Issues & Ideas

Issues & Ideas

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Issues & Ideas episodes

  • Issues & Ideas: Fire Safe Council, REACH and civil liberties
    In this episode of Issues & Ideas: Learn how the San Luis Obispo County Fire Safe Council is helping local residents better prepare for fire. Also, hear about REACH, which is the new iteration of the Hourglass Project, a year-old "action tank" focused on forming a viable plan to create new jobs and economic development across the Central Coast.
    56 min
  • Playing with Food: Foraging for seaweed
    On the Central Coast, the ocean is an enormous source of food. We all know about fish and shellfish. But what about seaweed? Harvesting seaweed is super easy, and there is an endless supply. Father Ian Delinger dove right in, and took Playing With Food to new depths.
    21 min
  • Issues & Ideas: Cultivating a more diverse EcoFarm
    Why aren’t there more people of color and women at agriculture conferences? One organization is actively working to change the demographics of both presenters and attendees—and workshop topics—at what's considered the oldest and largest organic farming conference in the West.
    15 min
  • Issues & Ideas: The SLO County supervisor race and food literacy on the Central Coast
    The 2020 California Primary election is underway. In San Luis Obispo County, almost 80 percent of voters do so by mail, and by now, most have received their ballots. Over the next few weeks, KCBX News will be airing interviews with many of the candidates appearing on Central Coast ballots. On this week’s Issues and Ideas, we talk to four candidates running for the San Luis Obispo County board of supervisors.
    1 hr
  • Issues & Ideas: Farmworking family housing in Salinas, SLO YIMBYism and flying trapeze
    In this episode of Issues & Ideas, we discuss affordability and housing issues on the Central Coast. Greta Mart speaks with journalist Kate Cimini of the Salinas Californian newspaper and CalMatters about her reporting on Salinas farmworking families . In another segment, we learn more about San Luis Obispo County’s YIMBY movement. YIMBY means 'Yes In My Backyard,' and the grassroots group advocates for creating more affordable housing stock in established city neighborhoods.
    1 hr
  • Playing With Food: Fermenting kombucha
    Fermented stuff is all the rage these days. One fermented product is popping up all over the Central Coast—not just for sale, but in people’s garages—and that’s kombucha. Playing With Food checked in with both a commercial kombucha brewer and a home brewer to get a taste of what is kombucha.
    21 min
  • Issues & Ideas: Leadership SLO, the Women's March and financial literacy for high schoolers
    On this week’s Issues & Ideas , we get better acquainted with former San Luis Obispo city councilmember Dan Rivoire. He was recently selected to be the new executive director of leadership development for the SLO Chamber of Commerce . He’s tasked with running Leadership SLO, a county-wide program designed to bring participants out of their comfort zones to learn new leadership styles and ways of handling diversity in opinions and people. And the 2020 Women's March will take place on Saturday
    59 min
  • Playing With Food: Holiday Special 2019
    This episode is a 'Playing With Food' holiday extravaganza, with three segments featuring foods along the Central Coast. The podcasts for the individual segments of the holiday special can be found below and on the 'Playing With Food' page , including the recipes for latkes and Hanukkah donuts.
    59 min

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"Issues and Ideas" is a weekly magazine program exploring news, arts, and culture in California and on the Central Coast.Regular audio segments are produced by the following contributors:People and…