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”

Listener SoapBox 8/17/07

Producer/host: Matt Murphy

A monthly call-in show with the listeners/callers determining the topics of discussion.

Baby Talk 8/16/07

Producer/host: Cathy Jacobs

Topic: Parenting in Transracial Families

How do children form racial identity?  How can parents support children’s formation of positive racial identity?  What should parents consider as they are deciding whether to adopt a child of another race?

Guests: Dr. Susan Partridge, L.C.S.W. and Developmental Psychologist in Portland, Maine, and Dr. Roy Partridge, Bowdoin College Professor and Episcopal Priest

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