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Robert Haas, Former U.S. Poet Laureate and Local Readers - Walt Whitman's Song of Myself Updated: 2011-11-01 20:39:02 Description: Organized by Eric Karpeles, co-presented by Point Reyes Books In 1855, Whitman published 795 copies of his book Leaves of Grass, paying for publication himself. "Song of Myself," as it came to be known, was the first experiment in long, free-verse p...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Richard Heinberg - The End of Growth: Adapting to Our New Economic Reality Updated: 2011-09-30 06:22:07 Description: Co-presented with the Post Carbon Institute, Point Reyes Books, the Regenerative Design Institute, Transition West Marin, and the Mainstreet Moms Economics has failed us . . . but there is life after growth! Economists insist that recovery is at han...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Arjun Makhijani - Carbon-Free and Nuclear Free: A Design for U.S. Energy Policy Updated: 2011-09-11 17:20:02 Description: Arjun Makhijani is an eminent researcher on energy, nuclear weapons, and environmental issues. His work is strongly endorsed by Helen Caldicott, M.D., among many others. He is president of the Institute for Energy and Environmental Research, and auth...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Kate Levinson & Susan Braun - Emotional Currency: A Woman's Guide to Building a Healthy Relationship with Money Updated: 2011-09-11 05:05:29 Description: The emotional connection that we all have with money is undeniable. Whether we feel comfortable with it and understand how it works in the world or ignore our finances completely, there is a strong psychological dimension to our personal dealings wit...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Orland Bishop - Part 4 of a Biographical Exploration Updated: 2011-08-04 05:46:23 Description: Orland Bishop combines an extensive study of medicine, naturopathy, psychology and indigenous cosmologies with a deep dedication to human rights advocacy and cultural renewal. He was a research fellow at the Center for the Study of Violence at Charle...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Orland Bishop - Part 3 of a Biographical Exploration Updated: 2011-08-04 04:46:26 Description: Orland Bishop combines an extensive study of medicine, naturopathy, psychology and indigenous cosmologies with a deep dedication to human rights advocacy and cultural renewal. He was a research fellow at the Center for the Study of Violence at Charle...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Orland Bishop - Part 2 of a Biographical Exploration Updated: 2011-08-02 23:32:21 Description: Orland Bishop combines an extensive study of medicine, naturopathy, psychology and indigenous cosmologies with a deep dedication to human rights advocacy and cultural renewal. He was a research fellow at the Center for the Study of Violence at Charle...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Orland Bishop - Part 1 of a Biographical Exploration Updated: 2011-08-01 07:53:07 Description: Orland Bishop combines an extensive study of medicine, naturopathy, psychology and indigenous cosmologies with a deep dedication to human rights advocacy and cultural renewal. He was a research fellow at the Center for the Study of Violence at Charle...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Anna Deavere Smith - Listening Between the Lines, Hosted by Eric Karpeles Updated: 2011-07-03 23:33:35 Description: Observation is one of the most exacting skills every artist must cultivate. For a writer, listening is critical to the process of transmuting observed reality into art. Playwright and performer Anna Deavere Smith has shaped a singular career mining t...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Jean Shinoda Bolen and Kristina Flanagan - Goddess Archetypes in the Ring Cycle and in Us: Psychological, Political, and Spiritual Parallels Updated: 2011-06-21 19:20:49 Description: The New School at Commonweal and Point Reyes Books are pleased to present this engaging event for lovers of archetype, myth, opera, and Jung. Jean Shinoda Bolen, MD, and Francesca Zambella (rehearsals permitting) will speak, discuss and lead a livel...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD James Morris - Part 2 of Conversations with A Leading Ibn 'Arabi Scholar Updated: 2011-05-31 22:00:32 Description: James Morris is currently Professor of Theology at Boston College, and has previously taught Islamic and religious studies at the University of Exeter, Princeton, Oberlin, the Sorbonne (EPHE), and the Institute of Ismaili Studies in Paris and London....more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Nick Yiangou - Ibn Arabi Conversations: History, Readings, and the Beshara School Updated: 2011-05-31 21:58:28 Description: Nick Yiangou is president of the United States branch of the Ibn Arabi Society, which promotes the teachings and translations of this great spiritual teacher. He has been engaged with the Beshara School of Intensive Esoteric Education for over thirty...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD James Morris - Part 1 of Conversations with A Leading Ibn 'Arabi Scholar Updated: 2011-05-31 21:58:10 Description: James Morris is currently Professor of Theology at Boston College, and has previously taught Islamic and religious studies at the University of Exeter, Princeton, Oberlin, the Sorbonne (EPHE), and the Institute of Ismaili Studies in Paris and London....more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Frank Ostaseski - Being A Compassionate Companion, End of Life Series Updated: 2011-05-11 21:18:52 Description: Caring for people who are dying can be an intense, intimate, and deeply alive experience. It often challenges our most basic beliefs. It is a journey of continuous discovery, requiring courage and flexibility. We learn to open, take risks, and forgiv...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Peter Kingsley - The Great Taboo: A Story Waiting to Pierce You Updated: 2011-04-27 15:19:30 Description: Peter Kingsley is internationally recognized for his groundbreaking work on the origins of western spirituality, philosophy and culture. Through his writings as well as lectures he speaks straight to the heart and has helped to transform many people'...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Sarah Hobson - Working with Women in Sub-Saharan Africa Updated: 2011-03-28 21:29:51 Description: When Sarah Hobson travels in the developing world and sees green hills, she wants to walk into them. She is drawn to peasant villages untouched by modern life. In the 1970s Sarah disguised herself as a boy and traveled through Iran alone. She wrote a...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Steve Heilig - The Modern Evolution of Death, TNS End of Life Conversations Series Updated: 2011-03-14 22:41:19 Description: For the past century or so, more humans than ever before have lived in a historical bubble of relative affluence, medical sophistication, philosophical discussion, and unprecedented longevity. Modern times have had significant impacts on how we think...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Gregory Orr - The Blessing: Poetry as Survival Updated: 2011-03-01 13:41:58 Description: Gregory Orr was born in 1947 in Albany, New York, and grew up in the rural Hudson Valley. He is the author of nine collections of poetry, including How Beautiful the Beloved (Copper Canyon Press, 2009); Concerning the Book that is the Body of the Bel...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Dr. Margaret Kripke - Reducing Environmental Cancer Risk Updated: 2011-02-22 01:52:23 Description: An interview recorded prior to the evening presentation by Dr. Margaret Kripke, co-author of the groundbreaking 2010 President’s Cancer Panel report Reducing Environmental Cancer Risk: What We Can Do Now. The report, which informs the National Can...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Dr. Stuart Lord - East-West Contemplative Education at Naropa University Updated: 2011-02-20 12:53:35 Description: Dr. Stuart C. Lord, a nationally recognized expert in service learning, multicultural and spiritual education, and leadership and ethics became the fifth president of Naropa University on July 1, 2009. Dr. Lord, 49, has helped foster the growth and ...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Kai Lee - Compass and Gyroscope, Integrating Science and Politics for the Environment Updated: 2011-01-11 06:07:20 Description: Dr. Kai Lee joined the David & Lucile Packard Foundation in June 2007 as program officer with the Conservation and Science program, where he is responsible for the science subprogram. Before joining the Foundation, Kai taught at Williams College fr...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Rabbi Jonathan Omer-Man - Ibn 'Arabi Conversations: A Jewish Perspective Updated: 2010-12-13 19:26:46 Description: Rabbi Jonathan Omer-Man is a writer, religious guide and spiritual counselor. He is founder of Metivta: a center for contemplative Judaism, which is dedicated to the renewal of the Jewish wisdom tradition and to the deepening of personal religious qu...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Eric Karpeles - The Last Threshold: Artists and Mortality, TNS End of Life Conversations Series Updated: 2010-12-13 18:56:04 Description: In the fourth of an ongoing series of New School presentations on the end of life, Bolinas painter and writer Eric Karpeles will talk about the role that artists have played in helping to imaginatively frame and comprehend the idea of how we cease to...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Scott Eberle, MD, Rob Feraru, and Susan Braun - The Final Crossing: Learning to Die in Order to Live Updated: 2010-11-24 02:31:33 Description: Dr. Scott Eberle is a physician specializing in end-of-life care, who helped School of Lost Borders Founder Steven Foster at the end of his life in 2003 - the subject of his latest book: The Final Crossing. As he has written in the book: "So now I am...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Susan Braun and Michael Witte - Fighting Till the End? The New School End of Life Conversations Updated: 2010-11-24 00:32:50 Description: People with life-threatening illnesses often face the difficult decision of whether or not to continue active therapy. For some, the decision is, “Let’s fight till the end,” and they work with their doctors to receive treatment within days, or...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Rev. Lennox Yearwood, Jr. - The Hip Hop Caucus Updated: 2010-11-24 00:25:49 Description: Lennox Yearwood, Jr., is a minister, community activist, and one of the most influential people in Hip Hop political life. He currently serves as president of the Hip Hop Caucus in Washington, D.C. The Hip Hop Caucus is a national, nonprofit, nonpart...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Michael Lerner—Death and Dying: Lessons from the Commonweal Cancer Help Program Updated: 2010-11-10 02:12:30 Description: The New School at Commonweal and the Coastal Health Alliance are pleased to present this next event in our End of Life Conversations series. Over the past 26 years, Commonweal has offered more than 150 week-long retreats for people with cancer though...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Sim Van der Ryn - Ecological Design Updated: 2010-11-08 22:09:03 Description: Sim Van der Ryn is a visionary, author, educator, public leader, and internationally distinguished pioneer in ecological design. For more than 40 years, Sim has been at the forefront of integrating ecological principles into the built environment, cr...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Ted Shettler and Sharyl Patton - The Ecological Paradigm of Health Updated: 2010-11-08 22:00:41 Description: Ted Schettler, M.D., M.P.H., is an authority on environmental links to reproductive and developmental disorders, neurotoxicity, and other public health problems. He is the science director of the Science and Environmental Health Network, and science ...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Steve Lerner - Sacrifice Zones Updated: 2010-10-22 04:58:46 Description: Across the United States, thousands of people, most of them in low-income or minority communities, live next to heavily polluting industrial sites. In Sacrifice Zones: The Front Lines of Toxic Chemical Exposure in the United States, Steve Lerner tell...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Rachel Naomi Remen - Stories and Poems at the End of Life Updated: 2010-09-15 17:42:16 Description: This is the first event in the new TNS End of Life Conversations series! Rachel Naomi Remen is one of the earliest pioneers in the mind/body holistic health movement and the first to recognize the role of the spirit in health and the recovery from i...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Leslie Medine & John Esterle - Democracy Zone - Creating bi-cultural youth-led social change in Napa, California Updated: 2010-07-26 18:15:25 Description: Leslie Medine is one of Northern California's most respected public sector leaders. She has created youth-led innovative schools and community programs for young people. Now she is organizing the first Democracy Zone in the country located in Napa wh...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Tink Thompson - Gumshoe: Slease or Extistential Hero? Updated: 2010-07-22 21:11:54 Description: Bolinas private detective Tink Thompson was a Haverford philosophy professor who taught Nietzsche and Kierkegaard before he became a sleuth. He has worked on the Kennedy assassination, the Oklahoma bombing, and the Patty Hearskidnapping. His books ...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Pia Infante - The Impeded Stream Is the One That Sings Updated: 2010-07-13 19:14:42 Description: When we no longer know what to do, we have come to our real work. And when we no longer know which way to go, we have begun our real journey. The mind that is not baffled is not employed. The impeded stream is the one that sings. Wendell Berry I...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD John Esterle - Dialogue, Critical Thinking and Civic Engagement Updated: 2010-07-06 22:17:49 Description: This is the second interview in an ongoing discussion with John Esterle, Executive Director of the Whitman Institute. The Whitman Institute is a quite unique foundation in San Francisco that focuses its grants on organizations and projects engaged w...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Christina Puchalski & Rachel Naomi Remen - A discussion on spirituality and healthcare, as well as helping patients prepare for death Updated: 2010-04-28 19:47:28 Description: Michael Lerner hosts this conversation with Dr. Christina Puchalski and Dr. Rachel Naomi Remen. The main topic is how to integrate spirituality into health care....more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD John Esterle - Executive Director of the Whitman Institute Updated: 2010-04-04 18:00:23 Description: John Esterle stopped by for a conversation with Michael Lerner of the New School at Commonweal. They discussed philanthropy, supporting organizations and grantees in their missions and several other topics. John Esterle is the Executive Director of...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Sadja Greenwood, MD - A Nutritional Supplement Strategy: Based on Human History, Current Science, and Individual Needs Updated: 2010-04-03 17:47:51 Description: Sadja Greenwood is a primary care physician with a special interest in women's health. She has been an activist for women's health throughout her career, in family planning, reproductive rights, self-care, education and services for mid-life women. S...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Richard Grossman - The Tao of Ralph Waldo Emerson Updated: 2010-03-09 05:43:49 Description: Richard Grossman is an essayist, psychotherapist, medical educator, and former book publisher. The six books he has written include The Tao of Emerson and A Year with Emerson, which won the Umhoefer Prize for achievement in the humanities, awarded by...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Colin Greer - President of the New World Foundation Updated: 2010-02-22 22:05:21 Description: Dr. Colin Greer has been the President of The New World Foundation since 1985. He was a Professor at Brooklyn College, CUNY, and has written several books. Colin Greer has participated in and directed several studies of U.S. immigration and urban sch...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Thomas Kirsch, M.D. - THE RED BOOK: Reflections on Jung and the Jungians Updated: 2010-02-12 21:41:09 Description: THE RED BOOK, published in 2009 for the first time, is Carl Jung's richly illustrated record of his descent into his inner world, created in a period of personal crisis following his break with Sigmund Freud. A surprise best seller, THE RED BOOK has...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Robert Bray - Healing Traumatic Stress Disorders with Thought Field Therapy Updated: 2010-02-01 21:00:11 Description: Robert Bray has devoted his life’s work to the service of others. Born in San Diego, Bob spent his childhood years in the Midwest before returning to San Diego as a junior in high school. Following college at San Diego State University, Bob spent...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Edd Conboy - Healing People, Healing Organizations Updated: 2010-01-24 18:05:38 Description: A conversation with Edd Conboy on psychotherapy, trauma, learning organizations, The Whitman Institute, social entrepreneurs and the Jesuit model of social change Edd Conboy's bio: http://www.councilforrelationships.org/staff/bio_conboy_edd.htm ...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Nicolette Hahn Niman and Bill Niman - Righteous Porkchop: Finding a Life and Good Food Beyond Factory Farms Updated: 2009-12-28 16:01:48 Description: Nicolette Hahn Niman is rancher, attorney and writer. Much of her time is spent speaking and writing about the problems of industrialized livestock production, including the book "Righteous Porkchop: Finding a Life and Good Food Beyond Factory Farms"...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Fritjof Capra - The Science of Leonardo, and Other Topics Updated: 2009-12-22 04:46:52 Description: Fritjof Capra, Ph.D., physicist and systems theorist, is a founding director of the Center for Ecoliteracy in Berkeley, California, which is dedicated to promoting ecology and systems thinking in primary and secondary education. He is on the faculty ...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Under Our Skin - "It's About Lyme," a Conversation with Andy Abrahams Wilson and Win Bertrand, Eric Karpeles, Guest Moderator Updated: 2009-12-07 05:29:59 Description: A two-part community awareness program for the town of Bolinas, this event was a chance to learn more about one of the fastest growing epidemics in our world today. How does one contract Lyme? What is the protocol once one is infected? What is the lo...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD TKV Desikachar and Kate Holcombe - A Conversation on Healing Yoga Updated: 2009-11-10 17:44:19 Description: TKV Desikachar is the son and foremost student of the legendary yoga master T Krishnamacharya -- teacher of Patthabi Jois, BKS Iyengar, and Indra Devi. Kate Holcombe is a senior student of Mr. Desikachar and founder of the Healing Yoga Foundation in...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Walter Murch - The Music of the Spheres: Rediscovering the Harmonic Relationship Among the Planets Updated: 2009-11-02 19:00:02 Description: Note: This conversation relied heavily on Mr. Murch's visual presentation, which is unavailable. Still, we found the conversation so compelling as to make it available for listening. Please familiarize yourself with the article link below for further...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Catharine A. MacKinnon - Are Women Human? Reflections on Sexual Violence Updated: 2009-09-15 03:55:10 Description: Catharine A. MacKinnon is America's foremost feminist legal scholar and a leading public intellectual and political philosopher. She has made major contributions to law and public policy on equality, sexual harassment, pornography, trafficking, rape,...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Keith Block - Life Over Cancer: A Program for Integrative Cancer Treatment Updated: 2009-09-06 02:05:53 Description: Andrew Weil, M.D., writes in his preface: “Life Over Cancer sets the course for what I believe is the future of successful cancer treatment,” “I believe in Keith’s program and would go to the Block Center if I were facing a diagnosis of cance...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Hanford Woods - What Is Art? Reading Shakespeare's 'Hamlet' and Tolstoy's 'What Is Art?' Updated: 2009-08-02 04:48:38 Description: Hanford Woods teaches Shakespeare at Dawson College in Montreal and is a longtime Bolinas resident. Eric Karpeles is a new Bolinas resident and recently spoke for The New School on "Paintings in Proust." We recommend reading "Hamlet" and "What Is Art...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Russell Jaffe, MD - The Alkaline Way: Diet, Supplements, Detoxification, and Real Health Care Reform Updated: 2009-07-31 04:37:58 Description: We have (again!) a special opportunity for a conversation with a remarkable Commonweal friend, Russell Jaffe, M.D. Russ talks with us about "The Alkaline Way: Diet, Supplements, Detoxification, and Real Health Care Reform." Trained in Clinical Pathol...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Eric Karpeles - My Book is a Painting - Marcel Proust & the Resonance of the Visual Image Updated: 2009-07-02 20:12:13 Description: Eric Karpeles, author of Paintings in Proust, presented an illustrated talk entitled "My book is a painting: Marcel Proust & the Resonance of the Visual Image." This conversation was recorded on June 12th, 2009. A PDF of the visual presentation is a...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Jeffrey and Leila Masson - A Conversation on Freud, Animal's Emotional Lives and Environmental Factors in Human Development Updated: 2009-06-23 18:17:01 Description: Jeffrey Moussaieff Masson is a writer who lives with his family in New Zealand. He has been a professor at several universities in Canada and America. After serving as Projects Director of the Sigmund Freud Archives, he wrote a series of books critic...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Cindy Sage and Nancy Evans - Wireless or Wellness - A Conversation on EMFs and technology Updated: 2009-05-25 03:30:42 Description: New wireless technologies have changed the face of the world in the last decade. Cell and cordless phones, and the wireless towers that send their signals around town have very real bioeffects. Decision-makers and the public are just learning about p...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Julia Brody, Silent Spring Institute - Endocrine Disruptors in Indoor & Outdoor Air Updated: 2009-04-29 18:20:05 Description: Julia Brody is a leader in research on environmental pollutants and breast cancer and in public engagement in science. She is the executive director of Silent Spring Institute, a research organization dedicated to studying the links between the envir...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Mark Gerzon - Decision Making as if Consciousness Matters Updated: 2009-03-11 21:44:41 Description: Mark Gerzon, a leader in building global community and conflict resolution, believes critical decisions are often deeply flawed because they are made in settings that neglect the importance of nurturing a consciousness that elicits our deepest wisdom...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD David Servan-Schreiber - A Conversation on Healing Updated: 2008-12-31 00:39:21 Description: David Servan-Schreiber, author of "Healing Without Freud or Prozac", "Instinct to Heal" and "Anticancer, A New Way of Life". Michael Lerner conducted this interview on Friday, December 5, 2008 ...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD James Gordon, M.D. - Life Lessons in Healing: Cancer, Trauma, and Mind-Body Medicine Updated: 2008-12-13 18:23:39 Description: Jim Gordon is one of America's leading authorities in mind-body medicine. He founded the influential Cancer Guides training program, sponsors the premier Food as Medicine training, and conducts Healing the Wounds of War trainings in Israel, Gaza and ...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Terry Tempest Williams - Finding Beauty in a Broken World Updated: 2008-12-13 18:16:43 Description: Don’t miss this extraordinary opportunity to hear Terry Tempest Williams, one of the most exquisite and powerful voices for healing ourselves and the earth. Terry has been called “a citizen writer” who speaks out eloquently on behalf of an ethi...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Therese Poulsen - Yoga For Trauma Updated: 2008-10-17 00:44:04 Description: Therese Poulsen is the founder and director of Breath of Hope Foundation, through which she brings yoga and integrative healing to children traumatized by natural disasters or war in Sri Lanka, Indonesia and other countries in the Global South. There...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Stephen Viederman - A Conversation on Socially Responsible Investing Updated: 2008-10-10 22:17:22 Description: Stephen Viederman* is the former president of the Jessie Smith Noyes Foundation, from which he retired in April 2000. During his tenure the Foundation became a leader in mission-related investing, an effort to reduce the dissonance between the founda...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Mark Finser - A Conversation on Social Finance Updated: 2008-09-27 17:03:09 Description: Mark A. Finser is Chair of the Board of RSF Social Finance. RSF Social Finance provides innovative investing, lending, and philanthropic services to catalyze the growth of organizations creating a more sustainable future. Mark grew RSF's assets from ...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Paul Hawken - Life Lessons in Sustainability and Resilience Updated: 2008-09-14 14:46:16 Description: Paul Hawken is an environmentalist, entrepreneur and author. Paul heads the Natural Capital Institute www.NaturalCapital.org, which has created a hub for global civil society www.WiserEarth.org, a collaboratively written, free content, open source ne...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Jed Emerson - Blended value Updated: 2008-09-06 03:49:33 Description: Jed Emerson (jed.emerson@generationim.com) is a Senior Fellow with Generation Foundation, of Generation Investment Management (London, UK), and a fellow with the Said Business School at Oxford University. He has published widely on issues related to...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Jerry Mander - Will Globalization Soon Be Over? Updated: 2008-08-31 00:35:59 Description: Jerry Mander is the founder and director of the International Forum on Globalization (IFG) a "think tank" and activist community with Board and Associate members on every continent. IFG has focused since 1994 on exposing the negative impacts of econo...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Fredi Kronenberg, Ph.D - Herbal Therapies and Integrative Approaches to Women's Health Updated: 2008-08-05 16:33:44 Description: Dr. Fredi Kronenberg is Professor of Clinical Physiology and Director of the Richard and Hinda Rosenthal Center for Complementary & Alternative Medicine at Columbia University, College of Physicians and Surgeons. She received her B.S. from Cornell Un...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Bill Drayton - Everyone A Changemaker Updated: 2008-08-04 14:55:48 Description: Bill Drayton is a social entrepreneur. He is the founder of Ashoka, Youth Ventures, and Get America Working -- three deeply complementary efforts to make the world a better place. Ashoka, the oldest and larger of these ventures, has created a global ...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Sandra Steingraber - Healing Inside Out: A Poet's Quest, A Mother's Journey Updated: 2008-07-22 20:44:59 Description: Sandra Steingraber, Ph.D., ecologist, cancer survivor, and author of Living Downstream and Having Faith, received her doctorate in biology from the University of Michigan and master's degree in English from Illinois State University. She is the autho...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Dean Radin, Ph.D. - Entangled Minds Updated: 2008-07-22 19:59:43 Description: Dean Radin, Ph.D., Senior Scientist at the Institute of Noetic Sciences discusses his book "Entangled Minds," March 5th, 2007. In this conversation, Radin describes the surprising reach of the substantial scientific literature on psi phenomena, and ...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Nipun Mehta - Invisible Revolution of the Inner-net Updated: 2008-07-22 19:31:59 Description: Nipun Mehta, Co-founder of CharityFocus.org on the "Invisible Revolution of the Inner-net." CharityFocus is an all volunteer run 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization that endeavors to leverage technology for inspiring greater volunteerism and providing ...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Peter Kingsley - Finding What Is Real Updated: 2008-07-22 19:31:04 Description: Peter Kingsley is internationally recognized for his groundbreaking work on the origins of western spirituality, philosophy and culture. He is the author of the books "Ancient Philosophy Mystery and Magic": "Empedocles and Pythagorean Tradition", "In...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Rachel Kessler and Dr. Rachel Naomi Remen - Nurturing the Inner Life in Education Updated: 2008-07-22 19:23:39 Description: Rachael Kessler is recognized by Daniel Goleman as a "leader in a new movement for emotional literacy," and has developed a framework for nurturing the inner life of students and teachers that honors the interests of educators, parents, and policy-ma...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Parker Palmer - The Politics of the Brokenhearted: On Holding the Tensions of Democracy Updated: 2008-07-22 19:14:31 Description: Parker Palmer, Founder and Senior Advisor of the Center for Courage & Renewal and author of several books including, Let Your Life Speak: Listening for the Voice of Vocation and A Hidden Wholeness: The Journey Toward an Undivided Life, served for fif...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Charlotte Brody, RN And Dr. Rachel Naomi Remen - Making Change as Treatment for Despair Updated: 2008-07-22 18:18:06 Description: Charlotte Brody, RN, is Executive Director of Commonweal, and a founder and former Executive Director of Health Care Without Harm, an international coalition of 443 organizations in 52 countries working to make health care more environmentally respon...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Jacob Needleman - Why Can't We Be Good?: Overcoming Obstacles To Our Higher Ideals Updated: 2008-07-22 18:08:56 Description: Jacob Needleman is a professor of philosophy at San Francisco State University and the author of many books, including The American Soul, The Wisdom of Love, Time and the Soul, The Heart of Philosophy, Lost Christianity, and Money and The Meaning of ...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Teddy Cruz - Beyond Borders: Local Architectural and Urban Planning Solutions for Global Political and Social Problems Updated: 2008-07-22 17:26:52 Description: Recorded July 26th, 2007. Chris Desser conducted this interview. California architect Teddy Cruz's work dwells at the border between San Diego and Tijuana, Mexico, inspiring a practice and pedagogy that emerges out of the particularities of this bicu...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Peter Warshall - The Spiritual Labor of Earth Healing, A New School Event Updated: 2008-07-22 16:37:41 Description: Peter Warshall is the Editor-At-Large for the Whole Earth Magazine and is the founder of Peter Warshall and Associates. This gathering was about "The Spiritual Labor of Earth Healing." This event was held at Commonweal on February 27th, 2007. Peter W...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Steve Matson & Students of the Regenerative Design Institute - Mapping Local Resilience in Bolinas Updated: 2008-07-09 04:50:12 Description: "Mapping Local Resilience in Bolinas: Looking back through the Bolinas Community Plan history and Looking forward to the answers we'll need for a thriving future." Steve Matson and students of the Regenerative Design Institute in conversation with Mi...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Michael Samuels, MD - Demeter, Buddha and the Bears: The Ancient Roots of Contemporary Spiritual Healing Updated: 2008-05-17 03:05:18 Description: Michael Samuels is the founder and director of Art As a Healing Force, a project started in 1990 devoted to healing oneself, others, the community and the earth with creativity and art making. Michael teaches Art and Healing at San Francisco State Un...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Annie Leonard - The Story of Stuff Updated: 2008-03-21 14:27:04 Description: From its extraction through sale, use and disposal, all the stuff in our lives affects communities at home and abroad, yet most of this is hidden from view. The Story of Stuff is a 20-minute, fast-paced, fact-filled look at the underside of our produ...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Geoff Lawton & Penny Livingston-Stark - A Conversation on Permaculture Updated: 2008-03-20 19:58:04 Description: Geoff Lawton is a world-renowned permaculture practitioner. He emigrated from England to Australia and studied permaculture with the originator, Bill Mollison, in Tasmania. He founded the Permaculture Research Institute www.permaculture.org.au on Tag...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Lloyd Kahn - What Really Happened in the '60s Updated: 2008-03-09 21:10:34 Description: Lloyd Kahn creates visually exquisite and conceptually visionary books about the buildings we live in. His most recent book is Home Work: Handbuilt Shelter. A longtime Bolinas resident, Lloyd was living in San Francisco in the 1960s and has a powerfu...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Binka Le Breton, writer and lecturer on environmental and human rights. Updated: 2008-03-01 00:09:28 Description: Binka Le Breton lives on a Brazilian rainforest farm, runs the Iracambi Rainforest Research Center, lectures and broadcasts internationally on rainforest and slavery topics, is president of Amigos de Iracambi, is on the board of directors of the Key...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Gary Cohen - Green Chemistry, Green Materials, Green Energy: Recipe for a Toxic Free Future Updated: 2008-01-31 04:07:59 Description: Gary Cohen is one of the foremost strategists and activists in the international community of those seeking to move us toward a world free of toxic chemicals. Gary is a Founder and Co-Executive Director of Health Care Without Harm, the international ...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Carl Anthony - Thought Leader in Environmental Justice, A Live Community Gathering Updated: 2008-01-24 03:09:02 Description: Carl Anthony is one of the preeminent thought leaders in environmental justice in the United States. He is the Founder and was for 12 years was the Executive Director of the Urban Habitat Program, one of the oldest environmental justice organizations...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Ursula Goodenough, Ph.D. - The Sacred Depths of Nature Updated: 2008-01-19 21:33:58 Description: Ursula Goodenough is Professor of Biology at Washington University in St. Louis, Missouri. She is the author of "The Sacred Depths of Nature" (Oxford University Press, 1998), which offers religious perspectives on our scientific understandings of nat...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Dr. Martha Herbert - Can Autistic Children Recover? The New Paradigm of Autism Research and Treatment Updated: 2008-01-18 23:53:31 Description: A pediatric neurologist and a brain development researcher, Dr. Martha Herbert's main focus is autism. She received the first Cure Autism Now Innovator Award and directed the Cure Autism Now Foundation's Brain Development Initiative. She is the Co-Ch...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Paul J. Growald - The Way of the Bees (and Other Pollinators) Updated: 2008-01-17 01:15:35 Description: Investor, venture philanthropist and beekeeper, Paul Growald, is Chairman and Founder of the Coevolution Institute and its Pollinator Partnership including the North American Pollinator Protection Campaign, a collaboration of more than 120 groups tha...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Nancy E. Adler, PhD - How Increasing Income Disparities Affect Health Updated: 2007-11-05 01:43:04 Description: Nancy Adler is Professor of Psychology at the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF), Vice-Chair of the Department of Psychiatry, and Director of the Center for Health and Community. Nancy came to UCSF to initiate a graduate program in Health...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Virginia Veach, Ph.D. - A Life Exploring Healing Updated: 2007-11-03 00:58:56 Description: Virginia Veach is a physical therapist and psychotherapist who has worked extensively with people with cancer and many other life-threatening diseases. In this conversation with Michael Lerner, she describes how she does her work and some of the majo...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Krista Tippett - Speaking of Faith Updated: 2007-10-11 07:54:29 Description: "Speaking of Faith," with Krista Tippett, host of the radio program Speaking of Faith, October 11th, 2007. Michael Lerner conducted this interview. Krista Tippett A journalist and former diplomat, Krista Tippett came up with the idea for Speaking of ...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Paul Gorman - Executive Director of the National Religious Partnership for the Environment (NRPE) : Part 1 Updated: 2007-10-05 07:29:17 Description: Part 1: Paul Gorman, founder and Executive Director of the National Religious Partnership for the Environment since 1993, received the Heinz Award for the Environment in 1999. Mr. Gorman, a graduate of Yale and Oxford University, worked in the U.S. ...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Paul Gorman - Executive Director of the National Religious Partnership for the Environment (NRPE) : Part 2 Updated: 2007-10-05 07:25:19 Description: Part 2: Paul Gorman, founder and Executive Director of the National Religious Partnership for the Environment since 1993, received the Heinz Award for the Environment in 1999. Mr. Gorman, a graduate of Yale and Oxford University, worked in the U.S. ...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD David Bonbright - Saving the World? What International Philanthropy Can and Cannot Do Updated: 2007-09-23 06:20:51 Description: A New School conversation with David Bonbright, Director of Keystone Accountability, recorded September, 20th, 2007. Michael Lerner conducted this interview. David Bonbright has been an international grantmaker with the Ford Foundation in Africa duri...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Richard Tarnas, Ph.D. - Cosmos and Psyche: Intimations of a New World View Updated: 2007-09-14 20:13:46 Description: Richard Tarnas, is a professor of philosophy and cultural history at the California Institute of Integral Studies in San Francisco, where he founded the graduate program in Philosophy, Cosmology, and Consciousness. He also teaches psychology and cult...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Rachel Kyte - Investing in Women, Equity and Sustainability—a World Bank Perspective Updated: 2007-09-06 07:33:20 Description: Rachel Kyte, a British national, became Director of the Environment and Social Development Department at the International Finance Corporation (IFC) in January 2004. Since joining the department she has stewarded the development and adoption of the n...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Arisika Razak and Carol Densmore - Birth and the Healing Wisdom of Earth-Based Traditions Updated: 2007-07-19 17:41:03 Description: Arisika Razak, RN, CNM (Certified Nurse Midwife), MPH, Program Director, Integrative Health Studies at the California Institute of Integral Studies (CIIS) and Carol Densmore, CNM, MPH, Director of the Cambridge Health Alliance Doula Program, July 20t...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Mary Evelyn Tucker and John Grim - Living Cosmologies: Nature and Spirit Converging Updated: 2007-07-17 18:43:29 Description: Mary Evelyn Tucker is a Senior Lecturer and Senior Scholar at Yale University where she has appointments in the School of Forestry and Environmental Studies as well as the Divinity School and the Department of Religious Studies. She is a co-founder a...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Pete Myers, Ph.D. - Environmental Health Science: Human and Ecosystem Health Updated: 2007-05-07 19:00:00 Description: Pete Myers, Ph.D. is founder, CEO, and chief scientist of Environmental Health Sciences in Charlottesville, Virginia. He is also coauthor of Our Stolen Future (1996), which explores the threats posed by man-made chemical contaminants to fetal develop...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Rick Ingrasci, M.D., M.P.H. - Joy, Social Intelligence & the Ethical Imagination, A New School Event Updated: 2007-04-19 19:00:00 Description: Rick Ingrasci, M.D., M.P.H., is a healer and activist who has been involved in consciousness exploration and social transformation since the mid 60s. Ingrasci has a strong background in psychiatry, holistic medicine, and community development. He co-...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Thomas Yeomans, Ph.D. - The Embodied Soul Updated: 2007-04-06 17:06:03 Description: Thomas Yeomans' education was first in Music, Classics, and Comparative Literature, particularly poetry, and then a sharp turn, with the advent of Humanistic and Transpersonal Psychology in the 60's in Education and Psychology. In 1990 he founded the...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Idelisse Malavé and Gihan Perera - Race, Justice And The American Dream Updated: 2007-04-03 18:00:20 Description: Idelisse Malavé, Executive Director of the Tides Foundation and Gihan Perera, Executive Director of the Miami Workers Center on "Race, Justice, and the American Dream." Responsible for the overall management of the Tides Foundation since 1996, Ideli...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Chris Desser - Commons And Consciousness Updated: 2007-03-29 19:00:00 Description: Chris Desser is a fellow at the Tomales Bay Institute, a think tank focused on developing the concept of The Commons as an overarching analytical structure organizing across sectors and disciplines. She served on the California Coastal Commission and...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Sushmita Ghosh - Changemakers Updated: 2007-03-21 00:27:56 Description: Sushmita Ghosh, Past President and current member of Ashoka's Leadership Team talks about "Changemakers." Born in India, Sushmita Ghosh was a journalist who rose through the ranks to become President Emeritus of Ashoka, the global network of social e...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Chet Tchozewski - Intuition and Grantmaking Updated: 2007-03-19 19:00:00 Description: In this conversation, Chet describes the critical role intuition plays if you want to distribute small grants to thousands of grassroots organizations in over one hundred countries. Chet Tchozewski is the founder and Executive Director of the Global ...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Ram Dass and Dr. Rachel Naomi Remen - Aging & Dying Updated: 2007-02-06 20:00:00 Description: Ram Dass is a widely admired American spiritual teacher who suffered a disabling stroke some years ago and wrote about the experience in "Fierce Grace." Rachel Naomi Remen, MD, is Founder and Director of the Institute for the Study of Health and Illn...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Ted Schettler, M.D., Medical Director of the Science and Environmental Health Network and Chair of the Science Working Group of the Collaborative on Health and the Environment, Recorded February 5th, 2007. Updated: 2007-02-05 20:00:00 Description: This talk describes how his exploration of the effects of chemical contaminants on environmental health have led him into a comprehensive perspective on the interaction of genes, gene expression, nutrition, stress, income disparities, chemicals, and ...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD |
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