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The Green- January 10, 2020

Listen to this edition of The Green or individual segments below:

Odyssey Charter School’s charter renewal was approved last month – as long as it fulfills all requirements of its probation. 

But questions about the school’s finances linger – even after an audit required as part of its probation was completed.  Contributor Larry Nagengast explains why and discusses other developing charter school news.

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Delaware Public Media's Tom Byrne and contributor Larry Nagengast discuss the latest developments in Odyssey Charter School's charter renewal and other charter school developments in Delaware.

A University of Delaware professor has developed a new technology that can pull carbon dioxide out of the atmosphere and store the greenhouse gas to be used later as fuel.

Delaware Public Media’s Nick Ciolino recently spoke with that professor about the invention and its potential large scale application

 

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Delaware Public Media's Nick Ciolino interviews Univ. of Delaware professor Bingjun Xu about his carbon capture technology.

Renovations to The Hotel Du Pont’s iconic Green Room in Wilmington will start a bit later than planned.

 

The hotel’s owner, The Buccini/PollinGroup, intended to close the restaurant January 1 to begin work in the space.

 

It’s pushed the closing date back to January 17.

 

Delaware Public Media’s Kelli Steele recently spoke with Buccini/Pollin co-founder and president Dave Pollin and its new chef Tyler Akin for a project update.

 

 

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Delaware Public Media's Kelli Steele interviews Buccini/Pollin co-founder and president Dave Pollin and chef Tyler Akin about changes coming to the Hotel Du Pont's Green Room.

In this week’s Enlighten Me, we head to WMPH and Mount Pleasant High School in the Brandywine School District – one of the two schools we partner with on our Generation Voice Youth Media project

Students there - and at our other partner WMHS at McKean High School in the Red Clay School District - produce a bevy of interviews and projects on a variety of topics throughout the school year.

This week, we bring you a few examples of student work from the fall.

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Enlighten Me features stories from Mount Pleasant students Jade Reyes and Liam Youtz produced at WMPH with support from Delaware Public Media's Generation Voice youth media program.

 

 

 

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