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Michael Stone Interviews Vandana Shiva Part 1 | Part 2
Michael Stone Interviews George Manbiot Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 | Part 4
Michael Stone interviews Bill McKibben of 350.org
Lost Generation Speaks Out
Move Your Money
Pandemic Of Happiness

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An Introduction to Conversations (5:58) Michael Stone listen (to download, right click "Save Link As" (IE "Save Target As")
is a radio show hosted by Michael Stone, bringing you leading edge thinkers, authors and activists in the areas of Environmental Restoration, Social Justice, Evolutionary Cosmology and Spiritual fulfillment.

An Introduction to The Emerging Dream (16:35) Michael Stone listen (to download, right click "Save Link As" (IE "Save Target As")
A short introduction to the creation of a new cosmological story field with Brian Swimme, Jean Houston, Emmett Miller and Barbara Marx Hubbard.

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Riane Eisler: Caring Economics (50:46) listen (to download, right click "Save Link As" (IE "Save Target As")
Riane Eisler is internationally known for The Real Wealth of Nations: Creating a Caring Economics, hailed by Archbishop Desmond Tutu as "a template for the better world we have been so urgently seeking" and by Gloria Steinem as "revolutionary". Her earlier bestseller The Chalice and The Blade: Our History, Our Future is in 23 foreign editions. www.partnershipway.org

James William Gibson: Re-enchanted World: A New Kinship With Nature
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James William Gibson is the author of Warrior Dreams: Paramilitary Culture in Post-Vietnam America and The Perfect War: Technowar in Vietnam. A frequent contributor to the Los Angeles Times and winner of multiple grants and fellowships, including a Guggenheim, Gibson is a professor of sociology at California State University, Long Beach. www.jameswilliamgibson.com

Jeremy Rifkin: The Empathic Civilization (53:33) listen (to download, right click "Save Link As" (IE "Save Target As")
Jeremy Rifkin is the founder and president of the Foundation On Economic Trends and creator of the Third Industrial Revolution. He is an American economist, writer, public speaker and activist who seeks to shape public policy in the United States, the European Union, and around the world. He is the bestselling author of 16 books on the impact of scientific and technological changes on the economy, the workforce, society, and the environment. His latest book is The Empathic Civilization: Rethinking human Nature in the Biosphere Era. http://www.foet.org/

Sandra Steingraber, PH. D.: Living a meaningful life (55:33) listen (to download, right click "Save Link As" (IE "Save Target As")
Ecologist, author, and cancer survivor, Sandra Steingraber, Ph.D. is an internationally recognized authority on the environment links to cancer and human health. Steingraber's highly acclaimed book, Living Downstream: An Ecologist's Personal Investigation of Cancer and the Environment presents cancer as a human rights issue. She is also the author of Having Faith: An Ecologist's Journey to Motherhood, explores the intimate ecology of motherhood and was the central figure in the movie Living Downstream. steingraber.com

William Powers: Living a meaningful life (50:23) listen (to download, right click "Save Link As" (IE "Save Target As")
William Powers has worked for over a decade in development aid and conservation in Latin America, Africa, Washington, D.C., and Native North America. His essays and commentaries on global issues have appeared in the New York Times and the International Herald Tribune, and on National Public Radio. He is the author of numerous books including the soon to be released, 12x12 about living off the grid and simplifying life. www.williampowersbooks.com

Kevin Griffin: One Breath at a Time (55:37) listen (to download, right click "Save Link As" (IE "Save Target As")
Kevin Griffin is an author, teacher and lecturer based in the SF Bay area. He teachers “Dharma and Recovery” at Spirit Rock Meditation Center and is the co-founder of the Buddhist Recovery Network, an international organization that serves people in the recovery community through training, treatment and research. www.kevingriffin.net

Melanie Lenart, Ph.D Life in the Hothouse: How a Living Planet Survives Climate Change
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An award-winning journalist, Melanie Lenart, Ph.D., is an environmental scientist and writer specializing in climate change and forests. As a scientist, she studied forest dynamics in China, Colorado, and Puerto Rico, where she lived during two major hurricanes. She was involved in an Arizona agricultural experiment testing how plants responded to elevated levels of carbon dioxide, the main greenhouse gas responsible for the ongoing warming of the planet. www.u.arizona.edu/~mlenart/index.php

Thomas Greco: The End of Money & the Future of Civilization
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Thomas H. Greco, Jr. is a community and monetary economist, educator, writer, and consultant. He is a former tenured college teacher who has spent more than 30 years studying and writing about ways to achieve greater harmony, equity, and sustainability through business and economics. His special expertise in monetary and financial structures has led to innovative designs for private community currencies and payment systems. His latest book is The End of Money and the Future of Civilization. http://reinventingmoney.com

Elisabet Sahtouris, Ph.D: Earth Dance: (53:12) listen (to download, right click "Save Link As" (IE "Save Target As")
Elisabet Sahtouris, Ph.D-- internationally known as a dynamic speaker and media personality-- is an evolution biologist, futurist, author and consultant on Living Systems Design. Dr. Sahtouris shows the relevance of biological systems to organizational design in businesses, government and global trade. Her books include A Walk Through Time: from Stardust to Us, Biology Revisioned, co-authored with Willis Harman, and EarthDance: Living Systems in Evolution. www.sahtouris.com

Bolivia Special: (55:56) listen (to download, right click "Save Link As" (IE "Save Target As")
A special overview of Michael Stone's travels to Bolivia for the World People's Conference on Climate Change and the Rights of Mother Earth. Featuring interviews with: María Fernanda Espinosa Garcés, Mari Mcgil & Cormac Cullinan, and Nnimmo Bassey.

Ray Anderson (48:46) listen (to download, right click "Save Link As" (IE "Save Target As")
The Founder of Interface, Inc. is recognized as one of the world’s most environmentally progressive chief executives. For the last decade, he has committed himself to making Interface a profitable yet sustainable enterprise with a Mission Zero promise to eliminate any negative impact the company may have on the environment by 2020. www.interfaceglobal.com

Angeles Arrien: (42:47) listen (to download, right click "Save Link As" (IE "Save Target As")
Cultural anthropologist, author, educator, storyteller and corporate consultant. Her research and teaching focus on the integration and application of multi-cultural wisdoms in contemporary settings. Her programs are designed to increase our respect for nature and each other and enhance our ability to work cooperatively angelesarrien.com

Jan Chozen Bays, Roshi, MD: Mindful Eating(55:48) listen (to download, right click "Save Link As" (IE "Save Target As")
Jan Chozen Bays, Roshi, MD. has studied and practiced Zen Buddhism since 1973 and received her Priest's Ordination, in 1979 from Taizan Maezumi. Roshi Chozen is also a pediatrician, mother and wife. She is particularly involved in teaching people how to use meditation to work with eating disorders and grief. www.tcme.org

Tina Stanley & Ed Bastian: Living Fully, Dying Well (53:29) listen (to download, right click "Save Link As" (IE "Save Target As")
Tina Staley, MSW, is a clinical social worker and Cancer Guide with Duke University Medical Center and provides supportive self-guidance to cancer patients and their families for an enhanced quality of life through multi-dimensional care needs and courses of treatment. She helps to address concerns and feelings raised by a diagnosis of cancer. Edward W. Bastian, Ph.D., is a Buddhist scholar and teacher and was executive producer for a series of award-winning BBC and PBS programs about religion and three films about Tibetan Buddhism for the National Endowment for the Humanities. He taught classes about world religion and directed the biodiversity program at the Smithsonian Institution. He is president of the Spiritual Paths Foundation. www.spiritualpaths.net & pathfindersforcancer.org

Paul Blank, MD: How Everyday Products Make People Sick (46:02) listen (to download, right click "Save Link As" (IE "Save Target As")
Paul D. Blanc, M.D., is a Professor of Medicine and holds the Endowed Chair in Occupational and Environmental Medicine at the University of California, San Francisco. In his recent book he reveals the hidden health dangers in many of the seemingly innocent products we encounter every day-a tube of glue in a kitchen drawer, a bottle of bleach in the laundry room, a rayon scarf on a closet shelf, a brass knob on the front door, a wood plank on an outdoor deck.
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Tom Brown Jr.: Tracking, Nature, and Wilderness Survival (56:39) listen (to download, right click "Save Link As" (IE "Save Target As")
Tom Brown Jr. is a renowned outdoorsman, tracker, teacher, and author of 16 books. For ten years, from the age of 7, Tom was mentored by Stalking Wolf, in the skills of tracking, wilderness survival, and awareness. Brown's Tracking, Nature, and Wilderness Survival School is the largest school of its kind, teaching people from all over the world in all walks of life who share an interest in learning the simplicity of a natural way of living. trackerschool.com

Lester Brown: Plan for an Earth-Based Future (48:22) listen (to download, right click "Save Link As" (IE "Save Target As")
Author, futurist, farmer, described by the Washington Post as one of the world's most influential thinkers. He is the founder and president Earth Policy Institute. The purpose of the Earth Policy Institute is to provide a vision of an environmentally sustainable economy, a roadmap of how to get from here to there. For more go to www.earth-policy.org

Father Miguel d’Escoto Brockmann, M.M. (39:41) listen (to download, right click "Save Link As" (IE "Save Target As")
Father Miguel d’Escoto Brockmann is a Nicaraguan diplomat, politician and Catholic priest. He was the President of the United Nations General Assembly from September 2008 to September 2009. He presided over the 63rd Session of the United Nations General Assembly. Shortly after his election, d’Escoto Brockmann stated: They elected a priest. And I hope no one is offended if I say that love is what is most needed in this world. And that selfishness is what has gotten us into the terrible quagmire in which the world is sinking, almost irreversibly, unless something big happens

Drew Dellinger and Danielle Drake-Burnette(54:11) listen (to download, right click "Save Link As" (IE "Save Target As")
Drew Dellinger is a spoken word poet, professor, activist and founder of Poets for Global Justice. He has inspired minds and hearts at hundreds of events in many countries, performing poetry and keynoting on justice, ecology, cosmology, activism and human compassion. Dillinger has studied cosmology and ecological thought with Thomas Berry since 1990 and is finishing his Ph.D. at the California Institute of Integral Studies. He is currently writing his dissertation on Martin Luther King Jr. and the connections between cosmology, ecology and justice. www.drewdellinger.org
Danielle Drake-Burnette, previously known on stage as SoulsJourney, is a writer and spoken word poet. She was the 2003 Oakland Poetry Slam Champion. Danielle is the founder and Executive Director of Creation Cocoon for Girls, an Oakland, CA community-based organization serving girls 8-18. Creation Cocoon teaches girls’ empowerment and self esteem through the traditional arts. danielledrakeburnette.com

Susan Campbell portrait Dr. Susan Campbell: Relationship as spiritual practice (47:58) listen (to download, right click and "Save Link As" (IE "Save Target As")
Psychologist Susan Campbell has worked as a professional speaker and a dating and relationship coach for over 35 years. She is author of numerous books, including her ground-breaking The Couples Journey which introduced the idea into the mainstream of using intimate relationships as a spiritual practice. Her work has been featured in many popular magazines.
www.susancampbell.com

Mariana Caplan: Cultivating Discernment on the Spiritual Path
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Mariana is an author, anthropologist, and psychologist with a Ph.D. in Contemporary Spirituality. She attributes the majority of her education and inspiration to years of research and practice in the world's great mystical traditions, and to studying, living, and adventuring in villages in India, Central and South America, and Europe. Her sole passion is a love of Truth and transformation. www.realspirituality.com

Bill Twist Chris Carlsson: Nowtopia (54:52) listen (to download, right click "Save Link As" (IE "Save Target As")
Chris Carlsson, executive director of the multimedia history project Shaping San Francisco, is a writer, publisher, editor, and community organizer. For the last twenty-five years his activities have focused on the underlying themes of horizontal communications, organic communities and public space. His latest book is Nowtopia. www.nowtopians.com

Raffi Cavoukian: Child Honouring and the Compassion Revolution (45:15)
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Raffi is a Singer, songwriter, musician, environmentalist who is world renowned for single-handedly revolutionizing the children's entertainment business. Raffi has become a self-styled "eco-troubadour," working with adults to promote environmental causes. Raffi believes that the fate of the earth rests on the commitment of all to protecting the environment. www.raffinews.com

Andrew Cohen: Living Enlightenment (43:03) listen (to download, right click and "Save Link As" (IE "Save Target As")
An author, speaker, and philosopher who is an American spiritual teacher and visionary thinker widely recognized for his original contribution to the emerging field of evolutionary spirituality.
andrewcohen.org

Copenhagen in Retrospect (54:06) listen (to download, right click "Save Link As" (IE "Save Target As")
JMichael Stone wraps his recent trip to Copenhagen with interviews with Bill McKibben, Vandana Shiva and George Monbiot. Along with what was accomplished out of the Copenhagen Climate Change Conference and what is ahead...
BillMcKibben, American environmentalist and writer, is the founder of 350.org, an international climate campaign. Bill frequently writes about global warming, alternative energy, and the risks associated with human genetic engineering. Beginning in the summer of 2006, he has been at the forefront of organizing and leading the largest civil demonstrations against global warming in history. It has been 3 decades since he wrote the End of Nature. www.350.org
George Monbiot is a journalist, author, academic & environmental & political activist in the United Kingdom who writes a weekly column for The Guardian newspaper. He is on the advisory board of BBC Wildlife magazine. His latest book Heat, is a must read for anyone serious about understanding Global Warming. www.monbiot.com

Vandana Shiva, is a physicist, philosopher and leader in the global agriculture movement. She is known as one of most eloquent speakers who help fight for people's rights.. She is directing an international movement on Food Rights. She also established Navdanya (a movement for biodiversity conservation and farmers' rights in India.) www.vandanashiva.org

Alexandra Cousteau - portrait Alexandra Cousteau: Our Blue Legacy (44:01) listen (to download, right click and "Save Link As" (IE "Save Target As")
Alexandra is the daughter of Philippe Cousteau and the granddaughter of world famous French explorer and filmmaker Jacques-Yves Cousteau. A dedicated environmentalist, Cousteau advocates the importance of conservation, restoration and sustainable management of water resources for a healthy planet and productive societies. www.alexandracousteau.org

Jennifer Crebbin: Handwriting for Peace - Part 2 (21:30) listen (to download, right click "Save Link As" (IE "Save Target As")
Jennifer Crebbin has a background in Psychology, and Certification as a Handwriting Consultant through Vimala Rodgers’ International Institute of Handwriting Studies (IIHS) Jennifer Crebbin combines her love of movement with a passion for the sacred forms of the Alphabet. Her work is to encourage the use of movements captured on paper (AKA handwriting) in ways that support our healthy soul development. www.changeyourhandwriting.com

David Crow: Herbal Medicine and Spirituality (50:14) listen (to download, right click "Save Link As" (IE "Save Target As")
David Crow is one of the world’s foremost experts and leading speakers in the field of botanical medicine, natural health and ecological sustainability. He is a master herbalist, aromatherapist and acupuncturist with over 20 years experience and is an expert in the Ayurvedic and Chinese medical systems. He is a renowned author and the founding director of Floracopeia Aromatic Treasures. www.floracopeia.com

David Cunningham: A World of Possibility (43:00) listen (to download, right click "Save Link As" (IE "Save Target As")
David Cunningham is a communication expert and has lead thousand of people in seminars and courses with Landmark Education, where more than a million people have learned to put their old baggage behind and pursue the lives they really desire to live. Learn about the technology of the Landmark Forum. landmarkeducation.com

Brother David: Grateful Living (56:03) listen (to download, right click and "Save Link As" (IE "Save Target As")
Brother David, a Benedictine monk, is probably the world’s leading scholar on gratefulness. He co-founded the Center for Spiritual Studies in 1968 and together with Thomas Merton, Brother David helped launch a global renewal of religious life. He has authored numerous books on gratefulness, belonging and Buddhist and Christian Practices. Brother David has brought spiritual depth into the lives of countless people whom he touches through his lectures, his workshops, and his writings. www.gratefulness.org

James O’Dea: Creative Stress (54:13) listen (to download, right click "Save Link As" (IE "Save Target As")
James O'Dea is a Fellow and immediate past president of the Institute of Noetic Sciences and a former faculty member of the Omega Institute. He is a former Executive Director of the SEVA Foundation and a former Director of the Washington, DC office of Amnesty International. He is a member of The World Wisdom Council and currently collaborating with the Global Systems Initiatives in Washington DC, and an Evolutionary Leaders group spearheaded by Deepak Chopra. His latest book is Creative Stress: a path for evolving souls living through personal and planetary upheaval. www.jamesodea.com

Drew Dellinger: Poets for Global Justice (47:53) listen (to download, right click "Save Link As" (IE "Save Target As")
Drew Dellinger is a spoken word poet, professor, activist and founder of Poets for Global Justice. He has inspired minds and hearts at hundreds of events in many countries, performing poetry and keynoting on justice, ecology, cosmology, activism and human compassion. drewdellinger.org

Her Holiness Sai Maa Lakshmi Devi: Love and Service (52:00) listen (to download, right click "Save Link As" (IE "Save Target As")
Sai Maa is recognized as a dynamic visionary and spiritual master. She regularly teaches transformational workshops in the US and abroad, often with popular authors and speakers. Sai Maa¹s teachings focus on service to humanity. humanityinunity.org

Her Holiness Sai Maa Lakshmi Devi: From Shadow to Light (56:29) listen (to download, right click "Save Link As" (IE "Save Target As")
Sai Maa is recognized as a dynamic visionary and spiritual master. She regularly teaches transformational workshops in the US and abroad, often with popular authors and speakers. Sai Maa¹s teachings focus on service to humanity. humanityinunity.org

Robert Biswas-Diener: Happiness (56:15) listen (to download, right click "Save Link As" (IE "Save Target As")
Widely known as the "Indiana Jones of Positive Psychology" because his research on subjective well-being has taken him to such far flung destinations as Greenland, Kenya, and India. He is best known for his research on the quality of life of people living in poverty. Robert is Programme Director for Education and Learning at the Centre for Applied Positive Psychology and has co-authored with his father, the book "Happiness: Unlocking the Mysteries of Psychological Wealth." www.intentionalhappiness.com

Paul Dolan: Making A Difference with Wine (56:39) listen (to download, right click "Save Link As" (IE "Save Target As")
Paul Dolan, Organic, Biodynamic winemaker spent 27 years at Fetzer Vineyards, 12 as president, where he led a transformation that put the company at the forefront of organic viticulture and sustainable business. As owner of Parducci and MWC, he continues to break new ground in sustainable organic and biodynamic farming. Paul’s greatest passion is winegrowing at his family-owned Dark Horse Ranch, east of the Russian River in the foothills north of Hopland. pauldolanwine.com

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Paul Ehrlich: The Dominant Animal (52:05) listen (to download, right click "Save Link As" (IE "Save Target As")
Paul Ehrlich is a biologist, educator and Professor of Population Studies in the department of Biological Sciences at Stanford University. He is also the president of Stanford's Center for Conservation Biology. Paul is best known for his warnings about unchecked population growth and limited resources. His latest book is the Dominant Animal. www.dominantanimal.org

Duane Elgin: A Vision of Hope & Action for Humanity(48:01) listen (to download, right click "Save Link As" (IE "Save Target As")
Duane Elgin is an author, speaker, educator, consultant, and media activist. For more than three decades, he has defined the cutting edge in consciousness research, in the ecology movement, and in future studies. He pioneered the “Voluntary Simplicity” movement with his now classic first book, titled by the same name, published in the 1980s.
See: www.ourmediavoice.org

Duane Elgin and Dhar Jamail: Taking Back the Media (45:39) listen (to download, right click "Save Link As" (IE "Save Target As")
Duane Elgin is an author, speaker, educator, consultant, and media activist. For more than three decades, he has defined the cutting edge in consciousness research, in the ecology movement, and in future studies. www.awakeningearth.org

Dhar Jamail is an American journalist who is best known as one of the few unembedded journalists to report extensively from Iraq during the 2003 Iraq War. Jamail writes for the Inter Press Service news agency, among other outlets. He has been a frequent guest on Democracy Now! Jamail is the recipient of the 2008 The Martha Gellhorn Prize for Journalism
dahrjamailiraq.com

Tim Van Wagner and Cathe’ Fish: Living Lands Agrarian Network (54:08)
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A Nevada City native, Tim Van Wagner partnered with Leo Chapman of Bluebird Farm, a local CSA, after completing college. In addition to farming the two created the Living Lands Agrarian Network whose mission is to serve as a network of ecologically minded farmers and community members working to strengthen our community’s ties and connections to the land, support agrarian education and ecological literacy, and carefully steward the land on which we farm and live. www.eco-farm.org
Cathe Fish: Since 1987, Nevada County resident, Cathe' Fish, speaker, sustainability teacher, master gardner and permaculture educator, has been working as an experienced drylands Permaculture Design Consultant. Cathe' has also taught passive solar building design at straw bale workshops for many years. Besides teaching permaculture classes, giving permaculture consultations, and creating permaculture designs, she farms at the Living Lands Agrarian Network. www.practicalpermaculture.com

Gary Zukav & Linda Francis Gary Zukav and Linda Francis: Making Your Life Count (52:41) listen (to download, right click "Save Link As" (IE "Save Target As")
Gary Zukav is a Harvard graduate, Vietnam Veteran, Green Beret, recovering person, spiritual wayfarer, and a favorite guest on Oprah. Gary Zukav is the author of The Dancing Wu Li Masters, The Seat of the Soul and most recently Soul Stories. He and his partner Linda Francis will be joining us to talk about expressing our soul into the world. garyzukav.wwwhubs.com

John Francis, Phd: Planet Walk(55:50) listen (to download, right click "Save Link As" (IE "Save Target As")
John Francis, Ph.D. founded Planetwalk in 1982 when he began his walking and sailing pilgrimage around the world. To date, Dr. Francis has walked across the U.S., sailed and walked through the Caribbean, and South America from Venezuela to Argentina and a walk in Cuba. Currently, he is continuing a walk backtracking his first walk from Cape May NJ. to Point Reyes CA. John's stirring memoir, Planetwalker: 22 Years of Walking; 17 Years of Silence was published in 2008 by the National Geographic Society and will be available in paperback in April 2009. www.planetwalker.org

Gangaji: That Which is Eternal (40:00) listen (to download, right click "Save Link As" (IE "Save Target As")
Gangaji, an American born teacher and author, has traveled the globe since 1990, speaking with spiritual seekers from all walks of life. Her message is powerful in its clarity and simplicity: True peace and lasting fulfillment are not only our birthright, they are the essential nature of our being. For more go to www.gangaji.org

Jeffrey M. Smith - Deborah Koons Garcia: GMO's The Future Of Food (54:38)
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Jeffrey M. Smith is a leading spokesperson on the health dangers of Genetically Modified Organisms (GMOs). Deborah Koons Garcia was the instigator and chief Creative Consultant for Grateful Dawg, a documentary about the musical friendship between her husband Jerry Garcia and David Grisman. Her documentary, The Future of Food was shown over a dozen times as a work in progress in Mendocino County, California before the March 2004 election and was the primary element in passing Measure H, which bans the planting of genetically engineered crops in the county. www.seedsofdeception.com - www.thefutureoffood.com

John Gray: Coping with Stress in Relationships (45:42) listen (to download, right click "Save Link As" (IE "Save Target As")
John Gray, Ph.D., is the author of 16 best-selling books, including Men Are from Mars, Women Are from Venus, the number one best-selling book of the last decade. An expert in the field of communication, Dr. Gray’s focus is to help men and women understand, respect and appreciate their differences in both personal and professional relationships.
For more go to www.johngray.com

Beth Greer: Super Natural Home (43:25) listen (to download, right click "Save Link As" (IE "Save Target As")
Beth Greer, Super Natural Mom, is an award-winning journalist and holistic health advocate. She has helped thousands of people see possibilities and feel empowered to make changes in their lives through her role as the former President and co-owner of The Learning Annex, the largest private alternative adult education company in America. supernaturalmom.com

Palden Gyatso: Fire Under The Snow(39:20) listen (to download, right click "Save Link As" (IE "Save Target As")
Palden Gyatso, a Tibetan Monk was arrested by Chinese officials after the Tibetan uprising in 1959. He spent the following 33 years in different Chinese prisons and labor camps. He was forced to participate in barbarous reeducation classes and was brutally tortured, leading to irreversible physical damage. During this time, he continued to abide by the Dharma (Buddha's teachings). 1992 Palden Gyatso was released and escaped to Dharamsala India, the place of the Tibetan exile government. There he wrote his autobiography Fire Under The Snow which has been translated in many other languages and just released as a feature film. http://www.fireunderthesnow.com/

Andrew Harvey: Sacred Activism (59:08) listen (to download, right click "Save Link As" (IE "Save Target As")
Andrew Harvey is a renowned and distinguished mystical scholar, Rumi translator and explicator, poet, novelist, spiritual teacher and writer, and architect of Sacred Activism. His latest book is The Direct Path: Creating a Personal Journey to the Divine Using the World's Spiritual Traditions. andrewharvey.net

Andrew Harvey: Community and Sacred Activism (41:52) listen (to download, right click "Save Link As" (IE "Save Target As")
Andrew Harvey is a renowned and distinguished mystical scholar, Rumi translator and explicator, poet, novelist, spiritual teacher and writer, and architect of Sacred Activism. He has taught at Oxford University, Cornell University, Hobart, and William Smith Colleges, The California Institute of Integral Studies, and the University of Creation Spirituality as well as the at various spiritual centers throughout the United States. His latest book is The Direct Path: Creating a Personal Journey to the Divine Using the World's Spiritual Traditions. andrewharvey.net

Andrew Harvey: Sacred Activism (48:17) listen (to download, right click "Save Link As" (IE "Save Target As")
Andrew Harvey is a renowned and distinguished mystical scholar, Rumi translator and explicator, poet, novelist, spiritual teacher and writer, and architect of Sacred Activism. He has taught at Oxford University, Cornell University, Hobart, and William Smith Colleges, The California Institute of Integral Studies, and the University of Creation Spirituality as well as the at various spiritual centers throughout the United States. His latest book is The Hope: A Guide to Sacred Activism. www.andrewharvey.net

Andrew Harvey: Exploring the Shadow (47:57) listen (to download, right click "Save Link As" (IE "Save Target As")
Andrew Harvey is a renowned and distinguished mystical scholar, Rumi translator and explicator, poet, novelist, spiritual teacher and writer, and architect of Sacred Activism. His latest book is The Direct Path: Creating a Personal Journey to the Divine Using the World's Spiritual Traditions. andrewharvey.net

Hazel Henderson portrait on Conversations with Michael Stone Hazel Henderson: (48:20) listen (to download, right click "Save Link As" (IE "Save Target As")
Author, world-wide syndicated columnist and consultant on sustainable development, Hazel is also the creator of Ethical Markets, the first TV financial lifestyle magazine series reporting on new definitions of success.
www.hazelhenderson.com

Richard Heinberg: Peak Everything (52:00) listen (to download, right click "Save Link As" (IE "Save Target As")
Richard Heinberg is one of the world's foremost Peak Oil educators. He is the author of eight books, journalist, editor, lecturer, a Core Faculty member of New College of California where he teaches a program on "Culture, Ecology and Sustainable Community," and a Research Fellow of the Post Carbon Institute. For more go to www.richardheinberg.com

Kathlyn and Gay Hendricks Kathlyn & Gay Hendricks, Ph.D: Conscious Loving (48:29) listen (to download, right click "Save Link As" (IE "Save Target As")
They have been pioneers in the field of body-mind integration for over thirty years. Kathlyn and Gay have worked with over thirty thousand individuals and three thousand couples in developing their method of body-centered and relationship transformation. Together they have authored numerous books on Conscious Loving. www.hendricks.com

James Hoggan: Climate Cover-Up: The Crusade to Deny Global Warming
(57:33) listen (to download, right click "Save Link As" (IE "Save Target As")James Hoggan is president of the award-winning PR firm Hoggan and Associates and a leading authority on public perceptions of environmental issues. He is chair of the David Suzuki Foundation and the Canadian chapter of Al Gore’s The Climate Project. James is the Cofounder of DeSmogBlog.com and author of Climate Cover-Up: The Crusade to Deny Global Warming. www.hoggan.com

Dwight Hopkins portrait on Conversations with Michael Stone Dwight Hopkins (46:05) September 2, 2008 listen (to download, right click "Save Link As" (IE "Save Target As")
An author, teacher and constructive theologian working in the areas of contemporary models of theology, black theology, and liberation theologies. He is interested in multidisciplinary approaches to the academic study of religious thought, especially cultural, political, economic, and interpretive methods. His latest works is Being Human: Race, Culture, and Religion. http://divinity.uchicago.edu/faculty/hopkins.shtml

Jean Houston: (57:43) listen (to download, right click "Save Link As" (IE "Save Target As")
Dr. Jean Houston, scholar, philosopher and researcher in human capacities, is one of the foremost visionary thinkers and doers of our time, one of the principal founders of the Human Potential Movement. A powerful and dynamic speaker, she holds conferences and seminars with social leaders, educational institutions and business organizations worldwide. She has written 26 books and is the founder of The Mystery School which is dedicated to training people in recognizing and remembering the great mystery that dwells within each of us... www.jeanhouston.org

Jean Houston: Creating your own story (57:34) listen (to download, right click "Save Link As" (IE "Save Target As")
Dr. Jean Houston, scholar, philosopher and researcher in human capacities, is one of the foremost visionary thinkers and doers of our time, one of the principal founders of the Human Potential Movement. A powerful and dynamic speaker, she holds conferences and seminars with social leaders, educational institutions and business organizations worldwide. She has written 26 books and is the founder of The Mystery School which is dedicated to training people in recognizing and remembering the great mystery that dwells within each of us... www.jeanhouston.org

Barbara Marx Hubbard: Co-Creating a New Future (40:53) listen (to download, right click "Save Link As" (IE "Save Target As")
Futurist, author, public speaker, social innovator, and president of the Foundation for Conscious Evolution. She is offering programs to enhance the developmental path toward the next stages of human evolution. Dr. Hubbard is working to understand and catalyze the actions needed to navigate a quantum change to avoid global collapse. For more go to www.barbaramarxhubbard.com

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Sandra Ingerman: Medicine for the Earth (55:52) listen (to download, right click "Save Link As" (IE "Save Target As")
Sandra Ingerman teaches workshops internationally on shamanic journeying, healing, and reversing environmental pollution using spiritual methods. She has trained and founded an international alliance of Medicine for the Earth Teachers and shamanic teachers. Sandra is recognized for bridging ancient cross-cultural healing methods into our modern culture addressing the needs of our times. She is the author of numerous books on Shamanism. www.sandraingerman.com

Sandra Ingerman and Hank Wesselman: Shamanic Journeying (51:14) listen (to download, right click "Save Link As" (IE "Save Target As")
Sandra Ingerman teaches workshops internationally on shamanic journeying, healing, and reversing environmental pollution using spiritual methods. She has trained and founded an international alliance of Medicine for the Earth Teachers and shamanic teachers. Sandra is recognized for bridging ancient cross-cultural healing methods into our modern culture addressing the needs of our times. She is the author of numerous books on Shamanism. www.sandraingerman.com
Research paleoanthropologist Hank Wesselman is one of those rare cutting edge scientists who truly walks between the worlds. He has spent much of his life working among traditional tribal peoples, primarily in Africa and Polynesia. For the past 30 years, he has conducted research with an international group of scientists, exploring eastern Africa's Great Rift Valley in search of answers to the mystery of human origins. He is also a shaman in training, now in the 20th year of his apprenticeship. He is the author of many books including his latest, VISIONSEEKER. www.sharedwisdom.com

Van Jones (43:36) listen (to download, right click "Save Link As" (IE "Save Target As")
A social activist and co-founded of the Ella Baker Center for Human Rights, which promotes positive alternatives to violence and incarceration. As an advocate for the toughest urban constituencies and causes Van is working to combine solutions to America's two biggest problems: social inequality and environmental destruction. Van is an advocate for the toughest urban constituencies and causes. http://www.vanjones.net

Dr. David C. Korten: The Great Turning (46:23) listen (to download, right click "Save Link As" (IE "Save Target As")
Author, teacher, publisher and lecturer, David Korten has over thirty-five years of experience in preeminent business, academic, and international development institutions. He is a major contributor to the report of the International Forum on Globalization on Alternatives to Economic Globalization. His most recent book is The Great Turning: From Empire to Earth Community. For more go to www.davidkorten.org

David Korten, Sarah Ruth van Gelder, Dot Maver David Korten, Sarah Van Gelder and Dot Maver: Global Peace, a Possibility (1:29:24)
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Dr. David C. Korten is an author, teacher, publisher and lecturer, David has over thirty-five years of experience in preeminent business, academic, and international development institutions. His most recent book is The Great Turning: From Empire to Earth Community. www.davidkorten.org
Sarah Ruth van Gelder is co-founder and executive editor of YES! A Journal of Positive Futures, which explore possibilities and practical steps towards a more just, sustainable and compassionate world.
Dr. Dot Maver is the president and CEO of Peace Partnership International, which works to forge alliances with government, business and civil society to co-create a culture of peace. Dot served as the National Campaign Manager for the 2004 Dennis Kucinich for President campaign. www.peacepartintl.org

Patt Lind-Kyle: Heal Your Mind Rewire Your Brain (49:43) listen (to download, right click "Save Link As" (IE "Save Target As")
Pat is a teacher, consultant, and innovator in the use of brain/mind research to teach people meditation and mental tools for transforming their lives and communities. She has a passion to question, explore, research and then create programs and methods that enhance the lives of others. www.healrewireyourbrain.com

Linda Lantieri: Building Emotional Intelligence (45:08) listen (to download, right click "Save Link As" (IE "Save Target As")Joanna Macy: Buddhist Linda Lantieri is a Fulbright Scholar, keynote speaker, and internationally known expert in social and emotional learning and conflict resolution, Linda Lantieri, serves as Director of The Inner Resilience Program, co-founder of the Resolving Conflict Creatively Program (RCCP) and is one of the founding board members of the Collaborative for Academic, Social, and Emotional Learning (CASEL). www.lindalantieri.org

Gail Larsen: If You Want to Change the World, Tell a Better Story (52:15)
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Gail Larsen is a communications coach, speaker and workshop leader, group facilitator, and an award-winning entrepreneur. She founded Real Speaking in 1991 to support her clients in mining the deep well of their life experience and self-expression to become powerful platform speakers. www.realspeaking.net

Janet Larsen & Matthew Stein: Making Shift Happen (53:49) listen (to download, right click "Save Link As" (IE "Save Target As")
Janet Larsen, is the Director of Research for the Earth Policy Institute, working with Lester Brown on Plan B 4.0 Mobilizing to Save Civilization. She is a co-author of The Earth Policy Reader and has written on topics ranging from natural resources availability to population growth and climate change. www.earth-policy.org
Matthew Stein is the author of the highly praised book When Technology Fails a comprehensive manual on sustainable living skills. As the owner of Stein Design & Construction, he has built hurricane resistant, energy efficient and environmentally friendly homes. www.whentechfails.com

Joanna Macy: The Great Turning (19:31) listen (to download, right click "Save Link As" (IE "Save Target As")
Joanna is a Buddhist Scholar, Systems Theorist, Ecologist, Teacher, and Activist. www.joannamacy.net

Joanna Macy: Lessons from Rumi (48:11) listen (to download, right click "Save Link As" (IE "Save Target As")Joanna Macy: Buddhist Scholar, Systems Theorist, Ecologist, Teacher, and Activist. Joanna addresses the reasons for the grief, fear, sadness, uncertainty, and numbness that prevail in modern life and keeps bringing attention back to what is sacred and true: the wondrously interconnected and intelligent web of life. www.joannamacy.net

Joanna Macy: World As Lover, World As Self (42:17) listen (to download, right click "Save Link As" (IE "Save Target As")
Buddhist Scholar, Systems Theorist, Ecologist, Teacher, and Activist. Joanna addresses the reasons for the grief, fear, sadness, uncertainty, and numbness that prevail in modern life and keeps bringing attention back to what is sacred and true: the wondrously interconnected and intelligent web of life. For more go to www.joannamacy.net

Vin Marti Vinn Marti: Soul Motion (55:12) listen (to download, right click "Save Link As" (IE "Save Target As")
Award winning performer, choreographer, and designer of the dance practice, Soul Motion™, Vinn Martí served as co-director of Portland Oregon's innovative movement arts studio, Body Moves for 18 years. Vinn now leads workshops and seminars internationally teaching Soul Motion™, a movement ministry of conscious dance as a design for experiencing movement as meditation. www.soulmotion.com

	Bill Ryerson, Laurie Mazur & David Poindexter: Population (50:21) listen (to download, right click "Save Link As" (IE "Save Target As") William Ryerson is the founder and president of Population Media center and has a 37-year history of working in the field of reproductive health using behavior change communications in various cultural settings worldwide. He has also been involved in the design of research of numerous projects to measure the effects of such projects.
	Laurie Mazur is the editor of A Pivotal Moment: Population, Justice & The Environmental Challenge, is the director of the Population Justice Project, and has worked for years as an independent writer and consultant specializing in population, environment, and sexual and reproductive health and rights issues.
	David Poindexter is Population Media Center’s Honorary Chair, has 38 years of experience in designing and implementing reproductive health communications programs in developing countries, using the entertainment-education methodology created by Miguel Sabido.

Jason F Mclennan and Lynn Simon: Green Architecture (48:58) listen (to download, right click "Save Link As" (IE "Save Target As")
Jason is a national leader in the green architecture movement and is considered a thought leader in sustainability. Jason is the CEO of the Cascadia Green Building Council based in Seattle, Washington. He began Ecotone Publishing to provide information to the design community and building industry about finding a path to a sustainable future. He is the author of The Philosophy of Sustainable Design, and the Dumb Architect’s Guide to Glazing Selection as well as a co-author of the Ecological Engineer. www.cascadiagbc.org
Lynn N. Simon, FAIA, LEED AP, is President of Simon & Associates, Inc., Green Building Consultants, which she established in 1994. Lynn is a green building pioneer. As a leading authority in the industry Lynn has been at the forefront of the sustainable design movement since 1989. www.greenbuild.com

Emmett Miller: Our Culture on the Couch Seven Steps to Global Healing (56:19)
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Dr. Miller is a physician, poet, musician, and master storyteller, whose multicultural heritage has given him a unique social, medical, and spiritual perspective. In his latest book Our Culture on the Couch, Seven Steps to Global Healing, Dr. Miller performs a thorough examination, arriving at accurate diagnoses for the serious ailments that currently threaten our civilization. www.drmiller.com

Richard Miller, PhD: Integrative Restoration for Awakening (56:26) listen (to download, right click "Save Link As" (IE "Save Target As")Richard Miller, PhD is a clinical psychologist and contemporary spiritual teacher in the tradition of Nondual Yoga. Richard is the founding president and CEO of the Integrative Restoration Institute, co-founder of The International Association of Yoga Therapy and founding editor of the professional Journal of IAYT. He is the author of Yoga Nidra: The Meditative Heart of Yoga. www.irest.us

Michael Nagler: Search for a Nonviolent Future (54:37) listen (to download, right click "Save Link As" (IE "Save Target As")
Michael Nagler is Professor emeritus of Classics and Comparative Literature at UC, Berkeley, where he co-founded the Peace and Conflict Studies Program, and the founder of the Metta Center for Nonviolence. He is the author of The Search for a Nonviolent FutureOur Spiritual Crisis: Recovering Human Wisdom in a Time of Violence, The Upanishads and other books as well as many articles on peace and spirituality. www.michaelnagler.net

David Orr: Down to the Wire (50:49) listen (to download, right click "Save Link As" (IE "Save Target As")
David W. Orr is perhaps best known for his pioneering work on environmental literacy in higher education and his recent work in ecological design. He is the author of numerous books and hundreds of articles on ecological and design issues including The Last Refuge: The Corruption of Patriotism in the Age of Terror. Dr. Orr serves on the Boards of the Rocky Mountain Institute (CO), Second Nature (MA), the Center for Ecoliteracy (CA), and the Center for Respect of Life and Environment. www.davidworr.com

Bill Plotkin: Nature and the Human Soul (56:36) listen (to download, right click "Save Link As" (IE "Save Target As")
Bill Plotkin, PhD, is a depth psychologist, wilderness rites guide, and ecotherapist. As the founder of Colorado’s Animas Valley Institute, he has, since 1981, guided thousands of people through nature-based initiatory passages He is the author of Soulcraft: Crossing into the Mysteries of Nature and Psyche (New World Library, 2003) and Nature and the Human Soul: Cultivating Wholeness and Community in a Fragmented World (New World Library, 2008). www.natureandthehumansoul.com

	Bill Ryerson, Laurie Mazur & David Poindexter: Population (50:21) listen (to download, right click "Save Link As" (IE "Save Target As") William Ryerson is the founder and president of Population Media center and has a 37-year history of working in the field of reproductive health using behavior change communications in various cultural settings worldwide. He has also been involved in the design of research of numerous projects to measure the effects of such projects.
	Laurie Mazur is the editor of A Pivotal Moment: Population, Justice & The Environmental Challenge, is the director of the Population Justice Project, and has worked for years as an independent writer and consultant specializing in population, environment, and sexual and reproductive health and rights issues.
	David Poindexter is Population Media Center’s Honorary Chair, has 38 years of experience in designing and implementing reproductive health communications programs in developing countries, using the entertainment-education methodology created by Miguel Sabido.

Carolyn Raffensperger: The Precautionary Prinicpal (44:47) listen (to download, right click "Save Link As" (IE "Save Target As")
Author, activist, archaeologist and Executive Director of the Science and Environmental Health Network. As an environmental lawyer she specializes in the fundamental changes in law and policy necessary for the protection and restoration of public health and the environment. For more go to www.sehn.org

Gary Malkin and Freddie Ravel: Making a Difference with the Arts (57.04)
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Gary Malkin is an award-winning composer/producer and performer dedicated to making a difference in the world by participating in projects that inspire the heart and catalyze social change. Freddie Ravel’s talent took him from child prodigy to a GRAMMY nominated Composer, Pianist, #1 Recording Artist, and Speaker. wisdomoftheworld.com freddieravel.com

Velcrow Ripper: Fierce Light: Where Spirit meets Action (55:13) listen (to download, right click "Save Link As" (IE "Save Target As")
Acclaimed filmmaker, writer, sound designer, and media activist Velcrow Ripper creates powerful, cinematic documentaries, dramas and non-fiction novels that deal with the central issues of our times. His over 30 films include the multi-award winning feature documentary sensation, ScaredSacred, and FierceLight: When Spirit Meets Action www.velcrowripper.com

Vimala Rodgers: Handwriting for Peace - Part 1 (28:14) listen (to download, right click "Save Link As" (IE "Save Target As")
Vimala Rodgers is a handwriting specialist, educator, zealous pioneer in brain/hand research, and author of the bestseller, Your Handwriting Can Change Your Life. She guides persons from the ages of 3 to 103 in adopting handwriting patterns that bring to life their unique gifts, abilities, and dreams, so they can make a difference in the world doing what they love. www.alphabeticalblessings.com

Gabrielle Roth: Transformation and the Arts (43:31) listen (to download, right click "Save Link As" (IE "Save Target As")
Known as the "urban shaman”, Gabrielle is a recording and performing artist, author, teacher, director and creator of the 5Rhythms school of moving meditation and ecstatic dance. www.gabrielleroth.com

Gabrielle Roth: Dancing with Chaos (44:25) listen (to download, right click "Save Link As" (IE "Save Target As")
Known as the "urban shaman", Gabrielle is a recording and performing artist, author, teacher, director and creator of the 5Rhythms school of moving meditation and ecstatic dance. www.gabrielleroth.com

Peter Russell (38:29) listen (to download, right click "Save Link As" (IE "Save Target As")
Physicist, psychologist, eco-philosopher, teacher, lecturer and author of numerous books and videos. His principal interest is the deeper, spiritual significance of the times we are passing through. www.peterrussell.com

	Bill Ryerson, Laurie Mazur & David Poindexter: Population (50:21) listen (to download, right click "Save Link As" (IE "Save Target As") William Ryerson is the founder and president of Population Media center and has a 37-year history of working in the field of reproductive health using behavior change communications in various cultural settings worldwide. He has also been involved in the design of research of numerous projects to measure the effects of such projects.
	Laurie Mazur is the editor of A Pivotal Moment: Population, Justice & The Environmental Challenge, is the director of the Population Justice Project, and has worked for years as an independent writer and consultant specializing in population, environment, and sexual and reproductive health and rights issues.
	David Poindexter is Population Media Center’s Honorary Chair, has 38 years of experience in designing and implementing reproductive health communications programs in developing countries, using the entertainment-education methodology created by Miguel Sabido.

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Scott Seydel: Cradle to Cradle in Action (55.59) listen (to download, right click "Save Link As" (IE "Save Target As")
Scott Seydel is founder and CEO of The Seydel Companies which have earned national recognition for their recycling and resource conservation research. They have contributed to significant reductions in packaging wastes, energy use, greenhouse gasses, and nonrenewable resources, while stimulating resource recycling and environmental stewardship. seydel.com

Rupert Sheldrake: Morphic Resonance (44:11) listen (to download, right click "Save Link As" (IE "Save Target As")
Rupert Sheldrake, one of the world’s most innovative biologists and writers is best known for his theory of morphic fields and morphic resonance, which leads to a vision of a living, developing universe with its own inherent memory. He is the author of numerous books including A New Science of Life: The Hypothesis of Formative Causation which has just been updated and renamed Morphic Resonance. www.sheldrake.org

Nina Simons: UnReasonable Women for the Earth (49:17) listen (to download, right click "Save Link As" (IE "Save Target As")
A social entrepreneur, producer and communicator who has applied an innovative approach to developing successful not-for-profit and for-profit ventures over the past twenty years. She is currently co-executive director of Bioneers/ Collective Heritage Institute. bioneers.org

Nina Simons: Cultivating Women's Leadership (57:19) listen (to download, right click "Save Link As" (IE "Save Target As")
Nina Simons is a social entrepreneur, producer and communicator who has applied an innovative approach to developing successful not-for-profit and for-profit ventures over the past twenty years. She is currently co-executive director of Bioneers/ Collective Heritage Institute. www.bioneers.org

Eliezer Sobel: The 99th Monkey (55:45) listen (to download, right click "Save Link As" (IE "Save Target As")
According to his latest business card, Eliezer Sobel's current job titleis "Human Being." Although, as his wife Shari Cordon points out, "He only works at it part-time." Sobel divides his time between writing, painting, playing music, performing and the life of the spiritual aspirant; suffering, seeking, striving, sitting. The sordid details of that journey are chronicled in his new book, The 99th Monkey: A Spiritual Journalist’s Misadventures with Gurus, Sex, Psycheldelics, and Other Consciousness-Raising Experiments. www.eliezersobel.com

Will Steger: empowering climate change solutions (52:39) listen (to download, right click "Save Link As" (IE "Save Target As")
Will Steger has been an eyewitness to the ongoing catastrophic consequences of global warming. A formidable voice calling for understanding and the preservation of the Arctic and the Earth, Will Steger is best known for his legendary polar explorations. He has traveled tens of thousands of miles by kayak and dog-sled over 45 years. Thus the Will Steger Foundation is educating, inspiring and empowering the public in a campaign to solve global warming. Steger is the author of four books. www.willstegerfoundation.org and www.willsteger.com

Matthew Stein: When Technology Fails (57:34) listen (to download, right click "Save Link As" (IE "Save Target As")
Matthew Stein is an author, engineer, inventor and specializing in hurricane resistant, energy efficient and environmentally friendly homes. He is the author of When Technology Fails: A Manual for Self-Reliance, Sustainability, and Surviving the Long Emergency. www.whentechfails.com

Michael K. Stone: Smart by Nature: Schooling for Sustainability (53:11) listen (to download, right click "Save Link As" (IE "Save Target As")Michael K. Stone is senior editor at the Center for Ecoliteracy. He is the author of Smart by Nature: Schooling for Sustainability and coeditor of Ecological Literacy: Educating Our Children for a Sustainable World. Michael was managing editor of Whole Earth Magazine and the Millennium Whole Earth Catalog. www.ecoliteracy.org

Brian Swimme: The Unfolding Story of the Earth (45:41) listen (to download, right click "Save Link As" (IE "Save Target As") An author, teacher, and contemporary philosopher, Brian is a mathematical cosmologist on the graduate faculty of the California Institute of Integral Studies in San Francisco. He brings a unique perspective to the understanding of the 13.7-billion-year trajectory of cosmic genesis, viewing humanity as having evolved out of, and being an integral part of, the universe as a whole. www.brianswimme.org

Thanksgiving Day Special*: Gratitude: A practice (58:53) listen (to download, right click "Save Link As" (IE "Save Target As")
A 2 hour special with Brother David, Lynn Twist, Roshi Joan Halifax. Join Conversations Host Michael Stone for this uplifting and interactive dialogue about gratitude, gratefulness and thanks giving. (*various interview excerpts only)

Ed Tick: War and the Soul (48:37) listen (to download, right click "Save Link As" (IE "Save Target As")
Edward Tick, Ph.D., is an expert on post-traumatic stress disorder. A practicing psychotherapist for more than 25 years, he is a nationally recognized authority on the psychological, spiritual, historical, and cultural aspects of war in the healing of PTSD. For more go to soldiersheart.net

Colin Tipping: Radical Forgiveness (52:30) listen (to download, right click "Save Link As" (IE "Save Target As")
Colin Tipping is the creator of Radical Forgiveness, one the most powerful leading-edge technologies for personal and spiritual growth available today. His book, “Radical Forgiveness: Making Room for the Miracle,” has become an international best-seller, leading to the healing of individuals, families, races, corporations and communities. Tipping has authored other books, including his latest, Getting to Heaven on a Harley: and has many online programs to help people apply the Radical Forgiveness Technology to their lives. www.radicalforgiveness.com

Bill Twist: Environmental and Social Transformation in South America (53:25)
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Bill Twist is a Philanthropist, Activist, Co-Founder and Board President of the Pachamama Alliance, and the President of Champion Securities Company. Bill is a tireless worker for environmental sustainability, social justice and spiritual fulfillment. www.pachamama.org

Judy Wicks: Inside the White Dog Cafe (48:31) listen (to download, right click "Save Link As" (IE "Save Target As")
Judy Wicks is owner and founder of Philadelphia’s 25-year-old White Dog Cafe, and a national leader in the local, living economies movement. In 2004, Inc magazine named Judy one of America's 25 most fascinating entrepreneurs, "because she's put in place more progressive business practices per square foot than any other entrepreneur." Judy is also co-founder and chair of the Business Alliance for Local Living Economies (BALLE) and of the Sustainable Business Network of Greater Philadelphia (SBA). www.judywicks.com

David Whyte: The Three Marriages (51:59) listen (to download, right click "Save Link As" (IE "Save Target As")
David Whyte, Poet, Author, Lecturer holds a degree in Marine Zoology and has traveled extensively, including living and working as a naturalist guide in the Galapagos Islands and leading anthropological and natural history expeditions in the Andes, the Amazon and the Himalaya. He brings this wealth of experience to his poetry, lectures and workshops. www.davidwhyte.com

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