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On Episode 33 of the TID Water & Power Podcast we welcome back author and historian Dr. Alan Paterson to discuss the TID's history and how the District entered the retail electric business.

For 100 years, TID has served safe, reliable, and affordable power to our community – which is still vital to our region’s wellbeing today. But getting to that point was no easy task. It took visionaries, legal battles, and monumental decisions – and votes – to bring what we know as TID to fruition.

On this episode we discuss the District’s struggles in the early 20th Century, the construction of Old Don Pedro, and how TID came to be the electric utility in our region.

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Happy New Year and Happy Epiphany! In Jesus, God manifested God's self in the world! New Years and Epiphany are about new beginnings with God, so what better place to begin again than in the book of Genesis. John Muir can help us: “When we contemplate the whole globe as one great dewdrop, striped and dotted with continents and islands, flying through space with other stars all singing and shining together as one, the whole universe appears as an infinite storm of beauty."

In this episode, Melissa has a conversation with Bishop Wright about beginning again with God, Epiphany, creation, and John Muir. They discuss creation, how God's creation is medicine, and disrupting our routine to grow closer to God. Listen in for the full conversation.

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Jenna and Rachel talk about games we are playing, games we are excited about, and other nerdy things.

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Rolling Heights
Faeries & Magical Creatures

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Trailblazer: John Muir Trail
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This week we venture into the Cascade Mountain range just a stitch south of Seattle and Tacoma, north of Portland to Mount Rainier, or what my kids called Mount Reindeer when they were little. Mount Rainier is Washington State's Shangri La. On a clear day it is the unrivaled star of the Seattle skyline. The mountain has served as a sacred spot for ancient peoples, a playground for mountaineers, and has a history of high strangeness. First Peoples describe Mount Rainier as an angry woman, the center of many centuries' old tales. Let's begin with the essential facts.

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 I. Show Intro
2. Mount Rainier FACTS
3. First Peoples' Legends and Lore
4. Creation of Mount Rainier Nat'l Park
5. Must-See Places
6. Midroll Break
7. The Curious Account of Kenneth Arnold
8. The Rest of the Story
9. Iceworms of Mount Rainier
10. Show Close

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Ringler Settlement Consultant, John Muir, talks with our host, Matt Ross, about settling cases on the defense side. He goes in-depth to unveil the detailed work that a claims adjuster does and the responsibility they shoulder when settling a claim. This episode is a fascinating look behind the curtain to reveal the stresses and the amount of work that is done in order for a claim to settle well.

In this episode Laurel and the angels help you contemplate the experience of navigating stillness and Laurel shares with you her "Flying Nun" method of co-creation. Then Laurel reads to you from John Muir's The Mountains of California, this time from the chapters about glaciers, snow and the unusual phenomenon of "snow banners."

The story begins at  21:00

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When you walk out in nature are you awestruck?  

Diana Hummel has a great awe and reverence for nature that we can all learn from! 

Her love a nature began in childhood and has only gotten stronger through the years.

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In this episode the angels bring forward beautiful waves of energy to help clear and balance your energy field and help you come into a deep state of restfulness. Then Laurel shares with you her memories of meeting the mountains of Los Angeles for the first time, her love of Muir Woods and also reads to you from John Muir's The Mountains of California. Lots of beautiful meandering conversation about mountains, trees and so much more.

The story begins at  20:17

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In episode 1335, Jack and Miles are joined by large carnivore ecologist, conservationist and host of Going Wild with Dr. Rae Wynn-Grant, Dr. Rae Wynn-Grant and super producer Trisha Mukherjee to discuss… why Jurassic Park is the greatest movie of all time… recycling isn’t as dope as you think it is… why the outdoors can feel unwelcoming for people of color… the colonial and racist history of John Muir and America’s national parks and much more!

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Award winning author of several books, including The Only Kayak and Jimmy Bluefeather, Kim Heacox is also an opinion piece writer for The Guardian US.  He’s published some 18 pieces—10 in the last year with The Guardian. 

Kim:  “My Guardian pieces are framed within my credo of activist writing, that it’s not only my right but my responsibility to challenge power & the prevailing order, to speak out as best I can, using story, humor and a few numbers, maybe even a little parody.  Taped onto the upper right-hand corner of my laptop is a small piece of paper with this quote from Carl Sagan:”

•  “Anything else you’re interested in is not going to happen if you can’t breathe the air and drink the water. Don’t sit this one out. Do something. You are by accident of fate alive at an absolutely critical moment in the history of the planet.” 

In this podcast, Kim reads two of his Guardian pieces:

• “Birds are remarkable and beautiful animals—and they’re disappearing from our world”.   In the past half century, North America has lost a fourth of its birds. Earth is now a coalmine, and every wild bird is a canary.”
• “What we can learn from Rachel Carson as we fight for our planet.  With her brave book Silent Spring, Carson changed the course of US environmental history. We would do well to study her example.

Host Dan Kowalski offers further context to Kim’s environmental writing by reading an excerpt from Kim’s book, John Muir and the Ice That Started a Fire

In his prologue, Kim writes:  “The only thing that counts is that which can be counted” said Galileo 300 years before Muir.  Together with René Descartes, Isaac Newton, and others, Galileo gave us our modern scientific revolution, our Age of Reason, the triumph of the rational mind. And while he and his brilliant contemporaries carried us forward, they also crushed things  in our path, They separated us from nature, rather than making us participants in nature. They made us clever and powerful, but not wise.

Muir was a revolutionary of another kind;  he said, there's much more to good science—and right livelihood—than connecting data and dissecting frogs. There's a deeper meaning than conventional analytical reason. Experiment is not enough. Good science also requires experience, a deep knowing and sense of wonder that comes from being out there. barefoot in the meadow, alone on the ice, naked in the storm. “When we try to pick out anything by itself,” Muir would write, “we find it hitched to everything else in the universe.”

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Episode 49: Today I sit down with California landscape photographer and climber, Claude Fiddler, to chat about:

• How an early experience on the John Muir Trail laid the foundation for his passion for the mountains and mountaineering
• How to think about risk assessment and learning how to safely dig deep mentally and physically
• The photographers and writers who influenced how he approaches photography
• What makes a photograph a picture rather than just a photo
• The key element that makes a composition compelling and impactful
• The creative benefits of using a large or medium format camera
• Behind the scenes of what it was like to create his new book, Inside the High Sierra, and the legacy of photographers and climbers of this region he hopes to share through it

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Website: http://www.claudefiddler.com/

Claude’s book: Inside the High Sierra

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The Yosemite by John Muir. Illustrated Edition. John Muir (1838–1914) was a Scottish-born American naturalist, author, and early advocate of preservation of wilderness in the United States. John Muir was the first modern preservationist and founder of the Sierra Club. He helped save the Yosemite Valley and wilderness areas in the Sierra Nevada Mountains. Muir wrote essays and books whose relevance makes them still popular. Muir felt that the livestock in the Yosemite area was destroying the land and helped petition congress to make the area a national park. In Muir's writings the reader glimpses the pristine beauty of the high country. In his later life, Muir devoted most of his time to the preservation of the Western forests. He petitioned the U.S. Congress for the National Park bill that was passed in 1890, establishing Yosemite and Sequoia National Parks. The spiritual quality and enthusiasm toward nature inspired readers, including presidents and congressmen, to take action to help preserve large nature areas.

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The 19th Century saw many transformations: the origins of ecology and modern climatology, new unifying theories of the living world, the first Big Science projects, revolutions in the Spanish colonies, new information systems for the storage and representation of data… Many of these can be traced back to the influence of one singular explorer, Alexander von Humboldt. Humboldt was one of the last true polymathic individuals in whom the sum of human knowledge could be seated. As the known world grew, he leaned increasingly upon the work and minds of his collaborators — a kind of human bridge between the age of solitary pioneers before him and the age of international, interdisciplinary research he helped usher into being.

Reflecting on his life, we natives of the new millennium, living through another phase transition in the information architecture of society, have much to learn about the challenges of weaving everything together into one holistic understanding. After all, when everything’s connected, our individuality is cast in doubt, truth is often hard to separate from politics and ethics — and maverick explorers find themselves caught in between incumbent power and the burden of responsibility to act on what they learn...

Welcome to COMPLEXITY, the official podcast of the Santa Fe Institute. I’m your host, Michael Garfield, and every other week we’ll bring you with us for far-ranging conversations with our worldwide network of rigorous researchers developing new frameworks to explain the deepest mysteries of the universe.

This week we conclude a special two-part conversation with SFI Miller Scholar Andrea Wulf, author of six books — including the New York Times Bestseller The Invention of Nature: Alexander von Humboldt’s New World. In this episode we build on our explorations in Part One and talk about the conflicts between truth and power, politics and science; the surprising unintended consequences of discovery; Humboldt’s influence on   illustrator Ernst Haeckel’s development of the idea that nature is an art form; the role of embodiment in innovation, discovery, and creativity; and the effects of nature and the built environment on human thought.

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Spring Patterns and Surviving a Glacial Tsunami. 

• Dan & Joe reflect on seasonal patterns
• Preparations for an upcoming season in Alaska
• John Muir's quest to experience a living glacier
• A  story of  near-death from a calving tsunami at the Dawes Glacier
• Coming close to the Big Black Wings
• Deep appreciation and motivations for sharing stories

Janice Kelley is an author and the founder of an afterschool program called Nature Detectives. This week we revisit my conversation with Janice because she recently launched a podcast series based on her book, Mornings on Fair Oaks Bridge. Today's episode begins with our discussion about her new podcast, followed by an in-depth conversation about her book and afterschool program. Our in-depth interview first aired on March 7, 2019.

What's the story behind the book Mornings on Fair Oaks Bridge?

How did Janice create and grow Nature Detectives?

Where does she want to take the program?

Let's find out.

LINKS

Nature Legacies (Janice’s website)

Mornings on Fair Oaks Bridge podcast

Nature Detectives

Mornings on Fair Oaks Bridge: Watching Wildlife at the Lower American River

Through the Eyes of John Muir: Practices in Environmental Stewardship

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John Muir Laws is a scientist, educator, and author whose books and workshops help people forge personal connections with nature. A trained wildlife biologist, John has inspired nature journalers across the globe.

What generous act launched John's freelance career?

What's the key reason why people don't keep a nature journal?

What is John's next book about?

Let's find out.

LINKS

John Muir Laws’ website

The Nature Journal Club Public Group | Facebook

Join John’s mailing list

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Co-hosts Rev. Cory Bradford-Watts and Colin Amato talk with Dr. Devin Zuber, a professor at the Center for Swedenborgian Studies, about how combining science and spirituality has helped and can continue to help us conserve and preserve our earthly environment.
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In this episode of the Transcendiots webcast we talk with Swedenborgian professor Dr. Devin Zuber about Swedenborg's influence on Transcendentalism and Romanticism as seen in the work of famous philosophers, conservationists, and artists like Ralph Waldo Emerson, John Muir, George Inness, Johnny Appleseed, and more. Watch and listen as Dr. Zuber describes experiencing the Divine in nature and the role it's played in environmental and ecological work throughout history.

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