http://www.blogtalkradio.com/shiftshapersYou're here because you know something. What you know, you can't explain; you can just feel it - something's wrong with the world. It could be the scorched, flooded earth of climate change, the greenhouse sky, or sea life strangled by pollutants, that can't be hidden from you any more. Nor can the hyper-growth economy that spewed it all. It now stalks the landscape, an undead, non-living corporate "person", eating away the jobs and money that once ate our brains, a zombie searching the ruins of our world for another jugular vein of oil. You don't have to take the Red Pill to see it. The voices on our ShiftShapers podcast will tear away the veils that the world of empire has pulled over your eyes, so you can navigate the desert of the real. We've interviewed authors and experts in the fields of climate, energy resources, psychology and human rights, and posted them for you. In our blog, we let you know where we see the glitches in the matrix. We didn't come here to tell you how this is going to end. But our interviews and blog postings can give you some clues. Step over the threshold. Welcome to the ShiftShapers tribe. enBlogTalkRadio.com. All Rights Reserved.Sat, 15 Jun 2019 17:30:00 GMTMon, 13 May 2013 19:00:00 GMTEnvironmentBlogTalkRadio Feed v2.0https://dasg7xwmldix6.cloudfront.net/hostpics/5d3e7d20-9661-4ce6-9d73-741bfa3a5fb3_header-photo.jpghttp://www.blogtalkradio.com/shiftshapersYou're here because you know something. What you know, you can't explain; you can just feel it - something's wrong with the world. It could be the scorched, flooded earth of climate change, the greenhouse sky, or sea life strangled by pollutants, that can't be hidden from you any more. Nor can the hyper-growth economy that spewed it all. It now stalks the landscape, an undead, non-living corporate "person", eating away the jobs and money that once ate our brains, a zombie searching the ruins of our world for another jugular vein of oil. You don't have to take the Red Pill to see it. The voices on our ShiftShapers podcast will tear away the veils that the world of empire has pulled over your eyes, so you can navigate the desert of the real. We've interviewed authors and experts in the fields of climate, energy resources, psychology and human rights, and posted them for you. In our blog, we let you know where we see the glitches in the matrix. We didn't come here to tell you how this is going to end. But our interviews and blog postings can give you some clues. Step over the threshold. Welcome to the ShiftShapers tribe. feeds@blogtalkradio.comBlogTalkRadio.comenvironment,transition,peak oil,cooperatives,green economy,new economy,occupy,climate change,green jobs,collapseShift ShapersnoYou're here because you know something. What you know, you can't explain; you can just feel it - something's wrong with the world. It could be the scorched,episodichttp://www.blogtalkradio.com/shiftshapers/2013/05/13/woody-hastings-moving-ca-to-clean-powerEnvironmenthttp://www.blogtalkradio.com/shiftshapers/2013/05/13/woody-hastings-moving-ca-to-clean-power/#commentshttp://www.blogtalkradio.com/shiftshapers/2013/05/13/woody-hastings-moving-ca-to-clean-powerMon, 13 May 2013 19:00:00 GMTWoody Hastings- Moving CA to Clean Power Some no-brainers take a while to find their place in the public mind. Take for example the concept of community-generated electric power. Officially called Community Choice Aggregaton (CCA), it allows cities or counties to replace a large portion of the electrical power they've been getting from the mega-monopoly utility, produce it themselves from clean renewable sources, and get paid for it by the utility's rate payers in the communities that choose to go with it. Renewable sources are exactly what the name implies- wind, solar, geothermal, and whatever new technologies make use of the heat or motion of earth and sky, to generate power without mining the earth, without throwing off radiation or CO2. When Sonoma Clean Power (SCP) was approved in April 2013, it became the latest community choice power initiative on the California scene, with several more already in the works. Supervisors approved it for the unincorporated part of Sonoma County (north of San Francisco). Cities also have the option to take part in the program. What the local governments like about SCP is the local jobs likely to be created in in assembling large scale solar-electric generating capacity, and the revenue from electric bills that will stay in the local economy rather than trickling up to Wall Street (more than $220 million per year, currently paid to PG&E by Sonoma County ratepayers). In this 30-minute interview, ShiftShapers host Daniel Kerbein talks to Woody Hastings, Renewable Energy Implementation Manager at the Climate Protection Campaign, located in Sonoma County. He has been an outspoken advocate and spokesperson for community-generated electricity, and in particular, Sonoma Clean Power. The conversation provides an overview of what Sonoma Clean Power is, and how it will work as it goes forward and is implemented. 00:32:00Shift Shapersnorenewable power,community choice,Sonoma Clean Power,climate protection,Sonoma CountySome no-brainers take a while to find their place in the public mind. Take for example the concept of community-generated electric power. Officially called Cohttp://www.blogtalkradio.com/shiftshapers/2012/10/03/gayle-mclaughlin-chastising-chevron-revitalizing-richmondEnvironmenthttp://www.blogtalkradio.com/shiftshapers/2012/10/03/gayle-mclaughlin-chastising-chevron-revitalizing-richmond/#commentshttp://www.blogtalkradio.com/shiftshapers/2012/10/03/gayle-mclaughlin-chastising-chevron-revitalizing-richmondWed, 03 Oct 2012 18:00:00 GMTGayle McLaughlin- Chastising Chevron, Revitalizing Richmond How does a city crawl out from under the black-smoked shadow of a refinery that has dominated its western edge for over 100 years? In this 38-minute interview, Gayle McLaughlin, Mayor of Richmond, CA tells us that the key is staying in touch with the energy and spirit of the people, who see a clean food and green energy future for themselves, which includes a liveable city where people have empowered employment through worker-owned cooperatives. On August 6, more than 900 people have sought medical treatment following a massive fire at the Chevron oil refinery which sits at the western edge of Richmond. Tens of thousands of area residents were ordered to stay in their homes with the windows and doors closed after a series of blasts Monday sparked blazing fires that sent huge plumes of smoke. Mayor McLaughlin called for a full investigation into the blaze, and told Amy Goodman on Democracy Now,  "We have a community that’s been fighting Chevron for a long time. And I’m proud to and honored to stand for that community." The investigation so far has turned up an illegal rerouting of dirty crude oil as the possible cause of the fire. Environmental justice groups such as Communities for a Better Environment have previously sued Chevron over poorly drawn environmental impact reports. Issues are simmering over Chevron's environmental practices, but also fair txation and the corporate giant's refusal to negotiate in good faith with the community over a wide range of issues. Meanwhile, progressives on the city council are joining the Mayor to reinvent Richmond with Community Gardens, farmers markets, school projects, an active Transition Town movement, and a policy that favors the formation of worker-owned cooperative businesses. Listen in, to find out how a truth-to-power mayor and city council have stopped rolling over for Chevron - and started revitalizing Richmond. 00:41:00Shift ShapersnoRichmond California,Gayle McLaughlin,Chevron Richmond,Refinery fires,progressive mayorHow does a city crawl out from under the black-smoked shadow of a refinery that has dominated its western edge for over 100 years? In this 38-minute interviewhttp://www.blogtalkradio.com/shiftshapers/2012/09/28/joe-romm-add-language-intelligence-to-climate-knowledgeEnvironmenthttp://www.blogtalkradio.com/shiftshapers/2012/09/28/joe-romm-add-language-intelligence-to-climate-knowledge/#commentshttp://www.blogtalkradio.com/shiftshapers/2012/09/28/joe-romm-add-language-intelligence-to-climate-knowledgeFri, 28 Sep 2012 20:00:00 GMTJoe Romm- Add Language Intelligence to Climate Knowledge Got some knowledge that hasn't gotten through in the climate debate? Giving a speech and need some tips? Want to speak words that really hit people where they live? Scientist, author and renowned blogger Dr. Joseph Romm has published a new book designed for you. Language Intelligence: Lessons in Persuasion from Jesus, Shakespeare, Lincoln, and Lady Gaga has already garnered rave reviews from the environmental community. Van Jones calls it  "the new must-read." Bill McKibben says, when it comes to the techniques of great speakers, "Romm’s simple volume will let anyone in on the secrets." Dr. Romm is Senior Fellow of the Center for American Progress, manager of the blog Climate Progress, and former U.S. Asst. Secretary of Energy. In this 28-min. interview with co-host Daniel Kerbein, Dr. Romm shares some principles from Language Intelligence, and reminds us of how serious our raging climate has become. Industry hacks use simple figures of speech to deny science. We can top them by learning from great orators and writers. If we want to reclaim a planetary habitat we can live in, we need to stop giving away the debate to the climate kindergarteners. Give them a time-out, once and for all. Control the debate, and we have a chance of regaining control of our planet. 00:32:00Shift Shapersnoclimate change,Joseph Romm,Climate Progress,climate scientists,climate debateGot some knowledge that hasn't gotten through in the climate debate? Giving a speech and need some tips? Want to speak words that really hit people where theyhttp://www.blogtalkradio.com/shiftshapers/2012/09/04/michael-ratner-attorney-wikileaks-assange-gitmo-detaineesPoliticshttp://www.blogtalkradio.com/shiftshapers/2012/09/04/michael-ratner-attorney-wikileaks-assange-gitmo-detainees/#commentshttp://www.blogtalkradio.com/shiftshapers/2012/09/04/michael-ratner-attorney-wikileaks-assange-gitmo-detaineesTue, 04 Sep 2012 23:00:00 GMTMichael Ratner Attorney-Wikileaks' Assange, Gitmo detainees An attorney's work does not get more complex or high-profile than this: His client, Julian Assange, set up a whistle-blowing web site called WikiLeaks, obtained thousands of U.S. diplomatic cables and video of war crimes, and disseminated them to the public. The U.S. Army has thrown fellow whistle-blower Bradley Manning into solitary confinement and attorney Michael Ratner fears the U.S. State Dept. wants to grab Assange as well. After escapes worthy of a spy novel, Assange found asylum in London, at the Ecuadoran embassy. In this 35-minute interview, host Daniel Kerbein talks to Michael Ratner, defense attorney for Julian Assange and the Guantanamo prisoners. It has been a dangerous time for Assange, who actually sought asylum to avoid extradition to Sweden for questioning on another matter. Although no charges have been filed,  two women there have accused Assange of rape. Hence the fear of an extradition to the U.S., since Sweden has not promised to prevent the U.S. from nabbing him over the Wikileaks matter. Ratner - along with the president of Ecuador - is certain that the ultimate motive behind the extraditions is to punish Assange for whistle blowing.  Mr. Ratner has been outspoken in defending the rights of Assange, and the media that have used Wikileaks information to cast light on U.S. foreign intrigues. He appears often on Democracy Now!, and hosts the weekly program "Law and Disorder" on Pacifica station WBAI in New York. Mr. Ratner works through the Center for Constitutional Rights, defending detainees in Guantanamo, appealing for the rights of people who have endured years of torture without any criminal charges. He has also, for decades, taken a lead in appealing to the US Government to lift its embargo on Cuba, and recently wrote a book exploring who killed Che Guevara.. 00:35:00Shift ShapersnoJulian Assange,Wikileaks,Ecuadoran Embassy,Bradley Manning,Michael RatnerAn attorney's work does not get more complex or high-profile than this: His client, Julian Assange, set up a whistle-blowing web site called WikiLeaks, obtainehttp://www.blogtalkradio.com/shiftshapers/2012/08/20/andres-perez-eyewitness-anaheim-police-actions-just-wrongPolitics Progressivehttp://www.blogtalkradio.com/shiftshapers/2012/08/20/andres-perez-eyewitness-anaheim-police-actions-just-wrong/#commentshttp://www.blogtalkradio.com/shiftshapers/2012/08/20/andres-perez-eyewitness-anaheim-police-actions-just-wrongMon, 20 Aug 2012 09:00:00 GMTAndres Perez, Eyewitness- Anaheim Police Actions Just Wrong On July 21, police shot and killed 25-year old Manuel Diaz in Anaheim, CA. The killing sparked days of protests and received widespread media attention. Diaz was unarmed and was the eighth Anaheim Police shooting in a year.  Only one is still alive to tell the story of being shot twice in the back. Most of those shot have been Latino. Media stories about the police attack sometimes included references to "an unruly crowd", "throwing rocks and bottles." Andres Perez was there. He saw it and has video, and he says the tale about throwing things at the cops is "a big lie". Here is a link to a video he made right afterward (parental advisory re language). In this 30-minute interview, Mr. Perez describes what happened in Anaheim shortly after police shot and killed Manuel Diaz, in broad daylight, on the front lawn of an apartment house. As Manuel Diaz bled out on the lawn, the neighbors on Ana Drive did what anyone would do under the circumstances: they gathered and demanded to know what had happened. They in turn received a dose of Anaheim PD firepower: rubber bullets, pepper spray, bean bag projectiles, and even an attack dog -  all of it unleashed upon an assemblage that included children and infants. Most media accounts have left out the disturbing connection that more unarmed civilians are killed by police in the U.S. every year. This interview first aired on bilingual KBBF-FM 89.1, Calistoga-Santa Rosa, CA. The interview is bilingual, English-Spanish, and the Spanish version will soon be added to this podcast. Please support public community radio. 00:30:00Shift Shapersnopolice shootings,Anaheim police,Anaheim PD shooting,Manuel Diaz,police brutalityOn July 21, police shot and killed 25-year old Manuel Diaz in Anaheim, CA. The killing sparked days of protests and received widespread media attention. Diazhttp://www.blogtalkradio.com/shiftshapers/2012/08/20/titania-kumeh-when-police-shoot-and-kill-unarmed-menPolitics Progressivehttp://www.blogtalkradio.com/shiftshapers/2012/08/20/titania-kumeh-when-police-shoot-and-kill-unarmed-men/#commentshttp://www.blogtalkradio.com/shiftshapers/2012/08/20/titania-kumeh-when-police-shoot-and-kill-unarmed-menMon, 20 Aug 2012 07:00:00 GMTTitania Kumeh- When Police Shoot and Kill Unarmed Men Police shootings in Anaheim, CA and days of protests that followed, received widespread media attention in the last week of July. Most reports left out one disturbing connection: America's list of unarmed civilians killed by police has grown steadily over the past several years. Manuel Diaz was unarmed and was the eighth Anaheim Police shooting in a year.  Only one of the mostly Latino men is still alive to tell the story of being shot twice in the back. The Diaz shooting incident escalated when neighbors, who had gathered at the scene to demand an end to the violence, were shot with rubber bullets by officers who also released an attack dog on an unarmed assembly that included children. Titania Kuhme authored the report, "When Police Shoot and Kill Unarmed Men", in 2010 in Mother Jones Magazine. Since that time the number of unarmed police victims has escalated. Ms. Kumeh is a former Orange County resident now living in Oakland. What's causing this trend? What can be done? In this 32-min. interview with co-host Daniel Kerbein, Titania Kuhme explores the recommendations of police experts and study groups. At the root of the violence, she observes, is "culture of fear", with police seeking to instill fear in minority neighborhoods, creating an us-vs.-them war rather than community engagement. This interview first aired on KBBF-FM 89.1, Calistoga/Santa Rosa. Please support public community radio. 00:31:00Shift ShapersnoAnaheim CA,Police shootings,Police shoot unarmed,Oscar Grant,Titania KumehPolice shootings in Anaheim, CA and days of protests that followed, received widespread media attention in the last week of July. Most reports left out one dihttp://www.blogtalkradio.com/shiftshapers/2012/08/18/georgia-kelly-mondragon-coops-prosper-capitalism-crashesPolitics Progressivehttp://www.blogtalkradio.com/shiftshapers/2012/08/18/georgia-kelly-mondragon-coops-prosper-capitalism-crashes/#commentshttp://www.blogtalkradio.com/shiftshapers/2012/08/18/georgia-kelly-mondragon-coops-prosper-capitalism-crashesSat, 18 Aug 2012 04:00:00 GMTGeorgia Kelly: Mondragon Coops Prosper, Capitalism Crashes This is the 4th installment in our ShiftShapers series exploring the New Economy. All the previous speakers in our New Economy series have mentioned the example of the thriving, worker-owned Mondragon cooperatives. In this 32-minute interview with co-host Daniel Kerbein, Georgia Kelly, founder of Praxis Peace Institute,  describes the experience of having visited Mondragon, Spain and even having led several tours there in recent years. She says the lessons to be learned from studying the Mondragon model of cooperative industry are many, and even more impressive than that is to see how people live in a large community with no poverty or unemployment, no rapacious corporate CEOs to skim their fortune from the profits or send the business offshore. Far from it. In the more than 100 businesses in Mondragon, over 100,000 workers own the businesses where they work, and own their jobs. And they are prospering. At a time when the only mainstream news out of spain is about debt, an economic crash, and cruel austerity measures put into place to protect bank profits. Americans have to see it to believe it. No, you won't see it on TV, you have to turn that thing off and talk to someone who's been there, or go see it yourself. That opportunity is coming up. The next study tour will go from Sept. 9-12, 2012. (Go to www.praxispeace.org for details.) People who take this tour, come back and start new worker co-ops, or continue spreading the word. "I don't see a bright future for capitalism," Georgia Kelly observes. "I think what's going to be important here is to have models and alternatives up and running so there are enough to take its place. Otherwise what could happen at that point is a totalitarian state." Spoken like a true Shift Sha00:33:00Shift ShapersnoWorker Cooperatives,Mondragon,Praxis Peace,Georgia Kelly,Arizmendi BakeriesThis is the 4th installment in our ShiftShapers series exploring the New Economy. All the previous speakers in our New Economy series have mentioned thehttp://www.blogtalkradio.com/shiftshapers/2012/08/18/carl-davidson-mondragon-solidarity-and-end-of-capitalismPolitics Progressivehttp://www.blogtalkradio.com/shiftshapers/2012/08/18/carl-davidson-mondragon-solidarity-and-end-of-capitalism/#commentshttp://www.blogtalkradio.com/shiftshapers/2012/08/18/carl-davidson-mondragon-solidarity-and-end-of-capitalismSat, 18 Aug 2012 03:00:00 GMTCarl Davidson- Mondragon, Solidarity and End of CapitalismThis is the 3rd interview in our ShiftShapers series about the New Economy. Anyone who says single-payer medical care or the Social Security system are examples of socialism, "doesn't know what they're talking about," asserts Carl Davidson. The real thing happens when workers take ownership of their jobs and the companies where they work. Mr. Davidson has some credibility in the area of socialist thinking. He started the Online University of the Left , a curriculum-rich resource for the study of socialism and the ideas of Karl Marx. During the 60's, while attending an ivy-covered university, he was a co-founder of Students for a Democratic Society (SDS). We can see examples of worker ownership in the Arizmendi Bakeries in California (listen to our ShiftShapers interview with Alvarado Street Bakery); the Evergreen Cooperatives in Cleveland, OH; and the grand-daddy of them all, Mondragon Spain  - an entire region, with over 100 co-ops employing more than 100,000 worker-owners. In this 34-minute interview with co-host Daniel Kerbein, Mr. Davidson points out that while hundreds more Mondragons would be a huge benefit to the workers involved, true socialism is the liberation of the working class and the achievement of a classless society. Meanwhile, the existing co-ops are a school for their workers: If we can run our factory, why not our town? If we can run our town, how about our whole country?     00:34:00Shift ShapersnoMondragon,Solidarity Economy,Socialism,Carl Davidson,Worker Co-opsThis is the 3rd interview in our ShiftShapers series about the New Economy. Anyone who says single-payer medical care or the Social Security system are exahttp://www.blogtalkradio.com/shiftshapers/2012/08/14/marc-armstrong-public-banks-reliable-money-local-businessFinancehttp://www.blogtalkradio.com/shiftshapers/2012/08/14/marc-armstrong-public-banks-reliable-money-local-business/#commentshttp://www.blogtalkradio.com/shiftshapers/2012/08/14/marc-armstrong-public-banks-reliable-money-local-businessTue, 14 Aug 2012 20:00:00 GMTMarc Armstrong-Public Banks: Reliable Money, Local BusinessThis is Part 2 of our ShiftShapers series on the New Economy These days if a bank is stable, hasn't been bailed out and is actively lending money to stimulate local development, that would be unusual. You might even say it's against the grain. In the entire United States, the Bank of North Dakota is the most shining example of this kind of bank. And it is against the grain. What is the management doing right, that allows this bank ot function so well? It's as simple as this: The Bank of North Dakota, rather than a Wall Street bank, is a state-owned bank. it's publicly owned. That enables state government to borrow money for public projects without having to pay interest or fees, resulting in more public projects and more economic health. The success of this bank during widespread hard times, when private corporate banks continue to tighten their lending, has financially-minded people in other states exploring ways to start up their own state and county banks. In this 30-minute interview with ShiftShaper host Daniel Kerbein, Marc Armstrong of the Public Banking Institute explains the advantages to communities when their state or county deposits money in its own bank. For one think, the state or county doesn't have to pay interest on the money it borrows from itself. This saves billions - either ritght away, or over the long term. Local public banks can also target specific areas of local development, thus providing even more financial benefit to the community. 00:30:00Shift ShapersnoPublic Banking,Marc Armstrong,County Banks,State Banks,New EconomyThis is Part 2 of our ShiftShapers series on the New Economy These days if a bank is stable, hasn't been bailed out and is actively lending money to stimulatehttp://www.blogtalkradio.com/shiftshapers/2012/08/14/noel-ortega-keep-money-on-main-st-not-wall-streetFinancehttp://www.blogtalkradio.com/shiftshapers/2012/08/14/noel-ortega-keep-money-on-main-st-not-wall-street/#commentshttp://www.blogtalkradio.com/shiftshapers/2012/08/14/noel-ortega-keep-money-on-main-st-not-wall-streetTue, 14 Aug 2012 19:00:00 GMTNoel Ortega- Keep Money on Main St., Not Wall Street It's more than a recession, worse than stagnation or even depression. Noel Ortega, with the Institute for Policy Studies' New Economy Working Group, believes that Wall Street gambling and speculation have played themselves out too far this time, leaving the economy in a state of decay. In this 35-minute interview - Part One in our ShiftShaper series on The New Economy - Noel Ortega lays out a plan in which, by taking action on several economic projects, can break Wall Street's stranglehold on the future of our communities. The New Economy Working Group's strategy is outlined in its manifesto "A Main Street Cure for Wall Street's Failure". It emphasizes community wealth in the form of worker-owned cooperatives and locally controlled banking; using real indicators to measure the community's wealth; and building living economies that work with the environment and discourage profiting from war. 00:39:00Shift ShapersnoInstitute for Policy Studies,New Economy,Public Banking,Noel Ortega,Worker Co-opsIt's more than a recession, worse than stagnation or even depression. Noel Ortega, with the Institute for Policy Studies' New Economy Working Group, belihttp://www.blogtalkradio.com/shiftshapers/2012/08/04/chieko-shiina-fukushima-damage-denial-worse-than-chernobylEnvironmenthttp://www.blogtalkradio.com/shiftshapers/2012/08/04/chieko-shiina-fukushima-damage-denial-worse-than-chernobyl/#commentshttp://www.blogtalkradio.com/shiftshapers/2012/08/04/chieko-shiina-fukushima-damage-denial-worse-than-chernobylSat, 04 Aug 2012 09:00:00 GMTChieko Shiina: Fukushima Damage, Denial Worse Than Chernobyl On one side of the small north California hamlet of  Monte Rio, the wealthiest and most powerful political and corporate men in America celebrated the cremation of their cares in a bizarre campout at Bohemian Grove.  Barely a mile away on the other side of town, Chieko Shiina described the radioactive nightmare that struck her town near Fukushima in March 2011- a nightmare that it turns out is just beginning for Japan.   00:52:00Shift Shapersnonuclear power,nuclear accident,Fukushima,no nukes,Cieko ShiinaOn one side of the small north California hamlet of  Monte Rio, the wealthiest and most powerful political and corporate men in America celebrated the crematiohttp://www.blogtalkradio.com/shiftshapers/2012/07/21/ted-nace-corporate-persons-run-your-country-deal-with-itPoliticshttp://www.blogtalkradio.com/shiftshapers/2012/07/21/ted-nace-corporate-persons-run-your-country-deal-with-it/#commentshttp://www.blogtalkradio.com/shiftshapers/2012/07/21/ted-nace-corporate-persons-run-your-country-deal-with-itSat, 21 Jul 2012 08:00:00 GMTTed Nace-Corporate “Persons” Run Your Country. Deal with it. Corporations are non-human and non-living. Like a mythic character who has made a deal with the devil, a corporation can live forever and kill with impunity, without being executed or imprisoned.  Many are richer than nations, commanding policies, elections, even assassinations in smaller nations. Worse, recent court decisions give these behemoths even more rights than people. They're now "persons", entitled to rights of free "speech" which in the twisted parlance of the U.S. Supreme Court means they may spend unlimited billions, on any political campaign they wish to influence, and keep it a secret. Strange since a corporate charter's purpose is to be only a shield for real humans, from liability. When lawsuits hit the fan, a corporation is just a pile of legal papers trotted into court. At no time is it ever a person. Corporate scandals? Toxic spills and death? Wow, tough break. Jobs going offshore? Too bad. Hand over the subsidies, schedule the next bailout, and be quiet. Corporations now own American politics. How did they get so much power? Can it be dismantled?  In this interview with ShiftShapers co-host Daniel Kerbein, Ted Nace, author of Gangs of America: The Rise of Corporate Power and the Disabling of Democracy, probes the roots of corporate power. That group of privileged men we revere as the Founding Fathers despised corporations. The Virginia Company killed thousands of women and children through ill-treatment on forced-labor tobacco plantations. The East India Company attempted to monopolize American goods, resulting in the merchant-led rebellion known as the Boston Tea Party. Ted Nace is a long-time activist, currently director of CoalSwarm, a clearinghouse for anti-coal activists. His most recent book is Climate Hope: On the Front Lines of the Fight Against Coal. He was also CEO of Peachpit Press, a publishing firm he founded. 00:37:00Shift Shapersnocorporate personhood,Ted Nace,Gangs of America,Citizens United Decision,Corporations HistoryCorporations are non-human and non-living. Like a mythic character who has made a deal with the devil, a corporation can live forever and kill with impunity, whttp://www.blogtalkradio.com/shiftshapers/2012/07/21/ted-nace-swarming-all-over-king-coalEnvironmenthttp://www.blogtalkradio.com/shiftshapers/2012/07/21/ted-nace-swarming-all-over-king-coal/#commentshttp://www.blogtalkradio.com/shiftshapers/2012/07/21/ted-nace-swarming-all-over-king-coalSat, 21 Jul 2012 07:00:00 GMTTed Nace: Swarming All Over King Coal Ted Nace is currently the director of CoalSwarm, a collaborative information clearinghouse for anti-coal activists. Founded in 2008, it serves as a nerve center for the grassroots movement that has stopped the construction of over 130 proposed coal plants. CoalSwarm is a project of the Earth Island Institute, which was founded by environmental pioneer David Brower, and was created in collaboration with the Center for Media and Democracy. Nace's most recent book is Climate Hope: On the Front Lines of the Fight Against Coal. He is also the author of Gangs of America: The Rise of Corporate Power and the Disabling of Democracy, a historic examination of the rise of corporations in Britain and the United States, and the development of judicial doctrines of corporate rights. He speaks frequently on coal, climate change, and the influence of corporate power in American politics. He writes for a variety of publications, most frequently for the environmental blog Grist. In this installment of ShiftShapers, Mr. Nace describes to co-host Daniel Kerbein the environmental and health damage caused by coal burning and mining, and makes a case for the uselessness of all this danger caused by a dying coal industry, when we live in an entrepreneurial country with plenty of energy alternatives right at our fingertips.  Daniel adds further points from the literature of the Sierra Club, a national environmental organization that works with Coal Swarm and is also committed to ending coal mining and coal burning power plants. 00:40:00Shift ShapersnoCoal Swarm,Ted Nace,Coal burning,climate change,Earth Island InstituteTed Nace is currently the director of CoalSwarm, a collaborative information clearinghouse for anti-coal activists. Founded in 2008, it serves as a nerve centehttp://www.blogtalkradio.com/shiftshapers/2012/07/16/marco-castilloflorencio-paraguays-genetically-modified-coupPoliticshttp://www.blogtalkradio.com/shiftshapers/2012/07/16/marco-castilloflorencio-paraguays-genetically-modified-coup/#commentshttp://www.blogtalkradio.com/shiftshapers/2012/07/16/marco-castilloflorencio-paraguays-genetically-modified-coupMon, 16 Jul 2012 22:00:00 GMTMarco CastilloFlorencio-Paraguay's Genetically Modified Coup Foreign corporate influence in the politics of LatinAmerica is nothing new. United Fruit and now the global banks have had a stranglehold on Guatemala and its neighbors for over a century. In Paraguay, over the past several weeks the world has witnessed a new and sinister twist: A coup arranged at the whim of pesticide manufacturers.   00:31:00Shift ShapersnoCoup in Paraguay,Soybeans Paraguay,Fernando Lugo,GMO Soy Paraguay,Marco Castillo FlorencioForeign corporate influence in the politics of LatinAmerica is nothing new. United Fruit and now the global banks have had a stranglehold on Guatemala and itshttp://www.blogtalkradio.com/shiftshapers/2012/07/16/marco-castillo-florencio-un-golpe-gmo-en-paraguayPoliticshttp://www.blogtalkradio.com/shiftshapers/2012/07/16/marco-castillo-florencio-un-golpe-gmo-en-paraguay/#commentshttp://www.blogtalkradio.com/shiftshapers/2012/07/16/marco-castillo-florencio-un-golpe-gmo-en-paraguayMon, 16 Jul 2012 20:00:00 GMTMarco Castillo Florencio- Un Golpe GMO en Paraguay Esta entrevista primeramente con Marco Castillo Florencio, ha presentado en la programa "Formadores de Cambio", sobre KBBF-FM 89.1 Calistoga/Santa Rosa, sirviendo gran partes del norte de California. 00:39:00Shift ShapersnoGolpe en Paraguay,Alimentos Transgenicos,Marco Castillo Florencio,Fernando Lugo,Monsanto en ParaguayEsta entrevista primeramente con Marco Castillo Florencio, ha presentado en la programa "Formadores de Cambio", sobre KBBF-FM 89.1 Calistoga/Santa Rosa, sirviehttp://www.blogtalkradio.com/shiftshapers/2012/07/16/maria-paula-bertolini-marcos-arruda-rio20-y-bosques-lindosEnvironmenthttp://www.blogtalkradio.com/shiftshapers/2012/07/16/maria-paula-bertolini-marcos-arruda-rio20-y-bosques-lindos/#commentshttp://www.blogtalkradio.com/shiftshapers/2012/07/16/maria-paula-bertolini-marcos-arruda-rio20-y-bosques-lindosMon, 16 Jul 2012 06:00:00 GMTMaria Paula Bertolini, Marcos Arruda-Rio20 y Bosques Lindos Estas entrevistas primeramente han presentado en la programa "Formadores de Cambio", sobre KBBF-FM 89.1 Calistoga/Santa Rosa, sirviendo gran partes del norte de California. 00:40:00Shift ShapersnoRio mas 20,Marcos Arruda,Maria Paula Bertonlini,bosques de Argentina,media ambienteEstas entrevistas primeramente han presentado en la programa "Formadores de Cambio", sobre KBBF-FM 89.1 Calistoga/Santa Rosa, sirviendo gran partes del norte dhttp://www.blogtalkradio.com/shiftshapers/2012/07/09/anet-aguilar-y-cristiansolis-etiqueta-gmos-en-californiaFoodhttp://www.blogtalkradio.com/shiftshapers/2012/07/09/anet-aguilar-y-cristiansolis-etiqueta-gmos-en-california/#commentshttp://www.blogtalkradio.com/shiftshapers/2012/07/09/anet-aguilar-y-cristiansolis-etiqueta-gmos-en-californiaMon, 09 Jul 2012 08:00:00 GMTAnet Aguilar y CristianSolis- Etiqueta GMOs en California En este entrevista, Co-host Ricardo Quiroga habla con Anet Aguilar y Cristian Solis, del Instituto de Tecnologia Responsibles, acerca de la initiativa para etiquetando los alimientos transgenicos. Desde la década de 1990, en repetidas ocasiones hemos pedido a la FDA, el USDA, los legisladores y los tribunales para etiquetar alimentos que contienen organismos genéticamente modificados. Hasta ahora no lo han hecho.Encuestas indican que 91 perciento  de los entrevistados quieren etiquetas que indica que los alimentos tienen OVMs (transgenicos). Los traficantes de transgénicos aseguraban que este tipo de cultivos son el resultado de la “agricultura de alta tecnología ”. Si los transgénicos son tan maravillosos, porque resistan las industrias de alimentos GMO a etiquetar los productos? La industria se preocupa de mantener a los consumidores en la oscuridad respecto de su presencia en los alimentos. Los productores de GMOs se encuentran peleando de manera feroz un proyecto que los obligaría a poner en los envases que el alimento contiene transgénicos -una ley que no hace más que requerir que los alimentos sean etiquetados en forma honesta cuando contienen ingredientes genéticamente modificados. Quieren obligar que los consumidores no tengan idea sobre la composición de lo que comen. Esto pasa, por ejemplo, con el mortal insecticida presente en cada grano de maíz transgénico. Así que recuerda, la próxima vez que vayas al supermercado toma algunos minutos, lee los ingredientes en el producto que estás comprando y haz la siguiente pregunta: “¿Qué es lo que no me dicen sobre este alimento?”. 00:45:00Shift ShapersnoGMOs,Etiqueta GMOs,California GMOs,CA Initiatives,Right to KnowEn este entrevista, Co-host Ricardo Quiroga habla con Anet Aguilar y Cristian Solis, del Instituto de Tecnologia Responsibles, acerca de la initiativa para etihttp://www.blogtalkradio.com/shiftshapers/2012/06/24/pamm-larry-put-gmos-on-the-label-stop-experimenting-on-usFoodhttp://www.blogtalkradio.com/shiftshapers/2012/06/24/pamm-larry-put-gmos-on-the-label-stop-experimenting-on-us/#commentshttp://www.blogtalkradio.com/shiftshapers/2012/06/24/pamm-larry-put-gmos-on-the-label-stop-experimenting-on-usSun, 24 Jun 2012 19:00:00 GMTPamm Larry- Put GMOS on Labels & Stop Experimenting on Us! Pamm Larry likes being able to look at the label of a food product and find out what’s inside before she buys it – sugars, fats, and all other things organic and artificial, you can find it on the label, right? Wrong. One class of food manufacturers gets to hide its product from public view, and hence from consumer choice: the manufacturers of genetically modified organisms (GMOs). Ever seen BT Corn on a food label, or Round-Up Ready Canola? After this November, perhaps you will. Pamm Larry got tired of having  California food labels conceal untested food ingredients, so she got busy, formed Label GMOs and launched the GMO Labeling Initiative for the November California ballot. Last month, Label GMO gathered nearly a million signatures, twice as many as were required to make the ballot.  During the second half hour of this 1-hour program, co-host Daniel Kerbein interviews Pamm Larry about the origins and objectives of the Caifornia Right to Know ballot initiative. In preparation for that interview, Daniel explores the process and the potential dangers posed by genetic modification of our food supply, and the implications of releasing these organisms onto gigantic farm fields and of course into our food supply. - without any testing for potential harm to the environment, or ill effects on humans. To this purpose, he uses excerpts from Mike Adams' Health Ranger reports, and Jeffery Smith's "GMO Threat" video series. This program first aired on bilingual KBBF-FM 89.1 Calistoga/Santa Rosa. A Spanish-language program about the Label GMOS initiative will be added to the podcast menu soon. Please generously support bilingual public radio.     00:59:00Shift ShapersnoLabel GMOs,Pamm Larry,Genetically Modified,Organic Food,GMO dangersPamm Larry likes being able to look at the label of a food product and find out what’s inside before she buys it – sugars, fats, and all other things organic ahttp://www.blogtalkradio.com/shiftshapers/2012/06/24/argelio-giron--a-chicanos-journey-in-search-of-aztlanRadiohttp://www.blogtalkradio.com/shiftshapers/2012/06/24/argelio-giron--a-chicanos-journey-in-search-of-aztlan/#commentshttp://www.blogtalkradio.com/shiftshapers/2012/06/24/argelio-giron--a-chicanos-journey-in-search-of-aztlanSun, 24 Jun 2012 09:00:00 GMTArgelio Giron - A Chicano's Journey in Search of AztlanThis is a very special bilingual segment of "Radio Consciencia-The Resistance Report"   featured on KBBF 89.1FM with executive producer/host Evelina Molina, Co-host/Intern, Maite Chavez (doing her very first interview!) and special guest Argelio Giron. 00:41:00Shift ShapersnoBilingual Community Radio,KBBF,Argelio Giron,Maite Chavez,ChicanoThis is a very special bilingual segment of "Radio Consciencia-The Resistance Report"   featured on KBBF 89.1FM with executive producer/host Evelina Molina, Co-http://www.blogtalkradio.com/shiftshapers/2012/06/24/hbo-rain-of-gold-milestone-for-mexican-american-novelistCulturehttp://www.blogtalkradio.com/shiftshapers/2012/06/24/hbo-rain-of-gold-milestone-for-mexican-american-novelist/#commentshttp://www.blogtalkradio.com/shiftshapers/2012/06/24/hbo-rain-of-gold-milestone-for-mexican-american-novelistSun, 24 Jun 2012 05:30:00 GMTVictor Villasenor "Rain of Gold" Novel to HBO Mini-Series Not since the series “Roots” by Alex Haley has there been such great expectation, excitement, and hope.  At a time when Latinos are under increasing attacks, an HBO mini-series like this could not be more well-timed. In this 40 minute (bilingual) interview KBBF host Jorge Alfaro and intern co-host Maite Chavez interview Pulitzer nominee and author of 9 novels, Mexican-American writer Victor Villasenor. “Rain of Gold” (of which the upcoming HBO series is based on) is the incredible true story of the Villaseñor family and how author Victor Villaseñor’s parents, Juan Salvador and Lupe, flee the dangers of the Mexican Revolution as children in 1915 and then come to the United States, marry and achieve their dreams. This true-life saga chronicles three generations of a Mexican-American family.  It is an epic tale of revolution, struggle and triumph as well as a moving story of two young lovers. Universally praised when the book was published it has been compared to “Roots” and “The Godfather”. The “Rain of Gold” experience is shared with many of the estimated over 40 million Mexican Americans (out of 52 million Hispanics) living in the United States. 00:42:00Shift ShapersnoLatino,Mexican Revolution,HBO,Victor Villasenor,mexicoNot since the series “Roots” by Alex Haley has there been such great expectation, excitement, and hope.  At a time when Latinos are under increasing attacks, ahttp://www.blogtalkradio.com/shiftshapers/2012/06/21/marcos-arruda-solidarity-economyEnvironmenthttp://www.blogtalkradio.com/shiftshapers/2012/06/21/marcos-arruda-solidarity-economy/#commentshttp://www.blogtalkradio.com/shiftshapers/2012/06/21/marcos-arruda-solidarity-economyThu, 21 Jun 2012 13:00:00 GMTMarcos Arruda, Solidarity Economy,& Rio Plus 20 Marcos Arruda has defined for everyone what it is to be a Peaceful Warrior. In 1970, the young Brazilian student spoke out against the injustice. He knew the dangers; he was arrested, imprisoned and tortured. His mother, Lina Penna Sattamini, managed to locate him and after a year's effort, got him released and got him out of the country, to live a 10-year period of exile until a democratically-elected regime took power in Brazil. Arruda went on to become an economist and popular educator.  He has worked closely with Brazilian labor, co-operatives and solidarity economy movements for years.  He is active in the Ecovillage and Transition Town movements, also active in the Jubilee South Network -  addressing issues related to the debt crisis and alternatives, economy and ecology. In this one-hour podcast (originally aired over KBBF-FM 89.1 Calistoga/Santa Rosa California), Marcos Arruda shares with Shift-Shapers co-host Daniel Kerbein his views on the world economy and human development. He sees the debt crisis as an opportunity to restructure the world economy, so that economic development serves human and social development, not the model of the global economy – which is the reverse. The global economy, based on the myth of "infinite" growth and resource exploitation, has come up against serious limits. New forms of development which put people at the center, rather than profit, need to be addressed. "They have the money," he says, "but we have people, and the people are a tremendous source of power." Underneath a veneer of "prosperity" the majority of the world's population lives in conditions of permanent insecurity or crisis. Community development organizations and micro-financing of Eco Villages, show new models where people thrive. The African country of Senegal has launched a movement, with more than 40,000 Eco Villages. 00:54:00Shift ShapersnoRio plus 20,UN Earth Summit,Marcos Arruda,ALBA,World Social ForumMarcos Arruda has defined for everyone what it is to be a Peaceful Warrior. In 1970, the young Brazilian student spoke out against the injustice. He knew thehttp://www.blogtalkradio.com/shiftshapers/2012/06/13/dr-guy-mcpherson-helping-others-to-walk-away-from-empireEnvironmenthttp://www.blogtalkradio.com/shiftshapers/2012/06/13/dr-guy-mcpherson-helping-others-to-walk-away-from-empire/#commentshttp://www.blogtalkradio.com/shiftshapers/2012/06/13/dr-guy-mcpherson-helping-others-to-walk-away-from-empireWed, 13 Jun 2012 15:00:00 GMTDr Guy McPherson Helping Others Walk Away from Empire You'll hear about all of it in this interview. About the things we're doing to our living habitat on Earth. By the way, "habitat" doesn't mean "mall." Doesn't mean WalMart either  And that big screen TV? That's not it, the stuff on it isn't even real. Our living habitat comprises all the things that industrial civilization does not value: the air we breathe, our oceans, the dirt under our feet. If it can't be mined or made into a dumping ground, it's useless. Even the people living here are only useful as consumers. In this 32-minute interview, Guy McPherson shares with Co-Host Daniel Kerbein his view that industrial civilization is destroying everything so quickly, that that if we don't stop it in the next few years, we are quickly headed for an uninhabitable planet. Dr. McPherson came around to this while a tenured professor of Environmental Science at the U. of Arizona. He couldn't reconcile his position of privilege with his realization that a collapse is mandatory for humanity's continued survival. So, he says, he "walked away from Empire." Now he lives with a group of like-minded people, producing what he calls "the Big Four- healthy food, clean water, body temperature maintenance (clothing & dwellings), and a decent human community." He also volunteers his time teaching others how to walk away. This walking away, by McPherson and others, is the subject of the upcoming film "Somewhere in New Mexico, Before the End of Time.", by Mike Sosebee. Dr. McPherson's blog site, www.guymcpherson.com, is titled "Nature Bats Last." This interview first aired on KBBF-FM 89.1 Calistoga/Santa Rosa. Please support bilingual public radio.    00:32:00Shift ShapersnoGuy McPherson,conscious community,transition movement,environment,consumerismYou'll hear about all of it in this interview. About the things we're doing to our living habitat on Earth. By the way, "habitat" doesn't mean "mall." Doesn'thttp://www.blogtalkradio.com/shiftshapers/2012/06/08/film-somewhere-in-new-mexico-leaving-empire-for-new-livesFilmhttp://www.blogtalkradio.com/shiftshapers/2012/06/08/film-somewhere-in-new-mexico-leaving-empire-for-new-lives/#commentshttp://www.blogtalkradio.com/shiftshapers/2012/06/08/film-somewhere-in-new-mexico-leaving-empire-for-new-livesFri, 08 Jun 2012 21:00:00 GMTFilm: Somewhere in New Mexico- Leaving Empire for New Lives Somewhere in New Mexico is a professor of environmental science who decided the best thing to do about climate degradation is to leave his post and help people transition away from industrial civilization. Somewhere in New Mexico is a community living off the grid, people working together, and meeting each other's needs. Somewhere in New Mexico, Before the End of Time is a documentary film by Mike Sosebee, about Prof. Guy McPherson's path, from a prestigious university, to the nitty-gritty world of permaculture and water capture. Dr. McPherson believes industrial civilization is destroying our human habitat, and must end. Global leadeers won't give us leadership, only antagonism. it is up to us as individuals, he says, to walk away from empire -start new lives, without our gadgets of destruction. To Mike Sosebee, it's a vital message. "We're sleepwalking into the end of the world," he tells co-host Daniel Kerbein in this 38-minute interview. "And that really scares me." In the film, he shows people who have carved out new lives, off the grid and into homemade food security. For Sosebee, the story isn't just about an academic who went back to the land. It's also about the censorship brought down on an educator / scientist when he told the world what he saw. Mike Sosebee is a decorated veteran, former air traffic controller. He's brought viewers up close to blues musicians and chronicled the lives of the homeless in San Diego County. This new project is his largest yet, and thanks to donations of support it will soon be complete. This show first aired on KBBF-FM 89.1 Calistoga/Santa Rosa, CA. Please support bilingual public radio. 00:43:00Shift ShapersnoMike Sosebee,Transition,Guy McPherson,New Mexico,permacultureSomewhere in New Mexico is a professor of environmental science who decided the best thing to do about climate degradation is to leave his post and help peoplehttp://www.blogtalkradio.com/shiftshapers/2012/05/30/venus-project-new-culture-new-economy-for-people-planetEnvironmenthttp://www.blogtalkradio.com/shiftshapers/2012/05/30/venus-project-new-culture-new-economy-for-people-planet/#commentshttp://www.blogtalkradio.com/shiftshapers/2012/05/30/venus-project-new-culture-new-economy-for-people-planetWed, 30 May 2012 01:00:00 GMTVenus Project: New Culture, New Economy for People & Planet Is it any wonder that a futurist and designer would set about designing the future? Dr. Jaques Fresco has invented and designed hundreds of new products and structures, for a range of medical, cinema, construction, and aerospace applications. In the 1930s, he was influenced by the great designer Buckminster Fuller. Starting with World War II, Fresco witnessed a devastating parade of environmental and human destruction. He saw the need to design new cities, a new economy, and a new culture. This work, spanning several decades, evolved into the Venus Project --a foundation that represents the vision of a future without poverty, crime, war, corruption, or waste. Fresco and his colleague, Roxanne Meadows, see it as a way  to outgrow current political and business notions of human affairs, using a caring and holistic approach, a world withou money, where technology serves all human needs. A more appropriate value system would need to be required to enable this  This alternative surpasses the need for the controlled and scarcity-oriented environment in which we find ourselves in today. In this 38-minute interview with Co-host Daniel Kerbein, Fresco and Meadows outline their view of a future that is ready for us to live, as soon as we are ready for it. What also comes across clearly, is their deep-down trust in the core ability of humans to cooperate and create evolved communities with each other. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacque_Fresco http://www.thevenusproject.com/ This interview first aired on KBBF-FM 89.1, Calistoga/Santa Rosa. Please be generous in supporting public radio. www.kbbf-fm.org     00:38:00Shift ShapersnoVenus Project,Jaques Fresco,Future Design,Resource Based,citiesIs it any wonder that a futurist and designer would set about designing the future? Dr. Jaques Fresco has invented and designed hundreds of new products andhttp://www.blogtalkradio.com/shiftshapers/2012/05/29/350org-simple-messages-drive-home-climate-dangersEnvironmenthttp://www.blogtalkradio.com/shiftshapers/2012/05/29/350org-simple-messages-drive-home-climate-dangers/#commentshttp://www.blogtalkradio.com/shiftshapers/2012/05/29/350org-simple-messages-drive-home-climate-dangersTue, 29 May 2012 15:00:00 GMT350.org: Simple Messages Drive Home Climate Dangers Question: What is the maximum concentration of carbon dioxide that can be in the Earth's atmosphere before it starts to unleash drastic changes to the planet's temperatures and climate? If you  said 350 parts per million (the answer agreed-upon by scientists as correct ), it's possible you gained that awareness through the efforts of 350.org. This activist organization was originally started by environmental author Bill McKibben, known for his passion for - and books about - climate protection. the name 350.org gives this group the double advantage of simplicity, while naming its ultimate goal in scientific terms. Awareness is growing due to their work. In this 25-minute interview, Anna Goldstein, Nationsl Events Coordinator for 350-org, explains the the group's mission to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and the damage they cause to the earth's temperatures and climate. This interview with co-host Daniel Kerbein was first aired on KBBF-FM 89.1, Calistoga/Santa Rosa, California. Your support and donations to KBBF are appreciated. www.kbbf-fm.org 00:25:00Shift Shapersnoclimate change,environment,greenhouse gases,carbon dioxide,Bill McKibbenQuestion: What is the maximum concentration of carbon dioxide that can be in the Earth's atmosphere before it starts to unleash drastic changes to the planet'shttp://www.blogtalkradio.com/shiftshapers/2012/05/19/350org-el-peligro-de-carbon-en-una-planeta-calentandoEnvironmenthttp://www.blogtalkradio.com/shiftshapers/2012/05/19/350org-el-peligro-de-carbon-en-una-planeta-calentando/#commentshttp://www.blogtalkradio.com/shiftshapers/2012/05/19/350org-el-peligro-de-carbon-en-una-planeta-calentandoSat, 19 May 2012 08:00:00 GMT350.org: El Peligro de Carbon en una Planeta Calentando El cambio climático está afectando  a América Latina causando  grandes inundaciones en  Colombia,   sequías  en  México y   la  desaparición  de  las nieves de los andes.  Aunque El cambio climático afecta  a las poblaciones más vulnerables del continente,  en la agenda política mundial   el tema económico sigue siendo central.  Conozca estos temas y a la  organización 350.org y sus acciones  escuchando  a Juan Carlos Soriano en entrevista exclusiva para el Programa de KBBF radio comunitaria 89.1 FM del Norte de California “Formadores de Cambio, Medio  Ambiente y Futuro” que se transmite al aire cada primero y tercer miércoles de cada mes, dirigido por  Ricardo Quiroga. 00:40:00Shift Shapersno350 org,Ricardo Quiroga,cambio de clima,crisis climatica,Juan Carlos SorianoEl cambio climático está afectando  a América Latina causando  grandes inundaciones en  Colombia,   sequías  en  México y   la  desaparición  de  las nieves dehttp://www.blogtalkradio.com/shiftshapers/2012/05/14/kathy-mcmahon-sage-advice-therapy-for-peak-oil-bluesPsychologyhttp://www.blogtalkradio.com/shiftshapers/2012/05/14/kathy-mcmahon-sage-advice-therapy-for-peak-oil-blues/#commentshttp://www.blogtalkradio.com/shiftshapers/2012/05/14/kathy-mcmahon-sage-advice-therapy-for-peak-oil-bluesMon, 14 May 2012 00:00:00 GMTKathy McMahon: Sage Advice & Therapy for Peak Oil Blues A lot of people think you're weird or radical if you look at the world of climate events and economic shock around us and see imminent collapse. Others think you're a negative buzz-kill, in need of some positive thinking, but not on their time. Enter the Peak Oil Shrink. Kathy McMahon, a clinical psychologist, says that dealing with the anxiety that our civilization has hit a wall and will not recover, is is an essential experience to have. Bearing isolation and rejection from loved ones and family members over those anxieties can be depressing, but does not mean you're mentally ill. She's not only been through those changes herself, she's turned her practice largely over to coaching and providing therapy for people who are experiencing the triple whammy of anxiety, panic, and rejection because of their view of the furure. She's recently completed an e-book, “I Can’t Believe You Actually Think That!” - A Couple’s Guide to Finding Common Ground about Peak Oil, Climate Catastrophe, and Economic Hard Times. She has also set up a web site, peakoilblues.org, which offers ideas and coaching around those issues and how to prepare emotionally for sudden shifts or even complete collapse. In this 30-min. interview with co-host Daniel Kerbein, McMahon gives some basic advice fon preparing for the future: Have enjoyable get-togethers with the neighbors, build trust & problem solve with them. Do the same with immediate family. Become "patch o' ground" people, going "radically local" and paying very close attention to the world within a 10-mile radius of our homes, which would be our whole world in a collapse of the global economy. Kathy McMahon's words of solace and points to ponder, were first aired on KBBF-FM 89.1 Calistoga. KBBF bilingual public radio wlcomes your support. www.kbbf-fm.org 00:32:00Shift Shapersnocollapse,peak oil,anxiety,adaptation,resilienceA lot of people think you're weird or radical if you look at the world of climate events and economic shock around us and see imminent collapse. Others thinkhttp://www.blogtalkradio.com/shiftshapers/2012/05/13/medea-benjamin-killer-drones-are-coming-to-us-skiesTechnologyhttp://www.blogtalkradio.com/shiftshapers/2012/05/13/medea-benjamin-killer-drones-are-coming-to-us-skies/#commentshttp://www.blogtalkradio.com/shiftshapers/2012/05/13/medea-benjamin-killer-drones-are-coming-to-us-skiesSun, 13 May 2012 01:00:00 GMTMedea Benjamin: Killer Drones Are Coming to US Skies First it was spy cameras, then it was unmanned planes with cameras. Now the spy camera flying over Pakistan can shoot, or blow to bits, anyone the computer selects. Could be a terrorist, could be a wedding party – oops! Collateral damage… And here’s the scary part: They aren’t just in Western Asia any more. They’re headed home, by the thousands, to watch us. In this 28-minute interview, ShiftShapers Pole Reversal Radio co-host Daniel Kerbein interviews Medea Benjamin, founder of Code Pink and Global Exchange, about her new book Drone Warfare – Killing by Remote Control. Nobody speaks truth to power like Medea Benjamin. She is tireless, courageous and well-versed on the subject of unmanned robotic aircraft. Drones come in all sizes, but are used by the military for only 2 purposes: spying and killing specified targets. They have a track record of killing many more innocent civilians than terrorist-identified agents. Now they are being issued to the Border Patrol, and individual police departments. Barbara Ehrenreich notes in the Foreword to the book that drone technology has proliferated to over 50 countries. “Drone Warfare sketches out the nightmare possibilities posed by this insane proliferation. We cannot only expect drones to fall into the hands of “rogue” nations or terrorist groups; we should brace ourselves, too, for the domestic use of surveillance drones and even armed drones at the Mexican border and possibly against American civilian protestors.” Codepink has created a web site called droneswatch.org where people can obtain the latest information and campaign ideas for taking widespread action. Code Pink also co-hosted a Drone Summit in April 2012, which brought together experts from around the world to discuss the potential harm and benefit of unmanned aircraft. This interview first aired on KBBF-FM 89.1 Calistoga. 00:28:00Shift ShapersnoDrone Warfare,Code Pink,unmanned,surveilance,civilian casualtiesFirst it was spy cameras, then it was unmanned planes with cameras. Now the spy camera flying over Pakistan can shoot, or blow to bits, anyone the computer selhttp://www.blogtalkradio.com/shiftshapers/2012/05/12/michael-c-ruppert-transition-occupy-prepare-for-collapseEnvironmenthttp://www.blogtalkradio.com/shiftshapers/2012/05/12/michael-c-ruppert-transition-occupy-prepare-for-collapse/#commentshttp://www.blogtalkradio.com/shiftshapers/2012/05/12/michael-c-ruppert-transition-occupy-prepare-for-collapseSat, 12 May 2012 00:00:00 GMTMichael C. Ruppert- Transition, Occupy, Prepare for Collapse Michael Ruppert has warned us before. He's warning us again now. In his first book, Crossing the Rubicon (2004), he called out the arrival of Peak Oil and the violent chicanery of global governments (including 9/11 and the Iraq invasion) to grab remaining fuel supplies. Two years later he urged his lecture audiences to get ready for a crash of world financial markets, which took place in 2007. Confronting Collapse - The Crisis of Energy and Money in a Post Peak Oil World (2009) prompted film maker Chris Smith to produce the documentary "Collapse - The Movie" www.collapsemovie.com In this 48-minute interview with co-host Daniel Kerbein, Michael Ruppert minces no words: We've begun a fast decline of world oil supplies. This brings declines in goods, transportation, even food supplies. Start growing food, start getting ready. Collapse is at our front door, now. In Ruppert's view, the situation has gone from bad, to worse, to worse than bad. Confronting Collapse presented a 25-Point Program for Action. Today, he shakes his head. "Too late for that now.' That was before the disruption of the Gulf by BP and the destruction of Japan by the Fukushima reactors. The best way to serve others today is to bear witness to the disruptions that are coming and become emotionally, spiritually and physically prepared. In a recent posting on the Collapsenet.com web site, he offers the best words of hope he can muster: "...a new Golden Age is coming. Before a new house -- one that includes a safe place for all life -- can be built, the old one ...must be completely destroyed and defeated. It will achieve the fulfillment of its death wish. It will be satisfied with nothing less. There is no easier, softer way. Embrace the death of the old that you may experience, participate in, and rejoice in the birth of the new." 00:48:00Shift ShapersnoTransition US,Occupy,Peak Oil,Collapse,Michael C RuppertMichael Ruppert has warned us before. He's warning us again now. In his first book, Crossing the Rubicon (2004), he called out the arrival of Peak Oil and thehttp://www.blogtalkradio.com/shiftshapers/2012/05/02/bruce-gagnon-exposes-space-based-weapon-plansPolitics Progressivehttp://www.blogtalkradio.com/shiftshapers/2012/05/02/bruce-gagnon-exposes-space-based-weapon-plans/#commentshttp://www.blogtalkradio.com/shiftshapers/2012/05/02/bruce-gagnon-exposes-space-based-weapon-plansWed, 02 May 2012 04:00:00 GMTBruce Gagnon Exposes Space-Based Weapon Plans Bruce Gagnon, Coordinator of the Global Network against Weapons and Nuclear Power in Space, has a simple message: War is hell on earth, and in the heavens. In this 26-minute interview with Co-host Daniel Kerbein, Gagnon exposes the U.S. Space Command’s goal of total domination of space – to use it as a base, and deny its use to other nations. Space-based weapons technology drove the Gulf War of the 1990s- the first Space War- where nearly all the Iraqi military was destroyed via satellite. The new tool in the 10-year Afghanistan war is the unmanned killer drone, controlled by a joystick geek at a U.S. air base. In the 70s sci-fi movie “2001”, an ape man throws his club into the air and it fades into a space ship – but futuristic weaponry hasn’t advanced us much beyond the dominating motives of our hairy ancestors. The new orbiting battle array will launch attacks from space platforms. Laser bullets will take out airborne missiles. A Space Plane will swoop down from an orbiting station and bomb countries below, much like a fighter jet. How will this expensive technical arsenal be financed under a deficit-ridden U.S. budget? Gagnon suggests the funding will come from America's social programs like Social Security, so that our nation can be turned to the purpose of global resource extraction. 21st century tools seize the fuel of last century’s technology: oil. A U.S. Space Command doc predicts a rise in organized resistance to global domination of resources. Surveillance and drones will save tons of money when putting down rebellions. Could U.S. citizens, angry over the loss of their safety net, one day be that organized resistance that is to be suppressed? Bruce Gagnon says yes, and the time to act is now – The drones have come home to roost. They are in our skies, right now, courtesy of Homeland Security. For info: www.space4peace.org 00:27:00Shift ShapersnoSpace Command,unmanned drones,Bruce Gagnon,Global Network,space weaponsBruce Gagnon, Coordinator of the Global Network against Weapons and Nuclear Power in Space, has a simple message: War is hell on earth, and in the heavens. Inhttp://www.blogtalkradio.com/shiftshapers/2012/04/28/paul-w-rea-911-mounting-evidence-for-new-investigationHistoryhttp://www.blogtalkradio.com/shiftshapers/2012/04/28/paul-w-rea-911-mounting-evidence-for-new-investigation/#commentshttp://www.blogtalkradio.com/shiftshapers/2012/04/28/paul-w-rea-911-mounting-evidence-for-new-investigationSat, 28 Apr 2012 09:00:00 GMTPaul W. Rea & 9/11: Mounting Evidence for New Investigation Skeptical about the weird events or Sept. 11 2012, and the report concocted to explain them? You've got company - millions of us have disturbing doubts about that story. Thinking of a conspiracy theory? No problema. That's what the "Official Story" is too, although a wild one. The 911 Commission Report is the handbook for what we're supposed to accept about the What happened that day. Instead of "magic bullet" theories that promote Kennedy's lone gunman, the Official 911 story gives us magic buildings and big terrorist mojo. Try and follow this: 3 airliners hit not only the two largest buildings on American soil, but also the most fortified structure in the world - the Pentagon - on exactly the day that Vice Pres. Dick Cheney had stood down our vast air defense forces. While our nation was asleep at coincidentally the right moment, a gang of Muslim extremists with no flight experience used box cutters to hijack the planes,  and fly them into their targets. In violation of chemistry and physics, a jet fuel (kerosene) fire melted steel girders and sent 3 skyscrapers to the ground at free-fall speed, leaving a pile of dust particles, molten metal, and traces of explosives, Paul W. Rea, Ph.D., points out that evidence, testimony, and even known events were removed from the 911 Commission report.  In this 33-minute interview, Dr. Rea, author of Mounting Evidence: Why We Need a New Investigation Into 9/11, tells ShiftShapers host Daniel Kerbein why a new investigation into 9/11 is needed. Dr. Rea's first foray into this issue was his book Still Seeking the Truth About 9/11. Mounting Evidence reflects additional years of research, providing a readable overview of multiple issues. (This was a phone interview conducted on a stormy evening, so please excuse some static. We filtered out much of it.) 00:34:00Shift ShapersnoMounting Evidence,Paul Rea,911 investigation,Twin Towers,World Trade CenterSkeptical about the weird events or Sept. 11 2012, and the report concocted to explain them? You've got company - millions of us have disturbing doubts about thttp://www.blogtalkradio.com/shiftshapers/2012/04/13/share-exchange-builds-the-new-community-the-next-economyBusinesshttp://www.blogtalkradio.com/shiftshapers/2012/04/13/share-exchange-builds-the-new-community-the-next-economy/#commentshttp://www.blogtalkradio.com/shiftshapers/2012/04/13/share-exchange-builds-the-new-community-the-next-economyFri, 13 Apr 2012 05:00:00 GMTShare Exchange Builds the New Community, the Next Economy When Kelley Rajala started the Share Exchange 16 months ago, she knew it would provide a relaxed, common space for small business people in Sonoma County, CA to hold meetings and handle office work without the expense of a dedicated office space. She also viewed it as a local economy center, even a blueprint for a new community.  A place to innovate, share and figure out the way forward. Today, a visitor can walk into the store front at 5315th St.  in Santa Rosa, and find the colorful Made Local Marketplace; a small business co-working space (where spontaneous creative things happen and work gets done); and classes or workshops on evenings & weekends. Now, with sponsorship from Community Ventures, The Share Exchange has just launched The Local Economy Institute, to promote the establishment of worker-owned cooperatives in the area north of San Francisco. Kelley describes the Institute as the non-profit arm of the Share Exchange working on a bridge to the next economy -- the People's Economy, the Relationship Economy, a Holistic, Fair & Just Economy.  It aims to help communities rebuild strong, vibrant local economies -- particularly small communities or rural geographic regions. In this 41-minute interview, co-host Daniel Kerbein talks to Kelley Rajala about ciioperatives, time banking, urban farming, Transition towns, and the next economy. For more information go to http://www.shareexchange.coop or call 707-583-7667. This interview first aired on KBBF-FM 89.1 Calistoga/Santa Rosa. 00:41:00Shift Shapersnoworker cooperatives,next economy,Share Exchange,Community Ventures,co-work spacesWhen Kelley Rajala started the Share Exchange 16 months ago, she knew it would provide a relaxed, common space for small business people in Sonoma County, CA thttp://www.blogtalkradio.com/shiftshapers/2012/04/09/tracie-mcmillan-american-way-of-eating-our-food-supplyFoodhttp://www.blogtalkradio.com/shiftshapers/2012/04/09/tracie-mcmillan-american-way-of-eating-our-food-supply/#commentshttp://www.blogtalkradio.com/shiftshapers/2012/04/09/tracie-mcmillan-american-way-of-eating-our-food-supplyMon, 09 Apr 2012 22:00:00 GMTTracie McMillan- American Way of Eating & Our Food Supply From the food deserts that are America's cities, to the hot dust devils of Central Valley farms, to the bright shining rows of plastic-shrouded vegetables at WalMart, Tracie McMillan knows something aboout America's food supply. She knows about it, because she's worked it - earning minimum wage, and less. In this 40-minute interview, ShiftShapers co-host Daniel Kerbein talks to Tracie McMillan, author of The American Way of Eating - Under Cover at WalMart, Applebee’s, Farm Fields and the Dinner Table. Want an inside look at what is happening to our food supply, or what a farm worker has to do to make minimum wage? Tracie McMillan gives us a big picture view of the situation, and backs it up with research done while living inside the belly of the American food chain. This is a nutritionally dense book, complete with a section of detailed notes, a bibliography, and even a budget that Ms. McMillan set for herself to make ends meet while earning minimum and sub-minimum wage. Between the pages, this socially-minded journalist brings us stories of immigrant farm workers and other hard- working, poorly paid people on whom we depend for our food every day. Some listeners may recall that Ms. McMillan and her book became famous when right-wing insult jock Rush Limbaugh berated her on the air and warned listeners that the author is “another single, over-educated woman” out to make us “lose our freedom”. In a scenario that has become emblematic of Rush Limbaugh’s reverse mojo, his victim – and her book -- earned a new level of credibility and interest after the lambasting. A heated schedule of national interviews followed, (including Rachel Maddow, HuffPost, NPR, etc.) Through it all, Ms. McMillan was gracious and found some time for an interview with ShiftShapers. 00:40:00Shift ShapersnoWalMart,American Way of Eating,Tracie McMillan,food security,farm workersFrom the food deserts that are America's cities, to the hot dust devils of Central Valley farms, to the bright shining rows of plastic-shrouded vegetables at Whttp://www.blogtalkradio.com/shiftshapers/2012/03/30/carolyn-baker-we-need-grief-heart-to-navigate-collapsePsychologyhttp://www.blogtalkradio.com/shiftshapers/2012/03/30/carolyn-baker-we-need-grief-heart-to-navigate-collapse/#commentshttp://www.blogtalkradio.com/shiftshapers/2012/03/30/carolyn-baker-we-need-grief-heart-to-navigate-collapseFri, 30 Mar 2012 19:00:00 GMTCarolyn Baker-We Need Grief & Heart to Navigate Collapse For several years now, Carolyn Baker has offered emotional and spiritual tools for preparing for living in a post-industrial world. Her 17 years of private practice as a therapist, and her experience as a professor of history and psychology, come through on her website, Speaking Truth to Power at www.carolynbaker.net. Carolyn’s book Sacred Demise: Walking The Spiritual Path of Industrial Civilization’s Collapse employs her experience from her practice of “Collapse Coaching”, working with real people who have gone beyond concern and become aware deep in their guts, that collapse isn’t just a concept. It’s a living reality taking shape all around us and is about to take over our future. Navigating The Coming Chaos: A Handbook For Inner Transition speaks to the life and guidance to be found in our hearts and our souls, as we shift out of the world of the predictable into the unpredictable. This is Carolyn’s latest book. It brings in the spirit of her drumming and storytelling, goes to the places of the primitive and sometimes the dark, that we need to be in touch with as we move into the future. It is a delight to tell our ShiftShapers listeners that Carolyn Baker’s compassion, commitment and vision come through in this 47-minute interview with ShiftShapers co-host Daniel Kerbein. 00:47:00Shift ShapersnoCarolyn Baker,economic collapse,peak oil,climate change,survivalFor several years now, Carolyn Baker has offered emotional and spiritual tools for preparing for living in a post-industrial world. Her 17 years of private prhttp://www.blogtalkradio.com/shiftshapers/2012/03/27/trish-clifford-richmond-rivets-assemble-vibrant-transitionEnvironmenthttp://www.blogtalkradio.com/shiftshapers/2012/03/27/trish-clifford-richmond-rivets-assemble-vibrant-transition/#commentshttp://www.blogtalkradio.com/shiftshapers/2012/03/27/trish-clifford-richmond-rivets-assemble-vibrant-transitionTue, 27 Mar 2012 22:00:00 GMTTrish Clifford, Richmond Rivets Assemble Vibrant Transition Not long ago, Trish Clifford was inspired by Pachamama’s “Awaken the Dreamer” call to action, and wanted to prepare her community for fuel shock (formerly called Peak Oil) and climate shock. Looking for a group to work with, she became attracted to the Transition Town movement. Transition puts in place local food production, energy and goods, cutting down on fueled transport. When communities see the writing on the wall, they get busy. In this 32-minute interview with co-host Daniel Kerbein, Trish describes the transition group she helped found in Richmond, just north of San Francisco. In the spirit of local icon Rosie the Riveter, they took the name The Richmond Rivets. They rolled up their sleeves and launched a seed lending library (at the public library), a fruit tree giveaway, and other ongoing programs. Richmond’s supportive city government has turned over an open greenway as a pubic farm, worked by Urban Tilth, an urban farming and youth education group. The Greenway now provides access to healthy food, and city folk are getting new skills as farmers. Richmond is also holding compost giveaways, and harvest swap meets for local gardeners. Members of the Richmond City Council visited Mondragon, a world-wide hub of successful cooperatives, and now work with the Richmond Rivets and other groups to incubate worker-owned businesses. To prepare their community for future sudden events, the Rivets have launched “Two Steps a Month”, an emergency supply program which shows how to put away essential emergency supplies a little at a time, making preparedness possible on a low budget. A positive by-product of the Transition effort, Trish points out, is that communities work together. Groups in Richmond have launched water conservation projects, and a time bank where everyone trades hours of service with others. More projects are envisioned 00:32:00Shift ShapersnoRichmond CA,Transition Town,Richmond Rivets,Urban Tilth,seed libraryNot long ago, Trish Clifford was inspired by Pachamama’s “Awaken the Dreamer” call to action, and wanted to prepare her community for fuel shock (formerly callhttp://www.blogtalkradio.com/shiftshapers/2012/02/29/derrick-jensenduring-collapse-stand-up-for-likely-victimsEnvironmenthttp://www.blogtalkradio.com/shiftshapers/2012/02/29/derrick-jensenduring-collapse-stand-up-for-likely-victims/#commentshttp://www.blogtalkradio.com/shiftshapers/2012/02/29/derrick-jensenduring-collapse-stand-up-for-likely-victimsWed, 29 Feb 2012 17:00:00 GMTDerrick Jensen:During Collapse, Stand Up for Likely Victims Looking at the depletion of oil, forests and other resources, Derrick Jensen believes that our global economy is due for collapse. Our current world empire, and possibly even our civilization, is likely to fall with it. Examples of social collapse in recent years show that women and members of socially rejected groups such as immigrants, often fall victim to resulting rage and conflicts. Now is the time, says Derrick, to pledge allegiance to women, and to make sure that "outsiders" are given an equal place in the new community. In this 45-minute interview, ShiftShapers co-host Daniel Kerbein talks with Derrick Jensen, author of 12 books on environment and consciousness, including A Language Older Than Words, End Game, and his most recent work, Dreams, which was published in the fall of 2011. He is also a teacher and holds degrees in creative writing and mineral engineering. As an activist, he has spoken at several Occupy demonstrations across the U.S. Derrick has made a study of the ways in which the earth around us attempts to communicate with us, and the ways in which we could be listening. Animals, forests, trees, and even our bodies give us messages every day if we would only listen to something other than our spoken languages. Part of the problem, he says, is that most of the time we simply aren't interested. Trees in a forest are nothing more than dollar signs, to be silenced, exploited and clearcut. Derrick urges us to see the connection between this silencing of the natural world, and what is being done to millions of people forced into slavery, prostitution and sweat shops world wide. In order to coerce we must first silence. And now, the true fruits of centuries of coercion are about to be borne - it is about to destroy us. To survive, we need to start listening again. Derrick's books and other written work can be found at derrickjensen.org 00:46:00Shift ShapersnoDerrick Jensen,environment,occupy,nonverbal communication,forest protectionLooking at the depletion of oil, forests and other resources, Derrick Jensen believes that our global economy is due for collapse. Our current world empire, anhttp://www.blogtalkradio.com/shiftshapers/2012/02/28/speak-with-power-victory-for-debate-team-victory-over-adveEducationhttp://www.blogtalkradio.com/shiftshapers/2012/02/28/speak-with-power-victory-for-debate-team-victory-over-adve/#commentshttp://www.blogtalkradio.com/shiftshapers/2012/02/28/speak-with-power-victory-for-debate-team-victory-over-adveTue, 28 Feb 2012 16:00:00 GMTSpeak With Power: Victory for Debate Team, Victory Over Adve Some of us find our voice during our youth, others of us shy away until adulthood when circumstances force us to motivate other people.   In this podcast of the "Speak With Power" special radio series, host Daniel Kerbein converses with Alia Williams, state-level winner in the youth speech contests sponsored by the Veterans of Foreign Wars. Alia is a member of the forensics (Speech and Debate) team at Analy High School. This interview, about the preparation that speech training gives people for their lives, takes place during the 2nd half of this 1-hr program. The first portion of the show is devoted to world leaders, real and imagined, who had to find their voice and inspire their people during times of adversity. Daniel plays back speeches byBritish Prime Minister Winston Churchill and King George VI, rallying the people to stand tall and be prepared for victory in spite of daily bombing attacks from fascist Nazi Germany.   Both of these speakers had to overcome personal adversity to deliver their speeches: They both had speech impediments, and King George in particular had a paralyzing fear of speaking in front of anyone. Both of these world leaders underwent intensive training and practice to overcome these obstacles and stand tall before their people. Then there are the imagined world leaders. In this segment Daniel plays back a stirring speech by Charlie Chaplin in one of his only speaking roles in the cinema, "The Great Dictator", a satire of fascist Nazi leader Adolf Hitler. In the film Chaplin plays a stand-in for the dictator, but in the end when asked to give a speech, gives one from the heart, stirring the people to throw off their chains and act together. (This program aired Tuesday, Feb. 6 on KBBF-FM 89.1) 00:57:00Shift Shapersnoforensics,speech and debate,speech trraining,Analy High School,Lynette WilliamsonSome of us find our voice during our youth, others of us shy away until adulthood when circumstances force us to motivate other people.   In this podcast ofhttp://www.blogtalkradio.com/shiftshapers/2012/02/27/scott-mckeown-new-skills-needed-in-post-fossil-fuel-worldEnvironmenthttp://www.blogtalkradio.com/shiftshapers/2012/02/27/scott-mckeown-new-skills-needed-in-post-fossil-fuel-world/#commentshttp://www.blogtalkradio.com/shiftshapers/2012/02/27/scott-mckeown-new-skills-needed-in-post-fossil-fuel-worldMon, 27 Feb 2012 09:00:00 GMTScott McKeown: New Skills Needed in Post-Fossil Fuel World As fuel supplies become unpredictable and oil prices get out of reach, what life skills will become important? What current abilities will still be needed, and which of them will become obsolete? How do we begin now, to get people in our communities re-skilled in the kinds of work that will serve the new community? This is part of the planning that the Transition movement has taken on, along with some thornier issues - such as how to assure a local food supply. In this 43-minute interview, Scott McKeown, Training Director for Transition U.S., talks to co-host Daniel Kerbein about the work of preparing communities for a nea-future world, with nearly gone fossil fuels. 00:44:00Shift ShapersnoTransition US,peak oil,Scott McKeown,reskilling,local foodAs fuel supplies become unpredictable and oil prices get out of reach, what life skills will become important? What current abilities will still be needed, andhttp://www.blogtalkradio.com/shiftshapers/2012/02/21/carolyn-baker-collapse-coaching-helps-us-ride-the-shiftEnvironmenthttp://www.blogtalkradio.com/shiftshapers/2012/02/21/carolyn-baker-collapse-coaching-helps-us-ride-the-shift/#commentshttp://www.blogtalkradio.com/shiftshapers/2012/02/21/carolyn-baker-collapse-coaching-helps-us-ride-the-shiftTue, 21 Feb 2012 02:00:00 GMTCarolyn Baker: Collapse Coaching Helps Us Ride the Shift We're past just noticing it - it's rattling us daily. The shift, that is. National economies have crumbled, resources are depleted. Global climate change has brought disaster, and now physicists are investigating a link between melting ice sheets, giant storms, and the current global upsurge in seismic activity. Currencies, nuke plants, and transportation are all at risk. It's a time of transition, and our survival depends on how well we prepare for an unpredictable future. But how do we do it? In this 35-minute interview, co-host Daniel Kerbein talks to Carolyn Baker, psychotherapist, "Collapse Coach" and author of Sacred Demise: Walking the Spiritual Path of Industrial Civilization's Collapse, and Navigating the Coming Chaos, a Handbook for Inner Transition. These books can be seen and obtained at www.carolynbaker.net. Videos are also there for the viewing, Carolyn's blog is regularly refreshed, and the site also features the latest head-spinning articles by a range of authors, social commentators and futurists. Her books and courses are designed to promote emotional and spiritual preparation for an uncertain future. She believes the collapse of industrial civilization offers us an opportunity to step across an evolutionary threshold and become a new kind of human being. In this 35-minute interview, co-host Daniel Kerbein about a new workshop coming to Santa Rosa, designed to assist communities in expanding transition efforts. We'll also talk about what each of us can do to wake up to the future and make sure we're ready. 00:35:00Shift ShapersnoPeak oil,collapse,Carolyn Baker,transition towns,doomersWe're past just noticing it - it's rattling us daily. The shift, that is. National economies have crumbled, resources are depleted. Global climate change has bhttp://www.blogtalkradio.com/shiftshapers/2012/02/05/foreclosure-free-zones-part3-petaluma-throws-a-monkey-wrenchReal Estatehttp://www.blogtalkradio.com/shiftshapers/2012/02/05/foreclosure-free-zones-part3-petaluma-throws-a-monkey-wrench/#commentshttp://www.blogtalkradio.com/shiftshapers/2012/02/05/foreclosure-free-zones-part3-petaluma-throws-a-monkey-wrenchSun, 05 Feb 2012 13:00:00 GMTForeclosure Free Zones-Part3 Petaluma Throws a Monkey Wrench In this 3nd  part of our series about the Foreclosure Menace, co-host Daniel Kerbein explores with Occupy Our Homes! activist CJHolmes and Petaluma, CA Vice-Mayor (and congressional candidate) Tiffany Renee, what communities such as the City of Petaluma are doing -- and other communities can also do -- to throw a monkey wrench into the foreclosure machine. The Petaluma City Council voted in December to seek legal protection for homeowners faced with foreclosures and evictions. They wrote a letter to CA Attorney General asking that the AG work to 1) temporarily stay auction proceedings and 2) temporarily suspend CA Codes requiring County sheriffs to serve all process and notices related to foreclosures and evictions, noting that banks & other financial institutions have a track record of engaging in "…unfair and deceptive practices in violation of California law.” In addition, the council is seeking damages for the city’s loss of more than $1 million in property tax revenue. "If we don't stop values from constant decline, more loans will go upside-down, more sellers will have to sell short, more buyers will stop buying, and eventually Banks will probably stop lending", asserts CJ Holmes in her blog. "The far-reaching stress on Owners, Governments, and even Banks, will be far greater than the issues we face right now." For Parts 2 and 3 of this series, we enhanced audio from CJ Holmes' video of our interview in the studio of KBBF-FM 89.1, Calistoga/Santa Rosa CA. This was due to a problem with our on-air recording. The interview can be seen at YouTube, KBBF012912. Music credits go to: The Daddy Mack Blues Band, "Trickle Down Blues" by Eddie Dattel, from the CD "Pay the Piper" www.insidesounds.com, used with permission; Francisco Herrera, "Casa de Carton", from the CD "Fuerza de la Raiz. 00:42:00Shift Shapersnoillegal foreclosure,Kamala Harris,occupy our homes,Tiffany Renee,Petaluma CaliforniaIn this 3nd  part of our series about the Foreclosure Menace, co-host Daniel Kerbein explores with Occupy Our Homes! activist CJHolmes and Petaluma, CA Vice-Mahttp://www.blogtalkradio.com/shiftshapers/2012/02/05/foreclosure-part2-theyre-after-all-our-homesReal Estatehttp://www.blogtalkradio.com/shiftshapers/2012/02/05/foreclosure-part2-theyre-after-all-our-homes/#commentshttp://www.blogtalkradio.com/shiftshapers/2012/02/05/foreclosure-part2-theyre-after-all-our-homesSun, 05 Feb 2012 07:00:00 GMTForeclosure Part2: They're After All Our Homes! In this 2nd part of our series about the Foreclosure Menace, co-host Daniel Kerbein gets the full picture from Occupy Our Homes! activist CJHolmes about how big the foreclosure debacle is, the damage it has caused, what we all stand to lose, and where it's all headed. Not a pretty picture. More of a sinister one. Not only are most of the foreclosures illetal, most of the loans aren't even legal to begin with. Many are asking, how could they have done this? Or more appropriately, how could we have just rolled over and let this happen? No matter - we aren't letting it happen any more. Get out of the way, lobbyist-fed Washington, you're pathetic. We've got some work to do and the movement has started locally.- to take back our homes. State Attorneys General including Kamala Harris of California are getting on board. Amazing: the Rule of Law, fighting back. Meanwhile, at the Federal Government level, the banksters are pleading with the Wall Street-friendly Obama Administration to give them immunity from fraud. Here's a question: Doesn't "immunity" mean you've actually committed the crime, and now you just don't want to do the time? Music credit for this installment of ShiftShapers goes to The Daddy Mack Blues Band for "Trickle Down Blues", copyright 2012 Eddie Dattell. From their 2012 CD release, "Pay the Piper." www.insidesounds.com For Parts 2 and 3 of this series, we have enhanced the audio from the video that CJ Holmes made of our in-studio interview with her on Jan. 29, 2012 on KBBF-FM 89.1, which originates in Santa Rosa CA and broadcasts to a 10-county area from Mt. St. Helena, in Calistoga, CA. (We had technical difficulties in the live on-air recording of this interview and thank CJ for the use of her video which can be seen at YouTube, KBBF012912. 00:40:00Shift Shapersnoforeclosures,foreclosure crisis,bank meltdown,occupy our homes,CJ HolmesIn this 2nd part of our series about the Foreclosure Menace, co-host Daniel Kerbein gets the full picture from Occupy Our Homes! activist CJHolmes about how bihttp://www.blogtalkradio.com/shiftshapers/2012/02/02/occupy-our-homes-foreclosure-free-zone-movement-part-1Politicshttp://www.blogtalkradio.com/shiftshapers/2012/02/02/occupy-our-homes-foreclosure-free-zone-movement-part-1/#commentshttp://www.blogtalkradio.com/shiftshapers/2012/02/02/occupy-our-homes-foreclosure-free-zone-movement-part-1Thu, 02 Feb 2012 07:00:00 GMTOccupy Our Homes Foreclosure Free Zone Movement Part 1If you would like to watch a YouTube Video with more details CLICK HERE Or visit www.occupy-our-homes.info U.S. families have endured a 3-year assault on our communities, one that has decimated neighborhoods, destroyed life savings, and thrown families into the streets. What is this predator stalking your town? It's the menace of foreclosures - an accelerating death spiral of illegal property seizures, that if left unchecked will take away every home in America, leaving us a nation of landless tenants. Such is the message of the "Occupy Our Homes" and Foreclosure Free Zone movements. In this 45-min installemt of ShiftShapers, host Daniel Kerbein plays back is recordings of Tiffany Renee (Vice Mayor, City of Petaluma and candidate for U.S. Congress of 2nd District, CA) and CJ Holmes (Real Estate Broker/Investor), when they spoke out at an Occupy Petaluma event hosted in Santa Rosa. Ever since the foreclosure debacle started, it has had a bad smell to it--the kind of acrid stench that has been drifting out of Wall Street during the stame time. Remember those "collatoralized debt obligations" that brought down the world economy, that were a toxic mix of good and bad loans, bundled together and called good? Learn more about the crimes behind the foreclosures by watching the video we have posted on YouTube. 00:45:00Shift Shapersnoforeclosure,CJ Holmes,Tiffany Renee,occupy,predator lendingIf you would like to watch a YouTube Video with more details CLICK HERE Or visit www.occupy-our-homes.info U.S. families have endured a 3-year assault on our chttp://www.blogtalkradio.com/shiftshapers/2012/01/30/norman-soloman-is-making-war-foreclosure-not-so-easyPoliticshttp://www.blogtalkradio.com/shiftshapers/2012/01/30/norman-soloman-is-making-war-foreclosure-not-so-easy/#commentshttp://www.blogtalkradio.com/shiftshapers/2012/01/30/norman-soloman-is-making-war-foreclosure-not-so-easyMon, 30 Jan 2012 07:30:00 GMTNorman Solomon is Making War and Foreclosure NOT So Easy“The power of Wall Street is undermining life for the rest of us on Main Street. This is totally unacceptable. I will fight for a truly democratic and sustainable future every day, on the campaign trail and in Congress.” – Norman Solomon, 2011 http://solomonforcongress.com/index.php/issues On this 30 minute installment of Shift Shapers – Pole Reversal Radio you will get to hear two interviews. We begin with Shift Shapers co-producer and host Daniel Kerbein interviewing Norman Solomon candidate for the United States congress, talking about the economy -- in particular the foreclosure menace and predatory practices behind it – and the actions needed in congress to turn back the tide of property seizures. The second interview is an excerpt from "Flashpoints" a daily news magazine on KPFA 94.1Fm Dennis Bernstein talks to Phil Donahue about Norman Solomon’s qualifications and commitment as a candidate for congress. Song: "Trickle Down Blues" (Eddie Dattel) Daddy Mack Blues Band from 2012 Pay the Piper album InsideSounds@comcast.net    www.insidesounds.com   00:30:00Shift Shapersnoforeclosure,occupy,congress,Norman Solomon,Phil Donahue“The power of Wall Street is undermining life for the rest of us on Main Street. This is totally unacceptable. I will fight for a truly democratic and sustainabhttp://www.blogtalkradio.com/shiftshapers/2012/01/20/scott-yundt-trivalley-cares-about-plutonium-dust-bio-agentsEnvironmenthttp://www.blogtalkradio.com/shiftshapers/2012/01/20/scott-yundt-trivalley-cares-about-plutonium-dust-bio-agents/#commentshttp://www.blogtalkradio.com/shiftshapers/2012/01/20/scott-yundt-trivalley-cares-about-plutonium-dust-bio-agentsFri, 20 Jan 2012 00:00:00 GMTScott Yundt-TriValley CARES About Plutonium Dust, Bio Agents What's worse than allergies in your neighborhood? Try airborne plutonium. The community of Livermore (east of San Francisco, CA) holds soils and ground water that have been darkly amended by radioactive toxins - tritium, depleted uranium, and even plutonium. Scott Yundt is staff attorney for Tri-Valley CARES (Communities Against a Radioactive Environment). In this 35-minute interview with co-host Daniel Kerbein, he explains how, even ibeing a Superfund toxic site, does not guarantee the government will give you the information you need to conduct a proper cleanup. After having won a Freedom of Information Act suit and a court order, the group still receives redacted information, where portions of documents are blacked out. Scott and Tri-Valley CARES have prevailed with the help of former lab employees, whose interest is in finding out what elements they have been exposed to and obtaining proper treatment for their radiation ailments. Even in the face of this poisonous legacy, and with the residents and families of Livermore neighboring its little secret compound, the Lawrence Livermore National Lab is still not finished toying with catastrophe. There is also a section devoted to biological weapons there. Germs for anthrax, bird flu, and even the plague live in jars, inside a cluster of portables, apparently waiting to be released among some hapless population. There, biological agents are aerosolized and tested on animals, to assure that they can spread and cause death among humans. We're contaminating and poisoning our own citizens as we contemplate bombing and bringing weaponized pestilence upon people in other countries. When did we bounce off the road of being human, and head for the cliff of self-destruction? We talk about this with Scott Yundt, and about the work Tri-Valley CARES has been doing since 1983. 00:36:00Shift ShapersnoRadioactive waste,biological weapons,Lawrence Livermore,Scott Yundt,Tri -Valley CARESWhat's worse than allergies in your neighborhood? Try airborne plutonium. The community of Livermore (east of San Francisco, CA) holds soils and ground waterhttp://www.blogtalkradio.com/shiftshapers/2012/01/16/occupy-santa-rosa-7-throw-their-bodies-on-the-machine-1Politics Progressivehttp://www.blogtalkradio.com/shiftshapers/2012/01/16/occupy-santa-rosa-7-throw-their-bodies-on-the-machine-1/#commentshttp://www.blogtalkradio.com/shiftshapers/2012/01/16/occupy-santa-rosa-7-throw-their-bodies-on-the-machine-1Mon, 16 Jan 2012 00:00:00 GMTOccupy Santa Rosa 7 Throw Their Bodies on the MachineWhat do you do when you find out your bank is taking your money and investing it in private prisons, betting on a growth of inmates? And using it to push new laws that bring in fresh inmates and more cash? Read entire narrative and watch a video of this 67 min SS Special Occupy Report HERE People have connected those dots, and become a movement. On Jan. 6, Occupy Santa Rosa (CA) & immigrant rights groups united to halt business as usual at Wells Fargo. The spirit of Mario Savio once again called for people to throw themselves over the levers of the machine, and shut it down. 2 branch offices closed that day. The “Santa Rosa Seven” were arrested. Jesse calls it "getting our feet wet." We call it throwing your body on the machine. Cesar Chavez said a march is a prayer in motion. In the spiritual vein, this one was led by Aztec dance group Coyolxauqui. It was a day to tell the world what "business as usual" means when banks hold stock in private prisons, contribute to racist state senators and encourage laws that criminalize and scapegoat undocumented immigrants. Georgia, Arizona, and Alabama were lobbied by GEO Group & Corrections Corp of America (CCA). Now anyone can be picked up and held in those companies’ prisons, funded by the state. Round up your scapegoats, fill up the prisons, and watch your Wall Street value go up. According to Yahoo Finance, Wells Fargo owns and manages nearly $100 million in prison stock. “Detention” is a user-friendly term for imprisonment, the real business of GEO & CCA. Their centers have a record of abuse, uncovered by the ACLU and Frontline news program. Now, they have 3 states bringing them fresh prisoners. 01:08:00Shift ShapersnoOccupy,detention prisons,Wells Fargo,foreclosures,immigrantsWhat do you do when you find out your bank is taking your money and investing it in private prisons, betting on a growth of inmates? And using it to push new lahttp://www.blogtalkradio.com/shiftshapers/2012/01/13/james-howard-kunstler-views-a-future-without-cheap-fuelsEnvironmenthttp://www.blogtalkradio.com/shiftshapers/2012/01/13/james-howard-kunstler-views-a-future-without-cheap-fuels/#commentshttp://www.blogtalkradio.com/shiftshapers/2012/01/13/james-howard-kunstler-views-a-future-without-cheap-fuelsFri, 13 Jan 2012 20:00:00 GMTJames Howard Kunstler Views a Future Without Cheap Fuels Where will you be when the oil runs out? Author and speaker James Howard Kunstler believes we've already run out of the cheap stuff, not just here in the U.S. but around the globe. From here on out, it's going to cost us- and the economy. He knows something about this subject, too - he's written 4 books about peak oil and what the post-oil world will look like in the future. In this 50-minute interview with co-host Daniel Kerbein, Kunstler says it's too late to hope that alternative energy sources will keep supporting our wasteful consumption and commuting practices. He even doubts that governments will have the capital any time soon to build the new infrastructure that a massive shift to alternative energy would require. Instead, he says, it is time to retool our lives and communities to live locally. Jobs and shopping within walking distance. Food raised within a few miles of our plates.The absolute and total end of suburbia (which Kunstler believes will be inevitable with escalating fuel prices.) James Howard Kunstler is the author of several non-fiction books about urban planning and peak oil, notably The Long Emergency - Surviving the End of Oil, Climate Change, and Other Catastrophes of the Twenty-First Century. He has also brought his imagination into the future and written two novels, A World Made by Hand and The Witch of Hebron, which depict life in an Upstate New York town after the collapse of the cheap oil economy. 00:50:00Shift ShapersnoJames Howard Kunstler,peak oil,resource depletion,go local,transition movementWhere will you be when the oil runs out? Author and speaker James Howard Kunstler believes we've already run out of the cheap stuff, not just here in the U.S.http://www.blogtalkradio.com/shiftshapers/2012/01/08/alex-smith-radio-ecoshock-prepare-for-climate-oil-collapseEnvironmenthttp://www.blogtalkradio.com/shiftshapers/2012/01/08/alex-smith-radio-ecoshock-prepare-for-climate-oil-collapse/#commentshttp://www.blogtalkradio.com/shiftshapers/2012/01/08/alex-smith-radio-ecoshock-prepare-for-climate-oil-collapseSun, 08 Jan 2012 14:00:00 GMTRadio EcoShock-Prepare for Climate, Oil Collapse If you're looking for magical, happy-go-lucky forecasts about the environment, economic recovery, and continued predictability with our resources, keep looking. You won't find it at Eco Shock. This weekly syndicated radio broadcast hosted by Alex Smith, features scientists and authors with credentials ranging from economics to climate, from hydrology to agriculture. They talk frankly about a future that is coming at us , bringing with it extreme and violent climate events and disruptions of energy and other resources. No magical thinking. Some Cassandras, but no Polyannas. It can be found at: http://www.ecoshock.org Eco Shock originates from Alex's studio in Vancouver, B.C. in Canada. It is syndicated to over 50 college & communty stations,podcast & downloaded by thousands,broadcast live by net, Satellite & Cable, and free to any non-profit station. In this 32-minute interview, Shift Shapers co-host Daniel Kerbein talks with Alex Smith about how he was drawn to reporting the global situation in an unvarnished way, and what we can do to prepare for an uinpredictable future. Alex also gives some advice on how to talk about that future with others, who may not just prefer to hear something happy and magical, but be desperate to hear that everything will be recovering, things will once again be all right, and we will return to the day when there is plenty of everything and no consequences for environmental plunder. All in all this is a pleasant, insightful dialogue between two comrades with microphones. 00:32:00Shift ShapersnoPeak oil,Climate change,transition movement,eco shock,Alex SmithIf you're looking for magical, happy-go-lucky forecasts about the environment, economic recovery, and continued predictability with our resources, keep lookinghttp://www.blogtalkradio.com/shiftshapers/2012/01/02/justin-diehl-sebastopol-supports-occupy-ciudad-apoya-occupyPolitics Progressivehttp://www.blogtalkradio.com/shiftshapers/2012/01/02/justin-diehl-sebastopol-supports-occupy-ciudad-apoya-occupy/#commentshttp://www.blogtalkradio.com/shiftshapers/2012/01/02/justin-diehl-sebastopol-supports-occupy-ciudad-apoya-occupyMon, 02 Jan 2012 23:00:00 GMTJustin Diehl: Sebastopol Supports Occupy-Ciudad apoya Occupy (This installment of Shift Shapers is presented by Shift Shapers co-host Evelina Molina, in both English and Spanish. It first aired live on Evelina's morning program "Democracia Ahora" on KBBF-FM 89.1, the pioneering bilingual radio station serving Northern California.) When the Occupy movement started in October, Justin Diehl was ready to join it. Like thousands of others, he was tired of reading and hearing about America's wealth dieparity and the abuses of the world's privileged corporate few, and wanted to be part of a presence that would do more than talk. Now in its 3rd active month, Occupy Sebastopol now has the official support of its progressive city council, and been given space in the local park to gather, speak, and maintain a 24-hr information tent. One of the activists staffing the Occupy tent is Justin Diehl. Justin foresees a resurgent and massively empowered occupy movent coming back in the spring, after a winter of targeted marches and focused actions such as interventions to stop home foreclosures. Like many people we at Shift Shapers have spoken to in the Occupy movement during the past few months, Justin Diehl is in it for the long haul and is out to make change. 00:28:00Shift ShapersnoOccupy Sebastopol,Occupy,wealth disparity,Sebastopol CA,progressive(This installment of Shift Shapers is presented by Shift Shapers co-host Evelina Molina, in both English and Spanish. It first aired live on Evelina's morninghttp://www.blogtalkradio.com/shiftshapers/2012/01/02/michael-levitin-occupyied-wall-st-journal-informs-unitesPoliticshttp://www.blogtalkradio.com/shiftshapers/2012/01/02/michael-levitin-occupyied-wall-st-journal-informs-unites/#commentshttp://www.blogtalkradio.com/shiftshapers/2012/01/02/michael-levitin-occupyied-wall-st-journal-informs-unitesMon, 02 Jan 2012 21:00:00 GMTMichael Levitin: Occupied Wall St. Journal Informs & Unites For an activist journalist like Michael Levitin, the energy and mission of the Occupy movement is fertile ground in which to generate a newspaper. The Occupy Wall Street Journal, which has distributed over 100,000 copies between its English and Spanish-language editions, informs and updates protest participants, as well as would-be participants. Michael first encountered mass anti-corporate revolt when covering, as a journalist, the "Water Wars" in Bolivia in the 1990's. Bechtel Corporation had privatized all the water in the countrry and was denying water access to anyone who couldn't pay the huge new fees. Bechtel lobbied tne Bolivian government to decree that people coult not gather water from any creeks in the country's watersheds, or even capture rain water from the sky, without paying Bechtel. After weeks of riots and revolt and some loss of life, the Bolivian people wrested their water rights from Bechtel. For Michael Levitin, this was a dramatic example of what a popular uprising can accomplish, and he sees that spirit in the Occupy movement. Given the opportunity to become an editor of the new Occupy newspaper - The Occupied Wall Street Journal - he was up to the task. Shift Shapers co-host Daniel Kerbein conducted this 35-minute interview live over KBBF-FM 89.1 (Calistoga, CA), a pioneering bilingual public radio station. Mr. Levitin, who is fluent in Spanish, also gave a live on-air interview in Spanish the previous day. 00:33:00Shift ShapersnoOccupy Wall Street,Journalism,Economic Justice,income disparity,Michael LevitinFor an activist journalist like Michael Levitin, the energy and mission of the Occupy movement is fertile ground in which to generate a newspaper. The Occupyhttp://www.blogtalkradio.com/shiftshapers/2011/12/19/it-isnt-all-doom-and-gloom-with-duke-banner-on-kbbf-891Comedyhttp://www.blogtalkradio.com/shiftshapers/2011/12/19/it-isnt-all-doom-and-gloom-with-duke-banner-on-kbbf-891/#commentshttp://www.blogtalkradio.com/shiftshapers/2011/12/19/it-isnt-all-doom-and-gloom-with-duke-banner-on-kbbf-891Mon, 19 Dec 2011 03:00:00 GMTIt Isn't All Doom and Gloom with Duke & Banner on KBBF 89.1 When things look bleak, that's when you most need a laugh. So, we recorded this 30-minute episode of Duke & Banner on KBBF 89.1FM for your enjoyment. http://www.kbbf-fm.org/ On Friday, Dec. 16, Shift Shapers co-host Daniel Kerbein jumped in to trade some banter with Duke & Banner, and put out an appeal for listeners to support the show and the radio station with memberships.You can support this historic community public community radio station by becoming a member for only $20 annual membership fee using PayPal here: http://www.kbbf-fm.org/Memberships.htm Our elders, who lived through the last great depression of the 1930s, understood this. Clever entertainers such as Charlie Chaplin, W.C. Fields, the Marx Brothers, and slapstick hoots like the Three Stooges, got theater audiences howling and were rewarded with adulation and lucrative careers. Well, Duke & Banner aren't holding their breath waiting for a lucrative career to be lavished on them by the public radio world, but boy, they are good for a hoot. The late-night duo have been toying with the air waves every Friday night on KBBF-FM 89.1, Check out the rest of our great programming by downloading a schedule from the KBBF website. And visit Shift Shapers on BlogTalk Radio to hear lots of great interviews. http://www.blogtalkradio.com/shiftshapers and make sure to check out our blog at:http://shiftshaper.blogspot.com/   00:32:00Shift Shapersnopublic radio,doomer,bilingual station,Duke & Banner,laughterWhen things look bleak, that's when you most need a laugh. So, we recorded this 30-minute episode of Duke & Banner on KBBF 89.1FM for your enjoyment. http://http://www.blogtalkradio.com/shiftshapers/2011/12/19/richard-heinberg-decline-of-oil-rise-of-local-economiesEnvironmenthttp://www.blogtalkradio.com/shiftshapers/2011/12/19/richard-heinberg-decline-of-oil-rise-of-local-economies/#commentshttp://www.blogtalkradio.com/shiftshapers/2011/12/19/richard-heinberg-decline-of-oil-rise-of-local-economiesMon, 19 Dec 2011 02:00:00 GMTRichard Heinberg: Decline of Oil, Rise of Local Economies What happens when the very thing that has fueled the global economy for more than 100 years - fuel itself - gets past its peak and begins a sure, steady decline? Author, educator and peak oil authority Richard Heinberg has a prediction for us, in the title of his latest book: The End of Grwoth. He visited "Shift Shapers" on KBBF-FM 89.1. Heinberg is a Senior Fellow at Post Carbon Institute. In this 55-minute interview, he says global oil production peaked about 6 years abo, and is now declining as demand escalates. Growth requires resources, so it is no coincidence that the world's banks and governments have plunged into financial collapse. Since the U.S. hit peak oil production in 1970, its growth has been propped up by computer innovations, the use of 3rd world labor to replace U.S. workers, and recently by a toxic soup of financial schemes pumped out by Wall Street. Those new schemes caused a series of bubble-&-bust cycles, each trading on debt. The latest one had investors betting that U.S. real estate values would grow forever, so fast that even bad loans would soon be made good by the property backing them. The bubble burst, leaving a global economy poisoned by trillions in bad mortgages, and declining resources for generating a recovery. So, don't expect that new smart grid or solar & wind farms to curb our use of fossil fuels. Expect paralysis as the fuel supply winds down and prices soar. What do we do when we can't count on government and global corporations to provide what we need? Be the kind of community that provides its own needs, suggests Heinberg. Local currencies are promoting local trade. "Transition" groups are growing food on former lawns. Wise city councils are  making sure water and other essentials will be provided as oil declines. Widespread shock turns to community preparedness and people helping each other. We become Shift Shapers! 00:54:00Shift ShapersnoRichard Heinberg,peak oil,transition,post carbon,fossil fuelsWhat happens when the very thing that has fueled the global economy for more than 100 years - fuel itself - gets past its peak and begins a sure, steady declinhttp://www.blogtalkradio.com/shiftshapers/2011/11/29/annabel-ascher--class-warfare-the-resistance-reportPolitics Progressivehttp://www.blogtalkradio.com/shiftshapers/2011/11/29/annabel-ascher--class-warfare-the-resistance-report/#commentshttp://www.blogtalkradio.com/shiftshapers/2011/11/29/annabel-ascher--class-warfare-the-resistance-reportTue, 29 Nov 2011 23:00:00 GMTClass Warfare: The Resistance Report Annabel Ascher is tired of hearing the term "Class Warfare" used by the elites and the elite media to describe any kind of movement or legislation that would restore to the working people that which has been taken from us. In this 30-minute discussion with Shift Shapers co-host Daniel Kerbein, she turns this meme on its head. When you look at history, you see that warfare has been waged by the elites against the general population for more than 200 years. It has been played out through a steady process of taking away public property and resources (the commons) from the common people, and handing it over to corporations, developers, and other private hands. We are in a state now where this seizure of the commons has taken away our public lands, airwaves, resources and water supplies, retitled our public landmarks with corporate names, turned the incarceration of offenders over to private prison firms. Corporations even own - through a bizarre set of patent laws - plant species, including important food crops such as rice, corn and beans. They even own parts of our very bodies! Yes, it's true. Got cancer? Want some university to research the cause & cure? No such luck. A corporation owns thoseinfected genes, and no research will be done until Hell freezes over, or Satan lets go of the patent. Annabel Ascher points out that movements of old, such as the union strikes of the early 20th century, and new ones springing up in 2011 such as the Arab Spring and Occupy Wall Street, are the opposite of class warfare. These movements, and any other ways that we raise our voices, are the resistance to the class warfare being waged on us by the elites. Annabel Ascher is the newest member of the Shift Shapers team, appearing with us weekly on KBBF-FM 89.1 Calistoga, and of course on this podcast. She is also host of her own blog sites, The Frugal Goddess, and Annabel's Odyssey. 00:33:00Shift Shapersnoeconomics,occupy,class warfare,social classes,Annabel AscherAnnabel Ascher is tired of hearing the term "Class Warfare" used by the elites and the elite media to describe any kind of movement or legislation that would rhttp://www.blogtalkradio.com/shiftshapers/2011/10/28/guido-del-prado-kbbf--1st-bilingual-radio-in-the-usaRadiohttp://www.blogtalkradio.com/shiftshapers/2011/10/28/guido-del-prado-kbbf--1st-bilingual-radio-in-the-usa/#commentshttp://www.blogtalkradio.com/shiftshapers/2011/10/28/guido-del-prado-kbbf--1st-bilingual-radio-in-the-usaFri, 28 Oct 2011 01:00:00 GMTGuido del Prado & KBBF - 1st Bilingual Radio in the USA This interview is bilingual, in English-Spanish 40 years ago, Guido del Prado realized a long-time dream: To start the first bilingual radio station in the United States. This year the Bilingual Broadcasting Foundation and its radio station, KBBF-FM 89.1, is celebrating its 40-year, "ruby" anniversary. This 26-minute interview with Guido del Prado, KBBF's founder, and Alicia Sanchez, President of KBBF's board of Directors, was aired on Oct. 26, 2011. Shift Shapers co-host Daniel Kerbein had the pleasure of conducting the interview, which covered the history and guiding mission of KBBF, including the involvement of the late Senator Ted Kennedy, and the station's rise from the ashes after lightning struck its broadcast tower last winter. KBBF's mission is to provide news, public affairs, music, culture and inspiration to the Spanish-speaking and English-speaking communities in the 8 counties within its signal range.  KBBF-FM 89.1 has its studio located in Santa Rosa, CA, but its signal originates from the top of Mt.. St. Helena in Calistoga, CA. 00:29:00Shift ShapersnoGuido Del Prado,bilingual radio,radio cultura,public radio,KBBF FMThis interview is bilingual, in English-Spanish 40 years ago, Guido del Prado realized a long-time dream: To start the first bilingual radio station in the Unhttp://www.blogtalkradio.com/shiftshapers/2011/10/23/at-the-tipping-point-doug-reil-north-atlantic-booksEnvironmenthttp://www.blogtalkradio.com/shiftshapers/2011/10/23/at-the-tipping-point-doug-reil-north-atlantic-books/#commentshttp://www.blogtalkradio.com/shiftshapers/2011/10/23/at-the-tipping-point-doug-reil-north-atlantic-booksSun, 23 Oct 2011 19:00:00 GMTAt the Tipping Point- Doug Reil, North Atlantic Books Doug Reil is active in his local Transition group. He is also Associate Publisher at North American Books, and its Evolver Editions imprint and collaborations with Reality Sandwich and evolver.net. He has ideas to share. Many of North Atlantic's and Evolver's books are written from a futurist's standpoint, with perspectives about 2012 and climate change. There is no real backup system to replace melting snowpacks, glaciers, ice caps. When they're gone they're gone, and at the current rate they soon will be gone. "The Transition Movement is showing people to look closer to home", says Reil, "for solutions to their food & water supply, power generation, and mutual support. It brings a view of happiness that is about the assurance that we all have what we need, and a sense of community. Which I think is more appropriate than the consumer-based view of happiness which is looking for it in the next product. He also foresees the world reaching a tipping point soon - with sudden violent climate events, with water supplies and agriculture, and with further deterioration in the economy (which has depended on endless growth and is teetering on collapse). Climate events this year have destroyed crops and infrastructure, showing how much local economies depend on a predictable climate. For those who understand the challenges in front of us, that is not an unwelcome thing as long as we're prepared. For example the city of Willits California made a study of how much acreage would be required to produce the equivalent food volume of a supermarket, then obtained that acreage and is growing food on it. Another example is the Cuban-style intensive neighborhood agriculture being undertaken by the Transition group in Albany, California. Give a listen for more ideas and insights! 00:30:00Shift Shapersnotransition,community,environment,climate change,local agricultureDoug Reil is active in his local Transition group. He is also Associate Publisher at North American Books, and its Evolver Editions imprint and collaborationshttp://www.blogtalkradio.com/shiftshapers/2011/09/21/california-stock-exchange-funding-shift-shaping-enterprisesFinancehttp://www.blogtalkradio.com/shiftshapers/2011/09/21/california-stock-exchange-funding-shift-shaping-enterprises/#commentshttp://www.blogtalkradio.com/shiftshapers/2011/09/21/california-stock-exchange-funding-shift-shaping-enterprisesWed, 21 Sep 2011 22:00:00 GMTCalifornia Stock Exchange- Funding Shift-Shaping Enterprises"The California Stock Exchange seeks to revolutionize the way individuals and companies raise capital to pursue their dreams." http://www.calstockexchange.com/ Howard Leonhardt is a visionary entrepreneur who invented a new heart disease treatment but ran into obstacles in taking it public. He recently launched the California Stock Exchange - and numerous smaller  business support exchanges - to provide a vehicle for funding sustainable and socially beneficial enterprises. Read more about Howard CLICK HERE Criteria for support of the new exchange would include an analysis of the public good which would be provided by the new business, and the contribution it makes to a sustainable world. "Remembering that you are going to die is the best way I know to avoid the trap of thinking you have something to lose. You are already naked. There is no reason not to follow your heart." -Leonhardt This speech was given by Howard Leonhardt in August 2011 in Sebastopol, California. 00:30:00Shift Shapersnostock exchange,social entreprise,california,financial,investment"The California Stock Exchange seeks to revolutionize the way individuals and companies raise capital to pursue their dreams." http://www.calstockexchange.com/http://www.blogtalkradio.com/shiftshapers/2011/09/01/cate-griffiths-in-unpredictable-times-we-must-communicateEnvironmenthttp://www.blogtalkradio.com/shiftshapers/2011/09/01/cate-griffiths-in-unpredictable-times-we-must-communicate/#commentshttp://www.blogtalkradio.com/shiftshapers/2011/09/01/cate-griffiths-in-unpredictable-times-we-must-communicateThu, 01 Sep 2011 23:00:00 GMTCate Griffiths In Unpredictable Times, We Must Communicate A song from the 90's contains the words, "Put down that gun and let's talk." Sound communication in that situation ensures survival. Non-threatening, non-violent communication will become the order of the day as resources become unpredictable and we're under stress. It also has something to offer us as a practice in our current, more predictable lives. Cate Griffiths, Director of Recourse Mediation Services in Santa Rosa California, shares with us in this 43-minute interview some of the speaking and listening skills people have employed to find agreement in stressful and even antagonistic situations. Many of the practices she brings to us come from Non-Violent Communication, a practice that is taught around the world and endorsed by mediators and therapists. Even though our abilities have become clouded by isolation in our technical, shopping-oriented culture,  we still have to occasionally stick our heads out of our cubicles and networking pages long enough to converse, ask for what we need, and maybe even express love & gratitude. Once our worlds of energy and food supply have become unpredictable, we will more and more have to cooperate and rely on our neighbors and communities for shared information about how to obtain or produce what we need. (Even the best-appointed bunker will, in time, run out of supplies.) Real communication, in other words, will once again become a needed survival skill, as it was for peoples of old.  Add to that the stress produced by extreme climate events, by crumbling governmental infrastructure, and it becomes critical that we listen to each other, rather than pose a challenge or a threat. 00:43:00Shift Shapersnotransition,collapse,communication,NVC,mediationA song from the 90's contains the words, "Put down that gun and let's talk." Sound communication in that situation ensures survival. Non-threatening, non-violhttp://www.blogtalkradio.com/shiftshapers/2011/08/20/annabel-ascher--reskilling-frugalityLifestylehttp://www.blogtalkradio.com/shiftshapers/2011/08/20/annabel-ascher--reskilling-frugality/#commentshttp://www.blogtalkradio.com/shiftshapers/2011/08/20/annabel-ascher--reskilling-frugalitySat, 20 Aug 2011 15:00:00 GMTAnnabel Ascher - Reskilling Frugality Annabel Ascher is best known as The Frugal Goddess. She has also toured the U.S. interviewing people from all walks of life about how the current economic depression has affected the way they live. Annabel's advice: Get ready for the collapse to continue. Let's reskill ourselves in the frugal lifestyle, and plan for the transition. 00:51:00Shift Shapersnofrugality,recession,collapse,transition,environmentAnnabel Ascher is best known as The Frugal Goddess. She has also toured the U.S. interviewing people from all walks of life about how the current economic deprhttp://www.blogtalkradio.com/shiftshapers/2011/08/04/gleaning-away-alienation-good-food-for-everyoneLifestylehttp://www.blogtalkradio.com/shiftshapers/2011/08/04/gleaning-away-alienation-good-food-for-everyone/#commentshttp://www.blogtalkradio.com/shiftshapers/2011/08/04/gleaning-away-alienation-good-food-for-everyoneThu, 04 Aug 2011 16:00:00 GMTGleaning Away Alienation- Good Food for Everyone Here's a question: You want to prepare your community for the shift - from predictable climate and essential services & resources, to chaotic climate and unpredictability. To have a community where, as soon as the power grid or food supply goes down, people are ready to get going and help sustain each other. Where do you start? In this 31-minute interview, Claudia de la Pena Ms. de la Pena lays out the logic of community participation vs. alienation. Ms. de la Pena, a member of Transition Sonoma Valley, describes the breakthrough they had. Her group discovered that since we will need to pool all our talents, the most valuable first step is to make sure the people in the community get to know each other. This means the people on both sides of "the tracks" - the middle class, the working poor, the well-off, and even the homeless. One of the first exercises is to see where people in the community could be supplying each others' needs -  for food, in particular - right now. Transition Sonoma Valley discovered that a viable first step is to obtain plentiful supplies of free organic nourishing food, through the practice of gleaning. Gleaning used to be regarded as a practice undertaken by the poor, gathering leftovers after the harvest has already taken place. The tradition of gleaning is based on an unspoken right to those unwanted leftovers. See the illustration, The Gleaners (Les Glaneuses), by Francois Millet, 1857. Once a sign of shame, of necessity borne of poverty, gleaning now becomes a joyful way for the new community members to provide for each other. Watch Granger Evelina 'gleening with glee' on YouTube here: http://lascajitascsa.shutterfly.com/gleaninggrangers 00:38:00Shift ShapersnoTransition towns,Gleaning,Community buiilding,Food security,EnvironmentHere's a question: You want to prepare your community for the shift - from predictable climate and essential services & resources, to chaotic climate and unphttp://www.blogtalkradio.com/shiftshapers/2011/08/01/baltimore-green-currency-alternativas-al-dinero-tradicionalEnvironmenthttp://www.blogtalkradio.com/shiftshapers/2011/08/01/baltimore-green-currency-alternativas-al-dinero-tradicional/#commentshttp://www.blogtalkradio.com/shiftshapers/2011/08/01/baltimore-green-currency-alternativas-al-dinero-tradicionalMon, 01 Aug 2011 19:00:00 GMTBaltimore Green Currency- Alternativas al Dinero Tradicional As promised, Shift Shapers is revisiting the work of Baltimore Green Currency and its success as a local alternative to the usual money. Dos semanas pasadas empesamos una programa acerca de las maneras alternativas al dinero tracidional. La emfasis de esta programa es para preparamos parra la nueva economia We posted this interview with Jeff Dicken about Baltimore Green Currency a few weeks ago, but this time Co-host Evelina Molina has added some Spanish commentary to introduce the concept of alternative local currencies. Local currencies keep money in th elocal economy since they are honored primarily by local businesses, rather than being spent at large out of town big box stores. Just as local food and energy production are critical in shaping our shift to the post-carbon, post-convenience world, local currencies form the basis of trade when shaping the shift into our new communities. This is a bilingual program -  Opening commentary is in Spanish-English, with the interview conducted in English. This post will be revised in the near future, more fully translated into Spanish. 00:48:00Shift Shapersnotransition,local currencies,alternative currencies,complementary currencies,environmentAs promised, Shift Shapers is revisiting the work of Baltimore Green Currency and its success as a local alternative to the usual money. Dos semanas pasadas ehttp://www.blogtalkradio.com/shiftshapers/2011/07/22/richard-nolle-astropro-prepare-for-alignments-cataclysmsEnvironmenthttp://www.blogtalkradio.com/shiftshapers/2011/07/22/richard-nolle-astropro-prepare-for-alignments-cataclysms/#commentshttp://www.blogtalkradio.com/shiftshapers/2011/07/22/richard-nolle-astropro-prepare-for-alignments-cataclysmsFri, 22 Jul 2011 03:00:00 GMTRichard Nolle, AstroPro- Prepare for Alignments & Cataclysms Take a look at Richard Nolle's astropro.com web site, and you'll see how seismic and storm events on the earth are predictably affected by the alignment of the moon, sun and other planets in our solar system. A Supermoon is a full or new moon that crosses the earth at its closest point of orbit - moving fast and close, it pulls at the earth's crust, leaving in its wake 9-point earthquakes and massive volcanic eruptions. Such events, including the March 2011 earthquake and tsunami in Japan, have occurred within what Nolle calls the ''geocosmic shock window" of that planetary event. Solar-lunar eclipses and oppositions of neighboring planets also have shocking effects on our home planet. In this interview with co-host Daniel Kerbein, Mr. Nolle advises that we are headed into a several'year period of powerful earth-shaking events. 00:45:00Shift ShapersnoSuper moons,planetary alignments,earthquakes volcanoes,seismic events,Geocosmic shockTake a look at Richard Nolle's astropro.com web site, and you'll see how seismic and storm events on the earth are predictably affected by the alignment of thehttp://www.blogtalkradio.com/shiftshapers/2011/07/05/what-about-a-world-without-moneyWomenhttp://www.blogtalkradio.com/shiftshapers/2011/07/05/what-about-a-world-without-money/#commentshttp://www.blogtalkradio.com/shiftshapers/2011/07/05/what-about-a-world-without-moneyTue, 05 Jul 2011 03:00:00 GMTWhat About a World Without $MONEY$ ??? In this episode of  "Shift Shapers - Shaping the Shift" we rebroadcast a production where Kellia Ramares asks the question: "Why must we pay to live on the planet we're born on?" She talks with Genevieve Vaughan, author of Forgiving: A Feminist Criticism of Exchange; Janelle Orsi, co-director of the "Sustainable Economies Law Center"; and Roxanne Meadows of theVenus Project,who envisions a future Resource Based Economy. Make sure to follow our Shift Shaper Blog at: www.shiftshaper.blogspot.com for LOTS more great ways and ideas to get ready to SHAPE THE SHIFT. Where will you be when the SHIFT hits the FAN??? 00:28:00Shift Shapersnomoney,sustainablilty,gift economy,patriarchy,futuristicIn this episode of  "Shift Shapers - Shaping the Shift" we rebroadcast a production where Kellia Ramares asks the question: "Why must we pay to live on the plahttp://www.blogtalkradio.com/shiftshapers/2011/06/27/just-do-it-start-a-new-local-currencyFinancehttp://www.blogtalkradio.com/shiftshapers/2011/06/27/just-do-it-start-a-new-local-currency/#commentshttp://www.blogtalkradio.com/shiftshapers/2011/06/27/just-do-it-start-a-new-local-currencyMon, 27 Jun 2011 06:00:00 GMTJUST DO IT! START A NEW LOCAL CURRENCY!!! Co-hosts Evelina Molina and Daniel Kerbein talk to Baltimore Green Currency Director Jeff Dicken, two months into the launch of the "B-Note" in Baltimore MD. This is Part 2 ot "Transitional Currencies for the Shift Shaper's Wallet", a pre-recorded interview that first aired June 26 on KOWS-FM 107.3 FM, Occidental, CA. We posted our first program about the B-Note on June 10, on KBBF-FM. We promised an update with Mr. Dicken. Here it is, with additional depth and even some advice for Shift-Shapers on how to start an alternative (or "complementary") currency as the new tender for trade in your transitional community. Beyond the immediate boost to local economies, currencies like the B-Note could also add protection to those communities as the Euro and the U.S. Dollar navigate through the treacherous waters of global trade, becoming more unstable every day.  This informative interview moves us further along in exploring how people in transitional communities can trade with each other and with other communities. It also gives us examples and resources for getting a local currency started and moving forward- eventually even becoming an entire financial system. At Shift Shapers we look at all the necessary  elements of a successful transition from the current global & national environmental-economic collapse. We consider the establishment of local currencies an essential matter, as urgent as the installation of local power generation and local food production. Jeff's advice? JUST DO IT, don't wait! There really is no reason to wait. And think BIG. No matter how small your start, envision that it will be adopted on a city-wide, and even regional level.  00:38:00Shift Shapersnotransition,currency,resiliency,sustainability,localCo-hosts Evelina Molina and Daniel Kerbein talk to Baltimore Green Currency Director Jeff Dicken, two months into the launch of the "B-Note" in Baltimore MD.http://www.blogtalkradio.com/shiftshapers/2011/06/10/tansitional-currencies-for-the-shift-shapers-walletBusinesshttp://www.blogtalkradio.com/shiftshapers/2011/06/10/tansitional-currencies-for-the-shift-shapers-wallet/#commentshttp://www.blogtalkradio.com/shiftshapers/2011/06/10/tansitional-currencies-for-the-shift-shapers-walletFri, 10 Jun 2011 20:00:00 GMTTansitional Currencies for the Shift Shapers Wallet NOTE: This is a 40 minute bilingual installment, in English and Spanish. NOTA:Este es un programa bilingue, en ingles y espanol. Can a local complimentary currency help stimulate your community's commerce and actually move you local economy away from the domination of world trade? Podria una moneda local ayudar estimula el comercio de su comunidad y mobilizar una economia local lejos de el control del comercio mundial? Riding the wave of interest in alternative currencies, the Baltimore Green Currency Association baltimoregreen currency.org in April of 2011 launched Baltimore Bucks, a local currency traded in the form of the B-Note. En este segmento bilingue de Viviendo Verde Ya! Evelina y Daniel traducen un programa de radio en que Anthony McCarthy entrevista Jeff Dicken sobre la B-Nota de Baltimore. On this bilingual segment of Viviendo Verde Ya! Co-hosts Evelina & Daniel replay parts of a program on WEAA 88.9FM Baltimore in which Anthony McCarthy interviews Jeff Dicken of Baltimore Green Currency. 00:39:00Shift Shapersnocurrency,transition,local,Baltimore,economicsNOTE: This is a 40 minute bilingual installment, in English and Spanish. NOTA:Este es un programa bilingue, en ingles y espanol. Can a local complimentary cuhttp://www.blogtalkradio.com/shiftshapers/2011/06/08/ashel-seasunz-on-transition-completing-our-cultural-pastEnvironmenthttp://www.blogtalkradio.com/shiftshapers/2011/06/08/ashel-seasunz-on-transition-completing-our-cultural-past/#commentshttp://www.blogtalkradio.com/shiftshapers/2011/06/08/ashel-seasunz-on-transition-completing-our-cultural-pastWed, 08 Jun 2011 06:00:00 GMTAshEl Seasunz On Transition & Completing Our Cultural Past AshEl Seasunz is probably better known for his environmentally-tuned hip hop albums, such as Earth Amplified, that bring the power of a driving rhythm and a sense of the new community to the conversation of environmental action. In this interview, Co-Host Daniel Kerbein talks to AshEl about his work with Green For All, Transition US, and community/neighborhood organizing in general. One of his cherished projects involves planting trees along the route of the Underground Railroad, as a way to bring spiritual completion for the descendants of slaves and of slave owners (the two groups of people specifically mentioned together in Martin Luther King's "I Have a Dream" speech). To experience AshEl Seasunz as a musician, check out the Earth Amplified web site, seasunz-and-jbless.bandcamp.com  - or just google Seasunz Earth Amplified and get to the web site. 00:41:00Shift ShapersnoDiversity,Environment,green economy,Transition,ResilienceAshEl Seasunz is probably better known for his environmentally-tuned hip hop albums, such as Earth Amplified, that bring the power of a driving rhythm and a sehttp://www.blogtalkradio.com/shiftshapers/2011/06/02/ohki-simine-forest-return-of-the-ancient-council-waysWomenhttp://www.blogtalkradio.com/shiftshapers/2011/06/02/ohki-simine-forest-return-of-the-ancient-council-ways/#commentshttp://www.blogtalkradio.com/shiftshapers/2011/06/02/ohki-simine-forest-return-of-the-ancient-council-waysThu, 02 Jun 2011 21:00:00 GMTOhki Simine Forest: Return of the Ancient Council Ways Ohki Simine Forest Of Canadian Mohawk descent, Ohki Simine Forest went to study with Mongolian shamans and ultimately moved to Chiapas, Mexico, where she was initiated into the world of Mayan healers. In 1994, she created a spiritual center in Chiapas and a non-profit aimed at helping Mayan indigenous communities. She explains the vital importance of the Mayan resistance and the applicability of their ancient council ways as a model for all humanity. http://www.ohkisimineforest.com/index.htm   00:31:00Shift Shapersnomayan resistance,council ways,indigenous,chiapas,subcomandante marcosOhki Simine Forest Of Canadian Mohawk descent, Ohki Simine Forest went to study with Mongolian shamans and ultimately moved to Chiapas, Mexico, where she washttp://www.blogtalkradio.com/shiftshapers/2011/05/30/richard-heinberg-transition-from-collapse-fossil-fuelsEnvironmenthttp://www.blogtalkradio.com/shiftshapers/2011/05/30/richard-heinberg-transition-from-collapse-fossil-fuels/#commentshttp://www.blogtalkradio.com/shiftshapers/2011/05/30/richard-heinberg-transition-from-collapse-fossil-fuelsMon, 30 May 2011 01:00:00 GMTRichard Heinberg- Transition from Collapse & Fossil Fuels Richard Heinberg delivered this speech at a Transition event in Albany, north of Berkeley, CA. His brief asssessment of our current condition and future? We are facing a kind of wall here. A financial, resource and environmental wall. Here's what we have to expect: unemployment, homelessness, bank failures, hunger, political instability and international conflict." World economic growth is over. In our debt-based economic system, tomorrow's growth has been relied upon as collateral for today's debt. Now, declining oil production and price spikes at $100 a barrel, have put the brakes on continued growth. Add to that the economic consequences of extreme catastrophic weather events, and the worldwide looming impact of more than $50 trillion in bad mortgage securities, and you see what we have: a global economy in disarray, its future halted. We've gone so far out on a limb, we will have a difficult period of adaptation," says Heinberg. "We have some hard times ahead." Our hope? Local currencies and economics that are in tune with the reality that the economy is subject to the environment, not the other way around. Renewable resources have to be replenished, and production waste needs to be "food" for other processes in the cycle. A resilient society means producing locally what we need. He credits the Transition movement with moving communities into a future without fossil fuel dependency and debt-driven currency. "We are facing the greatest opportunity not only of our lifetime, but of any human lifetime," Heinberg assures us. "We'll have to live without fossil fuels anyway, why not have our lives be the better for it?" 01:01:00Shift ShapersnoEnvironment,Economics,Resilient,Transition,Peak OilRichard Heinberg delivered this speech at a Transition event in Albany, north of Berkeley, CA. His brief asssessment of our current condition and future? We ahttp://www.blogtalkradio.com/shiftshapers/2011/05/23/respecto-y-beneficios-respect-benefits-alvarado-st-workersBusinesshttp://www.blogtalkradio.com/shiftshapers/2011/05/23/respecto-y-beneficios-respect-benefits-alvarado-st-workers/#commentshttp://www.blogtalkradio.com/shiftshapers/2011/05/23/respecto-y-beneficios-respect-benefits-alvarado-st-workersMon, 23 May 2011 00:00:00 GMTRespecto y Beneficios-Respect & Benefits Alvarado St WorkersEn este programa de "Viviendo Verde Ya!" Jorge Gonzales y Filiberto Hernández hablan sobre el trabajo que hacen en la panadería llamado "Alvarado Street Bakery" en Petaluma, California Green Livelihood/Viviendo Verde Ya Co-Host Evelina Molina interviews Jorge Gonzales and Filiberto Hernandez about the work they do at Alvarado St. Bakery in Petaluma, California. Evelina Molina la coanfitriona de Viviendo Verde Ya! aprende de ellos lo que es ser un dueño en la compañía donde ellos trabajan. Está es una experiencia enteramente diversa del mundo generalmente del trabajo. En Alvarado Street Panaderia, los trabajadores tienen una opinión en las políticas de la compañía, salarios, beneficios, e incluso el desarrollo de sus productos. She finds out that being an owner in the company where you work is an entirely different experience from the usual world of work. At Alvarado St., the workers have a say in company policies, wages, benefits, and even the development of its products. 00:32:00Shift Shapersnocooperative,green economy,sustainability,futuristic,triple bottom lineEn este programa de "Viviendo Verde Ya!" Jorge Gonzales y Filiberto Hernández hablan sobre el trabajo que hacen en la panadería llamado "Alvarado Street Bakery"http://www.blogtalkradio.com/shiftshapers/2011/04/12/transition-how-to-live-with-unpredictable-resourcesEnvironmenthttp://www.blogtalkradio.com/shiftshapers/2011/04/12/transition-how-to-live-with-unpredictable-resources/#commentshttp://www.blogtalkradio.com/shiftshapers/2011/04/12/transition-how-to-live-with-unpredictable-resourcesTue, 12 Apr 2011 13:00:00 GMTTransition: How to Live With Unpredictable Resources Some communities have started looking closely at the prospect of limited resources as a result of climate change, peak oil and economic decline. To prepare for it, communities like Sebastopol have declared themselves Transition Towns, setting up new ways of farming, generating energy, and generally doing things without predictable resources, and educating people in how to live that way. In this bilingual interview, Luis Gutierrez and Evelina Molina talk to Angela Rodriguez of Transition Sebastopol about the Transition movement and how transitional practices in Sebastopol are being put into place. 00:22:00Shift ShapersnoEnvironment,transition,communities,go local,local farmingSome communities have started looking closely at the prospect of limited resources as a result of climate change, peak oil and economic decline. To prepare fhttp://www.blogtalkradio.com/shiftshapers/2011/04/11/sonoma-county-questions-25-latinoPoliticshttp://www.blogtalkradio.com/shiftshapers/2011/04/11/sonoma-county-questions-25-latino/#commentshttp://www.blogtalkradio.com/shiftshapers/2011/04/11/sonoma-county-questions-25-latinoMon, 11 Apr 2011 13:00:00 GMTSonoma County Questions: 25% Latino Daniel Kerbein, co-host, joins Cherie Maria on her show "Sonoma County Questions", to talk about recent census figures showing that 25% of Sonoma County, California's population is self-identified as Latino, and what that will mean as that community becomes a bloc of registered voters. That percentage is also high for California as a whole. Some areas where that is likely to show up would be in state level departments (such as education), policy committees and governing boards. Even though the presence and number of Latinos is growing, candidates for political office have still run hit pieces  against opponents sympathetic to the Latino community's issues and challenges, and have succeeded in getting elected. Cherie and Daniel discuss one such campaign hit piece, which was financed by the Sonoma County Alliance, which has not made public its support for the mailer. Nonetheless, the census data show that the transition to the green workforce of the future will go forward with Latinos in the lead. As the Latino community recognizes itself as a voting bloc, that future will begin to unfold into a new, diverse community. 00:58:00Shift ShapersnoDiversity,education,Latino,Census data,representational governmentDaniel Kerbein, co-host, joins Cherie Maria on her show "Sonoma County Questions", to talk about recent census figures showing that 25% of Sonoma County, Calhttp://www.blogtalkradio.com/shiftshapers/2011/02/11/green-traditon-great-workers-coop-is-a-way-of-life-at-alvarado-st-bakeryFoodhttp://www.blogtalkradio.com/shiftshapers/2011/02/11/green-traditon-great-workers-coop-is-a-way-of-life-at-alvarado-st-bakery/#commentshttp://www.blogtalkradio.com/shiftshapers/2011/02/11/green-traditon-great-workers-coop-is-a-way-of-life-at-alvarado-st-bakeryFri, 11 Feb 2011 23:03:20 GMTGreen Traditon, Great Workers: Coop Is a Way of Life at Alvarado St. Bakery"Every worker is a great worker", declares Joseph Tuck in this interview with co-hosts Dan Kerbein and Evelina Molina. Joseph Tuck is General Coordinator and CEO of Alvarado St. Bakery, a worker-owned cooperative in Petaluma, CA, about 40 miles north of San Francisco. Joseph has found that the worker coop model "fosters trust in your co-workers, and trust in our organization." The worker coop model also provides living wages, by distributing its net income among the member employees. This allows everyone in the company, from maintenance crew to executives, to enjoy a living wage and even plan for college for their children. The dollars that usually get syphoned off to CEO pay and shareholder dividends get distributed to the people who are working together to produce and sell the product. It also fosters innovation in bringing to market an excellent and healthful product. Alvarado St. Bakery was the first to market breads made from sprouted organic grains, and still holds that market niche. Bread lovers enjoy the product, which has brought forward a history of steady growth for the company, numerous awards and other recognition. A recent one is the Pioneer Award from Greenjobs.org. And of course, Alvarado St. Bakery was featured in the Michael Moore film "Capitalism, a Love Story". "We were green before people knew what the word 'green' meant," says Joseph, recounting the company's beginnings in 1973 as an initiative of the Red Clover Workers Brigade, dedicated to the dictum of food for people, not for profit. Also some humor – that cat on a label? Based on a real cat. The Alvarado St. sign on the label, too. An actual street sign, with a story behind it. Here are some useful links to explore while you enjoy our interview with Joseph Tuck: www.alvaradostreetbakery.com www.greenjobs.org www.usworker.coop (U.S. Federation of Worker Coops) 01:00:00Shift Shapersnoworker owned,green jobs,cooperatives,organic food,right livelihood"Every worker is a great worker", declares Joseph Tuck in this interview with co-hosts Dan Kerbein and Evelina Molina. Joseph Tuck is General Coordinator and CEhttp://www.blogtalkradio.com/shiftshapers/2011/01/19/milinda-stewart-sonoma-county-time-bankEnvironmenthttp://www.blogtalkradio.com/shiftshapers/2011/01/19/milinda-stewart-sonoma-county-time-bank/#commentshttp://www.blogtalkradio.com/shiftshapers/2011/01/19/milinda-stewart-sonoma-county-time-bankWed, 19 Jan 2011 00:11:37 GMTMilinda Stewart, Sonoma County Time BankCo-hosts Dan Kerbein and Evelina Molina interview Milinda Stewart, Director of Sonoma County Time Bank at the Share Exchange/Go Local Marketplace in Santa Rosa, CA Time banking is a form of alternative currency, an hour-for-hour exchange, where for every hour you spend helping out in the community, you are eligible for an equal number of hous for someone to help you. The vision is to implement a simple, proven system for people to give and receive services using the exchange of ‘timedollars’.With TimeBanking, you work with a small group of committed individuals who are joined together for a common good. TimeBank members are a caring interconnected community of people who help each other by sharing their abilities, talents, and experiences. Through both giving and receiving members learn to appreciate the value in each and every member and also come to believe in the value of their own contributions.00:30:00Shift Shapersnotime bank,cooperatives,new economy,green economy,time equalityCo-hosts Dan Kerbein and Evelina Molina interview Milinda Stewart, Director of Sonoma County Time Bank at the Share Exchange/Go Local Marketplace in Santa Rosa,http://www.blogtalkradio.com/shiftshapers/2011/01/18/green-bough-health-cooperative--dawn-zaft-celosia-Healthhttp://www.blogtalkradio.com/shiftshapers/2011/01/18/green-bough-health-cooperative--dawn-zaft-celosia-/#commentshttp://www.blogtalkradio.com/shiftshapers/2011/01/18/green-bough-health-cooperative--dawn-zaft-celosia-Tue, 18 Jan 2011 21:00:00 GMTGreen Bough Health Cooperative - Dawn Zaft & Celosia ArcadiaCo-hosts Dan Kerbein and Evelina Molina talk with Celosia Arcadia & Dawn Zaft, founders of Green Bough Health Cooperative at the Share Exchange of the Go Local Cooperative. Green Bough is a membership-based cooperative seeking to put together health educators, health practitioners and community members to promote better health and affordable health care in Sonoma County, north of San Francisco. a local organic herbal pharmacy, and community events. Their mission is to build community, offer organic herbal remedies for the gamut of health concerns, offer health advocacy, and promote responsible and accessible medicine.00:31:00Shift Shapersnocooperatives,new economy,green economy,health cooperative,herbal cooperativeCo-hosts Dan Kerbein and Evelina Molina talk with Celosia Arcadia & Dawn Zaft, founders of Green Bough Health Cooperative at the Share Exchange of the Go Localhttp://www.blogtalkradio.com/shiftshapers/2011/01/15/fdrs-1938-fireside-it-takes-job-programs-to-turn-aEnvironmenthttp://www.blogtalkradio.com/shiftshapers/2011/01/15/fdrs-1938-fireside-it-takes-job-programs-to-turn-a/#commentshttp://www.blogtalkradio.com/shiftshapers/2011/01/15/fdrs-1938-fireside-it-takes-job-programs-to-turn-aSat, 15 Jan 2011 03:08:55 GMTFDR's 1938 Fireside: It Takes Job Programs to Turn Around a RecessionOne of the most important speeches by President Frankllin D. Roosevelt, one that speaks to us today, was delivered in 1938. Ah, yes -- It was a year of swing -- music that grew out of, and expressed, the new surge of public energy, the spirit of public service and the renewed economy that was well underway as a result of Roosevelt's job stimulus and relief initiatives. Were FDR’s daring programs all about green jobs? Well, not really but there is a parallel: In 1937, four years after President Roosevelt's original relief and stimulus package started bringing us out of the Great Depression, a steady curve of progress started to nosedive. Roosevelt, under pressure from deficit hawks, had cut back on job creating stimulus programs. Results were swift. Unemployment and layoffs -- the ugly face of double-dip depression-- returned to haunt everyday Americans. In a clip from 1938, Roosevelt declares a return to the New Deal job creation that drove away the Depression in the first place. And while we hear this Fireside Chat, just think: Green jobs. Green jobs... The manufacturing sector had overproduced in anticipation of growing employment – growth that was curtailed in 1937 when Roosevelt pulled back on job stimulus funding in favor of what today is called “fiscal conservatism”. Roosevelt is accused by the right today of having been a socialist, of moving United States politics and economics to the far left. Actually, given the national mood and world politics at the time, FDR’s approach was very centrist. In Germany & Italy, people had fallen into line with fascist dictators who had promised to bring economic stimulus through military control of their nations. Some years earlier, Russia had a complete Communist revolution and the worldwide Communist Party movement was held at bay in the U.S. because of aggressive jobs programs and poverty relief.00:30:00Shift Shapersnogreen jobs,job stimulus,fiscal conservatism,FDR,economic recoveryOne of the most important speeches by President Frankllin D. Roosevelt, one that speaks to us today, was delivered in 1938. Ah, yes -- It was a year of swing --http://www.blogtalkradio.com/shiftshapers/2011/01/14/omar-freilla-green-worker-cooperatives-new-economyEnvironmenthttp://www.blogtalkradio.com/shiftshapers/2011/01/14/omar-freilla-green-worker-cooperatives-new-economy/#commentshttp://www.blogtalkradio.com/shiftshapers/2011/01/14/omar-freilla-green-worker-cooperatives-new-economyFri, 14 Jan 2011 16:00:00 GMTOmar Freilla, Green Worker Cooperatives- New Economy in South BronxOmar Freilla grew up in New York’s South Bronx community, during a time when it gradually was abandoned by the city, the state and the global economy. Instead of attracting businesses and jobs, those neighborhoods became host to boarded up buildings and toxic waste dumps. In this vacuum, absent of capital, Omar pursued a vision to bring new jobs and businesses to his community. He found one that could be started using a plentiful local resource: waste. He and other like-minded entrepreneurs set up a cooperative store that sells recycled construction materials, a venture that has become another successful example of a worker-owned coop. Out of this has grown Green Worker Cooperatives, a "boot camp" committed to green job creation and incubating new cooperative business ventures in the South Bronx. In this installment of Green Livelihood/Viviendo Verde Ya!, Co-hosts Evelina Molina and Dan Kerbein interview Omar Freilla of New York's Green Worker Cooperatives, about the growing business model of worker-owned coops. (More info can be found at www.greenworker.coop) 00:45:00Shift Shapersnocooperatives,sustainable business,green jobs,new economy,worker ownedOmar Freilla grew up in New York’s South Bronx community, during a time when it gradually was abandoned by the city, the state and the global economy. Instead ohttp://www.blogtalkradio.com/shiftshapers/2011/01/14/omar-freilla-an-introduction-to-worker-run-businesEnvironmenthttp://www.blogtalkradio.com/shiftshapers/2011/01/14/omar-freilla-an-introduction-to-worker-run-busines/#commentshttp://www.blogtalkradio.com/shiftshapers/2011/01/14/omar-freilla-an-introduction-to-worker-run-businesFri, 14 Jan 2011 06:30:00 GMTOmar Freilla – An introduction to worker-run businessesIn this installment of Green Livelihood/Viviendo Verde Ya!, Co-hosts Evelina Molina and Dan Kerbein get an introduction from Omar Freilla of New York's Green Worker Cooperatives, to the growing phenomenon of local cooperative businesses. (More info can be found at www.greenworker.coop) 00:16:00Shift Shapersnocoops,cooperatives,new economy,green economy,green jobsIn this installment of Green Livelihood/Viviendo Verde Ya!, Co-hosts Evelina Molina and Dan Kerbein get an introduction from Omar Freilla of New York's Green Wohttp://www.blogtalkradio.com/shiftshapers/2011/01/14/chris-oseguera-north-bay-institute-for-green-technEnvironmenthttp://www.blogtalkradio.com/shiftshapers/2011/01/14/chris-oseguera-north-bay-institute-for-green-techn/#commentshttp://www.blogtalkradio.com/shiftshapers/2011/01/14/chris-oseguera-north-bay-institute-for-green-technFri, 14 Jan 2011 04:30:00 GMTChris Oseguera, North Bay Institute for Green TechnologiesAmong the activists who are building the new economy in their communities is Chris Oseguera, a director of the Eco-Workforce Collective at the North Bay Institute for Green Technologies, in Santa Rosa California. The Eco-Workforce Collective hires people who have been left out of the current job market, for water conservation and permaculture projects. For more information, go to www.nbigt.org00:27:00Shift Shapersnonew economy,cooperatives,permaculture,youth green jobs,sustainable businessAmong the activists who are building the new economy in their communities is Chris Oseguera, a director of the Eco-Workforce Collective at the North Bay Instituhttp://www.blogtalkradio.com/shiftshapers/2011/01/14/cooperatives-creating-the-new-economyEnvironmenthttp://www.blogtalkradio.com/shiftshapers/2011/01/14/cooperatives-creating-the-new-economy/#commentshttp://www.blogtalkradio.com/shiftshapers/2011/01/14/cooperatives-creating-the-new-economyFri, 14 Jan 2011 03:35:19 GMTCooperatives, creating the new economyWe hear a lot these days about global competition for markets, manufacturing andjjobs, and the current "race to the bottom" for wages, or "bottoming out" of the job market. Local economies, built around cooperatives, present an alternative -- maybe even an antidote - to the roller coaster scenario of recovery/bubble/crash presented by the global economy. Today on Green Livelihood/Viviendo Verde Ya, co-hosts Dan Kerbein and Evelina Molina talk to activists who are building the new economy in their communities. First we introduce the concepts of the new green livelihood economy for our listeners, then jump right into an interview with Chris Oseguera, a director of the Eco-Workforce Collective at the North Bay Institute for Green Technologies, in Santa Rosa California. 00:30:00Shift Shapersnocooperatives,green jobs,green economy,sustainable business,permacultureWe hear a lot these days about global competition for markets, manufacturing andjjobs, and the current "race to the bottom" for wages, or "bottoming out" of thehttp://www.blogtalkradio.com/shiftshapers/2010/12/16/kelley-rajala-share-exchange-launch-made-local-marEnvironmenthttp://www.blogtalkradio.com/shiftshapers/2010/12/16/kelley-rajala-share-exchange-launch-made-local-mar/#commentshttp://www.blogtalkradio.com/shiftshapers/2010/12/16/kelley-rajala-share-exchange-launch-made-local-marThu, 16 Dec 2010 03:00:00 GMTKelley Rajala, Share Exchange Launch "Made Local Marketplace" Watch a video about the Share Exchange http://www.youtube.com/user/mayarenegade#p/u It's a locally made marketplace, complete with a small business incubator and a "work-with lounge" where new entrepreneurs obtain resources and assistance with starting their ventures. Local producers, artists, crafters and builders display and sell their products in a permanent year-round store, pooling their funds for cooperative marketing and other essentials for small business support. It's the Made Local Marketplace, at the Share Exchange Coop in downtown Santa Rosa, California and was inspired by Kelley Rajala, whose vision is to transition from dependence on big-box foreign producers and factory farms, to a vibrant and self-sustaining local economy. Kelley's energy, creativity and practical sense of business is engaging, and it is a delight to interview her on the premier bpodcast of Green Livelihood/Viviendo Verde Ya. The Share Exchange address is: 531 5th St. Santa Rosa CA 95401. Contact via phone, (707) 331-6850 00:28:00Shift Shapersnocooperatives,Go Local,green economy,made local,share exchangeWatch a video about the Share Exchange http://www.youtube.com/user/mayarenegade#p/u It's a locally made marketplace, complete with a small business incubatorhttp://www.blogtalkradio.com/shiftshapers/2010/12/16/our-first-audio-time-capsule-hosts-evelina-molina-Environmenthttp://www.blogtalkradio.com/shiftshapers/2010/12/16/our-first-audio-time-capsule-hosts-evelina-molina-/#commentshttp://www.blogtalkradio.com/shiftshapers/2010/12/16/our-first-audio-time-capsule-hosts-evelina-molina-Thu, 16 Dec 2010 02:30:00 GMTOur First Audio Time Capsule- Hosts Evelina Molina & Dan KerbeinGreen Livelihood is right livelihood! It brings in the prosperity of innovation, cooperation and green jobs. It transforms outsourced communities into vibrant sustainable communities. Look at the larger, depressed and polluted global economy, and it becomes clear that we can't wait for the world leaders to put sensible policies and practices into place. We choose to get started right now, implementing right livelihood and green livelihood in our own local communities. On Green Livelihood / Viviendo Verde Ya, we celebrate the entrepreneurs and workers who are bulwarks of the new economy, showing the world that sustainability really does start at home. Join hosts Dan Kerbein and Evelina Molina as we introduce the concept of our show, and look forward to our conversations and interviews with guests and listeners.00:28:00Shift Shapersnogreen economy,Go Local,sustainable economy,green jobs,new economyGreen Livelihood is right livelihood! It brings in the prosperity of innovation, cooperation and green jobs. It transforms outsourced communities into vibrant s