A World of Possibilities Podcast
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A World of Possibilities is an award-winning one hour weekly radio program that penetrates behind the headlines to uncover the deeper meanings of events. It offers in-depth analysis, informed commentary and an exploration of new approaches to our most challenging problems. Our aim is to open minds and inspire new possibilities.
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dongle69, February 17, 2006
Reviewer: dongle69
Great variety and I learn something new with each listen!
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Replenishing the Breadbasket: Food and Philanthropy
comments@aworldofpossibilities.com (A World of Possibilities)Author: A World of Possibilities
Tue, Jul 08, 2008
Today's rapidly rising food prices and warnings of food scarcity evoke a haunting echo from a generation ago. Join us as we examine a new "Green Revolution" and the "Blue Revolution", two major foundation-supported initiatives to address two troubling food production trends: low productivity amid growing populations in Africa, and over fishing amid diminishing fish stocks worldwide.
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Philanthropy and Health: The Challenge of Effective Giving
comments@aworldofpossibilities.com (A World of Possibilities)Author: A World of Possibilities
Tue, Jun 10, 2008
We all see the urgent unmet needs out there, and many of us come up with great ideas to address them. In this, the second in a series of five programs examining the role of foundations as key partners with communities, we'll hear how local civic organizations are inventing ways to deal with the challenges of giving birth, growing up safe and secure, and, at the end of life, dying with dignity.
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Shattered Dreams: The Struggle to Reconstruct Iraq
comments@aworldofpossibilities.com (A World of Possibilities)Author: A World of Possibilities
Tue, Jun 03, 2008
While the White House seeks to persuade the American public that the "surge" is reducing violence and enabling Iraqis to create a self-governing democracy, Iraqi and international NGO's are struggling to make that goal a reality. We speak with aid workers, conflict mediators and development specialists as they encounter hostility playing midwife to a new democracy in the "cradle of civilization".
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Foundations as the Fifth Estate: Private Wealth for Public Benefit
comments@aworldofpossibilities.com (A World of Possibilities)Author: A World of Possibilities
Tue, May 20, 2008
Foundations don't always make back their bets, but at their best they are readers and seeders of promise. In this five-part series on foundation philanthropy, we'll trace the impact of such catalytic grant making on American society. We'll see why foundations play an indispensable role in addressing needs met in no other way: challenging society to live up to its highest aspirations.
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Studs Terkel: A Heart as Big as the World
comments@aworldofpossibilities.com (A World of Possibilities)Author: A World of Possibilities
Tue, May 13, 2008
Despite his best efforts, like the very establishments he excoriates, Studs has become an American institution. A man of the people, he is also an unapologetic liberal and intellectual in a country that respects neither. In this program, drawn from a nonstop three-hour conversation, Studs reflects on a life spent listening to the battered but unbowed spirit of ordinary and extraordinary Americans.
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Resilience: Adaptation and Transformation in Turbulent Times
comments@aworldofpossibilities.com (A World of Possibilities)Author: A World of Possibilities
Tue, May 06, 2008
Resilience ... the capacity to absorb shocks to the system without losing the ability to function. Can whole societies become resilient in the face of traumatic change? In April 2008, natural and social scientists from around the world gathered in Stockholm, Sweden for a first-ever global conference applying lessons from nature's resilience to human societies in the throes of unprecedented transition.
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Vanishing and Reemerging: Reviving Biological and Cultural Diversity
comments@aworldofpossibilities.com (A World of Possibilities)Author: A World of Possibilities
Tue, Apr 22, 2008
The mechanistic world view that has dominated Western thinking has much to learn from healthy, well-balanced biological systems, as well as from indigenous cultures that have a symbiotic relationship with their environment. This weeks show was recorded at a major international conference on biocultural diversity held at the American Museum of Natural History in New York in April 2008.
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Hard Power / Soft Power: Peace Building at the Pentagon
comments@aworldofpossibilities.com (A World of Possibilities)Author: A World of Possibilities
Tue, Apr 08, 2008
A landmark 2005 directive issued by the U.S. Defense Department for the first time placed post-conflict "reconstruction and stabilization" on the same level with the U.S. military's role as war-fighter. But the implementation of this directive has led many to fear that in embracing "peacebuilding", the Pentagon is actually militarizing and commercializing it.
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Women Who Wouldn't Listen: Wangari Maathai and Frances Moore Lappe
comments@aworldofpossibilities.com (A World of Possibilities)Author: A World of Possibilities
Tue, Mar 25, 2008
Continents apart, in entirely different contexts, two remarkable women took it upon themselves to make a difference. While still in their twenties, Wangari Maatthai, founder of Kenya's pioneering environmental initiative, the Greenbelt Movement, and Frances Moore Lappe, author of the pathbreaking food manifesto and vegetarian recipe book, Diet for a Small Planet, redefined the nature of "women's work" without, in the manner of so many women politicians, relinquishing the nurturing values that give special value to women as leaders. In this special edition of A World of Possibilities, two lives spent breaking the mold of both traditional and feminist perspectives are recounted in candid conversation, each with a focused sense of purpose - to use their unique sensibilities and life experiences to help heal a species and planet grievously wounded by fear, greed and ignorance of its own positive potential.
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What Good Are These Things For? The Pragmatic Push to Eliminate Nuclear Weapons
comments@aworldofpossibilities.com (A World of Possibilities)Author: A World of Possibilities
Tue, Mar 11, 2008
In a landmark January 4, 2007 op-ed in the Wall Street Journal, former Defense Secretary Bill Perry, former Sen. Sam Nunn, and former Republican secretaries of state George Schultz and Henry Kissinger called for "a world free of nuclear weapons." While this goal has been around since the invention of nuclear weapons six decades ago, never before has such an establishment conservative consensus formed around the proposition. Now an international team of experts is drafting a plan for a phased, decades-long elimination of nuclear weapons. At the same time, Russia has threatened to abrogate a series of arms control treaties in response to Bush administration moves, and trade frictions and growing mutual suspicion between the U.S. and China are souring relations between the two nations. The U.S. war in Iraq and threatened attack on Iran could galvanize open opposition to U.S. strategic plans and spark renewed military competition. These countervailing trends could adversely affect new opportunities for nuclear disarmament. This program assesses these new opportunities and the best ways of overcoming the obstacles to exploiting them.
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Russia Resurgent: The Once and Future Super Power
comments@aworldofpossibilities.com (A World of Possibilities)Author: A World of Possibilities
Tue, Feb 26, 2008
Fueled by rising revenues from its vast oil reserves, Russia is experiencing a sudden comeback from its economic and political collapse just sixteen years ago. This program will consider what Russia's re-emergence as a global force could mean for the already diminishing constraints of arms control and for a renewed power struggle between Russia and the U.S. in an increasingly multi-polar world.
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Orphans of Conflict: The Plight of Internally Displaced Persons
comments@aworldofpossibilities.com (A World of Possibilities)Author: A World of Possibilities
Tue, Feb 05, 2008
We are all aware of the plight of refugees driven from their homes by war or natural disasters across international borders to huddle in crowded camps in a foreign country. What we hear less about is those who have been uprooted from their homes and abandoned by their governments to wander within their own borders. Referred to by the abstractly bureaucratic term, "internally displaced persons" or IDP's, some 25 million people in 50 countries fall between the cracks of international law, overlooked and under-served by both their governments and international agencies already overstretched to deal with refugees driven outside their own countries. In the Democratic Republic of Congo alone, some 4 million IDP's have been made homeless by decades of fighting and in Iraq several million more. In this program, some of the world's leading experts in forced internal migration describe the nature and scale of the challenge and what is and can be done to meet the needs of these "orphans of conflict."
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Home From the War: Re-integrating Ex-Combatants
comments@aworldofpossibilities.com (A World of Possibilities)Author: A World of Possibilities
Tue, Jan 29, 2008
One of the most difficult challenges facing governments, communities and families in the aftermath of civil or international conflict is re-integrating soldiers into civilian life. In recent years, the international community has faced many such situations in Haiti, Liberia, Sierra Leone, Guatemala, El Salvador, and Kosovo. Gradually a body of knowledge, skills and techniques is accumulating to inform and guide future efforts. This program highlights the most successful of these re-integration initiatives as identified by leading practitioners in the field and will examine what has made them successful when so many have failed.
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Regrowing Community (One Tomato at a Time): The Remarkable Return of Farmers' Markets NEW VIDEO PODCAST!
comments@aworldofpossibilities.com (A World of Possibilities)Author: A World of Possibilities
Tue, Jan 08, 2008
Join us for a stroll through the throngs, the music, the aromas, colors and laughter of The Arcata Farmers' market.
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Regrowing Community (One Tomato at a Time): The Remarkable Return of Farmers' Markets
comments@aworldofpossibilities.com (A World of Possibilities)Author: A World of Possibilities
Tue, Jan 08, 2008
Farmers' markets: From four hundred to four thousand in less than two decades. They're sprouting like sunflowers in parking lots, town squares and plazas all across the country. They represent signs of life, connection and community in a culture of isolation and alienation. Join us for a stroll through the throngs, the music, the aromas, colors and laughter of farmers' markets.
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A Dream Deferred: The Uncertain Future of Affirmative Action
comments@aworldofpossibilities.com (A World of Possibilities)Author: A World of Possibilities
Tue, Jan 08, 2008
Race: America's taboo topic. It's difficult to talk about and a struggle to address continuing inequities. And now, affirmative action, the set of policies designed to dismantle institutional barriers to equal opportunity, is being curbed and restrained by referenda and judicial decisions. Join us to examine a set of policies that began opening doors of opportunity a generation ago, why some of those doors have been closed, and what it would take to reopen them.
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Quite Early Morning: The Life, Times and Legacy of Pete Seeger
comments@aworldofpossibilities.com (A World of Possibilities)Author: A World of Possibilities
Tue, Dec 11, 2007
At age 88, legendary folksinger and social activist Pete Seeger is receiving long-delayed appreciation for his immense contribution to American music and culture. An often controversial figure for his uncompromising stands on social and political issues, he was censured in the fifties by the House Un-American Activities Committee, blacklisted from appearing in mainstream media, and consigned to singing in summer camps till the 1960's, when he led a folk revival that served as the soundtrack for the social movements that shook the conscience of the nation. In the seventies he turned his attention to cleaning up the Hudson River that ran by his Beacon, New York homestead from his sloop, The Clearwater. In this intimate conversation, Pete recalls it all through the prism of mellowed memory, his personal reflections on his life, times and his country's future laced with the sounds of his now-quavering but still strong voice and his eternally tuneful banjo. A classic affirmation of human possibilities from the stubbornly hopeful spirit of an American folk icon.
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Iraq Redux: The Consequences of a U.S. Attack on Iran
comments@aworldofpossibilities.com (A World of Possibilities)Author: A World of Possibilities
Tue, Nov 27, 2007
Four years after its war of choice on Iraq, the White House is once again planning an attack on a Muslim nation. This time it's Iran, a powerful and ancient culture with the world's second largest oil reserves. What would be the impact of a U.S. attack? Join us to assess the likely consequences of the Bush Administration's third war of choice on a Muslim country in six years.
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Food Deserts: Nutritional Starvation in the Land of Plenty
comments@aworldofpossibilities.com (A World of Possibilities)Author: A World of Possibilities
Tue, Oct 30, 2007
They're called food deserts, neighborhoods in our inner cities where it's almost impossible to find healthy, fresh, sustainably grown fruits and vegetables. Neighborhoods where all that's available is what's at the gas station mini-mart. Join us this week to examine why food deserts exist in the land of plenty and what they tell us about inequities in our food production and distribution system.
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Manhattan Mecca: Muslims in New York
comments@aworldofpossibilities.com (A World of Possibilities)Author: A World of Possibilities
Tue, Oct 16, 2007
New York City is home to as great a range of Muslim adherents as Mecca itself. Africans, African-Americans, South Asians, Central Asians, Southeast Asians, Latinos, Jamaicans, Europeans, Russians, Chinese and more. Many speak with the accents of their native tongues while others talk with a decidedly American twang. Join us to explore the microcosmic diversity of Muslims in New York.
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Empire of Corn: From Cornucopia to Corporate Commodity
comments@aworldofpossibilities.com (A World of Possibilities)Author: A World of Possibilities
Tue, Oct 02, 2007
Corn: that most American of grains. These days corn is feed, fuel and ubiquitous sweetener, the biggest of business and some say the core of an industrial food system that's unhealthy for people, livestock and soils. Join us as we trace corn's origins back to Mesoamerica and conduct a forensic exam on the hybridized, genetically modified corn we know today.
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