June 28, 2008

This week we 'wake up' to what we're putting into and onto our bodies. Hank Delvin of Delvin Farms will join us to discuss organic and local farming in the first hour at 8:00. The Delvins are one of many local farmers selling locally grown vegetables and products at area farmer's markets. Check out the Turnip Truck Market on Wednesdays in East Nashville from 4-7, the Franklin Market behind The Factory in Franklin on Saturday mornings and the downtown market at the Bicentennial Mall daily. Learn more at
http://delvinfarms.com

Washington-based author beauty consultant Jude Grimm will join us at 9:00 Central to talk about the impact of the lotions, detergents and shampoos we use on our bodies and our environment. Did you know 95% of all the suds used we use are petroleum based as in oil? Or that Europe has banned the use of over 1,000 chemicals while the US has banned 10? What's up with that? With thirty years in the beauty industry, Jude has authored "Get Real Beauty" and is the voice between the consumer and the beauty industry. Jude will walk us through how increasing our consciousness as to what we apply and put onto and into our body, can be part of the quantum shift in our personal lives as well as the Universe. Read more and see her videos at http://www.getrealbeauty.com

June 14, 2008 (Flag Day)

Local green entreprenuers and twenty-somethings, Laurel Staples and Moses Maxen join Dawn this week in the first hour of "Wake Up & Live" this Saturday at 8:00 CST. We'll find out what prompted Laurel to leave her job only a year out of Vanderbilt to open "Ecology," Nashville's first sustainable boutique that's 100% dedicated to oganic materials, fair labor and fashion-forward thinking. (See http://www.ecologyfashion.com/ for more and for info on next week's after hours event.)

Moses Maxen, of iDesign Inc and a green minded Nashville realtor, started Greener Nashville to promote our local green movement by offering an events calendar and a green organization/business directory. Go to http://www.greenernashville.org/ to view Moses great calendar of events as well as info on conservation, green businesses, green policy, merchandise. What is exciting is that both of these guests are young people who are concerned about the environment and creating a world that works better for everyone including Mother Earth herself.


For years, Dawn has had a copy of the Paradoxical Commandments. You may have seen them. They begin with, "People are illogical, unreasonable and self-centered. Love them anyway." The little sheet that Dawn has on file in her office says the author is unknown. She will actually talk to the author, Kent Keith, our guest for the 9:00 CST hour. Keith was a 19 year old student when he wrote them and has since been a university president and attorney and has appeared nationally on Today as well as in the NY Times thanks to several best selling books. We'll tak with Keith in particular about "Do It Anyway - Finding Personal Meaning and Deep Happiness by Living the Paradoxical Commandments." Learn more about Keith at
http://www.kentmkeith.com/author.html

That's "Wake Up & Live" Saturday mornings
8-10 Central time
at http://www.radiofreenashville.org/
or 98.9fm in West Nashville, Pegram and Bellevue
or Comcast Channel 10 at the SAP setting.

Last but not least, Radio Free Nashville's founding 'mother' Ginny Welch is happy to announce that her husband Mike Muldoon had a song make it to Neil Young's anti-war website. You can listen to the song at http://www.myspace.com/mikemuldoonmusic Click on the song on the right "The Sky Still Looks the Same." Thanks for listening and check out our archives via Dawn's site at http://www.imaginetheshift.com/ Listen to prior shows on the 'Radio page."

June 7, 2008

This Saturday is the Third Annual Sonnenschein (as in "Sun and shine") Festival in Hohenwald, Tennessee (about an hours drive down the Natchez Trace or down I-65 South via Columbia) We'll check in with exhibitors Howard Switzer and Katie Culver with Echoville ArchiTechs who specialize in buliding straw bale homes and permaculture designs. Check out the festival at http://www.sonnenschein-tenn.org/ and learn more about Howard and Katie at http://www.earthandstraw.com

Then we'll head West as in the West Coast to talk with Carol Edmonston, niece of Syd Hoff, one of the great humorists of the 20th century. Mr. Hoff was a prolific cartoonist and beloved children's author. We'll talk with Carol, a self-described modern day Nancy Drew, about who and what she discovered as she began to delve into her Uncle's drawings especially a mysterious painting on the wall of a restuarant she visited not so long ago. Through her search, Carol discovered aspects of her uncle paralleling her own journey prompting us all to wonder who are the folks really on our family trees. Carol will share her 5 easy steps for 'mining the gems' in one's own family tree. And don't forget to check out Carol's Uncle Syd at
www.SydHoff.org and Carol's work with Sacred Doodles at http://sacredDoodles.com

We'll also visit briefly with Nashville's Green Bag Lady as she prepares for her bag give away at Noon June 7th at Ecology Clothing Store in Grace's Plaza, Green Hills. Teresa began making bags out of clothe given to her and now she's made over 500 to give away. Help Teresa continue the clothe bag revolution. See
www.greenbaglady.blogspot.com