All Together Now

All Together Now - Tony Blair Faith Foundation - 04/11/13

Charlene Spretnak talks with Marcia Beauchamp, US Education Manager of the Tony Blair Faith Foundation (London), about their Faith to Face program (linking two classrooms of students aged 12-17 in distant countries to facilitate discussions about pressing planetary ecosocial issues and cultural/religious values and perspectives), tonyblairfaithfoundation.com; poem by Annie Finch

All Together Now - 04/04/13

Eleanor LeCain interviews Ron Kaufman, to speak about overcoming autism and other seemingly insurmountable life challenges.

All Together Now - Breakthrough Solutions as Models - 03/28/13

A talk with Eleanor LeCain, author of Breakthrough Solutions, about her 20-year study of innovative, successful solutions to long-standing problems in nine areas that are low-cost, replicable, and resilient over time [thebreakthroughway.com]; CS's announcement that she has invited Eleanor LeCain to be co-host, hosting the ATN program in alternate weeks; poem by Kay Ryan

All Together Now - The Local Food Movement in Central Italy - 03/21/13

A talk with Elizabeth Wholey, author of Sustenance: Food Traditions in Italy's Heartland; the Slow Food Movement's role in invigorating the local food culture in the Upper Tiber Valley; poem by Shelley

All Together Now - The High-Stakes Energy Situation in the U.S. - 03/14/13

A conversation with Richard Heinberg, author of The Party's Over, Peak Everything, and The End of Growth, as well as being co-editor of the photo book Energy and author of influential reports from the PostCarbon Institute; the falling Return on Investment re drilling now; the shift to renewables and to using less energy [postcarbon.org]; poem by William Blake

All Together Now - Preventing Violence Against Women - 03/07/13

Women's Day Program; a talk with Barbara Shaw, past director of the Illinois Violence Prevention Authority, on mounting a public health approach to preventing violence; also, the recent passage by Congress of the expanded Violence Against Women Act; poem by Chana Bloch

All Together Now - Good Urbanism - 02/28/13

A talk with Nan Ellin, author of Good Urbanism, about her six-step path for participatory solutions to problematic urban sites or situations, plus examples of where it has been put into effect; poem by Linda Hogan, plus a Dineh healing chant and their Way of Beauty blessing

All Together Now - Cradle to Cradle - 02/21/13

A talk with Michael Braungart, coauthor of Cradle to Cradle: Rethinking the Way We Make Things, about going beyond merely "doing less damage" to designing and making products and buildings that are "eco-effective" and enhance users and surroundings [braungart.com]; the Cradle to Cradle Certification program; poem by Wislawa Szymborska

All Together Now - Cultivating Citizen Leadership for Sustainability - 02/14/13

A talk with Sara Parkin, a founding director of Forum for the Future (London), former head of the UK Green Party, and author of The Positive Deviant: Sustainability Leadership in a Perverse World; also the Forum's pioneering M.A. degree in Leadership for Sustainable Development (forumforthefuture.org); also the recent shift to renewable sources of energy in Australia; poem by Dorothy Parker

All Together Now - Relational Being - 02/07/13

A conversation with Kenneth Gergen, author of Relational Being: Beyond Self and Community, about escaping our received concept of "the bound self" and realizing that we are selves constituted of and by relationship; on decision-making as coordinating relational dynamics; on conflict resolution as building relational bridges among multiple moralities; on the Taos Institute he heads to spread relational insights to various professions and grassroots groups [taosinstitute.net]; poem by Seamus Heaney