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First Aired - 10/06/2011 03:00PM
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This week on U Look Hungry learn about how one chocolate company is making not only delicious treats but also social change in Madegascar. Joe Salvatore and Tim McCollum of Madecasse talk with Helen Hollyman about how they are trying to change the status quo in Madagascar and the rest of Africa by not only sourcing their cocoa from their but also keeping the manufacturing and creation of their chocolate bars in country. Learn about how this chocolate is unlike any other fair trade organic chocolate and where you can find a bar to munch on today. We highly recommend the Sea Salt and Nibs . . mmmm. This episode is sponsored by Heritage Foods USA's No Goat Left Behind initiative.
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Chocolate from Africa, Made in Africa (16:50)
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U Look Hungry, Helen Hollyman, chocolate, social change, Madagascar, fine chocolate bars, Peace Corps, cocoa, fruity chocolate, growing cocoa, vanilla, Ezaka, co-ops, cocoa farmer, local, sustainable farming, cocoa pod, cocoa beans, ox carts, terroir,To comment on this episode click here. There are currently Comments
First Aired - 10/13/2010 07:00PM
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Using Rudolf Steiner as a catalyst for a historical analysis of the Vienna Secession, Curtis looks at the flow of ideas, and the interconnectedness of all things human.
A journey back to the beginning of the 20th century through a group of artists looking for a change, ready to admit the limits of science. Be it Gustav Klimt, Sigmund Freud, or Rudolf Steiner, the demand for a fuller, more connected, use of the human mind. This style of living became known as Anthroposophy.
Today's expressions of Anthroposophy can be found in farming, through farmers like KK Haspel—a pioneer in biodynamic farming.
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Klimt's Beethoven Frieze
Rudolf Steiner
Gotheanum
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Burning Down The House Introduction (9:52)
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Heritage Radio Network, Burning Down The House, Curtis B. Wayne, Architecture, Creative Design, Rudolf Steiner, Biodynamic farming, 20th century history, Waldorf School, Rudolf Steiner school, Waldorf-Astoria cigarette factory, music as a way to learn math, Eurythmy, free form movement, with motion ideas are retained better,Thinkers Across Ages (7:14)
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Anthroposophy, Goetheanum, Atheneum, Thinkers of different ages, share knowledge, Steiner's legacy, German Expressionism, Jugendstil, Vienna Secession, Karl Orff, Orff's simplified musical instruments, O Fortuna, Carmina Burana, Dave Arnold,Interconnectedness of Thought (6:20)
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Art Nouveau, O Fortuna has a poem from latin, Mysticism about Rudolf Steiner, Sigmund Freud, all of these ideas inform each other, Gustav Klimt, Zeitgebunde, flow of ideas, early modern work, Richard Strauss, Also Sprach Zarathustra, Union of Austrian Artists, Neue Gallery, artists that were fed up with eclecticism of 20th century,All Things Inform Each Other (6:58)
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to every age its art, and to art its freedom, Josef Hoffman, Viennese workshop, Wiener Werkstätte, Munch, hip-hop, house music, counterpoint, balance, scale, music informs a pattern of thinking, more poetry in architecture, the limiting aspect of specialized fields, more interrelations across the arts, New York Philharmonic, Der Rosenkavalier,Fear Of The Inexplicable (4:48)
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Waltz, German writer, Rainer Maria Rilke, a writer weaving poetry and the psychological, Fear Of The Inexplicable, existence of the individual, most people only get to know a fraction of their existence, we are not prisoners, nothing should intimidate or frighten us, we have no reason to fear the world, the fears which exist are only ours, to transform the dragons into princesses, to transform fear into our denouement, something helpless that wants help from us,Talking About Biodynamic Farming (8:02)
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more than just a balanced environment that keeps renewing, KK Haspel, refraction of light, catching all of the cosmic forces to fertilize, using the cosmos to farm, ancient techniques of farming, Steiner as a clairvoyant, why did Steiner's reputation suffer at the end of the 20th century?, going beyond science into a belief system, Estuans Interius, Håkan Hagegård, Steiner's invention of biodynamic farming, Steiner's series of eight lectures that is a fundament of biodynamics, biodynamic farming principles, it's impossible to prove that biodynamic approach is better than an organic,To comment on this episode click here. There are currently Comments
First Aired - 09/16/2010 02:00PM
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This week on Greenhorns Radio Sev speaks to agro-ecologist Houston Wilson. Wilson discusses the primary goal of his science: eliminating "off farm" input. This essentially means designing your farm in a way that encourages nature to do the tasks we often leave up to chemicals or people. With enough crop diversification farmers will find that controlling pests, nutrient cycling, and dealing with diseases can all be executed internally if the farm is designed appropriately. This episode was sponsored by Hearst Ranch: purveyors of fine grass-fed beef from the coasts of CA.
Photo 1: The Altieri Lab at UC Berkeley has been conducting cutting edge research in vineyard agroecology over the past decade. Recent efforts focus on the management of non-crop vegetation to enhance the natural regulation of key insect pests in vineyards. We strive to conduct comprehensive research spanning landscape-level dynamics to specific within-field insect interactions. We also believe in the importance of collaborating with growers to conduct research in real-world settings where the system designs that we are developing will be employed.
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Houston Wilson and Agro-Ecology (12:43)
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Hearst Ranch, Houston Wilson, Agro-ecologist, what is acroecology?, trying to reduce all farm input by diversifying cropping systems so they sponsor their own pest control and nutrient cycling, acroecology not organic farming per se, trying to promote habitat to manage pests, biological control, using natural methods (and other animals) to eradicate pests, Landless Workers Movement, reclaiming underutilized land in Brazil for landless peasants, produce practical contemporary science that is applicable in the field, all research is conducted on commercial farm, getting feedback from commercial farmers about their hypothetical theories and whether they are scalable and usable, off farm inputs, more recent increases in the price of oil has increased fertilizer and pesticide prices, exploding seed costs at a time when the industry has been squeezed, establishing flowering ground covers in vineyards to provice nectar and pollen to beneficial insects which can potentially increase biological benefits and control,Parasitism and The Grape Leaf Hopper (11:16)
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the grape leaf hopper is one of the main pests Houston works with, a very tiny wasp searches for leaf hopper eggs and lays his eggs inside the leaf hopper eggs which kills the leaf hopper, five hundred million little eggs hating insects that will munch on your grapes, the cost of synthetic or organic pesticide versus the target organism developing a resistance to the pesticide, its more difficult for an organism to develope a reisstance to biological control, we need wine!, did we learn anything from wine grapes that can be applied to other crops?, Houston works with wine grapes beacause of their proximity to UC Berkley campus, Napa County and elsewhere are very open to new ways of thinking regarding farming, transfering this science to other cropping systems, the science is however particular to not just wine grapes but wine grapes in Northern California, fine tuning diversification and translating that model to other crops, attempting similiar diversification propceses with similiar goals, are there enough Agroecologists in the world to get the job done?, a lot of these scientists are overworked and tired!, theres no beer at lab meetings, a lot of people are doing research in ecological pest management that aren't agroecologists, there is a documentary film being made about Houston's project, RJ is slowly building a website and adding a new trailer soon, www.BioControlMovie.com,To comment on this episode click here. There are currently Comments
