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Talking Waterwith Ethan Hirsch-Tauber and Philip Munyasia“We have seen a lot of conflict arising from one community to another because of sharing this water resource. The universe communicated to me when I saw how the soil reacts, because there’s not enough water, how plants are suffering—they’re withering. So, I took the initiative to work with the communities for finding enough clean water. How can we repair our relationship by sharing this resource?” –Philip Munyasia founder OTEPICWe welcome Ethan Hirsch-Tauber and Philip Munyasia for global and local conversation on how restoring relationships with water brings community healing, food security, an...2025-04-211h 25Talking Waterwith Li An Phoa“I saw when all the relationships in and along the river were healthy and in balance, the emergent property is drinkability for everyone, health for everyone, and beauty for us to admire and be immersed in.” –Li An Phoa We welcome Li An Phoa for a powerful conversation on following the call of water as a teacher and centering water for the health of our communities and world. Phoa, the author of Drinkable Rivers: How the River Became My Teacher, shares a poignant story of the first time she drank from the wild and healthy Rupert...2025-03-211h 33Talking Waterwith Felicia Marcus and Liz Crosson“What’s the cost of inaction, and how do we help people afford what we need to invest? How do we convey the preciousness and precariousness of water? How do we get folks to collaborate versus compete?” –Felicia Marcus, Fellow at Stanford University’s Water in the West Program“What can we control right now? We can ensure that we remain focussed on what we know is the most important thing…We all know what needs to be done to build a more resilient water supply, to ensure that our infrastructure is going to be ready for t...2025-02-201h 24Talking Waterwith Konda Mason“When will we become aware? What will it take? I believe the upside of the challenges we are facing right now is that it’s forcing us to say, ‘That is not the story.’ If ‘that’ is not the story, then what is? Who am I in the story, and who are we?” –Konda MasonWe are honored to have Konda Mason join us for the first Talking Water conversation of 2025. Konda Mason is a social entrepreneur, eco-spiritual thought leader, and justice advocate working at the intersection of social and financial justice and planetary healing. Konda offers...2025-02-061h 06
Brooklands Radio Just Women InterviewsJust Women 8th January 2025Repeat - Samantha Carr with her guests: Pia Brynteson is Digital Editor of Service 95, Dua Lipa’s weekly newsletter - she has made a film about The Creative Space, Beirut school of design, in Lebano - Instagram: Piabrynteson, Sue Caldwell, Managing Director of Clean Living International, 35 years’ experience training and building business & motivating women to achieve and Kate Bunney of Wellbeing Living. She offers a variety of wellbeing solutions & is developing a new mindful retreat space - www.Wellbeingliving.co.uk and Wellbeing Living on Instagram2025-01-0900 minTalking WaterWater Learning Series: Los Angeles - Session Eleven with Tina Calderon, Teri Red Owl & Kyndall Noah“I really believe that the more people that come together, that are thinking this way, and that are working on solutions, that's what it’s going to take to get us to reimagining what our future is going to be and what LA looks like in the future–they don’t have to rely on our water, on Colorado River water, on water in Northern California. We can look at meeting our needs locally.” –Teri Red Owl (Bishop Paiute Tribe Nüümü from Payahuunadü), Executive Director Owens Valley Indian Water CommissionWelcome to the Water Learning Series...2024-12-161h 31Talking Waterwith Melissa McGill, Kate Morales & Debra Scacco“As an artist, a huge pivot point for me in this work has been to understand that what I once thought of as materials, as object, as resource, are actually collaborators, are actually relations.” –Kate MoralesIn this conversation, we welcome three artists who are deeply immersed in their relationships with water. The weaving and flowing conversation follows how each artist, in their own ways, is guided by water and maps water with their work. Along the way, we uncover their personal journeys of centering water in their artistic practices and how those journeys are transf...2024-11-271h 33Talking WaterWater Learning Series: Los Angeles - Session Ten with Andy Lipkis“We need to ask: how do we honor place? How do we embody justice? How do we regenerate life? How do we grow participation? How do we foster resilience?” –Andy LipkisWelcome to the Water Learning Series: Los Angeles. Throughout 2024, we have been hosting conversations with organizations, community projects, tribal organizations, activists, organizers, and leaders from LA and places impacted by LA’s water story. This is Session 10. We have one conversation remaining in the series. We are joined once again by Andy Lipkis, who was also the guest in Session Two. Andy is a visi...2024-11-141h 31Talking WaterWater Learning Series: Los Angeles - Session Nine with Kaytlynn Johnston & Zacarías Bernal“In my imagination, we need to decommodify everything natural…No one should have to pay for access to clean water…These are all basic human rights. We need to imagine that we can come back to that…We need to learn what reciprocity means with the Earth.” –Zacarías Bernal, Program Assistant Tía Chucha's Centro Cultural & BookstoreWelcome to the Water Learning Series: Los Angeles. Throughout 2024, we have been hosting conversations with organizations, community projects, tribal organizations, activists, organizers, and leaders from LA and places impacted by LA’s water story. We’ve arrived at Session Nine. O...2024-10-171h 34Talking WaterWater Learning Series: Los Angeles - Session Eight with Friends of the LA River & Heal the Bay“The river is the reason why LA was able to be here in the first place. It’s the origin story of Los Angeles. It’s the mother of Los Angeles in many ways.” –Candice Dickens-Russell, President & CEO of Friends of the LA RiverWelcome to the Water Learning Series: Los Angeles. Throughout 2024, we have been hosting conversations with organizations, community projects, tribal organizations, activists, organizers, and leaders from LA and places impacted by LA’s water story. We are joined in Session Eight by two organizations that are instrumental in community advocacy around water...2024-09-191h 20Talking Waterwith Mike Prather“Owens Lake was the largest emitter of dust from one place in the United States…It [Owens Lake] disappeared in the mid-1920s. The water didn’t come on for the dust project until 2001. For nearly eighty years, the people up here–families, everyone, the wildlife–they were choking on dust.” –Mike Prather, environmentalist and conservationist in the Owens Valley/PayahuunadüJoin us for this special edition of Talking Water, featuring our guest Mike Prather. Mike is an environmental activist and conservationist who has advocated for returning water to Owens Lake/Patsiata and the Lower O...2024-08-271h 12Talking Waterwith the Watershed Association“What does your water come from? If we know the answer to that, that’s the first step towards conservation…Then we start to connect with that source. We are water. It’s running through us. No one can own the water. We have it for a time..” –David Baker, Executive Director and founder the Watershed AssociationThe Watershed Association invites Talking Water listeners into a wholehearted conversation about heeding the call to water advocacy through the guests' reflections on founding the Watershed Association and their continued service decades later. David Baker, Executive Director and founder, and...2024-08-181h 33Talking WaterWater Learning Series: Los Angeles - Session Seven with LA Dept. of Water and Power & Met. Water District of S. CA“Agencies like MWD and DWP are really working on our transparency and trying to bring in different voices into our processes… I think it’s important as we need to build trust in what we’re doing and the investments we need to make locally. I do think holding us accountable and demanding transparency is going to help us move forward.” –Liz Crosson, Sustainability, Resilience and Innovation Officer, Metropolitan Water DistrictWelcome to the year-long Water Learning Series: Los Angeles. Throughout 2024, we are hosting 11 conversations with organizations, community projects, tribal organizations, activists, organizers, and leaders from LA and...2024-08-161h 38Talking Waterwith We the People of Detroit“When you know the historical legacy of systemic racism that’s still baked into housing policies, insurance policies, red-lining, things of that nature, then you have to understand that the fight we’re fighting in Detroit is connected to a global fight. It’s about fighting for national change. It’s about fighting for systemic change, and it’s about fighting for a global resource that we must all have access to.” –Monica Lewis-Patrick, President & CEO, We the People of DetroitWe the People of Detroit calls the Talking Water community into a spirited and in-depth conversa...2024-08-131h 34Talking WaterWater Learning Series: Los Angeles - Session Six with Council for Watershed Health“Redesign LA puts people at the forefront. Those projects that are being funded are not coming from the cities…These are the needs in our community.”–Carlos Moran, Sr. Program Manager, from the Council for Watershed Health Welcome to Session Six of the “Water Learning Series: Los Angeles.” We’re honored to be joined by Carlos Moran, Senior Program Manager from the Council for Watershed Health whose mission is to advance the health and sustainability of the Los Angeles region’s watersheds, rivers, streams and habitat - both in natural areas and urban neighbor...2024-06-201h 31Talking WaterWater Learning Series: Los Angeles - Session Five with US Army Corps of Engineers“What we can bring to the future of the river and urban waterways is engineering with nature…Engineering with nature is where we are trying to use more natural ways of solving the problem… working in unison with natural processes.” –Megan Whalen, Ambassador for the LA River Watershed, US Army Corps of EngineersWelcome to the year-long Water Learning Series: Los Angeles, where we will host 11 conversations with organizations, community projects, tribal organizations, activists, organizers, and leaders from LA and places impacted by LA’s water story. We have reached the halfway point in the...2024-05-171h 38Talking Waterwith Dr. Miguel A. De La Torre“Water is life…Not only does it give life. It is life. When we look at water as a thing, as an object, as a commodity that we can profit off of, if you control water, you control life. You control who gets to live and who does not get to live.” –Dr. Miguel A. De La TorreTalking Water welcomes Dr. Miguel De La Torre: international scholar, documentarian, novelist, academic author, activist, and editor of “Gonna Trouble the Water - Ecojustice, Water, and Environmental Racism.” Miguel shares a bold perspective on the life-giving powers of water in o...2024-04-2557 minTalking WaterWater Learning Series: Los Angeles - Session Four with Urbano Strategies“We believe that authentic community engagement is really the key to creating and cultivating sustainable projects that are going to be healthier for the residents and create conditions that are more livable…’Direct to Community Engagement’ ensures that, early on, communities are part of shaping projects.” –Jesse De La Cruz, Urbano StrategiesWelcome to the year-long Water Learning Series: Los Angeles, where we will host 11 conversations with organizations, community projects, tribal organizations, activists, organizers, and leaders from L.A. and places impacted by L.A.’s water story. This month’s conversation highlights the incredible wo...2024-04-181h 27Talking Waterwith Erik Ohlsen“The wisdom of earth is miraculous, unrelenting, infinite, mysterious. We’ll never know everything about how natural ecosystems evolve…When I walk into the world with one foot in wonder, looking at grasslands, forests, and watersheds, my favorite way to do that is not as a designer. The best way to walk in nature is to remind yourself that you know nothing and then allow the wisdom of the natural world to show itself.” –Erik OhlsenTalking Water welcomes Erik Ohlsen, internationally recognized permaculture teacher, author, regenerative designer, storyteller, and practitioner of Nordic folk traditions. Erik offer...2024-03-281h 37Talking WaterWater Learning Series: Los Angeles - Session Three with LA Waterkeeper“Water is one of the biggest drivers in California of climate change…because our water comes from very far away. In LA, we import our water hundreds of miles–over mountains, over deserts, over farmland from the Colorado River, from the Owens Valley, from the Sacramento River. That treatment and conveyance of water over hundreds of miles is the number one non-utility energy use in the entire state of California.” –Kelly Shannon McNeill, Associate Director, LA WaterkeeperWelcome to the year-long Water Learning Series: Los Angeles, where we will host 11 conversations with organizations, community projects, tribal org...2024-03-221h 35Brooklands Radio Just Women InterviewsJust Women 6th March 2024Samantha Carr with her guests: Pia Brynteson is Digital Editor of Service 95, Dua Lipa’s weekly newsletter - she has made a film about The Creative Space, Beirut school of design, in Lebanon. Instagram: Piabrynteson, Sue Caldwell, Managing Director of Clean Living International, Successful entrepreneur and subsequent corporate leader in the Direct Sales industry and Kate Bunney of Wellbeing Living. She offers a variety of wellbeing solutions & is developing a new mindful retreat space.www,wellbeingliving.co.uk and Wellbeing Living on Instagram2024-03-0600 minTalking Waterwith the Walking Water Team“One of the greatest learnings through the Walking Water pilgrimage was that we had in between time–between the three parts over three years to incorporate the dialogues, the learning circles, the new relationships, and to give time for those to grow between year one and two and between year two and three. That’s what I’m being moved with today, moved through the honoring of taking time to be with each other, to learn from each other, and continue to build the courage of meeting our outer actions with our inner prayers.” –Krystyna Jurzykowski (Walking Water Stellar...2024-02-212h 02Talking WaterWater Learning Series: Los Angeles - Session Two with Andy Lipkis“I’m telling these stories, because change is within our power. It’s within our reach.” –Andy LipkisWelcome to the year-long Water Learning Series: Los Angeles, where we will host 11 conversations with organizations, community projects, tribal organizations, activists, organizers, and leaders from L.A. and places impacted by L.A.’s water story. We welcome Andy Lipkis to session two of the series. Andy is a visionary and pioneer in urban and community forestry and watershed restoration in Los Angeles, as well as the founder and project executive of Accelerate Resilience L.A. (ARLA...2024-02-171h 58Talking WaterWater Learning Series: LA - Session One with Tina Calderon, Annie Mendoza, Teri Red Owl & Kyndall Noah“More than what you call the capturing or retention of these waters, is speaking up to give the waters their rights. They need to flow freely. We need to stop taking the water from up north, which means we need to figure out how to stop damming up our waters. We had water sources. What happened to them? We need to bring that back. More than what we call things, we need to use our voice to do the right thing.” –Tina CalderonWelcome to the first session of the year-long Water...2024-01-261h 55Talking Waterwith Erica Diaz“Community power drives our work. It’s the base of our work. We definitely wouldn’t be at the solutions without that community power.” -Erica Diaz, Community Water CenterWe welcome Erica Diaz, Community Solutions Advocate for the Community Water Center. Erica shares inspiration from her work with rural Central Valley communities that are leveraging community-power to assure clean, safe, and reliable drinking water for themselves and generations to come. Erica talks about working towards solutions, in which communities are involved in every step of the process for water safety and reliability. With a water crisis a...2023-11-241h 20Talking Waterwith Andy Lipkis“The power of the experiences I’ve shared…the wake up call opened my eyes, not to scarcity, to the abundance that we don’t see. We create scarcity by throwing away water.” -Andy LipkisWe’re joined by Andy Lipkis, a visionary and pioneer in urban and community forestry and watershed movement in Los Angeles and world-wide. Andy shares with the Walking Water community formative experiences of organizing around climate resilience in Los Angeles both through advocacy and in the face of devastating climate emergencies. He shares lessons from drought stricken mega cities in Australia, d...2023-11-091h 30Talking Waterwith Melissa McGill“What I’m trying to do is create projects that bring us together in awe, wonder, and empathy with water, connecting and reanimating the connection with water as a life force and inspiring support for its regeneration.” -Melissa McGillArtist, activist, and water storyteller Melissa McGill joins Talking Water for a conversation on the transformative power of the arts in connecting and inspiring people to work on behalf of water. McGill’s artistic practice utilizes a deep sense of listening, collaboration, and reciprocity with communities to create projects that not only make an impact, but send out...2023-09-241h 38Talking Waterwith Elizabeth K Nguyen, MD“There are global water protectors all around the world committed to this work, and we need to do it together. We need to know there are others doing this work, so we don’t feel alone in the work, and know that we are connected energetically through the waterways, supporting one another…” -Elizabeth K Nguyen, MDElizabeth K Nguyen, MD, water keeper, psychiatrist, and author, joins Talking Water this month in a collaborative conversation with the Walking Water community. Dr. Nguyen shares her important work as a psychiatrist and energy worker supporting people to restore...2023-07-061h 26
Talking Waterwith Dr. Crystal Cavalier-KeckWe welcome Dr. Crystal Cavalier-KeckDr. Crystal Cavalier-Keck is the co-founder of Seven Directions of Service with her husband. She is a citizen of the Occaneechi Band of the Saponi Nation in Burlington, NC. She is a board member of the Haw River Assembly, the Women's Resource Center in Alamance County, and Benevolence Farm. Crystal was a Fall Cohort of the Sierra Club's Gender Equity and Environment Program and Women's Earth Alliance (WEA) Accelerator for Grassroots Women Environmental Leaders in 2020. Crystal completed her Doctorate in Organization Leadership at the University of Dayton in August 2022, and her dissertation...2023-06-051h 01Talking Waterwith Dr. Rajendra Singh, Kathy Bancroft, Paul Huette & Noah Williams.Walking Water, Three Creeks and the Owens Valley Paiute-Shoshone Cultural Center invites you to listen to this conversation with local and global Water Protectors.Together we welcome Dr. Rajendra Singh, the "Waterman of India," along with Kathy Bancroft (Tribal Historic Preservation Officer of the Lone Pine Paiute Shoshone Tribe), Paul Huette (Acting Chairman of the Owens Valley Indian Water Commission), Noah Williams (Water Program Coordinator of the Big Pine Paiute Tribe). We also welcome Zach Weiss (Water Stories), Ethan Hirsch-Tauber (Water Folk), and other protectors coming from the recent UN 2023 Water Conference in New York.This event...2023-04-211h 55
Talking Waterwith Tala KhanmalekWe welcome Tala Khanmalek to Talking Water. Tala Khanmalek (she/they) is a writer, activist, educator, and sailor-in-training. She is the creator of Sailing for Social Justice, which was a sponsored project of the Detroit-based Allied Media Projects. Her water work links sailing with social, environmental, and healing justice in both theory and practice.Sailing for Social Justice began with a dream that immediately led Tala to sailing. After learning how to sail for several years, Tala developed SSJ and led her first public workshop at the 2018 Allied Media Conference. SSJ is a grassroots project t...2023-04-101h 07
Talking Waterwith the Three Creeks CollectiveJoin us for a conversation with Teri Red Owl, Kyndall Noah, Paul Huette, Rosanna Marrujo and Ian Bell of the Owens Valley Indian Water Commission, Gigi Coyle, Teena Pugliese, Jen Schlaich and Cassandra Ferrera as we discuss an exciting water & land back moment in Payahuunadü and a watering hole known as Three Creeks. Three Creeks is on the traditional homelands of the Nüümü (Paiute) and Newe (Shoshone) people, and the place where the dream and vision for Walking Water first emerged. This intergenerational cross cultural moment has brought together the Three Creeks Collective. A group committed to th...2023-03-201h 55
Talking Waterwith members of Tamera CommunityW e welcome Rabea Herzog and Benjamin von Mendelssohn from the Tamera peace research center in Portugal. O ur focus is on the design of Water Retention Landscapes as developed and built by the Tamera community and its connection with the themes of love and sexuality. Hosted by: Kate BunneyProduced & Edited by: Teena Pugliese and Anne Carol MitchellIntro music by: Mamuse 'River Run Free' - featuring Walter StraussIf you feel inspired by Talking Water please consider a donation - our work relies o...2023-02-211h 43
Talking WaterWalking Water Team Renewal and ReviewWe welcome you to join the Walking Water team - Kate Bunney, Krystyna Jurzykowski, Justine Epstein, Rina Kedem and Guardians - Gigi Coyle and Orland Bishop - for our Renewal and Review. Our intention is to offer an end of year review of the work and events of Walking Water and a shared renewal space together with you. We believe in being transparent with how we have moved through the year, the decisions we have made, those elements that worked well and those that were challenges, things that didn't go so well and why. And we ask y...2023-02-151h 40
Talking WaterTalking Water with Brock DolmanW e welcome Brock DolmanBrock Dolman is a co-founder of the Sonoma County based Occidental Arts and Ecology Center, where he co-directs with Kate Lundquist the WATER Institute and the Bring Back the Beaver Campaign. He is a wildlife biologist who is nationally recognized as a restoration ecologist and renowned innovator in watershed management and Permaculture design. Brock integrates wildlife biology, native California botany and watershed ecology with education about regenerative human settlement design, ethno-ecology, and ecological literacy to illuminate what it is to live in partnership with a living, emergent Earth and engender...2023-02-131h 28
Talking Waterwith brontë velez & justine epsteinWe welcome brontë velez and justine epstein on the theme of water and eros. aboutOur friendship, scholarship and praxis has many and ever-evolving intersections as comrades and clowns hospicing dying systems and reckoning towards repair with ancestors and the earth in times of deep unrest. we enter these conversations and inquiries from different contexts, with different bodies and stories and find solidarity and mutual liberation in queerness, black feminist scholarship, practices of sabbath and land-based rites of passage, and a shared vision for reparations, ancestral healing, and a world where we’re all free. we’re gui...2022-12-061h 25Brooklands Radio Just Women InterviewsJust Women 1st November 2022Ivana O’Brien talks to Vicki Prince, Director of Jane Eyre showing at the Riverside Arts Centre 3rd to 5th November 2022, Samantha Carr talks to Kate Bunney of Wellbeing Living. She offers a variety of wellbeing solution Wellbeingliving.co.uk and Wellbeing Living on Instagram and Ivana O’Brien talks to Caroline Edwards, events director at The Really Helpful Club www.reallyhelpfulclub.com.2022-11-0200 min
Brooklands Radio Just Women Individual InterviewsSamantha Carr talks to Kate Bunney 1st November 2022Samantha Carr talks to Kate Bunney of Wellbeing Living. Leaving the corporate world behind her Kate decided to move abroad and expand her business just as covid hit. She offers a variety of wellbeing solutions & is developing a new mindful retreat space. Find her at Wellbeingliving.co.uk and Wellbeing Living on Instagram2022-11-0216 min
Talking Waterwith Betsy DamonW e welcome Betsy Damon to join us in conversation. Betsy Damon is an internationally acclaimed artist who has been called a practical visionary and a humanist. Her work has been widely reviewed, exhibited, and taught. She’s known for her performance works, like 7000 Year Old Woman (1976), and her large-scale ecological designs like The Living Water Garden (1998) in Chengdu, China. She has directed many collaborative public performance events, most notably in Chengdu and Lhasa. Currently, she is in communication with international exhibitions, museums, and activists in Ireland, Poland, Turkey, and China, and is exhibiting at Stony Brook Uni...2022-10-311h 16
Talking Waterwith Emmett BrennanJoin us in welcoming Emmett Brennan. Emmett is an artist and story teller who uses film as a way to orient humanity towards care, curiosity, and repair. Both poetic and practical, his work gives momentum to the cautiously hopeful dreams in our hearts and offers deep insight into the interdependent relationship we share with the whole of life. He is most well known for producing ‘Inhabit: A Permaculture Perspective’ and directing ‘Reflection: a walk with water,’ which premiered at Tribeca and won an Audience Favorite award at Mill Valley. 'Reflection: a walk with water’ was in part inspired by...2022-10-311h 20
Talking Waterwith Rina Kedem & Sami AwadJoin us in welcoming Rina Kedem (Israel) and Sami Awad (Palestine). Our conversation focuses on the effects of the long running conflict in Israel/Palestine on water issues. Also Rina and Sami share about their work together based on Sacred Activism. This episode was recorded on October 09th 2021Hosted by: Kate BunneyProduced & Edited by: Teena PuglieseIntro music by: Mamuse 'River Run Free' - featuring Walter StraussIf you feel inspired by Talking Water please consider a donation - our work relies on the community. You can donate here.2022-08-261h 24
Talking Waterwith Sofia Sadogurska and Mariia DiachukJoin us in welcoming Sofia Sadogurska and Mariia Diachuk of EcoAction, Ukraine. Our conversation focuses on both the beauty of Ukraine and also the impact the Russia/Ukraine war is having on communities, the earth and the waters. The effects of war on the environment are devastating for generations to come. This episode was recorded on June 22nd 2022Hosted by: Kate BunneyProduced & Edited by: Sam Gray EdmondsonIntro music by: Mamuse 'River Run Free' - featuring Walter StraussIf you feel inspired by Talking Water please consider a do...2022-07-2657 min
Talking Waterwith Barbara Vlamis and MamuseJoin us in welcoming Barbara Vlamis of AquAlliance and MaMuse. Our conversation focuses on the work of AquAlliance whose mission is to defend northern California waters and to challenge threats to the hydrologic health of the Northern Sacramento River watershed.We also receive some beautiful music from MaMuse including a song called 'River Under the River' written to support this important water work. This episode was first recorded in November 2021Hosted by: Kate BunneyProduced & Edited by: Teena PuglieseIntro music by: Mamuse 'River Run Free' - featuring Walter Strauss2022-07-081h 33
Talking Waterwith Marcela OliveraJoin us in welcoming Marcela OliveraOur conversation focuses on themes such as water privatization, the human rights of water and ways of community building around water. Also, Marcela shares about the water wars in Cochabamba, Bolivia, and how the peoples uprising reclaimed the water from the private water company, Bechtel. Marcela Olivera is a water commons organizer based in Cochabamba, Bolivia. Since 2004 she has been developing and consolidating an inter-American citizens’ network on water justice named Red VIDA. She sits on the coordinating committee of the Platform for Public and Community Partnerships of...2022-05-251h 23
Talking Waterwith Marsela Pecanac & Lejla KusturicaIn this important episode, Marsela Pecanac and Lejla Kusturica of ACT talk about the water situation in the Balkans and the work of ACT. ACT supports activists and artists in the Western Balkans by helping them rebuild their communities and by challenging systemic injustice through frontline partnerships and strategic campaigns. ACT’s nomination helped secure the 2021 Goldman Environmental Award for Europe for the Brave Women of Kruscica in Bosnia and Herzegovina in celebration of their epic river defense.This episode was first recorded in October 2021Hosted by: Kate BunneyProduced & Edited by: Tee...2022-05-091h 20
Talking Waterwith Gigi Coyle & Orland BishopIn this deeply moving conversation, Orland Bishop and Gigi Coyle explore the essence of water and what it represents to us as human beings. Gigi Coyle is the co-founder of Walking Water, and founder of Beyond Boundaries, an inter-generational pilgrimage of service and a response team for our times. She continues today as a rite of passage guide for organizations and individuals as well as a council trainer, community activist, and mentor. Gigi is now Guardian to Walking Water.Orland Bishop is a lineage holder in African Gnosis Traditions and works at the intersection of hu...2022-04-261h 24
Talking WaterTalking Water with Zachary WeissIn this episode we welcome Zachary Wise, Creator of Water StoriesZach is the protégé of revolutionary Austrian farmer Sepp Holzer. He is the first and only person to earn a Holzer Practitioner certification directly from Sepp - through a rigorous two-year apprenticeship. After learning from Sepp, he set out to create Elemental Ecosystems, a business that provides an action-oriented process to improve clients' relationship with their landscape.Elemental Ecosystems is an ecological development contracting and consulting company specializing in watershed restoration and ecosystem regeneration. Harvesting time and the productivity of natural systems is th...2022-04-241h 17
Talking Waterwith Kathy Bancroft and Alan BacockKathy Bancroft is the Tribal Historic Preservation officer and Elder of the Lone Pine Paiute-Shoshone tribe and Alan Bacock is the former water coordinator with the Big Pine Paiute Tribe. Both have been instrumental on the path of Walking Water. We will hear some of the water history of Payahuunadü (Owens Valley, Eastern Sierras, CA), what is happening currently in the valley's relationship with Los Angeles and about the vision that is held by the Paiute Shoshone, Nuumü/Newé peoples of Payahuunadü. This was recorded as a live zoom call in June 2021. Hosted by: Kate BunneyPro...2022-04-061h 16
Talking Waterwith Maude BarlowMaude Barlow is a Canadian author and activist. She is the chair of the Blue Planet Project and the Washington-based Food & Water Watch. She is a Councilor with the Hamburg-based World Future Council. In 2008/2009, she served as Senior Advisor on Water to the 63rd President of the United Nations General Assembly and was a leader in the campaign to have water recognized as a human right by the UN.In this episode of Talking Water we talk with Maude on themes such as water privatization, the human rights of water and the international defense of water. 2022-04-0657 min
Talking Waterwith Gigi Coyle and Rajendra SinghGigi Coyle and Rajendra Singh share story about the importance of love in activism, and the relationship between community and the healing of water. This was recorded as a live zoom call in February 2022. Hosted by: Kate BunneyProduced & Edited by: Teena PuglieseIntro music by: Mamuse 'River Run Free' - featuring Walter StraussIf you feel inspired by Talking Water please consider a donation - our work relies on the community. You can donate here.For more info go to Walking Water website 2022-03-271h 21Talking Waterwith the Walking Water collectiveIn this first inspiring episode, the Walking Water collective - Gigi Coyle, Orland Bishop, Krystyna Jurzykowski, Justine Epstein, Rina Kedem and Kate Bunney - share story about how Walking Water was born and how water has guided its way .... This was recorded as a live zoom call in December 2021 as part of the 'In Conversation with ...' series. Hosted by: Kate BunneyProduced & Edited by: Teena PuglieseIntro music by: Mamuse 'River Run Free' - featuring Walter StraussIf you feel inspired by Talking Water please consider a donation - our work...2022-03-212h 00Brooklands Radio Just Women InterviewsJust Women 7th September 2021Ivana O’Brien talks to Caroline Edwards, events director at The Really Helpful Club. A thriving digital and offline community for positive, like-minded people to support and connect with one another in their personal and business lives www.reallyhelpfulclub.com., Jackie Mitchell talks to Sophie Kirk director of The Holistic Healthcare Group which provides preventative mental health education for schools and businesses. She works with teachers and children providing mental health lessons, wellbeing classes and after school clubs. She developed the Melp App last year where students can access over 100 different tools and techniques. www.theholistichealthcaregroup.com, Samantha Carr talks to...2021-09-1000 minBrooklands Radio Just Women Individual InterviewsSamantha Carr talks to Kate Bunney JW 210907Samantha Carr talks to Kate Bunney of Wellbeing Living. Leaving the corporate world behind her Kate decided to move abroad and expand her business just as covid hit. She offers a variety of wellbeing solutions and is developing a new mindful retreat space. Find her at Wellbeingliving.co.uk and Wellbeing Living on Instagram.2021-09-1000 min