On Monday, March 18 @ 9:00 AM, I started a new series 

Changing Climate - Changing World

This series looks at how our changing climate

is changing the world we live in, locally and globally.

I was inspired to produce this series by The Climate Reality Project,

founded and chaired by former Vice President and Nobel Laureate Al Gore, 

http://climaterealityproject.org/

In August 2012, I was trained by Al Gore and The Climate Reality Project

to educate about climate change and became one of the 

more than 4000 volunteer climate leaders.

This series is part of my contribution to education about climate change. 

Part 1 of Changing Climate - Changing World is called

Learning from Those Who Came Before Us.

It takes a look at what we can learn from peoples who not only lived
in harmony with nature for 1000s of years right here, in Northern California,

but who learned to shape their environment to thrive sustainably.

Recent research and books like 'Tending the Wild' by Kat Anderson

are dispelling the hunter-gatherer stereotype long perpetuated 

in anthropological and historical literature. 

We are now coming to see California's indigenous people 

as active agents of environmental change and stewardship.

Their traditional ecological knowledge is essential if we are 

to successfully meet the challenge of living sustainably.

I talk with Sherrie Smith-Ferri (Dry Creek Pomo/Bodega Miwok),

Executive Director at the Grace Hudson Museum in Ukiah, California.

Sherrie is also the author of Pomo Indian Basketry and was a project advisor 

on the California's "Lost" Tribes Film Series.

I also talk with nature writer Kate Marianchild.

She is writing Secrets of the Oak Woodlands,

a book full of little-known information about the plants and animals 

that live among California's oaks. Oak habitats collectively support 

more diversity of life than any other terrestrial ecosystems in California. 

The Grace Hudson Museum and Sun House in Ukiah

is an art, history and anthropology museum featuring Western American art, 

California Indian cultures, histories of California's diverse North Coast region, 

and the work of contemporary regional artists.

The Museum's collections includes significant holdings of Pomo Indian 

artifacts, ethnographic field notes and historic photographs.

The Museum's current exhibit "Natinixwe: The Hupa People" 

combines historic black and white photos of the Hoopa Valley 

Indian Reservation community along with displays of ceremonial regalia.

and runs until May 12, 2013.

Look for more Changing Climate - Changing World programs in the archives.

More info about my guests and the program topic:

Sherrie Smith-Ferri and the Grace Hudson Museum:

http://www.gracehudsonmuseum.org/

Tending the Wild and Kat Anderson:

http://www.ucpress.edu/book.php?isbn=9780520248519

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