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Nick Duffell, noted psychotherapist and author calls us from London to speak about the psychological impact of elite British boarding schools on not only the young mostly boy boarders, but on adult ex-boarders, their families and, as ”wounded leaders” on the nation itself. (WPKN July 10, 2024) More about Nick and boarding school syndrome in psychotherapeutic […]
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Nancy DePas Reinertsen and Ralph Reinertsen, retired educators who have recently launched the North Fork branch of ReWild Long Island with Sustainable Gardening at Custer Preserve in Southold, describe how, through collaboration and networking among several existing networks, volunteers can establish and expand flourishing sustainable landscapes and community gardens of mostly native plants in a […]
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Jeff Halper is an Israeli-American anthropologist, author, lecturer, and political activist has lived in Israel since 1973. He is the Director of the Israeli Committee Against House Demolitions and a co-founder of The One Democratic State Campaign. A Jewish Israeli, Jeff speak to us from Jerusalem about Israel’s entrenched use of humiliation to control the […]
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Margery Daughtrey, PhD, plant pathologist in the department of Ornamental Pathology at Long Island Horticultural Research and Extension Center of Cornell University, talks about beech leaf disease (BLD), first identified in Ohio in 2012 but now affecting the viability of beech trees in several other states, including the east end of Long Island. Dr. Daughtrey describes […]
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Dr. Yara Asi, author of How War Kills; The Overlooked Threats to our Health (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2024) and New York Times guest essay, is assistant professor at the University of Central Florida, where she studies physical and mental health in conflict-affected and fragile populations. A Palestinian born in the occupied West Bank town […]
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John Christian Phifer is executive director of Larkspur Conservation and president of the Conservation Burial Alliance. Speaking to us from Tennessee, he describes how, after 15 years in the funeral industry, he transformed his focus to natural burial practices and the protection and stewardship of land through conservation burial. (WPKN, April 10, 2024)
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Kimberly Coburn, writer, maker, founder of The Homestead Atlanta and leader in a movement seeking to remedy today’s “skills amnesia” by reclaiming pre-industrialization crafts and skills–such as fermentation–to support life in what many believe is widespread systems collapse or unravelling of the world as we have known it. (First broadcast on WPKN, May 10, 2023)
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Michelle Berry Lane, poet, writer and former science teacher, describes how human creatures in these times of late-stage capitalism and modernity have separated from and forgotten their relationship to the earth and all its other creatures. Citing Ivan Illich among others, she shows us how conviviality and mutuality can help use re-member ourselves to the […]
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Craig Jobes, Environmental Analyst at Southold Town, talks about his role in managing the overpopulation of white-tailed deer, as well as hunting and hunters, new State legislation and, now, the arrival of coyotes on the scene. (WPKN, February 7, 2024)
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Farmer-artists Agathe Snow and Anthony Holbrooke talk about learning to grow mushrooms on their farm Mattituck Mushrooms, why they believe mushrooms can help feed the world and how they have integrated mushrooms into their art. (WPKN, January 3, 2024)
Born to German Jewish refugee physicians in Lahore (now Pakistan, then British India) Hazel has lived, studied and worked in many places–India, England, Australia, Israel and the United States. She makes her home in the woods of the eastern end of Long Island, New York where she produces the art of leafages, the radio sounds of Tidings and writes about growing up Jewish in Lahore. Read more about Hazel…
Leafages by Hazel Kahan are made from real leaves, vines and tendrils interwoven with calligraphy, decorative pen and ink flourishes and imaginary Latin botanical names. Leafages contain a philosophical or inspirational thought, quotation or verse from sages, poets or religious texts. Some leafages are specially created for an individual, a couple or a family with words or leaves reflecting their personal narrative. They are available on the Leafages shop on Etsy although the supply is low right now, all my energies having been absorbed by the book I’ve been writing. Do come back soon when the shop will be full of new leafage abundance or contact me.
