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More Than Skin Deep: The Chemicals in our Cosmetics

Jane Houlihan, VP of research for Environmental Working Group
Horst Rechelbacher, Founder of Aveda Body Products and owner of Intelligent Nutrients
Stacy Malkan, Communications Director for Health Care Without Harm and founding member of Campaign for Safe Cosmetics
Jessica Assaf, President of Teens for Safe Cosmetics Campaign
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Forgiving the Unforgivable: Community Reconciliation in Sierra Leone

Sara Terry, documentary filmmaker;  Founder and Director, The Aftermath Project
Libby Hoffman, Founder and President, Catalyst for Peace;  President, Fambul Tok International
John Caulker, Executive Director, Fambul Tok International, Sierra Leone
Mariama Jumu and Michael Momoh, villagers in Daabu, eastern Sierra Leone

(Click on a guest's name to listen to their full unedited interview. Mariama and Michael were interviewed with John Caulker.  This interview may be hard to understand for most listeners, due to the quality of the cell phone transmission and the language barrier.)

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Climate Collision: What Comes After Copenhagen?

Cletus Springer, Director, Department of Sustainable Development, Organization of American States
Victoria Tauli-Corpuz
, Chair, UN Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues; Executive Director
Tebtebba Convenor, Asia Indigenous Women’s Network
Claire Greensfelder, Deputy Director, International Forum on Globalization
Voices from “Conversations with the Earth” Project from indigenous communities around the world most affected by climate change

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Victims No More: Seeking the Middle Way in the Middle East

Amal Jadou, Deputy chief of the PLO (Palestine Liberation Organization) Mission, Washington, D.C.
Haleh Esfandiari, Director, Middle East Program, Woodrow Wilson Center for International Affairs
Rami Khouri, Director, Isaam Fares Institute for Public Policy and International Affairs, American University of Beirut
Moty Cristal, Founder and CEO, Nest Consulting, Negotiation Strategies
Joshua Weiss, Managing Director, The Abraham Path Initiative; Co-Founder and Senior Fellow, Global Negotiation Initiative, Harvard Negotiation Project

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Beauty In Broken Places: The Healing Arts of Lily Yeh

Lily Yeh, founder, Barefoot Artists; co-founder, The Village of Arts and Humanities, Philadelphia

Her entire interview was used in this program. She spoke at the Bioneers gathering in 2009. Her 20 minute speech can be heard by clicking here.

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Designing With Nature

Jay Harman, President and CEO PAX Scientific
Jeffrey Brinker, Professor, Department of Chemistry, Chemical, and Nuclear Engineering, University
of New Mexico; Sandia Fellow in the Self Assembly of Nanostructures Department, Sandia National
Laboratories
Christopher Viney, Vice Provost for Undergraduate Education, Professor of Engineering, University of
California at Merced
Dr. Bailey Green, President, Chief Technology Officer, G02 Water

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Poultry: Pure and Simple

Chris Arnold, Director of Public Relations, Chipotle Mexican Grill
Chris Ely, Co-Founder, Farmer Liason, Applegate Farms
Greg “Beagle” Brodsky, Operations Manager, Willie Bird Turkeys
Mary Pitman, Mary’s Chicken, Fresno, California
Robert Martin, Executive Director, Pew Commission on Industrial Farm Animal Production

Doug Stonebreaker, Owner, Prather Meat Company

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Riding the Tiger: Asia Ascending

Saket Soni, Director, New Orleans Workers’ Center for Racial Justice
Colin Rajah, Program Director, International Migrant Rights and Global Justice Program, National Network for Immigrant & Refugee Rights
Samina Ahmed, Director, South Asia Project, International Crisis Group
Elizabeth Economy, C.V. Starr Senior Fellow and Director, Asia Studies, Council on Foreign Relations

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Tightrope in Teheran: Negotiating Iran's Nuclear Option

Dr. Trita Parsi, Founder and President, National Iranian American Council; Author, Treacherous Alliance-The Secret Dealings of Iran, Israel and the United States
Qamar-ul Huda, Senior Program Officer, United States Institute of Peace
Jim Walsh, Research Associate in International Security, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Farideh Farhi, Independent Scholar and Adjunct Professor of Political Science, University of Hawaii

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Starting Out Right: Upgrading Early Childhood Education

Karabelle Pizzigati, Independent Child and Family Policy Adviser; Immediate Past President of the National Association of State Boards of Education
Mimi Howard, Program Director, Education Commission of the States
Harriet Dichter, Deputy Secretary, Pennsylvania Departments of Education and Public Welfare
Joni Close, President, Sisters of Charity, Canton, Ohio
Henrietta Zalkind, Executive Director of the Down East Partnership for Children
Christine Russel, Parent
Marcia Turner, Grandparent

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Detox! The Movement to Reform Chemicals Policy

Kathy Gerwig, Vice President, Workplace Safety and Environmental Stewardship Officer, Kaiser
Permanente
Richard Denison, Senior Scientist, Health Program, Environmental Defense Fund
Mark Mitchell, Director, Connecticut Coalition for Environmental Justice
Maureen Swanson, Healthy Children Project Coordinator, Learning Disabilities Association
Andy Igrejas, Executive Director, Environmental Health Fund
Michael Wright, Director of Health, Safety and Environment, United Steelworkers


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Nurturing Creativity

Howard Gardner, Professor of Cognition and Education, Harvard; author, Five Minds for the Future, Multiple Intelligences, and other works
Lewis Hyde, Poet and essayist; author of The Gift, exploring creativity and the commons; professor of creative writing, Kenyon College

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Bombs Away

Joseph Cirincione, President, Ploughshares Fund
Laura Peterson, Senior Policy Analyst, Taxpayers for Common Sense
Gordon Adams, Distinguished Fellow, American University School of International Service, Stimson Center
Hans Kristensen, Director, Nuclear Information Project, Federation of American Scientists
Paul Ingram, Executive Director, BASIC

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Bad Medicine: Overusing Antibiotics

Interview with Bill Niman, Rancher and Founder of Niman Ranch, and Nicolette Hahn Niman, Rancher, Lawyer, and Author of Righteous Porkchop
Dr. Stuart Levy, Professor of Molecular Biology, Microbiology and Medicine, Tufts School of Medicine
Dr. Lance Price, Director, Center for Metagenomics and Human Health, The Translational Genomics Institute
Dr. Jay Graham, AAAS Science and Technology Fellow
Dr. Marion Nestle, Paulette Godard Professor, Department of Nutrition, Food Studies and Public Health, New York University
Frederick Kirschenmann, Distinguished Fellow, Leopold Center for Sustainable Agriculture, Iowa State University

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Wasting Away

Sylvia Earle, Oceanographer, Explorer in Residence, National Geographic Society
Edward Burtynsky, Photographer Toronto, Canada

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Game-Changing Innovation

John Kao, Chairman and CEO, Kao & Co.
Esther Dyson, EDVenture Holdings

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Of Pigs and People

Dr. Stuart Levy, Professor of Molecular Biology, Microbiology and Medicine, Tufts School of Medicine
Robert Martin, Executive Director, Pew Commission on Industrial Farm Animal Production
Dr. Lance Price, Director, Center for Metagenomics and Human Health, The Translational Genomics Institute
Sarah Willis, Sales Specialist, Niman Ranch Pork Co.
Lori Lyon, Field Operations Manager, Niman Ranch Pork Co.
James Frantzen, Frantzen Farm, New Hampton, Iowa
Heidi Vittetoe, Vittetoe Farms, Washington, Iowa
This program also includes numerous interviews recorded on location.

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Two Grains of Sand

Bill McKibben, founder, 350.org; environmental journalist; author, Deep Economy
Joint Interview with Tensie Whelan, President, Rainforest Alliance, and Michiel Leijnse, Global Brand Manager, Lipton Tea (division of Unilever)

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Crowd-Sourcing Innovation

Dwayne Spradlin, President and Chief Executive Officer, InnoCentive
Maria Blair, Associate Vice President and Managing Director, Rockefeller Foundation

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The Miner's Canary: First Peoples on Climate Change

Andrea Carmen, Executive Director, International Indian Treaty Council
Gunn-Britt Retter, Head of the Arctic and Environmental Unit, Saami Council
Mike Williams, Chairman, Alaska Intertribal Council
Sarah James, Gwich'in tribal leader, Arctic Village, Alaska; winner, Goldman Environmental Prize
Tom Goldtooth, Executive Director, Indigenous Environmental Network
Shagire Shano Shale, Gamo elder and Ethiopian mountain pastoralist; Wolde Gossa Tadesse, interpreter(TCF)

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