Each week, host Dr. Lisa Belisle sits down with the people who shape the state: entrepreneurs and educators, physicians and artists, community builders and keepers of place. She brings a clinician's ear and two decades in radio and writing to every conversation.
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I think being in the mix of six siblings almost my entire life has definitely allowed me to be a team player and also a leader where it needs to be. But I think also being told, especially when I was younger, don't be bossy, don't be bossy, don't be bossy, that also really resonated with me.
He was working, as I mentioned, with an eight by 10 camera, or a five by seven camera. So any given day he was walking around town with first of all this very cumbersome thing and a tripod. And also probably only as maybe 10 pieces of film, maybe only five depending on how much money he had. So he had to really pick and choose time of day, location. He couldn't just go take a million pictures and then choose one.
Most trash in the ocean is from land-based sources, from carried by rivers or wind. So if we're able to control the waste stream upstream a little and make less trash in the first place, that's really how we're going to get out of this mess.
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MD · PhD · MPH · MBA
Dr. Lisa Belisle is a board-certified family physician, writer, and the host of Radio Maine. She works at the intersection of medicine and the human spirit, in the clinic, on the air, and on the page.
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