Mental Health Recovery after a Disaster
Ep. 23: Disaster response expert and fire survivors join us to discuss the mental health impacts of a disaster and to explore how we recover and build resilience. Guests share their experiences with emergency evacuation, losing their home, and finding a road forward. Additional first-person accounts and useful disaster resources can be found on the post.
Prof. Stephen Zunes on the 2020 Election
Stephen Zunes is a professor at the University of San Francisco and a leading scholar on middle east affairs as well as American political life. He is also spent much of his career studying social movements around the world. In this interview, Professor Zunes talks...
Biketober and National EV Week
On September 17 Pauline Seales interviewed two Ecology Action employees about their current programs. Both of these programs promote clean transportation and help to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and reverse climate change. First Matt Miller, who runs adult bike...
ARRT with Sara Friedlander.
On Good News Santa Cruz, Thursday, October 24, 2020, Debora Bone interviewed Sara Friedlander about art and social change. Sara is an incredibly accomplished artist and activist rooted right in here in Santa Cruz but whose influence is global. Her work includes...
Audrey Fry – Plastic Plankton
In a piece she wrote eleven years ago, Audrey Fry wonders why plastic outweighs plankton.
The Film Gang Review: I’m Thinking of Ending Things (2020)
Charlie Kaufman is one of the most original scriptwriters to emerge in the last thirty years. He’s probably best known for 1999’s Being John Malkovich, 2002’s Adaptation, and 2004’s Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, earning screenplay Oscar nominations for...
The Impact of Agricultural Plastic with Rachel Kippen
On Talk of the Bay, Tuesday, September 29, 2020 Christine Barrington hosts Rachel Kippen, Executive Director of O’Neill Sea Odyssey. Rachel is part of a collective of local environmental advocates and educators on a mission to help locals understand the potent and...
Steve Pleich – The Passing of a Giant
Steve Pleich reflects on the passing of a giant, RBG.
Talk of the Bay talks groceries during Covid
It's a good bet that most of us never even gave a thought to where the food on our stores’ shelves came from...until it wasn’t there anymore last spring. How did local groceries cope with the sudden change in their systems? What did they do to adapt and to protect...
Exploring Santa Cruz Chinatown with George Ow Jr.
Join George Ow Jr. on a walk through the Santa Cruz Chinatown of his youth. Meet the river dragon that will perch atop the Chinese Gate on the Chinatown Memorial Bridge that spans the San Lorenzo River.
Olga Cossi – Loyalty
Olga Cossi questions loyalty.
Faith in the Time of Corona: Faith & Politics, Part 2
Our second conversation in our Politics & Faith series highlights how two Evangelical Christians, politically active in the current election season, draw different political and moral convictions from their common sacred texts. Listen to a civil conversation...
“Holding Our Politicians’ Feet to the Fire”
"Holding Our Politicians' Feet to the Fire” Tune in to “Be Bold America!” Sunday, September 27, 2020 at 5:00pm (PDT) The presidential election is bearing down upon us. When considering their choices, voters must consider accountability for an elected official’s...
Grief Dreams with Dr Joshua Black
Katherine speaks to Dr Joshua Black about dreams of beloved deceased which he calls Grief Dreams. He talks about his introduction to the significance of dreams when he had a dream at 18 years old which helped him come to terms with the loss of a relationship. We talk...
Sandy Brown and John Leopold, candidates
Sandy Brown is an incumbent on the Santa Cruz City Council, running for a new term on a progressive agenda that promotes affordable housing, pedestrian and bike-friendly streets and increased taxes on vacant second homes as a way to fund these programs. John Leopold...
