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In Search of Meadowlarks

To mark Earth Day, John Marzluff will outline a personal approach to sustainable agriculture.

Through an ornithologist’s lens, he observes current farming practices to see if we can broker a more harmonious relationship between our birds, farms, food and land.

RECORDED 4/16/2020

Joining the conversation will be  Ronnie Cummings, author of Grassroots Rising and  International Director of OCA, Organic Consumers Association, and Michael Chuisano, owner and farmer of The Naked Farm in New York where he grows a variety of produce, including lettuce, beets, radishes and arugula using a bio-intensive, no-till agricultural method.

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Do Morals Matter? Presidents and Foreign Policy

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Joseph Nye, a leading scholar of international relations, considers presidents and their foreign policy from FDR to Trump who come up short in the morality polls.

“Foreign Policy” magazine named Nye one of the top 100 Global Thinkers.

Recorded 4/3/2020

In Do Morals Matter?, Joseph Nye provides a concise yet penetrating analysis of the role of ethics in U.S. foreign policy during the post-1945 era. Working through each presidency from Truman to Trump, Nye scores their foreign policy on three ethical dimensions: their intentions, the means they used, and the consequences of their decisions. Alongside this, he evaluates their leadership qualities, elaborating on which approaches work and which ones do not.

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Nature Underfoot: Learning to live with tiny life

RECORDED 3/19/2020

John Hainze, an entomologist, ethicist and former pesticide-developer calls for greater respect and moral consideration for humans and their natural world.

Are creepy crawlers and unwanted plants deserving of empathy as partners dwelling with us on earth?

Fruit flies, dandelions, and crabgrass are the bane of many people and the target of numerous eradication efforts. In his compelling reassessment of the relationship between humans and the natural world, Hainze considers the fascinating and bizarre history of how these so-called invasive or unwanted pests and weeds have coevolved with humanity and highlights the benefits of a greater respect and moral consideration toward these organisms.

Joining the conversation will be James Barilla, author of MY BACKYARD JUNGLE: The Adventures of an Urban Wildlife Lover who turned his Yard into Habitat and Learned to live with It which considers the habitat of a typical urban back yard as a microcosm of burgeoning cities like Rio de Janeiro. He teaches creative non-fiction and environmental literature at the University of South Carolina.

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Migrating to Prison

For much of America’s history, we simply did not lock people up for migrating here. Yet over the last thirty years, the federal and state governments have increasingly tapped their powers to incarcerate people accused of violating immigration laws. As a result, roughly 400,000 people a year now spend some time locked up pending civil or criminal immigration proceedings.

César Cuauhtémoc García Hernández‘s new book takes a hard look at the immigration prison system’s origins, how it currently operates, and why. It tackles the outsized presence of private prisons and how those on the political right continue, disingenuously, to link immigration imprisonment with national security risks and threats to the rule of law.

César Cuauhtémoc García Hernández is a professor of law at the University of Denver and an immigration lawyer. He runs the blog Crimmigration.com.

Recorded for broadcast 2.19.2020

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The Age Of Illusions

Andrew Bacevich, Professor Emeritus of International Relations and History at the Boston University discusses his new book about the post-Cold war follies and delusions that culminated in the age of Donald Trump in conversation with journalist Christopher Lydon, host of Open Source radio.

THE AGE OF ILLUSIONS
How America Squandered Its Cold War Victory

How, within a quarter of a century, did the United States end up with gaping inequality, permanent war, moral confusion, and an increasingly angry and alienated population, as well, of course, the strangest president in American history?

Recorded 1/14/2020

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How To Start A Revolution

Writers Lauren Duca and Martin Lukacs, author of The Trudeau Formula, discuss collective action and non-violent protest with members of the climate action group, Extinction Rebellion

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Recorded 12/4/19 WGBH Forum Network VIDEO

L>R Lauren Duca,author of How to Start A Revolution, Martin Lukacs,author of The Trudeau Formula, Calla Walsh, 15 year old activist for Extinction Rebellion, Michael Fogelberg, Extinction Rebellion, Mary Stack, CF

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APPALACHIA: A Cultural Crossroads

APPALACHIA 
A CULTURAL CROSSROADS

This forum is a co-production with the Revels organization and will feature performances by musicians Jake Blount and Libby Weitnauer and interviews with the Revel’s creative team who will explore the history and roots of traditional music of Appalachia.

The Appalachian Mountains south of the Mason-Dixon Line, is one of the birthplaces of American music: the mountains of southern Appalachia, where Native American, African American, and European traditions combined to foster an astonishing wealth of artistic expression.

The forum will celebrate the quiet of the mountains in the songs passed on by Appalachian musicians from generation to generation, and examine the ideas that resonate in this music that speaks of the natural world, the hardship, the dark and light in human relationships. 

Recorded November 6, 2019

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On Fire: The (Burning) Case for a Green New Deal

Naomi Klein, internationally bestselling author and journalist, describes her latest book, On Fire: The (Burning) Case for a Green New Deal explaining how bold climate action can be a blueprint for a just and thriving society.

Recorded October 10, 2019

She was joined by JULIET B. SCHOR, Professor of Sociology at Boston College. This event is co-sponsored by Harvard Book Store, 350 Mass, The Intercept, The Leap, and Sunrise.

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With reports spanning from the ghostly Great Barrier Reef, to the annual smoke-choked skies of the Pacific Northwest, to post-hurricane Puerto Rico, to a Vatican attempting an unprecedented “ecological conversion,” Naomi Klein makes the case that we will rise to the existential challenge of climate change only if we are willing to transform the systems that produced this crisis.

An expansive, far-ranging exploration that sees the battle for a greener world as indistinguishable from the fight for our lives, On Fire captures the burning urgency of the climate crisis, as well as the fiery energy of a rising political movement demanding a catalytic Green New Deal.


Kochland

If you want to understand how we destroyed unions in this country, how we widened the income divide, how we stalled progress on climate change, and how corporate America bought the influence industry, you have to understand the story of Koch Industries.

Recorded 10/9/2019

Koch Industries is one of the largest private companies in the world, a sprawling conglomerate whose operations span the entire landscape of the American economy.

.Charles Koch and his brother David, who own roughly 80 percent of Koch Industries, are together worth $120 billion—more than Berkshire Hathaway CEO Warren Buffett or Microsoft founder Bill Gates. 

Koch also has one of the largest, most well-funded lobbying operations in the United States—a political influence network that is arguably the most powerful and far-reaching operation ever run out of an American CEO’s office.

Christopher Leonard is a business reporter whose work has appeared in The Washington Post, The Wall Street Journal, Fortune, and Bloomberg Businessweek

 
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The End of Meat?

Can Americans survive without their hamburgers? This juicy question raises many fundamental issues – nutritional, moral and environmental.

Recorded 9/25/2019

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Cows are big methane machines and not very efficient ones, and everyone agrees that we need to reduce our carbon footprint. As people are becoming better informed about choices and what they’re putting into their bodies, they are looking at the “costs” from a health perspective, for animals and for the environment. Changes are afoot.

Who knew that Burger King would be offering the Impossible Whopper made from plant-based protein instead of meat? And veganism, which used to be a fringe-movement, has now morphed into a hip lifestyle. Scientists are already working on cell-based meat products which will be on sale to the public next year.

To help us understand the issues, we have scientists, philosophers and businessmen. Dr. Walter Willett, Professor of Epidemiology and Nutrition at Harvard will be joined by Nina Gheihman, a sociologist at the Weatherhead Center for International Affairs and two entrepreneurs, Truman French and Tucker Pforzheimer, who are running a business, growing shiitake mushrooms on Martha’s Vineyard.

Can a burger help combat climate change?

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