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Soil is a Living Being – Dr. Christine Jones and Farmer Gabe Brown

By MariaOctober 27, 2020Newest Catalog Items

In the preceding TUC Radio program Dr. Christine Jones was first introduced. Here is the self-contained conclusion of her presentation to Fibershed. She is an internationally known ground-cover and soils ecologist. She works with landholders to increase biodiversity and biological activity. They sequester carbon, activate soil nutrient cycles, restore water balance, improve productivity and create new topsoil.
Gabe Brown first started working alongside his father-in-law on the family farm in North Dakota. When a series of crop disasters put Brown and his wife, Shelly, in desperate financial straits, they started – from 1993 on – experimenting with a new type of farming: regenerative agriculture. Gabe Brown is now a pioneer of the soil-health movement and has been named one of the [ . . . ]

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Soil is a Living Being – Dr. Christine Jones

By MariaOctober 20, 2020Newest Catalog Items

Christine Jones is an internationally renowned and highly respected ground-cover and soils ecologist. She has a wealth of experience working with landholders to enhance biodiversity, increase biological activity, sequester carbon, activate soil nutrient cycles, restore water balance, improve productivity and create new topsoil. She is passionate about reversing the decline of nutrients in food that is grown on the world’s depleted soils.
Jones has organized and participated in workshops and conferences throughout Australia, New Zealand, South Africa, Zimbabwe, Canada, Central America, and the USA and has a strong publication and presentation record. She is a member of Arizona State University’s ‘Carbon Nation Team’ and sits on the advisory board of ‘The Carbon Underground’.
The non-profit Fibershed held a workshop with Christine [ . . . ]

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Hurricanes & Climate Change: Dr. Jennifer Francis

By MariaOctober 13, 2020Newest Catalog Items

Jennifer Francis became Senior Scientist at the Woods Hole Research Center after being a research professor at Rutgers University’s Institute of Marine and Coastal Sciences.
She gave an interview to Miami Herald reporter Alex Harris on Hurricanes & Climate Change a day after the beginning of the official annual hurricane season that goes from June first to November 30th, giving a forecast that in essence came true.
Live on Zoom this became one of the most detailed and fact-filled conversations about how natural phenomena such as El Nino and La Nina, and even dust storms from the Sahara desert, interact with warmer oceans and one foot higher sea levels and changes in the ocean currents that make hurricane seasons longer [ . . . ]

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Fast Food World – TUC personal archive – Two of Two

By MariaOctober 6, 2020Newest Catalog Items

Eric Schlosser, Vandana Shiva, Michael Pollan, Carlo Petrini and Wendell Berry
Fast Food World was organized by Orville Schell, Dean of UC Berkeley’s Graduate School of Journalism, and professor of journalism Michael Pollan. They had invited an international panel.
The goal of Fast Food World was to examine the economic, social and health aspects of worldwide food production and the role of food industries in promoting or destroying human welfare.
The first speaker is Eric Schlosser, author of Fast Food Nation, followed by Vandana Shiva from India, activist and author of Monocultures of the Mind and Biopiracy. Also present and participating in the discussion, whether it is even still possible to feed the huge world population with healthy food are: Wendell [ . . . ]

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Fast Food World – TUC personal archive – One of Two

By MariaSeptember 29, 2020Newest Catalog Items

Michael Pollan, Carlo Petrini and Wendell Berry
In the seventh month of Covid, September 2020, life for so many is coming into focus around the essentials – Home and Food. Including my home, threatened by the California fires, and my tiny garden with tomatoes and peppers. Meanwhile the whole world is bursting in with Covid news. And a conversation is beginning about how bes to rebuild the food web when Covid ends.
For me this brings back memories of an extraordinary on-stage conversation at UC Berkeley at the end of November 2003. The hall filled to capacity long before the beginning of the event. Who would have thought that a simple title such as “Fast Food World” would draw over [ . . . ]

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Vandana Shiva: The Future of Food and Farming in a Pandemic World – Part TWO of TWO

By MariaSeptember 22, 2020Newest Catalog Items

This the conclusion of a masterclass on this theme taught by Vandana Shiva to students at the University of British Columbia on August 17, 2020. This program also includes a rare bonus-track of a TUC Radio recording of Shiva’s keynote at the Fast Food World conference at UC Berkeley on November 24, 2003.
Before earning her PhD in quantum theory Vandana Shiva had been training in India in the atomic energy commission. She credits the Chipko Movement, where she volunteered, with teaching her about biodiversity. Chipko was a nonviolent ecological movement in India in the 1970s started by rural villagers, mainly women. They were protecting trees and forests slated for government-backed logging by embracing the trees and stopping the chainsaws.
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Vandana Shiva: The Future of Food and Farming in a Pandemic World – Part ONE of TWO

By MariaSeptember 15, 2020Newest Catalog Items

On Aug 17, 2020, the University of British Columbia in Canada invited Dr. Vandana Shiva to hold the first on-line Masterclass with students from UBC’s Faculty of Land and Food Systems. Vandana Shiva gave a presentation and then the students self-organized the lively and warm Q and A period.
Vandana Shiva remembers with fondness her time as a student in Canada. She was trained as a physicist before shifting to interdisciplinary research in science, technology and environmental policy. She earned her PhD in quantum theory at the University of Western Ontario.
Currently she is based in Dehra Dun, India. She has authored over 20 books, including The Violence of the Green Revolution, Monocultures of the Mind, Soil not Oil and Oneness [ . . . ]

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Chris Hedges: Challenging Corporate Power – Chevron VS Donziger

By MariaSeptember 8, 2020Newest Catalog Items

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In Memory of Glaciologist Konrad Steffen

By MariaSeptember 1, 2020Newest Catalog Items

Professor Steffen was a renowned scientist who did research at the world’s two largest ice sheets, Antarctica and Greenland. His 30-year study of Greenland proved to the world that the ice sheet melting is accelerating. Glaciers are both losing mass and sliding into the ocean faster. On August 8, 2020, Konrad Steffen fell into a crevasse that had opened next to the research station that he had founded in 1990. He was 68 and had gone out on a routine data collection walk.
Professor Konrad Steffen began his studies in the Arctic in the 1970s, founded Swiss Camp, the Lab and dining room for scientists and students in 1990 and worked there almost every year. He was also a professor of [ . . . ]

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Richard Wolff and Nomi Prins: The Federal Reserve’s Rigged Money Management

By MariaAugust 18, 2020Newest Catalog Items

On August 10, 2020 Economics Professor Richard Wolff invited Nomi Prins, the former Wall Street executive turned whistle blower, author and investigative journalist, on his weekly show: Economics Update. They discussed the consequences of the increasingly larger infusions of cash that the Federal Reserve injects when there is a crisis. First for the dot com of 2000 – then the subprime of 2008 and now the covid 19 crisis. Professor Richard Wolff began with his ten minute news segment.
Nomi Prins has written for The New York Times, Fortune, Newsday, Mother Jones, The Guardian, The Nation and other publications. She was also a member of Senator Bernie Sanders panel of top economic experts to advise on Federal Reserve reform.
Richard Wolff is [ . . . ]

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Dr. John Campbell: Coronavirus, Community testing and diagnosis

By MariaAugust 11, 2020Newest Catalog Items

In his August 7, 2020, presentation the British retired Nurse Teacher Dr. John Campbell used his daily Covid briefing to present what might be a breakthrough in testing.
Given that testing all over the world is inadequate or even impossible at the scale needed, he described a new COVID Symptom Study and App. It was developed by a consortium of scientists with the goal of collecting information to help healthcare workers, researchers, and public officials to address the COVID-19 outbreak. This initiative was led by Professor Tim Spector in the UK and Dr. Andy Chan in the US, and was covered by the journal Science in March and peer reviewed in Nature.
This App collects daily information from individuals in the community [ . . . ]

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Paul Grignon: Money as Debt (TWO of TWO) Best of TUC

By MariaAugust 4, 2020Newest Catalog Items

This update of TUC Radio’s 2009 Film on Radio version opens up concepts for groundbreaking bank reform and explains three astounding quotes by American presidents:
“All of the perplexities, confusion, and distress in America arises, not from the defects of the Constitution or Confederation, not from want of honor or virtue, so much as from downright ignorance of the nature of coin, credit, and circulation.” John Adams, Founding Father of the American Constitution
“Whoever controls the volume of money in our country is absolute master of all industry and commerce … and when you realize that the entire system is very easily controlled, one way or another, by a few powerful men at the top, you will not have to be told how [ . . . ]

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Paul Grignon: Money as Debt (ONE of TWO) Best of TUC

By MariaJuly 28, 2020Newest Catalog Items

An independent movie on the question “Where does money come from?” became the most successful film on banking on the internet and was praised by notables like Catherine Austin Fitts, David Korten, Hazel Henderson, and Tom Greco. With over 2 million downloads between 2006 and 2009 and translated into 20 languages, the film has remained to this date one of the extraordinary teaching tools and inspiration for the monetary reform movement. This program is an update of TUC Radio’s 2009 Film on Radio version.
Even though Grignon has since produced two sequels that deal with bailouts and stimulus packages, and how to create a nurturing economy, this first film remains a must see in the opinion of Korten, Greco, and that [ . . . ]

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Richard Wolff: The Crash IS Coming! What To Watch For

By MariaJuly 21, 2020Newest Catalog Items

On July 15, 2020 Professor Richard Wolff was interviewed by Julianna Forlano, Senior Correspondent for act.tv and host of the Progressive Movement Coverage. Economists are warning Americans that the long-term consequences of the pandemic could be severe joblessness for millions of Americans faced with permanent unemployment.
Prof. Richard Wolff says that, along with climate change and covid, we are going through an economic trauma like the Great Depression and this trauma will shape the 21st century just as profoundly as the Depression of the 1930s did. He lists in detail solutions of the New Deal that would be of great benefit today but are not implemented.
Richard Wolff is Professor Emeritus of Economics at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, and currently [ . . . ]

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Yanis Varoufakis: The Combination That Changed Capitalism Forever

By MariaJuly 14, 2020Newest Catalog Items

The Crash of 2008 & The Pandemic of 2020 On July second, 2020, the economist and former Finance Minister of Greece, Yanis Varoufakis, gave a webinar on how the current collapse of the world economy might change capitalism forever by challenging the survival of private banking and the functioning of the stock exchange.
Varoufakis’ thesis reminded me of a headline in the Sept. 2019 New Yorker from Bill McKibbens divestment campaign. It said: Money Is the Oxygen on Which the Fire of Global Warming Burns. What would it be like to abandon not just a particular investment by a bank but the whole banking system?
Rob Johnson, President of INET, the Institute for New Economic Thinking, moderated the talk.
Yanis Varoufakis is a [ . . . ]

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