Be the Change Radio

Storyteller, author, wilderness expert & naturalist James Bruchac shares his love of the outdoors and his connection to nature with all of us. Jim is a master tracker who combines Native American philosophies, legends and observation skills with recent scientific techniques. He is the director of the Ndakinna Education Center in Greenfield Center NY which [...]

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.

We speak with five of the eleven high school students who spent the summer as members of Project ABLE, a project of Mill Street Loft. For six weeks, in collaboration with the Children’s Media Project and Radio Uprising, the Project ABLE group learned how to create a radio show, episodes of which aired on WVKR [...]

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.

A timely interview with a leading trainer and healer in trauma education, Raja Selvam, PhD.  Learn about simple first-aid strategies to prevent trauma symptoms from forming and short-term treatment strategies to resolve trauma symptoms quickly.  Raja’s insights offer practical hope as we continue to hear of the unfolding of events in Japan.  Raja also offers [...]