Hour Program Summaries from 2004/2005
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#455 - 8/15/05 - 55:00
Guest: George Bowering
Length: 55:00
Contact: George Bowering
Summary: The first Parliamentary Poet Laureate of Canada, and co-founder of the legendary Vancouver poetry group known as Tish, discussed Open Form in North American poetry, his experience as Poet Laureate, the Tish group, and his influences including William Carlos Williams.
This program was not produced for broadcast, but for people interested in Open Form in North American Poetry. It was recorded during the 10th annual Victoria School of Writing Summer School, in Victoria, British Columbia and proceeds from the sale of this CD will enable continued study of this tradition and make future interviews on this tradition available.
Guest: Christopher Hansard
Length: 55:00
Contact: Bon Medicine
Date Aired: This program was produced after GVR ended regular syndication.
Summary: A Tibetan Bon Master Physician and Lha Khu, trained from age 4 in that tradition, Christopher Hansard discussed the Bon healing tradition items from his book The Tibetan Art of Positive Thinking and his ideas about 20th century American Poetry.
This program was not produced for broadcast, but for people interested in the Tibetan Dur Bon Tradition and the work of Christopher Hansard. It was recorded on an island in Clayoquot Sound, British Columbia and proceeds from the sale of this CD will enable continued study of this tradition and make future interviews on this tradition available.
Global Voices Radio is a non-profit organization which has created over 450 hours of original programming. Many CD’s, including an earlier interview with Christopher Hansard are available for a suggested donation of $15.00 U.S. to Global Voices Radio. On-line contributions are possible through our Paypal account at: Contact and all contributions support the continued maintenance of this archive.
#450 - 9/05/04 - 54:00
Guest: Kathleen Dean Moore
Length: 22:00
Contact: Riverwalking.com
Date Aired: 9/05/04
Summary: The former Chair of the Philosophy Department at Oregon State University, Kathleen Dean Moore, is the author of The Pine Island Paradox, a collection of essays about her experience and thoughts about the natural world. She discussed the disconnection to nature inherent in Western Philosophers like Rene Decartes and how the limits of that thought is endangering all the systems that make life on the planet possible.
Subject: Evolution of Philosophy – Reconnecting to the Natural, II
Guest: Kathleen Dean Moore
Length: 22:00
Contact: Riverwalking.com
Date Aired: 9/05/04
Summary: The former Chair of the Philosophy Department at Oregon State University and author of The Pine Island Paradox, Kathleen Dean Moore, continued her discussion about the disconnection to nature inherent in Western Philosophers and the ramifications of the transcendence of that philosophy such as the removal of large power-generating dams.
#449 - 8/29/04 - 54:00
Guest: Ed Larson
Length: 22:00
Contact: N.A.
Date Aired: 8/29/04
Summary: The Russell Professor of History at the University of Georgia, Ed Larson is author of: Evolution: The Remarkable History of a Scientific Theory. He discussed Charles Darwin, some of his scientific predecessors and how Darwin did not publish his theory until 20 years after formulating it.
Subject: The History of Evolution, Part 2
Guest: Ed Larson
Length: 22:00
Contact: N.A.
Date Aired: 8/29/04
Summary: Ed Larson, author of: Evolution: The Remarkable History of a Scientific Theory, continued his discussion of the theory of evolution, some of the unfortunate extrapolations of the theory, such as Social Darwinism and his views on the implications of genetic engineering.
#432A - 8/22/04 - 54:00
Guest: David Montgomery
Length: 22:00
Contact: NW River History
Date Aired: 8/22/04
Summary: David Montgomery is a Professor of Geomorphology at the University of Washington and author of: King of Fish: The Thousand Year Run of Salmon. He discussed the power of wild salmon to alter streams, their incredible resilience to natural disasters and the history of the decimation of salmon runs in Europe and the Atlantic Coast of North America characterized by Four “H’s” including harvesting, habitat, hydropower and hatcheries.
Subject: The History of the Decline of Wild Salmon II
Guest: David Montgomery
Length: 22:00
Contact: NW River History
Date Aired: 8/22/04
Summary: David Montgomery is a Professor of Geomorphology at the University of Washington and author of: King of Fish: The Thousand Year Run of Salmon. He continued his discussion of the history of salmon run decimation, focusing on the Pacific Northwest, including the one lone wild Redfish Lake Sockeye salmon who survived the run in 1992, the effect of dams on Native cultures, how hatcheries are not a solution to repopulating salmon runs and what can be done to co-exist with wild salmon runs.
#420A - 8/15/04 - 54:00
Guest: Peter Balakian
Length: 22:00
Contact: Peter Balakian
Date Aired: 8/15/04
Summary: Peter Balakian is an award-winning author and poet who teaches Humanities at Colgate University. His latest book is The Burning Tigris: The Armenian Genocide and America’s Response. He discussed his motivation for writing about this horrible episode in world history, the history of Armenia and how the government and people of the United States responded to inaugurate the modern human rights movement.
Subject: The Armenian Genocide and America’s Response, Part II
Guest: Peter Balakian
Length: 22:00
Contact: Peter Balakian
Date Aired: 8/15/04
Summary: Peter Balakian is author of The Burning Tigris: The Armenian Genocide and America’s Response. He continued his discussion of the Turkish Ottoman Empire’s systematic extermination of its Armenian population, how modern technology and bureaucracy enabled it and how the United States government let partisan politics and the promise of oil revenues dictate the American response to this tragedy.
#430A - 8/8/04 - 54:00
Guest: V.J. Vaitheeswaran
Length: 22:00
Contact: V.J. Vaitheeswaran
Date Aired: 8/8/04
Summary: Vijay Vaiteeswaran is the Energy and Environment correspondent for the Economist and author of Power to the People. He discussed how Americans are addicted to fossil fuels and three trends jeopardizing this practice, including the liberalization of markets, the popular appeal of environmentalism and the technology of hydrogen fuel cells.
Subject: Pollution from Oil Addiction and the Clean Energy Future, II
Guest: V.J. Vaitheeswaran
Length: 22:00
Contact: V.J. Vaitheeswaran
Date Aired: 8/8/04
Summary: Vijay Vaiteeswaran is the Energy and Environment correspondent for the Economist and author of Power to the People. He continued his discussion about how the world economy subsidizes oil, how some countries are moving to carbon taxes, rather than taxes on labor and how hydrogen fuel cell technology has the potential to transform the global energy business.
#421A - 8/1/04 - 54:00
Guest: George Draffan
Length: 22:00
Contact: End Game or Derrick Jensen
Date Aired: 8/01/04
Summary: George Draffan is a researcher, the head of the Public Information Network and the co-author of Strangely Like War: The Global Assault on Forests. He discussed the tax subsidies to corporations who deforest the world, the history of how industrial logging has exacerbated forest fires and how deforestation is proof Western culture values the rights of corporations over humans.
Subject: The Global Assault on Forests, Part II
Guest: George Draffan
Length: 22:00
Contact: End Game or Derrick Jensen
Date Aired: 8/01/04
Summary: George Draffan co-author of Strangely Like War: The Global Assault on Forests, continued his discussion of the global corporate deforestation, how the U.S. with five percent of the world’s population uses no less than twenty-five percent of its wood and paper products, how most of those products are used for unwanted packaging and tissues and some solutions, such as restoration ecology.
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#408A - 7/25/04 - 54:00
Guest: Michael Shuman
Length: 22:00
Contact: Living Economies
Date Aired: 7/25/04
Summary: Michael Shuman is a specialist in community economics, and the author of: Going Local: Creating Self-Reliant Communities in a Global Age. He discussed the current conventional wisdom regarding community economics being the attempt to attract large corporations and how large corporations destroy local culture.
Subject: Community Self-Reliance, Part II
Guest: Michael Shuman
Length: 22:00
Contact: Living Economies
Date Aired: 7/25/04
Summary: Michael Shuman, the author of: Going Local: Creating Self-Reliant Communities in a Global Age, discussed the way municipalities can regain economic power through community-self-reliance, subsidiarity and retaining the multiplier effect by establishing local currencies.
#448 - 7/18/04 - 55:00
Guest: Jerry Wennstrom and Marilyn Strong
Length: 22:00
Contact: Hands of Alchemy
Date Aired: 7/18/04
Summary: Jerry Wennstrom and Marilyn Strong are a couple facilitating a workshop in August on Whidbey Island entitled: The Union of the Opposites: Exploring the Sacred Marriage Within. They discussed the work of Carl Jung, his reason for using alchemical imagery and how he believed the capacity we each have to recognize our inherent evil is a sign of our individuation.
Subject: The Union of Opposites: Alchemical Imagery as a Tool, II
Guest: Jerry Wennstrom and Marilyn Strong
Length: 22:00
Contact: Hands of Alchemy
Date Aired: 7/18/04
Summary: Jerry Wennstrom and Marilyn Strong are a couple facilitating a workshop in August on Whidbey Island entitled: The Union of the Opposites: Exploring the Sacred Marriage Within. They continued their discussion of the work of Carl Jung, alchemical imagery and the alchemical coniunctio or sacred marriage, a sign of our individuation.
#447 - 7/11/04 - 55:00
Guests: Diane Branson and Sam Magill
Length: 22:00
Contact: CPWR
Date Aired: 7/11/04
Summary: Diane Branson and Sam Magill are Organizational Development specialists and participants in the upcoming Parliament of World Religions in Barcelona Spain. They discussed the first such gathering in Chicago in 1893 and how the lost art of listening to people with diverse backgrounds creates wisdom.
Subject: The Parliament of the World’s Religions, II
Guests: Diane Branson and Sam Magill
Length: 22:00
Contact: CPWR
Date Aired: 7/11/04
Summary: Diane Branson and Sam Magill, Organizational Development specialists, are participants in the upcoming Parliament of World Religions in Barcelona Spain. They continued their discussion of the Parliament and its agenda which includes the Plight of Refugees, and Access to Safe Drinking Water.
#404A - 7/04/04 - 55:00
(1st Aired in May '03)Guest: Kenneth Davis
Length: 22:00
Contact: Don't Know Much
Date Aired: 7/04/04
Summary: The best-selling author, historian and lecturer Kenneth Davis discussed the updated version of his book: Don’t Know Much About History and some lesser-known events in American history including facts regarding Christopher Columbus and also the Trail of Tears.
Subject: American History w/ Ken Davis, Part II
Guest: Kenneth Davis
Length: 22:00
Contact: Don't Know Much
Date Aired: 7/04/04
Summary: The best-selling author, historian and lecturer Kenneth Davis continued his discussion of some lesser-known events in American history including the rebellion of Nat Turner and the Cointelpro Program.
#446 - 6/27/04 - 55:00
Listen to the programGuest: Gloria DeGaetano
Length: 22:00
Contact: Parent Coaching Institute
Date Aired: 6/27/04
Summary: Teacher, author and Media Literacy advocate Gloria DeGaetano discussed the Parent Coaching Institute, how she believes people need to work to create a people-generated culture rather than an industry-generated culture, how that media objectifies people and how the media is an instrument perpetuating the industry-generated culture.
Subject: Protecting Children from the Industry-Generated Culture, II
Guest: Gloria DeGaetano
Length: 22:00
Contact: Parent Coaching Institute
Date Aired: 6/27/04
Summary: Teacher, author and Media Literacy advocate Gloria DeGaetano, the Founder and CEO of the Parent Coaching Institute, discussed Parenting Well in a Media Age: Keeping Our Kids Human, her new book. She continued her discussion of the challenges facing parents in this media age, how parents can create a people-generated culture to offset the perniciousness of the industry-generated culture and the hunger for transcendence in children we can support.
#378A - 6/20/04 - 55:00
(First aired in July '02) Click here to hear the program.Guest: Christopher Hansard
Length: 22:00
Contact: Simon & Schuster - Eden Medical Centre – Bon Medicine.com & BC Workshops
Date Aired: 6/20/04
Summary: A Tibetan Bon Healing Master, trained from age 4 in that science, Christopher Hansard discussed the Bon healing tradition, how he was chosen to be a healer in this tradition and other items from his book The Tibetan Art of Living.
Subject: The Tibetan Art of Living, Part II
Guest: Christopher Hansard
Length: 22:00
Contact: Simon & Schuster - Eden Medical Centre – Bon Medicine.com & BC Workshops
Date Aired: 6/20/04
Summary: A Tibetan Bon Healing Master, Christopher Hansard, continued his discussion of the philosophy of the Bon healing tradition, including how to help a dying person make a better exit to the next realm, and other items from his book The Tibetan Art of Living.
#445 - 6/13/04 - 55:00
Listen to the programGuest: Dr. Arun Gandhi
Length: 23:00
Contact: Gandhi Institute
Date Aired: 6/13/04
Summary: Dr. Arun Gandhi is the 5th grandson of the late Indian Spiritual leaer Mahatma Gandhi and the founder of the Gandhi Institute for Non-Violence in Memphis, Tennessee. He discussed the time he spent with his Grandfather as a young man, how his Grandfather’s suggestion that he keep an anger journal impacted his life and his founding of the Gandhi Institute for Non-Violence.
Subject: Non-Violence and America’s Missed Opportunity after 911, II
Guest: Dr. Arun Gandhi
Length: 23:00
Contact: Gandhi Institute
Date Aired: 6/13/04
Summary: Dr. Arun Gandhi, the founder of the Gandhi Institute for Non-Violence in Memphis, Tennessee, continued his discussion of non-violence, how materialism is a corrupting influence on world peace and how he would have reacted to the September 11 terror attacks had he been President.
#444 - 6/06/04 - 55:00
Guests: William Arnst and Mark Valencia
Length: 23:00
Contact: What The Bleep Do We Know?
Date Aired: 6/06/04
Summary: William Arnst and Mark Valencia are two of the three co-producers of the hit cult film What The Bleep Do We Know. They discussed the movie, aspects of its production and some of the scientific advancements the movie tries to explain, especially the relevance to everyday life.
Subject: Applying Quantum Physics and other Scientific Advances, II
Guests: William Arnst and Mark Valencia
Length: 23:00
Contact: What The Bleep Do We Know?
Date Aired: 6/06/04
Summary: William Arnst and Mark Valencia, co-producers of the hit cult film What The Bleep Do We Know, continued their discussion of the movie and some of the scientific advancements covered in it, including how neuroscience explains the addiction to destructive emotions like victimhood.
#443 - 5/30/04 - 54:00
Guest: Judith Orloff, M.D.
Length: 23:00
Contact: Judith Orloff
Date Aired: 5/30/04
Summary: Dr. Judith Orloff, Psychiatrist, practicing intuitive, assistant Professor of Psychiatry at UCLA and author of Positive Energy: 10 Extraordinary Prescriptions for Transforming Fatigue, Stress & Fear into Vibrance, Strength & Love. She discussed her background as a medical professional AND intuitive, what she calls the travesty of modern medicine’s refusal to understand the concept of life force and how some medical professionals are beginning to integrate this concept into their work.
Subject: Positive Energy, II
Guest: Judith Orloff, M.D.
Length: 23:00
Contact: Judith Orloff
Date Aired: 5/30/04
Summary: Dr. Judith Orloff, Psychiatrist, practicing intuitive, assistant Professor of Psychiatry at UCLA and author of Positive Energy continued her discussion of the intuitive side of her genealogy, and prescriptions for building positive energy through a spiritual path, heart-centered sexuality and developing one’s intuition.
#442 - 5/23/04 - 54:00
Guest: Harriet Rubin
Length: 23:00
Contact: N.A.
Date Aired: 5/23/04
Summary: Author, journalist and book editor Harriet Rubin is the author of Dante in Love: The World’s Greatest Poem and How it Made History. She discussed how Dante helped steer the medieval world into the Modern one, how his use of a modern language helped broaden the work’s appeal and how, in the wake of the Crusades, the presence of the other helped give the poem some of its power.
Subject: Dante & the Life-Changing Effect of The Divine Comedy, II
Guest: Harriet Rubin
Length: 23:00
Contact: N.A.
Date Aired: 5/23/04
Summary: Author, journalist and book editor Harriet Rubin is the author of Dante in Love: The World’s Greatest Poem and How it Made History. She discussed how the poem, the Divine Comedy has a mimetic effect on readers, influences like Aquinas and how Dante taught himself the art of perfection through the process of writing the poem, in modern terms, by stepping outside of his ego.
#441 - 5/16/04 - 54:00
Guest: Matthew Dillon
Length: 23:00
Contact: Organic Seed Alliance
Date Aired: 5/16/04
Summary: Matthew Dillon, the Executive Director of the Organic Seed Alliance, discussed the organization, the ethical development and stewardship of our seed heritage and the dangers of genetically-engineered seed.
Subject: Organic Seed Alliance
Guest: Matthew Dillon
Length: 23:00
Contact: Organic Seed Alliance
Date Aired: 5/16/04
Summary: Matthew Dillon, the Executive Director of the Organic Seed Alliance, continued his discussion of the work of the organization, their projects in other parts of the world and the need for organic seeds to supply the growing demand for organically-grown crops.
#440 - 5/9/04 - 54:00
Guest: Jeffrey Hollander
Length: 23:00
Contact: 7th Generation
Date Aired: 5/9/04
Summary: Jeffrey Hollander is the CEO of Seventh Generation, an eco-friendly household products corporation. He discussed some of the early history of socially-responsible business efforts, the definition of social responsibility and other topics from his book: What Matters Most.
Subject: Corporate Social Responsibility, II
Guest: Jeffrey Hollander
Length: 23:00
Contact: 7th Generation
Date Aired: 5/9/04
Summary: Jeffrey Hollander is the CEO of Seventh Generation, an eco-friendly household products corporation. He continued his discussion of corporate social responsibility, how Wal Mart is the anti-thesis of this and other topics from his book: What Matters Most.
#439 - 5/2/04 - 54:00
Guest: Dawn Prince-Hughes, Ph.D.
Length: 23:00
Contact: Apenet
Date Aired: 5/2/04
Summary: Dr. Dawn Prince-Hughes struggled with autism for 36 years before being diagnosed. She discussed her childhood, which included alcoholism, homelessness and other coping strategies covered in her book: Songs of the Gorilla Nation: My Journey Through Autism.
Subject: A Journey Through Autism, II
Guest: Dawn Prince-Hughes, Ph.D.
Length: 23:00
Contact: Apenet
Date Aired: 5/2/04
Summary: Dr. Dawn Prince-Hughes struggled with autism for 36 years before being diagnosed. She continued her discussion of the specifics of Asperger’s Syndrome, how she healed through working with gorillas and other stories from: Songs of the Gorilla Nation: My Journey Through Autism.
#438 - 4/25/04 - 55:00
Listen to the programGuest: Leslie Korn, Ph.D.
Length: 23:00
Contact: Center for Traditional Medicine
Date Aired: 4/25/04
Summary: Dr. Leslie Korn holds a Masters in Public Health from Harvard, a Ph.D. in Behavioral Medicine and Medical Humanities and is the Founding Director of the Center for Traditional Medicine in Olympia, Washington. She discussed the Center, its history, the effect of trauma on health and modalities used to reverse the effects of trauma such as therapeutic touch.
Subject: Integrating Traditional and Modern Medicine, II
Guest: Leslie Korn, Ph.D.
Length: 23:00
Contact: Center for Traditional Medicine
Date Aired: 4/25/04
Summary: Dr. Leslie Korn, is the Founding Director of the Center for Traditional Medicine in Olympia, Washington. She continued her discussion of the Center, traditional medicine, the role of nutrition in medicine and work with Native cultures in the Northwest.
#437 - 4/18/04 - 54:00
Guest: Gary Gagliardi
Length: 21:00
Contact: The Art of War Plus '
Date Aired: 4/18/04
Summary: Translator Gary Gagliardi, a 25 year student of the ancient Chinese book of strategy entitled The Art of War discussed his experience with the book, the specifics of his translation and how American foreign policy in Vietnam went against the strategy put forth in the 2,500 year old book.
Subject: The Art of War critique of American Foreign Policy, continued
Guest: Gary Gagliardi
Length: 21:00
Contact: The Art of War Plus
Date Aired: 4/18/04
Summary: Translator Gary Gagliardi, a 25 year student of the ancient Chinese book of strategy entitled The Art of War discussed how to think strategically in competitive situations and how that wisdom has or has not been utilized in recent American Foreign Policy, including the war on terrorism.
#436 - 4/11/04 - 59:00
Listen to the program introGuest: Diane Wakoski
Length: 21:00
Contact: N.A.
Date Aired: 4/11/04
Summary: Diane Wakoski is Poet-in-Residence at Michigan State University and author of many collections of verse. She discussed her involvement in the Deep Image school of poetry, the concept of Personal Mythology and read her poem Blue Monday.
Subject: Diane Wakoski & Deep Image Poetry, II
Guest: Diane Wakoski
Length: 21:00
Contact: N.A.
Date Aired: 4/11/04
Summary: Diane Wakoski, Poet-in-Residence at Michigan State University and author of many collections of verse continued her discussion of her work, her interaction with Elizabeth Bishop, how her personal mythology is revealed in her poetry and Diane read her poem Smudging.
#435 - 4/04/04 - 55:00
Guests: Sue Eastgard and Philip Dawdy
Length: 21:00
Contact: YSPP and Seattle Weekly
Date Aired: 4/04/04
Summary: Sue Eastgard is the Executive Director of the Youth Suicide Prevention Program and Philip Dawdy is a writer for the Seattle Weekly who has battled depression and recently wrote a cover story on the suicide death of Seattle radio host Cynthia Doyon. They discussed their experience with depression, the perils of using medication to combat depression and some of the details of Cynthia’s last days.
Subject: Preventing Suicide II
Guests: Sue Eastgard and Philip Dawdy
Length: 21:00
Contact: YSPP and Seattle Weekly
Date Aired: 4/04/04
Summary: Sue Eastgard, the Executive Director of the Youth Suicide Prevention Program and Philip Dawdy, a writer for the Seattle Weekly who has battled depression and recently wrote a cover story on the suicide death of Seattle radio host Cynthia Doyon, continued their discussion of some of the details of Cynthia’s last days, the ways in which a friend of a depressed person can help prevent suicide and suicide warning signs.
#434 - 3/28/04 - 55:00
Guests: Solihin and Alicia Thom
Length: 21:00
Contact: Being Human
Date Aired: 3/28/04
Summary: Solihin Thom is a Cranial Osteopath and Acupuncturist and Alicia Thom is a Master NLP practitioner. Co-authors of a book entitled: Being Human: Exploring the Forces that Shape us & Awaken an Inner Life, they discussed the model of the Life Forces, how they manifest in humans and how, when misaligned, they cause dis-ease.
Guests: Solihin and Alicia Thom
Length: 21:00
Contact: Being Human
Date Aired: 3/28/04
Summary: Solihin Thom is a Cranial Osteopath and Acupuncturist and Alicia Thom is a Master NLP practitioner. Co-authors of a book entitled: Being Human: Exploring the Forces that Shape us & Awaken an Inner Life, they discussed the model of the caduceus, how that aids them in helping people understand how life forces are misaligned in one’s body and how that can be rectified to release energy into more noble pursuits than extra suffering.
#433 - 3/21/04 - 55:00
Guest: Laura Simms
Length: 21:00
Contact: Laura Simms
Date Aired: 3/21/04
Summary: Laura Simms is a storyteller and author of The Robe of Love: Secret Instructions for the Heart. She discussed her youthful penchant for storytelling, how she learned about the craft from Native elder Vi Hilbert and how the act of listening to stories affects people more than the content.
Guest: Laura Simms
Length: 21:00
Contact: Laura Simms
Date Aired: 3/21/04
Summary: Storyteller Laura Simms continued her discussion of how the act of listening to stories is a healing modality, the difference between real stories and what passes for TV and movie entertainment in our culture and she shared a story from The Robe of Love: Secret Instructions for the Heart.
#219A - 3/14/04 - 55:00 (1st aired in November '97)
Listen to the program intro.Guest: Bhagavan Das
Length: 21:00
Contact: N.A.
Date Aired: 3/14/04
Summary: The man born Michael Riggs is suburban California discussed his epiphany regarding the homogeneity of suburban life, his spiritual quest and initiation in India as a professional mystic, how he got his name Bhagavan Das and other stories from his spiritual memoir: It's Here Now, Are You?
Guest: Bhagavan Das
Length: 21:00
Contact: N.A.
Date Aired: 3/14/04
Summary: In the second part of a two part interview, author Bhagavan Das discussed the times we live in, known in the Hindu tradition as the Kali Yuga, the world changes that are manifesting as prophesied and other thoughts from his new spiritual memoir.
#329A - 3/7/04 - 55:00 (1st aired in December '02)
Guest: Susan Starbuck
Length: 22:00
Contact: N.A.
Date Aired: 3/7/04
Summary: Susan Starbuck teaches at Antioch University in Seattle and is author of Hazel Wolf: Fighting the Establishment. She discussed the oral history series at the University of Washington that was the genesis of her new book, the poverty-stricken childhood of the Northwest's premier 20th Century activist/environmentalist and Hazel's feeling that America is destined to be a Social Democracy.
Guest: Susan Starbuck
Length: 22:00
Contact: N.A.
Date Aired: 3/7/04
Summary: Susan Starbuck teaches at Antioch University in Seattle and is author of Hazel Wolf: Fighting the Establishment. She continued her discussion of Hazel Wolf, the Northwest's premier 20th Century activist/environmentalist and Hazel's experience as an organizer from the Depression-era all the way up to the Sandinista revolution in Nicaragua.
#405A - 2/29/04 - 55:00 (1st aired in May '03)
Guest: Gary Ferguson
Length: 22:00
Contact: Wild Words
Date Aired: 2/29/04
Summary: Former Forest Service Ranger and author Gary Ferguson discussed his experience hiking 140 miles out his front door in Red Lodge, Montana, to the Hawk's Rest cabin in the southeast corner of Yellowstone National Park to spend a season evaluating the status of the wilderness in the largest in-tact ecosystem in the temperate world.
Guest: Gary Ferguson
Length: 22:00
Contact: Wild Words
Date Aired: 2/29/04
Summary: Gary Ferguson continued his discussion of his summer spent in the Hawk's Rest cabin in the southeast corner of Yellowstone National Park to evaluate the status of the wilderness. He talked about wildlife, hunting guides and other stories from Hawk's Rest: A Season in the Remote Heart of Yellowstone.
#432 - 2/22/04 - 55:00
Guest: David Montgomery
Length: 22:00
Contact: Puget Sound River History Project or King of Fish
Date Aired: 2/22/04
Summary: David Montgomery is a Professor of Geomorphology at the University of Washington and author of: King of Fish: The Thousand Year Run of Salmon. He discussed the power of wild salmon to alter streams, their incredible resilience to natural disasters and the history of the decimation of salmon runs in Europe and the Atlantic Coast of North America characterized by Four "H's" including harvesting, habitat, hydropower and hatcheries.
Guest: David Montgomery
Length: 22:00
Contact: Puget Sound River History Project or King of Fish
Date Aired: 2/22/04
Summary: David Montgomery is a Professor of Geomorphology at the University of Washington and author of: King of Fish: The Thousand Year Run of Salmon. He continued his discussion of the history of salmon run decimation, focusing on the Pacific Northwest, including the one lone wild Redfish Lake Sockeye salmon who survived the run in 1992, the effect of dams on Native cultures, how hatcheries are not a solution to repopulating salmon runs and what can be done to co-exist with wild salmon runs.
#431 - 2/15/04 - 55:00
Guest: Nicholas O'Connell
Length: 22:00
Contact: The Writer's Workshop
Date Aired: 2/15/04
Summary: Nick O'Connell is an Instructor at the University of Washington extension, founder of The Writer's Workshop and author of: On Sacred Ground: The Spirit of Place in the Pacific Northwest. He discussed how Native Mythology forms the foundation of Northwest Literature and how it encouraged the articulation of a more spiritual connection with the landscape.
Guest: Nicholas O'Connell
Length: 22:00
Contact: The Writer's Workshop
Date Aired: 2/15/04
Summary: Nick O'Connell, author of: On Sacred Ground: The Spirit of Place in the Pacific Northwest, continued his discussion of Northwest Literature and how it encouraged the articulation of a more spiritual connection with the landscape, especially through contemporary writers like Barry Lopez and Gary Snyder.
#430 - 2/8/04 - 55:00
Guest: V.J. Vaitheeswaran
Length: 22:00
Contact: Vijay's Website
Date Aired: 2/8/04
Summary: Vijay Vaiteeswaran is the Energy and Environment correspondent for the Economist and author of Power to the People. He discussed how Americans are addicted to fossil fuels and three trends jeopardizing this practice, including the liberalization of markets, the popular appeal of environmentalism and the technology of hydrogen fuel cells.
Guest: V.J. Vaitheeswaran
Length: 22:00
Contact: Vijay's Website
Date Aired: 2/8/04
Summary: Vijay Vaiteeswaran is the Energy and Environment correspondent for the Economist and author of Power to the People. He continued his discussion about how the world economy subsidizes oil, how some countries are moving to carbon taxes, rather than taxes on labor and how hydrogen fuel cell technology has the potential to transform the global energy business.
#429 - 2/1/04 - 55:00
Guests: Ti Locke and Steve Guest
Length: 22:00
Contact: Seattle Community Network
Date Aired: 2/1/04
Summary: Ti Locke is the Supreme Commander, Seattle Community Network Computer Giveaway Project and Steve Guest is the Executive Director of the free Internet service provider. They discussed the ten year history of the ISP, the changes to the Internet in that ten year time period and how they help the disadvantaged and disabled get Internet access.
Guests: Ti Locke and Steve Guest
Length: 22:00
Contact: Seattle Community Network
Date Aired: 2/1/04
Summary: Ti Locke is the Supreme Commander, Seattle Community Network Computer Giveaway Project and Steve Guest is the Executive Director of the free Internet service provider. They discussed how they dispose of unwanted computers, how blind people can browse the web and their efforts at SCN to allow disadvantaged people access to pc's and Internet access.
#428 - 1/25/04 - 55:00
Guests: Mary Ellen Stone and Lisa Stone
Length: 22:00
Contact: KCSARC & NW Women's Law Center
Date Aired: 1/25/04
Summary: Mary Ellen Stone, the Executive Director of the King County Sexual Assault Resource Center and Lisa Stone, Executive Director of the Northwest Women's Law Center discussed their respective organizations, looked at the Gary Ridgeway case in the context of violence against women and discussed ways to prevent such violence.
Guests: Mary Ellen Stone and Lisa Stone
Length: 22:00
Contact: KCSARC & NW Women's Law Center
Date Aired: 1/25/04
Summary: Mary Ellen Stone, the Executive Director of the King County Sexual Assault Resource Center and Lisa Stone, Executive Director of the Northwest Women's Law Center continued their discussion of violence against women and discussed ways to end the cycle of abuse.
#427 - 1/18/04 - 55:00
Guest: Loretta Napoleoni
Length: 22:00
Contact: Modern Jihad
Date Aired: 1/18/04
Summary: Loretta Napoleoni, economist, political analyst and author of Modern Jihad: Tracing the Dollars Behind the Terror Networks, discussed the New Economy of Terror, funding sources for terror groups, such as heroin and the missed opportunities for creating democracy in Afghanistan after the end of the war between the Mujahadin and the Soviet Union.
Guest: Loretta Napoleoni
Length: 22:00
Contact: Modern Jihad
Date Aired: 1/18/04
Summary: Loretta Napoleoni, author of Modern Jihad: Tracing the Dollars Behind the Terror Networks, continued her discussion of the dynamics of the terror economy, the ties between the Saudi government and high-ranking U.S. officials and how Democracy can not work in Iraq.
#363A - 1/11/04 - 55:00 (1st aired Jan '02)
Guests: Robert Ullman, N.D. & Judyth Reichenberg-Ullman, N.D.
Length: 22:00
Contact: MysticsMasters.com
Date Aired: 1/11/04
Summary: This couple, both Naturopathic Doctors, are co-authors of a look at 34 enlightened individuals who became so during their lifetime and were not born that way. They discussed Mystics, Maters, Saints & Sages: Stories of Enlightenment, discussed their decision to branch out of books on medicine and defined the term enlightenment as used in the book.
Guests: Robert Ullman, N.D. & Judyth Reichenberg-Ullman, N.D.
Length: 22:00
Contact: MysticsMasters.com
Date Aired: 1/11/04
Summary: The co-authors of a look at 34 enlightened individuals published in the book: Mystics, Maters, Saints & Sages: Stories of Enlightenment, discussed Rumi, Lester Levenson and other individuals profiled in the book.
#411a- 1/04/04 - 55:00 (1st aired July '03)
Listen to the program.Guest: Jerry Wennstrom
Length: 22:00
Contact: Hands of Alchemy
Date Aired: 1/04/04
Summary: Jerry Wennstrom is an artist who destroyed all of his artwork after a successful career in New York and existed completely on grace for the following 15 years. He tells his story in The Inspired Heart: An Artist's Journey of Transformation. He shared his experience of deciding to destroy his art and how he survived on only what food came to him by grace.
Guest: Jerry Wennstrom
Length: 22:00
Contact: Hands of Alchemy
Date Aired: 1/04/04
Summary: Jerry Wennstrom, an artist who destroyed all of his artwork after a successful career in New York and existed completely on grace for the following 15 years, is author of: The Inspired Heart: An Artist's Journey of Transformation. He talked about his book and shared why he feels the inevitable shortcoming of excessive materialism is now revealing itself.