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 Conversations, hosted by Michael Stone, brings you leading edge thinkers in the areas of Environmental Restoration, Social Justice and Spiritual Fulfillment. We look for positive solutions to local and global issues that leave you touched, moved and inspired to action. Our weekly guests include local and global experts and concerned citizens working together to heal the wounds that separate, alienate and marginalize people...
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- Tuesday, January 12th, 2010
Jim Hoggan: Climate Cover-Up: The Crusade to Deny Global Warming 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 Click here to visit James Hoggan's web site at hoggan.com
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- Tuesday, January 19th, 2010
Sandra Ingerman and Hank Wesselman: Shamanic Journeying 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 Click here to visit Sandra Ingerman's web site at sandraingerman.com Research paleoanthropologist Hank Wesselman Phd. 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 Click here to visit Hank Wesselman's web site at www.sharedwisdom.com
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- Tuesday, January 26th, 2010
Sarah Van Gelder and others: Inside Yes! Magazine YES! Magazine offers powerful ideas and practical actions for a more just and sustainable world through a quarterly magazine and daily online updates. As co-founder and executive editor of YES!, Sarah Van Gelder leads the framing and development of each issue of YES! She also writes and speaks on leading-edge innovations that show that another world is not only possible, it is being born. www.yesmagazine.org Click here to visit Sarah Van Gelder's web site at http://yesmagazine.org
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- Tuesday, February 2nd, 2010
Richard Heinberg: Peak Everything 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. His latest book is Peak Everything: Waking up to a Century of Decline. www.richardheinberg.com Click here to visit Richard Heinberg's web site at http://richardheinberg.com
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- Tuesday, February 9th, 2010
David Orr 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. Click here to visit David Orr's web site at davidworr.com
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- Tuesday, February 16th, 2010
Bill Ryerson, Laurie Mazur & David Poindexter: Population 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. Click here to visit Bill Ryerson's web site at populationmedia.org 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. Click here to visit Laurie Mazur's blog at rhrealitycheck.org/blog/laurie-mazur 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. Click here to visit David Poindexter's web site at populationmedia.org
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- Tuesday, February 23rd, 2010
John Francis, Ph.D.: Planet Walk 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 Click here to visit John Francis' web site at planetwalker.org
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- Tuesday, March 2nd, 2010
Paul and Anne Ehrlich: The Dominant Animal Paul Ehrlich is an biologist and educator who is the Professor of Population Studies in the department of Biological Sciences at Stanford University and president of Stanford's Center for Conservation Biology. He is best known for his warnings about unchecked population growth and limited resources.
Anne Ehrlich is the co-author of several books on overpopulation and ecology with her husband Paul. Since 1987 she has been an associate director of policy coordinator of the Center for Conservation Biology at Stanford University. Click here to visit Paul and Anne Ehrlich: The Dominant Animal's web site at dominantanimal.org
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- Tuesday, March 9th, 2010
Jan Chozen Bays, Roshi, MD: Mindful Eating 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 Click here to visit Jan Chozen Bays's web site at http://tcme.org
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- Tuesday, January 5th, 2010
 Michael K. Stone: Smart by Nature: Schooling for Sustainability 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 Click here to visit Michael K. Stone's web site at ecoliteracy.org
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- Tuesday, December 29th, 2009
Copenhagen in RetrospectJoin Michael Stone for this wrap up of his trip to Copenhagen. Michael will share interviews with Bill McKibben, Vandana Shiva and George Monbiot. What was accomplished out of the Copenhagen Climate Change Conference and what is ahead... Click here to visit Michael Stone's Are We Listening web site
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- Tuesday, December 22nd, 2009
Jason F Mclennan and Lynn Simon: Green Architecture
Host Michael Stone will be joined by KVMR's Jodi Selene
 Jason F Mclennan 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.
Click here to visit Jason F Mclennan's web site at 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. Click here to visit Lynn N. Simon's web site at greenbuild.com
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- November 26th, 2009
Thanksgiving Day Special: Gratitude: A Practice 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. Click here to visit Brother David's web site at gratefulness.org
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- November 10th, 2009
Patt Lind-Kyle: Heal Your Mind Rewire Your Brain Patt 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. Click here to visit Patt Lind-Kyle's web site at; www.healrewireyourbrain.com/ Click here to visit Patt Lind-Kyle's web site at healrewireyourbrain.com
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- November 3rd, 2009
Mariana Caplan, Ph.D.: Cultivating Discernment on the Spiritual Path 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. Click here to visit Mariana Caplan's web site at realspirituality.com
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- October 27, 2009
Janet Larsen and Matthew Stein: Making Shift Happen: A Global Plan for Saving Civilization 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.
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. Click here to visit Janet Larsen's web site at www.earth-policy.orgClick here to visit Matthew Stein's web site at www.whentechfails.com
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- October 20, 2009
David Whyte: The Three Marriages (a special KVMR Membership show) 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. Click here to visit David Whyte's web site at davidwhyte.com
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- October 13th, 2009
David Crow: Herbal Medicine and Spirituality 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. Click here to visit David Crow's web site at floracopeia.com
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- October 6th, 2009
Tina Stanley & Ed Bastian: Living Fully, Dying Well 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 at spiritualpaths.net. Click here to visit Edward W. Bastian's web site at www.spiritualpaths.netClick here to visit Tina Stanley's web site at pathfindersinternational.org
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- September 29th, 2009
Jean Houston: Creating your own story 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. 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... Click here to visit Dr. Jean Houston's web site at www.jeanhouston.org
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- September 22nd, 2009
Gail Larson: If You Want to Change the World. Tell a Better Story 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. Click here to visit Gail Larson's web site at www.realspeaking.net
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- Tuesday, August 4th, 2009
Bill Twist: Environmental and Social Transformation in South America 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.. Click here to visit Bill Twist's web site at www.pachamama.org
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