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 [...]

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!

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 [...]

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

Leigh Fortson, author of Embrace, Release, Heal: An Empowering Guide to Talking About, Thinking About, and Treating Cancer returns to discuss principles of healing and her own ongoing journey following treatments for three distinct cancer diagnoses.

Too Much Information! is an evening of non-fiction monologues created by women who spent 10 weeks in workshop writing true stories that they had never before told anyone. A lively interview with the director, Eva Tenuto, and four cast members. Recognize the power of truth to make us cry, laugh, and become all the more [...]

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 [...]

Listen: Be the Change 2010-07-14 Michael Monasterial is the Artistic Director and Founder of Passing the Torch Through the Arts, whose mission is to inspire the youth of Hudson Valley, thereby strengthening and developing an infinite resource: their creative and collective consciousness. Theater + Education + Positive Action = Social Change.

Listen: Be the Change 2009-09-23 Lisa Hamilton, author of Deeply Rooted: Unconventional Farmers in the Age of Agribusiness, is a writer and photographer who focuses on food and agriculture, particularly the stories of farmers.

Listen: Be the Change 2009-09-16 Eileen McAdam, vice-chair of the World Sound Foundation and the Sound & Story Project of the Hudson Valley.