Be the Change Radio

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.

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.

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.

Some of the co-founders of Ulster County Cohousing / Legacy Farm Cohousing of Rosendale.

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

Liz & Rob Gannon-Graydon, co-founders of What BETTER Looks Like. What BETTER Looks Like fosters the development of beloved community by helping individuals imagine, articulate and create visions for a better world. The intentional infusion of love into our interactions has the power to create the radical changes necessary to make the world better.

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 [...]

Phillip Kanakis and Nandapriya Sattva are co-founders of Turn Up the Peace. Starting in Carnegie Hall last January, Turn Up the Peace brings together a joyous array of musicians at each event. Their next concert is at the Bardovan in Poughkeepsie. Music of love, peace, and unity, give audiences a visceral experience of peace while [...]

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 [...]