Episodes
Friday Aug 30, 2019
Resistance Radio - Guest: Michael Kellett
Friday Aug 30, 2019
Friday Aug 30, 2019
Michael Kellett is executive director of the New England nonprofit organization, RESTORE: The North Woods, which he co-founded in 1992. He has been involved in national park, wilderness, public land, and endangered species issues for more than 30 years. In 1994, he developed the proposal for a 3.2-million-acre Maine Woods National Park, which laid the groundwork for the 2016 designation by President Obama of Katahdin Woods and Waters National Monument. In Massachusetts, he has worked to protect Walden Woods and Henry David Thoreau’s birthplace, and helped to develop legislation introduced in 2019, which would protect state conservation lands from logging and other development.
Monday Aug 26, 2019
Resistance Radio - Guest: Arun
Monday Aug 26, 2019
Monday Aug 26, 2019
Arun qualified as an engineer and worked in the engineering field for 6 years, living in a city. That experience drove him out of cities, mainstream life and thought. He took up teaching in a Krishnarmurti school and alongside sea turtle conservation. He has been a conservationist and teacher for the past 22 years. For the past 10 years he lives with his family on an organic farm, running an alternative school and an afforestation project along with a group of passionate individuals
Friday Aug 16, 2019
Resistance Radio - Guest: Deanna Meyer
Friday Aug 16, 2019
Friday Aug 16, 2019
Deanna Meyer. She is a long time environmental activist and is a member of Deep Green Resistance and is also the founder and executive director of Prairie Protection Colorado. Meyer's work currently centers on the protection and preservation of prairie dog communities up and down Colorado's Front Range. Today we talk about bobcats, and efforts to ban their trapping.
Friday Aug 09, 2019
Resistance Radio - Guest: Christopher Ketcham
Friday Aug 09, 2019
Friday Aug 09, 2019
Christopher Ketcham is a freelance writer for Harper's, The New Republic, Vice, and many others. Today we discuss his new book "This Land: How Cowboys, Capitalism, and Corruption are Ruining the American West." It's the product of ten years of research and travel across the public lands of the West.
Sunday Aug 04, 2019
Resistance Radio - Guest: George Wuerthner
Sunday Aug 04, 2019
Sunday Aug 04, 2019
George Wuerthner is the former Ecological Projects Director for the Foundation for Deep Ecology. Currently he is the executive director of Public Lands Media. He is an ecologist and wildlands activist. He has published 38 books on environmental issues and natural history including such environmentally focused books as Welfare Ranching, Wildfire, Thrillcraft, Energy and most recently Protecting the Wild. Today we talk about forest fires.