(First airdate: November 14, 2017) It’s the holiday season and time for the TriArea Thanksgiving Dinner preparation. Guest Rita Hubbard joins Everybody Can host Sheila Ramsey to share what’s new this year, and the many ways you can be a part of this Jefferson County tradition. You can serve, bus tables, clean up, and have one of the happiest holidays you’ll ever have – whether eating or serving!
(first aired November 8, 2017). Host Nan Evans talks via phone with Jill Rolland, Director of the U.S. Geological Survey Western Fisheries Research Center. The discussion covers salmon and the science surrounding salmon restoration in Puget Sound. Closing music is “It’s Your World,” performed by Leftover Salmon.
This week on the Compass we bring you two more presentations from the Economics of Happiness Conference held at Fort Worden Oct. 27-29, a weekend-long event that brought together some of the world’s most prominent thinkers, writers, and activists in the sustainability and localization movements to “discuss, discover, and devise better systems for now and the future,” as the >event’s website puts it. We will hear from Community Sourced Capital co-founder Rachel Maxwell, and organic farming and urban agriculture pioneer Michael Ableman, who were both on hand to lead workshops at the conference.
You can view other talks from the conference HERE.
(October 27-29, 2017) Some of the most prominent thinkers, writers, and activists in the sustainability and localization movements came together at Fort Worden’s Lifelong Learning Center on the weekend of October 27-29, 2017 to “discuss, discover, and devise better systems for now and the future”, as the conference’s website puts it.
The Economics of Happiness Conference was organized by local activist Karen Wyeth and others from the Local 20/20 organization, but took its name from the film of the same name, produced by the Swedish visionary Helena Norberg-Hodge’s group Local Futures, which has hosted similar conferences around the nation and the world. Norberg-Hodge was among the speakers, as were Yes! Magazine co-founders David Korten and Sarah Van Gelder, Post-Carbon Institute Senior Fellow Richard Heinberg, organic farming and urban agriculture pioneer Michael Ableman, Happiness Alliance communications officer and Affluenza filmmaker and co-author John de Graaf, local food movement pioneer Judy Wicks (founder of Philadelphia’s iconic White Dog Café), Community Sourced Capital co-founder Rachel Maxwell, Assistant Professor of Cultural Studies and Thought in Education John Lupinacci, best-seller Your Money or Your Life author Vicki Robin, and UW Center for Communication and Civic Engagement Rethinking Prosperity project manager Deric Gruen.
KPTZ News Director Steve Evans recorded many of the presentations during the weekend, and KPTZ is making them available here in the hope that listening will provide inspiration to our listeners to also help “discuss, discover, and devise better systems for now and the future,” as the conference’s website put it.
1. Envisioning the Future, with Helena Norberg-Hodge, Richard Heinberg, David Korten, and Sarah van Gelder
2. Envisioning the Future: Q&A
3. Song by Lawrence Cole, “Localization is Bubbling Up”
4. Richard Heinberg: From GDP to GNH
5. John de Graaf: From GDP to GNH
6. Rachel Maxwell: From GDP to GNH
7. John Lupinacci: From GDP to GNH
8. Q&A from GDP to GNH
9. Judy Wicks: The Bigger Picture
10. Helena Norberg-Hodge: The Bigger Picture
11. Sarah van Gelder: The Bigger Picture
12. Deric Gruen & John de Graaf: Rethinking Prosperity
13. Peter Lumsdaine: Rethinking Prosperity
14. David Korten: Rethinking Prosperity
15. Brandy Gallagher: Going Local
16. Deric Gruen: Going Local
17. Michael Ableman: Going Local
18. Vicki Robin: Going Local
19. Q&A from Going Local
(October 27-29, 2017) Some of the most prominent thinkers, writers, and activists in the sustainability and localization movements came together at Fort Worden’s Lifelong Learning Center on the weekend of October 27-29, 2017 to “discuss, discover, and devise better systems for now and the future”, as the conference’s website puts it.
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(First airdate: November 2017) Author and lecturer Langdon Cook talks with Booklovers’ Cafe host Cris Wilson about his newest book, Upstream: Searching for Wild Salmon From River to Table. Langdon takes us on a journey up and down the Pacific coast to meet the charismatic people whose lives are led by the fish that we all follow.
When Yes! Magazine co-founder Sarah Van Gelder polled the 250 attendees at the Economics of Happiness Conference held recently at Fort Worden on the question of whether they thought the transition to a sustainable economy would be rough or smooth, only one hand went up for “smooth”. Everyone else expected a pretty rough road ahead. Which is probably the reason they were all there for the weekend-long event that brought together some of the world’s most prominent thinkers, writers, and activists in the sustainability and localization movements to “discuss, discover, and devise better systems for now and the future”, as the event’s website put it.
The conference was organized by local activists including Karen Wyeth and Local 20/20 co-founder Judith Alexander, with major support from Swedish visionary Helena Norberg Hodge’s organization Local Futures, which has hosted a number of other Economics of Happiness conferences around the world, including in the U.S., India, Australia, Italy, and South Korea.
Along with Van Gelder, Yes! Magazine co-founder David Korten, and Post-Carbon Institute Senior Fellow Richard Heinberg, Norberg Hodge anchored the keynote panel on the first evening of the conference. This week on the Compass we bring you highlights of that keynote panel.
Check KPTZ Specials for the complete conference proceedings.
(first aired October 31, 2017). Host Sheila Bender talks to Port Townsend resident Marcia Breece about her writing and her work as a book publishing consultant.
(first aired November 1, 2017). Paul Ruben debuts as a Nature Now host and interviews Jefferson County Noxious Weed Control Assistant Malloree Weinheimer to learn about noxious plant species in our area and how to control them. Closing music is “Weeds,” performed by Victor Wainwright & The WildRoots.
(First airdate: November 2, 2017) Pleasures and Treasures host Marcia Perlstein interviews Denise Winters, Executive Artistic Director of Key City Public Theatre. Denise rolls out the coming 2018 season and casts light on all things Key City.
