Your Call 081109 Can personal change save the planet?

Can personal change save the planet? On the next Your Call, we'll have a conversation with environmental activist Derrick Jensen. Many of us choose the alternative option of living more consciously to cause less harm to our planet and to challenge the existing corporate culture. But Jensen argues that personal change does not equal social change. What do you think? Send us an email at feedback@yourcallradio.org or join us live at 11 a.m. What are you doing for the environment? And what difference is it really making? It's Your Call, with Rose Aguilar and you.

Guest:
Derrick Jensen, author and environmental activist

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Your Call 062209 Are smaller banks an option?

On the next Your Call we discuss an agenda for a new economy: As the big banks implode, can community banks provide a real alternative? How have smaller banks and credit unions managed to survive the wave of consolidation in the banking industry? Have they managed to escape the current banking crisis? If you're thinking about moving your account to a smaller financial institution, what questions should you ask?

We'll be joined by Josh Silver of the National Community Reinvestment Coalition, Lynn Athens, CEO of Spectrum Federal Credit Union and Steve Andrews, president of the Bank of Alameda and former chairman of California Independent Banks.

Send us an email at feedback@yourcallradio.org or join us live at 11 am. What can community banks and credit unions offer during this financial crisis? It's Your Call with Rose Aguilar and you.

Join the conversation at 866-798-TALK, that's 866-798-8255. Or send us an email at feedback@yourcallradio.org.

Guests:
Lynn Athens in Studio
CEO of Spectrum Federal Credit Union.

Steve Andrews in Alameda
President of the Bank of Alameda, former president of California Independent Bankers, board member of Independent Community Bankers of America.

Josh Silver in Washington DC
Vice President of Research and Policy at the National Community Reinvestment Coalition.

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Your Call 052609 Is making something or fixing it yourself a radical act?

In a consumer culture, is making something or fixing it yourself a radical act? On the next Your Call we'll mark the arrival of Maker Faire 2009, a two-day showcase of Do-It-Yourself culture and technology. We'll speak with Dale Daugherty, editor and publisher of Make Magazine and Matthew Crawford, author of Shopwork as Soulcraft. Will making and fixing more of our own stuff, and honoring the people who do it, bring us a healthier economy, or is it just the latest face of consumerism? It's Your Call with Rose Aguilar and you.

Guests:
Dale Dougherty in San Francisco
Editor and publisher of MAKE magazine, and general manager of the Maker Media division of O'Reilly Media. He was the developer and publisher of Global Network Navigator (GNN), the first commercial Web site which launched in 1993. Dale developed the Hacks series of books for O'Reillly and was a lecturer in the School of Information Management and Systems (SIMS) at the University of California at Berkeley from 1996 to 2000.

Matthew B. Crawford in Richmond, Virginia
A philosopher/mechanic, fellow at the Institute for Advanced Studies in Culture at the University of Virginia and a contributing editor of The New Atlantis.

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Your Call 051809 Can local currencies transform our economy?

Can local currencies transform our economy from the bottom up? On the next Your Call, we'll have a discussion about the growing interest in currency production in communities around the country. Thousands of them were used during the Great Depression. How do local currencies work today? Send us an email at feedback@yourcallradio.org or join us live at 11 am. How do you start one where you live? It's Your Call, with Rose Aguilar and you.

Guests:
Susan Witt, Executive Director, E. F. Schumacher Society and Co-founder of BerkShares.

Paul Glover, founder of the Ithaca Hours program

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