|
Crop To Cuisine
21 Feb 2009 — Community Supported Agriculture (CSAs) — In a CSA, people pay up front for a season's worth of food, helping farmers with their pre-harvest costs and guaranteeing themselves a weekly share of the bounty. C2C explores a few different CSA models to help you figure out what you should be looking for in a program for you or your family.
Go to page |
Download/Listen
53:59
Related items:
-- Read Grinning Planet's article about CSAs
-- Find CSAs near you through LocalHarvest
CounterSpin
27 Feb 2009 — Whole Show — Featuring... (1) C-Spin's weekly unwinding of journalistic hoo-hah ~~ (2) Why is CNBC reporter Rick Santelli so outraged at Uncle Same bailing out mortgage "losers" but apparently blind to the contradiction of the US bailing out big-banking losers? Call it "bailout elitism." ~~ (3) The founding fathers envisioned a free press as playing a watchdog role over those holding power. Today all major media outlets are owned by those who have the power; that is to say, media are largely biased towards corporate power and wealthy elites. Preservation of the status quo is classic conservatism. So why won't the myth of the "liberal media" just die already?
Go to page |
Download/Listen
28:00
Democracy Now
27 Feb 2009 — Whole Show — Including... Headlines ~~ Rocky Mountain News Ends Publication, the Latest Casualty of Ailing Newspaper Industry ~~ Debate: Can US Achieve Meaningful Healthcare Reform Within the For-Profit System? ~~ D.C. Voting Rights on the Front Burner Again ~~ Sri Lankan Civilians Caught Between Worsening Military-Tamil Rebel Clashes
Go to page |
Download/Listen
1:00:00
Bill Moyers Journal
27 Feb 2009 — Robert Johnson - Bailout Update — Bill Moyers talks with economist Robert Johnson, who decodes this week's news on the bank bailout, with a hard look at the international ramifications of the plan and a discussion of why nationalization has become a flash point. Plus a conversation with John McWhorter on whether the US is "a nation of cowards," as Attorney General Eric Holder suggests, when it comes to racial issues.
Go to page |
Download/Listen
49:18
20 Feb 2009 — Robert G. Kaiser - Government Lobbying — Robert G. Kaiser has been following Beltway politics for The Washington Post for nearly 50 years. Bill Moyers talks with Kaiser about his new book, So Damn Much Money: The Triumph of Lobbying and the Corrosion of American Government. Plus a conversation with Parker J. Palmer about maintaining spiritual wholeness even as the economy and political order seem to be coming apart.
Go to page |
Download/Listen
53:37
Radio EcoShock
27 Feb 2009 — Life After the Crash — Will the worsening downward spiral of our economy combine with future constraints in energy supplies, the failure of the money system, or climate disruption to cause a breakdown in central services and civil society? Should a concerned person or family get a homestead? Prepare to eco-migrate? Store long-term food?
Download/Listen
1:00
Also available: Grinning Planet's food crisis article and
books about food security.
Free Speech Radio News
27 Feb 2009 — Obama: We'll Be (Sort Of) Out of Iraq in 19 Months — Obama will bring home "combat brigades" within 19 months, but a signifant number of troops will remain in Iraq after that.
Go to page |
Download/Listen
3:09
27 Feb 2009 — Obama Budget Proposal Increases Military Spending — Obama's $3.6 trillion dollar budget plan includes an increase in defense spending that will result in his administration spending more on the military than George W. Bush's.
Go to page |
Download/Listen
3:32
24 Feb 2009 — What Would Bank Nationalization Mean for Taxpayers? — Testifying before the Senate, Federal Reserve chairman Ben Bernanke downplayed the possibility of bank nationalization but didn't rule it out as an option for the future. This segment explains what the process might mean for US taxpayers.
Go to page |
Download/Listen
4:28
24 Feb 2009 — Halliburton: Changing the U.S. Makes War — Pratap Chatterjee, author of Halliburton's Army, expands the overall picture of military contractors, asserting that Halliburton has substantially changed the way the US makes war.
Go to page |
Download/Listen
4:36
24 Feb 2009 — Revisiting NY's Manditory-Sentencing Drug Laws — Former New York state lawmaker G. Oliver Koppell says the '70s-era "Rockerfeller Drug Laws"—which require lengthy mandatory minimum sentences, even for non-violent offenses—have resulted in overcrowded prisons and have failed to bring down drug ringleaders. With a change in control of the state legislature and the need to cut state spending comes the possibility of change.
Go to page |
Download/Listen
4:27
Guns and Butter
25 Feb 2009 — Webster Tarpley - Obama's Banking Panic — Defining the financial crisis; plus a discussion of the Federal Reserve, the steps that ought to be taken, the Troubled Asset Recovery Program (TARP), foreclosures, the Stimulus Package, the "bad bank" concept, the upcoming budget, the Fiscal Responsibility Summit, and what lies ahead under present policies.
Go to page |
Download/Listen
59:53
|
Living On Earth
27 Feb 2009 — Full Show — Including... Expanding solar and wind energy, and getting it to where it's needed, could spark a struggle over power lines ~~ Even as a record number of people are using public transportation, cities are running out of money to keep services running ~~ Businesses are beginning to add up the true costs of their water use ....
Go to page |
Download/Listen
51:42
NOW
27 Feb 2009 — Retirement at Risk — With the relentless market downturn, baby boomers are wondering whether they be able to afford their own retirement. NOW turns to two experts for help and insight: Amy Domini, a pioneer in the field of socially responsible investing; and Dan Gross, journalist and author of Dumb Money: How Our Greatest Financial Minds Bankrupted the Nation.
Go to page |
Download/Listen
26:00
|
|
KunstlerCast
26 Feb 2009 — #53: Incomprehensible Buildings — James Howard Kunstler believes many famous architects often strive to confound people in order to appear supernaturally brilliant. It's all in the service of grandiosity and narcissism, though. Rather than attempting to disturb our expectations, architects should strive to give us buildings that are neurologically comprehensible and that satisfy our need for cultural orientation.
Go to page |
Download/Listen
31:33
19 Feb 2009 — #52: Rebuilding New Orleans — JHK discusses the issue of rebuilding New Orleans after hurricane Katrina. Legal disputes, government inefficiency, and suburban mindsets have stood in the way of constructing traditional neighborhoods in New Orleans. While the charming urban fabric of the French Quarter and the Garden District still remains, Kunstler believes that New Orleans is likely to be a much smaller city than it was in the 20th century, with much of the cultural liveliness of poorer neighborhoods gone.
Go to page |
Download/Listen
23:45
|
FEB 2009
