Podcast appearances and mentions of Donald B Smith

Cold Spring also certified by state program Five years after its Legislature voted to join the state's Climate Smart Community program, Putnam County finally achieved certification, the state Department of Environmental Conservation announced on June 27. Cold Spring joined Putnam County in achieving "bronze" certification for the first time under the state program, which gives participating communities priority for millions in grants if they implement programs to reduce their emissions of greenhouse gases, which are driving climate change. Communities join the program by ratifying a pledge to reduce greenhouse gases and creating a task force, and can then become certified by accumulating enough points for their environmental initiatives, such as installing solar systems and LED lighting at their facilities. Of the 422 municipalities that have taken the pledge, just 140 have earned enough points to be certified bronze, including Philipstown. Beacon is one of only 14 that have completed enough projects to earn the highest certification, silver. Dutchess County, which received bronze certification in 2019, had its status renewed in June for another five years. Cold Spring has earned Climate Smart points for projects that included completing an inventory of the greenhouse gases emitted by its activities, incorporating sustainability and "smart-growth" principles into its updated zoning code, installing LED street lights and launching a yard-waste pickup program. Village trustees also joined Hudson Valley Community Power, a community-choice-aggregation program in which 10 municipalities (including Philipstown) buy electricity at a fixed rate for their residents and businesses. Putnam County also completed a greenhouse-gas inventory and has conducted energy audits of its buildings, upgraded more than 430,000 square feet of building lighting and installed solar panels on five buildings that generate a combined 371 kilowatts of electricity. A new $100,000 grant will allow the county to install a carport with solar panels and three to four EV charging stations at its Donald B. Smith building in Carmel. Some of the steps leading to certification were completed years ago but not recognized by the state under previous County Executive MaryEllen Odell, who appointed her Capital Projects Committee as the county's Climate Smart task force. In December, County Executive Kevin Byrne issued a memorandum rescinding that appointment, writing that "there is no evidence that the previous administration filled the needed paperwork with the state to demonstrate its creation or that it fulfilled its state-mandated commitments." Bryne appointed members of a new task force and named Illona Campo, a planning assistant in the Department of Planning, Development and Public Transportation, as the county's Climate Smart coordinator. An initial meeting took place on Dec. 15. Nancy Montgomery, who represents Philipstown and part of Putnam Valley on the Legislature, for years pressed Odell's administration on the inactivity of the county's Climate Smart program. She said on Wednesday (July 3) that she is "thrilled" by the designation "after an unnecessary and costly six-year delay caused by the former county executive and the Republican-led Legislature." "Putnam County can finally access the financial and technical resources provided by the Department of Environmental Conservation," she said. Those financial resources include significant amounts of funding to climate-smart municipalities. Cold Spring adopted the pledge in December and in January appointed Trustee Laura Bozzi as Climate Smart coordinator. Bozzi said in January that participation in the Climate Smart Community program "makes Cold Spring more competitive for state environmental grants, including support in addressing the significant flooding we've been experiencing and to repair our high-hazard dams." Grants totaling $35,000 have been awarded to the village for initiatives such as installing LE...

Patrice Dutil discusses the slow evolution of Canadian awareness to Indigenous realities with Donald B. Smith, professor emeritus at the University of Calgary, and the author of evolution of Seen but Not Seen: Influential Canadians and the First Nations from the 1840s to Today, published by The University of Toronto Press. The conversation touches on key members of the cultural and governmental elite, including John A. Macdonald, Duncan Campbell Scott, Emily Carr and Jacques Rousseau. This podcast was produced by Jessica Schmidt.

A listener contacted us via email after episode #98: Indigenous Rights Matters with some feedback & some pushback. We decided to invite the listener to join us for a discussion regarding his email. Our conversation covers the following: Property Rights vs interpretation of legally signed documents Mutually beneficial exchange Christianity as a status Indigenous self-government & sovereignty Is the pursuit of property sinful? https://www.sixcentsreport.com/ Song from our intro: Sho Baraka - Pedantic Previous episode: 6CR #98 References: From Where I Stand by Jody Wilson-Raybould Sacred Feathers: The Reverend Peter Jones (Kahkewaquonaby) and the Mississauga Indians by Donald B. Smith The Day is Now Far Spent by Cardinal Robert Sarah, Nicolas Diat Joseph's Contact info: YouTube Channel Give us your two cents via: Facebook Twitter sixcentsreport@gmail.com

In the 1930s the world's best-known conservationist was an ex-trapper named Grey Owl who wrote and lectured ardently for the preservation of the Canadian wilderness. At his death, though, it was discovered that he wasn't who he'd claimed to be. In this week's episode of the Futility Closet podcast we'll tell the story of his curious history and complicated legacy. We'll also learn how your father can be your uncle and puzzle over a duplicate record. Intro: Dutch engineer Theo Jansen builds sculptures that walk. Helen Fouché Gaines' 1956 cryptanalysis textbook ends with a cipher that "nobody has ever been able to decrypt." Sources for our feature on Grey Owl: Donald B. Smith, From the Land of Shadows: The Making of Grey Owl, 2000. Albert Braz, Apostate Englishman: Grey Owl the Writer and the Myths, 2015. Jane Billinghurst, Grey Owl: The Many Faces of Archie Belaney, 1999. Allison Mitcham, Grey Owl's Favorite Wilderness Revisited, 1991. Lovat Dickson, Wilderness Man: The Strange Story of Grey Owl, 1973. Anahareo, Devil in Deerskins: My Life With Grey Owl, 1972. James Polk, Wilderness Writers, 1972. Brian Bethune, "Truth and Consequences," Maclean's 112:40 (Oct. 4, 1999), 58. Kenneth Brower, "Grey Owl," Atlantic 265:1 (January 1990), 74-84. Trent Frayne, "Grey Owl the Magnificent Fraud," Maclean's 64 (Aug. 1, 1951), 14-16, 37-39. Dane Lanken, "The Vision of Grey Owl," Canadian Geographic 119:2 (March/April 1999), 74-80. Fenn Stewart, "Grey Owl in the White Settler Wilderness: 'Imaginary Indians' in Canadian Culture and Law," Law, Culture and the Humanities 14:1 (Oct. 8, 2014), 161-181. Kevin Young, "Cowboys & Aliens," Kenyon Review 39:6 (November/December 2017), 10-32. David Chapin, "Gender and Indian Masquerade in the Life of Grey Owl," American Indian Quarterly 24:1 (Winter 2000), 91-109. John Hayman, "Grey Owl's Wild Goose Chase," History Today 44:1 (January 1994), 42. Mark Collin Reid, "Grey Owl," Canada's History 95:5 (October/November 2015), 14-15. Donald B. Smith, "Belaney, Archibald Stansfeld [called Grey Owl]," Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Sept. 23, 2004. Donald B. Smith, "Belaney, Archibald Stansfeld, Known as Grey Owl and Wa-sha-quon-asin," in Dictionary of Canadian Biography, Vol. 16, University of Toronto/Université Laval, 2003 (accessed Jan. 5, 2020). Donald B. Smith, "Archibald Belaney, Grey Owl," The Canadian Encyclopedia, June 17, 2008 (accessed Jan. 5, 2020). Susan Griffith, "Grey Owl: Champion of the Canadian Wilderness," Independent, Nov. 12, 2015. Jane Onyanga-Omara, "Grey Owl: Canada's Great Conservationist and Imposter," BBC News, Sept. 19, 2013. James H. Marsh, "Grey Owl's Great Deception," CanWest News, Sept. 17, 2003, 1. Tony Lofaro, "Why I Kept Grey Owl's Secret," Ottawa Citizen, Sept. 21, 1999, D3. Peter Unwin, "The Fabulations of Grey Owl," The Beaver 79:2 (April 1999), 13-19. Henrietta Smyth, "Grey Owl Returns to England," North Bay [Ont.] Nugget, April 3, 1999, B1. "Grey Owl," New York Times, April 17, 1938. "Service Honors Grey Owl," New York Times, April 16, 1938. "Grey Owl, Worker for Conservation," New York Times, April 14, 1938. "Doctor and Nurse to Beavers in Canada Is Indian Grey Owl," New York Times, June 24, 1934. "Do You Know?", Roanoke Rapids [N.C.] Herald, Nov. 24, 1932, 2. Listener mail: Roger Schlueter, "Getting a Bone Marrow Transplant Could Give You New DNA, Too," Belleville [Ill.] News-Democrat, Jan. 16, 2018. "She's Her Own Twin," ABC News, Aug. 15, 2006. Wikipedia, "Lydia Fairchild" (accessed Jan. 8, 2020). Wikipedia, "Chimera (Genetics)" (accessed Jan. 9, 2020). Jessica Richardson, "Man Fails Paternity Test Due to Passing on Unborn Twin's DNA," BioNews, Nov. 2, 2015. Alice Park, "How a Man's Unborn Twin Fathered His Child," Time, Oct. 28, 2015. Heather Murphy, "When a DNA Test Says You're a Younger Man, Who Lives 5,000 Miles Away," New York Times, Dec. 7, 2019. Heather Murphy, "The Case of a Man With Two Sets of DNA Raises More Questions," New York Times, Dec. 12, 2019. Carl Zimmer, "In the Marmoset Family, Things Really Do Appear to Be All Relative," New York Times, March 27, 2007. This week's lateral thinking puzzle was contributed by listener Paul Kapp. You can listen using the player above, download this episode directly, or subscribe on Google Podcasts, on Apple Podcasts, or via the RSS feed at https://futilitycloset.libsyn.com/rss. Please consider becoming a patron of Futility Closet -- you can choose the amount you want to pledge, and we've set up some rewards to help thank you for your support. You can also make a one-time donation on the Support Us page of the Futility Closet website. Many thanks to Doug Ross for the music in this episode. If you have any questions or comments you can reach us at podcast@futilitycloset.com. Thanks for listening!