Nature Wins Podcast: A Climate Adaptation Journey

In this episode of Nature Wins , host Maureen Aylward is joined by guests Collin Buckner and Kyle McWilliam-Lopez to discuss TownGreen’s Neighborhood Resiliency Project. This episode provides listeners with an overview of the Neighborhood Resiliency Project. The City of Gloucester’s Office of Emergency Management and the American Red Cross are partners with TownGreen. Discussion will touch on a gr...

Nature Wins Podcast Episode 8: Cape Ann MARCH Host Maureen Aylward is in conversation with Greg Federspiel, Cape Ann MARCH Director, and Brendhan Zubricki, Town of Essex Town Administrator, to discuss the launch and details of the new municipal working group. Description: In this episode of Nature Wins , host Maureen Aylward is joined by guests Greg Federspiel, Cape Ann MARCH Director, and Brendha...

In this episode of Nature Wins , host Maureen Aylward discusses coastal relocation with Emma Gildesgame from The Nature Conservancy, and Leigh Meunier and Lexi Lafferty from CREW (Communities Responding to Extreme Weather). Across the New England coast and the Eastern Seaboard, coastal relocation and retreat are difficult but necessary topics for communities to tackle. This episode provides listen...

Host Maureen Aylward is in conversation with Ann Molloy from Neptune’s Harvest about the spring planting season and Bart DiFiore, a core crew member of Gloucester Land and Sea Together.  In this episode of Nature Wins , host Maureen Aylward speaks to Ann Molloy from Neptune’s Harvest about the spring planting season and discusses how Neptune’s Harvest fish fertilizer builds organic matter to retai...

This is Cape Ann’s climate story. Nature Wins is exploring the climate adaptation journey of this storied coastal region of Massachusetts. Gloucester, Rockport, Essex, and Manchester-by-the-Sea are communities of people who know their way around a storm. Yet, the region and its people face serious climate change impacts – and the mitigation, adaptation, and acceptance work that needs to happen is...

In this episode of Nature Wins, host Maureen Aylward speaks to Cape Ann-based waste professionals to learn more about Cape Ann’s waste story. Listeners will hear from Sharon Byrne Kishida, solid waste and recycling expert, who advocates for better waste policies across Cape Ann. Conor Miller and Andrew Brousseau talk about their inspiring composting business – Black Earth Compost. Segment 1: Host...

Nature Wins: Nature Wins: JoeAnn Hart JoeAnn Hart is the author of  Highwire Act & Other Tales of Survival , a collection of short fiction from Black Lawrence press released in September 2023. Her most recent book is  Stamford ’76: A True Story of Murder, Corruption, Race, and Feminism in the 1970s  (University of Iowa Press, April, 2019), a crime memoir that weaves together the personal and p...

In this episode of Nature Wins, host Maureen Aylward speaks to NOAA Biologist Eric Hutchins (https://www.fisheries.noaa.gov/feature-story/meet-eric-hutchins-habitat-restoration-biologist). In segment 1, Eric will outline the $5.38 million National Grid settlement with the US Department of Justice in July 2023. The former Gloucester Gas Light Company damaged the marine environment with chemicals fr...

In this episode of Nature Wins, host Maureen Aylward speaks to Dick Prouty, TownGreen Board Chair, and Candace Wheeler a member of Gloucester’s Clean Energy Commission, about #decarbonization and mitigation actions in Gloucester and why these actions are important. In Segment 2, Maureen interviews Gemma Wilkens, City of Gloucester Sustainability Coordinator, about her role, progress on the City’s...