{"type":"rich","version":"1.0","provider_name":"Transistor","provider_url":"https://transistor.fm","author_name":"AmeriCorps Connections","title":"Earth Month Connect with Alumni Noah Smock | NCCC","html":"","width":"100%","height":180,"duration":2873,"description":"1.2  Million AmeriCorps Alumni STRONG!  We are a voice for national and community service.  We have all served in one way or another - let's engage, learn and connect with each other!  Let's Serve Life After AmeriCorps! \nWe are celebrating April as Earth Month! Highlighting AmeriCorps Alumni who served in environmental programs and are in some way still working in the field.\nIt is my hope that through these stories of service and current work that you will be inspired to take a moment to look around and embrace the beautiful planet we inhabit.  If you are so inclined by inspired action, you decide to raise up a cause that is important to you when it comes to the important issues that are currently playing out.....I encourage you to do what feels right in your story.\nToday we talk with Noah Smock | https://www.linkedin.com/in/noah-smock/\nNCCC - National Civilian Community Corps - https://americorps.gov/serve/americorps/americorps-nccc\nNoah served with NCCC year five, in San Diego!\nNoah's career was a backwards fall into service starting in Baltimore 2008\nBig ideas and takeaways from our conversation:\nService was not molded for me. \n'Work ethic' vs 'interesting work'\nComplexity of service. \nToolbank is a radical sharing resource! https://www.baltimoretoolbank.org/\nAlumni Network for work, political voice \n\nWhat should we do more of!?\nHow can I do the thing I am trying to do, with the least amount of resources necessary?\nWhen showering, soak, turn water off, lather, then turn water back on and rinse!😂\nIf you are going to throw your plastic bottle on the ground, put the top on it so it doesn't sink to the bottom of our waterways!  OR, just -don’t litter! 😀\nConnect:\nAmeriCorps Alumni Group LI  - https://www.linkedin.com/groups/105198/\nMaryland State Service Commission - https://gosv.maryland.gov/\nLiving Classrooms -  https://livingclassrooms.org/\nBiohabitats - https://www.biohabitats.com/\nToolbank USA https://toolbank.org/\n\nShout out! \nHosting and podcast consultation...","thumbnail_url":"https://img.transistorcdn.com/c4sc2-uOGbHbwtPQX335ur5oQHYsLQ6rDBkAM2hvRNU/rs:fill:0:0:1/w:400/h:400/q:60/mb:500000/aHR0cHM6Ly9pbWct/dXBsb2FkLXByb2R1/Y3Rpb24udHJhbnNp/c3Rvci5mbS9zaG93/LzQwMjg4LzE2OTIz/OTQ2NzctYXJ0d29y/ay5qcGc.webp","thumbnail_width":300,"thumbnail_height":300}