Wildfire Prevention and Lights for Liberty
In this episode of Talk of the Bay, we explore how to prevent wildfires in the wildland-urban interface, a.k.a. the areas where town meets country. Our guest is Paul Horvat, president of Fire Safe Santa Cruz County, a nonprofit dedicated to preventing and preparing...
This Squid Has Many Voices
The Dream Journal: Sue Scavo, July 6, 2019
Sue Scavo is a writer, poet and Embodied Dreamwork Practitioner. In all of her practices – dreaming, writing, poetry – her work is concerned with the implied journey, the unspoken (unnoticed) epic that happens in singular (often staggered) steps. The movement of word...
Seniors & Loneliness: Lives at Risk
Episode 8: Nearly 50% of seniors report social isolation and loneliness. These issues are linked to a variety of long-term physical and mental health risks. One man tells about finding his way from loneliness to community, connection and greater physical and mental health. Our guests also discuss a recent art museum exhibit created by local seniors on this topic. Tune in for this informative discussion, hear about the many challenges older adults face and learn about programs and services available to them.
Elkhorn Slough Part 2, Otter Monitoring Project
Southern Sea Otters: an endangered species still recovering from the era of poaching. Ron Eby and Robert Scoles, citizen scientists and devoted observers, discovered behavior that utterly confounded what the scientists thought they knew!
Talk of the Bay: US Census, UCSC Chancellor, and Predatory Lending
This episode of Talk of the Bay focused on three topics: The citizenship question and its impact on the upcoming US Census, a visit with the new UCSC Chancellor Cindy Larive, and a chat with Maria Cadenas from the nonprofit, Community Ventures, about protecting people...
Feeling the Love with Kezia Vida
Kezia Vida has been a Natural Dreamwork practitioner in New Orleans for 9 years, and teaches about how to cultivate a relationship with your dreams that is transformative and nourishing. She teaches classes and offers 1:1 dreamwork sessions for healing and growth. She...
KSQD Featured in New Video
Ann Lopez and the Center for Farmworker Families
Today’s guest on Good News Santa Cruz is Dr. Ann López named the Woman of the Year by Assemblyman Mark Stone for our the 29th Assembly District of California. She is the Founder and Executive Director of Center for Farmworker Families, a nonprofit organization...
Jane Meredith Daugherty – Berries
Jane Meredith Daugherty's adventures on a family outing, picking berries.
STORY BEHIND THE STORY: Charlie Jane Anders
This is the fourth episode of Story Behind the Story, a monthly interview series featuring conversations with authors about their creative process. In it, host Clara Sherley-Appel talks to science fiction and fantasy writer Charlie Jane Anders about her novel The City...
Bereavement and Visitation Dreams with Linda Mastrangelo
Linda Mastrangelo, MA, LMFT is an author, educator, artist and psychotherapist who specializes in bereavement and dreamwork. Being a prolific dreamer since childhood, she discovered the remarkable potential of dreams as “good medicine.” Over the years, she has...
The Nature of Happiness and Where to Find It
Featuring Ven Tenzin Chogkyi and Brigitte Reardon (host).
Living Humanely with Animals
In this Talk of the Bay episode, we tackle how to live peacefully with our animal neighbors, be they rats, bats, turkeys or possum. Rebecca Dymytryk of Humane Animal Control shares her years of experience helping people deal with uninvited guests from the wild. Did...
Golden Crowned Sparrows: More Than Just Little Brown Birds
This week on Santa Cruz Naturalist we chat with Ornithologist Theadora Block about her work on golden crowned sparrows.
