Let's drive in the slow lane on Sunday mornings. Pour yourself a cup of coffee or tea and just take a deep breath. Are you searching for something interesting to listen to that can be uplifting? Or, offer you a new perspective about the world? You have landed in the right place. I love plants, the arts, and living on this big blue/green planet Earth too. So join me on Sunday mornings to brighten your day with new knowledge or just light, fun educational entertainment. I just got my hot cuppa ...
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A Northern Gardener's Guide To Native Plants And Pollinators by Lorraine Johnson and Shelia Colla
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A Northern Gardener's Guide to Native Plants and Pollinators: Creating Habitat in the Northeast, Great Lakes, and Upper Midwest. By Lorraine Johnson and Shelia Colla. Illustrated by Ann Sanderson. Published by Island Press in 2023 Pennies add up. We can all make a difference with climate change, biodiversity, and human health and wellness. This exq…
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Smaller Cities in a Shrinking World: Learning to Thrive without Growth by Alan Mallach. Published by Island Press in 2022. More is never enough. Have we reached the balance of a sustainable human population that affords us a comfortable and ecologically sustainable life style in harmony with the Earth? What does that economy and city look like? How…
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Tricia at Tango 3 Coffee, Niceville, FL : Coffee Shop Ambience Sounds
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Good morning, I enjoy sipping a cuppa chai with croissant at my favorite cafe in Niceville, FL : Tango 3 Coffee. On a Saturday morning, I read through the next book for my Sunday Coffee interviews, take a instagram photos of it, and write questions for the authors. I thought you might like to join me. The coffee shop culture began in Europe and too…
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Website: http://www.sophialacroix.com Instagram: @Sophia_Lacroix_Artist Sophia Lacroix is a Haitian born US resident that found the love of her life - Fine Art. From an early age art was solace and gift that transformed her life in ways she could only imagine. After immigrating to the U.S. at the age of 15 in the mid-1980s, she earned a full academ…
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Roadways For People: Rethinking Transportation, Planning, and Engineering by Lynn Peterson. Published by Island Press in 2023 Listening. It's a long lost art in the transportation and urban design matrix. Too many times, the scoop and problems are being decided by people outside the community. In Lynn's book she details her journey to become a bett…
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White Pine: The Natural and Human History of a Foundational American Tree by John Pastor. Published by Island Press in 2023 The roots of the tree, in this case, the White Pines of North America are the metaphorical roots of our democracy, collaboration, and beauty. Beginning with the Native American tribes coming together to bring peace to a landsc…
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The Home Cafe: Creative Recipes for Expresso, Matcha, Tea and Coffee Drinks by Asia Lui Chapa
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The Home Cafe: Creative Recipes for Expresso, Matcha, Tea and Coffee Drinks by Asia Lui Chapa Published by Page Street Publishing Co. Salem, MA 2022 Human connections begin with drinks and food. It's about starting the morning or the weekend with family, friends, and partners - or brothers and sisters. Its a quiet moment to wake up in the morning o…
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Build Beyond Zero: New Ideas for Carbon-Smart Architecture by Bruce King and Chris Magwood
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Build Beyond Zero: New Ideas for Carbon-Smart Architecture by Bruce King and Chris Magwood. Published by Island Press in 2022 The amazing thing is that we have the technology and the planning to capture carbon to bring our beautiful home - The Earth - back into balance. The biggest emitter of carbon is actually our homes. It's the built environment…
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The Progress Illusion: Reclaiming Our Future from the Fairytale of Economics by Jon Erickson
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The Progress Illusion: Reclaiming Our Future from the Fairytale of Economics by Jon Erickson. Published by Island Press in 2022 Who invented the economics theories we hold in high regard today? Who do they serve best? Are they really giving us the full economic picture for today's society? In this conversation, we learn about the who, what, when, w…
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Understanding Disaster Insurance: New tools for a more resilient future by Carolyn Kousky Published by Island Press in 2022 Do you really know what's included or more importantly what's NOT included in your insurance policy? Our climate change is fast changing our security and risk for our biggest investments: homes and businesses. Hurricanes, torn…
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Darlene Crone-Todd PhD BF Skinner Foundation Board
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Happy Holiday week 2022 Today's guest is Darlene Crone-Todd from the BF Skinner Foundation. As my audience may know, my first career was a dolphin trainer at the Gulfarium in Ft. Walton Beach Fl. I have been used the BF Skinner teaching methods for not just dolphins but in teaching swimming, teaching my employees, and managing my various businesses…
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Place & Prosperity: How cities help us to connect and innovate: by William Fulton Published by Island Press 2022 Where are you from? Where do you live? These are the two most common and powerful questions we ask and answer to each other. It's deeply personal to our sense of identity and place in a community. What is this "place" we call home? How d…
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Rural Renaissance: Revitalizing America's Hometowns through Clean Power: by L. Michelle Moore
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Rural Renaissance Revitalizing America's Hometowns through Clean Power: by L. Michelle Moore published by Island Press 2022 Each step on our power grid journey has benefited humanity. The coal we burned fueled homes, businesses, and lifted us out of poverty. Now today, we have an opportunity to use new technologies to a new level. With clean techno…
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Exercises in Architecture: learning to think like as architect 2nd Edition by Simon Unwin published by Routledge in 2023 Each art form has it's own language. While we may not equate architecture with written music, it is - just like it. As the author discusses from his own struggles with learning architecture, he discovered architecture anew while …
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Managing The Climate Crisis: Designing and Building for Floods, Heat, Drought, and Wildfire by Jonathan Barnett & Matthijs Bouw Published by Island Press in 2022 It's getting hot on planet Earth. There are forces in motion that can be reversed but we will have to deal with the effects of floods, heat, drought, and wildfire for the foreseeable futur…
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Brandi Long, MFA website and social links Good morning! I'm so excited to bring you my first professional artist interview. Today's guest is a colleague of mine from Florida International University art program. The video interview portion will be posted to my YouTube channel to see her new studio and artwork from her MFA show at the Frost Museum. …
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No Farms, No Food Uniting Farmers and Environmentalists to Transform American Agriculture by Don Stuart What happens when a farm fails? Sold? Retires? These are not easy answers but they can have devastating results for the communities and environment they serve. Mr. Stuart takes a good, hard, long look into the research and reality of the decision…
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Ecologies of Inception: Designs potentials on a warming planet by Simone Ferracina published by Routledge in 2022 Humans have utilized raw materials for - ever actually. We love art and to create useful vessel for our food, survival, warfare, and entertainment. It's how we shelter ourselves and brings us comfort. Since the industrial revolution, we…
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The Blue Revolution: Hunting, Harvesting, and Farming Seafood in the Information Age by Nicholas P. Sullivan
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The Blue Revolution: Hunting, Harvesting, and Farming Seafood in the Information Age by Nicholas P. Sullivan Published by Island Press in 2022. Fishing - it's not as easy as it sounds. It's one of the world's oldest professions and not really understood by the public at large. I have lived on the Gulf Coast most of my life and being surrounded by w…
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Latour for Architects by Albena Yaneva published by Routledge in 2022 This book is an introduction to Bruno Latour. He is a leading figure in Social Sciences today. In the past decade his Action-Network Theory (ANT) has gained much popularity in the field of architecture. This book discusses his philosophy and how it applies to specific methods of …
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Don't Shoot the Dog: The Art of Teaching and Training. Karen Pryor Published by Simon & Schuster 2019 Reprint Do you want more creativity from your students, employees, or maybe yourself? Are you trying to save the planet? Or, maybe just follow through on your New Year's resolution this time and forevermore? This is the book for you! I was introduc…
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Thicker Than Water : The quest for solutions to the plastic crisis by Erica Cirino published by Island Press in 2021. In this podcast, Erica shares with the audience her journey into how plastic has shaped our lives. It's not always for the best. She documents the plastics that are covering our ecosystems, our homes, and ourselves. How plastic is d…
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Swamplands by Edward Struzik published by Island Press in 2021 Peat is partially decomposed plant material that builds up over centuries in swampy, waterlogged conditions. Representing just three percent of the earth's landscape, peatland can store four times more carbon than th eAmazon rainforest and twice as much as all of the world's forests. In…
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Bet the Farm: The Dollars and Sense of Growing Food in America by Beth Hoffman published by Island Press 2021 This book is a compelling, deeply personal narrative that delivers a unique view into the realities of the American Farm. Beth covered agriculture and farming as a journalist; however, the reality of being a new farmer with her husband was …
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Recast Your City: How to save your downtown with small scale manufacturing by Illana Preuss. Published by Island Press in 2021 In Recast Your City community development expert Ilana Preuss explains how local leaders can revitalize their downtowns and main streets by bringing in and supporting small-scale manufacturing. Preuss shows how this approac…
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Schools That Heal: Design with Mental Health in Mind by Claire Latane Published by Island Press in 2021 In Schools That Heal: Design with Mental Health in Mind, landscape architecture professor Claire Latane argues that for schools to be supportive learning environments, they must be designed with students mental and physical health in mind. Backed…
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