Consider the Oyster: why economics still has so much to learn from the natural world From Charles Dickens to the Dasgupta report, the story of the oyster holds gritty hope for conservation. Before it was the global centre of finance or home to the Statue of Liberty, New York was the oyster capital of the world. Blue Point oysters, Manhattan oysters, Rockaways, Cape Cods and oysters from Flushing Bay – all these varieties and more once flourished in the Hudson’s brackish waters. In the 19th century, around a million of them were eaten every day in the city, and millions more were exported in newly ice-packed ships. Discarded shells intermingled on vast middens of calcified waste; burnt, they provided lime for plaster and paint.
Public Radio News Directors Incorporated (PRNDI) Awards Dealing With Post Traumatic Stress Disorder, The Point with Mindy Todd. Category: Best News/Public Affairs Program, 1st Place. A New Life in Ice, reported by Schuyler Swenson for the series Creative Life, produced by Atlantic Public Media. Category: Best Use of Sound, 1st Place. Who s Who in New England Fisheries, video explainer by Steve Junker, Jennifer Junker, and Alecia Orsini. Category: Best Multi-Media Presentation, 2nd Place.
2012
Recognizing the best of local public radio news - national award
Category: Enterprise/Investigative, 1st place