October 2006 Archives

Radio Show
1968 - Whole Earth Catalog
Recorded live at AS220 on October 25th 2006 1968 - Whole Earth Catalog Stewart Brand's watershed publication, the Sears catalog of alternative culture, promised to feed the material needs and the soul of off-the-grid America. It also foreshadowed both...
October 25, 2006 5:30 PM | Permalink
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1979 - Three Mile Island
Recorded live at AS220 on October 18th 2006 1979 - Three Mile Island When Pennsylvania's nuclear power plant melted down, who could have predicted that 27 years later the founder of Greenpeace would herald nuclear energy as our best...
October 18, 2006 5:30 PM | Permalink
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1933 - Roosevelt's Good Neighbor Policy
Recorded live at AS220 on October 11th 2006 1933 - Roosevelt's Good Neighbor Policy President Franklin D. Roosevelt's anti-interventionist shift in Central and South America aimed to ease authoritarian relations with a promise to substitute mutual respect and economic...
October 11, 2006 5:30 PM | Permalink
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1918 - The Flu Epidemic
Recorded live at AS220 on October 4th 2006 1918 - The Flu Epidemic Twenty-five million people died of the Spanish flu, but few recall the details of the pandemic today. With the advent of avian flu come new fears...
October 4, 2006 5:30 PM | Permalink