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We’ll share our earlier conversation with Monica Ralli, artist and green entrepreneur.
Monica is the founder and designer of Urth Bags, artfully Eco-friendly handbags made from recycled materials.

At 3:30 Andrew Nusca is a journalist based in New York City. Since March 2008, he has been assistant editor of business and tech Web site ZDNet. He has written for Men’s Vogue, Popular Mechanics and Money and his byline has appeared in The New York Times, The Huffington Post, New York Daily News, Editor & Publisher, New York Press, CNNMoney.com and many others. He also writes The Editorialiste, a media criticism blog. He is a graduate of New York University and the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism and is a former news editor and columnist of the Washington Square News. He has been named “Howard Kurtz, Jr.” by film critic John Lichman despite having no relation to him. He is the drummer in hard rock band Dibble Edge, which recently released its first full-length album, The Ageless & The Insane.

At 4 pm Amy Efaw author of “After” – tackles an often-sensationalized and little-understood issue—the “dumpster baby”—through the thought-provoking and conversation-starting story of Devon, who is in such deep denial that she refused to believe that she was pregnant. Author Amy Efaw provides a realistic, compelling look into the mind of a teenage girl.
AFTER is a taut human drama which takes the reader on Devon’s journey toward clarity, acceptance, and redemption as she copes with the consequences of her actions. Amy first got the idea for AFTER when an off-duty Philadelphia cop and his pitbull found a live baby in a discarded garbage bag. Through her research, she learned the Basic Characteristics for mothers who dump their babies:

• average age is between 14-25,
• they’re unmarried and living at home,
• are “good girls” considered often a “type A” high-achievers,
• and denies and/or conceals the pregnancy from its conception.

While researching AFTER, she spent several hours each week observing juvenile offenders at Remann Hall Juvenile Detention Center in Tacoma, WA, where the book is set.
Approximately one baby is abandoned to a trash can every day in the US. In an attempt to alleviate the growing problem and give pregnant women a way to anonymously abandon their babies without fear of prosecution, states have passed “safe haven” legislation. Yet, news outlets are still reporting these “dumpster baby” stories regularly. So why is this still happening? AFTER attempts to answer that question.
We hope you’ll check out Amy’s great websites!

We also spoke with David Hill in a first of our series of interviews with activist researchers from Survival International. David knows a lot about uncontacted tribes particularly in the Peruvian Amazon, where he spent three months in 2006 researching their location and the threats they face (without attempting to make contact with them himself, of course). However, he speaks more generally about uncontacted tribes worldwide, where they are, why they are uncontacted, what threats they face, and what Survival’s campaign for their rights is about.

See the short film and articles on this page of their website for information about uncontacted tribes:
details of uncontacted tribes in Peru

We’ll also be sharing our conversation with Felipe Matsunaga from Council on Hemispheric Affairs

Where is the Administration Heading?
“Obama’s Slow (and Familiar) Dance With Cuba”
…Though it is true that the easing of telecommunications marked a slight departure from the Clinton years, it has served to highlight some of the inconsistencies in the current administration’s timid and minimalist approach toward Cuba. In a largely under-reported event by major media outlets, Microsoft blocked access to its Messenger instant messaging service in Cuba during the last week of May.
The company justified its decision by releasing the following statement: “Microsoft has discontinued providing Instant Messenger services in certain countries subject to United States sanctions. Details of these sanctions are available from the United States Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC).” Messenger, which had been used as a means of communication on the island for the past decade, had operated in Cuba despite the existence of the embargo….

Guns Germs and Steel
Must Watch Video via Information ClearingHouse
Based on Jared Diamond’s Pulitzer Prize-winning book of the same name, Guns, Germs and Steel traces humanity’s journey over the last 13,000 years – from the dawn of farming at the end of the last Ice Age to the realities of life in the twenty-first century.

Jared Diamond – How Societies Fail-And Sometimes Succeed
Long Now Foundation – 1h14m24s – Feb 21, 2006
Creative Commons licensed

In this Long Now Foundation lecture, Jared Diamond articulately spelled out how his best-selling book, Collapse, took shape. At first it was going to be a book of 18 chapters chronicling 18 collapses of once-powerful societies— the Mayans with the most advanced culture in the Americas, the Anasazi who built six-story skyscrapers at Chaco, the Norse who occupied Greenland for 500 years.
He wanted to contrast those with success stories like Tokugawa-era Japan, which wholly reversed its lethal deforestation, and Iceland, which learned to finesse a highly fragile and subtle environments.

You can see more about The Long Now Foundation and Seminars About Long-Term Thinking: slides, discussions, audio, and video available.
or, you can listen to The Jeff Farias Show’s 14.May.09 interview with Alexander Rose of The Long Now Foundation, Michelle Rainey & Mike Malloy!:

(warning, the show audio from that day is a bit ‘off’ so it starts about 3 songs in, for inexplicable reasons)