Haile Thomas - Healthier Generation
Are you ready for our first 12 year old guest on our national radio show? Meet Haile Thomas. You will have to tune in to hear (and maybe even believe ) all she is about but this should whet your appetite: Haile Thomas is a dedicated and passionate 12 year old health advocate for her peers. Her mission is to engage, inspire, motivate and educate her peers about healthy eating, cooking and living. Haile serves on several advisory boards, including the Alliance for a Healthier Generation, Chop Chop Magazine, and the Tucson Village Farm. She is active in her community as the co-founder of the HAPPY Organization, which is partnered with the YWCA Tucson offering cooking, nutrition, gardening and fitness programs for children. The HAPPY Organization's mission is to engage, and empower generations of healthy, active, positive, and purposeful youth. And that's just the snapshot - so much more & having national impact. Hearing is believing! It gets better - Haile serves as the Jr. Chef Consultant and Spokesperson for Hyatt Hotel's "For Kids By Kids" Menu served in all Hyatt properties in North America. Haile's other corporate and nonprofit partners include, Whole Foods, the Alliance for a Healthier Generation, and the Cancer Schmancer Organization.
This show sponsored by Chapman Tucson.

June 1

Exploring Efficient Renewable Energy

Rod Schug, Superintendent of Yakutat Schools, Yakutat, Alaska

Exploring Efficient Renewable Energy. In April of this year, I was fortunate enough to spend almost a week in Yakutat learning about the challenges this one Alaskan community faces in terms of meeting its energy needs. What I quickly realized once I arrived, is that Yakutat, a land-locked community, is a metaphor for the energy needs of the planet. Gathering people from all over the United States, Rod successfully provided a setting for interested in and extremely well-informed individuals and an opportunity to share, learn and move our world and our country in particular into an environmentally cleaner secure and energy efficient future. Rod is amazing, his commitment strong and this show IS for all of us. This show sponsored by The Fairfax Companies (p.s. The owner of The Fairfax Companies, Jason Tankersley and Colleen Crowninshield from PAG�€™s Clean Cities Coalition made the trek to Alaska with Mrs. Green)

June 8

Can We Prevent Autism? 

Gordon, M.D., Preventing Autism

More than 2 million people in the United States have autism spectrum disorders (ASD) and it has been reported that one in 88 children suffer from autism. What's wrong? What do parents need to know about that can be done to stop exposing their children to chemicals, fumes, and other factors that poison their brain cells? Dr. Gordon is a pediatrician who has practiced medicine in Santa Monica, CA., will offer us a step-by-step guide for reducing our toxic loads when he shares with us highlights from his new book, Preventing Autism: What You Can Do to Protect Your Children before and after Birth. I, for one, am extremely troubled by the growing number of kids with all kinds of diseases we never even talked about 20 years ago yet are so prevalent today. Please join us because to know better is to do better. This show sponsored by The Fairfax Companies.

 

June 15

Meet the Grandfather of Climate Science

Wally Broecker aka Dr. Wallace Broecker

I actually had the honor of spending time with Wally Broecker during a recent visit to Tucson. He was captivating and the group he spoke with never wanted him to stop. Check out this write up about him and put the date of this show on your calendar. Here is just a snippet: "To his colleagues, peers and admirers he is a genius and a pioneer, the Grandfather of Climate Science. And to his countless friends - most of whom also happen to be colleagues, peers and admirers - he is simply Wally. Broecker is arguably one of the world's greatest living geoscientists. For more than half a century, his major research interest has been the ocean's role in climate change. He was among the pioneers in radiocarbon and isotope dating - the quintessential processes for creating maps of the Earth's past climate fluctuations since as early as the Pleistocene period. He was also the first person ever to recognize the Ocean Conveyor Belt (which he named), arguably the most important discovery in the history of oceanography and its critical relation to climate." Think you are ready? Oh my. This show sponsored by Chapman Tucson.

 

June 22

She's the Queen of Fashion Hand-Me-Overs

Kerstin Block, President and Owner, Buffalo Exchange and Rebecca Block, Vice President, Buffalo Exchange

Trendsetter, thought leader, early adopter and unquestionable leader in the fashion resale industry? Yes to all of them. Kerstin, her late husband and now her daughter Rebecca, has successfully transformed the retail apparel marketplace by leading the resale fashion industry. To the best of my knowledge, Buffalo Exchange was the very first store that bought, sold, traded, and took clothing items and accessories on consignment. I can attest to the fact that when Buffalo Exchange opened in 1974 in Tucson, resale shopping carried a stigma. Hard to believe now. The Blocks have truly been pioneers in reversing this trend leading the charge to Buffalo Exchange taking the country by storm. And we've only just begun. Kerstin is my friend, a person who cares deeply about the environment and who is NEVER afraid to tell you what she thinks. Lots to talk about with Kerstin and her daughter Rebecca. Please join our conversation. This show sponsored by The Fairfax Companies.

  

Designing Resilience in a Black Swan World. Dr. Orr, Paul Sears Distinguished Professor of Environmental Studies and Politics, also serves as Senior Advisor to the President at Oberlin College. He is an internationally recognized leader in sustainability. Dr. Orr is the visionary creator of The Oberlin Project to transform a rust-belt Ohio town into a thriving, sustainable and environmentally friendly community. He is the author of seven books, including the classic Ecological Literacy and Down to the Wire: Confronting Climate Collapse. I had the pleasure of spending some "alone time" with Dr. Orr and his wife Elaine while attending the Monterey Bay Aquarium's Cooking for Solutions Sustainable Foods Institute in mid-May. Dr. Orr and his family are on a mission to educate and inspire all of us to action. I cannot wait to share more. This show sponsored by Chapman Tucson.