness through physical markers.

Tue., Mar. 3 - Climate change in the Great Lakes: Communities in the region are already experiencing many climate change impacts.

Wed., Mar. 4 - Microbes on meds: When traces of human medication end up in the water, microbes at the bottom of the food web are affected.

Thu., Mar. 5 - Getting the drift: When plastic ends up in the Great Lakes, it’s carried away on currents.

Fri., Mar. 6 - Putting down roots: Grass carp, a variety of Asian Carp, have been appearing in the Great Lakes for decades. 

Mon., Mar. 9 - WaterSense Hotel Challenge: Applying best practices can help hotels save water.

Tue., Mar. 10 - The Watershed Approach: Water in the middle of the country enters the watershed and eventually makes its way to the ocean.

Wed., Mar. 11 - Precision Agriculture: Hi-tech instruments go down on the farm.

Thu., Mar. 12 - Gravity and Groundwater: Satellites that measure changes in gravity can alert us to potential floods.

Fri., Mar. 13 - How Deep Are the Great Lakes: How far is it to the bottom of the Great Lakes? 

Mon., Mar. 16 How the Great Lakes Formed: Get the full history of the Great Lakes.  

Tue., Mar. 17 - Clean Water Act: This one law has played an important role in cleaning up America’s rivers, lakes and coasts.

Wed., Mar. 18 - Invasive Round Gobies: These intruders are trying to take over the Great Lakes. 

Thu., Mar. 19 - Wetland Wonderlands: Wetlands provide a number of benefits for humans, plants, and wildlife.  

Fri., Mar. 20 - Mud Puppies: These toothy salamanders can be found at the bottom of lakes and rivers.

Mon., Mar. 23 - Marine debris: Students participate in clean-ups to keep trash from local neighborhoods out of the waters in Erie, Pennsylvania. 

Tue., Mar. 24 - Turtle Creek: When abandoned mines fill up with water, acid mine drainage pollutes nearby waterways. 

Wed., Mar. 25 - Getting to the Root of the Matter: Trees and shrubs help filter pollution before it gets into waterways.

Thu., Mar. 26 - Stream Girls: This Girl Scout program inspires girls to explore and protect streams.

Fri., Mar. 27 - An Eerie Amount of Fish: About half of all the fish in the Great Lakes are in Lake Erie.   

April 2020  Pulse of the Planet  CUE SHEET

01      Eco-Clues                       Couple things    06-Apr-20

02      Nail Knowledge                Cutting the         07-Apr-20

03      A Deadly Legacy              Mercury was        08-Apr-20

04      Antlers                           They're the        09-Apr-20

05      Easter AM in Germany      Easter                10-Apr-20

06      Rara                               We're listening   13-Apr-20

07      Surprise!                         When something    14-Apr-20

08      Surveys - Argh!                This radio          15-Apr-20

09      Blueprinting                     Human beings   16-Apr-20

10      Urban Soil                      Transforming          17-Apr-20

11      A Cooler City               A street         20-Apr-20

12      Trees Not in Brooklyn       Maples, oaks          21-Apr-20

13      Trees of the Future       Of course               22-Apr-20

14      Any Tool You Imagine      Picture                   23-Apr-20

15      When Algae Blooms       There are               24-Apr-20

16      HighTech Meets Cholera   After an             27-Apr-20

17      Electric Bacteria               These bacteria          28-Apr-20

18      Silent Flyers                    An owl's             29-Apr-20

19      Secrets of Sediments        Catalina        30-Apr-20

20      HABs                              Under certain          01-May-20

Scientists discover that giraffes inherit their spots.

Debut novelist Luke Geddes’s Heart of Junk takes us to the Heart of American Antique Mall in Wichita, Kansas. Vacant booths and dwindling shoppers foreshadow a bleak fate for this mall. But an upcoming visit from the famed television show Pickin’ Fortunes stars Mark and Grant could turn everything around.

Meanwhile, the dealers are too preoccupied by their eBay bidding wars, Barbie collections, and the new rule-breakers in booth #1-146 to notice the citywide panic over the abduction of toddler pageant princess Lindy BoboLuke Geddes, who has a PhD in comparative literature and creative writing, is a professor in Cincinnati, Ohio. He’s also a collector and argues that “junk” can have great value—connecting us not only to our personal pasts but to our shared human history.

Follow Geddes on twitter: @neurosescatalog.

Drew Lanham tells his friend John Lane about his lifelong passion for birds and nature.

WFHB's environmental watchdog brings you news and events in the listening area and throughout the world.

Wet markets are known for selling dead and living animals—and are ripe for infection that can jump to humans.

How coronavirus spreads may depend not only on social distancing but also on our indoor environments.

"Blue energy" has increased tenfold in the last decade and is set to go higher.

There’s an ancient underwater forest off the coast of Alabama that could hold a treasure trove of new medicines.

Social distancing will slow the spread of the coronavirus if lobsters are any guide.