Spirit in Action

In this edition of Spirit In Action, our guest-host is Mark Leach and he talks about the weakening of the Endangered Species Act, why we should support the International Criminal Court, why and how young people should know how to seek conscientious objector status, why this is actually a good time to prepare for a career in public service, why he’s optimistic, and an original piece of research linking corruption with income disparity.

Tony McQuail brings with him a wide and passionate view of what the world needs, and the commitment to make it happen. From his antiwar activism from age 16, to his move to Canada where he and his wife founded MeetingPlaceOrganicFarm.CA, to the numerous organizations he has founded and worked for to bring folks together in world-healing, Tony makes crops and people grow. He has run for national office in Canada, and is now focused on local election.

Following up on our recent interview with Gretchen Primack about the March to Abolish Animal Testing, we speak today to Meredith Blanchard, following up on vital relevant information about the value, or non-value, of animal testing. Meredith is the director of policy and advocacy at the National Anti-Vivisection Society (NAVS.org), drawing on her B.S. in Zoology, and her M.S.

This episode of guest-host Jan Spencer's A Primer For Paradigm Shift brings together a graphic flow chart that explains the basic progressive dynamics of paradigm shift with a review of a recent article about social enterprise and, in the second half, a fiction story of the near future.

Peterson Toscano is our guest host today as he explores how we can find our footing and maintain our spiritual integrity during times of profound global disruption. In the first half, Peterson shares an excerpt from The BTS Center's Climate Changed podcast, featuring a conversation between host Autumn Brown and Norma Wong.

Following up on the successful efforts of Save the Dogs to close down the dog breeding for experimentation operations at Ridglan Farms in Blue Mounds, WI, eyes have turned to other major contributors to such abusive companies.

Patti Nesbitt & Kristin Camitta Zimet have co-written a book dealing with end-of-life preparation and issues. The name of the book is A Tender Time, which it beautifully helps us prepare for, with the subtitle, Quaker Voices On the End of Life, created under the care of Baltimore Yearly Meeting.

Today we follow up to a visit we had 2 months ago with Margaret Brown of Blue Zones, as we drill down into the same work from the local focus on up. True Wellness was formed about a year ago to explore and chart the way for better health, community wide, in Northwest Wisconsin, and Natasha Ward is their executive director.

Peterson Toscano is guest-host today. If you're a regular listener, you know about Peterson's incredible gifts in sharing transformational riches with you. He does a number of podcasts, and so he shares some samples here, with new content as well.