by radiocafe | Feb 18, 2019 | New Mexico, Politics, Santa Fe New Mexican
The voters overwhelmingly voted for it–a statewide ethics commission–and now it’s being put into place. What’s it about, and why does it matter? Heather Ferguson of Common Cause New Mexico walks us through the ins and outs of ethics.
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by radiocafe | Feb 14, 2019 | Arts & films, Books, New Mexico, Santa Fe New Mexican
We listen to six Santa Fe poets talk about poetry, love, and writing, and they each share some of their poems with us.
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by radiocafe | Feb 11, 2019 | New Mexico, Politics, Santa Fe New Mexican
What would it take to make New Mexico a zero carbon emissions, clean/renewable energy state? We talk about bills before the legislature whose purpose is to take the necessary steps over the coming decades toward this goal.
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by radiocafe | Feb 7, 2019 | New Mexico, Santa Fe New Mexican
Five days of films, parties, events, awards, and more films…on today’s show we talk about three films from the festival, whose themes range from Neanderthal DNA and cloning to gender inequality in TV and film, to the history of the newspaper business.
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by radiocafe | Feb 5, 2019 | Down to Earth, Environment, Food & agriculture
The science of farm and rangeland is often incomprehensible to the people on the land. We talk to On Pasture magazine founder Kathy Voth, whose mission is to make science accessible to people who need it–and to help keep them from being bamboozled by the latest agriculture fads.
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by radiocafe | Feb 4, 2019 | Activism, Food & agriculture, Santa Fe New Mexican
Bernardo Ruiz’s new film, Harvest Season, shows us a year in the Napa Valley with multi-generational Latino vineyard workers and business people–and it’s a celebration of all the people who work behind the scenes to make each bottle of California wine.
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by radiocafe | Jan 30, 2019 | Politics, Santa Fe New Mexican
Most of the world’s violence happens outside of war zones. How have countries and regions, like Sicily and Colombia–not to mention the Wild West of the early US–forge a path to peace? Rachel Kleinfeld‘s brilliant new book explores just that, and gives us not only hope, but profound and realistic analysis.
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by radiocafe | Jan 28, 2019 | New Mexico, Santa Fe New Mexican
New Mexico is considering a law that would ban coyote-killing contests, and one that would ban wildlife trapping. We talk to the New Mexico Wildnerness Alliance and Wild Earth Guardians about these and other bills to protect wildlife on public lands.
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by radiocafe | Jan 22, 2019 | ASU
The journey of Alzheimer’s disease is unpredictable, baffling, a loss for the sufferer and painful for the family — yet can offer unexpected gifts.
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by radiocafe | Jan 22, 2019 | Down to Earth
Research scientist David Johnson from New Mexico State University tells us. He’s a leading soil scientist, and he knows what we need to do to reverse soil loss patterns–and what the many benefits are to restoring healthy soil on farms and rangelands.
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