Resistance Radio

Resistance Radio - Interview of Michael Kellett

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

Resistance Radio - Interview of Rebecca Wildbear

Rebecca Wildbear, MS, E-RYT 500, is the author of Wild Yoga: A Practice of Initiation, Veneration, & Advocacy for the Earth. She is the creator of a yoga practice called Wild Yoga, which empowers individuals to tune in to the mysteries that live within the earth community, dreams, and their wild nature so they can live a life of creative service. She has been leading Wild Yoga programs since 2007 and also guides other nature and soul programs through Animas Valley Institute. Visit her online at www.rebeccawildbear.com.

Resistance Radio - Interview of Richard Halsey

Richard W. Halsey loves sharing the magic of Nature, especially when it comes to chaparral, California's most extensive native plant community. He started teaching natural history as a 16-year-old volunteer naturalist at the El Dorado Nature Center in Long Beach, California, enjoyed learning about biology and anthropology in college, then taught high school biology, chemistry, and physics for two decades, leading his students on dozens of wilderness experiences to discover the preciousness of life. Since founding and directing the California Chaparral Institute in 2004, Richard has written a handful of research papers, a couple books, a fair number of editorials, and has given hundreds of presentations, all concerning chaparral ecology and the importance of reestablishing our connection with Nature

Resistance Radio - Interview of Joan Maloof

Joan Maloof, Ph.D., works to educate others regarding the extent and condition of our forests, and to encourage their preservation. She founded an organization with the goal of creating a network of protected forests across the US; that organization, the Old-Growth Forest Network, now has thousands of supporters and over 185 forests in 32 states ( www.OldGrowthForest.net). Maloof is a professor emeritus at Salisbury University where she taught Biological Sciences and Environmental Studies. She is the author of numerous research articles and five books. Her new book is Nature’s Temples: A Natural History of Old Growth Forests.

Resistance Radio - Interview of Chris Matera

Chris Matera is a civil engineer, and the founder of Massachusetts Forest Watch, which works to protect forests everywhere, but with a greater focus on protecting Northeastern Public Forests From Logging.

Resistance Radio - Interview of Paul Webb

Paul Webb began his career at a famous zoo that specialised in captive breeding programs for rare species. After eight years left with the conviction that captive breeding has no role to play in the conservation of species or habitat. Worked for the ruling family of a Gulf State for many years, turning half the country into a wildlife reserve, and looking after the largest herd of Arabian Oryx in the world, which was by then extinct in the wild. Organised and funded numerous projects all over the world to preserve the rare flora and fauna and participated in field work to secure the habitat of numerous species. Under the name AP Wolf produced a book on the wildlife and environment of the region for the ruling family. Spent four years in the remote and forbidden zones of the southern Maldives writing and producing a book on the environment for the President's Office of the Maldives. Now a full-time writer and researcher specialising in the conservation of habitat and wildlife, having recently published my latest work 'The Second Level of Extinction - Wildlife, Conservation and the Myth of Captive Breeding in Zoos.'

Resistance Radio - Interview of George Wuerthner

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.

Resistance Radio - Interview of Sarah Bowen

Sarah Bowen is an animal chaplain and a co-founder of Compassion Consortium the first interfaith, interspiritual, and interspecies community for people who care about and advocate for animals and the planet where she leads the Animal Chaplaincy Training program. She companions animals through death, creates sacred memorial rituals, counsels humans grieving animal loss, and advocates for exploited and endangered species in both religious and secular contexts. Sarah is a columnist on animal/human relationships for Spirituality & Health magazine, and her work has been featured at the United Nations World Interfaith Harmony Week and the Compassion Arts Festival, as well as in a wide range of spirituality media. Her latest book is Sacred Sendoffs from Monkfish Publishing.

Resistance Radio - Interview of Melinda Tankard Reist

Melinda Tankard Reist ( www.melindatankardreist.com) is an author, speaker, media commentator, blogger and advocate for young people. She is best known for her work addressing sexualisation, objectification, harms of pornography, sexual exploitation, trafficking and violence against women. Melinda is author/editor of seven books including Getting Real: Challenging the Sexualisation of Girls (Spinifex Press, 2009), Big Porn Inc: Exposing the harms of the global pornography industry (Spinifex Press, 2011, co-edited with Dr Abigail Bray) and Prostitution Narratives: Stories of survival in the sex trade (Spinifex Press, co-edited with Dr Caroline Norma).  An opinion writer, Melinda has appeared on ABC’s Q&A and The Gruen Sessions as well as many other TV and radio programs. Melinda is co-founder of the grassroots campaigning movement, Collective Shout: for a world free of sexploitation, exposing corporations, advertisers and marketers who objectify women and sexualise girls to sell products and services. An Ambassador for World Vision Australia, Compassion Australia, HagarNZ and the youth mentoring body the Raise Foundation, Melinda is also Senior Lecturer in the Centre for Culture and Ethics, Notre Dame University, Sydney. Melinda is named in the Who’s Who of Australian Women and the World Who’s Who of Women. Her most recent book is He Chose Porn Over Me.

Resistance Radio - Interview of Paul Johnson

Paul Johnson is a west-coast based independent filmmaker and broadcast journalist. He has been making films on many topics for more than two decades. He is a former White House reporter for Canadian television and Beijing correspondent. He is also director of Last of the Ancient Rainforests: The Emotional Connection to Trees, a new feature film. The working title for his new film is Bears in our Backyard, about how to better coexist with black bears.