Here’s the recording of last week’s radio show. The Rev Dr. L Ronald Durham has been a great advocate of environmental issues, devoting many hours to environmentally themed shows.
Big caveat: I get really stressed out about modern-day radio, because it involves additionally being on video. I am from the old days where all you had to worry about was how you sounded. I am not fishing for compliments about my appearance or how I am on video; I am voicing a real reality that probably a lot of fellow activists struggle with as well.
All of that said, I am still very very happy to be invited onto Dr. Durham’s show!! As a bonus, it’s his independent show. So I feel more “free to be myself” than back in 2019, when he invited me as guest for a monthly series of eco shows when he was the host of the City of Daytona Beach radio show. (I think we did about 11 or 12 shows.)
I keep saying I’m going to dig those links up, and hopefully I will. I’ve managed to dig up maybe four of the old links and compile them into a post on this blog so people can listen to the old recordings if they like.
After the show I was chatting with a fellow activist / artist. Both of us agree that we are not eager to be on display — we would love it if only our work itself could be on display –but we are doing our job and it’s part of the territory.
Further exploration:
“Liner Notes” from the show – people; organizations:
Thank you to these three local/regional environmental leaders who accepted my invitation to call in to the show today:
Dr J. Cho, Bethune-Cookman University Environmental Sciences Department
Check out her YouTube channel “Halifax river urban watershed”
Shyriaka Morris, @Peace Arts Youth Garden New Smyrna Beach
Suzanne Scheiber, DREAM GREEN VOLUSIA
Also check out the following organizations for information & upcoming events:
UF IFAS Extension Volusia County (for garden planting charts & other growing info; educational events)
Florida Native Plant Society
(Our local chapter is Pawpaw Chapter FNPS)
Florida Wildflower Foundation
Daytona Beach Permaculture Guild (admin jenny nazak — we are mainly an online info hub but we have occasional meetups by zoom and in person)
Ormond-Flagler Permaculture Group (admin Merideth hosts regular monthly meetups — outstanding resource; you’ll love her spectacular seaside garden of natives & edibles)
Heard of plans for community garden at historic Howard Thurman house; not sure of status
Stories depicting displacement, gentrification, destruction of community, cultural erasure:
MOUNTAINS film, by Monica Sorelle
https://monicasorelle.com/mountains (“While looking for a new home for his family, a Haitian demolition worker is faced with the realities of redevelopment as he is tasked with dismantling his rapidly gentrifying Miami neighborhood.”)
Also, meant to mention but forgot, a play titled A Chance for Redemption – “produced by Sheila Kay Davis, written by Lynn Thompson and directed by Tai Thompson – all with direct ties to the Daytona Beach community” (Daytona Times)
https://www.daytonatimes.com/community/a-chance-of-redemption-draws-large-crowd/article_c1786f2a-4e07-11ee-9507-03683f1fae1f.html
And a huge thank you always to radio host the Rev. Dr. L Ronald Durham for being such a steady champion of ecological awareness and practice!