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An Introduction to Conversations (5:58) Michael Stone listen (to download, right click "Save Link As" (IE "Save Target As")
is a radio show hosted by Michael Stone, bringing you leading edge thinkers, authors and activists in the areas of Environmental Restoration, Social Justice, Evolutionary Cosmology and Spiritual fulfillment.

An Introduction to The Emerging Dream (16:35) Michael Stone listen (to download, right click "Save Link As" (IE "Save Target As")
A short introduction to the creation of a new cosmological story field with Brian Swimme, Jean Houston, Emmett Miller and Barbara Marx Hubbard.

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Charles Eisenstein & Will Wilkinson: Time Banks and Alternative Economic Systems
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Charles Eisenstein is a Professor, lecturer and workshop leader. He is also theAuthor of The Ascent of Humanity, the upcoming Sacred Economics, and two influential essays on money: Money and the Crisis of Civilization and Money and The Turning of Age A faculty member of Goddard College, he speaks and writes about civilization, economics, and the evolution of human consciousness. www.ascentofhumanity.com

Will Wilkinson, co-author of Forgiving the Unforgivable, has been a professional ghost writer for ten years. He's also produced and hosted hundreds of television interviews and is currently working on a trilogy of feature science fiction films. His interest in alternative currencies began when he founded and ran a health clinic in Victoria, BC Canada for five years in the 80's, successfully offering services on an entirely donation basis. He cofounded the Southern Oregon Time Bank over a year ago. It now has 150 members with exchanges every day. www.sotb.org

Cynthia Brix and Will Keepin: Healing the wounds that separate men and women
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Will Keepin, Ph.D., President, Executive Director and co-founder of the Satyana Institute. He also started the Power of Reconciliation project (formerly Gender Reconciliation), which has organized intensive gatherings in six countries for healing and reconciliation between women and men. A mathematical physicist with thirty scientific publications on sustainable energy and global warming, he presented testimony to European and Australian parliaments and the US House of Representatives. Will is author of Divine Duality: The Power of Reconciliation Between Women and Men. www.satyana.org

Cynthia Brix, M.Div, MA., Program Director of Satyana Institute. Cynthia is an interfaith minister specializing in international peacemaking, and spiritual direction for young adults. She is co-founder of the Women’s Spiritual Mastery project, and she co-directs the Power of Reconciliation project. A long-time student of Eknath Easwaran's Passage Meditation, Cynthia leads retreats on interfaith spirituality, and she is adjunct faculty at Holy Names University. Cynthia is contributing author of Divine Duality: The Power of Reconciliation between Women and Men, and co-author of Women Healing Women. www.satyana.org

Dianne Collins: Quantum Thinking
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Dianne Collins, is a visionary thinker, writer, creator and producer, passionate about showing people new ways of seeing that can make their life sublime. Her lifelong study of the evolution of human awareness, her love of entertainment and creativity as mediums for conscious awakening, and her ability and natural wit to speak what is in people's hearts, all led her to create the QuantumThink® system of thinking. She is also the author of the book, Do You QuantumThink? New Thinking That Will Rock Your World. diannecollins.com

Peter F. Sale: Our Dying Planet: An Ecologist's View the Crisis We Face
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Peter F. Sale is Assistant Director of Institute for Water, Environment, and Health at United Nations University and is University Professor Emeritus at University of Windsor, Ontario, Canada. He is the author of The Ecology of Fishes on Coral Reefs, Coral Reef Fishes, and Marine Metapopulations. web4.uwindsor.ca/sale

Sandra Ingerman: Holding a vision for the future
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Sandra Ingerman teaches workshops internationally on shamanic journeying, healing, and reversing environmental pollution using spiritual methods. She has trained and founded an international alliance of Medicine for the Earth Teachers and shamanic teachers. Sandra is recognized for bridging ancient cross-cultural healing methods into our modern culture addressing the needs of our times. She is the author of numerous books on Shamanism. www.sandraingerman.com

Clarissa Pinkla Estes: Untie the Women
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Clarissa Pinkola Estés, Ph.D. is an award-winning poet, diplomate senior jungian psychoanalyst, and a cantadora (keeper of the old stories) in the Hispanic tradition. She has been in private practice for twenty-five years and is former executive director of the C. G. Jung Center for Research and Education in the United States. The author of The Gift of Story and an eleven-volume series of bestselling audio works published by Sounds True in Boulder, Colorado, Dr. Estés heads the C. P Estés Guadalupe Foundation, a human rights organization that has as one of its nascent missions the broadcasting of strengthening stories via shortwave radio to trouble spots throughout the world. clarissapinkolaestes.com

Donna Gates: The Body Ecology Diet
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Donna Gates, nutritional consultant, author and lecturer, has helped thousands of people overcome candidiasis and other immune system disorders. Her book, The Body Ecology Diet, resulted from her search to find a cure for her candidiasis. Frustrated with conventional medicine, her study led her to ancient Chinese medicine, macrobiotics, natural hygiene, raw foods and mega-supplement therapy. Incorporating the most beneficial components of each concept into her own system of health and healing, her success inspired her to share it with others. http://bodyecology.com

Cyndi Dale: Energetic Boundaries
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Cyndi Dale is an internationally renowned author, speaker, healer, and business consultant. Her books to-date include bestseller, The Subtle Body: An Encyclopedia of Your Energetic Anatomy, published by Sounds True, which has won four internationally recognized Publisher’s Awards. Her latest book, Energetic Boundaries: How to Stay Protected and Connected in Work, Love, and Life is a definitive guide for maintaining health, integrity and vitality. www.cyndidale.com

Richard Heinberg: Navigating the Coming Chaos Part 1
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Richard Heinberg is one of the world's foremost Peak Oil educators. He is the author of eight books, journalist, editor, lecturer, a Core Faculty member of New College of California where he teaches a program on "Culture, Ecology and Sustainable Community," and a Research Fellow of the Post Carbon Institute. His latest book is End of Growth: Adapting to Our New Economic Reality. www.richardheinberg.com

Mat Stein: Navigating the Coming Chaos Part 2
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Matthew Stein is an MIT-educated engineer, author and building contractor, Matthew Stein has built hurricane-resistant, energy-efficient, and environmentally friendly homes and designed computer disc drives, water filtration devices, solar PV roofing panels, medical bacteriological filters, and automated assembly machinery, among other things. An avid outdoorsman, he currently resides with his wife, Josie, in the High Sierra Mountains near Lake Tahoe, California. His latest book is When Technology Fails: A manual for self-reliance, sustainability, and surviving the long emergency. www.whentechfails.com

Carolyn Baker: Navigating the Coming Chaos Part 3
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Carolyn Baker, Ph.D., was an adjunct professor of history and psychology for 11 years and a psychotherapist in private practice for 17 years. Much of her writing offers emotional and spiritual tools for preparing for living in a post-industrial world. Carolyn's latest book is Navigating The Coming Chaos: A Handbook For Inner Transition. Her other books include Sacred Demise: Walking The Spiritual Path of Industrial Civilization's Collapse, Coming Out From Christian Fundamentalism: Affirming Sensuality, Social Justice, and The Sacred, U.S. History Uncensored: What Your High School Textbook Didn't Tell You and The Journey of Forgiveness.
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Kathy Altman & Lori Saltzman: Finding Wholeness: The 5 Rhythms Moving Meditation and Ecstatic Dance of Gabrielle Roth - A two hour special
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Kathy Altman - While highly trained in many forms of dance, it wasn't until Kathy's catalytic meeting with Gabrielle 30 years ago that her true callingfound her. As Co-Director of The Moving Center School, Kathy was the first person asked to help Gabrielle bring her work out into the world. Over the past 20 years Kathy's teaching has brought thousands of people back to the joy of their own, original movement. movingcenterschool.com/kathy-altman

Lori Saltzman - Since stumbling into a 5Rhythms workshop 25 years ago, Lori's full-time devotion has been helping people to recover the spirited dance they left behind or discover the dancer they never met. Co-Director of The Moving Center School, Lori¹s natural persistence and humor coaxes even the most reluctant people to let themselves move, shed tired old patterns that don¹t work anymore, and glimpse themselves with clear yet compassionate eyes. movingcenterschool.com/lori-saltzman

Alberto Villoldo: Ancient Medicine of the Amazon
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Alberto Villoldo, Ph.D. is trained as a psychologist and medical anthropologist. He began his research in the Amazon, working with medicine which led him to the high mountains of the Andes and the Inka medicine people, where he discovered a group of healers who specialized in treating illness before it manifested in the physical body. In 1984, Dr. Villoldo founded the Four Winds Society to bring the teachings of these master healers to the West. The Four Winds Society is preserving a thousand year old tradition of knowledge to achieve personal and planetary healing. Dr. Villoldo's many books include: Mending the Past, Healing the Future with Soul Retrieval; Shaman, Healer, Sage; and The First Story Ever Told. www.thefourwinds.com

Peter Gleick: The Bottled Water Myth
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Dr. Peter H. Gleick is co-founder and president of the Pacific Institute and one of the world's leading experts on water and climate issues. His research and writing address the critical connections between water and human health, the hydrologic impacts of climate change, sustainable water use, privatization and globalization, and international conflicts over water resources. Dr. Gleick was named a MacArthur Fellow for his work and dubbed a "visionary on the environment" by the BBC. He was elected both an Academician of the International Water Academy, in Oslo, Norway and a member of the U.S. National Academy of Sciences. He serves on the boards of numerous journals and organizations, and is author of many scientific papers and eight books, including the biennial water report, The World's Water, and Bottled and Sold: The Story Behind Our Obsession with Bottled Water. www.pacinst.org

John Travis: Finding Center
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John Travis has been a student of Vipassana since 1969. John has been teaching meditation since the mid 1980's. He leads retreats in Northern California and around the United States and abroad. John is the founding teacher of Mountain Stream Meditation Center in the Sierra Foothills, and is a senior teacher at Spirit Rock Meditation Center, in Woodacre, Marin County, CA. www.johntravis.org

Chris Martenson: Crash Course
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Chris Martenson is an economic researcher and futurist who speaks to audiences around the world on his Crash Course, a positive vision for how our lives can become more balanced, resilient, and sustainable. Chris began his career as a scientist, earning his PhD in Pathology from Duke Universtiy and an MBA from Cornell. He became vice president of a large international fortune 300 company and was living the American Dream. Chris was jolted out of complacency in 2001 and used his background in finance to investigate the working of our monetary system. This led to his Crash Course, which has received more than 2 million hits on the internet. ChrisMartenson.com

Richard Heinberg: The End Of Growth
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Richard Heinberg is one of the world's foremost Peak Oil educators. He is the author of eight books, journalist, editor, lecturer, a Core Faculty member of New College of California where he teaches a program on "Culture, Ecology and Sustainable Community," and a Research Fellow of the Post Carbon Institute. His latest book is The End of Growth: Adapting to Our New Economic Reality. www.richardheinberg.com

Youth on the Move: Part One: Generation Wake Up: How A New Generation Of Young People Is Coming Of Age And Changing Our World www.generationwakingup.org
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Joshua Gorman is a lifelong student of human development and transformational education with a focus on providing young people the experiences, knowledge, and skills they need to thrive in the twenty-first century. He serves on the Board of Directors for the Global Youth Action Network, and in 2008 co-founded Global Passageways, a network of individuals and organizations working in youth development and contemporary rites of passage. He is the Co-Coordinator of Generation Waking Up, and is also working to complete a book titled Generation Waking Up: How A New Generation Of Young People Is Coming Of Age And Changing Our World.

Valerie Love is a young changemaker in the areas of youth empowerment, sustainability, and vibrant local economies. She has managed campaigns at Clean Water Action, worked to build local food systems with Buy Fresh Buy Local, consulted with local governments to increase socially and environmentally responsible purchasing, and facilitated workshops exploring transformational
leadership for social change. Currently, Valerie works with Generation Waking Up on the development of the WakeUp experience, an interactive, multimedia, peer-led educational workshop that moves young people into inspired action.

Piya Banerjee graduated with a B.A. in Finance and International Business from the University of Washington. She has worked a variety of positions post-graduation including Management Consultant, GMAT Instructor, and Public Relations and Development Manager for an education-based non-profit in Hyderabad, India. She is also a lifelong student of human development, yoga, and music and now works as a Core Team member of Generation Waking Up.

Part Two: Waging Nonviolence
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Waging Nonviolence is a source for news, analysis, and original reporting about nonviolent activism, as well as for discussion of the theory behind it. www.wagingnonviolence.org

Bryan Farrell is a New York-based writer and editor for Waging Nonviolence, ablog that covers nonviolent action around the world. His work has also appeared in The Guardian, The Nation, Mother Jones, Slate, Grist and Earth Island Journal.

Eric Stoner is a New York-based freelance journalist and an adjunct professor at St. Peter's College. His articles have appeared in The Guardian, Mother Jones, The Nation, The Huffington Post, Sojourners, In These Times, and the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, among other publications. He edits and writes for Waging Nonviolence, a blog that covers nonviolent actions and campaigns around the world.

Part Three: The Boys to Men Project: with Barry Friedman
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Boys to Men was created to guide adolescent boys on their journey to manhood. Their mission is to help boys become better men.
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Conversations Co-Host, Stephanie Van Hook, Michael Nagler, and you: Lessons learned Ten years after 9/11
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Join Conversations Host Michael Stone as he talks with Professor Michael Nagler, Metta Center Director Stephanie Van Hook and you the listener in this interactive discussion about what we can learn from 9/11 and our global actions of the past 10 years. Would a Non-Violent approach have worked, has the world become safer as a result of our actions, what is the best way forward from here? Join us in the dialogue of remembrance and vision… Is it possible to move towards a non-violent future?

Stephanie N. Van Hook is a recently returned Peace Corps volunteer who served in Benin. Her interests in nonviolence and forgiveness have intersected with activists and academics working for nonviolent social change in the global peace and justice community. She studied conflict resolution at Portland State University in Oregon and is currently co-director of The Metta Center for Nonviolence Education. www.mettacenter.org

Michael Nagler is Professor emeritus of languages at the University of California, Berkeley, and founder of the University's Peace and Conflict Studies program, He is the author of several books, including America Without Violence, Upanishads, and Is There No Other Way? The Search for a Nonviolent Future. Dr. Nagler is on the editorial board of The Acorn: Journal of the Gandhi-King Society and the advisory board of Tikkun magazine. He is the founder of the Metta Center for Nonviolence Education in Berkeley, California. www.mettacenter.org

Brian Swimme and Ivone Gebara: The Universe Story - The unification of science and religion
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Brian Swimme, PhD, is a cosmologist, and the author of the Hidden Heart of the Cosmos, The Universe Story (with Thomas Berry), The Universe is a Green Dragon and the video series The Canticle of the Cosmos and Earth’s Imagination. He co-authored the new book Journey of the Universe with Mary Evelyn Tucker and the storyteller in the new film by the same name.

Ivone Gebara, PhD, is a Brazilian Sister of Our Lady (Canoneses of St. Augustine) and one of Latin America's leading theologians, writing from the perspective of ecofeminism and liberation theology. Gebara claims that ecofeminism is born of "daily life" and thus considers garbage in the street, inadequate health care, and other daily survival crises faced by poor women to be central issues in ecofeminist liberation theology.

Special Show on Gender Equality and Reconciliation
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with Warren Farrell, Marilyn Rosenbrock Nyborg, Elisa Parker and Michael Stone
The future of humanity will be decided not by relations between nations, but by relations between women and men. D.H. Lawrence

Warren Farrell: Dr. Warren Farrell's books on male-female issues have made contributions in twelve fields. They include two award-winning international best-sellers, Why Men Are The Way They Are plus The Myth of Male Power. His most recent books are Father and Child Reunion, and Women Can't Hear What Men Don't Say. His research on Father and Child Reunion, finding what is optimal for children of divorce, has led to his doing expert witness work in child custody cases. Dr. Farrell is the only man in the US elected three times to the Board of Directors of the National Organization for Women in New York City. www.warrenfarrell.org

Elisa Parker is the co-founder, producer and host of the award winning program, See Jane Do. As a social change organization, See Jane Do redefines media for women and the power of story to create positive change. Serving as an activist for women, social justice, and the environment, Elisa's work takes her around the world to discover and share the extraordinary stories and solutions in each of us. Elisa reports for KVMR and has produced and hosted various radio and television programs that inform, engage and entertain the listener. Elisa also holds years of experience in working with cutting edge organizations in order to reach their highest potential and unleash the talents of their team leaders and staff. She holds a BA in Communications and a MA in Organization Development. Elisa lives in the Sierra Foothills with her husband and two daughters. www.seejanedo.com

Marilyn Rosenbrock Nyborg has been a spiritually based activist since the '60's beginning with the civil rights movement. In the '70's she turned her focus inward and began the journey to wholeness, integrating the masculine and feminine within and examining the unconscious attitudes and conditioning in her personality. Recognizing the need for women to find their voices and claim their power, she began in the early '80's to work through women's circles and activities to bring feminine wisdom to bear on the world. In 2002 she became a co-founder of Gather the Women (Gatherthewomen.org) In 2009 she initiated a conversation about the major loss throughout civilization at the repression and degradation of women's wisdom and contributions, which led to the birth to Women Waking the World.

Michael Stone is the host and producer of KVMR's award winning Conversations, which brings you leading edge thinkers, authors and activists in the areas of Environmental Restoration, Social Justice, Evolutionary Cosmology and Spiritual fulfillment. Prior to starting Conversations he was the founder and director of Mastery of Management International (MMI) an international Organizational Development Consulting firm whose purpose was to "bring heart and meaning into the world of work". Michael also leads moving mediation classes and workshops based on the work of Gabrielle Roth. Michael is an active member of Bioneers and the Pachamama Alliance and many other environmental and social justice organizations.

Alternative Economies for Changing Times with: Charles Eisenstein, Zoe Alowan & Bill Kauth
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Charles Eisenstein: The Ascent of Humanity
Professor, lecturer and workshop leader Charles Eisenstein is the Author of The Ascent of Humanity and the upcoming Sacred Economics, and two influential essays on money: Money and the Crisis of Civilization and Money and The Turning of Age A faculty member of Goddard College, he speaks and writes about civilization, economics, and the evolution of human consciousness. www.ascentofhumanity.com

Zoe Alowan has been actively engaged in sacred art for many decades. As a painter, sculptor, dancer and storyteller, her work explores transformation and healing. Her life is about reclaiming essence wisdom. She utilizes the inspiration of the divine feminine, humor, song and ritual movement as ways of celebrating wholeness. She has taught at Esalen and Naropa Institute, facilitates women’s groups, singing circles as well as intuitive process painting retreats.

Bill Kauth was working as a psychotherapist and business consultant in 1984 when he conceived and co-founded the New Warrior Training Adventure, not presented by the ManKind Project to nearly 50,000 men in 40 centers in 8 countries around the world. He is the author of A Circle of Men: The Original Manual for Men’s Support Groups. As a social inventor over the last two decades, Bill also co-founded the Spiritual Warrior, Inner King Trainings and the Warrior-Monk training retreats.
www.sacredlifeboats.com/about-us.html

Ray Anderson (48:46) listen (to download, right click "Save Link As" (IE "Save Target As")
The Founder of Interface, Inc. is recognized as one of the world’s most environmentally progressive chief executives. For the last decade, he has committed himself to making Interface a profitable yet sustainable enterprise with a Mission Zero promise to eliminate any negative impact the company may have on the environment by 2020. www.interfaceglobal.com

Angeles Arrien: (42:47) listen (to download, right click "Save Link As" (IE "Save Target As")
Cultural anthropologist, author, educator, storyteller and corporate consultant. Her research and teaching focus on the integration and application of multi-cultural wisdoms in contemporary settings. Her programs are designed to increase our respect for nature and each other and enhance our ability to work cooperatively angelesarrien.com

Carolyn Baker: Navigating the Coming Chaos
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Carolyn Baker, Ph.D., was an adjunct professor of history and psychology for 11 years and a psychotherapist in private practice for 17 years. Much of her writing offers emotional and spiritual tools for preparing for living in a post-industrial world. Carolyn’s latest book is Navigating The Coming Chaos: A Handbook For Inner Transition. Her other books include Sacred Demise: Walking The Spiritual Path of Industrial Civilization’s Collapse, Coming Out From Christian Fundamentalism: Affirming Sensuality, Social Justice, and The Sacred, U.S. History Uncensored: What Your High School Textbook Didn’t Tell You and The Journey of Forgiveness. http://carolynbaker.net

Jan Chozen Bays, Roshi, MD: Mindful Eating(55:48) listen (to download, right click "Save Link As" (IE "Save Target As")
Jan Chozen Bays, Roshi, MD. has studied and practiced Zen Buddhism since 1973 and received her Priest's Ordination, in 1979 from Taizan Maezumi. Roshi Chozen is also a pediatrician, mother and wife. She is particularly involved in teaching people how to use meditation to work with eating disorders and grief. www.tcme.org

Tina Stanley & Ed Bastian: Living Fully, Dying Well (53:29) listen (to download, right click "Save Link As" (IE "Save Target As")
Tina Staley, MSW, is a clinical social worker and Cancer Guide with Duke University Medical Center and provides supportive self-guidance to cancer patients and their families for an enhanced quality of life through multi-dimensional care needs and courses of treatment. She helps to address concerns and feelings raised by a diagnosis of cancer. Edward W. Bastian, Ph.D., is a Buddhist scholar and teacher and was executive producer for a series of award-winning BBC and PBS programs about religion and three films about Tibetan Buddhism for the National Endowment for the Humanities. He taught classes about world religion and directed the biodiversity program at the Smithsonian Institution. He is president of the Spiritual Paths Foundation. www.spiritualpaths.net & pathfindersforcancer.org

William Bengston, PHD: The Energy Cure (56:35) listen (to download, right click "Save Link As" (IE "Save Target As")
Bill Bengston is a professor of sociology and has been involved in energy medicine research for more than 30 years. His research has appeared in a variety of professional publications and journals and he lectures widely throughout the US and Europe. He has also appeared on Oprah and friends. His new book, The Energy Cure: One man’s Quest to Unravel the Mystery of Hands On Healing has just been published. bengstonresearch.com/the-energy-cure

Paul Blank, MD: How Everyday Products Make People Sick (46:02) listen (to download, right click "Save Link As" (IE "Save Target As")
Paul D. Blanc, M.D., is a Professor of Medicine and holds the Endowed Chair in Occupational and Environmental Medicine at the University of California, San Francisco. In his recent book he reveals the hidden health dangers in many of the seemingly innocent products we encounter every day-a tube of glue in a kitchen drawer, a bottle of bleach in the laundry room, a rayon scarf on a closet shelf, a brass knob on the front door, a wood plank on an outdoor deck.
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Jean Bolen and Elisa Parker: Urgent Message from Mother
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Jean Shinoda Bolen, M. D, is a psychiatrist, Jungian analyst, and an internationally known author and speaker who draws from spiritual, feminist, Jungian, medical and personal wellsprings of experience. Her books include The Tao of Psychology, Goddesses in Everywoman, Gods in Everyman, Close to the Bone, The Millionth Circle, and Urgent Message from Mother. She was a recipient of the Institute for Health and Healings' Pioneers in Art, Science, and the Soul of Healing Award. She was in two acclaimed documentaries, the Academy-Award winning anti-nuclear proliferation film Women—For America, For the World, and the Canadian Film Board's Goddess Remembered. www.jeanshinodabolen.com

Elisa Parker is the co-founder, producer and host of See Jane Do. Elisa reports for KVMR and has produced and hosted various radio and television programs that inform, engage and entertain the listener. As a professional speaker, host and facilitator Elisa captures the magic of the story in each of us. Elisa holds years of experience in working with cutting edge organizations in order to reach their highest potential and unleash the talents of their team leaders and staff. She has organized and managed high profile conferences for ICLEI bringing elected officials together to discuss environmental solutions and managed an event team for conferences in San Francisco for up to 40,000 attendees. www.seejanedo.com

Bolivia Special: (55:56) listen (to download, right click "Save Link As" (IE "Save Target As")
A special overview of Michael Stone's travels to Bolivia for the World People's Conference on Climate Change and the Rights of Mother Earth. Featuring interviews with: María Fernanda Espinosa Garcés, Mari Mcgil & Cormac Cullinan, and Nnimmo Bassey.

J. Kirk Boyd: Creating a social order based upon human rights
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Dr. John Kirk Boyd is a lawyer, professor, and Executive Director of the 2048 Project at the U.C. Berkeley law school. In addition, the author has argued at every level of court, including the United States Supreme Court. He teaches International Human Rights, Civil Rights, International Law, Free Speech, and Constitutional Law at the University of California. www.2048.berkeley.edu

Ania Brandysiewicz: Consciousness and the Enlightened Body
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Ania Brandysiewicz covers the spectrum from highly technical to highly interpersonal. She began as an electronic engineer, worked in the early design of hardware and operating system programming for computers, and helped design and test the first MRI scanner in England. Ania developed over many years a method of teaching people how to be more aware of the beliefs they held and stored in their bodies. With this increased awareness, they learned to better observe their own and other's emotions and learn how to remain peaceful and balanced when another person was running an emotional "operating system error" nearby and not "catch the virus". www.schoolofcreation.com

Will Keepin, Ph.D., & Cynthia Brix, M.Div, MA., Divine Duality: The Power of Reconciliation between Women & Men
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Will Keepin, Ph.D., President and Executive Director. Will co-founded the Satyana Institute in 1996, and founded its Power of Reconciliation project (formerly Gender Reconciliation), which has organized more than fifty intensive gatherings in six countries for healing and reconciliation between women and men. A mathematical physicist with thirty scientific publications on sustainable energy and global warming, he presented testimony to European and Australian parliaments and the US House of Representatives. Will is author of Divine Duality: The Power of Reconciliation Between Women and Men. www.satyana.org

Cynthia Brix, M.Div, MA., Program Director. Cynthia is an interfaith minister specializing in international peacemaking, and spiritual direction for young adults. She is co-founder of the Women’s Spiritual Mastery project, and she co-directs the Power of Reconciliation project. A long-time student of Eknath Easwaran's Passage Meditation, Cynthia leads retreats on interfaith spirituality, and she is adjunct faculty at Holy Names University. Cynthia is contributing author of Divine Duality: The Power of Reconciliation between Women and Men, and co-author of Women Healing Women. www.satyana.org

Tom Brown Jr.: Tracking, Nature, and Wilderness Survival (56:39) listen (to download, right click "Save Link As" (IE "Save Target As")
Tom Brown Jr. is a renowned outdoorsman, tracker, teacher, and author of 16 books. For ten years, from the age of 7, Tom was mentored by Stalking Wolf, in the skills of tracking, wilderness survival, and awareness. Brown's Tracking, Nature, and Wilderness Survival School is the largest school of its kind, teaching people from all over the world in all walks of life who share an interest in learning the simplicity of a natural way of living. trackerschool.com

Lester Brown: Plan for an Earth-Based Future (48:22) listen (to download, right click "Save Link As" (IE "Save Target As")
Author, futurist, farmer, described by the Washington Post as one of the world's most influential thinkers. He is the founder and president Earth Policy Institute. The purpose of the Earth Policy Institute is to provide a vision of an environmentally sustainable economy, a roadmap of how to get from here to there. For more go to www.earth-policy.org

Father Miguel d’Escoto Brockmann, M.M. (39:41) listen (to download, right click "Save Link As" (IE "Save Target As")
Father Miguel d’Escoto Brockmann is a Nicaraguan diplomat, politician and Catholic priest. He was the President of the United Nations General Assembly from September 2008 to September 2009. He presided over the 63rd Session of the United Nations General Assembly. Shortly after his election, d’Escoto Brockmann stated: They elected a priest. And I hope no one is offended if I say that love is what is most needed in this world. And that selfishness is what has gotten us into the terrible quagmire in which the world is sinking, almost irreversibly, unless something big happens

Drew Dellinger and Danielle Drake-Burnette(54:11) listen (to download, right click "Save Link As" (IE "Save Target As")
Drew Dellinger is a spoken word poet, professor, activist and founder of Poets for Global Justice. He has inspired minds and hearts at hundreds of events in many countries, performing poetry and keynoting on justice, ecology, cosmology, activism and human compassion. Dillinger has studied cosmology and ecological thought with Thomas Berry since 1990 and is finishing his Ph.D. at the California Institute of Integral Studies. He is currently writing his dissertation on Martin Luther King Jr. and the connections between cosmology, ecology and justice. www.drewdellinger.org
Danielle Drake-Burnette, previously known on stage as SoulsJourney, is a writer and spoken word poet. She was the 2003 Oakland Poetry Slam Champion. Danielle is the founder and Executive Director of Creation Cocoon for Girls, an Oakland, CA community-based organization serving girls 8-18. Creation Cocoon teaches girls’ empowerment and self esteem through the traditional arts. danielledrakeburnette.com

Susan Campbell portrait Dr. Susan Campbell: Relationship as spiritual practice (47:58) listen (to download, right click and "Save Link As" (IE "Save Target As")
Psychologist Susan Campbell has worked as a professional speaker and a dating and relationship coach for over 35 years. She is author of numerous books, including her ground-breaking The Couples Journey which introduced the idea into the mainstream of using intimate relationships as a spiritual practice. Her work has been featured in many popular magazines.
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Farmageddon
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Farmageddon is a powerful film documenting the U.S. government’s constant attacks on innocent farmers and consumers in an attempt to protect massive corporate interests. When the government controls the food you eat and the healthcare you receive, sickness is pervasive – this is exactly what has happened in the U.S.”
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Kristin Canty
Kristin Canty is the Director/Producer of Farmageddon; The Unseen War on American Family Farms. When Kristin learned that farmers and co-ops all over the country were increasingly getting raided by the government, she set out to make a film about it. She hopes that when people see it, it can change the tide of public pressure so that our government stops harassing and adding costly burdens to our small, organic farmers.
Cathe' Fish
Cathe’ Fish is the Leader of the local Gold Country chapter of the Weston A. Price Foundation, Director of Practical Permaculture Research Institute, a Permaculture Designer, Consultant and Teacheras well as a Local Food Activist in Nevada County.
Mark McAfee, CEO, Managing Member
Founder of Organic Pastures Dairy, Mark is internationally recognized as an expert in raw milk production, and has spoken in over fifteen states and three countries on the subject. He invented the first -dietary supplements- made from fresh raw colostrum, and secured their certification from the FDA and DHS. Mark created and published the first international raw milk safety standards at www.rawusa.org

Mariana Caplan: Cultivating Discernment on the Spiritual Path
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Mariana is an author, anthropologist, and psychologist with a Ph.D. in Contemporary Spirituality. She attributes the majority of her education and inspiration to years of research and practice in the world's great mystical traditions, and to studying, living, and adventuring in villages in India, Central and South America, and Europe. Her sole passion is a love of Truth and transformation. www.realspirituality.com

Bill Twist Chris Carlsson: Nowtopia (54:52) listen (to download, right click "Save Link As" (IE "Save Target As")
Chris Carlsson, executive director of the multimedia history project Shaping San Francisco, is a writer, publisher, editor, and community organizer. For the last twenty-five years his activities have focused on the underlying themes of horizontal communications, organic communities and public space. His latest book is Nowtopia. www.nowtopians.com

Raffi Cavoukian: Child Honouring and the Compassion Revolution (45:15)
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Raffi is a Singer, songwriter, musician, environmentalist who is world renowned for single-handedly revolutionizing the children's entertainment business. Raffi has become a self-styled "eco-troubadour," working with adults to promote environmental causes. Raffi believes that the fate of the earth rests on the commitment of all to protecting the environment. www.raffinews.com

Paul K. Chappell: Waging Peace
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Paul K. Chappel, author of Will War Ever End?: A Soldier's Vision of Peace for the 21st Centruy, graduated from West Point in 202. He served in the U.S. Army for seven years, leaving active duty in November in 2009 with the rank of captain. As Peace Leadership Director for the Nuclear Age Peace Foundation, he speaks throughout the country on the vital theme of ending war and waging peace. http://paulkchappell.com

Andrew Cohen: Living Enlightenment (43:03) listen (to download, right click and "Save Link As" (IE "Save Target As")
An author, speaker, and philosopher who is an American spiritual teacher and visionary thinker widely recognized for his original contribution to the emerging field of evolutionary spirituality.
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Copenhagen in Retrospect (54:06) listen (to download, right click "Save Link As" (IE "Save Target As")
JMichael Stone wraps his recent trip to Copenhagen with interviews with Bill McKibben, Vandana Shiva and George Monbiot. Along with what was accomplished out of the Copenhagen Climate Change Conference and what is ahead...
BillMcKibben, American environmentalist and writer, is the founder of 350.org, an international climate campaign. Bill frequently writes about global warming, alternative energy, and the risks associated with human genetic engineering. Beginning in the summer of 2006, he has been at the forefront of organizing and leading the largest civil demonstrations against global warming in history. It has been 3 decades since he wrote the End of Nature. www.350.org
George Monbiot is a journalist, author, academic & environmental & political activist in the United Kingdom who writes a weekly column for The Guardian newspaper. He is on the advisory board of BBC Wildlife magazine. His latest book Heat, is a must read for anyone serious about understanding Global Warming. www.monbiot.com

Vandana Shiva, is a physicist, philosopher and leader in the global agriculture movement. She is known as one of most eloquent speakers who help fight for people's rights.. She is directing an international movement on Food Rights. She also established Navdanya (a movement for biodiversity conservation and farmers' rights in India.) www.vandanashiva.org

Beyond Forgiveness: Phil Cousineau, Stephanie N. Van Hook and Michael Nagler
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Michael Nagler is Professor emeritus of languages at the University of California, Berkeley, and founder of the University's Peace and Conflict Studies program, He is the author of several books, including America Without Violence, Upanishads, and Is There No Other Way? The Search for a Nonviolent Future. Dr. Nagler is on the editorial board of The Acorn: Journal of the Gandhi-King Society and the advisory board of Tikkun magazine. He is the founder of the Metta Center for Nonviolence Education in Berkeley, California. www.mettacenter.org

Stephanie N. Van Hook is a recently returned Peace Corps volunteer who served in Benin. Her interests in nonviolence and forgiveness have intersected with activists and academics working for nonviolent social change in the global peace and justice community. She studied conflict resolution at Portland State University in Oregon and is currently co-director of The Metta Center for Nonviolence Education. www.mettacenter.org

Phil Cousineau is an award-winning writer and filmmaker, teacher and editor, worldwide lecturer and storyteller. His fascination with the art, literature, and history of culture has taken him on a worldwide search for what the ancients called the "soul of the world." With more than 25 books and 15 scriptwriting credits to his name, the "omnipresent influence of myth in modern life" is a thread that runs through all of his work. He is currently the host of Global Spirit, Link TV's "internal travel" television series. His books include Stoking the Creative Fires, The Art of Pilgrimage, The Hero's Journey, Wordcatcher, and Beyond Forgiveness. www.philcousineau.net

Alexandra Cousteau - portrait Alexandra Cousteau: Our Blue Legacy (44:01) listen (to download, right click and "Save Link As" (IE "Save Target As")
Alexandra is the daughter of Philippe Cousteau and the granddaughter of world famous French explorer and filmmaker Jacques-Yves Cousteau. A dedicated environmentalist, Cousteau advocates the importance of conservation, restoration and sustainable management of water resources for a healthy planet and productive societies. www.alexandracousteau.org

Jennifer Crebbin: Handwriting for Peace - Part 2 (21:30) listen (to download, right click "Save Link As" (IE "Save Target As")
Jennifer Crebbin has a background in Psychology, and Certification as a Handwriting Consultant through Vimala Rodgers’ International Institute of Handwriting Studies (IIHS) Jennifer Crebbin combines her love of movement with a passion for the sacred forms of the Alphabet. Her work is to encourage the use of movements captured on paper (AKA handwriting) in ways that support our healthy soul development. www.changeyourhandwriting.com

The Real Story on Cell Phones and Cell Towers…
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Special interviews with documentary film maker Talal Jabari, and cell Phone researcher Dr. Kerry Crofton, on cell phones, cell towers and EMF. Get the real story on Cell phones and cell towers. Learn what main stream media isn't telling you! Find out the real impact on the health on you and your children -- even if you aren't using a cell phone – you are being affected.

Kerry Crofton, PhD, is a health educator, and the director of Well Being International. Her new book, Wireless Radiation Rescue, is the first to bring together the research and recommendations of the world's leading scientists and clinicians, both for the general public and other health care professionals. Dr. Crofton is a member of the International EMF Alliance, a consortium of leading experts in this
field. www.radiationrescue.org

Talal Jabari is a Palestinian/American journalist and film maker. He has covered the escalating global violence for such prominent news sources as BBC World Service, South Florida Sun-Sentinel, and Al Ahram Weekly. In 2002, Talal jumped into TV news as an associate producer for CBS News as well as a field producer for the CBS news magazine 60 Minutes. Talal's later became a line producer and production coordinator of an award-winning 5-documentary film series entitled "The Shape of the Future." Has well as producing 4 episodes for Al Jazeera Documentary Channel's flagship 8-part series: "Israel from Within". His most recent project is the documentary, Full Signal: The Hidden Cost of Cell Phones. http://fullsignalmovie.com

David Crow: Herbal Medicine and Spirituality (50:14) listen (to download, right click "Save Link As" (IE "Save Target As")
David Crow is one of the world’s foremost experts and leading speakers in the field of botanical medicine, natural health and ecological sustainability. He is a master herbalist, aromatherapist and acupuncturist with over 20 years experience and is an expert in the Ayurvedic and Chinese medical systems. He is a renowned author and the founding director of Floracopeia Aromatic Treasures. www.floracopeia.com

David Cunningham: A World of Possibility (43:00) listen (to download, right click "Save Link As" (IE "Save Target As")
David Cunningham is a communication expert and has lead thousand of people in seminars and courses with Landmark Education, where more than a million people have learned to put their old baggage behind and pursue the lives they really desire to live. Learn about the technology of the Landmark Forum. landmarkeducation.com

Dr. Kevin Danaher: Grassroots Globalization: Empowering local communities to create sustainable local economies. (55:04) listen (to download, right click "Save Link As" (IE "Save Target As")
Described by The New York Times as the "Paul Revere of globalization's woes," Dr. Kevin Danaher's analytical expertise, sense of humor and blunt eloquence make him an exceptionally dynamic communicator. Dr. Danaher is a co-founder of Global Exchange, founder and Executive Co-Producer of the Green Festivals, and Executive Director of the Global Citizen Center. He has published numerous articles and is the author and/or editor of thirteen books. www.globalexchange.org

Ram Dass - Be Love Now: The Path of the Heart
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Ram Dass is one of America’s most beloved spiritual figures. He has made his mark on the world giving teachings and promoting loving service, harmonious business practices, and conscious care for the dying. His spirit has been a guiding light for four generations, carrying millions along on the journey, helping free them from their bonds as he has worked his way through his own. www.ramdass.org

Brother David: Grateful Living (56:03) listen (to download, right click and "Save Link As" (IE "Save Target As")
Brother David, a Benedictine monk, is probably the world’s leading scholar on gratefulness. He co-founded the Center for Spiritual Studies in 1968 and together with Thomas Merton, Brother David helped launch a global renewal of religious life. He has authored numerous books on gratefulness, belonging and Buddhist and Christian Practices. Brother David has brought spiritual depth into the lives of countless people whom he touches through his lectures, his workshops, and his writings. www.gratefulness.org

James O’Dea: Creative Stress (54:13) listen (to download, right click "Save Link As" (IE "Save Target As")
James O'Dea is a Fellow and immediate past president of the Institute of Noetic Sciences and a former faculty member of the Omega Institute. He is a former Executive Director of the SEVA Foundation and a former Director of the Washington, DC office of Amnesty International. He is a member of The World Wisdom Council and currently collaborating with the Global Systems Initiatives in Washington DC, and an Evolutionary Leaders group spearheaded by Deepak Chopra. His latest book is Creative Stress: a path for evolving souls living through personal and planetary upheaval. www.jamesodea.com

Drew Dellinger: Poets for Global Justice (47:53) listen (to download, right click "Save Link As" (IE "Save Target As")
Drew Dellinger is a spoken word poet, professor, activist and founder of Poets for Global Justice. He has inspired minds and hearts at hundreds of events in many countries, performing poetry and keynoting on justice, ecology, cosmology, activism and human compassion. drewdellinger.org

Danielle Drake-Burnette, previously known on stage as SoulsJourney, is a writer and spoken word poet. She was the 2003 Oakland Poetry Slam Champion. Danielle is the founder and Executive Director of Creation Cocoon for Girls, an Oakland, CA community-based organization serving girls 8-18. Creation Cocoon teaches girls’ empowerment and self esteem through the traditional arts. danielledrakeburnette.com

Her Holiness Sai Maa Lakshmi Devi: Love and Service (52:00) listen (to download, right click "Save Link As" (IE "Save Target As")
Sai Maa is recognized as a dynamic visionary and spiritual master. She regularly teaches transformational workshops in the US and abroad, often with popular authors and speakers. Sai Maa¹s teachings focus on service to humanity. humanityinunity.org

Her Holiness Sai Maa Lakshmi Devi: From Shadow to Light (56:29) listen (to download, right click "Save Link As" (IE "Save Target As")
Sai Maa is recognized as a dynamic visionary and spiritual master. She regularly teaches transformational workshops in the US and abroad, often with popular authors and speakers. Sai Maa¹s teachings focus on service to humanity. humanityinunity.org

Luis Diaz: Cellular Memory Release (51:28) listen (to download, right click "Save Link As" (IE "Save Target As")
Luis Diaz, author of Memory in the Cells presents a simple, yet radical, way to heal and transform negative experiences through Cellular Memory Release (CMR) to create a more full and harmonious life. Luis created the Cellular Memory Release technique out of his training and practice in oriental medicine, shiatsu, acupuncture, holistic nutrition, herbology, homeopathy, Touch for Health and NLP-Neurolinguistic Programming. He resides locally in Nevada County. www.cellularmemory.org

Robert Biswas-Diener: Happiness (56:15) listen (to download, right click "Save Link As" (IE "Save Target As")
Widely known as the "Indiana Jones of Positive Psychology" because his research on subjective well-being has taken him to such far flung destinations as Greenland, Kenya, and India. He is best known for his research on the quality of life of people living in poverty. Robert is Programme Director for Education and Learning at the Centre for Applied Positive Psychology and has co-authored with his father, the book "Happiness: Unlocking the Mysteries of Psychological Wealth." www.intentionalhappiness.com

Paul Dolan: Making A Difference with Wine (56:39) listen (to download, right click "Save Link As" (IE "Save Target As")
Paul Dolan, Organic, Biodynamic winemaker spent 27 years at Fetzer Vineyards, 12 as president, where he led a transformation that put the company at the forefront of organic viticulture and sustainable business. As owner of Parducci and MWC, he continues to break new ground in sustainable organic and biodynamic farming. Paul’s greatest passion is winegrowing at his family-owned Dark Horse Ranch, east of the Russian River in the foothills north of Hopland. pauldolanwine.com

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Paul Ehrlich: The Dominant Animal (52:05) listen (to download, right click "Save Link As" (IE "Save Target As")
Paul Ehrlich is a biologist, educator and Professor of Population Studies in the department of Biological Sciences at Stanford University. He is also the president of Stanford's Center for Conservation Biology. Paul is best known for his warnings about unchecked population growth and limited resources. His latest book is the Dominant Animal. www.dominantanimal.org

Charles Eisenstein: The Ascent of Humanity
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Professor, lecturer and workshop leader Charles Eisenstein is the Author of The Ascent of Humanity and the upcoming Sacred Economics, and two influential essays on money: Money and the Crisis of Civilization and Money and The Turning of Age A faculty member of Goddard College, he speaks and writes about civilization, economics, and the evolution of human consciousness. www.ascentofhumanity.com

Riane Eisler: Caring Economics (50:46) listen (to download, right click "Save Link As" (IE "Save Target As")
Riane Eisler is internationally known for The Real Wealth of Nations: Creating a Caring Economics, hailed by Archbishop Desmond Tutu as "a template for the better world we have been so urgently seeking" and by Gloria Steinem as "revolutionary". Her earlier bestseller The Chalice and The Blade: Our History, Our Future is in 23 foreign editions. www.partnershipway.org

Duane Elgin: A Vision of Hope & Action for Humanity(48:01) listen (to download, right click "Save Link As" (IE "Save Target As")
Duane Elgin is an author, speaker, educator, consultant, and media activist. For more than three decades, he has defined the cutting edge in consciousness research, in the ecology movement, and in future studies. He pioneered the “Voluntary Simplicity” movement with his now classic first book, titled by the same name, published in the 1980s.
See: www.ourmediavoice.org

Duane Elgin and Dhar Jamail: Taking Back the Media (45:39) listen (to download, right click "Save Link As" (IE "Save Target As")
Duane Elgin is an author, speaker, educator, consultant, and media activist. For more than three decades, he has defined the cutting edge in consciousness research, in the ecology movement, and in future studies. www.awakeningearth.org

Dhar Jamail is an American journalist who is best known as one of the few unembedded journalists to report extensively from Iraq during the 2003 Iraq War. Jamail writes for the Inter Press Service news agency, among other outlets. He has been a frequent guest on Democracy Now! Jamail is the recipient of the 2008 The Martha Gellhorn Prize for Journalism
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Duane Elgin: Voluntary Simplicity
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Duane Elgin is an author, speaker, educator, consultant, and media activist. For more than three decades, he has defined the cutting edge in consciousness research, in the ecology movement, and in future studies. He pioneered the "Voluntary Simplicity" movement with his now classic first book, titled by the same name, published in the 1980s. An updated version is about to be released. www.awakeningearth.org

Warren Farrell: The Myth of Male Power (56:32) listen (to download, right click "Save Link As" (IE "Save Target As")
Dr. Warren Farrell's books on male-female issues have made contributions in twelve fields. They include two award-winning international best-sellers, Why Men Are The Way They Are plus The Myth of Male Power. His most recent books are Father and Child Reunion, and Women Can't Hear What Men Don't Say. His research on Father and Child Reunion, finding what is optimal for children of divorce, has led to his doing expert witness work in child custody cases. Dr. Farrell is the only man in the US elected three times to the Board of Directors of the National Organization for Women in New York City. www.warrenfarrell.org

Dr. Barbara Fields: A Season for Non Violence
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Dr. Barbara Fields is Executive Director of the Association for Global New Thought (AGNT) and is the co-founder and project director of the Gandhi King Season for Nonviolence. She is Co-founder and Project Director of the Synthesis Dialogues with His Holiness, the Dalai Lama of Tibet and Co-director, with Dr. William Ury, of the Harvard Global Negotiation Network’s Abraham Walk Initiative in the Middle East. She serves on the Boards of Earth Action, the Foundation for Conscious Evolution, and La Casa de Maria in Santa Barbara, CA. She is co-founder of The Earth Network, a non-profit alternative television organization dedicated to the environment, social action, and the human spirit. www.agnt.org

Tim Van Wagner and Cathe’ Fish: Living Lands Agrarian Network (54:08)
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A Nevada City native, Tim Van Wagner partnered with Leo Chapman of Bluebird Farm, a local CSA, after completing college. In addition to farming the two created the Living Lands Agrarian Network whose mission is to serve as a network of ecologically minded farmers and community members working to strengthen our community’s ties and connections to the land, support agrarian education and ecological literacy, and carefully steward the land on which we farm and live. www.eco-farm.org
Cathe Fish: Since 1987, Nevada County resident, Cathe' Fish, speaker, sustainability teacher, master gardner and permaculture educator, has been working as an experienced drylands Permaculture Design Consultant. Cathe' has also taught passive solar building design at straw bale workshops for many years. Besides teaching permaculture classes, giving permaculture consultations, and creating permaculture designs, she farms at the Living Lands Agrarian Network. www.practicalpermaculture.com

Gary Zukav & Linda Francis Gary Zukav and Linda Francis: Making Your Life Count (52:41) listen (to download, right click "Save Link As" (IE "Save Target As")
Gary Zukav is a Harvard graduate, Vietnam Veteran, Green Beret, recovering person, spiritual wayfarer, and a favorite guest on Oprah. Gary Zukav is the author of The Dancing Wu Li Masters, The Seat of the Soul and most recently Soul Stories. He and his partner Linda Francis will be joining us to talk about expressing our soul into the world. garyzukav.wwwhubs.com

John Francis, Phd: Planet Walk(55:50) listen (to download, right click "Save Link As" (IE "Save Target As")
John Francis, Ph.D. founded Planetwalk in 1982 when he began his walking and sailing pilgrimage around the world. To date, Dr. Francis has walked across the U.S., sailed and walked through the Caribbean, and South America from Venezuela to Argentina and a walk in Cuba. Currently, he is continuing a walk backtracking his first walk from Cape May NJ. to Point Reyes CA. John's stirring memoir, Planetwalker: 22 Years of Walking; 17 Years of Silence was published in 2008 by the National Geographic Society and will be available in paperback in April 2009. www.planetwalker.org

Gangaji: That Which is Eternal (40:00) listen (to download, right click "Save Link As" (IE "Save Target As")
Gangaji, an American born teacher and author, has traveled the globe since 1990, speaking with spiritual seekers from all walks of life. Her message is powerful in its clarity and simplicity: True peace and lasting fulfillment are not only our birthright, they are the essential nature of our being. For more go to www.gangaji.org

Jeffrey M. Smith - Deborah Koons Garcia: GMO's The Future Of Food (54:38)
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Jeffrey M. Smith is a leading spokesperson on the health dangers of Genetically Modified Organisms (GMOs). Deborah Koons Garcia was the instigator and chief Creative Consultant for Grateful Dawg, a documentary about the musical friendship between her husband Jerry Garcia and David Grisman. Her documentary, The Future of Food was shown over a dozen times as a work in progress in Mendocino County, California before the March 2004 election and was the primary element in passing Measure H, which bans the planting of genetically engineered crops in the county. www.seedsofdeception.com - www.thefutureoffood.com

James William Gibson: Re-enchanted World: A New Kinship With Nature
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James William Gibson is the author of Warrior Dreams: Paramilitary Culture in Post-Vietnam America and The Perfect War: Technowar in Vietnam. A frequent contributor to the Los Angeles Times and winner of multiple grants and fellowships, including a Guggenheim, Gibson is a professor of sociology at California State University, Long Beach. www.jameswilliamgibson.com

John Gray: Coping with Stress in Relationships (45:42) listen (to download, right click "Save Link As" (IE "Save Target As")
John Gray, Ph.D., is the author of 16 best-selling books, including Men Are from Mars, Women Are from Venus, the number one best-selling book of the last decade. An expert in the field of communication, Dr. Gray’s focus is to help men and women understand, respect and appreciate their differences in both personal and professional relationships.
For more go to www.johngray.com

John Gray: Venus on Fire, Mars on Ice – How men and women cope with stress. (2 hour special edition)
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John Gray Ph.D., is the bestselling relationship author of all time. He is the author of 16 best-selling books, including Men Are from Mars, Women Are from Venus, and the number one best-selling book of the last decade. An expert in the field of communication, Dr. Gray's focus is to help men and women understand, respect and appreciate their differences in both personal and professional relationships. John Gray's latest book, Venus on fire, Mars on ice, reveals how men and women can improve relationships by understanding how they cope differently with stress. www.johngray.com

Thomas Greco: The End of Money & the Future of Civilization
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Thomas H. Greco, Jr. is a community and monetary economist, educator, writer, and consultant. He is a former tenured college teacher who has spent more than 30 years studying and writing about ways to achieve greater harmony, equity, and sustainability through business and economics. His special expertise in monetary and financial structures has led to innovative designs for private community currencies and payment systems. His latest book is The End of Money and the Future of Civilization. http://reinventingmoney.com

Beth Greer: Super Natural Home (43:25) listen (to download, right click "Save Link As" (IE "Save Target As")
Beth Greer, Super Natural Mom, is an award-winning journalist and holistic health advocate. She has helped thousands of people see possibilities and feel empowered to make changes in their lives through her role as the former President and co-owner of The Learning Annex, the largest private alternative adult education company in America. supernaturalmom.com

Kevin Griffin: One Breath at a Time (55:37) listen (to download, right click "Save Link As" (IE "Save Target As")
Kevin Griffin is an author, teacher and lecturer based in the SF Bay area. He teachers “Dharma and Recovery” at Spirit Rock Meditation Center and is the co-founder of the Buddhist Recovery Network, an international organization that serves people in the recovery community through training, treatment and research. www.kevingriffin.net

Palden Gyatso: Fire Under The Snow(39:20) listen (to download, right click "Save Link As" (IE "Save Target As")
Palden Gyatso, a Tibetan Monk was arrested by Chinese officials after the Tibetan uprising in 1959. He spent the following 33 years in different Chinese prisons and labor camps. He was forced to participate in barbarous reeducation classes and was brutally tortured, leading to irreversible physical damage. During this time, he continued to abide by the Dharma (Buddha's teachings). 1992 Palden Gyatso was released and escaped to Dharamsala India, the place of the Tibetan exile government. There he wrote his autobiography Fire Under The Snow which has been translated in many other languages and just released as a feature film. http://www.fireunderthesnow.com/

Andrew Harvey: Community and Sacred Activism (41:52) listen (to download, right click "Save Link As" (IE "Save Target As")
Andrew Harvey is a renowned and distinguished mystical scholar, Rumi translator and explicator, poet, novelist, spiritual teacher and writer, and architect of Sacred Activism. He has taught at Oxford University, Cornell University, Hobart, and William Smith Colleges, The California Institute of Integral Studies, and the University of Creation Spirituality as well as the at various spiritual centers throughout the United States. His latest book is The Direct Path: Creating a Personal Journey to the Divine Using the World's Spiritual Traditions. andrewharvey.net

Andrew Harvey: Sacred Activism (48:17) listen (to download, right click "Save Link As" (IE "Save Target As")
Andrew Harvey is a renowned and distinguished mystical scholar, Rumi translator and explicator, poet, novelist, spiritual teacher and writer, and architect of Sacred Activism. He has taught at Oxford University, Cornell University, Hobart, and William Smith Colleges, The California Institute of Integral Studies, and the University of Creation Spirituality as well as the at various spiritual centers throughout the United States. His latest book is The Hope: A Guide to Sacred Activism. www.andrewharvey.net

Andrew Harvey: Exploring the Shadow (47:57) listen (to download, right click "Save Link As" (IE "Save Target As")
Andrew Harvey is a renowned and distinguished mystical scholar, Rumi translator and explicator, poet, novelist, spiritual teacher and writer, and architect of Sacred Activism. His latest book is The Direct Path: Creating a Personal Journey to the Divine Using the World's Spiritual Traditions. andrewharvey.net

Andrew Harvey: Sacred Activism
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Andrew Harvey is a renowned and distinguished mystical scholar, Rumi translator and explicator, poet, novelist, spiritual teacher and writer, and architect of Sacred Activism. He has taught at Oxford University, Cornell University, Hobart, and William Smith Colleges, The California Institute of Integral Studies, and the University of Creation Spirituality as well as the at various spiritual centers throughout the United States. His latest book is The Hope: A Guide to Sacred Activism. www.andrewharvey.net

Hazel Henderson portrait on Conversations with Michael Stone Hazel Henderson: (48:20) listen (to download, right click "Save Link As" (IE "Save Target As")
Author, world-wide syndicated columnist and consultant on sustainable development, Hazel is also the creator of Ethical Markets, the first TV financial lifestyle magazine series reporting on new definitions of success.
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Richard Heinberg: Peak Everything (52:00) listen (to download, right click "Save Link As" (IE "Save Target As")
Richard Heinberg is one of the world's foremost Peak Oil educators. He is the author of eight books, journalist, editor, lecturer, a Core Faculty member of New College of California where he teaches a program on "Culture, Ecology and Sustainable Community," and a Research Fellow of the Post Carbon Institute. For more go to www.richardheinberg.com

Kathlyn and Gay Hendricks Kathlyn & Gay Hendricks, Ph.D: Conscious Loving (48:29) listen (to download, right click "Save Link As" (IE "Save Target As")
They have been pioneers in the field of body-mind integration for over thirty years. Kathlyn and Gay have worked with over thirty thousand individuals and three thousand couples in developing their method of body-centered and relationship transformation. Together they have authored numerous books on Conscious Loving. www.hendricks.com

Anne Hillman: Awakening the Energies of Love: Discovering Fire for the Second Time
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Anne Hillmanhas spent the last 30 years exploring the internal aspects of social change—an inquiry into the necessary interior and group development required to sustain fundamental cultural transformation. She is the author of Awakening the Energies of Love: Discovering Fire for the Second Time, an experiential pathway into that necessary transformation. The book was inspired by Teilhard de Chardin, whose biographer, Ursula King, cites Anne as one of four people who have given us new metaphors and ideas about love for our time. She is also author of The Dancing Animal Woman—A Celebration of Life. Both books were influenced by Thomas Berry, Brian Swimme, and Richard Moss, MD. See Endorsements. A former consultant to organizations, she helped tap new levels of group functioning and creativity in times of rapid change. Anne now leads gatherings here and abroad in which participants with different perspectives explore the kind of love that unites us all—not a feeling, but a great Power. Her articles have appeared in national journals and her poetry in several anthologies.. www.annehillman.net

James Hoggan: Climate Cover-Up: The Crusade to Deny Global Warming
(57:33) listen (to download, right click "Save Link As" (IE "Save Target As")James Hoggan is president of the award-winning PR firm Hoggan and Associates and a leading authority on public perceptions of environmental issues. He is chair of the David Suzuki Foundation and the Canadian chapter of Al Gore’s The Climate Project. James is the Cofounder of DeSmogBlog.com and author of Climate Cover-Up: The Crusade to Deny Global Warming. www.hoggan.com

Dwight Hopkins portrait on Conversations with Michael Stone Dwight Hopkins (46:05) September 2, 2008 listen (to download, right click "Save Link As" (IE "Save Target As")
An author, teacher and constructive theologian working in the areas of contemporary models of theology, black theology, and liberation theologies. He is interested in multidisciplinary approaches to the academic study of religious thought, especially cultural, political, economic, and interpretive methods. His latest works is Being Human: Race, Culture, and Religion. http://divinity.uchicago.edu/faculty/hopkins.shtml

Jean Houston: Creating your own story (57:34) listen (to download, right click "Save Link As" (IE "Save Target As")
Dr. Jean Houston, scholar, philosopher and researcher in human capacities, is one of the foremost visionary thinkers and doers of our time, one of the principal founders of the Human Potential Movement. A powerful and dynamic speaker, she holds conferences and seminars with social leaders, educational institutions and business organizations worldwide. She has written 26 books and is the founder of The Mystery School which is dedicated to training people in recognizing and remembering the great mystery that dwells within each of us... www.jeanhouston.org

Barbara Marx Hubbard: Co-Creating a New Future (40:53) listen (to download, right click "Save Link As" (IE "Save Target As")
Futurist, author, public speaker, social innovator, and president of the Foundation for Conscious Evolution. She is offering programs to enhance the developmental path toward the next stages of human evolution. Dr. Hubbard is working to understand and catalyze the actions needed to navigate a quantum change to avoid global collapse. For more go to www.barbaramarxhubbard.com

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Sandra Ingerman: Medicine for the Earth (55:52) listen (to download, right click "Save Link As" (IE "Save Target As")
Sandra Ingerman teaches workshops internationally on shamanic journeying, healing, and reversing environmental pollution using spiritual methods. She has trained and founded an international alliance of Medicine for the Earth Teachers and shamanic teachers. Sandra is recognized for bridging ancient cross-cultural healing methods into our modern culture addressing the needs of our times. She is the author of numerous books on Shamanism. www.sandraingerman.com

Sandra Ingerman and Hank Wesselman: Shamanic Journeying (51:14) listen (to download, right click "Save Link As" (IE "Save Target As")
Sandra Ingerman teaches workshops internationally on shamanic journeying, healing, and reversing environmental pollution using spiritual methods. She has trained and founded an international alliance of Medicine for the Earth Teachers and shamanic teachers. Sandra is recognized for bridging ancient cross-cultural healing methods into our modern culture addressing the needs of our times. She is the author of numerous books on Shamanism. www.sandraingerman.com
Research paleoanthropologist Hank Wesselman is one of those rare cutting edge scientists who truly walks between the worlds. He has spent much of his life working among traditional tribal peoples, primarily in Africa and Polynesia. For the past 30 years, he has conducted research with an international group of scientists, exploring eastern Africa's Great Rift Valley in search of answers to the mystery of human origins. He is also a shaman in training, now in the 20th year of his apprenticeship. He is the author of many books including his latest, VISIONSEEKER. www.sharedwisdom.com

John Jeavon: Grow More Vegetables with Biointensive Gardening
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John Jeavons is the Executive Director of Ecology Action of the Mid-Peninsula. He is known internationally as the leading researcher and method developer, teacher, and consultant for the small-scale, sustainable agricultural method known as GROW BIOINTENSIVE mini-farming. He is the author of the best-selling book How to Grow More Vegetables, Fruits, Nuts, Berries, Grains, and Other Crops Than You Ever Thought Possible On Less Land Than You Can Imagine. He has authored, co-authored or edited over 30 publications on this high-yielding, resource-conserving Biointensive approach, including a five-part, peer reviewed article that appeared in The Journal of Sustainable Agriculture. Jeavon's food-raising methods are being used in 141 countries and by such organizations as UNICEF, Save the Children, and the Peace Corps. www.johnjeavons.info

Kerry Crofton, PhD, is a health educator, and the director of Well Being International. Her new book, Wireless Radiation Rescue, is the first to bring together the research and recommendations of the world's leading scientists and clinicians, both for the general public and other health care professionals. Dr. Crofton is a member of the International EMF Alliance, a consortium of leading experts in this
field. www.radiationrescue.org

Talal Jabari is a Palestinian/American journalist and film maker. He has covered the escalating global violence for such prominent news sources as BBC World Service, South Florida Sun-Sentinel, and Al Ahram Weekly. In 2002, Talal jumped into TV news as an associate producer for CBS News as well as a field producer for the CBS news magazine 60 Minutes. Talal's later became a line producer and production coordinator of an award-winning 5-documentary film series entitled "The Shape of the Future." Has well as producing 4 episodes for Al Jazeera Documentary Channel's flagship 8-part series: "Israel from Within". His most recent project is the documentary, Full Signal: The Hidden Cost of Cell Phones. http://fullsignalmovie.com

Derrick Jensen: Listening to the Voices of the Natural World
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Derrick Jensen is an American author and environmental activist. Jensen is a leading voice of cultural dissent. He explores the nature of injustice, how civilizations devastate the natural world, and how human beings retreat into denial at the destruction of the planet. His work examines the central question, “If the destruction of the natural world isn’t making us happy, then why are we doing it?” Jensen and Keith are the authors of Deep Green Resistance. His new book Dreams, is about to be released and the subject of this show. www.derrickjensen.org

Lierre Keith and Derrick Jensen: Deep Green Resistance
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Lierre Keith is an American writer, radical feminist, food activist, and radical environmentalist. Keith's most recent book The Vegetarian Myth: Food, Justice, and Sustainability is an examination of the ecological effects of agriculture and vegetarianism. Keith is associated with the Deep Green Resistance movement. Her views have attracted negative attention from some vegetarians, what one journalist has called a "Vegan War". Keith is currently working on a book with Aric McBay and Derrick Jensen about "resistance strategy" as part of the Deep Green Resistance movement. http://www.lierrekeith.com

Derrick Jensen is an American author and environmental activist. Jensen has published several books questioning and critiquing contemporary society and its values. Jensen is a leading voice of cultural dissent. He explores the nature of injustice, how civilizations devastate the natural world, and how human beings retreat into denial at the destruction of the planet. His work examines the central question, “If the destruction of the natural world isn’t making us happy, then why are we doing it?” Jensen and Keith are the authors of the soon to be released Deep Green Resistance http://www.derrickjensen.org

Van Jones (43:36) listen (to download, right click "Save Link As" (IE "Save Target As")
A social activist and co-founded of the Ella Baker Center for Human Rights, which promotes positive alternatives to violence and incarceration. As an advocate for the toughest urban constituencies and causes Van is working to combine solutions to America's two biggest problems: social inequality and environmental destruction. Van is an advocate for the toughest urban constituencies and causes. http://www.vanjones.net

Mary Jorgensen: The Freedom Riders
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It has been 50 years since the Freedom Riders boarded buses, trains and planes bound for the Deep South to challenge that region's outdated Jim Crow laws. The Freedom Rides were intended to highlight the South's non-compliance with a U.S. Supreme Court decision that prohibited segregation in all interstate public transportation facilities. This week, many of the estimated 350 Freedom Riders who put their lives on the line are making their way to a reunion in Chicago — and to join in the taping of a show about the Freedom Rides on the Oprah Winfrey Show, set to air May 4. Nevada City resident and longtime peace activist Mary Jorgensen, 94, plans to be on hand. Check out this aricle in the The Union newspaper for more info Freedom Riders article

Bradford Keeney, Ph.D. The Bushman Way of Tracking God (54:14) listen (to download, right click "Save Link As" (IE "Save Target As")
Bradford Keeney, Ph.D. is an American psychotherapist, ethnographer, and cybernetician. He has been called "an all-American shaman, the Marco Polo of psychology, and an anthropologist of the spirit" by the editors of Utne Reader. Author of more than thirty books in the fields of psychotherapy, cybernetics, and ethnographies of healing traditions, many of his works are considered classics in their fields. www.shakingmedicine.com

Jeff Klein: Working for Good (49:41) listen (to download, right click "Save Link As" (IE "Save Target As")
Jeff Klein is the CEO of Cause Alliance Marketing, an organization that designs and produces collaborative cause-related marketing programs that address social issues while fulfilling the business objectives of alliance partners. He currently serves as Executive Director for FLOW, a nonprofit dedicated to "liberating the entrepreneurial spirit for good." www.workingforgood.com

Dennis Klocek: Climate: The Soul of the Earth
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Dennis Klocek is director of the Consciousness Studies Program "Goethean Studies" at Rudolf Steiner College in Sacramento CA. Dennis is engaged in research, teaching, and writing in many fields, including weather, gardening, color therapy, meditation and the human organism, embryology, and sensory transformation. His books include Bio-Dynamic Book of Moons, Weather and Cosmology, Drawing from the Book of Nature, Seeking Spirit Vision, and Climate: Soul of the Earth. Dennis also oversees Doc Weather, "a unique website that is based on a climatic technique that interfaces daily weather data from the National Weather Service into a geometrical system that is the result of twenty-four years of experimental work. www.dennisklocek.com

Dr. David C. Korten: The Great Turning (46:23) listen (to download, right click "Save Link As" (IE "Save Target As")
Author, teacher, publisher and lecturer, David Korten has over thirty-five years of experience in preeminent business, academic, and international development institutions. He is a major contributor to the report of the International Forum on Globalization on Alternatives to Economic Globalization. His most recent book is The Great Turning: From Empire to Earth Community. For more go to www.davidkorten.org

David Korten, Sarah Ruth van Gelder, Dot Maver David Korten, Sarah Van Gelder and Dot Maver: Global Peace, a Possibility (1:29:24)
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Dr. David C. Korten is an author, teacher, publisher and lecturer, David has over thirty-five years of experience in preeminent business, academic, and international development institutions. His most recent book is The Great Turning: From Empire to Earth Community. www.davidkorten.org
Sarah Ruth van Gelder is co-founder and executive editor of YES! A Journal of Positive Futures, which explore possibilities and practical steps towards a more just, sustainable and compassionate world.
Dr. Dot Maver is the president and CEO of Peace Partnership International, which works to forge alliances with government, business and civil society to co-create a culture of peace. Dot served as the National Campaign Manager for the 2004 Dennis Kucinich for President campaign. www.peacepartintl.org

Dr. David C. Korten: Agenda for a New Economy (59:32) listen (to download, right click "Save Link As" (IE "Save Target As")
Dr. David C. Korten: Author, teacher, publisher and lecturer, David Korten has over thirty-five years of experience in preeminent business, academic, and international development institutions. He is a major contributor to the report of the International Forum on Globalization on Alternatives to Economic Globalization. www.davidkorten.org

Patt Lind-Kyle: Heal Your Mind Rewire Your Brain (49:43) listen (to download, right click "Save Link As" (IE "Save Target As")
Pat is a teacher, consultant, and innovator in the use of brain/mind research to teach people meditation and mental tools for transforming their lives and communities. She has a passion to question, explore, research and then create programs and methods that enhance the lives of others. www.healrewireyourbrain.com

Osprey Orielle Lake, MA: Uprisings For the Earth: Reconnecting Culture with Nature
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Osprey Orielle Lake, is a lifelong advocate of social and environmental justice issues. She is the Director of the Women's Earth and Climate Caucus, on the governing Board of Praxis Peace Institute and an advisor to the International Eco-Cities Standards initiative. Osprey has traveled to five continents studying ancient and modern cultures while making presentations at international conferences and universities. Her themes concern new cultural narratives and the way public imagery and stories either enhance or distance our relationship with the Earth. Her book, Uprisings for the Earth: Reconnecting Culture with Nature, has just been released. www.ospreyoriellelake.com

Linda Lantieri: Building Emotional Intelligence (45:08) listen (to download, right click "Save Link As" (IE "Save Target As")Joanna Macy: Buddhist Linda Lantieri is a Fulbright Scholar, keynote speaker, and internationally known expert in social and emotional learning and conflict resolution, Linda Lantieri, serves as Director of The Inner Resilience Program, co-founder of the Resolving Conflict Creatively Program (RCCP) and is one of the founding board members of the Collaborative for Academic, Social, and Emotional Learning (CASEL). www.lindalantieri.org

Gail Larsen: If You Want to Change the World, Tell a Better Story (52:15)
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Gail Larsen is a communications coach, speaker and workshop leader, group facilitator, and an award-winning entrepreneur. She founded Real Speaking in 1991 to support her clients in mining the deep well of their life experience and self-expression to become powerful platform speakers. www.realspeaking.net

Janet Larsen & Matthew Stein: Making Shift Happen (53:49) listen (to download, right click "Save Link As" (IE "Save Target As")
Janet Larsen, is the Director of Research for the Earth Policy Institute, working with Lester Brown on Plan B 4.0 Mobilizing to Save Civilization. She is a co-author of The Earth Policy Reader and has written on topics ranging from natural resources availability to population growth and climate change. www.earth-policy.org
Matthew Stein is the author of the highly praised book When Technology Fails a comprehensive manual on sustainable living skills. As the owner of Stein Design & Construction, he has built hurricane resistant, energy efficient and environmentally friendly homes. www.whentechfails.com

Kathy Lemay: Financing Social Change
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Kathy LeMay is the founder, president, and CEO of Raising Change, which helps organizations raise capital to advance social change agendas and individuals create Generosity Plans to help change the world. LeMay, who began her global activism in war-torn Yugoslavia where she worked with women survivors of the siege and rape-genocide camps, has been a social change fundraiser for 15 years, raising more than $150 million dollars in the fields of women's human rights, hunger and poverty relief, and movement building. In addition she has directed an additional $100 million in philanthropic dollars to organizations working to make a difference. www.raisingchange.com

Melanie Lenart, Ph.D Life in the Hothouse: How a Living Planet Survives Climate Change
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An award-winning journalist, Melanie Lenart, Ph.D., is an environmental scientist and writer specializing in climate change and forests. As a scientist, she studied forest dynamics in China, Colorado, and Puerto Rico, where she lived during two major hurricanes. She was involved in an Arizona agricultural experiment testing how plants responded to elevated levels of carbon dioxide, the main greenhouse gas responsible for the ongoing warming of the planet. www.u.arizona.edu/~mlenart/index.php

Melanie Lenart, Ph.D; Roger Pielke, Jr.; and Jim Miller Ph.D on our Climate and Changing Ecosystem…
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Melanie Lenart, Ph.D., is an award-winning journalist, is environmental scientist and writer specializing in climate change and forests. As a scientist, she studied forest dynamics in China, Colorado, and Puerto Rico, where she lived during two major hurricanes. She was involved in an Arizona agricultural experiment testing how plants responded to elevated levels of carbon dioxide, the main greenhouse gas responsible for the ongoing warming of the planet. www.melanielenart.com

Roger Pielke, Jr. is a professor of environmental studies at the Center for Science and Technology Policy Research at the University of Colorado at Boulder. He also has appointments as a Visiting Senior Fellow, Mackinder Programme, London School of Economics and Senior Visiting Fellow at the Consortium for Science, Policy and Outcomes at Arizona State University. Pielke is also a Senior Fellow of The Breakthrough Institute, a progressive think tank. His latest book is The Climate Fix: What Scientists and Politicians won't tell you about Global Warming. http://sciencepolicy.colorado.edu/about_us/meet_us/roger_pielke/

Jim Miller, Phd is a professor of Climate Modeling and Climate Change at Rutgers University. He is co-editor of "Scientists Debate Gaia: The Next Century". Miller's current work focuses on the effects of climate dynamics on the Arctic and the Tibetan Plateau. He has been involved in PlanSmart New Jersey's Climate Change Report: Protecting New Jersey's Natural Capital. http://www.newschool.edu/nssr/faculty.aspx?id=10346

Noah Levine: Practices for Spiritual Revolutionaries
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Noah Levine, the author of Dharma Punx, is a Buddhist teacher, counselor, and writer who moved from a life of addiction and crime to one of service. He has been practicing Buddhist meditation since 1988, was trained to teach by Jack Kornfield, and leads meditation groups and workshops nationally as well as in Juvenile halls and prisons. Levin has helped thousands of young people find freedom from suffering and self-destruction. www.dharmapunx.com

Joanna Macy: On War and Peace
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Buddhist Scholar, Systems Theorist, Ecologist, Teacher, and Activist. Joanna addresses the reasons for the grief, fear, sadness, uncertainty, and numbness that prevail in modern life and keeps bringing attention back to what is sacred and true: the wondrously interconnected and intelligent web of life. Joanna is just returning from a 3-month meditation. For more go to www.joannamacy.net

Joanna Macy: The Great Turning (19:31) listen (to download, right click "Save Link As" (IE "Save Target As")
Joanna is a Buddhist Scholar, Systems Theorist, Ecologist, Teacher, and Activist. www.joannamacy.net

Joanna Macy: Lessons from Rumi (48:11) listen (to download, right click "Save Link As" (IE "Save Target As")Joanna Macy: Buddhist Scholar, Systems Theorist, Ecologist, Teacher, and Activist. Joanna addresses the reasons for the grief, fear, sadness, uncertainty, and numbness that prevail in modern life and keeps bringing attention back to what is sacred and true: the wondrously interconnected and intelligent web of life. www.joannamacy.net

Joanna Macy: World As Lover, World As Self (42:17) listen (to download, right click "Save Link As" (IE "Save Target As")
Buddhist Scholar, Systems Theorist, Ecologist, Teacher, and Activist. Joanna addresses the reasons for the grief, fear, sadness, uncertainty, and numbness that prevail in modern life and keeps bringing attention back to what is sacred and true: the wondrously interconnected and intelligent web of life. For more go to www.joannamacy.net

Gary Malkin: Innertainment: Media Medicine for the Mind, Heart, and Soul
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Gary Malkin is an emmy award-winning composer/producer and performer dedicated to making a difference in the world by participating in projects that inspire the heart and catalyze social change. Gary is launching a new genre in media, something he calls "Innertainment: Media Medicine for the Mind, Heart, and Soul." His hope and prayer is that we can begin to understand how media, like anything, is a form of energy that either inspires or robs us of our core well-being. garymalkin.com

Vin Marti Vinn Marti: Soul Motion (55:12) listen (to download, right click "Save Link As" (IE "Save Target As")
Award winning performer, choreographer, and designer of the dance practice, Soul Motion™, Vinn Martí served as co-director of Portland Oregon's innovative movement arts studio, Body Moves for 18 years. Vinn now leads workshops and seminars internationally teaching Soul Motion™, a movement ministry of conscious dance as a design for experiencing movement as meditation. www.soulmotion.com

Bill McKibben: Making a life on a touch new planet
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Bill McKibben is an American environmentalist and writer who frequently writes about global warming, alternative energy and localized economies. In 2010 the Boston Globe called him "probably the nation's leading environmentalist" and Time magazine described him as "the world's best green journalist. He is the founder of 350.org He is also the author of many books including The End of Nature which has been translated into 20 languages and his latest Earth: making a life on a tough new planet. www.billmckibben.com

	Bill Ryerson, Laurie Mazur & David Poindexter: Population (50:21) listen (to download, right click "Save Link As" (IE "Save Target As") William Ryerson is the founder and president of Population Media center and has a 37-year history of working in the field of reproductive health using behavior change communications in various cultural settings worldwide. He has also been involved in the design of research of numerous projects to measure the effects of such projects.
	Laurie Mazur is the editor of A Pivotal Moment: Population, Justice & The Environmental Challenge, is the director of the Population Justice Project, and has worked for years as an independent writer and consultant specializing in population, environment, and sexual and reproductive health and rights issues.
	David Poindexter is Population Media Center’s Honorary Chair, has 38 years of experience in designing and implementing reproductive health communications programs in developing countries, using the entertainment-education methodology created by Miguel Sabido.

Jason F Mclennan and Lynn Simon: Green Architecture (48:58) listen (to download, right click "Save Link As" (IE "Save Target As")
Jason is a national leader in the green architecture movement and is considered a thought leader in sustainability. Jason is the CEO of the Cascadia Green Building Council based in Seattle, Washington. He began Ecotone Publishing to provide information to the design community and building industry about finding a path to a sustainable future. He is the author of The Philosophy of Sustainable Design, and the Dumb Architect’s Guide to Glazing Selection as well as a co-author of the Ecological Engineer. www.cascadiagbc.org
Lynn N. Simon, FAIA, LEED AP, is President of Simon & Associates, Inc., Green Building Consultants, which she established in 1994. Lynn is a green building pioneer. As a leading authority in the industry Lynn has been at the forefront of the sustainable design movement since 1989. www.greenbuild.com

Nipun Mehta: Gift economies of the future
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Nipun Mehta is the co-founder of CharityFocus.org-- a fully volunteer-run organization that leverages technology to inspire greater volunteerism and shift our cultural ethos towards generosity. CharityFocus has grown into an incubator of "gift-economy" projects ranging from web services to a film production company to a print magazine to a restaurant; with a growing membership base of 200K, they serve millions of global viewers to their websites and send more than 50 million solicited newsletters every year. In 2005, Nipun and his wife embarked on an unscripted walking pilgrimage in India that dramatically deepened their understanding of gift-economy values. Nipun’s mission statement of his life simply reads: "Bring smiles in the world and stillness in my heart." www.charityfocus.org

Emmett Miller: Our Culture on the Couch Seven Steps to Global Healing (56:19)
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Dr. Miller is a physician, poet, musician, and master storyteller, whose multicultural heritage has given him a unique social, medical, and spiritual perspective. In his latest book Our Culture on the Couch, Seven Steps to Global Healing, Dr. Miller performs a thorough examination, arriving at accurate diagnoses for the serious ailments that currently threaten our civilization. www.drmiller.com

Richard Miller, PhD: Integrative Restoration for Awakening (56:26) listen (to download, right click "Save Link As" (IE "Save Target As")Richard Miller, PhD is a clinical psychologist and contemporary spiritual teacher in the tradition of Nondual Yoga. Richard is the founding president and CEO of the Integrative Restoration Institute, co-founder of The International Association of Yoga Therapy and founding editor of the professional Journal of IAYT. He is the author of Yoga Nidra: The Meditative Heart of Yoga. www.irest.us

Michael Nagler: Search for a Nonviolent Future (54:37) listen (to download, right click "Save Link As" (IE "Save Target As")
Michael Nagler is Professor emeritus of Classics and Comparative Literature at UC, Berkeley, where he co-founded the Peace and Conflict Studies Program, and the founder of the Metta Center for Nonviolence. He is the author of The Search for a Nonviolent FutureOur Spiritual Crisis: Recovering Human Wisdom in a Time of Violence, The Upanishads and other books as well as many articles on peace and spirituality. www.michaelnagler.net

Itara O'Connell: Non-Violent Communication (54:16) listen (to download, right click "Save Link As" (IE "Save Target As")
For the past eight years Itara has been teaching Nonviolent Communication, facilitating skill building for inner peace, mediation for couples and helping organizations become more collaborative in their approach. Itara's background is in education and social work. www.restorativecommunication.org

David Orr: Down to the Wire (50:49) listen (to download, right click "Save Link As" (IE "Save Target As")
David W. Orr is perhaps best known for his pioneering work on environmental literacy in higher education and his recent work in ecological design. He is the author of numerous books and hundreds of articles on ecological and design issues including The Last Refuge: The Corruption of Patriotism in the Age of Terror. Dr. Orr serves on the Boards of the Rocky Mountain Institute (CO), Second Nature (MA), the Center for Ecoliteracy (CA), and the Center for Respect of Life and Environment. www.davidworr.com

Bill Plotkin: Nature and the Human Soul (56:36) listen (to download, right click "Save Link As" (IE "Save Target As")
Bill Plotkin, PhD, is a depth psychologist, wilderness rites guide, and ecotherapist. As the founder of Colorado’s Animas Valley Institute, he has, since 1981, guided thousands of people through nature-based initiatory passages He is the author of Soulcraft: Crossing into the Mysteries of Nature and Psyche (New World Library, 2003) and Nature and the Human Soul: Cultivating Wholeness and Community in a Fragmented World (New World Library, 2008). www.natureandthehumansoul.com

	Bill Ryerson, Laurie Mazur & David Poindexter: Population (50:21) listen (to download, right click "Save Link As" (IE "Save Target As") William Ryerson is the founder and president of Population Media center and has a 37-year history of working in the field of reproductive health using behavior change communications in various cultural settings worldwide. He has also been involved in the design of research of numerous projects to measure the effects of such projects.
	Laurie Mazur is the editor of A Pivotal Moment: Population, Justice & The Environmental Challenge, is the director of the Population Justice Project, and has worked for years as an independent writer and consultant specializing in population, environment, and sexual and reproductive health and rights issues.
	David Poindexter is Population Media Center’s Honorary Chair, has 38 years of experience in designing and implementing reproductive health communications programs in developing countries, using the entertainment-education methodology created by Miguel Sabido.

Professor John A. Powell: Race, Ethnicity, Poverty and the Law
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Professor John A. Powell, is an internationally recognized authority in the areas of civil rights, civil liberties, and issues relating to race, ethnicity, poverty and the law. He is the Executive Director of the Kirwan Institute for the Study of Race and Ethnicity at Ohio State University. He has written extensively on a number of issues including structural racism/racialization, racial justice and regionalism, concentrated poverty and urban sprawl, opportunity-based housing, voting rights, affirmative action in the United States, South Africa and Brazil, racial and ethnic identity, spirituality and social justice, and the needs of citizens in a democratic society. www.kirwaninstitute.org

William Powers: Living a meaningful life (50:23) listen (to download, right click "Save Link As" (IE "Save Target As")
William Powers has worked for over a decade in development aid and conservation in Latin America, Africa, Washington, D.C., and Native North America. His essays and commentaries on global issues have appeared in the New York Times and the International Herald Tribune, and on National Public Radio. He is the author of numerous books including the soon to be released, 12x12 about living off the grid and simplifying life. www.williampowersbooks.com

Joel Salatin and Rita de Quercus: Nevada County Sustainable Local Food & Farming Conference!
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Joel Salatin of Polyface Farm will be one of several prominent national speakers at the upcoming Sustainable Local Food and Farming Conference, scheduled for January 22nd. The event features a full day of lectures on the subjects of sustainable agriculture, farm to consumer direct marketing, and raising nutrient dense food and much more. The mission of Nevada County Grown is to foster a sustainable local agricultural economy by making the community aware of locally grown agricultural products and assisting qualified agricultural producers to promote their products. For more information go to www.nevadacountygrown.org

Raffi Cavoukian: Child Honouring and the Compassion Revolution
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Raffi Cavoukian is known to millions simply as Raffi, a renowned Canadian singer once called "the most popular children's entertainer in the western world" (Washington Post). Raffi is also a renaissance man: record producer, author, systems thinker, ecology advocate and entrepreneur. Raffi's work has changed: he has become a "global troubadour", lecturing and networking to help create a viable future: a restorative, child-friendly world for ourselves and for those to come. Raffi is chair of the Board of Directors for the new Centre for Child Honouring on Salt Spring Island, British Columbia, which serves as an education hub for the advancement of Child Honouring as a universal ethic. www.childhonouring.org

Carolyn Raffensperger: The Precautionary Prinicpal (44:47) listen (to download, right click "Save Link As" (IE "Save Target As")
Author, activist, archaeologist and Executive Director of the Science and Environmental Health Network. As an environmental lawyer she specializes in the fundamental changes in law and policy necessary for the protection and restoration of public health and the environment. For more go to www.sehn.org

Jeremy Rifkin: The Empathic Civilization (53:33) listen (to download, right click "Save Link As" (IE "Save Target As")
Jeremy Rifkin is the founder and president of the Foundation On Economic Trends and creator of the Third Industrial Revolution. He is an American economist, writer, public speaker and activist who seeks to shape public policy in the United States, the European Union, and around the world. He is the bestselling author of 16 books on the impact of scientific and technological changes on the economy, the workforce, society, and the environment. His latest book is The Empathic Civilization: Rethinking human Nature in the Biosphere Era. http://www.foet.org/

Gary Malkin and Freddie Ravel: Making a Difference with the Arts (57.04)
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Gary Malkin is an award-winning composer/producer and performer dedicated to making a difference in the world by participating in projects that inspire the heart and catalyze social change. Freddie Ravel’s talent took him from child prodigy to a GRAMMY nominated Composer, Pianist, #1 Recording Artist, and Speaker. wisdomoftheworld.com freddieravel.com

Jess Rimington and guests: One World Youth Project
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Jess Rimington is a social entrepreneur, spoken word artist and global advocate for the power of international grass roots communication to ignite crowd-accelerated innovation and affect local social change. Jess serves as Executive Director and Founder of One World Youth Project, a youth-for-youth powered movement linking schools globally in service-learning to prepare the next generation for the globalized 21st century. She will be joined on Conversations with members of her staff as well as local youth activists. www.oneworldyouthproject.org

Velcrow Ripper: Fierce Light: Where Spirit meets Action (55:13) listen (to download, right click "Save Link As" (IE "Save Target As")
Acclaimed filmmaker, writer, sound designer, and media activist Velcrow Ripper creates powerful, cinematic documentaries, dramas and non-fiction novels that deal with the central issues of our times. His over 30 films include the multi-award winning feature documentary sensation, ScaredSacred, and FierceLight: When Spirit Meets Action www.velcrowripper.com

John Robbins: The New Good Life: Living Better Than Ever in an Age of Less
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John Robbins is a bestselling author, social activist, and humanitarian. He is the recipient of the Rachel Carson Award, the Albert Schweitzer Humanitarian Award, the Peace Abbey's Courage of Conscience Award, and Green America's Lifetime Achievement Award. John's latest book is The New Good Life: Living Better Than Ever in an Age of Less. He is also author of many other books including the international bestseller Diet for a New America and the Food Revolution. John serves on the Boards of many non-profit groups working toward a thriving, just, and sustainable way of life. www.johnrobbins.info

Vimala Rodgers: Handwriting for Peace - Part 1 (28:14) listen (to download, right click "Save Link As" (IE "Save Target As")
Vimala Rodgers is a handwriting specialist, educator, zealous pioneer in brain/hand research, and author of the bestseller, Your Handwriting Can Change Your Life. She guides persons from the ages of 3 to 103 in adopting handwriting patterns that bring to life their unique gifts, abilities, and dreams, so they can make a difference in the world doing what they love. www.alphabeticalblessings.com

Gabrielle Roth: Transformation and the Arts (43:31) listen (to download, right click "Save Link As" (IE "Save Target As")
Known as the "urban shaman”, Gabrielle is a recording and performing artist, author, teacher, director and creator of the 5Rhythms school of moving meditation and ecstatic dance. www.gabrielleroth.com

Gabrielle Roth: Dancing with Chaos (44:25) listen (to download, right click "Save Link As" (IE "Save Target As")
Known as the "urban shaman", Gabrielle is a recording and performing artist, author, teacher, director and creator of the 5Rhythms school of moving meditation and ecstatic dance. www.gabrielleroth.com

Gabrielle Roth: Balancing Intuition, Instinct and Intellect
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Gabrielle Roth makes records that people can move to. She is a recording and performing artist, author, teacher, director and creator of the 5Rhythms school of moving meditation and ecstatic dance. The sound of Roth and her band The Mirrors ranges from world music to urban street beat to the chant of Buddhist mantras. Gabrielle is the author of 3 books including the latest Connections: The Five Threads to Intuitive Wisdom. www.gabrielleroth.com

Peter Russell (38:29) listen (to download, right click "Save Link As" (IE "Save Target As")
Physicist, psychologist, eco-philosopher, teacher, lecturer and author of numerous books and videos. His principal interest is the deeper, spiritual significance of the times we are passing through. www.peterrussell.com

	Bill Ryerson, Laurie Mazur & David Poindexter: Population (50:21) listen (to download, right click "Save Link As" (IE "Save Target As") William Ryerson is the founder and president of Population Media center and has a 37-year history of working in the field of reproductive health using behavior change communications in various cultural settings worldwide. He has also been involved in the design of research of numerous projects to measure the effects of such projects.
	Laurie Mazur is the editor of A Pivotal Moment: Population, Justice & The Environmental Challenge, is the director of the Population Justice Project, and has worked for years as an independent writer and consultant specializing in population, environment, and sexual and reproductive health and rights issues.
	David Poindexter is Population Media Center’s Honorary Chair, has 38 years of experience in designing and implementing reproductive health communications programs in developing countries, using the entertainment-education methodology created by Miguel Sabido.

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Elisabet Sahtouris, Ph.D: Earth Dance: (53:12) listen (to download, right click "Save Link As" (IE "Save Target As")
Elisabet Sahtouris, Ph.D-- internationally known as a dynamic speaker and media personality-- is an evolution biologist, futurist, author and consultant on Living Systems Design. Dr. Sahtouris shows the relevance of biological systems to organizational design in businesses, government and global trade. Her books include A Walk Through Time: from Stardust to Us, Biology Revisioned, co-authored with Willis Harman, and EarthDance: Living Systems in Evolution. www.sahtouris.com

Sharon Salzberg: Force of Kindness
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Sharon Salzberg is one of America’s leading spiritual teachers and authors. She is the cofounder of the Insight Meditation Society in Barre, Massachusetts. Sharon has played a crucial role in bringing Asian meditation practices to the West. The ancient Buddhist practices of vipassana (mindfulness) and metta (loving kindness) are the foundations of her work. In her book The Force of Kindness, Sharon offers practical instruction on how we can cultivate kindness within ourselves. www.sharonsalzberg.com

Sark: Transforming Loss & Change into Gift & Opportunity
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Sark (Susan Ariel Rainbow Kennedy) is a best selling author and artist who has empowered millions to live their creative dreams, manage their businesses, and savor personal connections… Her books have sold over two million copies. She is the founder and creative fountain of Planet SARK, A thriving business that creates fabulous products and services to support empowered living. www.planetsark.com

Lisa Schrader: Awakening Shakti
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Lisa Schrader, the Founder of Awakening Shakti, has impacted the lives of thousands of women over the past 10 years as a workshop leader, author, speaker and coach. Her work has been featured on Oprah, Oxygen and VH1. She is the author of "Kama Sutra 52: A Year's Worth of the Best Positions for Passion and Pleasure" from Quiver Books. She has a private coaching practice supporting clients worldwide and is certified through the International Coach Federation. www.awakeningshakti.com

Contemporary Slavery and Human Trafficking in Your Backyard! Nicholas Sensley, Chief of Police, Truckee, CA
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Nicholas Sensley, Truckee Police Chief shares about the human trafficking in Nevada County. Contrary to popular opinion, trafficking isn’t just limited to the sex trade. It also appears in the form of domestic servitude, sweatshop factories and migrant agricultural work. Traffickers use violence, fraud and coercion to compel women, men and children into slavery. Many of these victims do not speak or understand English and are unable to communicate with anyone who might be able to help them.”

Scott Seydel: Cradle to Cradle in Action (55.59) listen (to download, right click "Save Link As" (IE "Save Target As")
Scott Seydel is founder and CEO of The Seydel Companies which have earned national recognition for their recycling and resource conservation research. They have contributed to significant reductions in packaging wastes, energy use, greenhouse gasses, and nonrenewable resources, while stimulating resource recycling and environmental stewardship. seydel.com

Rupert Sheldrake: Morphic Resonance (44:11) listen (to download, right click "Save Link As" (IE "Save Target As")
Rupert Sheldrake, one of the world’s most innovative biologists and writers is best known for his theory of morphic fields and morphic resonance, which leads to a vision of a living, developing universe with its own inherent memory. He is the author of numerous books including A New Science of Life: The Hypothesis of Formative Causation which has just been updated and renamed Morphic Resonance. www.sheldrake.org

Nina Simons: UnReasonable Women for the Earth (49:17) listen (to download, right click "Save Link As" (IE "Save Target As")
A social entrepreneur, producer and communicator who has applied an innovative approach to developing successful not-for-profit and for-profit ventures over the past twenty years. She is currently co-executive director of Bioneers/ Collective Heritage Institute. bioneers.org

Nina Simons: Women's leadership and leading from the Feminine
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Nina Simons co-founded Bioneers in 1990, a nonprofit that identifies, promotes and connects breakthrough solutions for our most pressing environmental and social challenges. Previously, she was President of Seeds of Change and Director of Strategic Marketing for Odwalla. Now, Nina translates her life experience to inspire and inform the emerging leadership of others, with an increasing focus on the leadership of women and restoring the 'feminine' within us all. bioneers.org

Nina Simons: Cultivating Women's Leadership (57:19) listen (to download, right click "Save Link As" (IE "Save Target As")
Nina Simons is a social entrepreneur, producer and communicator who has applied an innovative approach to developing successful not-for-profit and for-profit ventures over the past twenty years. She is currently co-executive director of Bioneers/ Collective Heritage Institute. www.bioneers.org

Eliezer Sobel: The 99th Monkey (55:45) listen (to download, right click "Save Link As" (IE "Save Target As")
According to his latest business card, Eliezer Sobel's current job titleis "Human Being." Although, as his wife Shari Cordon points out, "He only works at it part-time." Sobel divides his time between writing, painting, playing music, performing and the life of the spiritual aspirant; suffering, seeking, striving, sitting. The sordid details of that journey are chronicled in his new book, The 99th Monkey: A Spiritual Journalist’s Misadventures with Gurus, Sex, Psycheldelics, and Other Consciousness-Raising Experiments. www.eliezersobel.com

Will Steger: empowering climate change solutions (52:39) listen (to download, right click "Save Link As" (IE "Save Target As")
Will Steger has been an eyewitness to the ongoing catastrophic consequences of global warming. A formidable voice calling for understanding and the preservation of the Arctic and the Earth, Will Steger is best known for his legendary polar explorations. He has traveled tens of thousands of miles by kayak and dog-sled over 45 years. Thus the Will Steger Foundation is educating, inspiring and empowering the public in a campaign to solve global warming. Steger is the author of four books. www.willstegerfoundation.org and www.willsteger.com

Sandra Steingraber, PH. D.: Living a meaningful life (55:33) listen (to download, right click "Save Link As" (IE "Save Target As")
Ecologist, author, and cancer survivor, Sandra Steingraber, Ph.D. is an internationally recognized authority on the environment links to cancer and human health. Steingraber's highly acclaimed book, Living Downstream: An Ecologist's Personal Investigation of Cancer and the Environment presents cancer as a human rights issue. She is also the author of Having Faith: An Ecologist's Journey to Motherhood, explores the intimate ecology of motherhood and was the central figure in the movie Living Downstream. steingraber.com

Mat Stein: Navigating the Coming Chaos Part 2
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Matthew Stein is an MIT-educated engineer, author and building contractor, Matthew Stein has built hurricane-resistant, energy-efficient, and environmentally friendly homes and designed computer disc drives, water filtration devices, solar PV roofing panels, medical bacteriological filters, and automated assembly machinery, among other things. An avid outdoorsman, he currently resides with his wife, Josie, in the High Sierra Mountains near Lake Tahoe, California. His latest book is When Technology Fails: A manual for self-reliance, sustainability, and surviving the long emergency. www.whentechfails.com

Matthew Stein: Emergency Preparation and Crisis Survival
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Matthew Stein is an author, engineer, inventor and specializing in hurricane resistant, energy efficient and environmentally friendly homes. He is the author of When Technology Fails: A Manual for Self-Reliance, Sustainability, and Surviving the Long Emergency. www.whentechfails.com

Matthew Stein: When Technology Fails (57:34) listen (to download, right click "Save Link As" (IE "Save Target As")
Matthew Stein is an author, engineer, inventor and specializing in hurricane resistant, energy efficient and environmentally friendly homes. He is the author of When Technology Fails: A Manual for Self-Reliance, Sustainability, and Surviving the Long Emergency. www.whentechfails.com

Michael K. Stone: Smart by Nature: Schooling for Sustainability (53:11) listen (to download, right click "Save Link As" (IE "Save Target As")Michael K. Stone is senior editor at the Center for Ecoliteracy. He is the author of Smart by Nature: Schooling for Sustainability and coeditor of Ecological Literacy: Educating Our Children for a Sustainable World. Michael was managing editor of Whole Earth Magazine and the Millennium Whole Earth Catalog. www.ecoliteracy.org

Brian Swimme: The Unfolding Story of the Earth (45:41) listen (to download, right click "Save Link As" (IE "Save Target As") An author, teacher, and contemporary philosopher, Brian is a mathematical cosmologist on the graduate faculty of the California Institute of Integral Studies in San Francisco. He brings a unique perspective to the understanding of the 13.7-billion-year trajectory of cosmic genesis, viewing humanity as having evolved out of, and being an integral part of, the universe as a whole. www.brianswimme.org

Thanksgiving Day Special*: Gratitude: A practice (58:53) listen (to download, right click "Save Link As" (IE "Save Target As")
A 2 hour special with Brother David, Lynn Twist, Roshi Joan Halifax. Join Conversations Host Michael Stone for this uplifting and interactive dialogue about gratitude, gratefulness and thanks giving. (*various interview excerpts only)

Ed Tich: War and the Soul, July 26, 2011
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Dr. Edward Tick, author of the groundbreaking book “War and the Soul” and founder of Soldier’s Heart, is a practicing psychotherapist specializing in veterans with PTSD. He has been in private psychotherapy practice since 1975 and began focusing on veteran’s issues in 1979. A practicing psychotherapist for more than 25 years, he is a nationally recognized authority on the psychological, spiritual, historical, and cultural aspects of war in the healing of PTSD. For more go to soldiersheart.net

Ed Tick: War and the Soul (48:37) listen (to download, right click "Save Link As" (IE "Save Target As")
Edward Tick, Ph.D., is an expert on post-traumatic stress disorder. A practicing psychotherapist for more than 25 years, he is a nationally recognized authority on the psychological, spiritual, historical, and cultural aspects of war in the healing of PTSD. For more go to soldiersheart.net

Colin Tipping: Radical Forgiveness (52:30) listen (to download, right click "Save Link As" (IE "Save Target As")
Colin Tipping is the creator of Radical Forgiveness, one the most powerful leading-edge technologies for personal and spiritual growth available today. His book, “Radical Forgiveness: Making Room for the Miracle,” has become an international best-seller, leading to the healing of individuals, families, races, corporations and communities. Tipping has authored other books, including his latest, Getting to Heaven on a Harley: and has many online programs to help people apply the Radical Forgiveness Technology to their lives. www.radicalforgiveness.com

Will Tuttle, Ph.D.: Eating for Spiritual Health and Social Harmony
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Will Tuttle, Ph.D. is a professional pianist, composer, and teacher. For the past fifteen years he has presented at progressive churches, vegetarian and human potential conferences, and intentional communities throughout the country. He trained in Korea as a Zen Buddhist monk and has worked extensively in Tai Chi, yoga, mediation, intuition development, and spiritual healing. He is the author of The World Peace Diet: Eating for Spiritual Health and Social Harmony. http://willtuttle.com

Bill Twist: Environmental and Social Transformation in South America (53:25)
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Bill Twist is a Philanthropist, Activist, Co-Founder and Board President of the Pachamama Alliance, and the President of Champion Securities Company. Bill is a tireless worker for environmental sustainability, social justice and spiritual fulfillment. www.pachamama.org

Lynne Twist: The Soul of Money
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Lynne Twist is a global activist, fundraiser, speaker, consultant, and author. She has dedicated her life to global initiatives that serve the best instincts in all of us. Lynn has raised hundreds of millions of dollars and trained thousands of fundraisers to be more effective in their work. The compelling stories and insights gained from her experiences inspire Lynne's keynotes and workshops, and are the foundation for her best selling, award winning book The Soul of Money. Lynne founded the Soul of Money Institute to express her commitment to supporting and empowering people in finding peace and sufficiency in their relationship with money and the money culture. www.soulofmoney.org

Hank Wesselman Phd: Ancestral Wisdom from a Hawaiian Shaman
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Research paleoanthropologist Hank Wesselman is one of those rare cutting edge scientists who truly walks between the worlds. He has spent much of his life working among traditional tribal peoples, primarily in Africa and Polynesia. For the past 30 years, he has conducted research with an international group of scientists, exploring eastern Africa's Great Rift Valley in search of answers to the mystery of human origins. He is also a shaman in training, now in the 20th year of his apprenticeship. He is the author of many books including his latest, The Bowl of Light. www.sharedwisdom.com

Judy Wicks: Inside the White Dog Cafe (48:31) listen (to download, right click "Save Link As" (IE "Save Target As")
Judy Wicks is owner and founder of Philadelphia’s 25-year-old White Dog Cafe, and a national leader in the local, living economies movement. In 2004, Inc magazine named Judy one of America's 25 most fascinating entrepreneurs, "because she's put in place more progressive business practices per square foot than any other entrepreneur." Judy is also co-founder and chair of the Business Alliance for Local Living Economies (BALLE) and of the Sustainable Business Network of Greater Philadelphia (SBA). www.judywicks.com

S. Brian Wilson: Blood on the Tracks, A nonviolent patriot
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S. Brian Wilson is a Vietnam veteran whose wartime experiences transformed him into a revolutionary nonviolent pacifist. On September 1, 1987, he was thrust into the public eye when he was run over and nearly killed by a U.S. navy Munitions train while engaging in a nonviolent blockade in protest of weapons shipments to El Salvador. Since the 1980's he has continued efforts to educate the public about the diabolical nature of U.S. imperialism while striving to "walk his talk" (on two prosthetic legs and a three-wheeled hand cycle) by creating a model of right livelihood including a simpler lifestyle. brianwillson.com

David Whyte: The Three Marriages (51:59) listen (to download, right click "Save Link As" (IE "Save Target As")
David Whyte, Poet, Author, Lecturer holds a degree in Marine Zoology and has traveled extensively, including living and working as a naturalist guide in the Galapagos Islands and leading anthropological and natural history expeditions in the Andes, the Amazon and the Himalaya. He brings this wealth of experience to his poetry, lectures and workshops. www.davidwhyte.com

Lily Yeh: Inspiration and Community Building
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Lily Yeh is an internationally celebrated artist and award-winning founder and former executive and artistic director of the Village of Arts and Humanities. Since 1986, with the help of neighborhood children and adults, Yeh has built the Village from an abandoned lot into an organization and a community. She has infused the Village with her own artistic sensitivity and vision, collaborating with other artists and community residents to create a place that brings art into both the physical space and daily rhythms of life. Expanding beyond North Philadelphia, Yeh's work has taken her to communities around the world. www.barefootartists.org

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