Margaret Paloma's guest appearances

Margaret Paloma

On Being with Krista Tippett

Steppin' Out of Babylon: Radio Interviews

Alain De Botton

Daniel Kahneman

Sharon Salzberg

Sheryl Sandberg

Bruce Lipton

Arlie Hochschild

Rebecca Traister

Tiffany Shlain

Sally Kohn

Eve Ensler

Majora Carter

Adam Grant

Glenn Beck

Karen Armstrong

Michael Pollan

OwlTail

Krista Tippett

A look back at the closest thing the early 20th century may have had to Oprah Winfrey. The flamboyant Pentecostal preacher Aimee Semple McPherson was a multimedia sensation and a powerful female religious leader long before most of Christianity considered such a thing. The contradictions and passions of her life are a window into the world of global Pentecostalism that touches as many as half a billion lives today. Margaret Paloma is Emeritus Professor of Sociology at University of Akron in Ohio. Krista Tippett spoke with her on June 19, 2007 from the studios of APM in St. Paul, Minnesota. This interview is included in our show “Reviving Sister Aimee.” See more at onbeing.org/program/reviving-sister-aimee/166

<p>A look back at the closest thing the early 20th century may have had to Oprah Winfrey. The flamboyant Pentecostal preacher Aimee Semple McPherson was a multimedia sensation and a powerful female religious leader long before most of Christianity considered such a thing. The contradictions and passions of her life are a window into the world of global Pentecostalism that touches as many as half a billion lives today. Margaret Paloma is Emeritus Professor of Sociology at University of Akron in Ohio. Krista Tippett spoke with her on June 19, 2007 from the studios of APM in St. Paul, Minnesota. This interview is included in our show “Reviving Sister Aimee.” See more at <a href="http://onbeing.org/program/reviving-sister-aimee/166" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">onbeing.org/program/reviving-sister-aimee/166</a></p>

[Unedited] Margaret Paloma with Krista Tippett

Dr. Pavel is an environmental and social justice activist, founder of the Earth House Center in Oakland, California and editor of the forthcoming book Building Sustainable Metropolitan Communities: Breakthrough Stories. Earth House was founded in 1990 by Dr. Pavel and currently conducts local, national and international projects in a variety of print and visual media including Journey to South Africa: Metropolitan Communities Leaders Reflect on the World Summit, a monograph; Voices from the Community: Smart Growth and Social Equity, a video; and Sustainable Solutions: Building Assets for Empowerment and Sustainable Development, a web-based video project of community-based projects around the globe). Earth House is both an environmental and social justice center in an urban setting. The group has worked supporting organizations working on issues of health, justice, education, legal services and metropolitan development with a series of environmental sustainability groups in the Pacific Rim, including Cambodia and Japan, and in the US. Earth House media projects link communication, technology and social advocacy. Dr. Pavel's educational background includes graduate study at Harvard University and the London School of Economics.As a child Dr. Pavel volunteered in Mexican orphanages, while her father offered free surgery in the clinics of Tijuana. This early awareness of border-crossings and all that it implies about class, race and nations has guided her work in both the environmental and social justice movements. In this interview she discusses issues of urban development and projects that stand at the intersection of these two critical. Where are the borders that need to be considered and crossed between nations, communities and within each individual? One example she uses to illuminate her work is the issue she calls "spatial apartheid" in which the development of a park/greenbelt in Oakland, became both an environmental and racial issue between two ethnically different communities. Other important topics discussed include "inclusionary vs. exclusionary" zoning, smart growth and social justice. Dr. Pavel concludes by discussing real life "breakthrough stories" of urban communities who took planning and the sustainable development of their neighborhoods into their own hands and the amazing, multi-faceted benefits that have been created.This is an uplifting interview that doesn't shy away from difficult truths, but also provides real life examples of successful, inspiring urban renewal and community development.Recorded in San Francisco, April, 2008 at the Ecocities World Summit.

Dr. Pavel is an environmental and social justice activist, founder of the Earth House Center in Oakland, California and editor of the forthcoming book Building Sustainable Metropolitan Communities: Breakthrough Stories. Earth House was founded in 1990 by Dr. Pavel and currently conducts local, national and international projects in a variety of print and visual media including Journey to South Africa: Metropolitan Communities Leaders Reflect on the World Summit, a monograph; Voices from the Community: Smart Growth and Social Equity, a video; and Sustainable Solutions: Building Assets for Empowerment and Sustainable Development, a web-based video project of community-based projects around the globe). Earth House is both an environmental and social justice center in an urban setting. The group has worked supporting organizations working on issues of health, justice, education, legal services and metropolitan development with a series of environmental sustainability groups in the Pacific Rim, including Cambodia and Japan, and in the US. Earth House media projects link communication, technology and social advocacy. Dr. Pavel's educational background includes graduate study at Harvard University and the London School of <a href="http://Economics.As" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Economics.As</a> a child Dr. Pavel volunteered in Mexican orphanages, while her father offered free surgery in the clinics of Tijuana. This early awareness of border-crossings and all that it implies about class, race and nations has guided her work in both the environmental and social justice movements. In this interview she discusses issues of urban development and projects that stand at the intersection of these two critical. Where are the borders that need to be considered and crossed between nations, communities and within each individual? One example she uses to illuminate her work is the issue she calls "spatial apartheid" in which the development of a park/greenbelt in Oakland, became both an environmental and racial issue between two ethnically different communities. Other important topics discussed include "inclusionary vs. exclusionary" zoning, smart growth and social justice. Dr. Pavel concludes by discussing real life "breakthrough stories" of urban communities who took planning and the sustainable development of their neighborhoods into their own hands and the amazing, multi-faceted benefits that have been created.This is an uplifting interview that doesn't shy away from difficult truths, but also provides real life examples of successful, inspiring urban renewal and community development.Recorded in San Francisco, April, 2008 at the Ecocities World Summit.

Dr. Margaret Paloma Pavel