Podcasts about big sur coast

As Principal Ecologist and Designer at RANA, Paul is sought after as a pioneer and innovator of living architectural systems, a thought-leader in ecological design, and a dedicated horticulturalist. He has consulted on many groundbreaking and iconic projects, including large-scale living roofs and living walls, site master plans, and cumulative restoration of many thousands of acres of grassland, wetland and coastal landscapes in the Western U.S.ALSO THE FOUNDER OF NUTJOBS!Paul has a deep history and love affair with the Big Sur landscape - listen to this episode and you'll find out. He did a classic 60's drop-out trip and landed in paradise!LINKS:RANA: The cohabitat companyShort bio of Paul Kepharthttps://nutjobs.com/Some of the folks mentioned:Vern YadonAlso LepoldDavid PackardVern YadonJudith GoodmanBig Sur Historical SocietyConnie McCoyThe Harlan familyLinus PaulingLarry FordDon UsnerJeff Normanand more...(-:Support the show_________________________________________________This podcast is a production of the Henry Miller Memorial LibraryBig Sur, CAFaceBookInstagramLet us know what you think!SEND US AN EMAIL!

The way we can honor the legacy of Zad Leavy is to be vigilant and to always work for the preservation and restoration of the wild and rustic beauty of the Big Sur coast!Thank you for listening.Please email here with any comments, critique, suggestions...Thank you!Links to some of the people and places we touch on:The Big Sur Land TrustThe Big Sur GazetteJim JosoffNancy HopkinsSherna StewartThe Odello Fields/Clint EastwoodEl Sur RanchAnsel AdamsLeon PanettaDavid PackardPodcast episode #5 with Brian Steen, the first Executive Director of BSLTSupport the showThis podcast is a production of the Henry Miller Memorial Library.Please support the Podcast by making a donation here!

Kelly Sorenson & The California Condor! We see the beautiful Condor soaring over the Big Sur Coast every day! This is thanks to an ongoing effort for over 25 years by Kelly Sorenson and others. In this podcast episode we speak with Kelly who has been the Executive Director of the Condor re-introduction program since its inception. We talk about DDT, Peregrine Falcons, nesting near, and not so near, getting to know birds as individuals, lead poisoning, wildfires, and much more.BEST PLACE TO FIND OUT MORE, INCLUDING FOLLOWING CONDORS ON WEBCAM. GO HERE: https://www.ventanaws.org/who-we-are.htmlThanks again to Kelly Sorenson (btw. Kelly also plays a mean Bass guitar!

Episode 7With special guest Paula HustonPaula is a National Endowment of the Arts Fellow, author of two novels and eight nonfiction titles including her newest book—‘The Hermits of Big Sur'I want our listeners today to read your new book—The Hermits of Big Sur—I know it is a lot to ask a writer to give the elevator speech about the book—so tell me in a minute or two why you wrote this book—and why someone should pick one up?If you are Christian we are obviously in the Lenten season—40 days in the wilderness—if you do not have a Christian background if you are human (an earthling as one has called us) then you too are probably in the wilderness in one way or another right about now. As Paula says, “time spent in the wilderness can be a catalyst for transformative spiritual experience, and the Big Sur Coast is one of America's last true wildernesses.  For the monks, “the very hardness of the wilderness was reassuring to them.  Worldly people would not follow them there.  They would be free to seek God with  all that was in them.”  Paula, would you talk to us a little more about how you see this transformation playing out in general and through the Big Sur—the New Camaldoli Hermitage? One of the things I am trying to do with the Soul Cafe Podcast is to get conversations of the soul beyond just the church—to make God more accessible so to speak—of course God has no trouble with that—-so sometimes I find myself playing the Devil's Advocate—which ironically may be a term that goes back to 1587—when a role that was created for when someone was nominated in the Catholic Church for either beatification and canonization—-the Devil's Advocate (of course there was a more religious sounding title) was to draw up a list of arguments against the nominee becoming blessed or canonized.  I say all that to point out that we play the devils advocate we are on some long and good ground.So…..do you need to go to an hermitage to experience a transformative wilderness experience?  Do we need places like Big Sur to find the answer to the longing for fuga Mundi, or flight from the world?  Along with Hermits of Big Sur I have been reading books by Scott Stillman—one in particular entitlled WILDERNESS—The Gateway to the Soul.  Stillman makes a pretty compelling case that we need to get out into any wilderness we can find—“through all the noise and the madness, how could we have possibly heard what the Earth is so patiently trying to tell us?  Now something as natural as silence has become increasingly rare.  Wilderness is our only hope.  The one place we can always come back to.”So…do we need the Big Sur—-or do we need just to get out into any wilderness and be still—-or do we need both?And all that kind of leads to your comment in the book—“transformation is no small thing and also fairly rare—-at the hermitage, miraculous transformation sometimes occurs in individual monks after decades of contemplative practice and the communal bonds formed through the practice of the ‘privilege of love'.  You do not become a contemplative overnight.  In fact to become holy and full of wisdom in this way requires years of slow, painful un-selfing.”Can you talk a little about this process at the Big Sur?That should about do it for questions.Get outside and experience the wilderness as Della Mae sings ‘For the Sake of My Heart'The Soul Cafe…where life is served-up freshly brewed.

The powerful storm that caused outages, flooding and mudflows also washed out part of Highway 1 along the Big Sur coast. Caltrans crews and emergency contractors are now assessing the damage.

0:08 – Voting and election integrity Richard Hasen (@rickhasen) is Chancellor's Professor of Law and Political Science at the University of California Irvine, and a nationally recognized expert in election law and campaign finance regulation. His new book is Election Meltdown: Dirty Tricks, Distrust, and the Threat to American Democracy. 0:34 – Money in politics (and on Facebook), and last minute spending Daniel G. Newman (@DanielGNewman) is president and cofounder of MapLight, a nonpartisan nonprofit organization that tracks money and politics and promotes political reform, and the author of the graphic novel UNRIG: How to Fix our Broken Democracy (March 2020) 0:55 – KPFA News: California's 20th Congressional District embraces the rugged Big Sur Coast, the historic Monterey Peninsula and the agricultural Salinas Valley. Incumbent Jimmy Panetta is running for a third term, facing a challenge from political newcomer Adam Scow. KPFA's Vic Bedoian reports from Fresno.  1:08 – Economic impacts of coronavirus Jared Bernstein (@econjared) is a senior fellow with the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities. From 2009 to 2011, Bernstein was the Chief Economist and Economic Adviser to Vice President Joe Biden, Executive Director of the White House Task Force on the Middle Class, and a member of President Obama's economic team. 1:20 – Silicon Valley Rising is calling on employers (especially in the tech industry) to include all contract workers in COVID-19 planning and provide paid sick time. Jeffrey Buchanan (@JRBinSV) is policy director for Silicon Valley Rising. 1:34 – San Francisco races: Pelosi vs. Buttar, Weiner vs Fielder, Propositions, SF Judges races and more Tim Redmond (@timredmondsf) has been a political and investigative reporter in San Francisco for more than 30 years. He is the founder and editor of 48hills.org   The post Super Tuesday: What kind of election integrity issues are we confronting? Plus: the economic impacts of coronavirus and what the government and employers could do to lessen the blow appeared first on KPFA.

On today’s segment, we’ll be ghosting around the beautiful gh-coast of Big Sur in California. Follow us on Instagram @ghostingaroundpodcast Support us on: Patreon.com/GhostingAroundPodcast Boo-tastic Tees and more: TeeSpring.com/stores/GhostingAround Logo by Emily Anne - Follow her on Instagram @EmilyAnneTattoo Dialogue Editor: Dax Schaffer Fun survey: http://survey.libsyn.com/ghostingaround For more information and links discussed on the show: Randall A. Reinstedt, Ghosts of the Big Sur Coast, 2002 http://www.bigsurcalifornia.org/history.html http://www.visitbigsurcalifornia.com/History.html

Susan MacTavish Best is the founder & CEO of Living MacTavish. She hosts salons around the world on a diverse range of topics bringing together an eclectic array of influencers she knows into one room. At these salons Susan mixes cocktails and cooks for all of her guests, then interviews an expert or two on a specific topic followed by a live music performance. In an era of always-on one’s phone, always connected to technology, Susan brings people together informally and imperfectly, and encourages them to look each other in the eye and have a spirited conversation all the while tickling their senses with tasty food, yummy smells, interesting debates and live music. Susan sits on the advisory board of the Berkeley Center for New Media at UC Berkeley and the Quantitative Biosciences Institute at UC San Francisco. Susan has been on the advisory board of a handful of startups, and has worked closely mentoring many entrepreneurs.When she was 24, Susan founded Best Public Relations, a firm that specialized in influencing the public, the media and the influencers themselves around the globe. She handled the public relations needs for dozens of companies including: Bankrate, craigslist, Esurance, Founders Fund, Hampton Creek, Klout, LaLa, LuLu, MainStreet.com, Olivia, Playfish, Quid, Smugmug, Spoonflower, VentureBeat and YouNoodle. Susan was an Executive Producer of craigslistTV, the TV series that originated out of craigslist. In the mid 90’s Susan went back to night school to learn how to code and, as a result, started Posthoc, one of the first online guides to San Francisco which she grew into a local resource managing over 100 volunteer editors and writers. Susan graduated from Hamilton College with a BA in History. During a one year stint at St. Hilda’s College, Oxford University, she was co-Editor of the UK’s longest running university magazine, The ISIS, following in the shoes of past editors Evelyn Waugh, Graham Greene, John Betjeman and Sylvia Plath. While a student at Oxford, Susan won an internship at The Sunday Times (London), where she sat on the Transportation Desk outside the office of editor Andrew Neil. Here, she lasted two weeks until she realized sitting behind a desk writing about transportation news was not her calling. She left one Friday lunchtime on a train to Europe abruptly ending her journalism career. Other early jobs included Soda Jerk during summers in Connecticut at a nuclear submarine shipyard and Pickle Packer at Emandal Farm in Mendocino County. Susan lives in Soho in NYC, SF, and on the Big Sur Coast. She is a long distance trail runner. Susan grew up in Scotland, and went to school at St. Leonards in St. Andrews. She was born on Prince Edward Island after her very pregnant mother, Laurie MacTavish, flew herself unexpectedly to Charlottetown in her Cesna to deliver her daughter.

Sailing dynamics of the Piver Nugget trimaran at sea. We now begin to understand the differing dynamics, and the disorienting sensations, of running downwind in a craft capable of equaling or exceeding the speed of the seaway. Our trip down the Big Sur Coast offers us “the most terrifying thrill on this planet,” but the boat keeps telling us that all is well. Surfing at night, rounding Point Conception, and the joy of getting on the boat in northern California and getting off in Southern California, Summary of multihull events yet to come in the early sixties. Piver disappears at sea.

Is retirement all it's cracked up to be? Yes, a new study says it makes you happier and healthier. In this episode, we focus on retirement and it's many benefits, particularly retirement and RVing. Plus our usual tips, RV news, Tech news and destination reports. [spp-player] Complete shownotes for Episode 68 of Roadtreking: The RV Travel Podcast Mike and Jennifer share their New Year RV resolutions, their immediate travel plans and a look ahead to a year of RV stories from across North America [spp-timestamp time="2:43"] JENNIFER'S TIP OF THE WEEK: RV Travel Map with State Stickers If you are like Mike and me, you love keeping track of the different states and Provinces you visit in your RV. For us – since we started our RV travels nearly five years ago – that works out to 38 different states. [spp-timestamp time="12:33"] I've seen folks who have maps on their RVs that show where they've been so when we found one on Amazon, we ordered it. The one we got is called the RV & Travel USA State Sticker Map and it shows each state in vibrant solid colors. It's printed on durable, premium 3M automotive vinyl/ You can put it on an inside wall or outside. In our case, on the rear door of our RV. It measures 12.7" x 19.6", so it's not gaudy or too big. You get the map on one sheet and the individually cut self adhesive states to apply on the outline of the states on the base map. It's all very simple, though you want to take your time sticking the states on the mark, lining them up on the outline. We are very happy with it. The vinyl is of excellent quality. We've long wanted one like this, just a simple map with bright colors. It costs $35 and is shipped free. It's available at http://amzn.to/1R1QDe0 READER QUESTIONS AND FEEDBACK Mike answers reader questions about streaming video in the RV and using a 50 amp to 30 amp power adapter and why he and Jennifertraded up to a Roadtrek CS Adventurous XL this year [spp-timestamp time="15:56"] RV NEWS - RV saves big money over traditional vacations A follow up study confirms the findings of the Recreational Vehicle Institute of America that RV travel saves money. [spp-timestamp time="28:54"] TRAVELING TECH TIPS - Apps to help you stay organized in 2016 The beginning of the year is a great time to get organized and a number of great apps can help you make 2016 your best organized year yet! [spp-timestamp time="33:58"] Any.do wins lots of praise for its ease-of-use and number of smart features, including the ability to simply add tasks with your voice. You can share lists with friends, family, or anyone else. You can also sync to the cloud for accessing tasks on any iOS or Android device. You can even add tasks by sending an email. The app is free for iOS and Android. 2Do is one of the most powerful and customizable task managers around. It features clean graphics, a great interface, and a bunch of super handy features. Creating a to-do item is easy and can be done with the touch of a button. It can be synced with services such as Dropbox and iCloud Reminders. The app is $7.99 for iOS and $3.80 for Android. The Clear app is another great one for making to-do and task management tools. The goal is to make it as easy to use as pen and paper. Among other things, the app gives you the ability to make multiple and customizable theme-based lists, along with the ability to set reminders. The app is $4.99 for iOS. OFF THE BEATEN PATH - LIMEKILN STATE PARK, CALIFORNIA Terri Speakman tells us about the little known Limekiln State Park in California, a park that offers breathtaking views of the Big Sur Coast, the beauty of the redwoods, the rugged coast and the cultural history of limekilns. The park has 24 campsites. The park is 56 miles south of Carmel, off Highway One; two miles south of Lucia. [spp-timestamp time="36:14"] Main Topic: Retirement and the RVer We report on a new study that shows surprisingly strong health and happiness benefits from retirement and we fact check it through th...

Jennifer Stock talks with Andrew DeVogelaere Ph. D. of Monterey Bay National Marine Sanctuary about the recent explorations taking place on Davidson Seamount off the Big Sur Coast. Also, hear about the upcoming Cordell Bank Sanctuary Advisory Council meeting and the guest speakers that will be presenting on the Sanctuary expansion bill and supporting west Marin and West Sonoma Heritage fishing communities.

Situated on California's scenic Big Sur Coast, the Natural Reserve System's (NRS) Landels-Hill Big Creek Reserve provides researchers and students with a spectacular location to study nature. Scientists use the reserve to track water quality, monitor fish populations, and survey California's disappearing native wildflowers. Students from UC Santa Cruz use the off-shore marine reserve to test their underwater research skills, and grade school students visit Big Creek to learn how animals adapt to their environment. Series: "UC Natural Reserve System" [Science] [Agriculture] [Show ID: 8383]

Situated on California's scenic Big Sur Coast, the Natural Reserve System's (NRS) Landels-Hill Big Creek Reserve provides researchers and students with a spectacular location to study nature. Scientists use the reserve to track water quality, monitor fish populations, and survey California's disappearing native wildflowers. Students from UC Santa Cruz use the off-shore marine reserve to test their underwater research skills, and grade school students visit Big Creek to learn how animals adapt to their environment. Series: "UC Natural Reserve System" [Science] [Agriculture] [Show ID: 8383]

Situated on California's scenic Big Sur Coast, the Natural Reserve System's (NRS) Landels-Hill Big Creek Reserve provides researchers and students with a spectacular location to study nature. Scientists use the reserve to track water quality, monitor fish populations, and survey California's disappearing native wildflowers. Students from UC Santa Cruz use the off-shore marine reserve to test their underwater research skills, and grade school students visit Big Creek to learn how animals adapt to their environment. Series: "UC Natural Reserve System" [Science] [Agriculture] [Show ID: 8383]

Situated on California's scenic Big Sur Coast, the Natural Reserve System's (NRS) Landels-Hill Big Creek Reserve provides researchers and students with a spectacular location to study nature. Scientists use the reserve to track water quality, monitor fish populations, and survey California's disappearing native wildflowers. Students from UC Santa Cruz use the off-shore marine reserve to test their underwater research skills, and grade school students visit Big Creek to learn how animals adapt to their environment. Series: "UC Natural Reserve System" [Science] [Agriculture] [Show ID: 8383]