Are You Emotionally Healthy? Is it good to be emotionally stable? Many people would say yes, particularly if they’ve been involved with partners whose emotional set points kept dropping into the negative range. But the full answer may surprise you. Just because you’re emotionally stable doesn’t necessarily mean that you’re emotionally healthy. Joel and Walt discuss. Download this episode (right …
Nature Bats Last – 11.10.15
This week Guy’s extensive climate-change update was intermingled with calls from listeners. Mike and Guy discussed money, empathy, electric cars, commodifying women, imperialism, and Guy’s recent camping trip.
The Lifeboat Hour – 11.08.15
Carolyn talks with energy activist Nancy La Placa about the climate cost of fossil fuels and dirty energy with some surprises about which forms of energy really are cleaner.
Our Own Health or Our Ecosystem? – J. Morris Hicks
My guess is that most people would answer that “our own health” is most important. Not because they’re selfish or uncaring about the environment, but because they probably don’t know what’s at stake should our ecosystem no longer be able to sustain us. And they don’t know the most powerful action we can take to promote ecological health. My answer …
Silicon Valley: Wealth Redistribution, 1 Percent-Style
The Puente de la Costa Sur community center sits at the end of a quiet street in Pescadero, an isolated farming town of about 5,000 nestled amid green hills just inland from California’s Pacific Coast. It’s a beautiful, lively place to be at sunset, right before the kids will be picked up from day care. Rita Mancero is the petite …