INTERVIEW with Paul Relis and Pico Iyer on KCRW Friday Oct
16 2015
http://www.kcrw.com/
The KCRW interview will air tomorrow Fri Oct 16 at 6:30am and
8:30am, and in the afternoon at 4:50pm and 6:50pm on 88.7 FM.
Two creative minds honor the Community Environmental Council's 45th
Anniversary with a conversational journey exploring the past & the
future of the environmental movement, including a discussion of Paul
Relis' recently published book, Out of the Wasteland - Stories from the
Environmental Frontier.
Paul Relis is the founding executive director of the Community
Environmental Council, who at the young age of twenty three, following
the disastrous oil spill in the Santa Barbara Channel in 1969, helped
launch an organization whose impact is still being felt locally &
globally today. Pico Iyer, global traveler & sometime
Santa Barbara resident, is an internationally acclaimed author &
journalist with more than ten best selling books, whose global citizen
perspective helps us understand the world we live in.
MORE INFO:
Paul Relis Bio:
Paul became the founding executive director of the Community
Environmental Council (CEC) after the disastrous oil spill in the Santa
Barbara Channel in 1969. Paul then became an executive with the state
EPA, and lectured for nearly two decades on Environmental Studies at his
alma mater, UCSB.
Paul feels his current work with CR&R Inc, a company developing a 30
million dollar Anaerobic Digester at a facility in Perris, CA, (due to
open in three months) with a carbon free, ultra low emissions biofuels
created from organic waste, is the exciting culmination of all his
work---fulfilling a dream of making our community and state less reliant
on oil for energy.
CR&R
http://www.crrwasteservices.com/about/about_main.htm
Bio: Pico Iyer
Pico Iyer is a celebrated author, journalist, and regular TED Talk
lecturer (with multi million-views). Born in England to parents from
India and educated at Eton, Oxford, and Harvard, Iyer writes frequently
on globalism for Harper’s, on culture & politics for The New York
Times, on literature for The New York Review of Books, and on many topics
for a wide range of magazines including TIME Magazine, National
Geographic, and Tricycle:The Buddhist Review. His numerous books include,
Video Night in Kathmandu, Cuba and the Night, The Global Soul, and his
most recent book, The Man Within My Head.
Having travelled almost everywherefrom Easter Island to Ethiopia to
North Korea to Bolivia Iyer's lectures captivate audiences with stories
about community and culture, and the ways in which technology and
movement impact our sense of belonging.
http://www.prhspeakers.com/speaker/pico-iyer
http://www.kcrw.com/
(805) 962-2571
P.O. Box 92156, Santa Barbara, CA 93190
margie@sbpermaculture.org
http://www.sbpermaculture.org
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