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Jean Brocklebank – Don’t Bury Our Library
Jean Brocklebank, representing Don't Bury The Library, shares her view of the Santa Cruz downtown library project. See Dontburythelibrary.weebly.com Jayson Architecture proposal
Sustainability Now! Public Lands on Pacific’s Edge
Radio Show #21, June 13, 2020, with Jo Chamberlain, Executive Director of the Coastside Land Trust in Half Moon Bay. Jo is a graduate of College Eight (aka, Rachel Carson College) at UC Santa Cruz and was provost’s assistant there for several years during the past...
Lucid Dreaming Redux with David Jay Brown
We talk about ways to become lucid while dreaming, psychedelia, and the after life as well as visionary art. And we talked with callers about meditating in dreams and about how to keep yourself from losing track of reality while engaging in an intensive lucid dreaming...
Faith in the Time of Corona: Faith & The Police Chief
In the middle of the Covid-19 pandemic, the cruel murder of George Floyd in Minneapolis has sparked protests, violence, and discussions about policing and systemic racism across the country. Santa Cruz has experienced a variety of protests and calls for police to do a...
Ecology Action Bike Month
This week on Good News Santa Cruz host Pauline Seales interviewed Matt Miller of Ecology Action. Covid-19 precluded the traditional May Bike month. Determined to keep the spirit alive, Matt shared with Pauline Ecology Action's plan for the July virtual bike month....
Microplastics are Everywhere!
Picture Credit: Amanda Heidt Music Credit: True Blue Sky, Blue Dot Sessions (CC license CC BY-NC 4.0) Transcript: Looking around, it’s probably easy to pick out things that are made of plastic. But would you believe that they’re also in the air, in your glass of water...
Paul DeWorken, Watsonville Muralist
Watsonville is a treasure trove of talented artists. One of these is Paul DeWorken, a muralist who, as a young man, was chosen to design the flag of the city of Watsonville. In conversation with Jean Kratzer, Paul explains why for him murals and community...
Feeding the Homeless During a Pandemic
This audio piece was produced by Jeremiah Oetting from UCSC's Science Communications masters program. In this story he talks with Keith Henry, founder of Food Not Bombs, and representatives of the County of Santa Cruz about the delicate balance between making sure...
Print Journalism a Casualty of Covid
This story was reported by Lara Streiff of the UCSC Science Communications program. LARA: When the COVID-19 pandemic first started making headlines, media outlets reported on the day to day changes as they themselves began to feel the financial impacts. My name is...
Santa Cruz reacts to George Floyd murder
Photo credit: Shmuel Thaler This interview features Mayor, Justin Cummings, President of the local NAACP chapter, Brenda Griffin, and Shmuel Thaler, photojournalist for the Santa Cruz Sentinel. His photo of Mayor Cummings and Police Chief Andy Mills taking a knee...