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Ecotopia
by Stephen Tchudi and Susan Tchudi
Exploring Ecosystems--Environmental, Social, Technological
Episodes
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Clearing the Air
Our guest on this edition was Laura Gladson. She’s a PhD Candidate with Department of Environmental Medicine, New York University Grossman School of Medicine, and a Research Scholar, Marron Institute of Urban Management at NYU. Laura is also a Chico resident, whom we met via Zoom a few weeks ago…
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Paradise Recovery
Our guests on this program were Marc Maddox and Katie Simmons. Marc is Paradise’s Public Works Director and Town Engineer, and Katie Simmons is the town’s Disaster Recovery Director. They spoke with us about the town’s Long Term Community Recovery Plan (schematic above) after the 2018 Camp Fire,...
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Parkview Elementary Students Speak About Lawns
We recently read some essays about the environment printed in the Chico Enterprise Record. These were written on topic of water conservation by 5th graders at Parkview Elementary School. We were very impressed by the writing and the students' insights. Their major concern was lawns, and they have...
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Suburban Sprawl and Affordable Housing
Chico Attorney Richard Harriman spoke candidly about the Chico affordable housing crisis and need need for affordable infill rather than suburban developments for the affluent. He lamented the lack of community input for the revision of the Chico general plan housing element and argued that the...
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Climate Girls Changing Our World
KZFR programmer and polymath Gayle Kimball, author of over twenty books, spoke with us about her newest book, Climate Girls Changing Our World. She interviewed 54 young women in seven continents and found a vigorous, inspired, inspiring and dedicated climate activists. We asked her about how...
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Let It Snow!!!!!
This program focused on the Sierra Nevada snowpack, which supplies about one-third of California’s water and serves as a vast winter reservoir. We spoke with Sean de Gusman of the Department of Water Resources. He is chief of DWR’s Snow Supply and Water Forecasting Section and is responsible for...
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Good News for a New HYear
Often on this podcast we bring you some discouraging words about the environment, though generally with some concrete solutions. Although 2020 was a pretty terrible year on many fronts, there was, in fact, some positive news on the environmental front and in this program, we offered good news…
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Tree
Our guest on this program was Melina Watts, who has written a fascinating novel called Tree, a piece of magical fiction written from the perspective of a Live Oak! We read the book and loved it, finding it engaging from both a spiritual and ecological perspective. She read several passages for us...
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Bidwell Parks and the Homeless
We interviewed Anna Moore and Lise Smith, members of the Bidwell Parks and Recreation Commission in Chico. Our interview was sparked by an excellent letter they wrote to the Chico Enterprise Record, regarding homeless camping in Bidwell Park. Unlike many, they do not call for the homeless to be...
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Dam-Nation
We spoke with Ron Stork, Senior Policy Advisor, Friends of the River in Sacramento. He joined Friends of the River as Associate Conservation Director in 1987 and became the Senior Policy Advocate in 1995 as a national expert in flood management, federal water resources development, hydropower...
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Health Care for All
We had two guests on this podcast, both strong advocates for universal, single-payer health care. Bruce McLean has lived and worked in Butte County since 1990 and has been on the Board of the Butte County Health Care Coalition (now North State Medicare 4-All) since 2016. Paul O’Rourke-Babb, is a...
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Green Chico
In this episodl we spoke with Cheri Chastain, who Chair of the Chico Climate Action Commission and with Molly Marcussen associate planner for the City of Chico. They told us about recent proposals/recommendations of the Commission, which include the Chico Bicycle Master Plan, improving ZEV (zero...
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Climate Action Chico
In this program, we spoke with Cheri Chastain. She is Chair of the Chico Climate Action Commission, which is overseeing the update of Climate Action Plan for the City of Chico. She is also Campus Sustainability Manager for Chico State. We discussed the role of the Climate Action Commission, its...
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Resource Conservation and Forestry
This week we inteviewed Wolfy Rougle, who serves the Butte County Resource Conservation District as a Forest Health Watershed Coordinator under a grant from the Department of Conservation. Her projects include developing the Butte Forest Plan, helping local landowners put "good fire" on the…
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Change in Chico
Our ecosystem in this program is the complex one of Chico, and our guest on the phone was She is a Chico native and went to Butte College, and then Chico State to get her Bachelor’s degree in Psychology, working at local businesses along the way, as well as as a Behavior Health Education...
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Urban Forest Management
We spoke with Richie Bamlet. the Urban Forest Manager for the City of Chico. In addition to being responsible for the care and management of trees in Chico, he is responsible for thinking about the future of trees as we face climate change. We were particularly interested in learning about trees...
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Deschooling and Community Education
Our guest was Matt Hearn, educator and community organizer from East Vancouver, British Columbia. He describe the "Solid State Project," that helps immigrant young people create cohorts to, in turn, create viable and humanistic businesses. We also discussed the broader concept of "deschooing,"...
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Traditional Ecological Knowledge
Our guest was Ali Meders-Knight, a member of the Mechoopda Tribe and an artist, activist, and educator. She has a vision to educate people in traditional ecological knowledge (TEK). She discussed how TEK differes from western scientific knowledge in terms of landscape management and described her...
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STEALING THE ELECTION
Our guest on this program was the wonderfully outspoken Harvey Wasserman, advocate for solar power, anti-nuclear-power advocate and crusader on many other issues. In this interview, he focused on the possible theft of the 2020 presidential election, with a trifecta of voter registration, voter...
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Radical Moral Reform
Our guest on this program was Patrick Newman, longtime Chico activist, a frequent contributor to the letters page of our local papers, and a man dedicated to solving homeless issues in Chico in humane, progressive ways. As part of our Radical Change series we invited Patrick to speak out on the...
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Never Waste a Good Crisis
We interviewed Paul Ehrlich, author of The Population Bomb and founder of the Millennium Alliance for Humanity and the Biosphere, and Dan Blumstein, professor of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology at UCLA. Using a phrase created by Winston Churchill at the close of World War II, they argue that...
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Radical Medical Reform
As part of our series on Radical Change we interviewed two guests on the topic of Radical Medical Reform. First we spoke with Norma Wilcox of Northstate Medicare for All, who spoke about our broken health insurance system and why Medicare-for-All/Single Payer is the best remedy. We then spoke…
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Buddhist Economics
In this program, Susan Tchudi spoke with Dr. Clair Brown, Professor of Economics and Director of the Center for Work, Technology, and Society at the University of California, Berkeley. The program is part of our series on Radical Change. Claire is an advocate of a Buddhist Economy, a holistic...
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Radical Restoration
In this program, we spoke with Eartha Shanti, longtime activist. We discused her views on: 1. The Life Killer culture. A culture that rewards who kills the most. 2. The Great Awakening. A time of realization that the Earth is our Mother and we must take care of her. That all life, human, animal,...
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Concerned Citizens for Justice: Radical Change
In this episode, activists George Gold and Marty Dunlap of Concerned Citizens for Justice (Chico, CA), spoke about radical reform for policing. Although their comments were focused directly on Chico, their recommendations for change apply from small towns to large cities. They spoke of police...
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Radical Change
This episode introduces our new series on RADICAL CHANGE, where guests give us their best, most imaginative, and even outlandish ideas for changing the culture in which we live. Now is not the time for timid or compromised calls for action. In this podcast we provide an overview of topics to be...
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Exploring Ecosystems--Environmental, Social, Technological
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