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Thursday, December 19th, 2024
This heart-opening episode is guest-hosted by Peterson Toscano, Nicole Diroff & Ben Yosua-Davis of the BTS Center and is from their Climate Changed Podcast, This program is possible because of the sound and journalism mastery of Peterson Toscano.
Thursday, December 12th, 2024
Alice Rothchild is many things: a woman, a Jew, a doctor, a feminist, a poet, and the author of 6 books, the latest being Inspired and Outraged: The Making of a Feminist Physician. Rising in the medical ranks when women were almost universally barred from the role of physician, she became a obstetrics-gynecology doc, including co-founding the non-profit Urban Woman and Child Health Inc. Alice transcends barriers, limits, and conventions, including having written this wide-ranging memoir and commentary-on-the-times book in poetic format.
Friday, December 6th, 2024
We welcome back Chuck Fager, a writer & activist with some 60 years of work, and we also welcome Emma Lapsansky-Werner, the co-author of Tell It Slant: Chuck Fager, A Prophetic Life of Adventure & Writing on Religion, War, and Justice, Love and Laughter.
Thursday, December 19th, 2024
Part one of a rich assortment of guests & original music of some Winter Holidays, like the Solstice, Hanukkah, Christmas, and the New Year. This week includes visits from Cris Williamson, John McCutcheon, Billy Jonas, Steve Suffet, & Sigrid Christiansen.
Thursday, December 12th, 2024
Flamy Grant and their music is amazing & fun & deep & did I mention wonderful? You see, Flamy is such an unexpected combination of usually adversarial things like a drag queen singing Christian songs. In fact, Flamy's album Bible Belt Baby even made it to #1 on the iTunes Christian & Gospel chart. And in 2023 Flamy was a winner of the Kerrville Folk Festival New Folk Competition.
Thursday, December 5th, 2024
Leslie Smith has shined as part of all the great folk locales, the Newport, Kerrville, and South By Southwest music festivals, and her songs have been done by many folk-greats, like Lucy Kaplansky and Dar Williams, although I think they are best out of Leslie's own mouth and guitar. Along the way to now she did a stint as part of a New York bluegrass band called Arabesque, but then she headed back to Pittsburgh, back to her center. Her influences include country & bluegrass, as well as lots of folk, but the music that flows out of her is all Leslie Smith, with lyrics, voice & guitar that massage the heart and the gut in the real hurts and hopes of life.
Friday, July 26th, 2024
In this month’s Citizens’ Climate Radio episode, host Peterson Toscano and the CCR teams introduce a fresh approach to climate change storytelling by exploring personal stories as metaphors. While these stories are not explicitly about climate change, they reveal truths and perspectives that resonate with our climate work. Join us to discover how personal narratives can enhance and diversify our stories about climate change. You will also learn expert storytelling tips to apply when telling stories about climate change.
Friday, June 28th, 2024
In this episode of Citizens’ Climate Radio, hosts Horace Mo and Erica Valdez bring together diverse voices to discuss current efforts to address climate change. Horace Mo speaks with Ann E. Burg, a celebrated author known for compelling historical novels for young readers, about her newly published novel, “Force of Nature–A Novel of Rachel Carson,“ which opens a new door for readers to experience the life of Carson, a well-known environmental pioneer in the U.S., by reading her field notes and Ann’s innovative writing.
Thursday, May 23rd, 2024
In this month’s Citizens’ Climate Radio episode, Rob Hopkins, one of the founders of the Transition Town movement, shows us how playful imagination can lead to real-world solutions, and you will discover how a life-sized whale made of plastic bags brought a community together to pass groundbreaking legislation. Artist Carrie Ziegler shares her extraordinary project that mobilized hundreds of schoolchildren to make a powerful statement about plastic pollution. In the Nerd Corner, Dana Nuccitelli tackles the big question: is a carbon price still effective in a post-Inflation Reduction Act world?
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