On this “Digging in the Dirt” my guest is environmentalist, entrepreneur and author Paul Hawken. Paul is a leading voice in the worlds environmental movement. His visionary ideas emphasize changing the relationship between business and the Earth, as humanity seeks to rise to the challenge of our time, Globalwarming. In his new book "Regeneration - Ending the climate crisis in one generation", Hawken provides a refreshingly positive and comprehensive approach to global warming solutions.

* In Texas Abortion Law Ruling Supreme Court Moves Closer to Overturning Roe v. Wade Jenny Brown, author, activist and member of National Women’s Liberation Producer: Scott Harris

* New Report Reveals the High Cost of U.S. Militarism Since 9-11 Lindsay Koshgarian, program director of the National Priorities Project Producer: Scott Harris

* Global Women’s Assembly for Climate Justice to Address the Climate Crisis Through a Feminist Lens Osprey Orielle Lake, executive director of WECAN, the Women’s Earth and Climate Action Network Producer: Melinda Tuhus

August's Live Culture- a discussion with artist and author Lynne Stein about her new book "Shedding the Shackles" out now via Bloomsbury. we discuss women's craft projects from around the world and what kind of freedom is offered by making things...

-Huricane Ida

-Ferocious wildfire threatens South Lake Tahoe

-Syrian oil spill threatens Cyprus

-Israel and Jordan cooperate on water and solar.

-Judge rules in favor of water protections

-U.S renewable energy sources grew last year

*Afghanistan and the Long History of War Profiteering; Sam Pizzigati, author, and associate fellow with the Institute for Policy Studies; Producer: Scott Harris.

*It's the 11th Hour to Protect US Democracy from Coordinated GOP Attack; Markus Batchelor, People for The American Way's deputy director of Leadership programs; Producer: Scott Harris,

*The Activist Groups Demand 5 Year Terrorism Sentence Against Pipeline Resister is Dropped; Alex Cohen, a member of the Jessica Reznicek Support Team; Producer: Melinda Tuhus.

I like to tackle the big picture stories on the issues of the day, but I also like to talk gardening with the people I run into because of Digging in the Dirt. On this show I interview 4 friends and colleagues who share my passion for growing just about anything. Khadijah Muhammad, Joseph Celli, Moxanne and Monique Bosch talk about their adventures in the garden. PS I'l be doing more of these shows in the future and if you'd like to be interviewed about what you're doing in your garden or on your farm, email me at [email protected].

Bridgeport resident Lela Florel speaks about the Remington Woods, and her fight to preserve this living forest community from commercial development.

For more information on Preserve Remington Woods, and ways to take action:

https://preserveremingtonwoods.com/

Thursday, August 26, 2021, 12 noon WPKN 89.5 FM www.wpkn.org

Host: Duo Dickinson

For most homes are the place of familiar settings, of comfort, of safety. Homes should not threaten, they should welcome us into our Safe Place of protection, of pleasant harbor. But for some, homes extend their humanity into the future. Homes provide a place of expression, hope, even risk in their innovation and vision.

Throughout the last 150 years homes went beyond the extension of their occupants’ values and aesthetics into the world of architectural, social and technological aspiration. For some, homes became laboratories of experimentation in “New” hope and possibility. Homes offered salvation to their owners, the civilization and architectural vision that could transform the way humanity makes buildings.

Homes have always been the lab rats of architecture. Their size, the control their builders had upon their outcome meant homes could project all the possibilities we invested in them. But like most experiments, these transformative attempts fail. We are seeing new trial balloons, right now, based on the same human desperation to make the “New” – even if in this effort happens in the oldest structure that humans built, our homes.

Home Page welcomes Taunton Press’s Peter Chapman and the New Haven Museum’s Jason Bischoff-Wurstle and others to steak about these and of Salvational Homes:

Container Homes,

Reproduction Homes

Living Roof/Buried Homes

Tiny Homes,

3D Printed Homes

Rammed Earth Homes

Net Zero Homes

Pressure Treated Wood Homes

Urethane Foam Homes

Dymaxion Homes

Usonian Homes

-Rain on Greenlands Summit for the first time

-Record temperatures in the Middle East

-Deadly record rains and floods in Middle Tennessee

-Plugging worlds Methane leaks would reduce global warming

-China will plant 36,000 square kilometres of new forest per year

*Afghan-American Community & Allies Demand Joe Biden Ensure the Safety of the Most Vulnerable Arash Azizzada, a co-founder of the group Afghans for a Better Tomorrow Producer: Scott Harris.

*Holding Politicians Criminally Accountable for Deadly COVID Malpractice David Schultz, Distinguished University Professor of Political Science at Hamline University Producer: Scott Harris.

*Urgent need to Improve Basic Standards for Imprisoned Pregnant Women and their Infants Leah Wang, a research analyst with the Prison Policy Initiative Producer: Melinda Tuhus.