Category: Common Health

Producer/host: Jim Fisher

Topic: Healthy Buildings

What is a green building?  What are the health affects of buildings on humans?  What can we do to fix an unhealthy home?

Guests: Naomi Mermin, Healthy Building Consultant, naomi.mermin@maine.rr.com;  Bruce Stahnke, Green Building Designer with Stahnke and Kitagawa Architects in Brooksville, Maine, bstahnke@hypernet.com

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Producer/host: Jim Fisher

Topic: Healthy Animals

What are some of the most serious diseases affecting animals?  What is the effect of a changing environment/climate change on animal health?  How does animal health affect human health?

Guests:  Dr. Donald Hoenig, Maine State Veterinarian; Heather Martin-Zboray, cofounder of LLAMA (League of Large Animal Medical Advocates)

Producer/host: Jim Fisher

Topic: Hunger and Locally Grown Food

What is food insecurity? What can Maine do to grow more food? How can we help young farmers get started?

Guests: John Cook, Boston University Medical College; Bob St. Peter, Good Life Center

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FMI: www.goodlife.org

Producer/host: Jim Fisher

Topic: Community Care: How do we balance preventative and curative care needs? How do we reach underserved populations? What are the missions of SW Harbor (Maine) Community Health Clinic and Maine Seacoast Mission?

Guests: Gary Delong, Director of Maine Sea Coast Mission, Dr. Julian Kuffler, Director of SW Harbor Community Health Center

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Producer/host:  Jim Fisher

Topic: Electro Magnetic Frequency

Guest: Peter Lord, Island Astronomy Institute

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Producer/host: Jim Fisher

Not in our town: Teens speak out about substance abuse, eating disorders and teen resiliency
What do you do to help a friend with an eating disorder? What problems are high schools having with substance abuse? What is “resiliency”?

Guests: Liz Rabasca, Justin Muniz, William Elwell, Elizabeth Busby, Brendan Williams, Joseph Fallica, Darrell Beauvais, Jay-C Canlas, Hannah Somers-Jones, from Mount Desert Island High School (Maine)

Producer/host: Jim Fisher

Topic: Building a better public health system.  What is public health?  Who is building the new system?  How do we provide services in rural areas?

Guests: Doug Micael, Director, Healthy Acadia; Shawn Yardley, Director, Bangor Department of Health and Welfare

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Producer/host: Jim Fisher

Topic: Eastern Paths to Health

Guests: Sally Clinton, Certified Yoga instructor, Breathwork Facilitator and Certified Ayurvedic Consultant,  sunsal@aol.com 207-326-7957; Damon Urban, Chi Gung and Wu Tang Instructor, 207-266-0301, damon@practicaltaoism.com, www.practicaltaoism.com

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