All Together Now

All Together Now - 06/27/13

Eleanor LeCain interviews Deborah Meier about her breakthrough approach to Education., and what's needed to provide an excellent public education for ALL our students.

All Together Now - Relational Reflections on Facing the Planetary Crises - 06/20/13

Charlene Spretnak talks with Robert Jensen, author of Arguing for Our Lives: A User's Guide to Constructive Dialog, about pragmatic ways for individuals to join together locally to address the problems at hand, building the potential for linking up at the state and national levels; the importance of people-in-relationship; poem by Galway Kinnell

All Together Now - International Relations and American Awareness - 06/06/13

Charlene Spretnak talks with Richard Falk, author of 20 books on international law and relations and currently UN Special Rapporteur on Occupied Palestine, about American lack of awareness of how peoples around the world experience our foreign policy and corporate behavior; Syria and the Israel/Palestine situations; poem by Hafiz

All Together Now - 05/30/13

Eleanor LeCain speaks with Michael Kanter, the co-owner and founder of Cambridge Naturals - a thriving locally owned community business selling natural products - about how strong local businesses are essential for resilient and prosperous communities.

All Together Now - The Middle Path EcoSocial Vision - 05/23/13

Charlene Spretnak talks with Asoka Bandarage about her new book, Sustainability and Well-Being, regarding her analysis of recent dynamics in Sri Lanka and her Buddhist-inflected vision of seeking the balance of the Middle Way in our ideas and project for a just and sustainable future; poem by Gerard Manley Hopkins

All Together Now - 05/16/13

Eleanor LeCain interviews Susan Collin Marks, Vice President of Search for Common Ground, about transforming the way we handle conflict, away from adversarial approaches and violence, and toward cooperative solutions. Peace is possible!

All Together Now - Geoengineering and Synthetic Biology - 05/09/13

Charlene Spretnak talks with Pat Mooney, Executive Director of ETC Group, in Ottawa, about  the push by many governments for "techno fixes" (instead of burning far less fossil fuel), such as "solar radiation management," GHG sequestration, and weather modification -- and the corporate push for various types of synthetic biology [ETCgroup.org]; poem by Mary Oliver

All Together Now - 05/02/13

All Together Now - Enough Is Enough! - 04/25/13

Charlene Spretnak talks with Rob Dietz, coauthor of Enough Is Enough: Building a Sustainable Economy in a World of Finite Resources, about rethinking the destructive assumptions of "always more" (beyond a reasonable level of comfort) and transitioning to the beneficial effects of "enough" in various areas [dalynews.org]; poem by Seamus Heaney

All Together Now - 04/18/13

Eleanor LeCain begins with reflections on her personal experience of the Boston Marathon tragedy, and then interviews Michael Shuman of the Business Alliance for Local Living Economies.