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Talking Point - Davis Area League of Women Voters

Submitted by Lin Weaver on Thu, 05/21/2020 - 10:40am
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Lin Weaver interviews the Davis Area League of Women Voters Leadership: The President, Mary Jo Bryan, the Vice President, Bob Fung, and the Secretary/Treasurer, Georgina Valencia.

Topics include: Educational Events, Local Elections Information, and other activities of the League

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TALKING POINT - BC Tech Summit - Interview with Kelleen Wiseman

Submitted by Lin Weaver on Tue, 05/14/2019 - 3:45pm
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Lin Weaver interviews Dr. Kelleen Wiseman, Faculty of Land and Food Systems at  the University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada.  The interview took place during the BC Tech Forum. Kelleen was among the speakers at the BC Tech Forum, the British Columbia most important yearly conference to bring together state-of-the art scientific and technological innovation. 

Talking Point - Faustin Rusanganwa - My Exile to the World - Pt 1

Submitted by Lin Weaver on Wed, 11/04/2020 - 11:59am
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Lin Weaver interviews Faustin Rusanganwa, the author of the book ”My Exile to the World”. The book is about his escape from his native Rwanda as a teenager. Incredibly, Faustin traveled by bike across Burundi, Tanzania, Congo, Morocco, and Algeria. His travels then took to him across Europe, and the United States. He now lives in Davis where he keeps in his garage - the original bike he rode across Africa!

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Peak Moment - Share-It-Square - Creating Neighborhood Gathering Spaces

Submitted by Alexander Silva... on Tue, 03/09/2021 - 1:57pm
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Every year for the past two decades, the neighbors near Sherrett Street in southwest Portland repaint their colorful street intersection. Resident Mighk Simpson gives us a tour on painting day. On the sidewalk corners are spacious cob benches (with roofs), a children’s playhouse woven from tree branches and found materials, a beehive-shaped dispensary for the monthly neighborhood newsletter The Bee, a 24/7 Tea Station, and the first-ever “Little Free Library”, an innovation which has now gone viral around the world.

Peak Moment - The Resilient Gardener — Surviving and Thriving

Submitted by Alexander Silva... on Tue, 03/09/2021 - 2:00pm
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“We’ve had 50 years of unusually stable weather… What do we need to do now, to garden in times that are less predictable?” Plant breeder Carol Deppe, author of The Resilient Gardener: Food Production and Self-Reliance in Uncertain Times, suggests growing a wider variety of crops adapted to conditions where you are; crops needing minimum inputs; and varying gardening patterns with the year. “Short season crops are a premium,” she asserts. She discusses seed saving, and storing enough seeds so everyone in your neighborhood can be gardening if need be.

Peak Moment - For Humans, Bugs and Beauty — An Urban Food Forest Demonstration

Submitted by Alexander Silva... on Tue, 03/09/2021 - 1:58pm
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“This place is famous. People loving coming by here because at any time of year you can get something to eat.” Architect Mark Lakeman, co-founder of the City Repair project, gives a tour of the corner sidewalk outside his Portland office building, where a food forest is bursting with life. A diagram shows where over 80 plants are located in six or seven vertical layers. Tall fruit trees, flowers, a grape arbor, herbs, berries, small vegetables, and ground cover are abundant.