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Honey bees help pollinate 1 in every 3 bites that we eat….They are vital in our agricultural industry and essential for the survival of the almost 7 billion people who inhabit this planet. And, as the world’s population continues to grow so does our reliance on honey bees. But most pollinating insects throughout the world are endangered today. Including the honey bee. On this edition, honey bees fight to survive amidst a rapidly changing landscape filled with pesticides and parasites. We’ll learn the latest about colony collapse disorder and hear from beekeepers, researchers and gardeners who are trying to protect them.

Special thanks to the producers of Vanishing of The Bees.

Featuring: Hannah Nordhaus, author of the Beekeepers Lament- How One Man and Half a Billion Honey Bees Help Feed the World; Gretchen Lebuhn, San Francisco State University Professor & Founder of The Great Sunflower Project; John Miller, migratory beekeeper; Brian Johnson, University of California, Davis’s Entomology Professor; Bill Rhodes, David Hackenberg, beekeepers; Dee Lusby, Organic Beekeeping discussion group founder; Dennis Van Engelsdorp,  Penn State University Entomology scientist; Vince Rosato, Great Sunflower project participant; Khaled Almaghafi, beekeeper & Bee Healthy Honey Shop owner.

For More Information:

Vanishing of the Bees

http://www.vanishingbees.com/

The Beekeeper’s Lament: How One Man and Half a Billion Honey Bees Help Feed America

http://www.harpercollins.com/books/Beekeepers-Lament-Hannah-Nordhaus/?isbn=9780061873256

XERCES Society 

http://www.xerces.org/

Bee Healthy Honey Shop

http://beehealthyhoneyshop.com/

Harry Laidlaw Jr. Honey Bee Research Facility at the University of California at Davis

http://beebiology.ucdavis.edu/HONEYBEES/index.html

The Great Sunflower Project

http://www.greatsunflower.org/

Organic Beekeeping Society

http://thehealingpath.com/OrganicBeekeeping/OBS/OrganicBeekeepingSociety.shtml

Attracting Native Pollinators

http://www.xerces.org/announcing-the-publication-of-attracting-native-pollinators/

Hannah Nordhaus

http://www.hannahnordhaus.com/

Gretchen Lebuhn

http://biology.sfsu.edu/people/gretchen-lebuhn

Dee Lusby

http://www.beesource.com/point-of-view/ed-dee-lusby/

Articles, Blogs, Reports and Videos:

EU bans GM-contaminated honey from general sale

http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2011/sep/07/europe-honey-gm

Globalisation and agriculture industry exacerbating bee decline, says UN

http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2011/mar/10/globalisation-agriculture-industry-exacerbating-bee-decline

As bee colonies die, beekeepers face challenge finding replacements

http://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/home_garden/as-bee-colonies-die-beekeepers-face-challengefinding-replacements/2011/05/26/AG66BLGH_story.html

Asian Honey, Banned in Europe, Is Flooding U.S. Grocery Shelves

http://www.foodsafetynews.com/2011/08/honey-laundering/

A STICKY BUSINESS: Dakota’s Busy Beekeepers 

http://www.ndhorizons.com/horizons/featured/index.asp?ID=30

The Almond and the Bee

http://articles.sfgate.com/2007-10-14/living/17265958_1_california-almonds-almond-growers-almond-trees/10

As honeybees decline, beekeeping booms By Candace Krebs

http://www.agjournalonline.com/news/x219196788/As-honeybees-decline-beekeeping-booms

Forget climate change – the bees are buzzing off

http://www.theolivepress.es/spain-news/2008/08/14/forget-climate-change-the-bees-are-buzzing-off/

How sweet it is-The economics of beekeeping in Oakland

http://articles.sfgate.com/2009-06-02/news/17118156_1_bee-colonies-bee-healthy-honey-beekeeper/

The Silence of the Bees

http://www.hcn.org/issues/342/16891

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We’ve all seen how high water devastated New Orleans.  But another historic Jewel, Venice, Italy, is struggling to plan for sea level rise, in a city that already routinely floods because of questionable urban planning.  On this edition, Producer Zoe Sullivan takes us to both Venice and New Orleans, to look at some creative solutions they’re trying, and what other coastal cities might do as the effects of climate change set in.

Featuring:

Tim Kerner, Mayor of Jean Lafitte, LA; Dr. Denise Reed, University of New Orleans Geology professor; Greg Miller, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Coastal restoration Branch chief, John Barry, ‘Rising Tide” author; Scott Eustis, Gulf Restoration Network Coastal Wetland Specialist; Giovanni Cecconi, Consorzio Venezia Nuova Chief Engineer; Pino Sartori, Associazione La Salsola Vice president; Jane Da Mosto, Venice in Peril research fellow; Emily Clark, Tulane University History professor; David Waggoner, Architect, Alberto Vitucci, La Nuova journalist; Gabriele Zennaro, store owner in Venice, Liz & Jody Sigler, New Orleans residents, Carlo Magnani, Venice Institute of Urban Architecture architect, Cristiano Gasparetto, Venice resident; Earl Long, Former Louisiana Governor

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For More Information:

Venice and Its Lagoon-UNESCO
http://whc.unesco.org/en/list/394

Venice in Peril
http://www.veniceinperil.org/

Louisiana’s 2012 Coastal master Plan

http://www.coastalmasterplan.louisiana.gov/ 

Gulf Restoration Network
www.healthygulf.org

Consorzio Venezia Nuova
http://www.consorziovenezianuova.it/

Dutch Dialogues
http://dutchdialogues.com/ 

USGS National Wetlands Research Center-Land Changes for Coastal Louisiana
http://www.nwrc.usgs.gov/special/landloss.htm

Venice Institute of Urban Architecture

http://www.iuav.it/homepage/

Gal Holiday and the Honky Tonk Revue

http://galholiday.com/fr_home.cfm

Articles, Reports:

Saving Venice From the Sea by John Keahey

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/tech/saving-venice.html

Interview with John M. Barry, author of ‘Rising Tide’

http://www.pbs.org/greatprojects/interviews/barry.pdf

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Americans claim to live under the rule of law; that no one is above our system of justice. But as we witness more exceptions to that rule, there are growing doubts that fairness is a value we as a nation, still hold dear.  On this edition, author Glenn Greenwald talks about his book, ‘With Liberty and Justice for Some.’

Thanks to KPFA radio in Berkeley, CA.

Featuring:

Glenn Greenwald, author.

For More Information:

Glenn Greenwald on Salon

http://www.salon.com/writer/glenn_greenwald/

Wikileaks

http://wikileaks.org/

Bradley Manning Support Network

http://www.bradleymanning.org/

Jose Padilla

http://jurist.law.pitt.edu/currentawareness/padilla.php

American Civil Liberties Union

http://www.aclu.org/

Electronic Frontier Foundation

https://www.eff.org/

National Whistleblowers Center

http://www.whistleblowers.org/

Whistleblower Protection Program

http://www.whistleblowers.gov/

KPFA Radio

www.kpfa.org

Articles, Reports:

Bush Lets U.S. Spy on Callers Without Courts-New York Times

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/12/16/politics/16program.html?pagewanted=all

NSA Spying on Americans Is Illegal

http://www.aclu.org/technology-and-liberty/nsa-spying-americans-illegal

Congress OKs 30,000 flying drones spying on Americans across U.S. cities

http://www.naturalnews.com/034919_spy_drones_America_surveillance.html#ixzz1oxEjFjlk

A Trial for Thousands Denied Trial by Naomi Klein

http://www.thenation.com/article/trial-thousands-denied-trial

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It’s not even the crime that counts sometimes. Or the time in prison. It’s that little box on an application that asks you to reveal if you have a criminal history.  Checking that box can mean the difference between failure and success.  On this edition, the nationwide movement to ‘ban-the-box’, and make criminal histories less of a stigma.

Thanks to The Omnia Foundation for partial funding for this program.

Featuring:

Marilyn Austin-Smith, formerly incarcerated, and member of All of Us or None; Michelle Natividad Rodriguez, National Employment Law Project Attorney; Mike Casey, Unite Here! Local 2 President; Mike Hannigan, Give Something Back company director; Donald Washington, Juan Filomeno, Shirley Hollis, formerly incarcerated; Lois Ahrens, Real Cost of Prisons Project prisoner advocate; Deval Patrick, Governor of Massachusetts; Aaron Tanaka, Boston Workers Alliance Executive Director; Michael Corwin. Private investigator; Julie Roberts, Northeastern University School of Law board of directors’ member

For More Information:

National Employment Law Project

http://www.nelp.org/

All of Us or None

http://www.allofusornone.org/

EPOCA: Ex-Prisoners and Prisoners Organizing for Community Advancement

http://exprisoners.org/

Real Cost of Prisons Project

http://realcostofprisons.org/

Boston Workers Alliance

http://bostonworkersalliance.org/

SF Human Rights Commission

http://www.sf-hrc.org/

Unite Here! Local 2

http://www.onedaylongersf.org/

Give Something Back Office Supplies

https://www.givesomethingback.com/

Drug Policy Alliance

http://www.drugpolicy.org/

Neighbor to Neighbor-Massachusetts

http://www.n2nma.org/

Mass Legal Services

http://www.masslegalservices.org/node/29099

Legal Services for Prisoners With Children

http://www.prisonerswithchildren.org/

Massachusetts Governor Deval Patrick

http://www.mass.gov/governor/

Omnia Foundation

http://www.omniafoundation.org/

Articles, Reports:

‘Do Workers with Criminal Backgrounds Deserve a Second Chance?’- In These Times

http://www.inthesetimes.com/working/entry/7114/do_workers_with_criminal_backgrounds_deserve_a_second_chance/

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 “Too Little, Too Late,” by James Alan Fox

http://boston.com/community/blogs/crime_punishment/2010/05/cori_reform_-_too_little_too_l.html

ACLU CORI Reform chart

http://aclum.org/sites/all/files/legislative/cori_reform_explained.pdf

A Brief History of the Drug War – Drug Policy Alliance

http://www.drugpolicy.org/facts/new-solutions-drug-policy/brief-history-drug-war

Race, Prison and Poverty by Paul Street 

http://www.historyisaweapon.com/defcon1/streeracpripov.html

Ex-offenders and the Labor Market by John Schmitt and Kris Warner 

www.cepr.net/documents/publications/ex-offenders-2010-11.pdf

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What’s it like to give birth or raise an infant, inside the walls of a prison?  Or even worse, have to give up your child the day it’s born?  On this edition, a look at pregnancy, and motherhood, inside Americas jails and prisons.  What does the huge number of incarcerated women in prison foretell for the next generation of America’s kids?

Special Thanks to segment producers: intern Shaunnah Ray, and freelancer Shannon Heffernan. Heffernan’s  Time on the Outside project is produced with support from the Soros Justice Media Fellowships Program of the Open Society Institute.

Featuring:  Michelle Alexander, Author of “The New Jim Crow.  Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness’; Hukee, Prison Doula Project Birth Attendant Program Coordinator; Simon Conrad, Marin Fahey, Sarelle Caicedo, Doulas; Teresa Correll & Genisis, Women who gave Birth at the Washington Correctional Center For Women; Casey & AJ, Mothers at Decatur Prison; Susan Creek, Decatur Prison Warden

For More Information:

The Rebecca Project for Human Rights

http://www.rebeccaproject.org/

Women and Prison: A Site for Resistance
http://www.womenandprison.org/

The Birth Attendants Prison Doula Project

http://www.birthattendants.com/

Illinois Department of Corrections:

http://www.idoc.state.il.us/

Bureau of Justice Statistics: Parents in Prison and Their Minor Children:

http://bjs.ojp.usdoj.gov/index.cfm?ty=pbdetail&iid=823

Washington Corrections Center for Women

http://www.doc.wa.gov/facilities/prison/wccw/default.asp

Legal Services for Prisoners With Children

The Center For Young Women’s Development

National Advocates For Pregnant Women

Articles, Blogs, Reports and Videos:

For more photos of the nursery at Decatur prison:

http://www.timeontheoutside.com/prison-nursery

http://www.rhrealitycheck.org/blog/2007/08/02/pregnant-behind-bars-the-prison-doula-project

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It’s been 40 years since the clean water act was signed into law. The goal was to assure safe water quality for the environment, humans and wildlife. But with new contaminants, population growth, and climate change, the landscape of our water supply has been transformed.  Meanwhile, regulation is being framed by some as an enemy of progress. On this edition; a look at how we manage our water in the twenty-first century. Are we doing too little…or are we trying to control too much?

Featuring:

Alex Prud’Homme, Journalist and Author of The Ripple Effect: The Fate of Freshwater in the Twenty-First Century; Jon Rosenfield, Bay Institute Conservation Biologist; Richard Nixon, President of the United States; William Ruckelshaus, former Environmental Protection Agency Administrator; Tom Ries, Ecosphere Restoration Institute President; Sonny Vergara; former Southwest Florida Water Management District Executive Director; Robin Felix, Southwest Florida Water Management District media relations manager; Mary Jean Yon, Audubon Florida lobbyist; Bob Buckhorn, Mayor of the City of Tampa

For More Information:

The Pacific Institute

http://www.pacinst.org/

The Bay Institute

http://www.bay.org/

Food and Water Watch

http://www.foodandwaterwatch.org

Clean Water Action

http://www.cleanwateraction.org/

Alex Prud’Homme

http://www.alexprudhomme.com/

Southwest Florida Water Management District (SWFWMD)

http://www.swfwmd.state.fl.us/

Ecosphere Restoration Institute

http://www.ecosphererestoration.org/

SWFWMD Matters

http://swfwmdmatters.blogspot.com/

Cockroach Bay Aquatic Preserve

http://www.dep.state.fl.us/coastal/sites/cockroach/

Audubon of Florida

http://fl.audubon.org/

City of Tampa Wastewater Department

http://www.tampagov.net/dept_wastewater/

The Blue Planet Project

http://www.blueplanetproject.net/

Steven Solomon’s The Water Blog

http://thewaterblog.wordpress.com/

Public Policy Institute of California: Water http://www.ppic.org/main/policyarea.asp?i=15

Salmon Aid

http://www.salmonaid.org

Environmental Protection Agency

http://www.epa.gov/

Articles:

Gone With the Flow: How the Alteration in Freshwater Flow is Killing the Bay Delta

http://www.bay.org/publications/gone-with-the-flow

The Growing Battle for the Right to Water by Maude Barlow http://www.alternet.org/water/76819

Water and the War on Terror by Steven Solomon

http://grist.org/politics/2010-03-02-water-and-the-war-on-terror/

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Film:

Flow

http://www.flowthefilm.com/

The Last Call at the Oasis, the documentary: http://www.participantmedia.com/films/coming_soon/last_call_at_the_oasis.php

Books:

Bottled and Sold: The Story Behind Our Obsession with Bottled Water by Peter Gleick http://islandpress.org/bottledandsold/9781610911627.html

Blue Gold: The Fight to Stop the Corporate Theft of the World’s Water by Maude Barlow and Tony Clarke, http://www.thenewpress.com/index.php?option=com_title&task=view_title&metaproductid=1022

The Ripple Effect: The Fate of Freshwater in the Twenty-First Century by Alex Prud’Homme

http://books.simonandschuster.com/Ripple-Effect/Alex-Prud%27homme/9781416535454

WATER: The Epic Struggle For Wealth, Power, and Civilization by Steven Solomon http://www.harpercollins.com/author/microsite/?authorid=26031

Cadillac Desert, The American West and Its Disappearing Water by Marc Reisner http://us.penguingroup.com/nf/Book/BookDisplay/0,,9780140178241,00.html

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Occupy Wall Street has changed the conversation about the distribution of wealth, and an economic framework which for decades, has been taken for granted.  So what now?  What policy changes and initiatives should the movement be pushing for?  On this edition, University of Massachusetts at Amherst emeritus economics professor Richard Wolff speaks about some of the roots of, and solutions to, the economic inequality that’s finally being acknowledged.

Featuring:

Richard Wolff, University of Massachusetts Economics professor; Deepa Varna, housing attorney

 For More Information:

Occupy Wall Street

http://occupywallst.org/

Occupy Wall Street West

http://www.occupywallstwest.org/wordpress/

Richard Wolff

http://rdwolff.com/

Move To Amend

http://movetoamend.org/

Eviction Defense Collaborative

http://www.evictiondefense.org/index.html

Occupy For Jobs

http://www.occupy4jobs.org/

F.D.R and the New Deal

http://www.fdrheritage.org/new_deal.htm

2012 United Nations year of Co-Operatives

http://www.2012.coop/

Articles/Blogs/Videos/Audio: 

Occupy 4 Jobs Rally NYC

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F15OKHKdo1k

Decolonize/Occupy Wall St West 1.20.12

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SwryQ2guhKs

Occupy is back — with horns and glitter

http://www.sfbg.com/2012/01/24/occupy-back-horns-and-glitter

Banks cancel debit card fees, but anti-bank sentiment remains palpable

http://www.pbs.org/wnet/need-to-know/the-daily-need/banks-cancel-debit-card-fees-but-anti-bank-sentiment-remains-palpable/12180/

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It’s 2012, the world is calling for change, and in the U.S, another presidential election is looming.   But journalist Tariq Ali says the American public’s so-called ‘choices’ don’t present much in the way of options. On this edition, Ali speaks about the ‘extreme center’ and how Occupy and other emerging social movements are challenging the status quo.

Special thanks to the Lannan Foundation.

Featuring:

Longtime journalist and activist Tariq Ali, author of more than 20 books, including “The Obama Syndrome,” “The Duel: Pakistan on the Flight Path of American Power,” and “Bush in Babylon: The Reconciliation of Iraq.” 

For More Information:

Tariq Ali

http://tariqali.org/

Lannan Foundation

http://www.lannan.org/

The Guardian

http://www.guardiannews.com/

New Left Review

http://newleftreview.org/

Books/Articles:

Tariq Ali speaks about his book, “The Obama Syndrome: Surrender at Home, War Abroad” on Democracy Now

http://www.democracynow.org/2010/9/21/tariq_ali_on_the_obama_syndrome

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