Monthly Archives: May 2009

Podcast

Sustainable Gardening

Carleen Madigan
Carleen Madigan
Toby Hemenway
Toby Hemenway

We talk with Toby Hemenway about his updated GAIA’S GARDEN: A Guide to Home-Scale Permaculture, Carleen Madigan tells us how to turn a lawn into a BACKYARD HOMESTEAD, and Patricia Klindienst (THE EARTH KNOWS MY NAME) talks about three gardens of immigrant Americans in this excerpt from our archived interview with her. Continue reading

Web Extras

Web Extra: Jeff Sharet Extended Interview

Jeff Sharlet
Jeff Sharlet

Jeff Sharlet’s journalistic beat is the inroads the Christian Right is making into the established instititions that govern our society.  His latest article is about how Christian extremists are embedding firmly into the highest ranks of the military. It’s called “Jesus Killed Mohammed: the Crusade for a Christian military”. It’s just out in the May issue of Harper’s.

Listen to the Web exclusive extended interview with Sharet.

You can listen to the full show here.

Podcast

Pandemic Flu, Thrity Umrigar, and Jeff Sharlet

Jeff Sharlet
Jeff Sharlet
Thrity Umrigar
Thrity Umrigar

We talk with writer Howard Friel and Dr. Harvey Lederman in this rebroadcast of a 2006 interview about avian flu. Also, Thrity Umrigar on her new novel, THE WEIGHT OF HEAVEN. And Jeff Sharlet talks about the crusade for a Christian military.

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