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"I see Trees Standing in Deep Water" From The Department of Poetic Justice (and Poetic Reckoning)

From: Susan J. Cook
Series: The River Is Wide

Caption: "Breathing: American Sonnets", Credit: Susan Cook

The town of Brunswick, Maine is set to remove 2/3 of the trees on Maine Street because it is too expensive to work around them as they install new ...

Bought by KICI Iowa City

Season 1, Episode 7 - 'Green Amendment' feat Maya K van Rossum

From: Radio 2050
Series: Radio 2050 - Season 1

We all deserve clean air and clean water.

Bought by WDSE, KTRT RADIO INC, and WOJB

Look For The Helpers - Part 1

From: This Is Science With Jess Phoenix
Series: This Is Science with Jess Phoenix

In the first part of this special Clean Transportation mini-series Jess talks with Adam Browning of Forum Mobility about the future of heavy-duty e...

Sonnet for Looking for China

From: Susan J. Cook
Series: The River Is Wide

Caption: Forget-me-knots in bloom..., Credit: Susan Cook

From the Spring 2023 Maine Arts Journal. A poem on the intricacies of grieving.

Love Really Counts: Greta Thunberg's Plea for Climate Change Action

From: Susan J. Cook
Series: The River Is Wide

Caption: Maybe sometime in the night when the wind blows..., Credit: Susan Cook

Greta Thunberg, in her UN Climate Change speech called on threatened loss of the loved, in her view, the environment to bring action on climate c...

In the Department of Poetic Justice: You Don't Know This But Your Civil Rights Are Violated

From: Susan J. Cook
Series: The River Is Wide

From The Great American Wrongbook and In Today's Department of Poetic Justice, a poetic tribute to the question: what's wrong with violating the ci...

Killing The Red Pines in Charlotte: The Private Time Line of Environmental Contamination

From: Susan J. Cook
Series: The River Is Wide

Caption: Red Pines on the cemetary edge in a Ted Cruz-kind-of-Christian town, Credit: Susan Cook/ Google Earth

I’ve been asking for about 9 years now why Red Pines that have thrived for hundreds of years would die. Not that I knew 9 years ago they would die....

The Two and 1/2 Minute Conspiracy Theory: The Best Conspiracies Are Those In Which Co-conspirators Didn't Sign Up, Weren't Asked, Don't Know They're Part of It

From: Susan J. Cook
Series: The River Is Wide

The highest production of greenhouse gases in the US comes from the West Jefferson, Alabama Miller Electric Plant. The parent company- The Southern...

Credibility in African-American Blues Musician: Who's Believed, Who is Not

From: Susan J. Cook
Series: The River Is Wide

Caption: I'd have Sonny Boy Williamson testify and sing 'Bye Bye Bird', Credit: youtube.com/watch?v=YSdwhnsV4Go

Maine's Legislature will vote on Open-Pit Mining soon but whose testimony about environmental contamination will be believed and who will speak th...

Sonnet for the US Ducks Independently Verified to Have been Neither Forcefed for Foie-Gras Production Nor Plucked of Their Feathers and Down During Their Lifetime

From: Susan J. Cook
Series: The River Is Wide

A United States outdoor clothing store sells coats, labelled to assure us that the down is from US Ducks Independently Verified to Have been Neith...

Sea Change

From: Duke University
Series: Glad You Asked

Rising sea levels are just one way climate change is reshaping the world's oceans, says Duke University oceanographer Susan Lozier.

Reshaping the Coast

From: Duke University
Series: Glad You Asked

With our piecemeal coastal policies, "We're haphazardly geo-engineering a whole coast," says Duke University economist Martin Smith.

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio

In the Department of Poetic Justice (The song and dance genre): All I Want Is My Debt Deferred

From: Susan J. Cook
Series: The River Is Wide

Caption: Contaminating Maine for Corporate Favors, Credit: Susan Cook

Well, in my state the Maine Center for Public Interest Reporting published a lengthy article about a veteran lawmaker who is strongly supporting a ...