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With Derrick Jensen.

Progressive Radio Network


    • Jun 2, 2025 LATEST EPISODE
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    • 254 EPISODES

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    The Resistance Radio podcast provides a sense of solace and camaraderie to those who share similar concerns about the state of our world. Although the topics discussed may not always be uplifting, the podcast serves as a reminder that we are not alone in our grief and anger. The interview with Jeff Gibbs, the creator of "Planet of the Humans," stands out as an exceptional episode that is both inspiring and disturbing, challenging listeners to confront uncomfortable truths. Host Derrick Jensen has an uncanny ability to attract intelligent and empathetic guests, creating episodes that are thought-provoking and insightful. Through these conversations, he sheds light on the dire consequences our species has on the natural world and offers a voice to those valiantly standing up for nature. In a world where despair can consume us, The Resistance Radio podcast serves as a beacon of hope.

    One of the best aspects of The Resistance Radio podcast is its ability to introduce listeners to a diverse range of committed individuals who are actively resisting destructive practices. Derrick Jensen's skillful interviewing style brings out brilliant gems from his guests, enabling listeners to discover new perspectives and ideas. The depth of knowledge and passion exhibited by these guests is truly inspirational and leaves a lasting impact on those who tune in. Additionally, Jensen fearlessly delves into complex philosophical reasoning that aligns perfectly with political soundness. The podcast offers an educational platform where important issues affecting us all are explored with care, concern, and empathy.

    While The Resistance Radio podcast excels in many areas, it should be noted that its topics can be quite heavy at times. Some may find certain discussions disturbing or unsettling due to their portrayal of humanity's negative impact on the environment and other living beings. However, it is precisely these uncomfortable conversations that are necessary for fostering change and igniting activism within listeners. It is through facing these hard truths that we can begin to make meaningful progress towards protecting our planet.

    In conclusion, The Resistance Radio podcast, hosted by Derrick Jensen, is a vital source of inspiration and intellectual stimulation. With its exceptional lineup of guests and their commitment to fighting for the natural world, this podcast serves as a beacon of hope for those concerned about the trajectory of our species. By raising awareness and exploring complex issues, The Resistance Radio podcast prompts listeners to critically examine their own role in the resistance against destructive practices. In an era where environmental consciousness is more critical than ever, Jensen's work is essential in giving voice to the resistance movement and inspiring us all to take action.



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    Resistance Radio Interview of Nicole Mowbray

    Play Episode Listen Later Jun 2, 2025 54:08


    Nicole Mowbray came out as a lesbian in 1986 in Melbourne, Australia. She was 19 at the time and came out to a thriving lesbian community. In the intervening 40 years, she has watched that thriving community go underground in order to keep males out. It is now illegal for lesbians to have public single sex spaces and there is now nowhere for young lesbians to find their community. Nicole joined the Lesbian Action Group in order to try to turn this around and has been involved in the ensuing legal action. She worked professionally as an academic librarian and multimedia designer and has also been involved in the environmental movement as a climate leader and grower of trees."

    Resistance Radio Interview of George Wuerthner

    Play Episode Listen Later May 26, 2025 50:30


    George Wuerthner. He is the former Ecological Projects Director for the Foundation for Deep Ecology. Currently he is the executive director of Public Lands Media. He is an ecologist and wildlands activist. He has published 38 books on environmental issues and natural history including such environmentally focused books as Welfare Ranching, Wildfire, Thrillcraft, Energy and most recently Protecting the Wild.

    Resistance Radio Interview of James Van Lanen

    Play Episode Listen Later May 19, 2025 51:32


    James Van Lanen has spent nearly two decades as a professional anthropologist studying and working with indigenous hunter-gatherers on three continents. James is also an active subsistence hunter, fisher, and forager, extensively involved in the material arts of rewilding and bushcraft, mostly off-grid in the far north. He currently works as a Wildlife Technician for Alaska's Wood Bison Restoration Project and as an Environmental Specialist for the Yukon River Drainage Fisheries Association, a tribal NGO focused on salmon conservation. Human Rewilding in the 21st Century is his first book. He is currently working on three other books surrounding anthropology and the crisis of civilization. Some of his previous writings have appeared in the journal Hunter-Gatherer Research, Human Ecology, Oak Journal, Black and Green Review, and Wild Resistance.

    Resistance Radio Interview of Rupert Read

    Play Episode Listen Later Apr 14, 2025 55:49


    Rupert Read, professor emeritus of philosophy at the University of East Anglia, now co-directs the Climate Majority Project, having previously helped launch Extinction Rebellion. He is the author of many books, including Why Climate Breakdown Matters.

    Resistance Radio Interview of Rocky Smith

    Play Episode Listen Later Apr 7, 2025 49:31


    Rocky Smith moved to Colorado from the midwest in 1975 and quickly became enamored with Colorado's beautiful mountains. On a climbing trip in 1979, he witnessed abuse of the wilderness he was in. He has worked hard to protect Colorado's wild areas ever since, working with non-profit organizations and as an independent consultant

    Resistance Radio Interview of Sofia Castelo

    Play Episode Listen Later Mar 24, 2025 55:44


    Sofia Castelo is a climate adaptation practitioner, researcher, and landscape architect with over 20 years of experience designing and managing landscape, urban design, and environmental projects in Europe, China, the USA, Australia, and Malaysia. She holds a graduate degree in Landscape Architecture and postgraduate degrees in Project Management and Climate Change and Sustainable Development Policies. Sofia is currently focused on using nature-based solutions for urban adaptation. The 'Nature-based Climate Adaptation Program for the Urban Areas of Penang Island', a project she led and is currently in execution, won the Climathon Global Cities Award 2020 and the KSAAEM Award 2022. In 2023, she co-founded the El Collective, an integrated arts and research project documenting the impact of climate change on women and girls in the Global South.

    Resistance Radio Interview of Daniel Kirchner

    Play Episode Listen Later Mar 17, 2025 53:07


    Daniel J. Kirchner is a Senior Lewis Lecturer in the Lewis Honors College at the University of Kentucky, where he teaches teach environmental and food ethics. He believes values underlie the beliefs which drive the actions one takes. His goal as a teacher is to guide each student toward deeper understanding of that set of connections so that they can apply their education to what they find meaningful to do in the world. As a philosopher, he aims aim to show students how to know and critically evaluate the systems in which they will do those meaningful things so that they can be thoughtful and effective. And as an ethicist, he creates opportunities for them to engage in the difficult and vulnerable work of considering their own values as the foundation for these actions.

    Resistance Radio Interview of Clinton Callahan

    Play Episode Listen Later Mar 10, 2025 54:20


    Clinton Callahan is a pioneering thoughtware upgrader known for originating the field of Possibility Management. He is co-author of 700 websites in the StartOver.xyz universe and author of the books Building Love That Lasts, Conscious Feelings, and just now a startlingly rich novel: Cavitation: the emergence of Archiarchy . Clinton currently lives in a Bridgehouse on Crete with 10 other Archans. He coined the term 'Archiarchy' in 2007 after reading J.F. Richard's book High Noon: 20 global problems and 20 years to solve them, written in 2004. In other words, the 20 years are up. Archiarchy is the initiation-centered radically-responsible nonmaterial-value regenerative culture naturally emerging around the world now that Matriarchy and Patriarchy have run their course.

    Resistance Radio Interview of Melissa Farley

    Play Episode Listen Later Mar 3, 2025 50:11


    Melissa Farley is a feminist research and clinical psychologist who founded Prostitution Research & Education (PRE) in 1995.  Farley, PRE, and their many partners are celebrating the 54th peer reviewed publication on prostitution, trafficking, and pornography. PRE offers a free library of resources at www.prostitutionresearch.com and posts regularly on FaceBook.

    Resistance Radio Interview of John Seed

    Play Episode Listen Later Feb 24, 2025 54:53


    John Seed is the founder of the Rainforest Information Centre and has dedicated his life to the protection of rainforests and their biodiversity since 1979. In 1995 he was awarded the Order of Australia Medal (OAM) by the Australian Government for services to conservation and the environment.

    Resistance Radio interview of Tom Murphy

    Play Episode Listen Later Feb 17, 2025 53:46


    Tom Murphy is a professor emeritus of physics and astronomy/astrophysics at the University of California, San Diego.  Tom retired early from his academic career to focus on planetary limits and escaping the trap of modernity with the intent to learn more about ecological relationships in the community of life.

    Resistance Radio Interview of Lisa Linowes and Robert Rand

    Play Episode Listen Later Feb 10, 2025 52:57


    Lisa Linowes has served as the executive director of the WindAction Group, an advocacy organization that tracks and reports on the costs and impacts of industrial-scale wind energy development. Over the last 20 years, she's written and testified extensively on these issues and the policies that drive wind energy deployments. Most recently Lisa joined Michael Shellenberger's non-profit, Civilization Works, as the director of Energy and the Environment. Robert Rand is an acoustician with over forty years of experience providing environmental and technical consulting services to power generation, military, medical, commercial, industrial, and community projects. Rob is a Member of the Acoustical Society of America (ASA) and a Member Emeritus of the Institute of Noise Control Engineers (INCE). Over the last fifteen years Rob has conducted numerous investigations and testings of wind turbine noise, infrasonic pressure pulsations, community noise impact assessments, and provided expert testimony for industrial wind turbines at multiple facilities.

    Resistance Radio Interview of Kirsten Shockey

    Play Episode Listen Later Feb 3, 2025 47:46


    Kirsten K. Shockey is a mother and grandmother passionate about trees and forests, building wetlands and beavers. Through this passion, she's been active in local organizations, includinng the OSU Small Farms advisory committee, Applegate Partnership, Applegate Siskyou Alliance, State of the Beaver Conference, and Project Beaver. Her day job is helping people to make, enjoy, and connect with their food. She can be found writing about life and fermentation at fermentingchange.substack from her home in the mountains of southern Oregon. Kirsten is an award-winning author of 6 books and co-founder of The Fermentation School a women-owned and women-led benefits corporation supporting the voices of independent educators to empower learning and build culture.

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    Resistance Radio Interview of Michael Kellett

    Play Episode Listen Later Jan 27, 2025 52:02


    Michael Kellett is executive director of the New England nonprofit organization, RESTORE: The North Woods, which he co-founded in 1992. He has been involved in national park, wilderness, public land, and endangered species issues for more than 30 years. In 1994, he developed the proposal for a 3.2-million-acre Maine Woods National Park, which laid the groundwork for the 2016 designation by President Obama of Katahdin Woods and Waters National Monument. In Massachusetts, he has worked to protect Walden Woods and Henry David Thoreau's birthplace, and helped to develop legislation introduced in 2019, which would protect state conservation lands from logging and other development. He's been working on promoting legislation to protect most state forest lands in Massachusetts from logging and other resource extraction.

    Resistance Radio Interview of Janet Sinclair

    Play Episode Listen Later Jan 20, 2025 55:59


    Janet Sinclair is a co-founder with Michael Kellett of Save Massachusetts Forests. They are working on saving forests from what they consider unnecessary logging.

    Resistance Radio Interview of Michelle Connolly

    Play Episode Listen Later Jan 13, 2025 51:40


    Michelle Connolly is an activist who lives in Prince George, BC, the traditional territory of the Lheidli T'enneh Nation. She has spent much of her life exploring and experiencing natural forests, and has an educational background in forest ecology, although she is not a researcher and does not do science for a living. Michelle is part of Conservation North

    Resistance Radio Interview of George Wuerthner

    Play Episode Listen Later Dec 30, 2024 52:51


    George Wuerthner is the former Ecological Projects Director for the Foundation for Deep Ecology. Currently he is the executive director of Public Lands Media. He is an ecologist and wildlands activist. He has published 38 books on environmental issues and natural history including such environmentally focused books as Welfare Ranching, Wildfire, Thrillcraft, Energy and most recently Protecting the Wild.

    Resistance Radio Interview of Rick Halsey

    Play Episode Listen Later Dec 23, 2024 56:16


    Richard W. Halsey loves sharing the magic of Nature, especially when it comes to chaparral, California's most extensive native plant community. He started teaching natural history as a 16-year-old volunteer naturalist at the El Dorado Nature Center in Long Beach, California, enjoyed learning about biology and anthropology in college, then taught high school biology, chemistry, and physics for two decades, leading his students on dozens of wilderness experiences to discover the preciousness of life. Since founding and directing the California Chaparral Institute in 2004, Richard has written a handful of research papers, a couple books, a fair number of editorials, and has given hundreds of presentations, all concerning chaparral ecology and the importance of reestablishing our connection with Nature.

    Resistance Radio Interview of Jessica Carew Kraft

    Play Episode Listen Later Dec 16, 2024 52:16


    Jessica Carew Kraft is the author of Why We Need to Be Wild: One Woman's Quest for Ancient Human Answers to 21st-Century Questions (Sourcebooks, 2023). An independent journalist trained in anthropology, she became a naturalist and wild food forager in the Sierra Foothills in Northern California

    Resistance Radio Interview of Warren Hern

    Play Episode Listen Later Dec 9, 2024 47:06


    Warren Hern is a physician and epidemiologist. He is the author of "Abortion in the Age of Unreason: A Doctor's Account of Caring for Women Before and after Roe v. Wade."

    Resistance Radio Interview of James Van Lanen

    Play Episode Listen Later Dec 2, 2024 52:51


    James Van Lanen has spent nearly two decades as a professional anthropologist studying and working with indigenous hunter-gatherers on three continents. James is also an active subsistence hunter, fisher, and forager, extensively involved in the material arts of rewilding and bushcraft, mostly off-grid in the far north. He currently works as a Wildlife Technician for Alaska's Wood Bison Restoration Project and as an Environmental Specialist for the Yukon River Drainage Fisheries Association, a tribal NGO focused on salmon conservation. Human Rewilding in the 21st Century is his first book. He is currently working on three other books surrounding anthropology and the crisis of civilization. Some of his previous writings have appeared in the journal Hunter-Gatherer Research, Human Ecology, Oak Journal, Black and Green Review, and Wild Resistance.

    Resistance Radio Interview of Manda Scott

    Play Episode Listen Later Nov 25, 2024 55:05


    Best known for the Boudica: Dreaming series, Manda Scott was once a veterinary surgeon and is now an award-winning novelist, smallholder, contemporary shamanic trainer and host of the international chart-topping Accidental Gods podcast. Taking a Masters in Regenerative Economics at Schumacher College taught her that hospicing modernity is our most urgent task--and that it's only possible if enough of us have road maps showing routes through from exactly where we are towards a future that works for all life. She is co-creator of the Thrutopian Writing Masterclass and her new novel, Any Human Power is a Thrutopian mytho-political thriller.

    Resistance Radio Interview of Tom Murphy

    Play Episode Listen Later Nov 18, 2024 54:22


    Tom Murphy is a professor emeritus of physics and astronomy/astrophysics at the University of California, San Diego.  Tom retired early from his academic career to focus on planetary limits and escaping the trap of modernity with the intent to learn more about ecological relationships in the community of life.

    Resistance Radio Interview of Marily Woodhouse

    Play Episode Listen Later Nov 11, 2024 48:41


    Marily Woodhouse is a 5th generation Californian, born and grew up in the Bay Area. She's lived in the Battle Creek watershed since 1989, but spent time in the summers at her grandmother's cabin in Butte Meadows to the south, so has a lifelong experience of the area. She started Battle Creek Alliance in 2008 and Defiance Canyon Raptor Rescue in 2016.

    Resistance Radio Interview of Deanna Meyer

    Play Episode Listen Later Nov 4, 2024 48:07


    Deanna Meyer is a long time environmental activist. She is on the board of Deep Green Resistance, and is the founder and president of Prairie Protection Colorado. Deanna lives in the Pike National Forest and is currently working on a ballot measure that Coloradans will be voting on in November with an organization Cats Aren't Trophies. This measure will end all hunting of Colorado's bobcats, mountain lions, and lynx.

    Resistance Radio Interview of Richard Olson

    Play Episode Listen Later Oct 27, 2024 52:49


    Richard Olson is Director of the Berea Urban Farm (Berea KY), an educational market garden with the mission to increase local food security and build community through urban agriculture. He previously was a member of the faculty at Berea College teaching courses in sustainability, ecological design and environmental justice, and managed research programs on the effects of air pollution on Western forests at the US Environmental Protection Agency lab in Corvallis Oregon. He has degrees in biology, ecology, and agronomy, and personal experience in small-scale farming and horse logging.

    Resistance Radio Interview of Borislav Prodanovic

    Play Episode Listen Later Oct 22, 2024 52:29


    Borislav Prodanovic is a theologian, icon painter, artist, and musician from Serbia. He studied at the Orthodox Theological Institute in Belgrade, Serbia, and at the Protestant Theological Seminary in Novi Sad, Serbia, where he received his bachelor's and M.A. degree in Theology. His research interest and vision concern Orthodox theology and praxis in contemporary times. He has been especially interested in dialectical relations, tensions and constitutive dialogues between Orthodoxy and Feminist and Liberation theologies. Currently he conducts a PhD research on clergy sexual abuse in the Serbian Orthodox Church at the Free University of Amsterdam

    Resistance Radio Interview of Randy Robbins

    Play Episode Listen Later Oct 13, 2024 52:04


    Randy Robbins is an award winning wildlife and landscape photographer specializing in using remote cameras to capture intimate portraits of rare and elusive wildlife. The research Randy puts into his subjects and their behaviors has made him a sought after voice in advocating for their conservation. In 2019 Randy was recognized on the California Senate floor as the California Wildlife Photographer of the Year. In 2021 Randy captured one of the first close-up, high resolution photographs of a wild gray wolf ever taken in California, a species in the early stages of re-introducing itself to the state a century after being eradicated. Randy's work has been widely published and recognized in several national and international contests and venues, most recently as the first "highly commended" image ever taken with a cell phone to be recognized in the prestigious international Wildlife Photographer of the Year contest hosted by the Natural History Museum of London. His current focus is the Sierra Nevada Red Fox, a critically threatened endemic subspecies of fox existing in only a few alpine environments at high elevation in the Sierra Nevada and southern Cascades.

    Resistance Radio interview of Vaishnavi Sundar

    Play Episode Listen Later Oct 7, 2024 49:42


    Vaishnavi Sundar is a filmmaker from the south of India; through her films, she advocates for the rights of women and girls worldwide. Her previous film was a 4 part documentary called Dysphoric which is available on YouTube to watch. Her latest film is called Behind The Looking Glass - a documentary about the experiences of women whose partners ‘transitioned.'

    Resistance Radio interview of Chad Hanson

    Play Episode Listen Later Sep 29, 2024 53:35


    Dr. Chad Hanson is a research ecologist with the John Muir Project, and is the author of the book, "Smokescreen: Debunking Wildfire Myths to Save Our Forests and Our Climate"

    Resistance Radio interview of Junior Walk

    Play Episode Listen Later Sep 25, 2024 54:02


    Junior Walk is a thirty-four year old anti-coal mining activist from southern West Virginia. Since 2009 Junior has been on the front lines of the fight against mountaintop removal in his community. He has been involved in the use of a diversity of tactics over the years, from getting arrested doing direct action work, to lobbying in D.C., to gathering scientific data and providing standing for lawsuits. These days Junior has had great success in monitoring the coal mine operations in his community to find problems that will end up costing a coal company some money. Junior's work is supported by the nonprofit Coal River Mountain Watch, to learn more about his work visit CRMW.net

    Resistance Radio interview of Jim Powell and Maria Powell

    Play Episode Listen Later Sep 16, 2024 53:21


    Maria Powell, co-founder of the Madison Environmental Justice Organization (MEJO) and author of Poisoning Paradise: An Environmental History of Madison and other posthumous writings recently published on the People's Environmental History of Madison website, was born in Green Bay, Wisconsin and grew up next to the polluted waters of the Fox River. In 1998, Maria and her family moved to Madison, where Maria earned her PhD in environmental studies and communication and, more importantly, spent more than 20 years fighting for environmental justice in her community. In 2023, she was recognized with the Bill Iwen Environmental Justice Award. Maria passed away in November 2023. Jim Powell is a longtime community organizer and environmental activist based in Wisconsin. He has worked for Citizens for a Better Environment and the Wisconsin Stewardship Network, as well as co-founding the Midwest Environmental Justice Organization in Madison with his late wife, Maria, and others. He worked for years as a community organizer developing neighborhood capacity, protecting land from development, editing and publishing a community newspaper and building a local alternative political party, Progressive Dane (County). He is co-author with Maria Powell of "Invisible People, Invisible Risks: How Scientific Assessments of Environmental Health Risks Overlook Minorities and How Commmunity Participation Can Make Them Visible," published by MIT Press.

    Resistance radio interview of Paul Johnson

    Play Episode Listen Later Sep 9, 2024 50:36


    Paul Johnson is a west-coast based independent filmmaker and broadcast journalist. He has been making films on many topics for more than two decades. He is a former White House reporter for Canadian television and Beijing correspondent. He is also director of Last of the Ancient Rainforests: The Emotional Connection to Trees, a new feature film. His most recent film, recently released, is Bears in our Backyard, about how to better coexist with black bears.

    Resistance Radio interview of Stefan Eberhard and Bronwen Eberhard

    Play Episode Listen Later Sep 2, 2024 46:24


    Dr Stefan Eberhard is a cave scientist, explorer and photographer. He did his PhD on the hydrology and ecology of caves in southwest Western Australia. Stefan loves wild and natural landscapes, and one of his favourite places is the vast Nullarbor Plain on the southern edge of the Australian continent. He first visited the Nullarbor as a young cave diver more than 40 years ago and has returned many times since to research, explore  and document the Nullarbor's extraordinary cave systems.  Bronwen Eberhard's life and work is in Changing Narratives. Daring to be curious and seeking clarity around old ways of knowing and doing. Exploring and inviting intentionality in new ways of being and valuing.

    Resistance Radio interview of Kim Russell

    Play Episode Listen Later Aug 26, 2024 57:27


    Kim Russell has started and coached lacrosse teams for girls and women at every level - youth through international.  Her nickname, "The Hippie Love Coach" - was given to her by former players.  She is currently the Head Women's Lacrosse Coach & Director of National Teams for the US Virgin Islands and an appointed member of The Women in Sport Commission for World Lacrosse.  Kim was removed from her job as Head Women's Lacrosse Coach at Oberlin College last fall.  She was, in her own words, "Burned at the Stake"  after re-posting a post on her Instagram story in 2022 that congratulated Emma Weyant, the REAL WOMAN winner of the 500 Freestyle (When Leah Thomas, a male was given the gold medal in the 2022 NCAA 500 yd freestyle): https://www.iwf.org/female-athlete-stories/kim-russell/ Kim now spends most of her time traveling around the country advocating for girls and women as an ambassador for the Independent Women's Forum.  Kim is also the mother of four adult children, Maddie (29), Sam (27), Anna (24) and Charlie (19).

    Resistance Radio Interview of Zack Porter

    Play Episode Listen Later Aug 19, 2024 54:47


    For twenty years, Zack Porter has worked tirelessly to safeguard and restore wild ecosystems across the US, from the Cascades, to the Northern Rockies, to New England. In 2020, along with a dedicated group of forest and climate activists, Zack co-founded Standing Trees to protect and restore forests on New England's public lands, and today he is proud to be the organization's first Executive Director. When he's not working for wild places out of his home base in Montpelier, VT, you'll find him exploring wildlands near and far with his family.

    Resistance Radio interview of Stephany Seay

    Play Episode Listen Later Aug 5, 2024 53:40


    Stephany Seay has been working in service to the last wild buffalo for over 20 years. Born in the Outer Banks of North Carolina and raised in Virginia, Stephany learned about the continued war against wild buffalo in 1996 and has been advocating for them ever since. In response to their struggle, she moved to Montana on New Year's Day 2004, where she became the media coordinator for Buffalo Field Campaign, with whom she parted ways after 18 years of service over philosophical differences. Stephany has nearly 20 years of experience standing with the buffalo, is an avid wildlife photographer, backcountry skier, and horsewoman. She is a member of Deep Green Resistance, and co-founder of Roam Free Nation. Stephany trusts that the buffalo have called us not just to help defend them, but to help us save us from ourselves from the unsustainable and selfish creation of industrial civilization.

    Resistance Radio interview of Deanna Meyer

    Play Episode Listen Later Jul 29, 2024 53:38


    Deanna Meyer is a long time environmental activist. She is on the board of Deep Green Resistance, and is the founder and president of Prairie Protection Colorado. Deanna lives in the Pike National Forest and is currently working with Ecointegrity Alliance to raise awareness about the wholesale massacre of trees and habitat throughout the National Forests.

    Resistance Radio interview of Carolyn Shafer and Joni Clark Stellar

    Play Episode Listen Later Jul 22, 2024 49:57


    Carolyn Shafer has been working with PARA since shortly after it was formed in 2011, initially on the board of directors, including Board President, then as Mission Coordinator (ED). She has a wealth of knowledge about the special nature of the Patagonia Mountains and the battle to protect the water, air and wildlife of this special area.  Carolyn has a background in business management. She also owned a mine claim where she extracted turquoise for jewelry - she's the type of miner the 1872 Mining Law was designed for.  Joni Clark Stellar moved to Patagonia in 2022, after 4 years moving around the Southwest in my RV after  losing everything in the Paradise Fire of 2018. With a background in environmental nonprofit work, Joni offered to help PARA. She has served on the PARA board for a year, and also helps with communications and fundraising.

    Resistance Radio interview of Dr. Lisa Quattrocki Knight and Constance Gee

    Play Episode Listen Later Jul 15, 2024 55:10


    Dr. Lisa Quattrocki Knight. After graduating from Stanford University, she earned an MD/PhD from Yale. Her PhD was in basic neuroscience. She then completed a medical internship at Massachusetts General Hospital and her adult psychiatry residency at McLean Hospital. She has been affiliated with Harvard Medical School since 1994 and spent one year as a visiting scholar at the University College of London. She has three daughters and cares deeply about the world in which they will raise their own children. She recognizes that our sense of well-being benefits from feeling connected to the natural world, especially the ocean. We cannot afford to spoil the few remaining natural habitats left on this planet. As a result, she has co-founded a grassroots organization to protect the ocean and the biodiverse life it sustains from industrialization. Constance Gee resides in Westport, MA where she has worked on behalf of animals and barrier beach protection for years. She first found out about the planned development of the Atlantic Outer Continental Shelf by offshore wind in Feb 2021, and has been working in active opposition ever since. She joined Green Oceans when it was founded in the fall of that same year. She is also a member of Save Right Whales Coalition, an umbrella group under which a dozen offshore wind opposition groups from NC to Maine have come together to support one another and share information. She and two other colleagues have recently founded a new group, Protect Our Westport Waters (POWW). POWW aims to stop Vineyard Wind from bringing the high-voltage cabling from one of its projects onshore at a local beach and through the entire length of Westport.

    Resistance Radio interview of Katie Singer

    Play Episode Listen Later Jul 8, 2024 53:11


    Before Katie Singer began questioning our techno-sphere, she wrote a novel about four generations of mothers and daughters and several books about natural family planning. Her 2014 book, An Electronic Silent Spring, reports on how electromagnetic radiation emitted by telecom devices and infrastructure impact wildlife and public health. She's currently finishing Mapping Our Technosphere. This book starts with a photo essay about the mining, water use, energy use, toxic waste, worker hazards and fire hazards involved in manufacturing, operating and discarding utilities, the Internet, solar and wind power and electric vehicles. She publishes regularly at KatieSinger.substack.com.

    Resistance Radio interview of Chad Hanson

    Play Episode Listen Later Jun 24, 2024 55:00


    Dr. Chad Hanson is a research ecologist with the John Muir Project, and is the author of the book, "Smokescreen: Debunking Wildfire Myths to Save Our Forests and Our Climate"

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