INTERVIEW: GERALD CELENTE, AUTHOR 1/10/08
GERALD CELENTE of The Trends Research Institute publishes TRENDS JOURNAL. A New Yorker, who calls himself a political agnostic, Celente gives everybody hell. I first booked him in January 05 and listener response has led me to make this an annual show.
CELENTE accurately forecast the Iraqi War quagmire, the last two recessions, the Dot-Com meltdown, and the 1987 ...
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Terrence McNally’s podcast features conversations with people who offer pieces of the puzzle of “a world that just might work” -- provocative approaches to business, environment, health, science, politics, media and culture. Guests have included Ken Burns, Deborah Tannen, Andrew Weil, Jeremy Rifkin, Arianna Huffington, Roger Ebert, Bill Joy, Alvin Toffler, Paul Krugman, Bill Maher, and Norman Lear.
INTERVIEW: CHRIS ANDERSON, AUTHOR 9/21/07
Chris Anderson is editor-in-chief of Wired Magazine, which has won a National Magazine Award under his tenure. He coined the phrase The Long Tail in an acclaimed Wired article, which he expanded upon in the book The Long Tail: Why the Future of Business Is Selling Less of More (2006). He currently lives in Berkeley, California with his wife and five young children ...
INTERVIEW: JEROME ARMSTRONG AND MARKOS MOULITSAS ZUNIGA 9/20/07
Crashing the Gate is a shot across the bow at the political establishment in Washington, DC and a call to re-democratize politics in America. Written by two of the most popular political bloggers in America.
Markos Moulitsas Zúniga served in the U.S. Army for three years and later earned two bachelors degrees from Northern Illinois University and a law degree from Boston University. After moving to California to work in the tech industry, Markos started www.DailyKos.com (2002). Jerome Armstrong, a pioneer of the political blogosphere, founded one of the first political blogs, www.MyDD.com ...
INTERVIEW: KENNY AUSUBEL, ENTREPRENEUR, AUTHOR, JOURNALIST, FILMMAKER 9/29/07
Kenny Ausubel is an award-winning social entrepreneur, author, journalist and filmmaker. He is the founder and co-executive directions of Bioneers, a nationally recognized nonprofit dedicated to disseminating practical and visionary solutions for restoring Earth’s imperiled ecosystems and healing our human communities.
He launched the annual Bioneers Conference in 1990 with his producing partner and wife Nina Simons, Bioneers co-executive director.
INTERVIEW: ANDREW BACEVICH, AUTHOR 9/12/08
I'd heard of Dr. Bacevich and read some op-eds, but as soon as I saw into his interview a few weeks back with Bill Moyers, I knew I had to talk with him. The next day when I looked at Barnes and Noble for his book I was surprised and pleased that it had jumped to #1 in sales.
I believe Andrew Bacevich in his new book pulls things together in ways that I hadn't seen before ...
INTERVIEW: DEAN BAKER, AUTHOR 10/9/08
DEAN BAKER is one of the smartest progressive economics thinkers and we talk about the economic crisis, the bailout, the election, and what we might expect from an Obama or McCain administration.
DEAN BAKER is the co-director of the Center for Economic and Policy Research (CEPR). http://www.cepr.net/index.php/dean-baker/
He is the author of THE CONSERVATIVE NANNY STATE: How the Wealthy Use the Government to Stay Rich ...
INTERVIEW: NEAL BARNARD, M.D, AUTHOR 9/12/08
Clinical researcher and author Neal Barnard, M.D., is one of America’s leading advocates for health, nutrition, and higher standards in research. As the principal investigator of several human clinical research trials, whose results are published in peer-reviewed medical and scientific journals, Dr. Barnard has examined key issues in health and nutrition.
Neal Barnard is the founder and president of the Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine (PCRM). Dr. Barnard is also president of The Cancer Project, a nonprofit organization advancing cancer prevention and survival through nutrition education and research ...
INTERVIEW: THOMAS BARNETT, AUTHOR 9/3/08
Today I look at security strategy and planning with Thomas Barnett, an expert on how globalization is transforming warfare whom US News & World Report calls, "one of the most important strategic thinkers of our time."
THOMAS BARNETT has been a senior adviser to military and civilian leaders in a range of offices, including the Office of the Secretary of Defense, the Joint Staff, Central Command and Special Operations Command. From November 2001 to June 2003, he advised the Pentagon on transforming military capabilities to meet future threats. Barnett also led ...
INTERVIEW: LESTER BROWN, AUTHOR 2/8/08
LESTER BROWN has been described by the Washington Post as "one of the world's most influential thinkers." After working with the Department of Agriculture in international agricultural development, Brown helped establish the Overseas Development Council, then founded the Worldwatch Institute, which has played an important role in the public's understanding of trends in our global environment with its annual State of the World report and later the annual Vital Signs
In 2001, he left Worldwatch, founded Earth Policy Institute www.earth-policy.org, and published Eco-Economy ...
INTERVIEW: LESTER BROWN (PART 2), AUTHOR 2/8/08
Lester Brown (part 2 of interview) has been described by the Washington Post as "one of the world's most influential thinkers." After working with the Department of Agriculture in international agricultural development, Brown helped establish the Overseas Development Council, then founded the Worldwatch Institute, which has played an important role in the public's understanding of trends in our global environment with its annual State of the World report and later the annual Vital Signs
INTERVIEW: GAY BROWNE, FOUNDER AND CEO OF GREENOPIA 6/10/08
Greenopia is your local guide to green living. Greenopia created a directory of eco-friendly retailers, services, and organizations and conducted extensive research on those Greenopia listed in the guide ...
INTERVIEW: ROBERT BRYCE, JOURNALIST AND AUTHOR 5/7/08
Robert Bryce is a journalist in Austin, Texas and the author of Pipe Dreams: Greed, Ego, and the Death of Enron (PublicAffairs, 2002; a Publishers Weekly Best Book of the Year) and Cronies: Oil, the Bushes, and the Rise of Texas, America's Superstate (PublicAffairs, 2004).
Bryce was a reporter for the Austin Chronicle for 12 years, and is now the managing editor of the Energy Tribune.
INTERVIEW: HELEN CALDICOTT, PHYSICIAN AND ANTI-NUCLEAR ADVOCATE 9/27/07
Helen Caldicott is an Australian physician and anti-nuclear advocate who has founded several associations dedicated to opposing nuclear weapons, nuclear weapons proliferation, war and military action in general, particularly the use of depleted Uranium munitions, most notably nuclear energy in recent years, Uranium mining and nuclear technology in general.
INTERVIEW: GERALD CELENTE, AUTHOR 8/20/08
GERALD CELENTE accurately forecast the Iraqi War quagmire, the last two recessions, the Dot-Com meltdown, and the 1987 world stock market crash. As far back as 1993 he predicted that a new Crusades would be raging ...
When no WMD could be been found in Iraq, several members of the Bush administration justified the imminent preemptive invasion because we could “not afford for the smoking gun come in the form of a mushroom cloud.” Turns out Saddam had no bomb, probably no bomb program.
We've heard consistent fear-mongering from a Bush administration that appears eager to attack Iran. Bush himself ...
INTERVIEW: STEVEN CLEMONS, BLOGGER 2/5/08
Steven Clemons is is the publisher of the popular political blog; www.thewashingtonnote.com, and a former staff member of Senator Jeff Bingaman. Clemons is also Director of the American Strategy Program at the New America Foundation, and the former director of the Japan Policy Research Institute. He characterizes himself as a "progressive realist."
INTERVIEW: JONATHAN COHN, AUTHOR 8/14/07
Jonathan Cohn: Sick, The Untold Story of the Health Care Crisis - And the People Who Pay the Price. Johnathan Cohn, author of SICK, discusses why the U.S. is the only developed country that does not guarantee access to medical care as a right of citizenship.
The United States is the only country in the developed world that does not guarantee access to medical care ...
INTERVIEW: ROBERT COLES, PROFESSOR AND AUTHOR 11/25/08
Who and what is Robert Coles? Social scientitst, humanist, political activist, psychiatrist, minstrel, wandering storyteller, mystic, wise man, poet, dissenter, and yes, I'll use the word, secular saint. -Andrew Greenley, Chicago Tribune
I have long wanted to interview Robert Coles, and now, for an hour this week, I will finally do it. I invite anyone to google his books. He has written on a broad range of topics, but consistently on subjects that matter.
INTERVIEW: JANINE BENYUS, WRITER, INNOVATION CONSULTANT, AUTHOR 12/16/08
After 3.8 billion years of R&D, failures are fossils. The conscious emulation of life's genius is a sustainable survival strategy for the human race.
Biomimicry (from bios, meaning life, and mimesis, meaning to imitate) is a new science that studies nature's best ideas and then imitates these designs and processes to solve human problems. Studying a leaf to invent a better solar cell is an example of this "innovation inspired by nature."
The core idea is that nature, imaginative by necessity, has already solved many of the problems we are grappling with. Animals, plants, and microbes are the consummate engineers. They have found what works, what is appropriate ...
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