Episode 85 :: Actions for a Better World in a Time of Climate Change and U.S. Extremism

1. Candace Vanderhoff - water consulting and designing water harvesting systems, sustainable landscapes and water conservation products. Issue: Less than 1% of world's water is fresh; 50% of all fish species live in it; 70% of withdrawals are for ag. Fracking; no corporate takeover of water districts. SAMATLA in San Mateo. She is an entrepreneur creating businesses to do what her heart and ideals tell her to act on. She works with a deep sense of Spirit and love. Our own greywater system 2. Walter Brueggemann--Primal Power of Money & Possessions in Our Lives: Six Theses; connections between the six theses and contemporary politics. 3. Learning Resistance and Alternatives from Zapatistas and Jubilee's Mexico Partners. Issue: carving lifeways amid violent systems.  4. Kelly Siefken - Sacramento Food Bank and Family Services; VP for Communications and Marketing.  Issue: failures of food system.  Food - a primary door to OneEarth living         5. Hazel Henderson: Reforming Economies to Work for the Wellbeing of All Creatures -- Hazel Henderson is a world renowned futurist, evolutionary economist, a worldwide syndicated columnist, consultant on sustainable development, author of Beyond Globalization, and seven other books. Her editorials appear in 27 languages and more than 400 newspapers. 6. Patricia St. Onge (Haudenosaune). Issue: How Indigenous and non-Indigenous relate to one another to empower change in systems and love for all species.