Q&A: SHARON SALZBERG, Author/co-founder of the Insight Meditation

Written on February 18th, 2011
 

 

Aired 02/06/11

SHARON SALZBERG has been a student of meditation since 1971, and leading meditation retreats worldwide since 1974. A co-founder of the Insight Meditation Society in Barre, Massachusetts, Sharon is the author of Loving Kindness: The Revolutionary Art Of Happiness; A Heart As Wide As The World; Faith: Trusting Your Own Deepest Experience; co-author with Joseph Goldstein of Insight Meditation: A Step-By-Step Course On How To Meditate. Her newest book is REAL HAPPINESS: THE POWER OF MEDITATION.

http://www.insightla.org/

Q&A: CAMERON SINCLAIR

Written on February 10th, 2011
 

 

Aired 02/06/11

CAMERON SINCLAIR was trained as an architect at the University of Westminster and at the Bartlett School of Architecture, University College London. His postgraduate thesis focused on providing shelter to New York's homeless through sustainable, transitional housing. After his studies, he moved to New York where he worked as a designer and project architect.

In 1999 Cameron Sinclair and Kate Stohr founded Architecture for Humanity, a grassroots nonprofit organization that seeks architectural solutions to humanitarian crises. Sinclair and Stohr compiled a bestselling book Design Like You Give A Damn: Architectural Responses to Humanitarian Crises.

Sinclair is a TED prize recipient, a Young Global Leader of the World Economic Forum, and serves on advisory boards of the Acumen Fund, the Institute for State Effectiveness and the Ontario College of Art and Design. As a result of the 2006 TED Prize, Architecture for Humanity launched the Open Architecture Network, the world's first open source community dedicated to improving living conditions through innovative and sustainable design. Every two years this network hosts a global challenge to tackle a systemic issue within the built environment.

http://architectureforhumanity.org/

Q&A: Rob Lemkin, founder and director of Old Street Films

Written on February 4th, 2011
 

 

Aired 01/30/11

ROB LEMKIN, founder and director of Old Street Films, has produced and directed over 50 documentaries for BBC, Channel 4, ITV, Sky, The History Channel (US) and Arts & Entertainment. He has made several films about the history and politics of Asia including THE REAL DR EVIL; MALAYA: THE UNDECLARED WAR; and CHINA: HANDLE WITH CARE, and his newest, ENEMIES OF THE PEOPLE.

http://enemiesofthepeoplemovie.com/

Q&A: J. Kirk Boyd

Written on February 3rd, 2011
 

 

Aired 01/30/11

KIRK BOYD teaches international human rights, civil rights, free speech and constitutional law at UC Berkeley and is Executive Director of the 2048 Project. He is the author of a new book, 2048: Humanity's Agreement to Live Together -- The International Movement for Enforceable Human Rights.

http://www.2048.berkeley.edu/

Q&A: Mark Hertsgaard, Author – HOT: Living Through the Next 50 Years on Earth.

Written on January 24th, 2011

 

Aired 01/23/11

MARK HERTSGAARD, a fellow of The Open Society Institute, The Nation's environment correspondent, covers climate change for Vanity Fair, Time and Die Zeit and has written for many of the world's leading newspapers and magazines. He is the author of the highly acclaimed study of the media during the Reagan years, On Bended Knee, as well as Earth Odyssey; A Day in the Life: The Music and Artistry of the Beatles; The Eagle's Shadow, and his newest, HOT: Living Through the Next 50 Years on Earth.

http://www.markhertsgaard.com/