Creative PR

Neil Harvey has been an independent radio producer for 20 years.

He is Senior Producer and Host of the award winning radio series Bioneers: Revolution From the Heart of Nature which is heard in over 300 communities in the U.S., Canada and abroad. He was editor for the California Indian Radio Project and is now the audio archivist for the California Indian Storytelling Association. He Co-produced the CISA radio special When the Ancestors Whisper . . . Stories From Native California. As Senior Producer for New Dimensions Radio he produced several award winning special series including The Synthesis Dialogues with His Holiness the Dalai Lama, The Monticello Dialogues which feature anticipatory design architect William McDonough, and the 13-hour Deep Ecology For The 21st Century.

Early in his career he produced a number of radio features for NPR’s Morning Edition, was Associate Producer for the nationally distributed series Music From the Hearts of Space, and served as Host and Producer for The Love of Wisdom with Alan Watts. As a sound engineer he has worked in Sweden, Austria, India, Nepal, Mexico and Israel. He works from his home at the feet of the Trinity Alps in a small mountain community in far Northern California. A self described celebrant, his passions include gardening, wine making, painting, poetics and petanques.

The California Center for Cooperative Development presents Cooperative Solutions: Stories of Rural Economic Development – two newsbriefs, each under 5 minutes telling how cooperative businesses address critical needs in rural communities, and how listeners can start their own co-op to do the same.

Each of these audio newsbriefs are suitable as news features or PSA’s, and available for download as high-quality MP3s or on CD by request.

Knights Landing Children’s Center

A preschool cooperative that provides high-quality, affordable child care to its parent members.

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Northern California Meat Goat Association

A group of small-scale meat goat ranchers who form a cooperative in order to compete with large foreign importers and to provide a domestic source for consumers.

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Both segments are educational and demonstrate how the cooperative business form is a viable and innovative vehicle for economic development.

Both stories also refer to a companion website that functions as a tutorial for developing a cooperative business, complete with technical documents, contacts, and other resources.

Contact:

Radio stations interested in airing the segments are encouraged to download them from the links above in this email. For more information, contact the California Center for Cooperative Development at (530) 297-1032 or write us at info@cccd.coop. To learn more about cooperative development services offered by CCCD, visit our website at www.cccd.coop.

About CCCD:

The California Center for Cooperative Development (CCCD) is a 501(c)3 nonprofit organization that promotes and supports the myriad of cooperatives in California (housing, childcare, agricultural, arts and crafts, agriculture and energy) with start-up, management, and other technical assistance.

Two Grains of Sand

Funded by Listener Support

The crunch is on. Nature and humanity are both running off the rails and governments stand seemingly helpless before the juggernaut. But all is not lost. Into the breach are stepping new players, inventing strategies to transform the way we do things on many levels at once. And they’re forging surprising alliances in the process. In this program we’ll hear about two initiatives that seek to move the needle on issues of increasing urgency, one by influencing governmental policies on climate change, the other by changing corporate practices in the global tea industry.  LISTEN

Guests:

• Bill McKibben, founder, 350.org; environmental journalist; author, Deep Economy

• Tensie Whelan, President, Rainforest Alliance

• Michiel Leijnse, Global Brand Manager, Lipton Tea (division of Unilever)

A World of Possibilities is an award-winning one-hour weekly public affairs program. Each week, host Mark Sommer talks with social innovators, leading policy analysts and big-picture thinkers on key national and global issues. The program currently airs in 41 states and six Canadian provinces as well as several other countries. Podcasts and other downloads average 125,000 a month.

In 2006, the United Nations awarded A World of Possibilities a Silver Medal “for outstanding achievement in international radio programming that best reflects the global concerns of the United Nations.” The program has also won six awards from the New York Festivals.

A World of Possibilities segments are underwritten variously by many of the country’s largest foundations-Ford, Kellogg, Hewlett, Packard, Rockefeller Brothers Fund, Merck Family Fund-as well as by listener contributions.

LENGTH: 55 minutes
COST: FREE
AVAILABLE: on CD, MP3, The Content Depot, via Podcast, as well as selected episodes available on MP2 at PRX

We Shall Remain–the five-part television special from PBS’s American Experience, exploring the Native American perspective on pivotal moments in U.S. history from the Native American perspective will begin Monday April 13th.

Corresponding 5 minute We Shall Remain radio programs produced by Native Public Media and the NFCB in partnership with Boston’s station WGBH will air Mondays on NPR’s All Things Considered, and/or Morning Edition. They will then be available to all stations on the Wednesday following the broadcast through Content Depot, PRX, NV1, and FTP.

In addition, a one-hour special comprised of the short features and additional material will be available in mid-May.

Availability Schedule:
Episode 1 – Nipmuc Language Preservation
AVAILABLE NOW on PRX & Content Depot.
Episode 2 – Sovereignty and Technology
(PBS We Shall Remain episode: Tecumseh’s Vision)
Content Depot, PRX, NV1 release: Available April 22
Episode 3 – Chickasaw Nation
(PBS We Shall Remain episode: Trail of Tears)
Content Depot, PRX, NV1 release: Available April 29
Episode 4 – Icons
(PBS We Shall Remain episode: Geronimo)
Content Depot, PRX, NV1 release: Available May 6
Episode 5 – Identity
(PBS We Shall Remain episode: Wounded Knee)
Content Depot, PRX, NV1 release: Available May 13

May 13: One-hour documentary release on Content Depot, PRX, NV1, CD and FTP

CDs of all the programs available in mid-May.

Introducing Season 1 of a new one hour music show

WBGO presents Living With Music, a show about music, discovery, and music discovery.
Living With Music is inspired by free exchange, improvisation, and the creative process.

Living With Music is based on the idea that music presents a broad and complex set of emotions. So why not spend time with a community of creators speaking a spontaneous and timeless language in an age of instant access and communication?

The programs will feature Academy Award winners, Grammy winners, Pulitzer Prize winners and the new wave of composers making their mark on the cultural landscape: young people with old souls and veterans who are young at heart. All of them come from the loose confederation we call “the music community,” and your listeners will have more in common with them than they ever imagined.

AVAILABLE NOW! Add Living With Music to your station!

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LENGTH: 54 Minutes
COST: FREE
AVAILABLE: PRX & Content Depot