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Tom Nash, Physicist - Our Particular Universe: Understanding What We Know, What We Don't Know (Yet), and What May Only Allow Informed Speculation Tom Nash is now an emeritus scientist at the Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory, where he spent more than 30 years as an experimental high-energy and astro physicist, a high-performance computer developer, and finally as associate director for Computing and Technology. He is presently a member of the California Institute of Technology group collaborating on the LIGO Gravitational Wave Project. He is a fellow of the American Physical Society. Amazingly, he speaks English and can help us ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Cam Trowbridge - Point Reyes and Marconi's Dream Around-the-World Wireless Network This conversation and presentation, held at the Point Reyes National Park's Red Barn, focused on Guglielmo Marconi's construction and operation of two wireless radio stations in the Point Reyes area between 1912 and 1919. Marconi's ambitions and business acumen, the topic of his 2010 book, will be explained in relation to the Point Reyes sites near Bolinas and Marshall that could connect wirelessly with Hawaii. In 1916, service to Hawaii opened, and, through Hawaii, to Japan. In World War ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Eric Karpeles with Melissa Smith - ELIZABETH BISHOP: Life and the Memory of It The embrace of Elizabeth Bishop's modest but exacting body of work into the canon of English literature continues unimpeded. In her lifetime (1911-1979) she was admired and celebrated, acclaimed by fellow poet John Ashbery as "a writer's writer's writer," but it is only since her death that her influence on the literary arts of her time has been fully recognized. A troubled life was marked by struggle and pain, while her inspirited poetry was painstakingly crafted by determination and integ ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Rebecca Katz and Jeanne Wallace, PhD - The Cancer-Fighting Kitchen A cancer diagnosis is shocking, disorienting, and capable of scrambling anybody’s mental GPS—not to mention their culinary compass. To find a stabilizing force, a grounding activity such as cooking and eating well can provide more than nourishment; it can offer a huge psychological boost. When you get a cancer diagnosis, suddenly you become a very powerless person. A nutritional plan can give a sense of empowerment. So many common foods—everything from broccoli to blueberries—have ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Robert Hass, Former U.S. Poet Laureate and Local Readers - Walt Whitman's Song of Myself Organized by Eric Karpeles, co-presented by Point Reyes Books In 1855, Whitman published 795 copies of his book Leaves of Grass, paying for publication himself. "Song of Myself," as it came to be known, was the first experiment in long, free-verse poetry—a poem that former U.S. poet laureate and Whitman scholar Robert Hass calls, "the most unprecedented poem in the English language." The poem is Whitman's "song" about democracy and imagination, life and death. Using the 52 numbered sect ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website David Spangler - Apprenticed to Spirit Since 1964, David Spangler has been an author and teacher of spirituality. In 1970 he visited the Findhorn Foundation community in Northern Scotland where he was invited to become its co-director and to be a teacher-in-residence. He lived and worked in the community until 1973, becoming the founder of its educational program. Along with several friends and colleagues from Findhorn, he returned to the United States in 1973, and in 1974 he joined with them to create the Lorian Association, a ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Robert Haas, Former U.S. Poet Laureate and Local Readers - Walt Whitman's Song of Myself Organized by Eric Karpeles, co-presented by Point Reyes Books In 1855, Whitman published 795 copies of his book Leaves of Grass, paying for publication himself. "Song of Myself," as it came to be known, was the first experiment in long, free-verse poetry—a poem that former U.S. poet laureate and Whitman scholar Robert Hass calls, "the most unprecedented poem in the English language." The poem is Whitman's "song" about democracy and imagination, life and death. Using the 52 numbered sect ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Richard Heinberg - The End of Growth: Adapting to Our New Economic Reality Co-presented with the Post Carbon Institute, Point Reyes Books, the Regenerative Design Institute, Transition West Marin, and the Mainstreet Moms Economics has failed us . . . but there is life after growth! Economists insist that recovery is at hand, yet unemployment remains high, real estate values continue to sink, and governments stagger under record deficits. Richard Heinberg's latest book, The End of Growth, proposes a startling diagnosis: humanity has reached a fundamental turning p ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Arjun Makhijani - Carbon-Free and Nuclear Free: A Design for U.S. Energy Policy Arjun Makhijani is an eminent researcher on energy, nuclear weapons, and environmental issues. His work is strongly endorsed by Helen Caldicott, M.D., among many others. He is president of the Institute for Energy and Environmental Research, and author of Carbon-Free and Nuclear Free—A Roadmap for U.S. Energy Policy and Ecology and Genetics: An Essay on the Nature of Life and the Problem of Genetic Engineering, among other books and pamplets. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Kate Levinson & Susan Braun - Emotional Currency: A Woman's Guide to Building a Healthy Relationship with Money The emotional connection that we all have with money is undeniable. Whether we feel comfortable with it and understand how it works in the world or ignore our finances completely, there is a strong psychological dimension to our personal dealings with money. But there is also a strong taboo about discussing personal details around money—what we earn, what we save, and what we spend—that has contributed to women, in particular, feeling financially isolated and vulnerable. Through her ow ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Orland Bishop - Part 4 of a Biographical Exploration Orland Bishop combines an extensive study of medicine, naturopathy, psychology and indigenous cosmologies with a deep dedication to human rights advocacy and cultural renewal. He was a research fellow at the Center for the Study of Violence at Charles R. Drew University of Medicine and Science in Los Angeles and has consulted for many human development organizations in the United States and internationally. Orland is co-founder and Executive Director of ShadeTree Multicultural Foundation i ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Orland Bishop - Part 3 of a Biographical Exploration Orland Bishop combines an extensive study of medicine, naturopathy, psychology and indigenous cosmologies with a deep dedication to human rights advocacy and cultural renewal. He was a research fellow at the Center for the Study of Violence at Charles R. Drew University of Medicine and Science in Los Angeles and has consulted for many human development organizations in the United States and internationally. Orland is co-founder and Executive Director of ShadeTree Multicultural Foundation i ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Orland Bishop - Part 2 of a Biographical Exploration Orland Bishop combines an extensive study of medicine, naturopathy, psychology and indigenous cosmologies with a deep dedication to human rights advocacy and cultural renewal. He was a research fellow at the Center for the Study of Violence at Charles R. Drew University of Medicine and Science in Los Angeles and has consulted for many human development organizations in the United States and internationally. Orland is co-founder and Executive Director of ShadeTree Multicultural Foundation i ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Orland Bishop - Part 1 of a Biographical Exploration Orland Bishop combines an extensive study of medicine, naturopathy, psychology and indigenous cosmologies with a deep dedication to human rights advocacy and cultural renewal. He was a research fellow at the Center for the Study of Violence at Charles R. Drew University of Medicine and Science in Los Angeles and has consulted for many human development organizations in the United States and internationally. Orland is co-founder and Executive Director of ShadeTree Multicultural Foundation i ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Anna Deavere Smith - Listening Between the Lines, Hosted by Eric Karpeles Observation is one of the most exacting skills every artist must cultivate. For a writer, listening is critical to the process of transmuting observed reality into art. Playwright and performer Anna Deavere Smith has shaped a singular career mining the riches of both spoken and unspoken language. Honoring her sources, she has developed an idiosyncratic theatrical form that is composed exclusively of verbatim texts hobbled together from years of interviews with both ordinary and extraordinar ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Jean Shinoda Bolen and Kristina Flanagan - Goddess Archetypes in the Ring Cycle and in Us: Psychological, Political, and Spiritual Parallels The New School at Commonweal and Point Reyes Books are pleased to present this engaging event for lovers of archetype, myth, opera, and Jung. Jean Shinoda Bolen, MD, and Francesca Zambella (rehearsals permitting) will speak, discuss and lead a lively discussion about the goddesses in Wagner's Ring Cycle. Zambella’s powerful interpretation of Die Walkure presents Brunhilde’s evolution from an archetypal Athena into a “true hero,” a woman with courage and compassion, free of being an ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website James Morris - Part 2 of Conversations with A Leading Ibn 'Arabi Scholar James Morris is currently Professor of Theology at Boston College, and has previously taught Islamic and religious studies at the University of Exeter, Princeton, Oberlin, the Sorbonne (EPHE), and the Institute of Ismaili Studies in Paris and London. His field research and exploration of living spiritual traditions have taken him to Iran, Afghanistan, Morocco, Egypt, Turkey, and Southeast Asia. Professor Morris has published widely on many areas of religious thought and practice, including ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Nick Yiangou - Ibn Arabi Conversations: History, Readings, and the Beshara School Nick Yiangou is president of the United States branch of the Ibn Arabi Society, which promotes the teachings and translations of this great spiritual teacher. He has been engaged with the Beshara School of Intensive Esoteric Education for over thirty years in the transformative work based on the principles and teachings of the way of oneness and unification, and is the Secretary of the Beshara Foundation in the US. Currently he is enrolled at the Institute of Transpersonal Psychology, pursu ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website James Morris - Part 1 of Conversations with A Leading Ibn 'Arabi Scholar James Morris is currently Professor of Theology at Boston College, and has previously taught Islamic and religious studies at the University of Exeter, Princeton, Oberlin, the Sorbonne (EPHE), and the Institute of Ismaili Studies in Paris and London. His field research and exploration of living spiritual traditions have taken him to Iran, Afghanistan, Morocco, Egypt, Turkey, and Southeast Asia. Professor Morris has published widely on many areas of religious thought and practice, including ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Frank Ostaseski - Being A Compassionate Companion, End of Life Series Caring for people who are dying can be an intense, intimate, and deeply alive experience. It often challenges our most basic beliefs. It is a journey of continuous discovery, requiring courage and flexibility. We learn to open, take risks, and forgive constantly. Taken as a practice of awareness, it can reveal both our deep clinging and our capacity to embrace another person's suffering as our own. This conversation will aim at supporting professionals or those caring for family members or ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Peter Kingsley - The Great Taboo: A Story Waiting to Pierce You Peter Kingsley is internationally recognized for his groundbreaking work on the origins of western spirituality, philosophy and culture. Through his writings as well as lectures he speaks straight to the heart and has helped to transform many people's understanding not only of the past, but of who they are. http://www.peterkingsley.org He is the author of four books which, in the space of only a few years, have exerted the profoundest and most far-reaching influence outside as well as ins ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Sarah Hobson - Working with Women in Sub-Saharan Africa When Sarah Hobson travels in the developing world and sees green hills, she wants to walk into them. She is drawn to peasant villages untouched by modern life. In the 1970s Sarah disguised herself as a boy and traveled through Iran alone. She wrote a book about it. As a documentarian, writer, and foundation director, Sarah has devoted herself to women in peasant communities around the world. Now executive director of the New Field Foundation, she is supporting village women in Sub-Saharan A ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Steve Heilig - The Modern Evolution of Death, TNS End of Life Conversations Series For the past century or so, more humans than ever before have lived in a historical bubble of relative affluence, medical sophistication, philosophical discussion, and unprecedented longevity. Modern times have had significant impacts on how we think and feel about death, and what we try to do about it. The limits of our lives and our technologies have raised many questions, most still unanswered. You won't get many, if any, of those answers from this discussion, but we will seek to shed s ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Gregory Orr - The Blessing: Poetry as Survival Gregory Orr was born in 1947 in Albany, New York, and grew up in the rural Hudson Valley. He is the author of nine collections of poetry, including How Beautiful the Beloved (Copper Canyon Press, 2009); Concerning the Book that is the Body of the Beloved (2005); The Caged Owl: New and Selected Poems (2002); Orpheus and Eurydice (2001); Burning the Empty Nests (1997); City of Salt (1995), which was a finalist for the L.A. Times Poetry Prize; and Gathering the Bones Together (1975). He is al ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Dr. Margaret Kripke - Reducing Environmental Cancer Risk An interview recorded prior to the evening presentation by Dr. Margaret Kripke, co-author of the groundbreaking 2010 President’s Cancer Panel report Reducing Environmental Cancer Risk: What We Can Do Now. The report, which informs the National Cancer Program, has brought unprecedented attention to the environmental exposures that increase cancer risk. Whether you’ve been touched by cancer or you’re a researcher, health care provider or advocate for cancer prevention, this is a conve ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Dr. Stuart Lord - East-West Contemplative Education at Naropa University Dr. Stuart C. Lord, a nationally recognized expert in service learning, multicultural and spiritual education, and leadership and ethics became the fifth president of Naropa University on July 1, 2009. Dr. Lord, 49, has helped foster the growth and advancement of many communities as both educator and humanitarian. He has served as an administrator and managed civic education, community service and religious and spiritual life programs at both Dartmouth College and DePauw University. In the ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Kai Lee - Compass and Gyroscope, Integrating Science and Politics for the Environment Dr. Kai Lee joined the David & Lucile Packard Foundation in June 2007 as program officer with the Conservation and Science program, where he is responsible for the science subprogram. Before joining the Foundation, Kai taught at Williams College from 1991 through 2007, and he is now the Rosenburg Professor of Environmental Studies, emeritus. He directed the Center for Environmental Studies at Williams from 1991–1998 and 2001–2002. Lee also taught from 1973 to 1991 at the University of ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Rabbi Jonathan Omer-Man - Ibn 'Arabi Conversations: A Jewish Perspective Rabbi Jonathan Omer-Man is a writer, religious guide and spiritual counselor. He is founder of Metivta: a center for contemplative Judaism, which is dedicated to the renewal of the Jewish wisdom tradition and to the deepening of personal religious quest. Metivta is a continuation of Jonathan Omer-Man's life-long work as a guide and mentor to Jews who feel that their Judaic religious and spiritual needs have not been met within the traditional forms available to them. He has lectured at uni ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Eric Karpeles - The Last Threshold: Artists and Mortality, TNS End of Life Conversations Series In the fourth of an ongoing series of New School presentations on the end of life, Bolinas painter and writer Eric Karpeles will talk about the role that artists have played in helping to imaginatively frame and comprehend the idea of how we cease to be. How is it that artists, engaged in the most willful need to express their very beings, seem to overcome the fear of the loss of self? Focusing on three distinct art forms—painting, poetry and music—and three supreme practitioners—Mar ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Scott Eberle, MD, Rob Feraru, and Susan Braun - The Final Crossing: Learning to Die in Order to Live Dr. Scott Eberle is a physician specializing in end-of-life care, who helped School of Lost Borders Founder Steven Foster at the end of his life in 2003 - the subject of his latest book: The Final Crossing. As he has written in the book: "So now I am a physician who specializes in supporting life transitions. I am a hospice doctor who sits with the dying in their homes, and I am a rite-of-passage guide who sits with 'the dying' out in the desert." Scott serves as medical director for Hospi ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Rev. Lennox Yearwood, Jr. - The Hip Hop Caucus Lennox Yearwood, Jr., is a minister, community activist, and one of the most influential people in Hip Hop political life. He currently serves as president of the Hip Hop Caucus in Washington, D.C. The Hip Hop Caucus is a national, nonprofit, nonpartisan, organization that engages young people in urban communities in elections, policy making and service projects. Their vision is to create a more just and sustainable world by engaging more people, particularly young people and people of colo ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Nick Yiangou - Ibn Arabi Conversations: History, Readings, and the Beshara School Nick Yiangou is president of the United States branch of the Ibn Arabi Society, which promotes the teachings and translations of this great spiritual teacher. He has been engaged with the Beshara School of Intensive Esoteric Education for over thirty years in the transformative work based on the principles and teachings of the way of oneness and unification, and is the Secretary of the Beshara Foundation in the US. Currently he is enrolled at the Institute of Transpersonal Psychology, pursu ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Rabbi Jonathan Omer-Man - Ibn 'Arabi Conversations: A Jewish Perspective Rabbi Jonathan Omer-Man is a writer, religious guide and spiritual counselor. He is founder of Metivta: a center for contemplative Judaism, which is dedicated to the renewal of the Jewish wisdom tradition and to the deepening of personal religious quest. Metivta is a continuation of Jonathan Omer-Man's life-long work as a guide and mentor to Jews who feel that their Judaic religious and spiritual needs have not been met within the traditional forms available to them. He has lectured at uni ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website James Morris - Part 1 of Conversations with A Leading Ibn 'Arabi Scholar James Morris is currently Professor of Theology at Boston College, and has previously taught Islamic and religious studies at the University of Exeter, Princeton, Oberlin, the Sorbonne (EPHE), and the Institute of Ismaili Studies in Paris and London. His field research and exploration of living spiritual traditions have taken him to Iran, Afghanistan, Morocco, Egypt, Turkey, and Southeast Asia. Professor Morris has published widely on many areas of religious thought and practice, including ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website James Morris - Part 2 of Conversations with A Leading Ibn 'Arabi Scholar James Morris is currently Professor of Theology at Boston College, and has previously taught Islamic and religious studies at the University of Exeter, Princeton, Oberlin, the Sorbonne (EPHE), and the Institute of Ismaili Studies in Paris and London. His field research and exploration of living spiritual traditions have taken him to Iran, Afghanistan, Morocco, Egypt, Turkey, and Southeast Asia. Professor Morris has published widely on many areas of religious thought and practice, including ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Susan Braun and Michael Witte - Fighting Till the End? The New School End of Life Conversations eople with life-threatening illnesses often face the difficult decision of whether or not to continue active therapy. For some, the decision is, “Let’s fight till the end,” and they work with their doctors to receive treatment within days, or even hours, of their death. Others decide to put their effort toward the best possible quality of life, minimizing pain and suffering. But is this always a conscious decision? Without explicit instructions and/or an informed and caring dialog b ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Michael Lerner—Death and Dying: Lessons from the Commonweal Cancer Help Program The New School at Commonweal and the Coastal Health Alliance are pleased to present this next event in our End of Life Conversations series. Over the past 26 years, Commonweal has offered more than 150 week-long retreats for people with cancer though the Commonweal Cancer Help Program. Many participants find the experience transformative. Conversations about death and dying are a core part of the retreats. The basic premise is that talking about death and dying in circles of trust can bring ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Sim Van der Ryn - Ecological Design Sim Van der Ryn is a visionary, author, educator, public leader, and internationally distinguished pioneer in ecological design. For more than 40 years, Sim has been at the forefront of integrating ecological principles into the built environment, creating multi-scale solutions driven by nature’s intelligence. He has served as California’s first energy-conscious State Architect, authored seven influential books, and won numerous honors and awards for his leadership and innovation in arc ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Steve Lerner - Sacrifice Zones Across the United States, thousands of people, most of them in low-income or minority communities, live next to heavily polluting industrial sites. In Sacrifice Zones: The Front Lines of Toxic Chemical Exposure in the United States, Steve Lerner tells the stories of twelve communities, from Brooklyn to Pensacola, that rose up to fight the industries and military bases causing disproportionately high levels of chemical pollution. He calls these low-income neighborhoods "sacrifice zones"—re ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Rachel Naomi Remen - Stories and Poems at the End of Life This is the first event in the new TNS End of Life Conversations series! Rachel Naomi Remen is one of the earliest pioneers in the mind/body holistic health movement and the first to recognize the role of the spirit in health and the recovery from illness. She is Co-Founder and Medical Director of the Commonweal Cancer Help Program featured in the Bill Moyers PBS series, Healing and the Mind and has cared for people with cancer and their families for almost 30 years. She is also a nationa ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Ted Schettler - The Ecological Paradigm of Health Ted Schettler is science director of the Science and Environmental Health Network. He has a medical degree from Case Western Reserve University and a masters in public health from Harvard University. He is co-author of Generations at Risk: Reproductive Health and the Environment, which examines reproductive and developmental health effects of exposure to a variety of environmental toxicants. He is also co-author of In Harm's Way: Toxic Threats to Child Development, which discusses the imp ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Leslie Medine & John Esterle - Democracy Zone - Creating bi-cultural youth-led social change in Napa, California Leslie Medine is one of Northern California's most respected public sector leaders. She has created youth-led innovative schools and community programs for young people. Now she is organizing the first Democracy Zone in the country located in Napa where Latino and Anglo young people are making decisions and taking action on behalf of 2000 children and youth in their neighborhood. John Esterle is Executive Director of The Whitman Institute, a San Francisco Foundation that supports Leslie's ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Tink Thompson - Gumshoe: Slease or Extistential Hero? Bolinas private detective Tink Thompson was a Haverford philosophy professor who taught Nietzsche and Kierkegaard before he became a sleuth. He has worked on the Kennedy assassination, the Oklahoma bombing, and the Patty Hearskidnapping. His books include "Gumshoe" and "Six Seconds in Dallas." He is a big fan of Dashell Hammett. He believes you can trace noir detective fiction back to the cultural cataclysm of World War I in Europe and the consequent emergence of European existentialist ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Pia Infante - The Impeded Stream Is the One That Sings When we no longer know what to do, we have come to our real work. And when we no longer know which way to go, we have begun our real journey. The mind that is not baffled is not employed. The impeded stream is the one that sings. Wendell Berry I interviewed Pia Infante as part of a quite spontaneous evolution of a whole series of interviews with people involved with The Whitman Institute, a San Francisco-based foundation with a focus on dialogue, critical thinking and civic engagement. ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website John Esterle - Dialogue, Critical Thinking and Civic Engagement This is the second interview in an ongoing discussion with John Esterle, Executive Director of the Whitman Institute. The Whitman Institute is a quite unique foundation in San Francisco that focuses its grants on organizations and projects engaged with dialogue, critical thinking and civic engagement. The Institute is a supporter of The New School at Commonweal -- and has also supported a remarkable number of the thought leaders we have interviewed at The New School. John Esterle is the E ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Christina Puchalski & Rachel Naomi Remen - A discussion on spirituality and healthcare, as well as helping patients prepare for death Michael Lerner hosts this conversation with Dr. Christina Puchalski and Dr. Rachel Naomi Remen. The main topic is how to integrate spirituality into health care. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website John Esterle - Executive Director of the Whitman Institute John Esterle stopped by for a conversation with Michael Lerner of the New School at Commonweal. They discussed philanthropy, supporting organizations and grantees in their missions and several other topics. John Esterle is the Executive Director of The Whitman Institute. He began working at TWI in 1988 as a research associate and in 1999 assumed his present position. In 2004 he led TWI’s transition from an operating to a grantmaking foundation. John is also the board president of Philan ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Sadja Greenwood, MD - A Nutritional Supplement Strategy: Based on Human History, Current Science, and Individual Needs Sadja Greenwood is a primary care physician with a special interest in women's health. She has been an activist for women's health throughout her career, in family planning, reproductive rights, self-care, education and services for mid-life women. She is the author of Menopause, Naturally (revised edition, 1996). Visit Sadja’s blog at http://sadjascolumns.blogspot.com/ This event was co sponsored with the New School by the Coastal Health Alliance and The Healing Arts Center Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Richard Grossman - The Tao of Ralph Waldo Emerson Richard Grossman is an essayist, psychotherapist, medical educator, and former book publisher. The six books he has written include The Tao of Emerson and A Year with Emerson, which won the Umhoefer Prize for achievement in the humanities, awarded by the Arts and Humanities Foundation. He has read Emerson daily for over 50 years. Emerson (1803-82) has been called "the George Washington of American Literature". He was a philosopher, essayist, poet, lecturer, and journal-keeper. An enchanted ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Colin Greer - President of the New World Foundation Dr. Colin Greer has been the President of The New World Foundation since 1985. He was a Professor at Brooklyn College, CUNY, and has written several books. Colin Greer has participated in and directed several studies of U.S. immigration and urban schooling policy and history (at Columbia University and CUNY), and Chairs numerous organizations. Dr. Colin Greer has been the President of The New World Foundation since 1985. Formerly, he was a Professor at Brooklyn College, CUNY. He is the au ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Thomas Kirsch, M.D. - THE RED BOOK: Reflections on Jung and the Jungians THE RED BOOK, published in 2009 for the first time, is Carl Jung's richly illustrated record of his descent into his inner world, created in a period of personal crisis following his break with Sigmund Freud. A surprise best seller, THE RED BOOK has been reviewed in major periodicals around the world. THOMAS KIRSCH has a deep knowledge of Jung and the Jungian movement. Born to two first generation Jungian analysts, Kirsch knew Jung as a child. He has served as president of the C.G. Jung I ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Robert Bray - Healing Traumatic Stress Disorders with Thought Field Therapy Robert Bray has devoted his life’s work to the service of others. Born in San Diego, Bob spent his childhood years in the Midwest before returning to San Diego as a junior in high school. Following college at San Diego State University, Bob spent a couple of seasons as a firefighter with the Cleveland National Forest, and also worked as a seasonal lifeguard with the City of San Diego. Over the years Bob has been an avid volunteer with many community service organizations, both locally ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Edd Conboy - Healing People, Healing Organizations A conversation with Edd Conboy on psychotherapy, trauma, learning organizations, The Whitman Institute, social entrepreneurs and the Jesuit model of social change Edd Conboy's bio:  http://www.councilforrelationships.org/staff/bio_conboy_edd.htm Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Nicolette Hahn Niman and Bill Niman - Righteous Porkchop: Finding a Life and Good Food Beyond Factory Farms Nicolette Hahn Niman is rancher, attorney and writer. Much of her time is spent speaking and writing about the problems of industrialized livestock production, including the book "Righteous Porkchop: Finding a Life and Good Food Beyond Factory Farms" (HarperCollins, 2009) and three essays she has written on the subject for the New York Times. Bill Niman is a cattle rancher in Northern California, proprietor of BN Ranch, and Founder of the natural meat company Niman Ranch, Inc. He was a mem ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Fritjof Capra - The Science of Leonardo, and Other Topics ritjof Capra, Ph.D., physicist and systems theorist, is a founding director of the Center for Ecoliteracy in Berkeley, California, which is dedicated to promoting ecology and systems thinking in primary and secondary education. He is on the faculty of Schumacher College, an international center for ecological studies in the UK. Dr. Capra is the author of several international bestsellers, including The Tao of Physics , The Web of Life, and The Hidden Connections: A Science for Sustainable L ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Under Our Skin - "It's About Lyme," a Conversation with Andy Abrahams Wilson and Win Bertrand, Eric Karpeles, Guest Moderator A two-part community awareness program for the town of Bolinas, this event was a chance to learn more about one of the fastest growing epidemics in our world today. How does one contract Lyme? What is the protocol once one is infected? What is the long range prognosis for recovery? What is the nature of chronic Lyme disease? These are among the issues to be raised and discussed, in a context of information presented and treatments explored. The community gathered after a screening of "Unde ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website TKV Desikachar and Kate Holcombe - A Conversation on Healing Yoga TKV Desikachar is the son and foremost student of the legendary yoga master T Krishnamacharya -- teacher of Patthabi Jois, BKS Iyengar, and Indra Devi. Kate Holcombe is a senior student of Mr. Desikachar and founder of the Healing Yoga Foundation in San Francisco. For over 45 years, TKV Desikachar has devoted himself to teaching yoga and making it relevant to people from all walks of life and with all kinds of abilities. His teaching method is based on T Krishnamacharya's fundamental princ ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Walter Murch - The Music of the Spheres: Rediscovering the Harmonic Relationship Among the Planets Note: This conversation relied heavily on Mr. Murch's visual presentation, which is unavailable. Still, we found the conversation so compelling as to make it available for listening. Please familiarize yourself with the article link below for further understanding of Walter's work in this area. Walter Murch is an Academy Award winning film editor and sound designer who has done celebrated work with George Lucas, Francs Ford Coppola, Anthony Minghella, and others. He is the subject of Micha ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Catharine A. MacKinnon - Are Women Human? Reflections on Sexual Violence Catharine A. MacKinnon is America's foremost feminist legal scholar and a leading public intellectual and political philosopher. She has made major contributions to law and public policy on equality, sexual harassment, pornography, trafficking, rape, and genocide. MacKinnon is a lawyer, teacher, writer, and activist on sex equality domestically and internationally. She is Elizabeth A. Long Professor of Law at the University of Michigan, The James Barr Ames long-term visitor at Harvard Law S ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Mark Finser - A Conversation on Social Finance Mark A. Finser is Chair of the Board of RSF Social Finance. RSF Social Finance provides innovative investing, lending, and philanthropic services to catalyze the growth of organizations creating a more sustainable future. Mark grew RSF's assets from $6,000 in 1984 to $120M today. Since 1984, RSF has made a total of $130M in mission-related loans to social enterprises. Mark brings communities of philanthropists and socially responsible investors together to further RSF's mission: to transfor ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Hanford Woods - What Is Art? Reading Shakespeare's 'Hamlet' and Tolstoy's 'What Is Art?' Hanford Woods teaches Shakespeare at Dawson College in Montreal and is a longtime Bolinas resident. Eric Karpeles is a new Bolinas resident and recently spoke for The New School on "Paintings in Proust." We recommend reading "Hamlet" and "What Is Art?" (both available on Internet!) in advance of the conversation. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Russell Jaffe, MD - The Alkaline Way: Diet, Supplements, Detoxification, and Real Health Care Reform We have (again!) a special opportunity for a conversation with a remarkable Commonweal friend, Russell Jaffe, M.D. Russ talks with us about "The Alkaline Way: Diet, Supplements, Detoxification, and Real Health Care Reform." Trained in Clinical Pathology at the National Institutes of Health, Russ served on the permanent NIH staff as a practicing molecular biologist and molecular pathologist. In the course of his later career, Russ has worked extensively in optimal health, nutrition, Oriental ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Eric Karpeles - My Book is a Painting - Marcel Proust & the Resonance of the Visual Image Eric Karpeles, author of Paintings in Proust, presented an illustrated talk entitled "My book is a painting: Marcel Proust & the Resonance of the Visual Image." This conversation was recorded on June 12th, 2009. A PDF of the visual presentation is available at: http://commonweal.org/new-school/audiofiles/podcast/61e_karpeles_TNS_2.pdf Paintings in Proust has received considerable acclaim in the US, Britain and France, where the French edition sold out its first printing in three weeks. ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Jeffrey and Leila Masson - A Conversation on Freud, Animal's Emotional Lives and Environmental Factors in Human Development Jeffrey Moussaieff Masson is a writer who lives with his family in New Zealand. He has been a professor at several universities in Canada and America. After serving as Projects Director of the Sigmund Freud Archives, he wrote a series of books critical of psychiatry and therapy. In the 1990s he turned his attention to animals, and in particular, their emotional lives. His book 'When Elephants Weep' became an international best seller, as was 'Dogs Never Lie About Love'. Since those two boo ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Cindy Sage and Nancy Evans - Wireless or Wellness - A Conversation on EMFs and technology New wireless technologies have changed the face of the world in the last decade. Cell and cordless phones, and the wireless towers that send their signals around town have very real bioeffects. Decision-makers and the public are just learning about possible health risks. What can you do to help protect your health? These and other important topics will be covered by Cindy Sage, Sage Associates, Co-Editor of the BioInitiative Report. She and 14 other scientists and public health experts have ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Julia Brody, Silent Spring Institute - Endocrine Disruptors in Indoor & Outdoor Air Julia Brody is a leader in research on environmental pollutants and breast cancer and in public engagement in science. She is the executive director of Silent Spring Institute, a research organization dedicated to studying the links between the environment and women's health, especially breast cancer. Dr. Julie Brody and her team at the Silent Spring Institute in Massachusetts are well-known pioneers in exploring linkages between toxic chemicals exposures and breast cancer, prompted by the ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Mark Gerzon - Decision Making as if Consciousness Matters Mark Gerzon, a leader in building global community and conflict resolution, believes critical decisions are often deeply flawed because they are made in settings that neglect the importance of nurturing a consciousness that elicits our deepest wisdom. His passion is designing environments that meet Einstein's transformative challenge: to ensure that we do not try to solve problems on the same level awareness at which they were created. Join us for a very special New School Conversation. Ma ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website David Servan-Schreiber - A Conversation on Healing David Servan-Schreiber, author of "Healing Without Freud or Prozac", "Instinct to Heal" and "Anticancer, A New Way of Life". Michael Lerner conducted this interview on Friday, December 5, 2008 Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Terry Tempest Williams - Finding Beauty in a Broken World Don’t miss this extraordinary opportunity to hear Terry Tempest Williams, one of the most exquisite and powerful voices for healing ourselves and the earth. Terry has been called “a citizen writer” who speaks out eloquently on behalf of an ethical stance toward life. A gifted naturalist and fierce advocate for freedom of speech, Terry has shown us how environmental issues are social issues that ultimately become matters of justice. “So here is my question,” she asks, “what might ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website James Gordon, M.D. - LIFE LESSONS IN HEALING: Cancer, Trauma, and Mind-Body Medicine Jim Gordon is one of America's leading authorities in mind-body medicine. He founded the influential Cancer Guides training program, sponsors the premier Food as Medicine training, and conducts Healing the Wounds of War trainings in Israel, Gaza and other conflict zones. Jim Gordon is the Founder and Director of The Center for Mind-Body Medicine (CMBM), a Clinical Professor in the Departments of Psychiatry and Family Medicine at Georgetown Medical School, and recently served as Chairman of ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Therese Poulsen - Yoga For Trauma Therese Poulsen is the founder and director of Breath of Hope Foundation, through which she brings yoga and integrative healing to children traumatized by natural disasters or war in Sri Lanka, Indonesia and other countries in the Global South. Therese has been teaching yoga and integrative approaches to healing for over two decades. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Stephen Viederman - A Conversation on Socially Responsible Investing Stephen Viederman* is the former president of the Jessie Smith Noyes Foundation, from which he retired in April 2000. During his tenure the Foundation became a leader in mission-related investing, an effort to reduce the dissonance between the foundation�s investments and its grant-making values through portfolio screening, shareholder activity, and mission-related venture capital investing. This effort was widely recognized by the national press, including the New York Times, a variety of ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Paul Hawken - Life Lessons in Sustainability and Resilience Paul Hawken is an environmentalist, entrepreneur and author. Paul heads the Natural Capital Institute www.NaturalCapital.org, which has created a hub for global civil society www.WiserEarth.org, a collaboratively written, free content, open source networking platform that links NGOs, funders, business, government, social entrepreneurs, students, organizers, academics, activists, scientists and citizens. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Jed Emerson - Blended value Jed Emerson (jed.emerson@generationim.com) is a Senior Fellow with Generation Foundation, of Generation Investment Management (London, UK), and a fellow with the Said Business School at Oxford University.He has published widely on issues related to how we create, invest in and manage value. He lives in the Colorado high country with his two dogs, Pearl and Rasta, and Lakota, his horse... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Jerry Mander - Will Globalization Soon Be Over? Jerry Mander is the founder and director of the International Forum on Globalization (IFG) a"think tank"and activist community with Board and Associate members on every continent. IFG has focused since 1994 on exposing the negative impacts of economic globalization on nature, human communities, equity, and democracy. IFG publishes reports, positions papers, and books, and also produces private and public education events, from private strategic seminars to large teach-ins. Best known among ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Steve Matson&Students of the Regenerative Design Institute - Mapping Local Resilience in Bolinas "Mapping Local Resilience in Bolinas: Looking back through the Bolinas Community Plan history and Looking forward to the answers we'll need for a thriving future."Steve Matson and students of the Regenerative Design Institute in conversation with Michael Lerner. Co-sponsored by The New School and Mainstreet Moms. This event was held at Commonweal on Tuesday, July 1, 2008.Participants came for images and stories from the pioneering Bolinas Community Plan"old guard"days. Steve Matson showed h ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Fredi Kronenberg, Ph.D - Herbal Therapies and Integrative Approaches to Women's Health Dr. Fredi Kronenberg is Professor of Clinical Physiology and Director of the Richard and Hinda Rosenthal Center for Complementary & Alternative Medicine at Columbia University, College of Physicians and Surgeons. She received her B.S. from Cornell University in neurobiology and behavior and her Ph.D. from Stanford University in physiology, where she researched thermoregulatory and reproductive physiology. Her postdoctoral research at Columbia University initiated her work in womenOs health ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Annie Leonard - The Story of Stuff From its extraction through sale, use and disposal, all the stuff in our lives affects communities at home and abroad, yet most of this is hidden from view. The Story of Stuff is a 20-minute, fast-paced, fact-filled look at the underside of our production and consumption patterns. The Story of Stuff exposes the connections between a huge number of environmental and social issues, and calls us together to create a more sustainable and just world. It'll teach you something, it'll make you lau ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Sandra Steingraber - Healing Inside Out: A Poet's Quest, A Mother's Journey Sandra Steingraber, Ph.D., ecologist, cancer survivor, and author of Living Downstream and Having Faith, received her doctorate in biology from the University of Michigan and master's degree in English from Illinois State University. She is the author of Post-Diagnosis, a volume of poetry, and coauthor of a book on ecology and human rights in Africa, The Spoils of Famine. She has taught biology at Columbia College, Chicago, held visiting fellowships at the University of Illinois, Radcliffe/ ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Dean Radin, Ph.D. - Entangled Minds Dean Radin, Ph.D., Senior Scientist at the Institute of Noetic Sciences discusses his book "Entangled Minds," March 5th, 2007. In this conversation, Radin describes the surprising reach of the substantial scientific literature on psi phenomena, and wonders whether psi phenomena are not ultimately an example of the universe talking to itself. "The concept of things being separate doesn't exist at a deep physical level. All that remains are relationships between things." "[Entangled Minds] ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Jacob Needleman - Why Can't We Be Good?: Overcoming Obstacles To Our Higher Ideals Jacob Needleman is a professor of philosophy at San Francisco State University and the author of many books, including The American Soul, The Wisdom of Love, Time and the Soul, The Heart of Philosophy, Lost Christianity, and Money and The Meaning of Life. In addition to his teaching and writing, he serves as a consultant in the fields of psychology, education, medical ethics, philanthropy, and business, and has been featured on Bill Moyers's acclaimed PBS series A World of Ideas. Steve ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Rachel Kessler and Dr. Rachel Naomi Remen - Nurturing the Inner Life in Education Rachael Kessler is recognized by Daniel Goleman as a "leader in a new movement for emotional literacy," and has developed a framework for nurturing the inner life of students and teachers that honors the interests of educators, parents, and policy-makers. Her groundbreaking book, The Soul of Education: Helping Students Find Connection, Compassion, and Character at School (ASCD 2000), was distributed to over 110,000 educators worldwide. Her work has been endorsed by educators across the spec ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Charlotte Brody, RN And Dr. Rachel Naomi Remen - Making Change as Treatment for Despair Charlotte Brody, RN, is Executive Director of Commonweal, and a founder and former Executive Director of Health Care Without Harm, an international coalition of 443 organizations in 52 countries working to make health care more environmentally responsible and sustainable. She is also on the Steering Committee of the Safe Cosmetics Campaign. A registered nurse and mother of two, Charlotte has served as the Organizing Director for the Center for Health, Environment and Justice in Falls Church ... 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Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Arisika Razak and Carol Densmore - Birth and the Healing Wisdom of Earth-Based Traditions Arisika Razak, RN, CNM (Certified Nurse Midwife), MPH, Program Director, Integrative Health Studies at the California Institute of Integral Studies (CIIS) and Carol Densmore, CNM, MPH, Director of the Cambridge Health Alliance Doula Program, July 20th, 2007Arisika Razak's work integrates the disciplines of Women's Studies/ Women's Spirituality, and Women's Health and Spiritual Dance, through the incorporation of the teachings of earth-based spiritual traditions, women's spirituality, and wo ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Peter Warshall - The Spiritual Labor of Earth Healing, A New School Event Peter Warshall is the Editor-At-Large for the Whole Earth Magazine and is the founder of Peter Warshall and Associates. This gathering was about "The Spiritual Labor of Earth Healing." This event was held at Commonweal on February 27th, 2007. Peter Warshall has worked for thirty years to improve governance and effective citizen participation within local communities, balance conservation and development (especially water resources, ranching and forestry, and biodiversity), as well as teach, ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Michael Samuels, MD - Demeter, Buddha and the Bears: The Ancient Roots of Contemporary Spiritual Healing Michael Samuels is the founder and director of Art As a Healing Force, a project started in 1990 devoted to healing oneself, others, the community and the earth with creativity and art making. Michael teaches Art and Healing at San Francisco State University, Institute of Holistic Studies. He is a bear dancer with the Chumash People. He has used creativity, art and guided imagery with patients with life threatening illness and life crises for over thirty years in private practice and in con ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Bill Drayton - Everyone A Changemaker Bill Drayton is a social entrepreneur. He is the founder of Ashoka, Youth Ventures, and Get America Working -- three deeply complementary efforts to make the world a better place. Ashoka, the oldest and larger of these ventures, has created a global community of social entrepreneurs in over 70 countries around the world. Bill talks about these three projects in this extended interview with Michael Lerner.Bill has been a social entrepreneur since he was a New York City elementary school stud ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Geoff Lawton&Penny Livingston-Stark - A Conversation on Permaculture Geoff Lawton is a world-renowned permaculture practitioner. He emigrated from England to Australia and studied permaculture with the originator, Bill Mollison, in Tasmania. He founded the Permaculture Research Institute www.permaculture.org.auon Tagari Farm in New South Wales, Australia, a 147-acre farmstead previously developed by Mollison. Since 1985, Geoff has designed and implemented permaculture projects in 18 countries for private individuals and groups, communities, governments, aid ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Lloyd Kahn - What Really Happened in the '60s Lloyd Kahn creates visually exquisite and conceptually visionary books about the buildings we live in. His most recent book is Home Work: Handbuilt Shelter. A longtime Bolinas resident, Lloyd was living in San Francisco in the 1960s and has a powerful narrative about what he believes really happened between 1963 and 1967. He has some wonderful visual images that capture that iconic moment in time. Lloyd spoke about the decade and shared some slides from Home Work -- evidence that the power ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Binka Le Breton, writer and lecturer on environmental and human rights. Binka Le Breton lives on a Brazilian rainforest farm, runs the Iracambi Rainforest Research Center, lectures and broadcasts internationally on rainforest and slavery topics, is president of Amigos de Iracambi, is on the board of directors of the Keystone Center and, in her spare time, writes books. Binka's most recent book, The Greatest Gift: The Courageous Life and Martyrdom of Sister Dorothy Stang, is based on the 40 years Sister Dorothy Stang spent aiding in the struggle of poor farmers ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Gary Cohen - Green Chemistry, Green Materials, Green Energy: Recipe for a Toxic Free Future Gary Cohen is one of the foremost strategists and activists in the international community of those seeking to move us toward a world free of toxic chemicals. Gary is a Founder and Co-Executive Director of Health Care Without Harm, the international campaign for environmentally responsible healthcare.Gary is also the Executive Director of the Boston-based Environmental Health Fund, which works on domestic and global chemical safety issues. Gary is a member of the International Advisory Boar ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Carl Anthony - Thought Leader in Environmental Justice, A Live Community Gathering Carl Anthony is one of the preeminent thought leaders in environmental justice in the United States. He is the Founder and was for 12 years was the Executive Director of the Urban Habitat Program, one of the oldest environmental justice organizations in the country. Until recently he was a Ford Foundation Program Officer in the Community and Resource Development unit. He is currently a Visiting Scholar/Ford Foundation Senior Fellow in the Department of Geography at the University of Califor ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Ursula Goodenough, Ph.D. - The Sacred Depths of Nature Ursula Goodenough is Professor of Biology at Washington University in St. Louis, Missouri. She is the author of"The Sacred Depths of Nature"(Oxford University Press, 1998), which offers religious perspectives on our scientific understandings of nature, particularly biology at a molecular level.In 1989, Ursula joined the Institute on Religion in an Age of Science (IRAS) and served continuously on its council and as its president for four years. She has presented papers and seminars on scienc ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Dr. Martha Herbert - Can Autistic Children Recover? The New Paradigm of Autism Research and Treatment A pediatric neurologist and a brain development researcher, Dr. Martha Herbert's main focus is autism. She received the first Cure Autism Now Innovator Award and directed the Cure Autism Now Foundation's Brain Development Initiative. She is the Co-Chair of the Environmental Health Advisory Board of the Autism Society of America and directs their Treatment Guided Research Initiative (TGRI). Her research program includes studying what makes some autistic brains unusually large and how the pa ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Paul J. Growald - The Way of the Bees (and Other Pollinators) Investor, venture philanthropist and beekeeper, Paul Growald, is Chairman and Founder of the Coevolution Institute and its Pollinator Partnership including the North American Pollinator Protection Campaign, a collaboration of more than 120 groups that is the principal center of work to protect pollinating animals throughout the Americas. He is also a Trustee of the Rockefeller Family Fund and donor/advisor to the Growald Family Fund. His main philanthropic interests are in the conservation ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Virginia Veach, Ph.D. - A Life Exploring Healing Virginia Veach is a physical therapist and psychotherapist who has worked extensively with people with cancer and many other life-threatening diseases. In this conversation with Michael Lerner, she describes how she does her work and some of the major influences on the development of her unique approach to healing. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Krista Tippett - Speaking of Faith "Speaking of Faith,"with Krista Tippett, host of the radio program Speaking of Faith, October 11th, 2007. Michael Lerner conducted this interview.Krista TippettA journalist and former diplomat, Krista Tippett came up with the idea for Speaking of Faith while consulting for the internationally renowned Institute for Ecumenical and Cultural Research at Saint John's Abbey and University in Collegeville, Minnesota. She has hosted and produced the program since the Speaking of Faith project bega ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Nancy E. Adler, PhD - How Increasing Income Disparities Affect Health Nancy Adler is Professor of Psychology at the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF), Vice-Chair of the Department of Psychiatry, and Director of the Center for Health and Community. Nancy came to UCSF to initiate a graduate program in Health Psychology. She has served as director of that program, an NIMH-sponsored postdoctoral program in"Psychology and Medicine: An Integrative Research Approach,"and a new postdoctoral"Health and Society Scholars Program"funded by the Robert Wood Jo ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Paul Gorman - Executive Director of the National Religious Partnership for the Environment (NRPE) : Part 1 Part 1: Paul Gorman, founder and Executive Director of the National Religious Partnership for the Environment since 1993, received the Heinz Award for the Environment in 1999. Mr. Gorman, a graduate of Yale and Oxford University, worked in the U.S. Congress and served as press secretary and speechwriter to Senator Eugene McCarthy in the 1968 presidential campaign. He taught at the City University of New York, Sarah Lawrence College and Adelphi University, hosted a public radio program for ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Paul Gorman - Executive Director of the National Religious Partnership for the Environment (NRPE) : Part 2 Part 2: Paul Gorman, founder and Executive Director of the National Religious Partnership for the Environment since 1993, received the Heinz Award for the Environment in 1999. Mr. Gorman, a graduate of Yale and Oxford University, worked in the U.S. Congress and served as press secretary and speechwriter to Senator Eugene McCarthy in the 1968 presidential campaign. He taught at the City University of New York, Sarah Lawrence College and Adelphi University, hosted a public radio program for ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website David Bonbright - Saving the World? What International Philanthropy Can and Cannot Do A New School conversation with David Bonbright, Director of Keystone Accountability, recorded September, 20th, 2007. Michael Lerner conducted this interview.David Bonbright has been an international grantmaker with the Ford Foundation in Africa during the end of apartheid and with the Aga Khan Development Network in pre- to post-911 Pakistan, Tajikistan and Afghanistan. Originally from Ross, California, David is based in London with his talented South African filmmaker wife, Elaine Proctor. ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Richard Tarnas, Ph.D. - Cosmos and Psyche: Intimations of a New World View Richard Tarnas, is a professor of philosophy and cultural history at the California Institute of Integral Studies in San Francisco, where he founded the graduate program in Philosophy, Cosmology, and Consciousness. He also teaches psychology and cultural history at Pacifica Graduate Institute in Santa Barbara. A graduate of Harvard University and Saybrook Institute, and formerly the director of programs at Esalen Institute, he is the author of The Passion of the Western Mind, a history of t ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Rachel Kyte - Investing in Women, Equity and Sustainability�a World Bank Perspective Rachel Kyte, a British national, became Director of the Environment and Social Development Department at the International Finance Corporation (IFC) in January 2004. Since joining the department she has stewarded the development and adoption of the new sustainability policy, performance standards and disclosure policy for IFC and overseen an overhaul in internal systems and procedures to support the strategic importance IFC places on environmental and social sustainability. The IFC's new Pe ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Teddy Cruz - Beyond Borders: Local Architectural and Urban Planning Solutions for Global Political and Social Problems Recorded July 26th, 2007. Chris Desser conducted this interview.California architect Teddy Cruz's work dwells at the border between San Diego and Tijuana, Mexico, inspiring a practice and pedagogy that emerges out of the particularities of this bicultural territory and the integration of theoretical research and design production. He has taught and lectured in various universities in the U.S. and Latin America, and in 1994 he conceived and began the LA/LA Latin America / Los Angeles studio, ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Mary Evelyn Tucker and John Grim - Living Cosmologies: Nature and Spirit Converging Mary Evelyn Tucker is a Senior Lecturer and Senior Scholar at Yale University where she has appointments in the School of Forestry and Environmental Studies as well as the Divinity School and the Department of Religious Studies. She is a co-founder and co-director with John Grim of the Forum on Religion and Ecology. Together they organized a series of ten conferences on World Religions and Ecology at the Center for the Study of World Religions at Harvard Divinity School. She is the author o ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Peter Kingsley - Finding What Is Real Peter Kingsley is internationally recognized for his groundbreaking work on the origins of western spirituality, philosophy and culture. He is the author of the books"Ancient Philosophy Mystery and Magic":"Empedocles and Pythagorean Tradition","In the Dark Places of Wisdom", and"Reality". Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Pete Myers, Ph.D. - Environmental Health Science: Human and Ecosystem Health Pete Myers, Ph.D. is founder, CEO, and chief scientist of Environmental Health Sciences in Charlottesville, Virginia. He is also coauthor of Our Stolen Future (1996), which explores the threats posed by man-made chemical contaminants to fetal development and human health, and he is Senior Advisor to the United Nations Foundation (Washington, DC). From 1990-2002 Myers was director of the W. Alton Jones Foundation, a private foundation supporting efforts to protect the global environment and ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Nipun Mehta - Invisible Revolution of the Inner-net Nipun Mehta, Co-founder of CharityFocus.org on the"Invisible Revolution of the Inner-net."CharityFocus is an all volunteer run 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization that endeavors to leverage technology for inspiring greater volunteerism and providing meaningful volunteer opportunities for all who want them.In January 2005, he and his wife, Guri, anteed-up. They left everything to head on an open-ended, unscripted walking pilgrimage across India to"use our hands to do random acts of kindness, u ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Rick Ingrasci, M.D., M.P.H. - Joy, Social Intelligence & the Ethical Imagination, A New School Event Rick Ingrasci, M.D., M.P.H., is a healer and activist who has been involved in consciousness exploration and social transformation since the mid 60s. Ingrasci has a strong background in psychiatry, holistic medicine, and community development. He co-founded Physicians for Social Responsibility, the American Holistic Medical Association, Interface, and Hollyhock, a retreat center in British Columbia. He is the co-author of "Chop Wood, Carry Water: A Guide to Finding Spiritual Fulfillment in ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Chris Desser - Commons And Consciousness Chris Desser is a fellow at the Tomales Bay Institute, a think tank focused on developing the concept of The Commons as an overarching analytical structure organizing across sectors and disciplines. She served on the California Coastal Commission and the San Francisco Commission for the Environment. In 2003, she co-founded Women's Voices, Women Vote, a project that successfully increased the participation of single women in the electoral process. Chris was the director of the Funder's Worki ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Idelisse Malavé and Gihan Perera - Race, Justice And The American Dream Idelisse Malavé, Executive Director of the Tides Foundation and Gihan Perera, Executive Director of the Miami Workers Center on "Race, Justice, and the American Dream." Responsible for the overall management of the Tides Foundation since 1996, Idelisse Malavé works with Tides staff to deliver excellent service and create opportunities for donors to increase the impact of their grantmaking. Over a twenty-five-year career dedicated to social justice, Idelisse litigated civil rights cases wi ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Sushmita Ghosh - Changemakers Sushmita Ghosh, Past President and current member of Ashoka's Leadership Team talks about"Changemakers."Born in India, Sushmita Ghosh was a journalist who rose through the ranks to become President Emeritus of Ashoka, the global network of social entrepreneurs. In this conversation she describes Ashoka and her new work with Changemakers, an Ashoka program that extends social entrepreneurship to a wider global community. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Thomas Yeomans, Ph.D. - The Embodied Soul Thomas Yeomans' education was first in Music, Classics, and Comparative Literature, particularly poetry, and then a sharp turn, with the advent of Humanistic and Transpersonal Psychology in the 60's in Education and Psychology.In 1990 he founded the Concord Institute, in Concord, MA, and shifted his focus gradually from Psychosynthesis to formulating and developing Spiritual/Global Psychology. He has pursued this endeavor in the last decade and a half through teaching, training professional ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Chet Tchozewski - Intuition and Grantmaking In this conversation, Chet describes the critical role intuition plays if you want to distribute small grants to thousands of grassroots organizations in over one hundred countries. Chet Tchozewski is the founder and Executive Director of the Global Greengrants Fund, an international environmental foundation that makes small grants to grassroots environmental groups in developing nations around the globe. Since 1993 Greengrants has made in excess of 3000 grants, in over 100 countries, total ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Ram Dass and Dr. Rachel Naomi Remen - Aging & Dying Ram Dass is a widely admired American spiritual teacher who suffered a disabling stroke some years ago and wrote about the experience in "Fierce Grace." Rachel Naomi Remen, MD, is Founder and Director of the Institute for the Study of Health and Illness at Commonweal and Clinical Professor of Family and Community Medicine at the University of California San Francisco (UCSF) School of Medicine. Now living on Maui, Ram Dass talked with Rachel Naomi Remen and Michael Lerner about what his stro ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Ted Schettler, M.D., Medical Director of the Science and Environmental Health Network and Chair of the Science Working Group of the Collaborative on Health and the Environment, Recorded February 5th, 2007. This talk describes how his exploration of the effects of chemical contaminants on environmental health have led him into a comprehensive perspective on the interaction of genes, gene expression, nutrition, stress, income disparities, chemicals, and many other factors in human health. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Keith Block - Life Over Cancer: A Program for Integrative Cancer Treatment Andrew Weil, M.D., writes in his preface: “Life Over Cancer sets the course for what I believe is the future of successful cancer treatment,” “I believe in Keith’s program and would go to the Block Center if I were facing a diagnosis of cancer. It is where I have sent and will continue to send my friends and family members,” and “Life Over Cancer is the program every cancer patient deserves in order to have the best chance for recovery and restoration of health.”Keith's book- ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website