Richard Ray Perez is a documentary film maker and Director of Creative Partnerships at Sundance Institute. He and host Alan Wartes spoke about his latest film called "Cesar's Last Fast" an intimate look at 36 days in 1988 When United Farm Workers leader Cesar Chavez undertook a protest fast.

Award winning photo-journalist Michael Kodas spoke with host Alan Wartes about his book Megafire: the race to extinguish a deadly epidemic of flame and the role of story-telling in journalism.

Beth McKeon is an educator and currently serves as Managing Entrepreneur in Residence at Venture Valley Mentors in Springfield, MA. She owns a small business consultancy called Fluent where she helps new founders speak the language of entrepreneurship and answer their own questions about how to get their start up off the ground.

Rosemerry Wahtola Trommer is former poet laureate of western Colorado and has authored or edited 13 books. Her latest title is a wonderful collection of poems called "Naked for Tea." A previous book of poems, "Holding Three Things as Once" was a finalist for the Colorado book award.

In this episode, Trommer and host Alan Wartes talk about the power of metaphor to shape our experience of life.

Merrill Warren spoke with host Alan Wartes about her role as development manager for the non-profit called Adventure Scientists. The organization matches up scientists with a need for data in remote locations all over the planet with adventurers bound for these areas. 

Patrick Pexton serves as Defense and Foreign policy editor at a journal called CQ Roll Call. This publication provides independent news and analysis to US Congress members and their staff. He and host Alan Wartes spoke about the current state of cyber-security and how far we have come in the advancement of Artificial Intelligence.

Jeffrey Taylor is one of only a handful of people in the world to hold the highest certification you can get from the Appraisers Association of America. He currently heads the Master in Gallery Management and Exhibits Program at Western Colorado University. He shared an insiders view of art history and art forgeries.

John McClow is a veteran water attorney and expert on water law in the Colorado River Basin. Prolonged drought in the west since 2004 has put extraordinary pressure on the river and the communities that depend on its water. ThinkPlanet host Alan Wartes talks with McClow about the realities of aridification — and what's being done to build resilience to drier times ahead.

Karen is Co-owner of Montanya Distillers in Crested Butte, Colorado. She spoke with host Alan Wartes about how she came to make the award winning rum she is known for and her values regarding her employees, her business, and her community.

Anthropologist Mark Stiger is lead researcher at an archeological dig in Central Colorado that is yielding artifacts of surprising origin and age. He and host Alan Wartes spoke about the importance of the findings and how it is causing the archeological community to rethink and rewrite some conventional wisdoms.