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GREEN HOME SHOW #30: From healthy Homes to healthy Schools: Part 3 Interview Questions for Children’s Book Author and Illustrator Lynne Cherry
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Overall Segment #3 – 12:00
Guest Segment – 12:00 Sponsored by: Energy Services Group
1. Introduction: Lynne Cherry:
Education
1998: M.A History from Yale University
1982-1985: Courses In International Relations at Princeton University during artist-in-residency
1973: BFA from Tyler School of Art, Phila, Pa.
Teaching Certificate from Temple University, Phila. Pa.
Fellowships
2000: Science Writing Fellowship from Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute
1997: Science Writing Fellowship from Marine Biological Institute, Woods Hole, Ma. Included a week long course at MBL and 2 weeks at the Toolik Research site on the North Slope of Alaska
Artist-In-Residencies
--Not paid positions but a way of working in an educational environment and helping institutions to bring their research/science to children and the general public through children’s books.
2005-2006: Artist-in-Residency at Cornell Lab of Ornithology at Cornell University
2001-2003: Artist-in-Residency at Princeton Environmental Institute, Princeton University
1998-2000: Artist-in-Residence at Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History Botany Dept.
Jan.-Feb. 1999: Artist-in-Residence at Geosciences Dept., U. Mass., Amherst
1996-1997: Artist-in-Residence at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute and at the Ecosystems Center. Marine Biological Laboratory, Woods Hole, Mass.
1994-1996: Artist-in-Residence at Patuxent Wildlife Research Center, Laurel, Md.
Career As A Children’s Book Author/Illustrator
Books internationally published: in Belgium, Brazil, China, Denmark, France, Germany, Great Britain, Holland, Japan, Sweden as well as U.S. Spanish-language editions.
Through her books and newsletter, Nature’s Course (www.cee-ane.org/), Lynne Cherry is encouraging teachers to involve their students in “Participatory Democracy”–inspired by the stories in children’s books. The books reach the children on an emotional level and the teacher uses them as a take-off point for environmental education and community action.
Professional Honors Received
In the interest of saving time I'll just let the audience know that you have a lot of professional honors for your writings and your work. So let's start with a couple of questions that would be very interesting for our audience and especially to the young people out there…
- What was it, that you experienced, when you were a child that inspired you to the life that you have carved out for yourself?
- You've written and illustrated, beautifully on my ad, many books about the environment, ecosystems, and empowering young people to take action. Where do you find your inspiration and have you come up with the ideas for each book.
- How long does it take to do a book....research, illustrate, and write?
- the right for any particular age group?
- You also work with teachers so that they can work with children on these topics. Outliner tell us what it is you're trying to achieve when you work with teachers, and speak to the teachers that are listening and give us some of your ideas on:
- Participatory Democracy
- environmental education
- community action
For example, a student wrote to Lynne Cherry that after his teacher read his class A River Ran Wild he told her that orange foam had appeared on the creek where he played. The teacher took the class to investigate, following the creek upstream until they came to the factory pipe discharging the orange foam. The teacher used this as a lesson about local government and participation: they involved the EPA and the local community and were successful in stopping the flow of orange foam.
Lynne Cherry learned of the Episcopal Church’s plan to develop 600 acres of old-growth forest that had been entrusted to it by Seton Belt. She encouraged children to write to the bishop of the church in Washington, DC and the children’s letters were greatly responsible for the preservation of Belt Woods. - can you talk about a couple of your books.....I like the one about the Groundhog and what it teaches...can you talk about that....
- What is next for you as an author/illustrator?
- Can you do you tell us about some of the projects even working on as you travel around the world?
- Everyone has to answer this question comes on the show. Give us three or four things that you do around your house in order to conserve energy and reduce your carbon or pollution footprint?
- Tell us some of the more important and hopeful projects that you have seen or heard about lately?
- Have I missed anything? Is there something you'd like to talk about that we have been covered so far?
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Overall Segment #4 – 9:00
Guest Segment (continued) – 6:00 Sponsored by: Option Insurance Group
Green News (if necessary)
October 26, 2007 research on a dire problem carbon capture and I quote “without carbon capture and sequestration we are all toast”
Wow! I'm not even sure what sequestration is but let's see if we can understand it better. Chang Lin a scientist with the China sustainable energy program and the Berkeley Lab issued that gloomy proclamation a few weeks ago and it's a fitting description of the current world situation when it comes to global warming. To make it worse, Lin added that the world is not responding to the challenge. Well, at least not yet.
We have invested in deep research or spend much money in testing out the scenarios he said there are a lot of uncertainties
Still it's not over yet and the University of Texas this week announced it has received a $38 million grant to study the feasibility of injecting carbon dioxide into Brine filled underground wells over a 10 year period.
Sequestration is the storage of the carbon dioxide that we're going to be capturing so that it doesn't go back into the atmosphere and create global warming. So if we produce carbon dioxide we have to have a place to put it so worried an opponent where it will get into the atmosphere. Looks like a bit of using old empty wells to inject the carbon dioxide and to liquids that will hold and keep it from escaping into the atmosphere.
The Texas project is part of the Southeast regional carbon sequestration partnership funded by the national energy technology laboratory of the Department of Energy their goal is to study carbon dioxide injection and storage capacity at the Tuscaloosa Woodbine geological that stretches from Texas to Florida region has the potential to store more than 200 Billion tons of this guest which the department says is equal to about 33 years of emissions beginning in the fall of 2008 SECARB scientists will start to inject 1,000,000 tons of carbon dioxide a year into a Brian reservoir near Natchez Mississippi the brine is up to 10,000 feet below the surface in some ways the US is in Saudi Arabia of gaping holes more in the future.
B. So How did we get so Isolated.... The Car? I think yes... and some other things, I think the individualism deepened with the advent of the TV and also with more of an emphasis on personal mobility, individual travel options, and the individual accumulation of things for personal amusement. And I'm not saying that any of this is bad, I'm not judging it at all, what I am saying is that I think the direction that the popular culture has taken us whether intentioned or not is in one of isolation in part from the people who live closest to us. And it cost us in dollars and cents plus more
And this consequent cost of this individuation has been higher than any of us could have calculated. I know we can argue this but I think that in a lot of cases this may be true. So without extended families around us we've lost touch with a much larger closer group that we used to hang out with and rely on and work with in order to reduce the cost of living for all.
So in this vein we are encouraging people to get together in their communities and neighborhoods and start organizing around saving energy. The neighborhood website should be finished soon and available as a template to do so.
We will be talking about other ways to organize, have fun deepen your relationships with your neighbors have potluck supper's and reduce your personal energy consumption and costs by getting together with your neighbors. Just like they used to do in the good old days.
And don’t forget… recycle, conserve, and share…
And use technology!
Global News / New Tech. Report – 2:00
Hopeful and Up stuff from around the planet and right here in our backyard
- USO of Dover book out www.USO Dover and look for the program that supports the troops it's a donation program where you can send money and have different items that are needed by people in Iraq were serving such as toiletries T-shirts underwear socks everything up to them together enough money a bulletproof vest so of check out the program in its www.USO and go to the Dover section and a portion our profits will go to the troops....not for profit.... Jon Stewart
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