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There’s more than meets the eye in Southern Delaware. In addition to beautiful beaches and bayside getaways, it’s actually home to a plethora of rich natural resources.But the threat of climate change, sea level rise, and development is putting those resources in communities like Milford and Slaughter Beach at risk if they don’t work to protect and sustain them. A new report details how ecotourism and nature-based investments can help, and make the area more resilient to coastal hazards.Delaware Public Media’s Joe Irizarry is joined this week by Delaware Sea Grant Coastal Hazards Specialist Danielle Swallow to talk about it.

Debates about police oversight in Delaware have simmered for years, occasionally lifted to the surface by a police shooting or headline case of police misconduct.The Delaware Department of Justice’s interpretation of a 60-year-old U.S. Supreme Court decision plays a significant role in that debate – an interpretation that tightly limits how much defense attorneys can know about what goes on inside Delaware police departments.This week, Delaware Public Media’s Paul Kiefer reports on how the Brady decision is applied in the First State.

The Delaware Art Museum is partnering with Wilmington City Councilman Nathan Field on a new mural project called “Nature’s Palette.”The nature-inspired project showcases intricate and vibrant paintings and drawings from the museum’s Pre-Raphaelite collection, including quotes penned by Victorian-era writers.In this week’s edition of Arts Playlist, Delaware Public Media’s Karl Lengel sat down with Margaret Winslow – Chief Curator and Curator of Contemporary Art for the Delaware Art Museum – to learn more about “Nature’s Palette.”

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This week, The Green brings you a portion of the latest episode of the Delaware Humanities’ podcast 2023/1973 In Conversation. The podcast celebrates Delaware Humanities’ 50th anniversary by focusing on the conversations it’s engaged in with Delawareans for more than 50 years and continues to encourage today.In this episode, ChristianaCare family medicine physician Dr. Marshala Lee and University of Pennsylvania medical student Jasmine Brown – author of “Twice as Hard: The Stories of Black Women Who Fought To Become Physicians, From the Civil War to the 21st Century” – discuss the barriers women of color in medicine face and the impact of disparities in medical care.

In 2003, Laura Carney’s 54-year-old father Mickey was killed in an auto accident. In 2016, Carney, a Delaware native, found a list written by Mickey titled “Things I Would Like to Do in My Lifetime!”Mickey had completed only a handful of the 60 items on the ‘bucket list’, so Laura decided to finish it for him. From skydiving and surfing in the ocean to meeting the president and corresponding with the pope, Laura spent six years completing the list. Now she’s detailing her adventures in her new book "My Father's List: How Living My Dad's Dreams Set Me Free."For this edition of Enlighten Me, Delaware Public Media’s Kyle McKinnon met Carney at her book reading at Barnes & Noble in Wilmington to discuss her story.

Last week, the EPA finalized its Renewable Fuel Standard rule and this latest version of the rule could mean a significant increase in costs for smaller independent refineries, like PBF Energy’s Delaware City Refinery.To comply with the rule, refiners must either blend biofuels into their products or purchase Renewable Identification Numbers to make up for their limited capacity to blend. But as the EPA’s blending requirements rise, so does the number of credits refineries need and that drives up the price of credits.This week, contributor Jon Hurdle reports on the EPA’s final Renewable Fuel Standard rule and its impact on the Delaware City Refinery.

The Delaware Division of the Arts is set to showcase the work of 17 artists who were awarded fellowships out of a group of more than 100 people.Titled “Award Winners XXIII,” the exhibit uniquely features a wide variety of art, including folk art, literature, visual arts, and music.In this week’s edition of Arts Playlist, Delaware Public Media’s Karl Lengel caught up with a few of the exhibit’s artists – B. Proud, TAHIRA, and Lauren E. Peters – to learn more about their work.

There’s a plethora of research out there today that shows a strong correlation between the quality of a person’s childhood and how they fare both mentally and physically as an adult.But the nature of how these childhood experiences affect us when we’re older is nuanced.That’s according to licensed marriage and family therapist Vienna Pharaon, who says it isn’t just those who experienced trauma as kids who might carry what she calls “origin wounds” into adulthood. Pharaon actually says that all of us have some version of these wounds that shape our understanding of ourselves and our worldview.For this edition of Enlighten Me, Delaware Public Media’s Kyle McKinnon sat down with Pharaon to talk about origin wounds and she explores them in her debut book “The Origins of You: How Breaking Family Patterns Can Liberate the Way We Live and Love.”

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