Maria – TUC Radio

Maria Gilardin learned radio in the KPFA news department in 1980 and was one of the founders of the women’s department. She co-wrote the GATT Guide for the Earth Summit in Rio, was founding producer of the national weekly public-affairs show Making Contact, and is a member of the International Forum on Globalization.

Since 1993, Maria has written and produced radio on global trade and great ideas of local resistance to globalization.

Articles ( 1)
While living for over 20 years in an artist coop in San Francisco I participated in the building's gallery and theater events. Now that I moved to the country I'm organizing my own art shows. The images and events are just another expression of what I do with radio.

Events ( 1)
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Off Grid Living ( 1)

Straw Bale House ( 3)
Articles about my straw bale house home. I am 8 miles from the nearest town on a three mile dirt road. There is no water, electricity or other utility. We are collecting rainwater, pumping drinking water from a spring 2 miles away and are using an outhouse. "Out" is over 200 feet away - a long way when it snows!

The Story of Aaron Swartz – A film on radio production

By MariaJanuary 17, 2017Events, Internet, Newest Catalog Items

The Internet’s Own Boy by Brian Knappenberger
SPECIAL re-issue on the fourth anniversary of Aaron’s death
This program is based on the soundtrack of the 2014 movie: The Internet’s Own Boy: The Story of Aaron Swartz. His death at age 26 on January 11, 2013 made the internet light up with grief and also anger at a judicial system that haunted and hunted him. He was facing 35 years in prison and $1 million in fines for bulk-downloading from a site, JSTOR, that was freely available to Massachusetts Institute of Technology students.
“Aaron’s story touched a nerve with people far beyond the online communities in which he was a celebrity” said director, Brian Knappenberger. “This is the story of programming prodigy and information [ . . . ]

Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 29:00 — 19.9MB)

Maria’s Straw Bale House – gallery

By MariaMay 12, 2016Straw Bale House

I got many requests for pictures of my straw bale house. Here are photos – from bale delivery to the passive solar floor, and the almost completed solarium, spanning six years.
Thanks to all of you who have supported TUC Radio. Looking around my new home there is so much evidence of your contributions. You have helped me buy everything this house is made of from straw bales and lumber to roll roofing and nails – a little over $15,000 over the past 5 years.

Neighbors are helping offload the bales of rice straw. They arrived from the Sacramento Delta, delivered by the farmer who grew, harvested, and baled them.

If rain gets into the bales they may begin to compost, [ . . . ]

East Bay Express – review of art show, July 2008

By MariaApril 20, 2016Articles

An activist’s artistic double-take on Life in These United States.
“Toasting the End of Capitalism at NoneSuch Space is Gilardin’s two-pronged take on the state of the nation. Her social-documentarian photographs include “Earthquake, San Francisco Marina,” showing a Loma-Prieta-damaged building under TV klieg lights; .. Her Dadaist/Surrealist montages include “Tasting Room,” in which a gigantic turkey dinner sits on a showroom floor next to Cadillacs (one afire); and “Hard Rain,” a scene of eco-apocalypse, with buildings crumbling and burning, and cars falling from a flaming heaven. Can capitalism learn to behave? Stay tuned.”

Living here: July 16, 2013 – update from August 2012:

By MariaJune 16, 2013Straw Bale House

BEFORE and AFTER – This is my Sun Shed, for solar electric and solar hot water, a wood stove inside also makes hot water for a shower and a utility sink for laundry. A small electric pump brings hot water into the radiant floor of my straw bale house. All the difficulties building this are forgotten. The expanded electric system is now running a Sunfrost refrigerator and all of TUC Radio as well as my personal electric use.
One year summary: There was hot water from the sun year round, except for 2 weeks. In one year I used 16 gallons of gasoline in my generator to replenish the solar electric system when the sun did not shine. During that [ . . . ]

My Strawbale House

By MariaAugust 31, 2012Off Grid Living, Straw Bale House

My Strawbale House
I got many requests for pictures of my straw bale house. Here are photos – from bale delivery to the passive solar floor, and the almost completed solarium, spanning six years.
Thanks to all of you who have supported TUC Radio. Looking around my new home there is so much evidence of your contributions. You have helped me buy everything this house is made of from straw bales and lumber to roll roofing and nails – a little over $15,000 over the past 5 years.
The land
I am 8 miles from the nearest town on a three mile dirt road. There is no water, electricity or other utility. We are collecting rainwater, pumping drinking water from a spring 2 [ . . . ]