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The Radical Centrist Podcast explores a politics that steps outside of the realm of the poisonous partisanship that has infected our country in recent years and seek ways to place the American voice – and the American idea – above tribalism, partisan politics and blind allegiance to ideology, to challenge ourselves to ask question and seek answers that can bridge the divides between people, parties and ideologies.
In this episode Don Kreis shares a whimsical story about how net metering began as well as a brief primer on the technology and why it is so important now that consumers consider the advantages of adding solar to their homes and businesses in light of skyrocketing electric rates.
Adam Finkel’s concern over the ramifications of the Dobbs decision of the US Supreme Court regarding In Vitro Fertilization has started to consume his time because he is concerned that it may be the next target of the fundamentalist forces that have gained control of the Court.
My conversation with Dan Weeks was a refreshingly optimistic moment in these troubling times. He’s no Pollyanna about the challenges that we face but he definitely sees the magnificent and expansive view from the summit, even as he recognizes the mountains still to climb.
It wasn’t so hard in those days to explain the behavior of one party or the other because they were well within the range of rational behavior.
Jack Maresca and his mother found warm and welcoming arms among the counselors and campers at Camps Onaway and Mowglis on Newfound Lake in New Hampshire.; his mother as a counselor at Onaway and Jack as a young camper at Mowglis – School of the Open, where he recounts the memories of NH icons like Col. Alcott Farrar Elwell and the great Clyde (Micky) Smith who would go on to become an internationally-renown wildlife photographer as men who helped heal his heart and provide supportive role models.
50 Years ago, Dudley Dudley, with a small dedicated group of women, led the fight to stop the development of the largest Oil Refinery proposed for development in America from destroying the Seacoast of NH, Maine and Massachusetts. . . and they won.
Though he is modest and self-effacing “friend of the Pod” V. Michael Hutchings has forgotten more historical information than most so-called experts can remember.
A pilot project with big implications.
In a candid and soul searching conversation, this Podcast brings us a rare look at the “ground-level” experience of scientists who chose to take a risk that they could help bring about a better future for their son and the sons and daughters of all of us.