Wednesday, May 1st, 2013
We share a 2012 recording made with Tara Muenz and Allison Hughes, then State Coordinators of Georgia Adopt-A-Stream. They talk about the Adopt-A-Stream project, water quality issues, and their experiences participating in Georgia River Network’s 2012 Paddle Georgia as they travelled down the Altamaha River.
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Monday, August 13th, 2012
John S. Quarterman, long time Internet denizen, wrote one of the seminal books about networking prior to the commercialization of the Internet. He co-founded the first Internet consulting firm in Texas (TIC) in 1986, and co-founded one of the first ISPs in Austin (Zilker Internet Park, since sold to Jump Point). He was a founder of TISPA, the Texas ISP Association. Quarterman was born and raised in Lowndes County, where he married his wife Gretchen. They live on the same land where he grew up, and participate in local community and government.
Quarterman took some time during Georgia River Network’s Weekend for Rivers to speak with the Nonprofit Snapshot about spam-mapping and small town politics.
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Monday, August 6th, 2012
Our apologies for the sound quality on this very different kind of recording. We hope to visit with Lisa again to properly do this song justice. “Mountain Treasure” by Lisa McAdams was presented at the 2012 Weekend for Rivers hosted by Georgia River Network, and we wanted to be sure to share this River Tale with you. Lisa writes:
“The song I wrote about our beautiful area was appropriately named ‘Mountain Treasure’ by Buzz Williams, the Executive Director of the Chattooga Conservancy. This song is very special to me, and has great meaning. It mentions many of the special attributes of our Chattooga River Watershed area, and specifically refers to several of the rivers and streams. The theme of the song is basically how very lucky we are to live in this gorgeous place, and how blessed we are to see and be a part of this beauty every day. I have sung this song many, many times over the last year, for varied audiences, and it always seems to touch anyone who takes time to really listen.”
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Monday, July 30th, 2012
Dorinda G. Dallmeyer is Director of the Environmental Ethics Certificate Program at the University of Georgia. A native of Macon, Georgia, she holds three degrees from UGA: B.S. and M.S. degrees in geology, and a J.D. Ms. Dallmeyer is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations and past vice-president of the American Society of International Law. At UGA, she teaches courses in environmental dispute resolution and marine environmental ethics.
A devoted naturalist serving on the Georgia River Network Board of Directors, Dorinda describes how the Ocmulgee River figured in her childhood in the 1950s and 60s. Far from home during the Great Flood of 1994, she could only watch as the Ocmulgee’s usually still waters rose to a torrent threatening to destroy those childhood scenes. Her essay “When the River Betrays You” reflects on the tangible and the intangible, and the power of memory.
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Tuesday, July 24th, 2012
The Nonprofit Snapshot and Georgia River Network have a brief talk with Jack Harich about his publication: Common Property Rights: A Process Driven Approach to Solving the Complete Sustainability Problem.
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Wednesday, July 18th, 2012
Ben Emanuel of American Rivers talks with us about his childhood and what it means to preserve one’s connections with the land and our environment. This recording was made as part of a joint effort with Georgia River Network.
This is a city boy’s story, but it is nonetheless a story of discovering one’s home landscape and the geography of one’s home watershed. This kind of learning might be a simple proposition in many places in the world and in Georgia, but it can be profoundly important – in fact, revelatory – in a place where urban development has, over time, almost completely obscured the native landscape.
Ben joined American Rivers in 2011 working to engage communities to secure sustainable water supplies through water efficiency and other low-impact water supply solutions. His work focuses on Georgia’s upper Flint River basin, where he works to restore and protect healthy river flows in the Flint River through sustainable water use practices.
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Thursday, July 12th, 2012
NPS and Georgia River Network talks with Gordon Rogers as he recalls a River Tale full of adventure and inspiration. Gordon is the Riverkeeper for the Flint Riverkeeper organization.
The story begins: When I was 13, my grandfather bought a canoe and informed me that we’d be canoeing 67 miles of the Ochlockonee River together. We prepared ourselves, but, I was not prepared for what happened next . . . learning how a man faces adversity, and how a man gives of himself when there is not much to give. A small thing for my grandfather, I’m sure. A big lesson for a boy working on becoming a man. I’ve paddled, fished, and hunted many rivers since then, literally and figuratively, always learning, but have never learned as much as on that first trek.
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Monday, July 9th, 2012
John S. Quarterman was born and raised in Lowndes County, where he married his wife Gretchen. They live on the same land where he grew up, and participate in local community and government.
NPS talks with Quarterman and his observations on starting and strengthening a Withlachoochee Riverkeeper organization at Georgia River Network’s 2012 Weekend for Rivers.
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Thursday, May 24th, 2012
NPS and Georgia River Network’s Bonny Putney as she talks about her love of Georgia’s rivers and her conservations efforts in Georgia, including the wisdom and ease of using Rain Barrels, and her work with the Upper Chattahoochee River Keeper.
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Monday, January 25th, 2010
Sit down with NPS and Georgia River Network’s Victor Johnson as he reads River Tires and delivers a cautionary tale about river crossings.
There are right ways and wrong ways to remove a tire embedded in a riverbed. . . . There’s an art to it, even when only a few inches are exposed. Using simple equipment (gloves and sturdy shoes), one or two people can disinter even the deepest buried tire by using a rocking “gold panning” technique.
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