Category: Voices & Weekend Voices

Locally produced radio magazine on cultural & community events & people. Every Wednesday from 4:00 – 4:30 PM

Weekend Voices 8/18/07

Producer/host: Amy Browne

Contributor: Jim Campbell

Thanks to Zach Soares and the Thorndike Library at the College of the Atlantic for making this audio available to WERU

Topic: William McDonough, award-winning visionary designer and author, speaking at the College of the Atlantic, July 2, 2007. His lecture is called “Cradle to Cradle: All Sustainability is Local”.

McDonough is the coauthor, (with German chemist Michael Braungart), of “Cradle to Cradle: Remaking the Way We Make Things”

Weekend Voices 8/11/07

Producer/host: Amy Browne

Contributors: Cathy Melio, Jim Campbell, Matt Murphy, Marge May

Topics: Hope (Maine) Jazz Festival-an upcoming event; a vintage interview with herbalist and author Doug Elliot; a request for help with a transmitter part needed by our Sister Station, Radio Sumpul in El Salvador; Hannah Sassman on opportunities to protect and expand community radio

FMI: www.dougelliot.com; www.prometheusradio.org;

Weekend Voices 8/04/07

Producer/host: Amy Browne

Contributing producers: Debbie and David Wildey

Topic: An interview with Jim Merkel, author of Radical Simplicity: Small Footprints on a Finite Earth (New Society Publishers, 2003) and founder of the Global Living Project. He spoke at the Good Life Center in Harborside, Maine earlier this year.

FMI: www.radicalsimplicity.org ; www.goodlife.org