Accrediting the San Lorenzo Levee With Environmental Skillfulness
Christine Barrington interviews local river stewards about the San Lorenzo River Levee, which is undergoing a stringent accreditation process that requires vegetation removal and ground squirrel population reduction. Environmental groups are concerned that the...
Sleep: Why You Need It and How to Get More of It, with Dr. Chris Winter
How can you dream well if you're not sleeping well? Our guest today is neurologist and sleep specialist Dr. Chris Winter. Chris starts out talking about how he has always enjoyed sleeping and how that ultimately led him to a career as a sleep specialist. We sleep a...
Jeri Bodemar – ISIS
Jeri Bodemar reimagines the name ISIS from terror to compassion.
The Good Greenhouse
Steven E. Popp describes the benefits of growing plants under glass and explores the commercial greenhouses we see in the local landscape and also the small ones in backyards.
Wind Advisory for Sunday, January 22-Monday, January 23
URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE National Weather Service San Francisco Bay Area 141 PM PST Sat Jan 21 2023 San Francisco-North Bay Interior Mountains- North Bay Interior Valleys-San Francisco Bay Shoreline- San Francisco Peninsula Coast-East Bay Interior Valleys- Santa Cruz...
Farmworkers Urge California to Tighten, Not Loosen Pesticide Regs
I interviewed Jane Sellen of Californians for Pesticide Reform about the potential loosening of restrictions of the chemical 1,3-D, a known carcinogen used on strawberries and other crops. Farmworker communities call on the State to Rewrite Regulation of...
Rabbi Paula Marcus on Ken Burns’ Holocaust series
January 27th is international Holocaust remembrance day. Rabbi Paula Marcus of Temple Beth El, in conjunction with the Santa Cruz Public Libraries is hosting a film showing and discussion on January 26th at the Capitola Public Library to explore the impact of the Ken...
Unlocking Compassion with Equanimity
Mindfulness meditation has become wildly popular in the last decade or two, and is taught in places as diverse as corporate board rooms, maximum security prisons, and everywhere in between. One of the standard definitions of mindfulness is “awareness that arises...
Patrcie Vecchione – Magic
Magic can be found almost anywhere. For Patrice Vecchione magic once upon a time made its appearance in miniature,
Tom Hogye on the San Lorenzo River, its legacy steelhead and salmon fisheries, water quality, and how we can restore river health
Tom Hogye is President Emeritus, former Conservation Chair and Programs Chair for Santa Cruz Fly Fishing, where he’s spent 30 years fighting and working to promote sustainable fisheries management, the restoration and preservation of California Anadromous...
Innerwork with Victoria Saunders, PhD
(Fixed!) Why is inner work so important and yet so difficult? We speak today with Vicki Saunders of the Innerwork Center of Richmond VA. Vicki starts by saying that we all have unique contributions to make to the world and self-awareness will help us get what we want...
Meade Fischer – NGO
Meade Fischer dreads opening his mail.
Storm Update January 17
(STORM INFORMATION AS OF 3:30 AM, TUES., JAN 17) KSQD’s Tony Russomanno tells us: A coastal flood advisory is in effect until 9 AM Tuesday due to high tides, onshore winds, and heavy runoff. Aside from that, we’re pretty much done with this record-breaking series of...
Be WISE with Science on Tap
Sometimes it feels like UC Santa Cruz is up there on the hill, separated from the community…except on the last Wednesday of the month. That’s when UC scientists come to town for “Science on Tap,” welcoming one and all to accessible talks about cutting edge science...
Pruning time for roses is here
Join Joe Truskot and Steven E. Popp, hosts of KSQD's In The Garden for their January 14, 2023 show on the basics of pruning. You'll learn four reasons why it's important to prune and also the four "D's" of pruning. Plus inside information on getting more and bigger...
