our FEATURED INTERVIEW is with Martha McCoy, executive director of Everyday Democracy. Everyday Democracy has become respected as a national organization that excels in helping local communities build their own capacity to organize largescale, diverse dialogue for problem solving. http://www.everyday-democracy.org If you were on board last week, you heard a bit about Martha McCoy in our interview with Frances Lappe. Martha's full bio: http://www.everyday-democracy.org/en/Employee.2323.aspx

J. David Gray will join us for another segment of our SYNERGY project. he will read his essay inspired by the image "still cool" - be sure to view the image at http://tinyurl.com/lvgvsr or http://www.jimlynchphotography.com (pull down the "new images" gallery). David's other writings can be found at http://word-smith.typepad.com/wordsmith

We will feature Canadian recording artists, the Cowboy Junkies. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cowboy_Junkies