Connect The Dots

Connect The Dots - 12.06.17

How Corporate Agriculture Undermines Food Quality: Listen to Barry Estabrook, author of Tomatoland about the varied ways that corporate ag manipulates ecology, biology, and policy to undermine the healthfulness of food— in conversation with Alison Rose Levy.

Connect The Dots - The River Protector - 11.29.17

Listen to Maya van Rossum, the Delaware Riverkeeper and leader of the Delaware Riverkeeper Network, the only citizen action organization that works the entire length and breadth of the Delaware River and its watershed, speaking and working for both its protection and its restoration — in conversation with Alison Rose Levy.

Connect The Dots - Kiss the Ground - 11.22.17

Kiss the Ground: Listen to Josh Tickell, award-winning filmmaker and author of upcoming book, Kiss The Ground, as well as a film of the same name (Executive Produced by Leonardo di Caprio) on the climate costs of conventional agriculture and how that can be corrected by ecologically mindful agriculture — in conversation with Alison Rose Levy.

Connect The Dots - Next Phase of the Organic Food Movement - 11.15.17

Listen to Dan Kittredge, Founder and Director of the Bionutrient Food Association and second generation organic farmer talking about how regenerative agriculture can feed everyone and restore ecological balance, key topics at the upcoming Food and Soil Conference in Massachusetts the week following Thanksgiving — in conversation with Alison Rose Levy.

Connect The Dots - Unfractured - 11.08.17

Unfractured: Listen to Sandra Steingraber, biologist, award-winning author of Raising Elijah, and activist leader of New Yorkers Against Fracking, speaking on the human side of activism as revealed in the new film, Unfractured, which portrays her work to achieve the 2014 New York State fracking ban—with Chanda Chavannes, the film’s director— in conversation with Alison Rose Levy. 

 

Connect The Dots - Are Unhealthy Foods Killing Us - 11.01.17

Are Unhealthy Foods Killing Us: Listen to Joel Fuhrman, MD, author of Fast Food Genocide about both the physical health, mental health and sociological problems created by our fast food culture— in conversation with Alison Rose Levy. 

Connect The Dots - SuperStorm Sandy Revisited - 10.25.17

SuperStorm Sandy Revisited : Today Leslie Cagan, coordinator of the Peoples Climate Movement NY and who brought 400,000 people into the streets demanding action on the global climate crisis as co-coordinator of the Sept. 21, 2014 People’s Climate March,  will speak about environment, resilience, and upcoming actions in conversation with Alison Rose Levy.

Connect The Dots - Welcome to the Revolution - 10.04.17

 Listen to Charles Derber, , a professor of  sociology at Boston College, whose new book, Welcome to the Revolution, features contributions from Gar Alperovitz, Medea Benjamin, and Ralph Nader about concrete ways to universalize resistance in the current epoch— in conversation with Alison Rose Levy.

Connect The Dots - In Remembrance of Bob Gough - 09.27.17

Today’s show: In Remembrance of Bob Gough: Lynne Colombe, the editor of The Todd County Tribune and  President of the St Francis Indian School Board— and the stepdaughter of the late tribal elder, environmentalist, attorney, and activist Bob Gough— will share remembrances of him and discuss his invaluable contributions to the indigenous people and the earth. 

Connect The Dots - Robert Gough - 09.20.17

A rebroadcast (from December 2014) of a conversation with the late environmentalist and tribal elder, Robert Gough, an attorney specializing in cultural ecology, who has worked with Indian Tribes on cultural and natural resource issues over the past thirty years. Topic: why indigenous communities are serving on the front-lines of environmental activism.