Recovery Zone

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Stephanie Potter
Produced by: 
KBOO
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Recovery Zone has retired. It previously played on KBOO every 4th Wednesday of each month, from 11:00 am to 11:30 am.

 Healing Our World

Everywhere we look we see a world in trouble--environmental degradation; war, torture and militarism; corporate greed, poverty and economic injustice;  a negligent media--and all of it intertwined.  Yet there are also people dedicated to solving these problems--working on them from every possible angle.  They are part of a leaderless, bottom up, grass roots social movement manifesting itself in a myriad of ways. Paul Hawken describes this movement as humanity's "immune response"  to the sickness that pervades our world -- "social antibodies attaching themselves to the pathologies of power."  The Recovery Zone gives voice to these healers. Tune in or check it out in the KBOO archives.

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Retired

Peace in Schools Fosters Awareness, Kindness

Airs at: Wed, 01/23/2019 at 11:00am - 12:00pm
Produced for:  Recovery Zone
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  In 2014, here in Portland, Peace in Schools launched the first for-credit high school mindfulness course in the nation. Five years later, eight schools have partnered with the program to establish mindfulness courses, and new courses are being offered to adults, especial... Read more

Gabe Roth: How We Can Fix the Court

Airs at: Wed, 12/26/2018 at 11:00am - 12:00pm
Produced for:  Recovery Zone
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Fix the Court was created to take the Supreme Court of the United States to task for its lack of accountability and transparency, and proposes reforms that include term limits and cameras in the court. Executive Director Gabe Roth, will discuss the work of his organization,... Read more

Oregon Walks: Protecting your right to roam

Airs at: Wed, 11/28/2018 at 11:00am - 12:00pm
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  Oregon Walks is a nonprofit, membership-based advocacy organization dedicated to promoting walking and making the conditions for walking in Oregon safe, convenient and attractive. Host Carolyn Campbell  speaks with  several members of the organization, including Inna Lev... Read more

Let the Rodents do the Work! How Beavers Help to Restore Eco-systems

Airs at: Wed, 10/24/2018 at 11:00am - 12:00pm
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  Humanity has been referred to as a "desert-making species," but by partnering with the beaver we could reverse that trend, according to Ben Goldfarb, author of Eager, The Surprising, Secret Lives of Beavers and Why They Matter, and Steven Murschel, an educator with the B... Read more

Radical Mycology Convergence - Networking for Connection and Healing

Airs at: Wed, 09/26/2018 at 11:00am - 12:00pm
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  Fungi have often gotten a bad rap or been neglected, but for Radical Mycologists the potential value in human/mushroom interactions are unlimited, and their investigations embrace mycology through science, art, philosophy, sociology, religion ancient history. Peter McCoy... Read more

Activists seek to rein in gun violence

Airs at: Wed, 08/22/2018 at 11:00am - 12:00pm
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  The U.S. has less than 5% of the world’s population, but almost half the world's civilian-owned guns. We also have one of the highest rates of death by firearm in the developed world. Gun death rates in Oregon are even greater than the national averages, and most are sui... Read more

Roy Scranton, "We're Doomed. Now What?"

Airs at: Wed, 07/25/2018 at 11:00am - 12:00pm
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  We live in a world of unprecedented change -- rising temperatures and extreme weather are becoming the norm, as are mass extinctions, resource depletions and record numbers of refugees and homeless. Outsized wealth disparities, fossil fuel addiction, a "war on terror" an... Read more

Paul Levy on The Quantum Revelation: A Radical Synthesis of Science and Spirituality

Airs at: Wed, 06/27/2018 at 11:00am - 12:00pm
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  Written for readers with no physics background, Paul Levy’s latest book, The Quantum Revelation is for those who have heard that quantum physics amazing but don’t quite understand how or why. Levy contemplates the deeper philosophical underpinnings of quantum physics, ex... Read more

Rational sex offender policies sought by Oregon Voices

Airs at: Wed, 05/23/2018 at 11:00am - 12:00pm
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Members of Oregon Voices discuss their efforts to advocate for evidence-based approach to sexual offenses In the U.S. there are 750,000 people on sexual offender registries, including nearly 30,000 in Oregon. Who gets labeled as a sex offender? What are the rules and restr... Read more

How To Fix the Future: Andrew Keen

Airs at: Wed, 04/25/2018 at 11:00am - 12:00pm
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Staying Human in the Digital Age   Stephanie Potter welcomes author Andrew Keen to KBOO's Spring Membership Drive to discuss his book How To Fix The Future.  Call in during the show to pledge your support and get a copy the book. Former Internet entrepreneur Andrew Keen w... Read more