Resistance Radio

Resistance Radio interview of Carolyn Shafer and Joni Clark Stellar

Carolyn Shafer has been working with PARA since shortly after it was formed in 2011, initially on the board of directors, including Board President, then as Mission Coordinator (ED). She has a wealth of knowledge about the special nature of the Patagonia Mountains and the battle to protect the water, air and wildlife of this special area.  Carolyn has a background in business management. She also owned a mine claim where she extracted turquoise for jewelry - she's the type of miner the 1872 Mining Law was designed for.

 Joni Clark Stellar moved to Patagonia in 2022, after 4 years moving around the Southwest in my RV after  losing everything in the Paradise Fire of 2018. With a background in environmental nonprofit work, Joni offered to help PARA. She has served on the PARA board for a year, and also helps with communications and fundraising.

Resistance Radio interview of Dr. Lisa Quattrocki Knight and Constance Gee

Dr. Lisa Quattrocki Knight. After graduating from Stanford University, she earned an MD/PhD from Yale. Her PhD was in basic neuroscience. She then completed a medical internship at Massachusetts General Hospital and her adult psychiatry residency at McLean Hospital. She has been affiliated with Harvard Medical School since 1994 and spent one year as a visiting scholar at the University College of London. She has three daughters and cares deeply about the world in which they will raise their own children. She recognizes that our sense of well-being benefits from feeling connected to the natural world, especially the ocean. We cannot afford to spoil the few remaining natural habitats left on this planet. As a result, she has co-founded a grassroots organization to protect the ocean and the biodiverse life it sustains from industrialization.

Constance Gee resides in Westport, MA where she has worked on behalf of animals and barrier beach protection for years. She first found out about the planned development of the Atlantic Outer Continental Shelf by offshore wind in Feb 2021, and has been working in active opposition ever since. She joined Green Oceans when it was founded in the fall of that same year. She is also a member of Save Right Whales Coalition, an umbrella group under which a dozen offshore wind opposition groups from NC to Maine have come together to support one another and share information. She and two other colleagues have recently founded a new group, Protect Our Westport Waters (POWW). POWW aims to stop Vineyard Wind from bringing the high-voltage cabling from one of its projects onshore at a local beach and through the entire length of Westport.

Resistance Radio interview of Katie Singer

Before Katie Singer began questioning our techno-sphere, she wrote a novel about four generations of mothers and daughters and several books about natural family planning. Her 2014 book, An Electronic Silent Spring, reports on how electromagnetic radiation emitted by telecom devices and infrastructure impact wildlife and public health. She’s currently finishing Mapping Our Technosphere. This book starts with a photo essay about the mining, water use, energy use, toxic waste, worker hazards and fire hazards involved in manufacturing, operating and discarding utilities, the Internet, solar and wind power and electric vehicles. She publishes regularly at KatieSinger.substack.com.

Resistance Radio interview of Chad Hanson

Dr. Chad Hanson is a research ecologist with the John Muir Project, and is the author of the book, "Smokescreen: Debunking Wildfire Myths to Save Our Forests and Our Climate"

Resistance Radio interview of Jeff Gibbs

Jeff Gibbs is a lifelong environmentalist, writer, and filmmaker who wrote, directed, and produced the 2020 film Planet of the Humans with an audience of over 20 million. Jeff was a producer for the Academy Award-winning Bowling for Columbine, the top box office documentary of all time Fahrenheit 9/11, the anti-whaling film At the Edge of the World, and the Dixie Chicks’ Shut Up and Sing. Jeff is working on a new book and film, and his Substack is Planet of Delusions.

Resistance Radio interview of Nathan Hutchinson

Nathan Hutchinson is an artist, now writer living in Boulder, Colorado , dedicated his life study to nature, both physical and soulful, our place here with Earth which has seemingly been lost, and how we might reintegrate ourselves . He believes that art, of whatever genre can, and perhaps even is a tool or method by which we achieve this reintroduction to Nature. His book Evergreen is a somewhat culmination of work in this field of thought.

Resistance Radio interview of Osprey Orielle, Lake

Founder and executive director of the Women’s Earth and Climate Action Network (WECAN), Osprey Orielle Lake works internationally with grassroots, BIPOC and Indigenous leaders, policymakers, and diverse coalitions to build climate justice, resilient communities, and a just transition to a decentralized, democratized clean-energy future. She sits on the executive committee for the Global Alliance for the Rights of Nature and on the steering committee for the Fossil Fuel Non-Proliferation Treaty. Osprey’s writing about climate justice, relationships with nature, women in leadership, and other topics has been featured in many publications.

Resistance Radio interview of Felice Pace

Felice Pace was born on January 10th 1947 into the working class
Italian Community in South Philadelphia. He holds a BA in Economics
from Yale U., an MA in Education from Montclair State University and
a life-time California teaching credential. He has worked as a
teacher/educator, laborer, Outward Bound instructor, social services
administrator and for Native American tribes. For fifteen years
during the 80s and 90s Felice worked for and led the Klamath Forest
Alliance as Program Coordinator and Executive Director. During that
time he played a major role in the campaign to protect Northwest and
Northern California Ancient Forests, including participation as a
speaker at President Clinton's Forest Conference. Currently Felice
engages as an independent Klamath River, Scott River, clean water and
streamflow activist and pursues a number of writing project. Felice
blogs on Klamath River issues at www.KlamBlog.org. He has lived in
Northwest California's Klamath River Basin since 1975 and  currently
resides at Klamath Glen near the mouth of the Klamath River.

Resistance Radio interview of Susan A Masino

Susan A. Masino is a neuroscientist and a professor of applied
science at Trinity College. Her research is focused on promoting
brain health and on the critical role of self-sustaining,
climate-regulating ecosystems, particularly natural forests, to
support local and global wellbeing. She is a coauthor on a recent
regional report titled "Wildlands in New England: Past, Present and
Future," and on the seminal paper on proforestation, i.e. growing
existing forests, as an essential and cost-effective strategy for
long-term ecological and human health.

Resistance Radio interview of Laura Lecuona

Laura Lecuona studied Philosophy at the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México. She’s an editor and translator specializing in memoirs, young adult fiction and social sciences. As a popularizer of feminism, she is a regular lecturer and writer. She’s Mexico’s country contact for Women’s Declaration International, and the author of Gender Identity: Lies and Dangers (Spinifex Press, 2024).