The Creativity & Courage Of Nonviolence

Congressman John Lewis talks about the civil rights movement and the part he played in it. John also explains to Krista Tippett about how to apply nonviolence today.
Source: On Being with Krista Tippett: John Lewis — The Art & Discipline Of Nonviolence

Martin Luther King

Lloyd Sederer

Lloyd Sederer talks with Tavis Smiley about the mental health crisis in the U.S.

Dr. Lloyd Sederer is medical director of the New York State Office of Mental Health, the largest state mental health system in the United States. Lloyd is also adjunct professor at the Columbia/Mailman School of Public Health and has served as a faculty member at Harvard Medical School. Sederer has published seven books and more than 350 professional articles and reports. His most recent text, The Family Guide to Mental Health Care, is a comprehensive print resource for the millions of people who have loved ones suffering from some kind of mental illness.
Source: Tavis Smiley: Mental health expert Dr. Lloyd Sederer

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Music includes John Lennon - Imagine, Ryan Harvey - November 8th 2004, Gerald Ford, Steve Angrisano - Go Make a Difference, Pink Floyd - Goodbye Blue Sky, Martin Luther King - April 1968, Capitol Steps - Bomb Iran, Phil Klein & Maria DeAngelis - Do You Hear?, Ronald Reagan 10-27-1964, Nona Hendryx - The Ballad Of Rush Limbaugh, Huddie Ledbetter - Bourgeois Blues, Capitol Steps - Super Zealous Radicals, George and Julius - I Don't Want To Be a Soldier, Ac/Dc - Hail Caesar, Stevie Wonder - Superstition, Crosby Stills Nash & Young - Teach Your Children, Judy Collins - Amazing Grace, Charlie Parker - Relaxin' At Camarillo

The Heat Is On

2012 was one of the hottest year on record in the U.S., with Hurricane Sandy flooding the New York subway, drought devastating Midwest farms, and California and Colorado on fire.

Julia Kumari Drapkin

Reporter Julia Kumari Drapkin tells the story of Colorado’s State Climatologist, Nolan Doesken.

Nolan Doesken

Bob Inglis

Ben Calhoun tells about former Congressional Representative from South Carolina, Bob Inglis.

Bill McKibben

Ira Glass talks to writer and activist Bill McKibben.
Source: This American Life: Hot In My Backyard

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Music includes I'm A Climate Scientist - Extended Version, Reverend Billy And The Stop Shopping Gospel Choir - Explaination, Hollywood Undead - Young, George Carlin - Modern Man, Odetta - Freedom Trilogy, Michael Jackson - They Don't Care About Us, Tom Lehrer - The Old Dope Peddler, David Rovics - Coal Mine, Linda Tillery & the Cultural Heritage Choir - All the Pretty Little Horses, Redgum - I Was Only 19, Marvin Gaye - What's Going On, The Onion - Modified Broccoli, Willie Nelson - Crazy, The Original Mambo King - Caravan, Stephen Longfellow Fiske - Earth Anthem, Charles Mingus - Peggy's Blue Skylight

Death-Proofing the Cities of the Future

Amelia Templeton

Exporting Coal

U.S. Coal companies are planning to build export facilities in the Pacific Northwest to ship coal to Asia. But the governors of Washington and Oregon are appealing to the White House to consider the impact on climate change before approving the projects. Amelia Templeton of the public radio collaborative EarthFix talks to Steve Curwood about this situation. Another viewpoint is from local business owners Richard and Tanya Burkholder. They explain why they favor of exporting coal as part of the Voices of Coal project.

Richard and Tanya Burkholder

Source: Living On Earth: Coal Exports

Annalee Newitz

Death-Proofing the Cities of the Future

Annalee Newitz talked about “death-proofing” a city and converting urban spaces into biological organisms to prevent starvation and environmental destruction due to global climate change. Annalee is interviewed by Greta Brawner of C-Span. Read Annalee's article on How to Death-Proof the Cities of the Future

Cities of the Future?

Source: C-Span: Cities of the Future

Ashish Fernades

India’s Coal Killing Thousands

India is developing rapidly, and much of that growth is fueled by one of the dirtiest energy sources, coal. With even more coal plants planned, a new study shows that pollution from coal-fired power plants is killing up to 115,000 Indians every year. Report editor Ashish Fernades joins Steve Curwood to discuss the state of coal in India.
Source: Living On Earth: India’s Coal Killing Thousands

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How Big Corporations Get Big Tax Breaks

As Congress tightens the national budget belt, big corporations are getting monster tax breaks, with the help of high paid lobbyists. Tom Ashbrook talks to Christopher Rowland and David Cay Johnson about how corporations get tax breaks.

Christopher Rowland

Christopher Rowland is the Washington bureau chief for the Boston Globe and an author. (@globerowland)

David Cay Johnston

David Cay Johnston is a Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative reporter and columnist at “taxanalysts.com.” and an author. (@DavidCayJ)
Source: On Point with Tom Ashbrook: Big Corporations Lobbying For Big Tax Breaks

The Myth of a Polarized America

Morris Fiorina argues that Americans are far less polarized than the public is led to believe by the media and political pundits. Morris Fiorina is a senior fellow at the Hoover Institution and a professor of political science at Stanford University and an author.
Source: Book TV at the Hoover Institution: Morris Fiorina, "Culture War?: The Myth of a Polarized America"

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Music includes Soylent Gringo - Let Start A War (Part 1), Man of God - Eliza Gilkyson (Paradise Hotel), Charles Lindbergh, Dave Lippman - Geithner, Capitol Steps - Hillary's Way, Reverend Billy - First Amendment Song, Dave Lippman - Food Clothing, John Prine - Your Flag Decal Won't Get You Into Heaven Anymore, Capitol Steps - Help Me Romney, Makana - We Are The Many, Reverend Billy - They Have Taken Our Houses, Pete Seeger - Waist Deep in the Big Muddy, Charlie Chaplin - The Great Dictator, Mamborama - Cuba Te Llama