Tidings podcast Archives - Hazel Kahan

Tara Lohan, author: “Undammed: Freeing Rivers and Bringing Communities to Life”

hazelkahan — Sun, 01 Mar 2026 00:51:03 +0000

Author, editor and environmental journalist Tara Lohan talks to Hazel Kahan on Tidings from Bend, Oregon about her new book Undammed: Freeing Rivers and Bringing Communities to Lifein which she describes the building of dams and the growing movement to remove them. (WPKN, March 2. 2026 (WPKN, March 2, 2026)

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Robert Massoud: why Palestine continues worldwide as a conflict without resolution

hazelkahan — Fri, 02 Jan 2026 22:22:30 +0000

Born in Jerusalem, Robert Massoud, is a Palestinian-Canadian activist, entrepreneur, who came to Canada as a child. In 2004, he founded Zatoun, a grassroots organization to support Palestinian farmers in the West Bank by promoting and selling their olive oil in North America for fair trade prices. Speaking to us from Toronto, Robert explains […]

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Chuck Collins: Burned by Billionaires

hazelkahan — Mon, 01 Dec 2025 01:26:27 +0000

Chuck Collins, author, researcher, storyteller and campaigner based at the Institute for Policy Studies, talks about his new book Burned by Billionaires: how concentrated wealth and power are ruining our lives and planet. Chuck also shows us how we can reduce the impact of this wealth concentration on our lives.(WPKN December 1, 2025)

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John Christian Phifer: Natural Burial and Conservation

hazel — Tue, 09 Sep 2025 23:40:52 +0000

John Christian Phifer is executive director of Larkspur Conservation and president of the Conservation Burial Alliance. Speaking to us from Tennessee, he describes how, after 15 years in the funeral industry, he transformed his focus to natural burial practices and the protection and stewardship of land through conservation burial. (WPKN, September 10, 2025 )

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Jeff Halper analyzes why Israel gets away with it

hazelkahan — Mon, 18 Aug 2025 17:19:56 +0000

Jeff Halper, Jewish Israeli author, activist, advocate, and Nobel Peace Prize nominee, speaks to us from Jerusalem where he has lived since 1973. Jeff is co-founder and Director of ICAHD, established in 1997, a nonprofit advocacy organization of Israelis who work to end Israeli apartheid and a member of the One Democratic State Campaign (ODSC) […]

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Nick Duffell: how British boarding schools shape children, leaders and the country itself

hazel — Tue, 10 Jun 2025 15:28:59 +0000

Nick Duffell, noted psychotherapist and author calls us from London to speak about the psychological impact of elite British boarding schools on not only the young mostly boy boarders, but on adult ex-boarders, their families and, as ”wounded leaders” on the nation itself. (WPKN July 10, 2024 and WPKN podcast) More about Nick and boarding […]

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Dr. Urvi Khaitan: Lessons for climate collapse from WWII-era Indian women

hazel — Tue, 13 May 2025 15:09:27 +0000

Dr. Urvi Khaitan, historian and Prize Fellow at Harvard University’s Center for History and Economy, tells us how learning about Indian women and food policies and practices during India’s severe World War II food insecurity, can equip us to better survive threats to the world’s food systems from climate collapse and global human migration. (WPKN, […]

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Maggie Keating at 18: reflections on this threshold moment

hazel — Mon, 07 Apr 2025 20:22:03 +0000

This month Hazel Kahan’s guest on Tidings is her 18-year-old granddaughter Maggie Keating who lives in Long Beach, on Long Island. NY. Maggie and her friend Issy spoke to Tidings five years ago when they were 8th graders in the middle of Covid-era lockdown, a significant marker for their generation. However, today, Maggie reflects on […]

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Brewster Kahle: The Internet in Transition

hazelkahan — Tue, 11 Mar 2025 21:05:36 +0000

Brewster Kahle, founder of the Internet Archive and the Wayback Machine, is this month’s guest on Tidings. Not only was he present at what he calls “the trailing edge of the hippies” of the Internet’s birth, but his participation continues deep within the ethos shaping the Creative Commons, Public Domain, open source technology and Wikipedia […]

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Ecotherapist and author Jeanne Malmgren asks: can we still love Nature?

hazel — Tue, 11 Feb 2025 19:30:41 +0000

Nature-based psychotherapist and author Jeanne Malmgren whose Rx Nature Substack encompasses the idea of Nature as her “co-therapist”, speaks to us from storm-ravaged Sunset, South Carolina in the immediate aftermath of the December wildfires in California as she explores several complex and evolving answers to her question: “Can we still love Nature?” (WPKN, February 12, […]

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