(First airdate: March 8, 2018) Community Read 2018 features Leif Whittaker’s My Old Man and the Mountain: A Memoir. PT Library Director, Melody Sky Eisler speaks about this year’s Community Read with Larry Stein, followed by a replay of Cris Wilson’s 2017 interview with Leif Whittaker about his book and his life in his adventurous family.
KPTZ, our community and the world lost our beloved Marcia Perlstein on Sunday evening, February 25, 2018. Marcia was the host of the two radio programs Pleasures and Treasures (aka Treasures and Pleasures) and Under the Rainbow, and she was a lifelong activist for human rights and justice. She called herself “your friendly neighborhood interviewer,” and urged us all to “Go gently, or as gently as you can.” Marcia was a force for good, for humanity, for justice, for art, for love.
(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
(Recorded June 22, 2017) Steve Evans, KPTZ News Director, spoke with Derek Kilmer on Thursday, June 22 about the recent shooting on the Congressional Baseball field, the President’s proposed budget, cuts on environmental and health programs, and citizen reaction on the attempts to revoke and replace the Affordable Care Act.
(First airdate: March 8, 2017) Larry Stein talks with Karen Hanan, Executive Director of the Washington State Arts Commission, and Rob Birman, Executive Director of Centrum about the state of National, State and Local funding for the arts.
(Recorded February 28, 2017) Listen to a new conversation with Rep. Derek Kilmer (WA-6th). Derek talks about the town-hall meetings he hosted during February’s congressional break, and the current state of legislation in Congress.
(First airdate: February 28, 2017) Larry Stein interviews Derek Kilmer, US Representative for Washington state’s 6th district about current activity in Congress and in our home district.
(First airdate: February 20, 2017) Arts News Report by Larry Stein on I Have a Name, a photo exhibition at the Northwind Arts Center, on display through February 26. The photos, by Raymond Ketcham, document activities and people over four years at the Boiler Room on Water Street, next door to Northwind.
(First airdate: January 31, 2017) Larry Stein interviews Derek Kilmer, U.S. Representative from Washington state’s 6th Congregational District about current activity in Congress.
(First airdate: December 7, 2016) Larry Stein interviews Mary Ellen Hannibal, author of Citizen Science, in which she writes about the widespread activities that have been labeled “Citizen Science”, such as Birdwatchers, Tidepool tenders, backyard Bee enthusiasts – the many people who share their observations of our natural world with coordinated databases, and scientists who can use that data. She speaks in Port Townsend at the High School Salon Series on Friday Dec. 9, and at the Fort Worden chapel for the Marine Science Center on Sunday Dec. 11.
