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Conversations Schedule
Archive of past guests
 Alternate Tuesdays 12:05pm
on KVMR 89.5 fm,
streaming on the web
CONVERSATIONS, a radio show hosted by Michael Stone, brings you leading edge thinkers in the areas of Environmental Restoration, Social Justice and Spiritual fulfillment. We look for positive solutions to local and global issues that leave you touched, moved and inspired to action. Our weekly guests include local and global experts and concerned citizens working together to heal the wounds that separate, alienate and marginalize people...
May 13th Annie Leonard: The Story of Stuff
Annie Leonard is an expert in international sustainability and environmental health issues, with more than 20 years of experience investigating factories and dumps around the world. Working for a sustainable and just world, Annie communicates worldwide about the impact of consumerism and materialism on global economies and international health. Annie’s most recent project, the Story of Stuff, explores the global materials economy and its impact on economy, environment and health. www.storyofstuff.com
May 19th Andrew Harvey: Sacred Activism (On Mon.The Earth Mysteries Hour)
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. http://www.andrewharvey.net/
May 26th Carol Lee and Tim Flinders: (On Mon. The Earth Mysteries Hour)
Carol Lee Flinders received a Ph.D. in Comparative Literature from the University of California at Berkeley, specializing in medieval studies. She has taught courses in mystical literature at UC, Berkeley, and at the Graduate Theological Union in Berkeley. She is currently a Fellow of the Spirituality and Health Institute, at Santa Clara University. Carol's latest book is Enduring Lives: Living Portraits of Women of Faith In Action.
Tim Flinders graduated from the University of California, Berkeley where he studied English and Sanskrit literature. An educator and writer, he has worked with gifted children for over two decades, and has written about gifted education, Gandhian nonviolence, and health and spirituality. His writings on nonviolence appear in Gandhi the Man and Nonviolent Soldier of Islam. He is also the author of Power and Promise.
Carol and Tim are founders of Two Rock Institute, which seeks to create a new kind of human story, one that fills in some gaps left in our history, while charting new possibilities for today and tomorrow.
May 27th Gary Malkin & Freddie Ravel: Making a Difference with the Arts
Gary Malkin is an award-winning composer/producer, performer, and recording artist, dedicated to making a difference in the world by participating in projects that inspire the heart and catalyze social change. He is also a sought-after speaker who is articulate about the healing role music and the arts can play in health care. He is passionate about furthering the integration of interfaith spirituality into the many facets of our society. Gary has enjoyed a highly successful career for over twenty years, having received seven Emmys and six ASCAP awards acknowledging his music in film and television, commercials and CD production. www.wisdomoftheworld.com
Freddie Ravel’s talent took him from child prodigy to a GRAMMY nominated Composer, Pianist, #1 Recording Artist, and Speaker. His passion for bridging communication through Music propelled him to over two decades of international acclaim and the creation of Tune Up to Success®, an unprecedented interactive program that presents Music as a perfect metaphor for the dynamics of business and social networking. Freddie began performing around the World with Brazilian icon Sergio Mendes by age 23 where Universal Records discovered & quickly signed the young artist. He is just finishing his fourth solo album, New Life. www.freddieravel.com
June 3rd Richard Heinberg: Peak Everything (Pledge Drive Gifts)
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 Peak Everything: Waking up to a Century of Decline. www.richardheinberg.com
June 3rd (1pm) GMOs and the Future of Food (Pledge Drive Gifts)
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 the primary element in passing Measure H, which bans the planting of genetically engineered crops in the county. It is the first time U.S. citizens have voted on this very important issue. Her film, The Future of Food is available on DVD
Jeffrey M. Smith is a leading spokesperson on the health dangers of Genetically Modified Organisms (GMOs). His first book, on the serious yet unknown side effects of genetically engineered foods, was Seeds of Deception. It became the world’s best-selling book on the health risks of GMOs and is credited with motivating changes in consumer buying habits to safer, non-GMO foods. His second book, Genetic Roulette shows how the world’s most powerful Ag biotech companies bluff and mislead critics, Congress and the FDA about food safety research for the products Americans buy everyday. http://www.responsibletechnology.org
June 10th Richard Manning: How Agriculture Has Hijacked Civilization
Richard Manning is an award-winning environmentalist author and journalist. He worked as a journalist, reporter, and editor for 15 years, including 4 at the Missoulian. He lives in a log cabin he built with his wife (the subject of his second book) in Lolo, Montana. He writes about the social, political, and environmental threats to America's West. He has a particular interest in the history and future of the American prairie. His latest book, Against the Grain: How Agriculture Has Hijacked Civilization is a succinct, well-researched, solution-oriented and mind-altering.
June 24th Scott Seydel: Cradle to Cradle in Action
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. Scott is the Board Chairman of Global Green, the U.S. National Chapter of former Soviet President Gorbachev’s Green Cross International, Founder of the Manhattan Prospect addressing diversion of New York City’s 20 mm lbs/day of garbage exports, and Chairman of the Board of the GreenBlue Institute founded by William McDonough.
July 8th Nina Simons: UnReasonable Women for the Earth
Nina Simons is a social entrepreneur and co-founder and co-president of Bioneers. Previously, she served as president of Seeds of Change and as director of strategic marketing for Odwalla. In addition to advancing practical social and environmental strategies, Nina has an enduring interest in the leadership of women and girls and is a key player in the progressive women’s movement and the environmental restoration at its heart. Nina and her partner and co-founder of Bioneers, Kenny Ausubel, received the Green Cross Millennium Award for Community Environmental Leadership in 2006. http://www.bioneers.org
July 22nd Ray Anderson: Commerce and Ecology
Ray Anderson is an author, entrepreneur, speaker, and Founder and Chairman of Interface, Inc., a leading carpet manufacturer and innovator in industrial ecology. With the vision of becoming the world's first environmentally restorative company by 2020, Interface is pioneering management and manufacturing processes that will achieve this goal. Ray experienced an epiphany when he first read Paul Hawken's, The Ecology of Commerce. http://www.interfaceinc.com/who/founder.html
August 5th Palden Gaytso: Fire Under the Snow
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/
August 19th David Korten and others: Global Peace, a possibility
Dr. David C. Korten: Author, teacher, publisher and lecturer, David 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. www.davidkorten.org
August 19th TBA
September 2nd Dwight Hopkins: Being Human: Race, Culture and Religion
Dwight Hopkins is 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
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