1) Osprey Oriell Lake discusses the Women's Climate Change Agenda and the first annual International Women's Earth and Climate Summit. 2) Mary Cook, a teacher in Arkansas, helps students engage with the ocean through the NOAA Teacher at Sea program. 3) A Changing Gears report on the student loan debt from private vocational schools.
1) Elizabeth Gilbert speaks about her new book, "The Signature of All Things." 2) Communities across the nation look for alternatives to industrial agriculture like the Beacon Food Forest in Seattle, Washington. 3) A UN Radio report on the $750 billion annual cost of food waste. 4) Harvest Public Media reports on the security of a federal seed vault in Colorado.
1) Excerpts from Homeland Productions', "A Map of the Sea," a story based on the collapse of the cod fishery in Newfoundland. 2) Editor Sarah Weinman talks about some of the best female authors of noir fiction writers in her book, "Troubled Daughter, Twisted Wives."
1) Excerpts from Jiri Slavicinsky's documentary, "Last Summer in Grand Bruit," a story about the resettlement of a rural fishing community in Newfoundland, Canada.
1) Rebecca Sive talks about women leaders and her book, "Every Day Is Election Day: A Woman's Guide to Winning Any Office From the PTA To The White House." 2) Jemma Brown reports from Salt Lake City on the political future for Mormons. 3) The Maidu tribe of California is working with an old adversary to regain formal stewardship of their homeland in Plumas and Lassen Counties.
1) Maine lobstermen consider forming unions after a lobster surplus caused prices to drop to a record low. 2) Upstate New York farmers share their stories. 3) Avenal, California struggles to find a new economy after its oil boom. 4) Public health nurse Amy Gastelum talks about fear and working in an unsafe New York City neighborhood.
1) Martha Baskin speaks filmmaker Christopher Nolan and Dr. Helen Caldicott, Nobel Prize winner and anti-nuclear activist, about the long term health impacts of nuclear accidents. 2) Ontario Power Generation is proposing construction of an underground permanent burial facility for all of Ontario's low- and intermediate-level radioactive waste. 3) Amy Mayer reports on the Conservation Reserve Program. 4) A report on preserving wildlife habitats in New York City.
1) NWLC Vice President for Education and Employment Fatima Goss Graves discusses women's equality issues in the national campaign. 2) Gilles Malkine profiles Marie Antoinette. 2) A WMMT report on natural gas drilling in southwest Virginia and eastern Kentucky.
1) George Morgan discusses his book, "Rocket Girl," a biography about his mother, Mary Sherman Morgan, the first female rocket scientist. 2) Amy Mayer reports on the nonconventional and natural methods of raising egg-laying hens as an alternative to battery cages and large factory farms. 3) Delia Passi, founder of the Women's Choice Award, discusses how her review and recommendation service works.
1) Lissa Harris, cofounder of The Watershed Post in the Catskills, discusses reporting during Hurricane Irene and the newspaper industry. 2) Lori Price of Citizens for Legitimate Government discusses reporting on stories not featured in the popular media outlets. 3) Wendy Welch writes a memoir about opening an independent bookstore in the digital age.