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 )  

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) […]

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 […]

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, […]

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 […]

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 […]

  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, […]

We return to a Tidings interview recorded in 2017 with musician, composer and humanitarian activist Malek Jandali, speaking from New York about the important role music plays in peace while his homeland Syria was in the most profound grip of a decades-long brutal regime. We hear Malek Jandali again seven years later, in brief comments […]

In the first days of the pandemic, farmer and writer Adam Wilson was offered $500k of inherited family money by a local community member to disentangle 113 acres of upstate New York grassland from the real estate market. This would be the first and last time the farm or anything grown on the farm would […]

Shane Burley, Oregon-based journalist, author and filmmaker, talks about Anti-Zionist Workers Are Being Purged From Jewish Institutions Across the US, his months-long investigation based on interviews with antiZionist Jewish professionals who, since October 7, have been purged and defunded by Jewish educational organizations across America for being even slightly critical of Israel’s genocide or supportive […]