Sustainability Now! Urchins in the Storm
Radio Show #16, April 5, 2020, with KSQD engineer Emily Donham, a 5th-year PhD candidate in Ecology & Evolutionary Biology at UCSC. Emily’s research focuses on how sea urchins, which graze on kelp forests, may be vulnerable to ocean acidication and global...
Covid-19 comes to Santa Cruz
Dr. Catherine Sonquist Forest, Family Physician and Public Health Specialist, explains how protecting ourselves intertwines with protecting those who risk their lives to protect us in the time of Covid-19. Jonna Paiss demonstrates the power of needle and thread:...
Olga Cossi – No Place Like Home
Olga Cossi says there is no place like home.
Lucid Dreaming with Robert Waggoner
In 1975, Robert Waggoner taught himself a simple technique to become lucidly aware in his dreams. Five years later, when the scientific evidence for lucid dreaming emerged, Robert was already deep into the conscious exploration of dreaming. His first book, Lucid...
Sustainability Now! Car-free living in Hayward?
Radio Show #14, March 8, 2020, with Dr. Sherman Lewis, Emeritus Professor of Political Science at Cal State East Bay, to talk about a proposal for Bayview Village, a car-free development in a disused quarry in Hayward and urban sustainability more generally.
Gine Johnson – Community Power
On Good News Santa Cruz April 2, 2020 Pauline Seales interviewed Viirginia "Gine" Johnson who is a staff member and key analyst for County Supervisor Bruce McPherson. Councilman McPherson assigned Gine to lead the herculean effort to gather the all the various...
Sustainability Now! (Un)Affordable Housing in Santa Cruz
Radio Show #15, March 22, 2020, with UCSC Sociology Professor Steve McKay, director of the UCSC Center for Labor Studies and codirector, with Professor Miriam Greenberg, of “No Place Like Home,” a community-initiated, student-engaged research project on the affordable...
Patrice Vecchione – Why Write
Patrice Vecchione asks, "Why write?"
Jason Scorse – Bernie – Warren
Jason Scorse explains why Bernie and Warren stand out.
Yoga in the Time of Covid-19 featuring Alice Kennedy
On Talk of the Bay Tuesday March 31, 2020 Christine Barrington interviews Yoga instructor Alice Kennedy about adaptation and service to the community in the face of this Covid-19 crisis. Alice Kennedy has been teaching public and private yoga in the Bay Area for 14...
Second Harvest Food Bank
On Talk of the Bay Tuesday March 31, 2020 host Christine Barrington talks with Second Harvest Food Bank's Development and Marketing Officer Suzanne Willis about the bank's myriad efforts to get food delivered effectively to central coast residents. The 115th National...
Schooling at home? Educator Heddi Craft advises parents and teachers on educating through quarantine
This week, host Suki Wessling speaks with local educator and homeschooler Heddi Craft about what homeschooling looks like in typical local families, and how "school at home" during a quarantine may be different. We talk about the efforts that our schools are making to...
Local author Mary Flodin on her novel Fruit of the Devil, education, pesticides, and more
Mary Flodin's novel, Fruit of the Devil, was a finalist for the Pacific Northwest Writers' Competition and the PEN/Bellwether Award for Socially Engaged Fiction. She was awarded a fellowship to the Squaw Valley Community of Writers and has participated in numerous...
Biologist Lee Klinger on curing tree diseases, indigenous use of fire for land management, and fire mimicry
Lee Klinger, MA, PhD, is an independent scientist living in Big Sur, California. Since 2005 he has served as director of Sudden Oak Life, a movement based on using traditional ecological techniques to address the problem of oak mortality in California and elsewhere....
Jane Weed-Pomerantz – COVID-19 Opportunity
Jane Weed-Pomerantz believes that COVID-19 pandemic affords us a unique opportunity with profound long-term implications.
