Featured Podcasts

Henry Red Cloud: Yes! Magazine Breakthrough 15 Honoree

CEM — Fri, 20 Jan 2012 14:26:54 -0600

Join us for the next installment in our series of interviews with the Yes! Magazine Breakthrough 15. In honor of their 15 years in print, Yes! selected 15 heroes whose work is helping to create a more just society.

Henry Red Cloud is a member of the Oglala Lakota tribe and founder of Lakota Solar Enterprises. He is dedicated to improving the environment and lives of his people through the development of renewable energy.

Jason McLennan: Yes! Magazine Breakthrough 15 Honoree

CEM — Fri, 20 Jan 2012 14:24:07 -0600

Jason McLennan is an architect whose passion for "living buildings" bring eco-friendly construction to the next level. He is chief executive of the Cascadia Green Building Council and of the International Living Future Institute.

Ai-jen Poo : Yes! Magazine Breakthrough 15 Honoree

CEM — Fri, 20 Jan 2012 14:20:43 -0600

Ai-jen Poo is the Founder and Director of the National Domestic Workers Alliance, where she uses an organizing strategy rooted in love and compassion to improve the labor conditions of domestic workers.

Deepak Bhargava: Yes! Magazine Breakthrough 15 Honoree

CEM — Fri, 20 Jan 2012 13:56:16 -0600

Deepak Bhargava is executive director of the Center for Community Change. He joined us to discuss how his own journey led him to his passion for improving the lives of Americans living in poverty.

Lily Yeh: Yes! Magazine Breakthrough 15 Honoree

CEM — Tue, 10 Jan 2012 13:08:40 -0600

Join us for the next installment in our series of interviews with the Yes! Magazine Breakthrough 15. In honor of their 15 years of publishing, Yes! selected 15 heroes whose work changes the way that we live.

Lily Yeh is the founder of Barefoot Artists. She joined us to discuss the way that art, love, and a desire for beauty can transform broken and impoverished communities. You can see her speak at the Bioneers conference here.

Lucia St. Clair Robson

CEM — Thu, 24 Jun 2010 15:00:27 -0500

Author Lucia St. Clair Robson joins us to discuss her new book Last Train From Cuernavaca, a novel set during the Mexican Revolution of 1910-1920. Her other books include Ride the Wind, Shadow Patriots, and Ghost Warrior.

Witold Rybczynski

CEM — Tue, 08 Jun 2010 14:04:48 -0500

Witold Rybczynski is an architect, writer, professor, and urban thinker. He joins us to discuss his vision for the future of America's cities.

Click here for the June keynote in Urbanite Magazine, an edited text version of this interview.

Ilyasah Shabazz on her father, Malcolm X

CEM — Wed, 19 May 2010 13:15:34 -0500

Today is the 85th birthday of Malcolm X. We sat down with his daughter, Ilyasah Shabazz, to discuss her memories of her father and what she thinks his legacy means today.

Update from Sundance

CEM — Fri, 29 Jan 2010 11:47:47 -0600

Maryland Film Festival Director Jed Dietz joins us from Park City, Utah to discuss the Sundance film festival. To read more from Jed, click here for his blog.

Remembering Howard Zinn

CEM — Thu, 28 Jan 2010 11:40:47 -0600

Howard Zinn passed away yesterday at 87. A historian, professor, activist, and writer, Zinn is best known for A People's History of the United States. Howard last appeard on The Marc Steiner Show on November 18, 2009. Here is his interview from that day.