Conversations with Michael Stone on KVMR

Charles Eisenstein: The Ascent of Humanity Professor, lecturer and workshop leader Charles Eisenstein is the Author of The Ascent of Humanity and the upcoming Sacred Economics, and two influential essays on money: Money and the Crisis of Civilization and Money and The Turning of Age A faculty member of Goddard College, he speaks and writes about civilization, economics, and the evolution of human consciousness. www.ascentofhumanity.com Zoe Alowan has been actively engaged in sacred art for many decades. As a painter, sculptor, dancer and storyteller, her work explores transformation and healing. Her life is about reclaiming essence wisdom. She utilizes the inspiration of the divine feminine, humor, song and ritual movement as ways of celebrating wholeness. She has taught at Esalen and Naropa Institute, facilitates women’s groups, singing circles as well as intuitive process painting retreats. Bill Kauth was working as a psychotherapist and business consultant in 1984 when he conceived and co-founded the New Warrior Training Adventure, not presented by the ManKind Project to nearly 50,000 men in 40 centers in 8 countries around the world. He is the author of A Circle of Men: The Original Manual for Men’s Support Groups. As a social inventor over the last two decades, Bill also co-founded the Spiritual Warrior, Inner King Trainings and the Warrior-Monk training retreats. www.sacredlifeboats.com/about-us.html

Noah Levine, the author of Dharma Punx, is a Buddhist teacher, counselor, and writer who moved from a life of addiction and crime to one of service. He has been practicing Buddhist meditation since 1988, was trained to teach by Jack Kornfield, and leads meditation groups and workshops nationally as well as in Juvenile halls and prisons. Levin has helped thousands of young people find freedom from suffering and self-destruction. www.dharmapunx.com

Lily Yeh is an internationally celebrated artist and award-winning founder and former executive and artistic director of the Village of Arts and Humanities. Since 1986, with the help of neighborhood children and adults, Yeh has built the Village from an abandoned lot into an organization and a community. She has infused the Village with her own artistic sensitivity and vision, collaborating with other artists and community residents to create a place that brings art into both the physical space and daily rhythms of life. Expanding beyond North Philadelphia, Yeh's work has taken her to communities around the world. www.barefootartists.org

Dr. Warren Farrell's books on male-female issues have made contributions in twelve fields. They include two award-winning international best-sellers, Why Men Are The Way They Are plus The Myth of Male Power. His most recent books are Father and Child Reunion, and Women Can't Hear What Men Don't Say. His research on Father and Child Reunion, finding what is optimal for children of divorce, has led to his doing expert witness work in child custody cases. Dr. Farrell is the only man in the US elected three times to the Board of Directors of the National Organization for Women in New York City. www.warrenfarrell.org Elisa Parker is the co-founder, producer and host of the award winning program, See Jane Do. As a social change organization, See Jane Do redefines media for women and the power of story to create positive change. Serving as an activist for women, social justice, and the environment, Elisa's work takes her around the world to discover and share the extraordinary stories and solutions in each of us. Elisa reports for KVMR and has produced and hosted various radio and television programs that inform, engage and entertain the listener. Elisa also holds years of experience in working with cutting edge organizations in order to reach their highest potential and unleash the talents of their team leaders and staff. She holds a BA in Communications and a MA in Organization Development. Elisa lives in the Sierra Foothills with her husband and two daughters. www.seejanedo.com Marilyn Rosenbrock Nyborg has been a spiritually based activist since the '60's beginning with the civil rights movement. In the '70's she turned her focus inward and began the journey to wholeness, integrating the masculine and feminine within and examining the unconscious attitudes and conditioning in her personality. Recognizing the need for women to find their voices and claim their power, she began in the early '80's to work through women's circles and activities to bring feminine wisdom to bear on the world. In 2002 she became a co-founder of Gather the Women (Gatherthewomen.org) In 2009 she initiated a conversation about the major loss throughout civilization at the repression and degradation of women's wisdom and contributions, which led to the birth to Women Waking the World. Michael Stone is the host and producer of KVMR's award winning Conversations, which brings you leading edge thinkers, authors and activists in the areas of Environmental Restoration, Social Justice, Evolutionary Cosmology and Spiritual fulfillment. Prior to starting Conversations he was the founder and director of Mastery of Management International (MMI) an international Organizational Development Consulting firm whose purpose was to "bring heart and meaning into the world of work". Michael also leads moving mediation classes and workshops based on the work of Gabrielle Roth. Michael is an active member of Bioneers and the Pachamama Alliance and many other environmental and social justice organizations.

John Jeavons is the Executive Director of Ecology Action of the Mid-Peninsula. He is known internationally as the leading researcher and method developer, teacher, and consultant for the small-scale, sustainable agricultural method known as GROW BIOINTENSIVE mini-farming. He is the author of the best-selling book How to Grow More Vegetables, Fruits, Nuts, Berries, Grains, and Other Crops Than You Ever Thought Possible On Less Land Than You Can Imagine. He has authored, co-authored or edited over 30 publications on this high-yielding, resource-conserving Biointensive approach, including a five-part, peer reviewed article that appeared in The Journal of Sustainable Agriculture. Jeavon's food-raising methods are being used in 141 countries and by such organizations as UNICEF, Save the Children, and the Peace Corps. www.johnjeavons.info

Anne Hillman has spent the last 30 years exploring the internal aspects of social change—an inquiry into the necessary interior and group development required to sustain fundamental cultural transformation. She is the author of Awakening the Energies of Love: Discovering Fire for the Second Time, an experiential pathway into that necessary transformation. The book was inspired by Teilhard de Chardin, whose biographer, Ursula King, cites Anne as one of four people who have given us new metaphors and ideas about love for our time. She is also author of The Dancing Animal Woman—A Celebration of Life. Both books were influenced by Thomas Berry, Brian Swimme, and Richard Moss, MD. See Endorsements. A former consultant to organizations, she helped tap new levels of group functioning and creativity in times of rapid change. Anne now leads gatherings here and abroad in which participants with different perspectives explore the kind of love that unites us all—not a feeling, but a great Power. Her articles have appeared in national journals and her poetry in several anthologies.. www.annehillman.net

Ram Dass is one of America’s most beloved spiritual figures. He has made his mark on the world giving teachings and promoting loving service, harmonious business practices, and conscious care for the dying. His spirit has been a guiding light for four generations, carrying millions along on the journey, helping free them from their bonds as he has worked his way through his own. www.ramdass.org

Jean Shinoda Bolen, M. D, is a psychiatrist, Jungian analyst, and an internationally known author and speaker who draws from spiritual, feminist, Jungian, medical and personal wellsprings of experience. Her books include The Tao of Psychology, Goddesses in Everywoman, Gods in Everyman, Close to the Bone, The Millionth Circle, and Urgent Message from Mother. She was a recipient of the Institute for Health and Healings' Pioneers in Art, Science, and the Soul of Healing Award. She was in two acclaimed documentaries, the Academy-Award winning anti-nuclear proliferation film Women—For America, For the World, and the Canadian Film Board's Goddess Remembered. www.jeanshinodabolen.com Elisa Parker is the co-founder, producer and host of See Jane Do. Elisa reports for KVMR and has produced and hosted various radio and television programs that inform, engage and entertain the listener. As a professional speaker, host and facilitator Elisa captures the magic of the story in each of us. Elisa holds years of experience in working with cutting edge organizations in order to reach their highest potential and unleash the talents of their team leaders and staff. She has organized and managed high profile conferences for ICLEI bringing elected officials together to discuss environmental solutions and managed an event team for conferences in San Francisco for up to 40,000 attendees. www.seejanedo.com

Special interviews with documentary film maker Talal Jabari, and cell Phone researcher Dr. Kerry Crofton, on cell phones, cell towers and EMF. Get the real story on Cell phones and cell towers. Learn what main stream media isn't telling you! Find out the real impact on the health on you and your children -- even if you aren't using a cell phone – you are being affected. Kerry Crofton, PhD, is a health educator, and the director of Well Being International. Her new book, Wireless Radiation Rescue, is the first to bring together the research and recommendations of the world's leading scientists and clinicians, both for the general public and other health care professionals. Dr. Crofton is a member of the International EMF Alliance, a consortium of leading experts in this field. www.radiationrescue.org Talal Jabari is a Palestinian/American journalist and film maker. He has covered the escalating global violence for such prominent news sources as BBC World Service, South Florida Sun-Sentinel, and Al Ahram Weekly. In 2002, Talal jumped into TV news as an associate producer for CBS News as well as a field producer for the CBS news magazine 60 Minutes. Talal's later became a line producer and production coordinator of an award-winning 5-documentary film series entitled "The Shape of the Future." Has well as producing 4 episodes for Al Jazeera Documentary Channel's flagship 8-part series: "Israel from Within". His most recent project is the documentary, Full Signal: The Hidden Cost of Cell Phones. http://fullsignalmovie.com

Paul Chappel, author of Will War Ever End?: A Soldier's Vision of Peace for the 21st Centruy, graduated from West Point in 2002. He served in the U.S. Army for seven years, leaving active duty in November in 2009 with the rank of captain. As Peace Leadership Director for the Nuclear Age Peace Foundation, he speaks throughout the country on the vital theme of ending war and waging peace. http://paulkchappell.com

Melanie Lenart, Ph.D., is an award-winning journalist, is environmental scientist and writer specializing in climate change and forests. As a scientist, she studied forest dynamics in China, Colorado, and Puerto Rico, where she lived during two major hurricanes. She was involved in an Arizona agricultural experiment testing how plants responded to elevated levels of carbon dioxide, the main greenhouse gas responsible for the ongoing warming of the planet. www.melanielenart.com Roger Pielke, Jr. is a professor of environmental studies at the Center for Science and Technology Policy Research at the University of Colorado at Boulder. He also has appointments as a Visiting Senior Fellow, Mackinder Programme, London School of Economics and Senior Visiting Fellow at the Consortium for Science, Policy and Outcomes at Arizona State University. Pielke is also a Senior Fellow of The Breakthrough Institute, a progressive think tank. His latest book is The Climate Fix: What Scientists and Politicians won't tell you about Global Warming. http://sciencepolicy.colorado.edu/about_us/meet_us/roger_pielke/ Jim Miller, Phd is a professor of Climate Modeling and Climate Change at Rutgers University. He is co-editor of "Scientists Debate Gaia: The Next Century". Miller's current work focuses on the effects of climate dynamics on the Arctic and the Tibetan Plateau. He has been involved in PlanSmart New Jersey's Climate Change Report: Protecting New Jersey's Natural Capital. http://www.newschool.edu/nssr/faculty.aspx?id=10346

Duane Elgin is an author, speaker, educator, consultant, and media activist. For more than three decades, he has defined the cutting edge in consciousness research, in the ecology movement, and in future studies. He pioneered the "Voluntary Simplicity" movement with his now classic first book, titled by the same name, published in the 1980s. An updated version is about to be released. www.awakeningearth.org

Dennis Klocek is director of the Consciousness Studies Program "Goethean Studies" at Rudolf Steiner College in Sacramento CA. Dennis is engaged in research, teaching, and writing in many fields, including weather, gardening, color therapy, meditation and the human organism, embryology, and sensory transformation. His books include Bio-Dynamic Book of Moons, Weather and Cosmology, Drawing from the Book of Nature, Seeking Spirit Vision, and Climate: Soul of the Earth. Dennis also oversees Doc Weather, "a unique website that is based on a climatic technique that interfaces daily weather data from the National Weather Service into a geometrical system that is the result of twenty-four years of experimental work. www.dennisklocek.com

Michael Nagler is Professor emeritus of languages at the University of California, Berkeley, and founder of the University's Peace and Conflict Studies program, He is the author of several books, including America Without Violence, Upanishads, and Is There No Other Way? The Search for a Nonviolent Future. Dr. Nagler is on the editorial board of The Acorn: Journal of the Gandhi-King Society and the advisory board of Tikkun magazine. He is the founder of the Metta Center for Nonviolence Education in Berkeley, California. www.mettacenter.org

Raffi Cavoukian is known to millions simply as Raffi, a renowned Canadian singer once called "the most popular children's entertainer in the western world" (Washington Post). Raffi is also a renaissance man: record producer, author, systems thinker, ecology advocate and entrepreneur. Raffi's work has changed: he has become a "global troubadour", lecturing and networking to help create a viable future: a restorative, child-friendly world for ourselves and for those to come. Raffi is chair of the Board of Directors for the new Centre for Child Honouring on Salt Spring Island, British Columbia, which serves as an education hub for the advancement of Child Honouring as a universal ethic. www.childhonouring.org