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Program 10-05-02-A |
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Worried about limate change? Trying hard to reduce your carbon footprint? Kurt Hoelting gave up his car and spent a year traveling only by bike, kayak, public transportation, and his own two feet. In this hour of To the Best of Our Knowledge an argument in favor of the radically local life.. Living small and liking it.
SEGMENT 1:
Bill McKibben sounded the alarm about global warming over twenty years ago in his book, "The End of Nature." His new book is "Eaarth" (yes, spelled with 2 "a"s) and lays out a model of how to survive on our changed planet: think small and local. He talks with Anne Strainchamps about the changes to come and what we can do about them. Also, Kurt Hoelting is commercial fisherman and wilderness guide in the Pacific Northwest. He was shocked to discover how large his carbon footprint was, so set out to spend a year living within a 60 mile radius of his home. He describes it in his book "The Circumference of Home: One man's Yearlong Quest for a Radically Local Life" and in this conversation with Jim Fleming.
SEGMENT 2:
Gordon Hempton is one of the world's leading audio ecologists. For twenty years, he's traveled the planet recording natural soundscapes. He tells Anne Strainchamps Silence is disappearing in our world, but he brought lots of interesting sonic examples for us to hear. Hempton is the author of "One Square Inch of Silence: One Man's Search for Silence in A Noisy World."
SEGMENT 3:
Brenda Peterson is an environmental writer and editor. She talks with Steve Paulson about her memoir, "I Want To Be Left Behind: Finding Rapture Here on Earth." Peterson is the child of fundamentalist Christians but her father was a forest ranger and she grew up in a remote wilderness cabin. Also, sociologist Bron Taylor tells Steve Paulson that we're witnessing the birth of a new "dark green religion." His book is "Dark Green Religion - Nature Spirituality and the Planetary Future."
CD copies are available at 1-800-747-7444. Ask for program number 10-05-02-A.
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| Kurt Hoelting, The Circumference of Home: One Man's Yearlong Quest for a Radically Local Life (Da Capo Press) | |
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Bill McKibben, Eaarth: Making a Life
on a Tough New Planet (Times Books) |
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| Gordon Hempton, One Square Inch of Silence: One Man's Search for Silence in A Noisy World (Free Press) |  |
| Brenda Peterson, I Want To Be Left Behind: Finding Rapture Here on Earth (Da Capo Press) |  |
| Bron Taylor, Dark Green Religion - Nature Spirituality and the Planetary Future (California) |  |
- Bill McKibben
http://www.billmckibben.com/
http://www.350.org - Kurt Hoelting
http://insidepassages.com/ - Gordon Hempton
http://onesquareinch.org/
http://www.soundtracker.com - Brenda Peterson
http://literati.net/Peterson/ - Bron Taylor
http://www.brontaylor.com/
- -After Bill McKibben: “Bittersweet,”
performed by Sonos, on the CD SONOSings (Verve B001-3291-02)
- -After Kurt Hoelting: from Leo Kottke’s “Six
and Twelve String Guitar” (Takoma Records TAKCD-6503-2)
- -Gordon Hempton: sound recordings used courtesy of
the artist – most are available through his website: www.soundtracker.com
- -After Brenda Peterson: “Another Green World,”
by Brian Eno, on his CD “Another Green World.” (EG Records
EGCD 21)
- -Close: from Leo Kottke’s “Six and Twelve String Guitar” (Takoma Records TAKCD-6503-2
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