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Planetary regeneration on a community scale

Planetary regeneration on a community scale

by radiocafe | Nov 30, 2021 | Activism, Down to Earth, Education, Environment, Food & agriculture, New Mexico

Tejinder and Juliana Ciano founded Reunity Resources on land in Santa Fe where a veteran had grown food for the hungry. Now they have a thriving compost, farming, educational, and community organizing operation—all founded on regenerative principles.

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Hopi farming: a 2000-year-long agriculture experiment

Hopi farming: a 2000-year-long agriculture experiment

by radiocafe | Jun 23, 2020 | Activism, Down to Earth, Education, Environment, Food & agriculture, Native & indigenous, Science & health

Hopi farmers must be doing something right: they have survived and grown their own food for hundreds of generations. We talk to Dr. Michael Kotutwa Johnson about their regenerative farming and cultural practices––and the challenges to maintaining them.

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Sponsor Spotlight: The LANL Foundation

Sponsor Spotlight: The LANL Foundation

by radiocafe | Nov 29, 2019 | Education, New Mexico, Santa Fe New Mexican

We talk to Los Alamos National Laboratory Foundation president and CEO, Jenny Parks, about the Foundation’s work to further education in northern New Mexico.
Heartfelt thanks to the LANL Foundation for sponsoring the Radio Cafe in 2019.

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Why traditional school discipline doesn’t help our most vulnerable kids—or anyone around them

Why traditional school discipline doesn’t help our most vulnerable kids—or anyone around them

by radiocafe | Sep 30, 2019 | Books, Education, New Mexico, Santa Fe New Mexican

Dr. Ross Greene, author of NY Times Bestsellers, Lost in School and The Explosive Child, talks about how to help even the most difficult kids learn without punishing them.

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Teenage tragedy in Albuquerque

Teenage tragedy in Albuquerque

by radiocafe | Aug 22, 2019 | Education, New Mexico, Santa Fe New Mexican

Teen suicide defies efforts to find patterns and predictability–but it shatters families, schools, and communities. We talk to Searchlight New Mexico’s Nick Pachelli about the story of Albuquerque teen Aurra Gardner.

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Growing up with Leonard Bernstein

Growing up with Leonard Bernstein

by radiocafe | Jul 29, 2019 | Arts & films, Books, Education, Santa Fe New Mexican

Jamie Bernstein‘s new memoir offers a fascinating glimpse into Leonard Bernstein’s creative life, his family life, and the hard-drinking, chain-smoking, exuberance of New York during one of its most creative eras.

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Kids with disabilities — and their parents — face harassment from schools

Kids with disabilities — and their parents — face harassment from schools

by radiocafe | Jun 20, 2019 | Education, New Mexico, Santa Fe New Mexican

Discrimination, marginalization, and criminalization: these are among the challenges facing students in some of NM’s public schools schools—and the parents who try to advocate for them. We talk to investigative reporter Ed Williams of Searchlight New Mexico.

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Medicine and miracles in Navajo Country

Medicine and miracles in Navajo Country

by radiocafe | Jun 13, 2019 | Books, Education, Native & indigenous, New Mexico, Santa Fe New Mexican

Before Erica Elliott decided to become a physician, she worked as a teacher on the Navajo reservation–where she also experienced being a shepherd, going into trance in peyote ceremonies, and being kissed by a mountain lion. We talk about her new memoir.

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Systems thinking in education

Systems thinking in education

by radiocafe | May 2, 2019 | Education, New Mexico, Santa Fe New Mexican

We talk about what’s wrong with education, but what does it take to look at the whole system–including the local economy, health care, substance abuse, and so many other factors that affect our kids? Educator Terry Holliday talks about innovations in our schools–and our thinking–that can improve schools and communities.

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