Gordon Douglas and Laura Wallace of Friends of the Great Swamp (FroGS) lovingly describe this extraordinary Dutchess County resource.

Melissa Everett, Executive Director of Sustainable Hudson Valley, talks about programs and tactics to create green collor jobs for rebuilding the economy while restoring the environment. Taking responsibility for our methods of production and our waste allows us to grow in a healthy balance like nature does.

Diana Hartel, founder and director of Madrona Arts, phones in to tell us about her trip around the country talking to river-keepers and raising awareness through art of environmentally endangered rivers.

Vassar Professor of Political Science, Sarita Gregory, tells us about training 180 college students to be pollworkers in the historical 2008 presidential election.

Our guest is Vicky Perry, Voting Machine Coordinator for the Dutchess County Board of Elections.

We speak with Fred Bunnell who has been, variously, a college professor, community activist and Dutchess County legislator, among other things.

We talk about engaging the democratic process through volunteering in voter registration drives, poll-watching, and door-to-door canvassing.

We take phone calls from local activist Marnie Andrews who has been a volunteer poll-watcher, and Gabe, a first-year college student who has done door-to-door- canvassing in this year’s presidential campaign.

Guest host Michelle Spark talks about learning the value of community and her role as a citizen when a river threatened to wash away back yards all along her street.

We talk to Sybil Rosen Thomas and Bill Bouris about building a library from scratch in Whitesburg, GA, with the help of the Rural Library Project. Rosen Thomas is the author of the forth-coming book, Living in the Woods in a Tree, about her years with Texas music legend Blaze Foley.

We also speak to James Krueger, the Executive Director of the Pine Hill Community Center in Pine Hill, NY