Kindred Continuum

Students from GW Stout (and an alumna) come to the table for a lively discussion about their fourth grade gardening program.  Facilitated by fourth grade teacher Julie Dunning-Farmer and County Commissioner Alicia Edwards, these students detail their gardening adventures, from breaking up asphalt seven years ago to cultivate their school property, to making salsa and pumpkin pies from their harvests.  As they discuss the evolution of their garden plots and […]

Host Nan Franzblau and co-host Cliff School Librarian Mary Giardina are joined by Mrs. Quattrocchi's 5th grade students.  The students discuss the five large murals they created for the Cliff School cafeteria that inspire others to compost their food waste and educate them about the process.  Students talk about how composting happens and its benefits and impacts on the environment.  They also describe their murals in detail, even down to […]

Host Nan Franzblau and New Earth Project founder Carol Ann Fugagli talk with six 4th graders about Climathons held at their schools.  The students discuss the projects they completed at the Climathons: worm boxes for vermicomposting, short videos about the benefits of composting, and posters showing the whys and hows of composting.  Students talk about what they learned and how to make composting more widespread in their community.  

In Tilantongo – Conversations from Indigenous Mexico; Conversaciones desde el México indigena, Phil and Kathy Dahl-Bredine bring perspectives and insights from Oaxaca, where they have lived with and learned from indigenous Mixtec people since 2001. This bilingual program features interviews with villagers, educators, environmental advocates, historians, and more. In Program 3, How Oaxacan Indigenous Villages are Devastated by the Mega Development Projects that Claim to Help Them, Ana Maria Garcia, […]

In Tilantongo – Conversations from Indigenous Mexico; Conversaciones desde el México indigena, Phil and Kathy Dahl-Bredine bring perspectives and insights from Oaxaca, where they have lived with and learned from indigenous Mixtec people since 2001. This bilingual program features interviews with villagers, educators, environmental advocates, historians, and more. In Program 1, The Mixtec Village and the Mother Earth, a young Mixtec campesino [rural villager], Eliseo Reyes Miguel, explains why he […]

With an introduction to Interconnect and an interview with Wildcat, a regenerative ecologist, we focus on how we can move into deeper healing with the ecosystems we are a part of. At this point, we take more from the Earth than she can continue to give. Many of our goals are to reach a point of sustainability. Instead of simply sustaining, how can we move into ways of being on […]