Recovery Zone
Healing Our World
Everywhere we look we see a world in trouble--environmental degradation; war, torture and militarism; corporate greed, poverty and economic injustice; a negligent media--and all of it intertwined. Yet there are also people dedicated to solving these problems--working on them from every possible angle. They are part of a leaderless, bottom up, grass roots social movement manifesting itself in a myriad of ways. Paul Hawken describes this movement as humanity's "immune response" to the sickness that pervades our world -- "social antibodies attaching themselves to the pathologies of power." The Recovery Zone gives voice to these healers. Tune in on the 4th Wednesday of each month, from 11:00 to 11:30 in the morning, or check it out in the KBOO archives.
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"Plastic Free: How I kicked the Plastic Habit and How You can Too" with author Beth Terry
- Title: "Plastic Free: How I kicked the Plastic Habit and How You can Too" with author Beth Terry
- Producer: Stephanie Potter
- Length: 58:25 minutes (53.47 MB)
- Format: MP3 Mono 44kHz 128Kbps (CBR)
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Soaring past 7 billion: Population challenges for a crowded world
Seven billion humans are alive today, up from one billion in 1900, and the environment is taking a beating. What's next? Nine-plus billion by 2050? Eleven billion? But what happens to these numbers if we educate and empower women? If we provide family planning services? What's stopping us? In "Soaring Past 7 Billion: Population Challenges for a Crowded World," John Seager, president of Population Connection, addresses these issues. He spoke in Portland last winter for the University of Oregon's Life Long Learning Institute. (Talk edited for time by Stephanie Potter. Music by Kevin MacLeod.)
Population growth stretches natural resources to their limits. Deforestation, food and water shortages, and climate change are all intensified by the addition of nearly 80 million people a year to the world's population. According to the United Nations, the global population could be as high as 11 billion in 2050 or as low as 8 billion, if the right programs are put in place now. At least 200 million women around the world would like to delay or end childbearing but have no access to contraception. Family planning improves maternal and infant health and allows women to be more active in society. The 50 poorest countries on earth are also those with the highest fertility rates. Voluntary family planning improves everyone's quality of life. --Population Connection
- Title: Soaring past 7 billion: Population challenges for a crowded world
- Producer: Stephanie Potter
- Length: 27:57 minutes (25.6 MB)
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Population growth, environment: affected by women's empowerment, access to family planning services
Seven billion humans are alive today, up from one billion in 1900, and the environment is taking a beating. What's next? Nine-plus billion by 2050? Eleven billion? But what happens to these numbers if we educate and empower women? If we provide family planning services? What's stopping us? In "Soaring Past 7 Billion: Population Challenges for a Crowded World," John Seager, president of Population Connection, addresses these issues. He spoke in Portland last winter for the University of Oregon's Life Long Learning Institute. (Talk edited for time by Stephanie Potter. Music by Kevin MacLeod.)
Population growth stretches natural resources to their limits. Deforestation, food and water shortages, and climate change are all intensified by the addition of nearly 80 million people a year to the world's population. According to the United Nations, the global population could be as high as 11 billion in 2050 or as low as 8 billion, if the right programs are put in place now. At least 200 million women around the world would like to delay or end childbearing but have no access to contraception. Family planning improves maternal and infant health and allows women to be more active in society. The 50 poorest countries on earth are also those with the highest fertility rates. Voluntary family planning improves everyone's quality of life. --Population Connection
- Length: 27:36 minutes (12.63 MB)
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Portland's first-ever EcoSex Symposium changes "Earth as Mother" to "Earth as Lover"
What is EcoSex? How can it help us to heal ourselves? Heal our planet? What happens when the Earth becomes our lover, rather than our mother? EcoSex Symposium Portland 2012, happening June 29-July 1, will be exploring this new form of earth activism in a venue that includes neuroscience, ecology, love, animals, fungi, plants, intimacy, music, and dance. Find out more with host Stephanie Potter who will be talking with Gabriella Cordova, symposium organizer and Tantra teacher and Bob Czimbal, keynote speaker & author.
From the EcoSex Symposium website: "How do our belief systems and attitudes about human sexuality affect the way we treat each other, other life forms and the ecosystem, and what can be done to better steward the planet and our relationships? Ecosexuality looks at the intersection of ecology and sexuality, two prescient topics in modern society, and asks: How do our belief systems and attitudes about human sexuality affect the way we treat each other, other life forms and the ecosystem, and what can be done to better steward the planet and our relationships?
The term EcoSex is newly coined and growing in popularity among sex positive activists and ardent environmentalists who understand that humans aren’t just part of nature; we are nature. It’s time we apply the ideals of sustainability to our intimate lives and behaviors." (Find out more about the Symposium at www.ecosex.org)
Gabriella Cordova is a Tantra teacher, pleasure facilitator, workshop presenter, and an organizer of events related to sacred sexuality, eroticism, relationship, and female empowerment. She also successfully organized ErosFestNW, Sex Positive Meetup, and the Lotus Heart Center an event space.
Bob Czimbal is well known and well loved in Portland, considered a leader and a wise man, he presides over many of the communities rituals and ceremonies. With his partner, Maggie, he's authored Vitamin T - A Guide to Healthy Touch and Kindred Spirits: The Quest for Love and Friendship, and created the seminar Erotic Spiritual Play.
- Length: 28:18 minutes (25.92 MB)
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Susan Pease Banitt on "The Trauma Tool Kit: Healing PTSD from the Inside Out"
Post traumatic stress syndrome (PTSD) is widely pervasive catastrophe affecting millions of Americans, and in her recently published The Trauma Tool Kit: Healing PTSD from the Inside Out, author and therapist Susan Pease Banitt, LCSW, describes PTSD as a whole body tragedy . . with massive repercussions. We cannot patch it up in 12 weeks of counseling or with a pill or with surgery. Left untreated it grows and morphs into a destructive beast that erodes the very fabric of wellness in the human being. It has the unique power to unravel body, mind and spirit. From there the erosion spreads into relationships, families and the very fabric of society itself, affecting whole cultures for generations to come." Banitt explaines how PTSD is not just a mental disorder, but is also a physical injury. Her extensive research covers a multidimensional approach, and her "toolbox" provides an extensive compilation of antidotes and interventions for healing extreme stress and traumatic reactions in body, mind and spirit.
Susan Pease Banitt, herself a healed survivor of abuse, trained as a psychotherapist in the Harvard Medical System, and has also studied yoga therapeutics, shamanism and alternative healing. A resident of Portland, she has had over 30 years in treating trauma. Join her on the Recovery Zone with host Stephanie Potter.
- Title: Susan Pease Banitt on "The Trauma Tool Kit: Healing PTSD from the Inside Out"
- Producer: Stephanie Potter
- Length: 29:00 minutes (13.28 MB)
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Long-time environmentalists Jeanne and Dick Roy share their "Practice of Hope"
For the past 19 years Jeanne and Dick Roy have been working tirelessly as full-time volunteers to heal our world, co-founding the Northwest Earth Institute in 1993 and the Center for Earth Leadership in 2006 . In the face of so much "bad news," what sustains and motivates them? How do they overcome despair and avoid burnout? With host Stephanie Potter, Jeanne and Dick share their insight and experience in choosing hope over pessimism.
They will also be sharing their insights on May 5, in a 3 hour workshop called The Practice of Hope, offered free of charge (with pre-registration). Their intention is to elevate hope among those who seek to create a sustainable future. They also made a TEDx talk on this topic. Through the Center for Earth Leadership, the Northwest Earth Institute, and the Oregon Natural Step Network, Dick and Jeanne Roy have inspired thousands to take responsibility and action to care for the earth.
- Title: Long-time environmentalists Jeanne and Dick Roy share their "Practice of Hope"
- Producer: Stephanie Potter
- Length: 27:42 minutes (12.68 MB)
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Worker-owned co-operatives: building a more humane economy
- Title: Worker-owned co-operatives: building a more humane economy
- Producer: Stephanie Potter
- Length: 28:08 minutes (12.88 MB)
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The Camino De Santiago -- Finding Your Way
The Camino de Santiago is an 1100 year old pilgrimage with routes throughout Europe that end at Santiago de Compostela in Northwest Spain. Thousands of people walk, bicycle or go by horseback every year. Host Stephanie Potter speaks with film maker Lydia Smith, whose first walk on the Camino inspired her to direct her first feature length film, the forthcoming "Camino Documentary;" and with Kathy Kennerly who's recently started the Portland chapter of the American Pilgrims on the Camino. Kathy volunteers in pilgrim hostels to help others travel the Camino.
Just like the Camino itself, Lydia expects her Camino Documentary to create "a sense of global community and spark a dialogue about life’s biggest questions. Amidst a time of considerable social malaise, The Camino Documentary will illuminate what enables us to transcend the perceived boundaries of race, language, social status, age, faith and nationality, and remind us of what is best about being human."
Learn more about this ancient tradition that for many brings new perspectives on how to live; and provides inner growth, a rewarding physical challenge, and an opportunity to connect with others from around the world. (Music by Kevin Mcleod)
Join the Portlandia Chapter of American PIlgrims for a Sunday Stroll, Sunday, February 26, 2012, 2:00 p.m.! The meeting point will be the Eastbank Esplanade sign at Southeast Water Avenue at Hawthorne Boulevard.
- Title: The Camino De Santiago -- Finding Your Way
- Producer: Stephanie Potter
- Length: 28:59 minutes (13.27 MB)
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Renewable Energy: It's not a pipe dream!
What would it take to get off fossil fuels entirely, and to power the planet with renewables by 2030? What strides are being made in Oregon? In Portland? What can we do within our own communities? Solar design consultant Jesse Hunter, and Collin Ferguson, of Cascadia Commons are joined by James Rector (by phone) of RC Cubed, to talk about these issues and more. In partnership with RC Cubed, Cascadia Commons is launching the Portland-based Earth Energy Cooperative which will offer the power of group purchasing to reduce the costs of adopting solar energy.
Jesse Hunter works with Solar City Future, is passionate about renewables, and recommends the work of Oregonians for Renewable Energy Policy. He's obtained certification with the North American Board of Certified Energy Practitioners, and is particularly interested in the work of Mark Z. Jacobson, Stanford professor of civil and environmental engineering, who asserts that the technology exists now to shift to renewables within two to four decades. Collin Ferguson is a co-founder of Cascadia Commons, an organization dedicated to advancing social, economic and environmental sustainability by motivating, connecting and empowering people to create more sustainable ways of living. RC Cubed is a financing company for renewable and energy efficiency technologies and projects. Earth Energy Cooperative will be a Cascadia Commons member-owned company and it's set to start up in March. Hosted by Stephanie Potter, music by Kevin McLeod.
- Title: Renewable Energy: It's not a pipe dream!
- Producer: Stephanie Potter
- Length: 56:15 minutes (25.75 MB)
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"Occupy Oregon" for Cougars and Wolves?
The recovery of the gray wolf after its eradication from Yellowstone National Park, almost ninety years ago, demonstrates how crucial keystone species are to the long-term sustainability of the ecosystems they inhabit. But there are many who still regard keystone species, such as cougars and wolves, with hostility. Returning guests, Jayne Miller founder of Oregon Cougar Action Team and Rob Klavins of Oregon Wild are working to change those attitudes and help in the recovery of cougar and wolf populations here in Oregon. Miller hopes to re-introduce a bill in 2013 to the Oregon legislature called "License to Protect," because she feels that what was passed last year was so watered down, it was "unrecognizable. This month on the Recovery Zone, Miller and Klavins will have 60 minutes with host Stephanie Potter to talk about this bill and to discuss policies they hope to see implemented by the Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife.
- Title: "Occupy Oregon" for Cougars and Wolves?
- Producer: Stephanie Potter
- Length: 60:09 minutes (27.54 MB)
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More about Third Party Options on August 30
Fifth Monday Labor Radio
Monday, August 30th, on Fifth Monday Labor Radio– at 6pm!
http://sites.google.com/site/laborradiogroup/home/fifth-monday-labor-radio
Third Party Representatives will talk with our listeners about
why their parties matter for working people this election cycle.
Here is the lineup for the August 30, 5th Monday, KBOO Labor Radio Collective show from 6pm to 6:30pm
Hosts: Tim Flangan and Lane Poncy
and/or Alaina Melville
The Oregon Working Families Party: Cathy Highet and Steve Hughes
The Pacific Green Party of Oregon: Michael Meo and James Nicita
Please call in and let us know what you think! Studio Line (503) 231-8187
More info on Participants
CWA Local 7901 - Communications Workers of America Local 7901 in Portland.
and Tim is with AFT-Oregon, Jobs with Justice Steering Committe, and The Portland Alliance.
Sal Peralta (at right) is the Independent Party Secretary
Steve Hughes shughes@oregonwfp.org, (no picture) is state director of Working FamiliesParty and will be in the studio along with Cathy Highet, cathy@portlandlawcollective.com.
Michael Meo was cross-nominated by the Oregon Progressive Party and by the Oregon Pirate Party. He isrunning for the Oregon 3rd District U.S. House of Representatives. Michael is alsoexecutive director, Portland Metro Chapter of the Pacific Green Party.He is running for the seatnow held by Congressman Earl Blumenauer."I’ve taught high-school students for almost 30 years, and I’ve had both success and failure as a teacher. A large part of what was successful involved listening carefully to what urban students of many different backgrounds had to tell me, and figuring a way to communicate to them the methods of science, mathematics, and history. Basically, students taught me how to do that. If we listened to what the homeless and the imprisoned in our society are telling us, instead of putting them out of mind, we would have a community safer for all and one with greater economic opportunity. A society which cherishes everyone in it, not just its wealthiest members, is a more successful society for all. We turned around this country in the 1930s, but we didn’t do it by assuring salaries in the millions for ourbankers."
https://sites.google.com/site/laborradiogroup/
Below... Phillip Kauffman speaking on behalf of Mad as Hell Doctors for nonprofit health care.
health care, not health "insurance"!
They still call the shots, set the prices,
and have retained their exemption from laws which prohibit monopolies.