Prepare for Fire Season: Now is the Time
On Talk of the Bay, March 22, 2021 Christine Barrington revisits a previous interview with Liz Anne Jensen from the Fire Safe Santa Cruz County Executive Committee. Fire Season is ongoing for our region, and Liz Anne is a fire preparedness expert personally informed...
Steve Pleich – Wholly Broken System
Steve Pleich says the system is wholly broken.
Sustainability Now! Sunday, March 21st: Water in California’s Future, with Dr. Ruth Langridge
It’s beginning to look as though California is headed into another multi-year drought. The snowpack is meager and contracted water supplies through the state’s delivery systems are likely to be much less than requested. Farmers and cities are looking to groundwater...
Sustainability Now! Sunday, March 7th: There Otter be a Law! Will the Southern Sea Otter Survive? A conversation with James Estes
The southern sea otter is a keystone species in kelp forest communities, acting to increase the species diversity and providing ecosystem services. Despite federal protection since 1977, the southern sea otter population has struggled to recover and there are only an...
The Psychic Internet with Lauren Schneider
We speak with Lauren Schneider about how our dreams prepare us for what's to come in waking life. She gives examples of her own precognitive dreams ranging from mundane problem-solving dreams to sublime encounters. She also shares dreams that her mother had over the...
C. J. Hale – Mantra
C. J. Hale tells us about a favorite mantra he has learned.
Rope Partner of Santa Cruz: Caring for Wind Turbines and the Environment
On Talk of the Bay, Monday, March 22, 2021 at 5pm, Christine Barrington interviews team members of the Santa Cruz-based wind turbine servicing firm Rope Partner. Human-generated climatic shifts are beginning to make themselves felt across the globe and solutions are...
The Square (2017)
In 2014, Swedish director Ruben Östlund released his breakout film, Force Majeure. It explored the uncomfortable but humorous consequences of one man’s ignominious act of self-preservation after he turned tail and ran during an avalanche, leaving his wife and...
Getting vaccinated
I recently went to the UCSC vaccination clinic and recorded myself getting a vaccine. Spoiler alert: I didn't cry.Find out how it all works and how much time it really takes to get a shot at one of these large events.
Facebook Launches new Covid Vaccination Initiative
In this interview with Laura Gorman, Manager of Facebook's "Data for Good" program, she talks about a new initiative to help connect users of the platform with factual information as well as vaccination locations. With COVID-19 vaccine appointments opening up to...
Sea Otters Prevent Kelp Deforestation
A new study out of UCSC shows that sea otters are preventing further collapse of a threatened ecosystem: The kelp forests in Monterey Bay. Elsewhere in California, the story is not so rosy with 95% of the kelp forests gone in the past few years. In this interview with...
Housing Santa Cruz County with Don Lane
On Good News Santa Cruz on Thursday, March 18, 2021 Host Janet Quinn talks with Don Lane about the work that the coalition "Housing for Santa Cruz County" is doing to fulfill their mission, which is to ensure Santa Cruz County is an inclusive, thriving, just, diverse,...
Solutionary Rail – Bill Moyer shares the vision of a win-win-win solution for America’s freight and passenger transportation challenges
Solutionary Rail is a proposal to revitalize America's rail network, shift freight from highways to rail, expand and enhance passenger rail service, electrify rail lines, and utilize rail rights of way for transmission lines to service stranded renewable energy...
Adrien Saso – How Technology Is Affecting Our Lives
Adrien Saso experiences the breaking of a spell.
Nikolai Heinen – Self Improvement
Nikolai Heinen accepts an artistic challenge on the school playground?
