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March 28, 2008 Living Room – March 28, 2008
World-changing economics: put a financial value on rainforests. It’s happening today, in Guyana. PLUS: our election system is seriously broken. Here are some serious ideas for fixing it. With host Kris Welch, noon to one.

Guests: Rainforest Action Network
William Poundstone, author "Gaming the Vote: Why Elections Aren’t Fair (and What We can Do About It)"
Rob Richie, exec. dir. FairVote
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9 min
March 27, 2008 Living Room – March 27, 2008
The California Air Resources Board wants to weaken an effort to address global warming. We get a live report from a scientist at the hearing. PLUS: transform society or transform yourself – why not do both? We hear how. With host Kris Welch, noon to one.
Guests: Spencer Quong, sr. vehicles analyst, Union of Concerned Scientists
Maka Agbo, Green Collar Jobs Campaign assoc, Ella Baker Center
Donald Rothberg, teacher and author "The Engaged Spiritual Life: A Buddhist Approach to Transforming Ourselves and the World"
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9 min
March 21, 2008 Living Room – March 21, 2008
Anne Lamott with her new book. PLUS: an excerpt from Winter Soldier 2008, followed by your phone calls.
With host Kris Welch
Guests: Anne Lamott, author with new book "Grace (Eventually)"
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9 min
March 20, 2008 Living Room – March 20, 2008
More bloody rioting in Tibet, more intense Chinese crackdown on protests. We talk with Robert Thurman.
Guests:
Robert Thurman, first American ordained as Tibetan Buddhist monk; author; prof. Indo-Tibetan Buddhist Studies, Dept. Religion, Columbia.
Ganden Thurman, exec. dir. Tibet House, NYC
Khampa, Tibetan national Bay Area Friends of Tibet at S.F.City Hall.
Dr. Kendo Hal Roth, prof. Religious Studies Brown University, Zen lay monk.
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9 min
March 13, 2008 Living Room – March 13, 2008 at 12:00pm
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9 min
March 07, 2008 Living Room – March 7, 2008 at 12:00pm
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9 min
March 06, 2008 Living Room – March 6, 2008
The latest from Gaza; The ACLU on defending FISA; John Ross birthday bash this weekend, to raise funds for Iraqi refugees.
Guests:
Leila Farsakh, assist. prof. poli sci UMass Boston.
Palestinian Mouin Rabbani, contrib. ed. MERIP’s Middle East Report.
Caroline Fredrickson, dir. ACLU D.C. legislative office.
John Ross, freelance journalist (Mexico); author; poet; septuagenarian wannabe.
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9 min
February 29, 2008 Living Room – February 29, 2008
Irrationality, our own, not the president’s, affects every aspect of our lives. Hear how, and what to do about it. Plus a brand new film shed more light on our flawed electoral process.
Guests: Dan Ariely, MIT Behavioral Economist, book "Predictably Irrational", David Earnhardt, filmmaker "Uncounted: The New Math of American Elections", Bay Area debut this weekend.
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9 min
February 28, 2008 Living Room – February 28, 2008
$74M more to a company sued for providing substandard helmets to U.S. troops; Walter Mosley’s latest Easy Rollins mystery.
With host Kris Welch.

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9 min
February 22, 2008 Living Room – February 22, 2008
A look at the neuroscience of brain health and what it takes to keep one’s brain sharp into old age.
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9 min

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