KWMR Post Carbon Radio

In this show, we have three segments for you, looking at climate change, the environment and social justice at the national, state and local levels. We will start with a report from Washington on ways to work social justice into clean energy programs. Then we’ll visit with members of West Marin Standing Together to talk about an exciting artistic community event they are planning, and finally a brief update on environmental legislation in California. We talk to Basav Sen, Climate Policy Director at Institute of Policy Studies in Washington DC. His work focuses on climate solutions at the national, state, and local level that address racial, economic, gender and other forms of inequality. He is author of a report focusing on Renewable Energy Portfolios. Given Trump’s pull out of the Paris Climate Accord, innovative state and local actions will be critical if we are to achieve a just transition to a sustainable economy.

The Art of Vitality programs at the Commonweal Garden in Bolinas weave self-healing concepts and practices with experiential learning about food as medicine, mind-body medicine, and body-ecological permaculture. Dr. Anna O’Malley and James Stark will guide you on a path of discovery through creative work, personal and inter-personal reflection, deep nature connection, integrative medicine conversation, cooking demonstrations, and fire circle ritual. You will be oriented to healthy ecological systems on all levels: cellular, whole-body, interpersonal, and community.

Depressed about the U.S. pulling out of the Paris climate deal? Here is some encouraging news. California cities and now Sacramento are continuing to lead the way in clean energy, no matter what the Trump administration does. Woody Hastings of the Climate Protection Campaign of Sonoma will update us on clean energy, the “energy democracy” movement in the state, and how you can plug in to help.

We speak with Kumi Naidoo, former director of Greenpeace International who is now helping promote Africans Rising! Africans Rising is a new pan-Africanist movement launching this May 25th, African Liberation Day. From the first point of its founding charter, the Kilimanjaro Declaration, Africans Rising focuses on Africa's environment and natural resources in the context of justice and liberation. What can we learn from this effort for our own struggles for climate and environmental justice in the U.S.?

The Patterning Instinct (Prometheus Books | Foreword by Fritjof Capra) is a global history investigating the different ways cultures have patterned meaning into the cosmos. From early hunter-gatherer societies to ancient Egypt to Taoist sages to the founders of Christianity and the trail-blazers of the Scientific Revolution, author Jeremy Lent reveals how various worldviews arose and shaped the course of history. He shows how values like ownership and patriarchy emerged with agriculture, and traces the rise of the European mindset of “conquering nature” as the underpinning of today’s global civilization. Lent argues that our current global environmental crisis is not an inevitable result of human nature, but is culturally driven: a product of particular mental patterns that could conceivably be reshaped. He suggests that a transformation of our dominant worldview is required to redirect our society toward a more hopeful future. Even if we can somehow avert climate catastrophe, new existential crises will inevitably arise unless our civilization fundamentally changes its core values. We can only make this change by understanding the source of these values, and the ways in which they impact our future.

Lynn Woolsey shares her uniquely well-informed perspective about the state of the nation, strategies for our community response to President Trump and her thoughts about how she would respond if she were still in Congress. – From 1993 to 2013, for 20 years, Lynn was our Congresswoman in Marin and most of Sonoma County advocating for Progressive causes and speaking out against the War in Iraq. Since retiring she served as the national President of Americans for Democratic Action, is a member of the National Commmittee to Preserve Social Security and Medicare Advisory Committee and is a member of Reformers Caucus of Issue One, which is the largest bipartisan group of former members of Congress and governors ever assembled to take money out of politics, which she considers key to saving our democracy. This is to highlight only small fraction of her laudable career and continuing activities. Lynn is in conversation with Mark Dowie – who lives on the edge of Tomales Bay near Inverness . Mark is a former editor at Mother Jones magazine, is an investigative reporter, an award-winning journalist and author. Some of his books include: Losing Ground: American Environmentalism at the Close of the Twentieth Century, American Foundations: An Investigative History, Conservation Refugees: The Hundred-Year Conflict between Global Conservation and Native Peoples

We interview Nick Buxton, co-editor of ‘The Secure and the Dispossessed: How the Military and Corporations are Shaping a Climate-Changed World’, and will discuss the themes of his new book. Buxton is a communications consultant, activist and researcher based at the Transnational Institute in Amsterdam. Join us on Post-Carbon Radio Monday at 1 pm for an informed dive into the points of convergence and conflict between two of the most important issues of our time. With the Trump administration denying climate change and de-fanging the EPA, what is the US military thinking - and planning to do? Can their power and influence help the climate movement succeed? Who will be protected, who will be neglected, who will suffer, and who will pay, if the military get their way? What about the intelligence agencies? What are the consequences of viewing climate change through the lens of national security? Is there a better way?

Norman Solomon addresses West Marin Standing Together on April 8, 2017 at the Dance Palace. Norman is a journalist, media critic, antiwar activist and former U.S. Congressional candidate. He was elected as a pledged Bernie Sanders delegate to the 2016 Democratic National Convention. Norman just returned from New York where he’s had meetings and interviews on current aspects of what Martin Luther King called "the madness of militarism” - a relevant subject currently, given Trump’s attack on Syria the other day.

Panelists: Drew Dellinger, Winona LaDuke, Melissa Nelson. Moderator: John Hausdoerffer. We are the links between our ancestors and our descendants. What can we learn from our ancestors and their relationship to the land that would inspire us to benefit the environment and the generations that follow us? Future stories, those told about us by our descendants, depend in large part on our actions today. How will our children and grandchildren survive in the world we leave them? What will be our legacy to the land we call home?

A discussion about the role of war and the military in causing global warming. How much does the U.S. military contribute to climate change? What happened to the old anti-war movement? Can we afford a 10% increase in the military budget? Do we need it? How does the issue of the military's role in climate change fit into a broader social change agenda, including local movements of resistance? Our guests are Janet Weil, long-time Bay Area anti-war activist and former Code Pink staffer. Based in the San Francisco Bay Area, Janet is also a co-founder of the SF 99% Coalition. And Cecile Pineda, activist and author most recently of Apology to a Whale, Words to Mend a World. Her writing has received numerous awards and citations. Her archive is held by the Stanford University Special collections library. Her website is cecilepineda.com. Joanna Macy writes of her work: "Cecile Pineda has the nerve to ask the one simple question...that could save us: What has happened to our mind that we are killing our world?"

Winona LaDuke is an internationally renowned Native American Indian activism and advocate for environmental, women's, and children's rights. She is founder and Campaign Director of the White Earth Land Recovery Project, preservation-based land acquisition, environmental advocacy, and cultural organization, and founder and co-chair of the Indigenous Women's Network.

As one of northern California’s most exceptional literary gatherings, the Geography of Hope Conference brings together leading writers and activists to the coastal village of Point Reyes Station for a three-day feast of readings, discussions, and activities to inspire and deepen an understanding of the relationships between people and place. We interview presenters, Lauret Savoy and Wendy Johnson, and Steve Costa, co-founder of Black Mountain Circle, a co-sponsor of Geography of Hope. Tracing memory threads Lauret Savoy’s life and work: unearthing what is buried, remembering what is fragmented, shattered, eroded. A woman of African American, Euro-American, and Native American heritage, she weaves together stories we tell of the American land’s origins and the stories we tell of ourselves in this land. Her latest book, Trace: Memory, History, Race, and the American Landscape, won the 2016 American Book Award. It was also a finalist for the PEN America Open Book Award among other honors. Lauret is a professor of environmental studies and geology at Mount Holyoke College, a photographer, and pilot. Wendy Johnson leads meditation retreats nationwide as an ordained lay dharma teacher in the traditions of Vietnamese teacher Thich Nhat Hanh and the San Francisco Zen Center. She co-founded the Organic Farm and Garden Program at Green Gulch Farm Zen Center in Marin County, which inspired her book Gardening at the Dragon’s Gate. Since 2009, she has served as a founding instructor and mentor at College of Marin’s Indian Valley Educational Organic Farm and Garden. As native people here in West Marin and throughout the world have taught us, we can best care for the land by knowing its history, by cherishing its stories, and by actively working to protect it. The Conference hopes to stimulate conversations honoring ancestral connections to this and other landscapes—whether Native American, European, African, Asian, Latino, or elsewhere—that will lead to dialogues between generations and cultures to help us reconnect to place and restore balance to Mother Earth. “This is a time of unprecedented threats to clean water and air, national parks and forests, and to productive farmland,” conference founder Steve Costa says. “Clearly in the coming months and years, we will be called upon again and again to act to protect our fragile ecology. We will be called upon to decide what kind of ancestors we will become.”

David Morris, a part-time local resident of Point Reyes Station, and long-time activist who co-founded the Institute for Local Self-Reliance in 1974, then gave a short overview of “the big picture.” He observed that we were seeing an unprecedented centralization of power and the monopolization of the media in the Trump administration, where the President is governing as a CEO. He warned that the merging of corporate and political realms is dominated by the corporate goal of increasing earnings. This is the definition of fascism. He also pointed out the ominous trend toward privatization of the public sector and the pre-emption of the state by the federal and the city by the states through conditions attached to vital funding.

We talk to Sharon Weil about her new book, ChangeAbility: how artists, activists, and awakeners navigate change, which is so very relevant in these times in which we have a regressive President and his administration, whose intentions are to take us backwards eradicating all the progressive gains we’ve made over the years for economic and social justice, and protecting the environment, and our Mother Earth from climate chaos. Claire Hope Cummings is an award winning author, broadcast journalist, and environmental lawyer. Her stories are about connecting people, place and plants and respect for the ancient wisdom of traditional land based cultures. She is author of Uncertain Peril: Genetic Engineering and the Future of Seeds. She is a member of a group called Wise Words that is searching deeper in these turbulent times, and HOW we do community. Kerry Nelson, author of One Small Difference: Step Into Action for a Better World. This is an eight week workbook for people who want to change the world and serve in the world. It's for those who think about volunteering but never make the call; for activists looking for a group of like-minded citizens; for parents overwhelmed by the climate crisis and seeking ways to respond; for recent graduates seeking meaningful work in their communities. This workbook helps guide people who have good intentions into first steps into action.

KWMR Epicenter featuring Charles Nichol, immigration attorney, who talks about Protecting Immigrant Rights in the light of Trump’s deportation policies and the ICE raids. Eleanore Despina of the Immigrant Protection Committee of the local group resisting Trump is also on the show.

President Trump recent actions maybe overwhelming, but they have also inspired a tsunami of activism. Starting here in West Marin and Sonoma counties, how do we coordinate our work with national efforts to first thwart, and then overcome existential threat to our planet, the Constitution, and our daily lives? Hear from local activists capturing this wave of activist energy and strategic thinking to help us direct our efforts to the maximum effect in both the short and long-term. And finally, Norman Soloman will cover the national perspective.

We have a conversation with Norman Solomon and Dennis Cunningham on what they see happening now that Donald Trump is President, and how we can take back our democracy. Is it possible to reform the Democratic Party? What are different kinds of organizing, and what to advocate? - Protest, vigil, direct action, lobbying, issue campaigns, or electoral politics. Playing offense? Or just defense? Where should our organizing focus be: local, regional, state, national, or international? And why? And a run down and wrap-up events over the weekend. Groups in communities all over the country are coming together to protect their communities and resist the Trump Agenda to repeal ObamaCare, to deport Mexicans, start a Muslim registry, roll back environmental, labor, and financial regulations. We talk about a new local group forming to protect the West Marin community.

Our previous Post Carbon Radio show on Nov. 28, 2016, we talked about Emerging New Technologies: Synthetic Biology & Gene Drives - Should We Be Concerned? We now have the ability to alter the code of life creating new and novel forms of life not found in the natural world. These new discoveries give us unprecedented power over the natural world but raise troubling ethical issues. On this show, we focus on genetically modified trees. Our guests are: *Anne Petermann, Executive Director of Global Justice Ecology Project. Anne is also the Coordinator of the Campaign to STOP GE Trees. She has been involved in movements for forest protection and Indigenous rights since 1991, and the international and national climate justice movements since 2004. *Claire Hope Cummings is an environmental journalist specializing in stories about the environmental, health, and political implications of how we eat. For six years she produced and hosted on KPFA, a popular weekly public radio show on food and farming in Northern California. She regularly reports on agriculture and the environment for public television in San Francisco. Claire also writes for periodicals, webzines, and news services. She is author of Uncertain Peril: Genetic Engineering and the Future of Seeds. Both Anne and Claire were featured in Synthetic Forests: the Dangers of Genetically Engineered Trees, a video documentary on the risks of irresponsibly introducing genetically engineered trees into the environment. http://asilentforest.info/ *Mark Dowie, West Marin author and journalist in the studio. He is a former publisher and editor of Mother Jones magazine. His recent works include Conservation Refugees: The Hundred-Year Conflict Between Global Conservation and Native Peoples and American Foundations: An Investigative History. He has written and published over 200 investigative magazine articles and has won 19 journalism awards including four National Magazine Awards. Mark retired recently from The University of California Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism where he taught science and environmental reporting and foreign correspondence.

We interview Helen Cane, who is a 21 year-old senior at Barnard College, a private women’s liberal arts college affiliated with Columbia University in New York City. She is here in Point Reyes Station during the holiday season visiting her mom, Sarah Cane and aunt, Pamela Wright. Helen is a co-founder of the fossil fuel divestment campaign at Barnard College, called Divest Barnard, an effective year-long student campaign to convince Barnard’s administration and Board of Trustees to consider divesting its endowment from fossil fuel companies. She was instrumental in the research and writing of the 60-page Presidential Task Force on Divestment report to enable the Committee on Investments and, subsequently, the Board of Trustees, to make an informed decision about whether to seek divestment from companies that extract, process, distribute, and sell fossil fuels. Over the course of nine months, the Task Force weighed the financial and fiduciary responsibilities of the Board to grow the value of Barnard’s endowment and the moral and ethical issues surrounding Barnard’s responsibility to do its part to address the climate change issue. Our other guest is Will Parrish. A quote from a CounterPunch article by Cal Winslow: “Will Parrish is a young journalist in Mendocino County. He’s a rare type in his field these days. He is fearless, he takes on the hard targets, the biggest ones he can find, and he writes with passion and commitment. If we still have muck-rakers, literary crusaders in the best sense, he’s one.” In October, Will wrote an article in the North Bay Bohemian about SPO Partners in Mill Valley and other Bay Area financial institutions that are invested in the Dakota Access Pipeline

On Defending Our Environment & Protecting Our Progress on Climate Change. Recorded on December 19, 2016 at San Rafael High School. - Congressman Jared Huffman, 2nd District of California - Bruce Riordan, Climate Readiness Institute - Michael Wall, Natural Resources Defense Council -Drew Caputo, Earthjustice Attorney

This week on Post-Carbon Radio: Communicating climate in the era of Trump: what do liberals need to learn about conservatives in order to be effective? Whether at work, at home, or in the streets, we all could use some pointers. Learn how to talk to conservative loved ones over Xmas dinner. Join us as we accompany J. Scott Wagner on a deep dive into the divide between worldviews, and how to bridge them. J. Scott Wagner is a longtime liberal activist in Sonoma County and a social psychologist. He has just published "The Liberal's Guide to Conservatives", an explanation in layman's terms of the science behind America's ideological divide. From Amazon.com: Politics are a detail in the story of what we call ideology. After a 6-year effort that involved 3 tours of the U.S., help from dozens of the world's top academic experts, and hundreds of interviews with conservatives, writer and researcher J. Scott Wagner brings us on a rollicking tour of the conservative mind, looking at them through the lens of 5 sciences [sic]: neurology/cognitive psychology, personality, bias, social conformity, and morality. With unprecedented clarity, this interdisciplinary exploration of conservatives reveals many practical tools for avoiding the common problems liberals face with conservative relatives, partners, friends, and managers, while providing liberals a better understanding of hidden corners of their own world view.

Recorded event at the Pt. Reyes Presbyterian Church. West Marin residents, Raven Gray, Nonnie Welch, and Constance Washburn have recently returned from Standing Rock. They were standing in solidarity with the water protectors resisting the Dakota Access Pipeline. They gave a report back to the community about their experience at Standing Rock. Lynn Baring, Inverness Postmistress, of Miwok descent shared an indigenous perspective.

“Genetic engineering is passé. Today, scientists aren’t just mapping genomes and manipulating genes, they’re building life from scratch - and they're doing it in the absence of societal debate and regulatory oversight." - Pat Mooney, Executive Director of ETC Group, whose mission is to access the consequences and impacts of new technologies. Our two guests are: Claire Hope Cummings, author of Uncertain Peril: Genetic Engineering and the Future of Seeds. Her concerns are how gene drives are proposed for use in conservation (Island Conservation’s daughterless mouse) and the whole idea of the eradication of the female (daughterless anything) and anything people need to know about the regulatory issues - most notably that there is no regulatory response to these new developments and the response to GMOs was terribly inadequate and facilitated widespread contamination, among other risks which are still a problem. Jim Thomas is a Research Programme Manager and Writer at ETC Group, located in Ottawa, Canada. His background is in communications, writing on emerging technologies and international campaigning. For the seven years previous to joining ETC Group Jim was a researcher and campaigner on Genetic Engineering and food issues for Greenpeace International - working in Europe, North America, Australia/New Zealand and South East Asia. He has extensive experience on issues around transgenic crops and nanotechnologies has written articles, chapters and technical reports in the media and online. Trained as a historian to look back at the history of technology, Jim is now busy communicating the future of technology.

Our show is about the struggles of Indigenous peoples, one that has been fairly well publicized in the United States, at least in the alternative media – Standing Rock, and one not so well-known in New Zealand. They are current examples of how indigenous communities are mobilizing to protect and preserve their lands, resources, and cultures from exploitation globally by the dominant culture. Our two guests are: Wendy Johnson is an ordained Zen Buddhist priest. For more than thirty years, Wendy has been meditating and gardening at the Green Gulch Farm Zen Center. She is one of the founders of the Organic Farm and Garden Program at Green Gulch, and author of Gardening at the Dragon's Gate: At Work in the Wild and Cultivated World. Two weeks ago, she was called to participate at Standing Rock with over 500 clergy of all faiths to be non-violent witnesses and be physically present in solidarity with the thousands of water protectors who have gathered from all over the country to stop the Dakota Access Pipeline that is crossing through the Standing Rock Sioux reservation near Cannonball, North Dakota. Pennie Opal Plant is of mixed Indigenous ancestry and is co-founder of Movement Rights Pennie has been an activist for over 30 years on anti-nuclear, environmental and indigenous rights. Pennie was just recently in New Zealand working with Movement Rights and the Maori people on their process of working with the government to recognize the rights of Te Urewera (formerly a national park) and the Whanganui River, which now have more rights and standing under the law than human persons. She has been in close contact with friends and relatives at Standing Rock and familiar with the situation there.

Our two guests are current residents at the Mesa Refuge working on writing projects. Julia Scott is an award-winning journalist and radio producer whose work has been featured in Best American Science Writing and on Good Morning America. Julia is working on a writing project that studies people who are experiencing new emerging emotional and psychic reactions to climate change. Eileen Quiley is the former Deputy Director at Climate Solutions, a Northwest clean energy economy nonprofit organization based in Seattle. Eileen is a seasoned print journalist and nonprofit manager, and writing about the transition from fossil to clean energy and city-led clean energy innovation.

A conversation about the making of a common, value-driven 21st century elder culture that will change the paradigm of aging. With guests: Barry Barkan, who has worked with the Live Oak Institute to restore the role of the elder to society since 1977. David “Lucky” Goff, co-author of “The Age of Actualization: A Handbook for Growing an Elder Community”, and Kurt A. Kuhwald, a Unitarian Universalist Community minister/activist.

What are the best-case possibilities using new clean/green technologies - what could be achieved? What are the downsides to our technological-industrial economy? What do we need to consider in a future economy with a green energy infrastructure, if social justice is a key design principle? We speak with Leah Parks, co-author of "All-Electric America," about the clean energy technologies already at our disposal and what it will take to deploy them at scale and in time. And we ask Dave Ransom, labor journalist, about the downsides and possibilities of an increasingly mechanized, roboticized economy, and what it will take to make it socially just. Is it possible? How do we bring these two perspectives together? Tune in to find out

With humanity at a crossroads and facing unprecedented ecological and social challenges, now more than ever leaders and citizens from all sectors are gathering together to build more resilient, regenerative and flourishing communities. We interview the organizers, Jay Markert and Delia Carroll. The North American Permaculture and Building Resilient Communities Convergence is such a gathering taking place Wednesday, September 14 through Sunday, September 18, 2016 at the Solar Living Institute in Hopland, CA. Participants from the United States, Canada, Mexico, and countries from the Caribbean, Central America will share and collaborate on best practices to build more resilient, regenerative and flourishing communities now and into the future. We talk to Wanda Stewart, one go the presenters.

While the Republicans contend with Donald Trump as their candidate, what is happening inaide and outside of the Democratic party, now that Bernie is out and Hillary is in? What is the status of Bernie’s so-called “Political Revolution?" What are the implications of voting for Jill Stein? An update and discussion featuring Norman Solomon, a Bernie delegate to the Democratic National Convention (DNC), Russell Greene, a DNC platform committee member and leading climate activist for the Progressive Democrats of America and People Demanding Action, Howard Ehrman, MD, a supporter of the Stein-Baraka platform/plan, and June Brashares, Sonoma County Green Party Council. Norman Solomon is a journalist, media critic, antiwar activist, and former U.S. congressional candidate. Solomon is a longtime associate of the media watch group Fairness & Accuracy In Reporting (FAIR). In 1997 he founded the Institute for Public Accuracy, which works to provide alternative sources for journalists, and served as its executive director until 2010. Solomon's weekly column, "Media Beat", was in national syndication from 1992 to 2009. More recently Solomon focused on his 2012 congressional campaign in California's 2nd congressional district. He attended the 2016 Democratic National Convention as a Bernie Sanders delegate. Author of “War Made Easy: How Presidents and Pundits Keep Spinning Us to Death.” He is the executive director of the Institute for Public Accuracy and co-founder of RootsAction.org. Russell Greene is a climate activist from California who helps lead many organizations including Climate Decision 2016, Progressive Democrats of America, Justice Action Mobilzation Network and People Demanding Action. As a Bernie Sanders delegate, he was instrumental in helping to write the Democratic Party platform that recognizes that we are in a climate emergency, that explicitly acknowledges that anything short of a World War II-like mobilization will bring catastrophic consequences to civilization: He spent 30+ years as a senior executive, focused most recently on corporate social responsibility and sustainable business practices. He left his position last January to bring his full focus to addressing the climate emergency. Howard Erhman, MD was an Assistant Professor (Retired) 1985-2013) at the University of Illinois at Chicago (UIC), School of Public Health, Division of Environmental and Occupational Health Sciences, College of Medicine, Department of Family Medicine He has been a longtime community and union organizer, a climate justice activist whom we met in Cochabama, Bolivia in 2010 at the World People's Conference on Climate Change and the Rights of Mother Earth. He is motivated to work for a livable planet for his three grandchildren. He supports the Stein-Baraka platform/plan because over the next 90+ days it is important to unite all who can be united to build a revolutionary mass movement that goes beyond the November Presidential election. He is for everything we can do to get millions to permanently leave the Democratic Party, which many, including Howard Zinn, have said is the most important political act to changing the economic-political system in this country. June Brashares is an energy policy analyst, political strategist, and community organizer helping to lead the Green Party on local, state, and national issues and campaigns. In 2000 she served as Campaign Manager for Medea Benjamin's US Senate run on the Green Party ticket. Perhaps June’s best known "15-minutes of fame" among progressive activists was for her protest interrupting George W Bush during his acceptance speech at the RNC in 2004 in Madison Square Garden for which she was jailed and then later prevailed in court. In 2012 June helped get Jill Stein on several state ballots and earlier this month June attended the Green Party nominating convention in Houston, where Jill Stein formally became the Green Party's candidate for President. June was the top vote-getter in the recent election for the Green Party's County Council in Sonoma County.

This will be a roundtable discussion with Kurt Kuhwald, a Unitarian Universalist Community Minister; John Sorenson, founder of the Conscious Elders Network; Constance Washburn, a facilitator of Johanna Macy’s Work That Reconnects; and David “Lucky” Goff, co-author of “The Age of Actualization: A Handbook for Growing An Elder Culture.” Bios of these dynamic and vital elders: Kurt A. Kuhwald - Unitarian Universalist Community Minister in Oakland. Climate, racial and social justice activist. Served in seven UU congregations, including three community ministries (one was with homeless in the Tenderloin District of San Francisco, and one was as seminary faculty in Graduate Theological Union in Berkeley). Active in Showing Up For Racial Justice (organizing in white communities in support of the Movement for Black Lives), in interfaith work for low-wage workers, as well meeting with in dialogue groups with Conscious Elders in Sebastopol. He is ecstatic that he will be a grandfather in October!! John Sorenson - Founder of Conscious Elders Network, formed in 2014. John has had 40 plus years of engineering design, corporate management, and entrepreneurial experiences. He now uses this experience to fulfill his calling as an environmental activist and community organizer in transforming our culture to one that encompasses the wisdom and caring of the conscious elder. Constance Washburn attended the founding session of CEN in 2014, she is a facilitator of Johanna Macy’s Work That Reconnects. She worked at MALT for many years as Education Director, and is a resident of San Geronimo Valley. David “Lucky” Goff, with Alexandra Hart started an Elder Salon in Sebastopol six years ago that meets monthly. Together, they host Growing an Elder Culture – a 2-hour radio show that aires monthly from Sebastopol on various elder topics and issues. David “Lucky”Goff is a prolific writer, writes the a blog called The Slow Lane on his observations on the aging process. In 2003 David had a brain aneurism. As a result of his stroke, and the onset of a rare brain syndrome, he nearly died and ended up permanently disabled. This experience had a transformational effect on David, which made him "Lucky," and cued him into how radically connected all things are.

We speak with Lindsay Dyson, volunteer program manager at the Pachamama Alliance, co-founded by former economic hitman John Perkins, about their work in the Amazonian rainforest. They have received a request from Achuar elders there to work to “change the dream" in the global North. Lindsay will also discuss how Pachamama has reorganized their own work to be more shared, how that is going for them, and how it relates to the goal of changing the dream.

We air a talk by Aileen Miyoko-Smith. Aileen is the Executive Director of Green Action Japan. She has been working for 30 years against nuclear power in Japan, and her talk, which she gave in June at the David Brower Center in Berkeley, is about her work to keep shuttered Japanese nuclear power plants from starting up again. After the Fukushima disaster began in 2011, all nuclear power plants in Japan were shut down. There were massive, unprecedented demonstrations, and many lawsuits against TEPCO and the government. Despite these protests, the Abe government has a goal of restoring 20% of Japan's power to nuclear by the year 2030. Right now, only 1% is coming from nuclear. There are nuclear 43 plants in this small country which is located on the Ring of Fire, the seismically active circle of convergent tectonic plates in the Pacific Ocean. Only two plants are operational at this time. Having survived the shutdown, public opinion supports keeping the nuclear plants closed. But the economy has been in a slump for decades, so public support for closing the plants weakens when people are told it will further depress the economy by making energy more expensive. Stay tuned to learn about who's fighting back, the state of monitoring for contamination and health impacts in Japan and the US, what Aileen thinks we should be doing in the U.S., the relocation of residents including those with special needs, the role of gender in Japanese nuclear politics, threats to Japan's Peace Constitution, the new Secrecy Law, and how it is all playing out given yesterday's Japanese parliamentary elections, where the governing Liberal Democratic government of Shinzo Abe is claiming victory.

We interview Kathleen Wong, co-author of the Natural History of San Francisco Bay. Kathleen is also connected the the UC Reserve System, that will have a field station in the Point Reyes National Seashore.

We talk to Tom Athanasiou, executive director of EcoEquity, about the strategies “inside” the UN climate negotiations to maintain a livable planet, and what global civil society organizations pushing on the “outside” are planning to increase ambition of national pledges.

The Call of the Forest Conference took place at the Dance Palace, Point Reyes Station on March 19, 2016. In the evening presentations were give by Brock Dolmen, Co-founder of Occidental Arts & Ecology Center; Caroline Casey, visionary activist; Mary Evelyn Tucker, co-director of the Forum on Religion and Ecology at Yale; Rick Bass, author and activist; and Osprey Orielle Lake, Co-founder and Executive Director of Women's Environmental & Climate Action Network (WECAN). The Call of the Forest conference was presented by Point Reyes Books and the nonprofit Black Mountain Circle and was co-sponsored by the Center for Humans and Nature and the U.S. Forest Service, with additional support from the Entrekin Family Foundation.

Two uplifting conversations about clean energy. First, we will speak with Kyle Ash, Senior Legislative Representative of Greenpeace in Washington, D.C. about their assessment report, "Energy Revolution 2015," on the technical ability to replace dirty energy with clean in time to tackle the climate challenge. In the second half of the show, we speak with Kyle Ferrari, MPH., Western Program Coordinator of “FracTracker," on how smartphone apps are allowing people across California to help document and expose the realities of extractive industries like fracking.

Call of the Forest Conference - Spirit Panel took place at the Dance Palace, Point Reyes Station on March 19, 2016, with Diana Beresford-Kroeger - author and botanist, Mary Evelyn Tucker - co-director of the Forum on Religion and Ecology at Yale., Joanne Campbell - Miwok Elder, and Wendy Johnson (moderator) - San Francisco Zen Center Buddhist teacher The Call of the Forest conference was presented by Point Reyes Books and the nonprofit Black Mountain Circle and was co-sponsored by the Center for Humans and Nature and the U.S. Forest Service, with additional support from the Entrekin Family Foundation.

Call of the Forest Conference - Climate Panel that took place at the Dance Palace, Point Reyes Station on March 19, 2016, with Osprey Orielle Lake - executive director of Women’s Earth & Climate Action Network, International (WECAN), Rick Bass - author and activist, Linda Sheehan - Executive Director of Earth Law Center and Mia Monroe (moderator) - US National Park Ranger. The Call of the Forest conference was presented by Point Reyes Books and the nonprofit Black Mountain Circle and was co-sponsored by the Center for Humans and Nature and the U.S. Forest Service, with additional support from the Entrekin Family Foundation.

Call of the Forest Conference - Water Panel that took place at the Dance Palace, Point Reyes Station on March 19, 2016, with Betsy Damon - artist and sculptor, Brock Dolman - co-founder of Occidental Arts & Ecology Center, Linda Sheehan - Executive Director of Earth Law Center and Brooke Hecht (moderator) - President of Center for Humans and Nature. The Call of the Forest conference was presented by Point Reyes Books and the nonprofit Black Mountain Circle and was co-sponsored by the Center for Humans and Nature and the U.S. Forest Service, with additional support from the Entrekin Family Foundation.

Call of the Forest Conference in Pt. Reyes Station on March 19 featured the documentary film, Call of the Forest: The Forgotten Wisdom of Trees, which follows Diana Beresford-Kroeger, and her husband, Christian Kroeger, as they tour some of the earth’s last, great forests, from Japan, Ireland, Germany, to the United States and Canada, meeting many of the world’s most ancient trees and educating people about their history and legacy – a history and legacy that is deeply entwined with our grand and benevolent neighbors, the trees.

Call of the Forest Conference in Pt. Reyes Station on March 19, 2016 with Steve Costa, owner of Pt. Reyes Books, Brock Dolmen, Drector of the Water Institute at the Occidental Arts & Ecology Center, and Linda Sheehan, Executive Director of the Earth Law Center; also Ann Hancock, Executive Director of the Center for Climate Protection in Sonoma, on the Supreme Court ruling against the EPA regulating CO2, cap and dividend, and an update on community choice aggregation in the Bay Area.

A rebroadcast of Ecoshock Radio with Alex Smith on nuclear power in China; Helen Caldicott on plan to make S. Australia a world nuclear dump; and dangerous nuke waste in St. Louis, Missouri. ecoshock.org

A conversation about how the Trans-Pacific Partnership would affect jobs, food sovereignty, democracy and the environment. We will speak with Xiomara Castro of Citizens Trade Watch and local organizer Leslie Christianer .

We discuss 50 Low Cost,Low-Tech, Nature-Based Practices for Combating Hunger, Drought and Climate Change, powerful solutions that can be accomplished for small costs. White is the co-founder of Quivera Coalition, a non-profit organization based in Santa Fe, New Mexico, dedicated to building economic and ecological resilience on western working landscapes.

Tom Athanasiou is a climate-equity specialist. He directs EcoEquity, a small activist research group, co-ordinates the international Climate Action Network’s Equity Working Group, and co-directs the Climate Equity Reference Project, a long-term modeling and analysis initiative designed to advance equity as a driver of extremely ambitious global climate mobilization. His principle goal is to ensure that the global climate transition is fair enough, and ambitious enough, to actually succeed.

Post Carbon Radio co-hosts Karen Nyhus and Bing Gong interview Tom Athanasiou, climate equity specialist of EcoEquity, on what happened and didn’t happen at COP21 in Paris. We also interview Lisa Ferguson and Jeremy Lent, Berkeley activists who were on the streets of Paris during COP21.

A nuclear energy whistle-blower, Gundersen has over 40-years of nuclear power engineering experience. He gave testimony in the investigation of Three Mile Island, and has been studying the catastrophic failure at the Fukushima Dai-Ichi Nuclear Power Plant since the first reactor exploded. Currently, Gundersen directs Fairewinds Energy Education, to inform the public of nuclear power risk, and to hold the nuclear industry accountable on safety issues. Recorded at the Dance Palace, Point Reyes Station on Saturday, November 21, 2015

Koohan Paik is Coordinator of the Asia-Pacific program at the International Forum on Globalization and the author most recently of "Islanders Unite to Resist a New Pacific War." In this episode, she discusses how trade policy under the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP), the U.S. military's "Pacific Pivot," and other bilateral trade agreements and joint military exercises are not only militarizing the Asia-Pacific region, but destroying precious and unique environments on island communities.

Karen interviews activists at Flood Wall Street West this morning in the San Francisco Financial District, who were taking direct action against institutions profiting from dirty energy. We then speak with Laura Allen, Executive Director of Greywater Action and author of The Water-Wise Home: How to Conserve, Capture and Reuse Water in Your Home and Lands, about greywater systems and best practices.

Two eminent scientists report on their latest research to track and document the ongoing impacts of the nuclear disaster in Japan. With scientists, Ken Buesseler and Tim Mousseau, and moderator, Mary Beth Brangan. We are now well into our fourth year since the Fukushima Dai-ichi reactors exploded and the global spread of radionuclides that went into the ocean, air and environment at that time is constantly being increased by continual radioactive releases from the uncontained melted nuclear cores and spent fuel material. While the levels of contamination so far detected here on the west coast remain small, the potential impacts over time and across generations can not be ignored or denied. Ken Buesseler is a Marine Radiochemist at the Center for Marine and Environmental Radioactivity (CMER). Within months of the Fukushima disaster, Ken Buesseler assembled an international research cruise to sample the waters surrounding the nuclear plant. To date, important fisheries off Fukushima remain closed due to cesium levels above Japanese limits for seafood. Buesseler is now monitoring over 50 sites along the West Coast, from Alaska to Mexico, with citizen-scientist funding and participation. In April 2015, signature Fukushima radioactivity was detected in ocean water samples gathered at the shoreline in Ucluelet BC, north of Vancouver. Timothy Mousseau, a Research Biologist at the University of South Carolina, Columbia, has studied the impacts of radioactive contaminants on biological communities in the Chernobyl region of Ukraine and Fukushima Prefecture, Japan. His research suggests that many species of birds, plants and animals have experienced direct toxicity as a result of the Fukushima disaster. This mutational load has had dramatic consequences for development, reproduction and survival, and the effects observed at individual and population levels are having significant impacts on the region. Mary Beth Brangan, co-director of the Ecological Options Network (EON), will anchor the discussion between Buesseler and Mousseau with an informed perspective developed in her work as a national organizer and award-winning filmmaker. Having studied nuclear issues such as bio-accumulation and the Linear No-Threshold (LNT) model, Brangan will show how the research data they are compiling relates to the environmental and social impacts of Fukushima contamination, both immediate and long term.