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Podcast: Other Voices
Episode: Edna Litten — speaking out about plastic grass
Description: “We’ve only got one planet,” says Edna Litten. “We’ve got to take care of it.”Litten, who grew up in Queens and lives now in Altamont, remembers going to a teach-in for the first Earth Day in 1970. Since then, over the last half-century, she has hung her laundry out to dry; she’s never owned a clothes dryer. Litten is part of a local group focusing on the dangers of synthetic turf. As The Enterprise has reported at length over the last several months, part of the Guilderland school district’s proposed $21.8 million capital project i...