Congratulations to our client Saving the Sierra and Producers Catherine Stifter & jesikah maria ross.   Saving the Sierra was included on Patricia Zimmermann’s  Ten Best International Multi-Platform Web 2.0 Projects of 2009

Creative PR promoted Saving the Sierra;  the special aired on over 300 stations and translators across the country.

SAVING THE SIERRA: Grassroots Solutions for Sustaining Rural Communities is a richly produced one-hour public radio special about how unlikely allies are coming together to preserve rural culture from rapid residential growth, sustain local economies as recreation developments boom, and protect clean water and open space for future generations. Produced by Two-time Peabody award-winning producer, Catherine Stifter, and award-winning community media maker, jesikah maria ross.

HEAT OF THE MOMENT: Inside Out; A One-Hour Climate Special from WBUR-Boston

Combined with Producer Daniel Grossman’s Climate Science Blog

The world will be watching Copenhagen between December 7 and 18. The Copenhagen Climate Conference is the most important meeting of climate negotiations since the Kyoto conference in 1997.

Daniel Grossman, Producer/Host of Heat of the Moment, will be sending multimedia posts on climate science from the Copenhagen Conference for his blog, as well as The World,  National Geographic’s Newswatch blog and the Yale Forum on Climate Change.  Along with diplomats, environmental activists and industry lobbyists; some of the world’s leading climate scientists will be at the Copenhagen conference. Daniel will meet them and produce postings about their research, their insights and their concerns. Daniel Grossman invites you to visit his postings to follow his reporting beginning on the first day of the Conference, on December 7.

LINK to Daniel’s Live Blog on your website:

VISIT Heat of The Moment Dispatches from Copenhagen

And PLAY Heat of The Moment on your station.

AVAILABLE: PRX & CONTENT DEPOT

COST: Free

LENGTH: 59 Min

Newscast Compatable

With our country mired in its worst economic collapse since the great depression, history can be a guide for what actions our nation should or shouldn’t take to provide for its citizens and whether or not it is time to re-set our priorities.

1993 The Creation of Hilary Clinton’s Taskforce on Healthcare - Is the patient stable, improving, or failing? What are the chances of survival for a nation divided on health reform?  As we enter into what will be the next big stretch of our nation’s effort to reform the health care system, Action Speaks looks back on Hilary Clinton’s 1993 Healthcare Taskforce. What can past failures tech us about the present stakes, struggles, and special interests in the health care arena?  AVAILABLE: October 19th (on PRX and Content Depot) & November 2nd (on CD)

1932 The Highlander Center Opens Its Doors – First door-to-door, now e-mail-to-email, will community organizing have the same power in a virtual community? How will we organize for change in the 21st Century? How has mobilizing the public changed in the world of Web 2.0 from the days of the Highlander Center’s multiracial labor and Civil Rights organizing? Does Internet based organizing mean less or more ‘Bowling Alone’? AVAILABLE: October 26th (on PRX and Content Depot) & November 9th (on CD)

1972 Nixon Visits People’s Republic of China – What began as a Ping Pong match is now a game of ‘Chicken’…the US and China; partners or enablers? In the past 30 years, China has transformed from agricultural superpower to manufacturing giant, from capitalist enemy to the biggest U.S. lender. To understand the impact of the relationship between the U.S. and China on the future of our economy and its foreign relations, Action Speaks is heading back in time to follow President Nixon on his historic visit to China. AVAILABLE: November 2nd (on PRX and Content Depot) & November 16th (on CD)

1951 The Birth of Levittown – Can the suburbs be fixed? What does sustainability look like in a land of 3 car garages, shopping malls, single use zoning and houses on steroids? Action Speaks takes a look at the birthplace of suburban utopia, Levittown. In just over 50 years, the American suburbs have physically transformed the landscape of our country and redefined the middle class. Will the suburbs be able to turn ‘green’? Can bastions of ‘white flight’ and individualism reflect our nation’s demographic diversity and the need for community? AVAILABLE: November 9th (on PRX and Content Depot) & November 23rd (on CD)

Among the official protests lodged by governments worldwide was FBI Director Robert Mueller III’s letter stating “… it makes a mockery of the grief of the families who lost their own on December 21, 1988.”

The Longest Night – A Personal History of Pan Am 103 is a deeply emotional audio book that begins with the author’s learning that her husband was killed in the terrorist bombing over Lockerbie and ends after a journey of twelve seemingly endless months.  Engelhardt’s husband, Tony Hawkins, was returning from a family visit when Pan Am 103 exploded, killing 270 people.  More than one woman’s journey, The Longest Night weaves conversations, recorded at the time of the crash, with family and friends of the victims as well as residents of Lockerbie, as they describe the impact on their lives and on those of the people they knew.

While the heart of this memoir is the story of Engelhardt and Hawkins, it is through her recounting how she connected with these other broken families as they created a political support group that we come to realize the extent of the damage done to those left behind, and see the beginnings of the more than 12 year legal battle that ended in 2001 with Al-Megrahi’s sentencing.

Since 1989, Engelhardt, a writer, poet, storyteller, and independent audio artist, has created work that explores the loss and grief felt by herself and others who suffered from the Lockerbie bombing.  In addition to The Longest Night, she has produced the public radio pieces “Yesterday and Forever… recollecting Lockerbie” and “Mothers and Sons,” both of which feature stories of women who lost loved ones on Flight 103.

The Longest Night, directed for Midsummer Sound Company by award-winning audio book producer Jeffrey Hedquist.

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