Wendy Dwyer holds on to hope as she fights for a better world

Wendy Dwyer is a lifelong activist who is going to take her commitment to recycling and fighting pollutants all the way to the grave. Literally.She has signed up for a green burial.“I’m going to go in… a totally biodegradable wool blanket and plant flowers on me. No chemicals. No embalming fluid …. That’s what we’re supposed to do,” says Dwyer, a registered nurse, in this week’s Enterprise podcast.Dwyer was raised in Guilderland Center by a mother, a nursing professor, who “was a big follower of Rachel Carson and ‘Silent Spring,’” she said, referencing the 1962 book that documented the harm caused by pesticides and sparked the modern environmental movement.Read the full story at https://altamontenterprise.com/10272022/wendy-dwyer-holds-hope-she-fights-against-all-odds-better-world Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.