Jeremy Lent explores the way forward for humanity &amp; all life on Earth by a deep dive into knowledge, connection, insight, and wisdom in his latest book, The Web of Meaning: Integrating Science &amp; Traditional Wisdom to Find Our Place in the Universe. With a careful eye to the big picture, Jeremy scrutinizes the history, components, &amp; insights, bringing them together to empower growth in life-affirming directions. Jeremy is a vastly widely-read, widely-questing powerhouse of discernment &amp; clarity, finding the unity in perceived individual threads, in a discipline called Liology.

Preserving Life & The Web of Meaning

Patricia Stansbury returns to guest-host Spirit in Action for the third time, with this episode adapted from her program, Groundswell, originally recorded for WRIR, Richmond Independent Radio. In late June, Patricia visited John Boyd and Kara Brewer Boyd on their farm, Let's Get Growing, in Boydton, Virginia. In this episode, she talks with Kara about the discrimination faced by Black farmers and other farmers of color. Kara explains the disparities in treatment by banks and federal agencies clearly and factually, and states it without rancor. This episode was recorded in a pole shed with a tin roof and a red pickup truck on Let's Get Growing Farm in Boydton Virginia, and produced at Epic Gardens in Bon Air, Virginia. It has been edited for time. Related Links: Patricia Stansbury's Facebook Page for her radio programsLet's Get Growing - We Grow Farmers on FacebookWRIR's WebsiteFeatured Music: "My People, My Land" by Pura Fe

Patricia Stansbury returns to guest-host Spirit in Action for the third time, with this episode adapted from her program, Groundswell, originally recorded for WRIR, Richmond Independent Radio. In late June, Patricia visited John Boyd and Kara Brewer Boyd on their farm, Let's Get Growing, in Boydton, Virginia. In this episode, she talks with Kara about the discrimination faced by Black farmers and other farmers of color. Kara explains the disparities in treatment by banks and federal agencies clearly and factually, and states it without rancor. This episode was recorded in a pole shed with a tin roof and a red pickup truck on Let's Get Growing Farm in Boydton Virginia, and produced at Epic Gardens in Bon Air, Virginia. It has been edited for time. Related Links: Patricia Stansbury's Facebook Page for her radio programs Let's Get Growing - We Grow Farmers on Facebook WRIR's Website Featured Music: "My People, My Land" by Pura Fe

Black Farmers in America

This weeks Spirit in Action has been adapted from a recording of a webinar on July 7 hosted by the Canadian No New Fighter Jets Coalition, who are working to stop the Canadian government from purchasing 88 new fighter jets. Rachel Small and Pitasanna Shanmugathas lead the event for the Coalition, with speakers including Yonatan Shapira, former IDF helicopter pilot and current peace activist; Vicki Berenson, an organizer with Safe Skies Clean Water Wisconsin who is working to prevent the basing of F-35s at Truax Air National Guard Base in Madison; and retired US Air Force Colonel Rosanne Greco and Dr. John Reuwer of World BEYOND War, who have been trying to prevent the deployment of Air National Guard F-35s in Burlington, Vermont.

Resisting Fighter Jets At Home and Abroad

Parker Palmer

Two great guests, the amazing thinker &amp; author, Parker Palmer, is joined by the wonderful singer, songwriter, &amp; world healer, Carrie Newcomer. They share their various collaborations, the first being a word, song &amp; connecting experience called Healing the Heart of Democracy, then there was What We Need Is Here, and their newest collaboration is called The Growing Edge. Your heart, mind, &amp; spirit will be enriched and empowered by the gifts they bring. Featured Music: Three Feet or So - written &amp; performed by Carrie Newcomer Sanctuary - written &amp; performed by Carrie Newcomer The Music WIll Play On - performed by Carrie Newcomer, written by Carrie &amp; Parker Palmer If Not Now - written &amp; performed by Carrie Newcomer Original Air Date: 02/01/2020

Two great guests, the amazing thinker &amp; author, Parker Palmer, is joined by the wonderful singer, songwriter, &amp; world healer, Carrie Newcomer. They share their various collaborations, the first being a word, song &amp; connecting experience called Healing the Heart of Democracy, then there was What We Need Is Here, and their newest collaboration is called The Growing Edge. Your heart, mind, &amp; spirit will be enriched and empowered by the gifts they bring. Featured Music: Three Feet or So - written &amp; performed by Carrie Newcomer Sanctuary - written &amp; performed by Carrie Newcomer The Music WIll Play On - performed by Carrie Newcomer, written by Carrie &amp; Parker Palmer If Not Now - written &amp; performed by Carrie Newcomer Original Air Date: 02/01/2020

Growing Edge of Parker Palmer & Carrie Newcomer

David Hartsough

Our guest is David Hartsough, author of Waging Peace: Global Adventures of a Lifelong Activist, a wonderful book combining the stories and inspiration for a better world that David has lived out and been witness to. David has gone inspirationally into the crucial events of the past 60 years, in the Civil Rights movement, across the Berlin Wall, working against nuclear weapons, traveling in solidarity with the people of Central America &amp; Kosovo and making himself available everywhere that people need compassion and support. Hes a founder of many organizations including the Nonviolent Peaceforce and World Beyond War. Original Air Date: 01/04/2020

Our guest is David Hartsough, author of Waging Peace: Global Adventures of a Lifelong Activist, a wonderful book combining the stories and inspiration for a better world that David has lived out and been witness to. David has gone inspirationally into the crucial events of the past 60 years, in the Civil Rights movement, across the Berlin Wall, working against nuclear weapons, traveling in solidarity with the people of Central America &amp; Kosovo and making himself available everywhere that people need compassion and support. Hes a founder of many organizations including the Nonviolent Peaceforce and World Beyond War. Original Air Date: 01/04/2020

Waging Peace With David Hartsough

In the past 5 years, Fiacre Mutabazi has created an amazing variety of organizations and efforts to make both Rwanda and the world a better place. The first was the MyStoryRwanda YouTube Channel, and then there was what was first called the Rwanda Artist Network, now called Kunda Arts Collective. Soon there was the Kigali House of Stories, and then the up-cycled art of the Kunda Arts Store (or on Facebook). All of this has grown from the soil of Rwanda, perhaps best known in the West for the genocide that took place there in 1994. However, in the course of the ensuing 27 years, Rwanda has become one of the most peaceful and clean places in the world, and also the #1 country in the world in terms of female leadership in its Parliament. This is where Fiacre Mutabazi has been finding ways to nurture and harness the creative and peace-oriented energy of Rwandans through art. Featured Music: Genda Rwanda uri nziza - by Karahanyuze, and you can watch the video

Rwanda Stories & Kunda Arts with Fiacre Mutabazi

Jeremy Lent

Featuring 2 great thinkers mapping a better future for us all by looking deep within not only the human mind, but the mind of the Earth &amp; Cosmos. Jeremy Lent, of Berkeley, CA, is the author of The Patterning Instinct: A Cultural History of Humanity's Search for Meaning and of The Web of Meaning: Integrating Science &amp; Traditional Wisdom to Find Our Place in the Universe. Martin Schoenhals is author of Work, Love, and Learning in Utopia: Equality Reimagined, and Martin is a professor of anthropology at Appalachian State University. Both swim on the deep side of the vision &amp; insight on a wide range of topics including human nature, nature's nature, science, philosophy, community, history, &amp; the future.

Vision, Utopia, & Big Questions - Martin Schoenhals & Jeremy Lent

The topic is individual spiritual discernment, and our guests are Jerry Knutson, author of a Pendle Hill Pamphlet on the subject, and Kat Griffith, who is working with Jerry on translating it into Spanish for a Latin American audience, with the prospect of jointly leading workshops on the topic. Jerry's first master's degree was in Environmental Engineering, and his second was a Master of Divinity degree from Earlham School of Religion. Kat studied agricultural economics, lived in Latin America for years, and has written more than a dozen articles for Friends Journal on a variety of topics. Together, Jerry Knutson and Kat Griffith provide insight and light on a better way to make fruitful, life-changing decisions. Jerry's pamphlet is Individual Spiritual Discernment: Receiving, Testing, and Implementing Leadings from a Higher Power.

Powerful Peaceful Discernment

Guest-host Patricia Stansbury visits with folks connected with the Veterans Resiliency Holistic Clinic, which provides a multidisciplinary approach to trauma, treating the person, not the disease. Jennifer and Aaron tell how it works, providing first hand accounts of how various non-medical modalities ease the pain and anguish of those who've endured trauma at war. Coordinator Karen Henderson explains her path to the work and how the person, body, mind and spirit, can be brought together to heal the trauma. . The Veterans Resiliency Holistic Clinic is a resource for veterans and their families. Patricia Stansbury produces Lightly On The Ground and Groundswell shows on WRIR - Richmond Independent Radio.

Veterans Resiliency Holistic Clinic

Guest-host Peterson Toscano brings highlights from his Bubble&amp;Squeak podcast, including visits with queer writer/film producer Kristin Peterson Kaszubowski about Ringolevio, from various folks, including Dr. Natasha DeJarnett, about a vision of a fossil fuel-free world, from artist George Ferrandi, from Craig Middleton, co-author of the book Queering the Museum, from Aeryka Harvey of Brown Suga Diaries, &amp; from Peggy Campolo, about her transformation from a mousy pastors wife to one of the most outspoken Evangelicals in America speaking up for LGBTQ rights. And more...

Queer Film, Fossil Fuel-less-ness, Brown Suga, & More

Each week, Spirit In Action brings you stories of people living lives of fruitful service, of peace, community, compassion, creative action and progressive efforts. We'll trace the spiritual roots that support and nourish them in their service. Above all, we'll seek out Light, Love and Helping Hands, being shared between our many neighbors on this planet, hoping to inspire and encourage you to sink deep roots and produce sacred fruit in your own life. Spirit In Action is an hour of interviews with those providing leadership in peace, justice and "good works", interspersed with relevant music. The theme music is "The Turning of the World" performed by Sara Thomsen (written by Ruth Pellham) and "I Have No Hands But Yours" by Carol Johnson

Spirit In Action

In his new book, Race and Social Change: A Quest, A Study, A Call to Action, Max Klau uses wide-ranging social science investigation to search for a way forward on dealing with racism and privilege in the USA. The starting point is Camp Anytown's Separation Exercise, which has led to the awakening of many minds. Max's exploration of that tool, supplemented by his years of service as VP of Leadership Development at City Year and currently as CPO with the New Politics Leadership Academy, have given him powerful insights into the dynamics of human growth and change. Featured Music: That Kind of Grace - by Anne Hills &amp; David Roth

Race & Social Change: Science & Spirit

Guest-host Peterson Toscano of Citizens Climate Radio brings special depth &amp; insight into the emotional &amp; human consequences of living in this time of crisis, both due to climate change &amp; the coronavirus. In this episode 8 women talk about working through grief to a place of action. They use their expertise to connect the impacts of climate change to what we are now seeing with Covid-19. Visits with Dr. Nathasha DeJarnett, Interim Associate Director Program &amp; Partnership Development National Environmental Health Association, Dr. Lise VanSusteren, psychiatrist in private practice in Washington, DC with a special interest in the psychological effects of climate change, Elizabeth Rush, author of Rising: Dispatches from the New American Shore, Solemi Hernandez, Citizens Climate Lobby Southeast Regional Coordinator, Edie Lush, co-host of Global GoalsCast podcast, Laura Schmidt &amp; Aimee Lewis-Reau, co-founders of the Good Grief Network, and Anna Jane Joyner, co-host of No Place Like Home podcast. Featured Music: Power to the People - by Ashley Mazanek

Eco-grief - Community Breeds Courage

Exploration of how spiritually-root service can transform the paths of young volunteers. There's riches in the experience with the Peace Corps, Americorps &amp; VISTA, Teach for America, &amp; many more, but today we visit with several folks with QVS (Quaker Volunteer Service). QVS provides a year of service, living at the intersection of transformational spirituality and activism. Claire Hannapel, is a former fellow with QVS Atlanta and is the current QVS Outreach &amp; Development Coordinator, KT Glusac &amp; Dillon Sebastian are fellows with the QVS Minneapolis, Zo Enciso Edmiston is with QVS Portland, and Cynthia Bartoo acts as support to QVS Minneapolis fellows. Featured Music: Gonna Take It With Me - performed by Ben Tousley &amp; Sue Kranz on Take Hands View this QuakerSpeak video of several former QVS fellows.

QVS - Spirituality, Activism, Community

Malinda Maynor Lowery's new book is The Lumbee Indians: An American Struggle. Malinda is Associate Professor of History at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, and is also a member of the Lumbee Tribe, the largest Native American tribe east of the Mississippi River. Malinda gives a glimpse of the rich Lumbee history and their on-going struggle for federal recognition of their nation.,

Strong & Unrecognized: The Lumbee Indians

Throughout his career, Dwight L. Wilson has held many jobs: educator, administrator, chaplain. In each role, he worked to advance equality, opportunity and understanding. He continues this work in his carefully researched historical fiction series Esi Was My Mother, which follows the lives of an enslaved black family from 18th century Africa to the American Civil War. He strives to portray triumphant examples of black stories that will make history come alive for readers. He is also author of The Kidnapped: A Collection of Short Stories and Modern Psalms: In Search of Peace and Justice. Dwight writes about "characters who existed, those who could have existed, and those who should have existed". For further resources by and about Dwight L. Wilson, see the Friends Journal review about Modern Psalms in Search of Peace and Justice, Dwight's Friends Journal article entitled The Social Justice Testimony, Dwight's Reflections on being a member of the ESR Board of Advisors, and his 2018 Bible Half-hour videos Original Air Date: 03/02/2019

Throughout his career, Dwight L. Wilson has held many jobs: educator, administrator, chaplain. In each role, he worked to advance equality, opportunity and understanding. He continues this work in his carefully researched historical fiction series Esi Was My Mother, which follows the lives of an enslaved black family from 18th century Africa to the American Civil War. He strives to portray triumphant examples of black stories that will make history come alive for readers. He is also author of The Kidnapped: A Collection of Short Stories and Modern Psalms: In Search of Peace and Justice. Dwight writes about "characters who existed, those who could have existed, and those who should have existed". For further resources by and about Dwight L. Wilson, see the Friends Journal review about Modern Psalms in Search of Peace and Justice, Dwight's Friends Journal article entitled The Social Justice Testimony, Dwight's Reflections on being a member of the ESR Board of Advisors, and his 2018 Bible Half-hour videos Original Air Date: 03/02/2019

Song of Slaves, Bound for Freedom

John Peck is Executive Director of Family Farm Defenders, which supports sustainable agriculture, farm worker rights, animal welfare, consumer safety, fair trade, &amp; food sovereignty. In addition, John teaches Economics "against the text" and also Environmental Studies at Madison College, runs a farm, does poetry, and thinks deeply.

Transforming Economics & Defending Family Farms

Rupert Isaacson, thanks to his journalist skills, his passion for justice, and his unstoppable heart-of-a-father, has opened up the lives of tens of thousands of autistic children to healing. His latest book is The Long Ride Home: The Extraordinary Journey of Healing that Changed a Child's Life, and it educates about the unprecedented successful work of HorseBoyWorld.com and KidsMustMove.com while taking us along on their adventure through shamanic healing in Namibia, Australia, and on the Navajo reservation. Combining investigative rigor with complete openness to alternative experiences, Rupert gives help &amp; hope to autistic folks everywhere. Original Air Date: 08/14/2016

Rupert Isaacson, thanks to his journalist skills, his passion for justice, and his unstoppable heart-of-a-father, has opened up the lives of tens of thousands of autistic children to healing. His latest book is The Long Ride Home: The Extraordinary Journey of Healing that Changed a Child's Life, and it educates about the unprecedented successful work of <a href="http://HorseBoyWorld.com" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">HorseBoyWorld.com</a> and <a href="http://KidsMustMove.com" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">KidsMustMove.com</a> while taking us along on their adventure through shamanic healing in Namibia, Australia, and on the Navajo reservation. Combining investigative rigor with complete openness to alternative experiences, Rupert gives help &amp; hope to autistic folks everywhere. Original Air Date: 08/14/2016

Autism, Horses, & Shamanic Healing

Host Peterson Toscano visits with 3 Evangelicals fighting climate change, Kyle Meyaard-Shaap, Corina Newsome, &amp; Rev. Josh Gibson. Comic creation, Tony Buffusio from the Bronx, talks climate change in the Bible. Scientist Dr. Katharine Hayhoe, host of the Global Weirding Podcast shares climate communication tips, and author Dr. Jeffrey Bennett and illustrator Roberta Collier-Morales inspire by their book, The Wizard Who Saved the World.

Climate Evangelicals, Global Weirding, & Wizardry

Pamela Haines calls us to a right relationship with finance. With a BA in Social Ecology, MA in Labor &amp; Women's History, and as a self-taught economist, she looks to the future &amp; seeks to foster integrity. She was lead author of Toward a Right Relationship with Finance. She is part of the Eco-Justice Collaborative of Philadelphia Yearly Meeting, and a member of their Friends Economic Integrity Project.

Buying Humanity's Future

Alaine Duncan of Integrative Healing Works started her education in the area of western science, but after contracting hepatitis C, found much-needed help through acupuncture &amp; Asian medicine. Her new book is The Tao of Trauma: A Practitioner's Guide For Integrating Five Element Theory and Trauma Treatment. In it Alaine &amp; co-author Kathy Kain significantly add resources for a hard-to-treat condition. Featured Music: Northwest Passage Revisited - by Evalyn Parry, listen to Song of the Soul interview

The Tao of Trauma

Across the country, the National War Tax Resistance Coordinating Committee (NWTRCC) links energies of folks like Anne Barron of the Peace Resource Center of San Diego, the Truth &amp; Poverty Tour in San Diego, and War Tax Redirection, and Larry Bassett, the curmudgeonly, conscientious, Gandalf-bearded subject of the documentary, The Pacifist (trailer and full video). Part of WTR history: An Act of Conscience, (trailer and full video)

Pacifist Curmudgeon & War Tax Redirection

Jerry Edwards acts as an educational conduit between the medical system and Plain Communities (Amish, Mennonnite &amp; other people who cautiously engage with mainstream technology &amp; practices). In particular, he has been sharing in medical circles an inexpensive &amp; effective technique for burn &amp; wound treatment, innovated among the Amish about 30 years ago, A significant issue is trust &amp; mutual respect for the different priorities &amp; decisions of Plain folks accessing medical services. He has helped organize a February 12, 2019, Plain Medical/Burn &amp; Wounds Conference at the La Crosse, WI, Gunderson Campus, in the ICE House (Integrated Center for Education - 1827 Sims Place), 8:30 am - 5 pm. Contact: Jerry &amp; Vicky Edwards, c/o Sammy Yoder, S4141 Cty Hwy C, Hillsboro, WI 54634 Additional resource: Plain Talk about Providing Health Care to Plain Communities

Amish Burn Treatment & Plain Medical

A peek at portions of the Wisconsin Grassroots Network festival held in Eau Claire on 9/22/18, with a brief intro by Art &amp; Dawn Shegonee of Call For Peace Drum &amp; Dance Company, and featuring excerpts from keynote presentations by the Madison gaggle of the national singing activist group The Raging Grannies, and progressive journalist, author and orator, John Nichols. The following songs were shared by Madison's gaggle of Raging Grannies. You can find many of the lyrics here, while this is the national repository of Raging Grannies songs. Oh, Dear! Where Does Our Money Go? More Women Immigrant Rights The Wheels on the Bus Climate Change Down At the Polling Place

Progressive Grassroots Revival

A front-row look at the situation in Hong Kong with Jerry (Chiwei) Hui, currently Associate Professor of Music at UW-Stout in Wisconsin, but he is Hong Kong born-and-raised, and he was present for the first two of the massive protests there. Jerry provides an inside glimpse of the people, laws, history, politics, &amp; character of Hong Kong, which can be supplemented by the BBC Hong Kong page. You can help support the protest movement by advocating for the Hong Kong Human Rights and Democracy Act of 2019 (H.R. 3289, and S. 1838)

Free Hong Kong

Thom Hartmann

Thom Hartmann is one of the most articulate voices of progressive radio in the USA, and he's a compelling writer as well. His most recent book is The Hidden History of the War on Voting: Who Stole Your Vote and How to Get It Back combines history, current events, analysis, &amp; insight into the most crucial threat to our representative democracy happening now. Featured Music: Vote - by Emma's Revolution

Thom Hartmann Exposes the Hidden History of the War on Voting

There are climate advocates everywhere including in sports, the circus, and in mermaid drag. Peterson Toscano of Citizens Climate Radio talks with Lew Blaustein of Green Sports Blog, Brewers pitcher Brent Sutter of Strike Out Waste, Eliana Dunlap of the Circus Action Network, Angel Collinson of ProtectOurWinters.org, and Elizabeth Doud performs in The Mermaid Tear Factory. Full Notes: There is a growing movement among professional athletes. Beyond greening the sportsworld, more and more champions are using their platforms to urge large scale responses to climate change. Lew Blaustein, editor at Green Sports Blog, writes about this trend. He has been introducing Citizens Climate Radio host, Peterson Toscanoto, to professional athletes who are not afraid to talk about climate change. Brent Suter received a scholarship to play baseball at Harvard University, where he studied environmental science. He learned about the effects of climate change and what how we need to drastically reduce our pollution. At first that meant making individual lifestyle choices to lower his own personal carbon footprint, but he has been expanding his efforts. Through his Strike Out Waste initiative, he got professional baseball players to use reusable water bottles during spring training.. Hear our exclusive interview and learn more about the exciting news about how Brent is taking on climate change. Eliana Dunlap was not born into a circus family; instead she learned circus arts at a circus school in Quebec. Her circus skill set is impressive and includes acrobatics, juggling, dance, and her speciality, the German Wheel. She has been performing circus arts in non-traditional spaces. She is also someone who is creatively responding to climate change. Through her podcast, Changing the World and Other Circus Related Things, she is connecting with other concerned circus artists. She is also one of the founding members of the Circus Action Network. Eliana likens the high stakes world of circus arts to the challenges we face with climate change. She also sees examples from the circus world about how we can get people from various backgrounds to work together. This summer she and a friend will do street performances of a new circus art show called, High Stakes--What's the Plan(t)? In addition to lots of juggling and acrobatics, the show features a live plant as part of the action. In this fascinating interview, Eliana opens up about the world of circus and how she and other concerned artists are creating avenues for a deeper conversation about climate change. Lew Blaustien, editor of Green Sports Blog, is very concerned about climate change. A sports nut since childhood, Lew began a career in sportscasting, and eventually settled into the marketing side of professional sports. There was nothing in his background to suggest he would turn into a passionate climate advocate. The 911 attacks on New York City in 2001, though, changed everything for him. You will hear about how that traumatic event set him on a new career path. In this lively interview you will hear Lew brimming with enthusiasm as he reveals a growing trend in the professional sports world. More and more athletes, teams, and leagues are working hard to address environmental concerns. You will also hear from professional skier, Angel Collinson. Through Protect Our Winters she has been speaking to members of congress. In speaking with lawmakers and how many are concerned about climate change, she has become more determined than ever to speak out about the issue. Inspired by athletes like Angel Collinson and Milwaukee Brewers pitcher, Brent Suter, who we featured on Episode 37, Lew and other in the green sports movement are urging teams and players to take the next step: speak directly about climate change and endorse the policies that will address our dangerous pollution problems. Elizabeth Doud takes on the role of Siren Jones in her one-person performance, The Mermaid Tear Factory. Based in Miami, Florida, she has been a catalyst to engage other artists in conversations around climate change. Each year she helps organize Climakaze Miami. Elizabeth explains why she sees Miami as the city of the future--both with its international changing demographics and the many ways climate change is reshaping the city. She also shares why artists need to break away from telling the story of climate science and instead dig deep into the hard emotions around climate change.

There are climate advocates everywhere including in sports, the circus, and in mermaid drag. Peterson Toscano of Citizens Climate Radio talks with Lew Blaustein of Green Sports Blog, Brewers pitcher Brent Sutter of Strike Out Waste, Eliana Dunlap of the Circus Action Network, Angel Collinson of <a href="http://ProtectOurWinters.org" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">ProtectOurWinters.org</a>, and Elizabeth Doud performs in The Mermaid Tear Factory. Full Notes: There is a growing movement among professional athletes. Beyond greening the sportsworld, more and more champions are using their platforms to urge large scale responses to climate change. Lew Blaustein, editor at Green Sports Blog, writes about this trend. He has been introducing Citizens Climate Radio host, Peterson Toscanoto, to professional athletes who are not afraid to talk about climate change. Brent Suter received a scholarship to play baseball at Harvard University, where he studied environmental science. He learned about the effects of climate change and what how we need to drastically reduce our pollution. At first that meant making individual lifestyle choices to lower his own personal carbon footprint, but he has been expanding his efforts. Through his Strike Out Waste initiative, he got professional baseball players to use reusable water bottles during spring training.. Hear our exclusive interview and learn more about the exciting news about how Brent is taking on climate change. Eliana Dunlap was not born into a circus family; instead she learned circus arts at a circus school in Quebec. Her circus skill set is impressive and includes acrobatics, juggling, dance, and her speciality, the German Wheel. She has been performing circus arts in non-traditional spaces. She is also someone who is creatively responding to climate change. Through her podcast, Changing the World and Other Circus Related Things, she is connecting with other concerned circus artists. She is also one of the founding members of the Circus Action Network. Eliana likens the high stakes world of circus arts to the challenges we face with climate change. She also sees examples from the circus world about how we can get people from various backgrounds to work together. This summer she and a friend will do street performances of a new circus art show called, High Stakes--What's the Plan(t)? In addition to lots of juggling and acrobatics, the show features a live plant as part of the action. In this fascinating interview, Eliana opens up about the world of circus and how she and other concerned artists are creating avenues for a deeper conversation about climate change. Lew Blaustien, editor of Green Sports Blog, is very concerned about climate change. A sports nut since childhood, Lew began a career in sportscasting, and eventually settled into the marketing side of professional sports. There was nothing in his background to suggest he would turn into a passionate climate advocate. The 911 attacks on New York City in 2001, though, changed everything for him. You will hear about how that traumatic event set him on a new career path. In this lively interview you will hear Lew brimming with enthusiasm as he reveals a growing trend in the professional sports world. More and more athletes, teams, and leagues are working hard to address environmental concerns. You will also hear from professional skier, Angel Collinson. Through Protect Our Winters she has been speaking to members of congress. In speaking with lawmakers and how many are concerned about climate change, she has become more determined than ever to speak out about the issue. Inspired by athletes like Angel Collinson and Milwaukee Brewers pitcher, Brent Suter, who we featured on Episode 37, Lew and other in the green sports movement are urging teams and players to take the next step: speak directly about climate change and endorse the policies that will address our dangerous pollution problems. Elizabeth Doud takes on the role of Siren Jones in her one-person performance, The Mermaid Tear Factory. Based in Miami, Florida, she has been a catalyst to engage other artists in conversations around climate change. Each year she helps organize Climakaze Miami. Elizabeth explains why she sees Miami as the city of the future--both with its international changing demographics and the many ways climate change is reshaping the city. She also shares why artists need to break away from telling the story of climate science and instead dig deep into the hard emotions around climate change.

Climate Advocates in Sports, Circus, and in Mermaid Drag

More visits with 3 authors of the 40 essays in Reclaiming Judaism from Zionism: Stories of Personal Transformation. More from editor Carolyn Karcher, professor emerita of English, American studies, and womens studies at Temple University, and author of a number of books, and including visit withs Shoshana Madmoni-Gerber (Assiociate Professor of Communication and Journalism at Suffolk University and author of Israeli Media and the Framing of Internal Conflict: The Yeminite Babies Affair) and Emily Siegel, Program Director for Eyewitness Palestine.

Living Justice: Reclaiming Judaism from Zionism

Scott Wittkopf helps organizations &amp; people learn to do effective progressive messaging through his firm, Frame for the Future. It's a bit ironic that the scientific research proves that people do not make their decisions based on scientific research, but on frames, and progressives have been doing an inferior job of harnessing this knowledge to support their goals. Based on the work of George Lakoff and others, there is great untapped potential for progressive causes. Scott presented on the topic at the Eau Claire Grassroots Festival, sponsored by Wisconsin Grassroots Network.

The Brain & Progressive Messaging

Brad Laird is a Wobbly Quaker, official member of the Michiana IWW and a Quaker in good standing. Thats not all he is, by any means - hes a Girl Scout Troop Leader, passionate husband, father, and grandfather, Chair of the board of directors of South Bend, Indianas Community for Peace &amp; Nonviolence. And one more item that makes him particularly interesting to us, he was once destined to be a Lutheran Minister, he considers himself to be a post-theist, post-atheist, deeply committed to his work for the nurture and healing of the world, both in practical and spiritual ways. Featured Music: Joe Hill - performed by Joe Jencks on Links in the Chain

Wobbly Quaker

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