Be the Change Radio

Christian McEwen, author of the new book World Enough & Time, On Creativity and Slowing Down. We talk about the value of taking the time to be in our surroundings as they are, about how slowness can open doors to sustained creativity. Here’s the Andrew Marvell poem, To His Coy Mistress,  from which the title [...]

Cornelia Wathen is on the Initiating Committee of Transition Marbletown which hosts weekly meetings and events to foster community, affordable health care, local food, economy, collaboration and enjoyment.  Through Transition work, she also met two other co-creators of the new branch of Healthcare is a Human Right: Rondout Valley Holistic Health Center, opening March 20. [...]

Carol Flamm Reingold and her bike coalition starting husband, Tom Reingold. Carol is an energy healer and one of the organizers for the Training for Transition workshop taking place in Marbletown on March 17-18, 2012. Carol attended a Transition Training with Tina Clarke and was inspired by what she found there to organize another training. [...]

Pamela Boyce Simms coaches Transition Initiating Teams and Working Groups; facilitating team-building and  efficient, effective and harmonious group dynamics. Ms. Boyce Simms also is one of seven initiators on the Woodstock NY Transition Team in Ulster County, New York. Woodstock Transition currently hosts monthly public awareness sessions and plans its Great Unleashing in September 2012. [...]

Tina Clarke, Certified Transition Trainer. Transition Network supports community-led responses to climate change and shrinking supplies of cheap energy, building resilience and happiness. These involve meeting your neighbors, sharing resources and skills, and having fun doing it! Tina will be leading a Training for Transition in Marbletown on March 17-18.

Rebroadcast of our delicious show from last summer with the young people who produced a six-week radio show on WVKR called Turn It Up!

Local farmers and environmental activists Dan & Ann Guenther will talk about recent developments in the hydro-fracking permitting process, the transition movement, and how we as individuals can reduce damage to the planet by our own actions of reducing our reliance on fossil fuels.

Re-broadcast of our conversation with the founders of What BETTER Looks Like.

George Mansfield, Beacon city council person at large talks about why anyone might want to get involved in local politics.

Too Much Information returns to tell us about their current projects.