Be the Change Radio

Maraleen Manos-Jones, the Butterfly Woman, returns to our show. This week she is accompanied by Jose Luis Alvarez, director and operator of La Cruz Habitat Protection Project – Mexico, a cooperative reforestation program.

John Raffaele and other direct support professionals and self-advocates.

Maraleen Manos-Jones returns to tell us more tales of butterfly life & lore.

Catskill Animal Sanctuary (CAS) Founder/Director Kathy Stevens describes her motivation for founding the CAS: Kindness, not only towards other humans, but towards all beings. CAS‘s 10th Annual Shindig is this coming Saturday.

Sheri Winston is a medical professional, sexuality educator, and author who is on a mission to transform our culture’s attitudes about sex. She developed her Wholistic Sexuality curriculum based on a perspective of sex that addresses the interplay of culture and biology, and incorporates the wisdom of ancient sex-positive cultures with little-known anatomical and scientific information. It is [...]

Maraleen Manos-Jones is The Butterfly Lady. She started raising and releasing monarch butterflies in the 1970s, which inspired a trip to Mexico to search for their hibernation grounds. She has been studying and advocating for butterflies ever since, including her work with Forests for Monarchs, an organization that has planted over 5 million trees in [...]

Our guest is Hope Nemiroff, Executive Director, Breast Cancer Options. Breast Cancer Options is a grassroots organization focusing on Health Advocacy, Support and Education. The 10 Annual Complementary Medicine Conference – ‘A Holistic Approach to Breast Health’ – will be held on Sunday, April 3, 2011, 8am-6pm at SUNY New Paltz in New Paltz NY.

Nora Olsen is the author of a new novel for young adults, THE END: Five Queer Kids Save The World. Last fall, in response to the rash of teen suicides that made the headlines (and all the others that didn’t make the headlines) she organized a rally in Beacon in support of our youth. Zara [...]

John Raffaele returns to discuss the code of ethics that he advocates for direct support professionals to strengthen their job skills and to improve the lives of the people whom they support.

Rebroadcast of our conversation with Geoffrey Shugen Arnold, Sensei, the spiritual director of the Mountains and Rivers Order of Zen Buddhism, and the abbot of the Zen Center of NYC. Among other projects, Shugen is concerned with fostering an integration of religious practice with environmental awareness. For a slightly different take on the same subject, [...]