Pastor McMullen chats with KGNU’s Kenny Skinner about their holiday programs to feed the needy. He says that life is tough. Sometimes in spite of our best efforts we are still overwhelmed. At such times we need someone to reflect our Savior in the trenches of our inner battles and interpersonal struggles. The mission of The Potter’s House Counseling Center is to walk with you every step of the way as you seek spiritual and emotional wholeness.

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They educate and mentor underrepresented youth with science and 21st century skills using video and new media technology to connect them to community resources. Students at Earth Explorers learn video technology, interviewing, and storytelling, working with scientists at NCAR, NOAA, and other institutions. Operations Manager Stewart Walker chats with host Maeve Conran.

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They are a nonprofit organization of bicycle enthusiasts whose mission is to educate and advocate for the safe use of bicycles as an affordable, viable, and sustainable means of transportation and personal enjoyment within our community. Community Cycles offers recycled bikes and teaches bicycle repair, maintenance, and operation. This year is their 6th annual Kid’s Holiday Bike Giveaway. Host Wes Maynard interviews Sue Prant about this year’s event.

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PlatteForum is an organization where creation, collaboration and connection live. We know that learning through the arts unleashes creativity—creativity vital to the success of individuals, our community and, ultimately, our world. Carefully nurtured collaboration expands possibilities, and, through the process of connecting people, organizations and opportunities, the experience comes full circle. PlatteForum provides an answer to the critical need of learning through the arts for Denver’s youth, particularly for those who have the fewest opportunities. Engaged in creating, kids learn to understand they can contribute to the world—that they are valuable. They collaborate, explore solutions and communicate ideas. The more art students receive, the more excited they are about other subjects and about life. Host Kenneth Flowe gets the details from Executive Director, Trish Thibodo.

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Permits are available in Roosevelt National Forest to harvest lodge pole pines to use as Christmas trees. It helps the forest health. Jacqueline Crosthwait runs through the safely tips with host Kristen Daly. The Forest Service has all the tips listed and permit info.

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“We, the citizens of Boulder County, in order to create a more perfect food system, establish justice, ensure domestic tranquility, provide for the common need, promote the general welfare, and secure the blessings of a food system free from the influences of corporate power, and ensure public land free from genetic and chemical contamination and destructive practices, for ourselves and our future, have established ‘The Citizen’s Cropland Policy’ as the guiding principles for the management of our County Open Space Agricultural Lands.”

That is the new cropland policy that citizens of GMKnow want to define Boulder County’s Open Space management. There was not enough public input about the allowance of genetically modified seeds on public lands, according to  Mary Shaffer Smith and Scott Smith who want to change that. They describe the formation and motivation of the GMKnow activists group to host Nikki Kayser.

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A 17-voice women’s’ a cappella ensemble, Sound Circle performs its annual Solstice Concert, Requiem for Roadkill this year. Members of Sound Circle bring their rich life experience to the ensemble: mothers, daughters, grandmothers, writers, artists, activists, educators, therapists (psychotherapy, massage therapy, occupational therapy, speech therapy, physical therapy, and music therapy), voice coaches, social worker, senior wellness coordinator, vision quest guide, hospice nurse, shamanic practitioner, sign language interpreter, editor, computer programmer, actress, orchestral percussionist, clown, and television producer. Host Nikki Kayser chats with director Sue Coffee about the many-0layered metaphors of Roadkill and our connection to the importance of nature during the winter solstice.

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Fracking is a type of gas drilling that injects millions of gallons of hydraulic fluids – a mixture of chemicals, water and sand – into a well to create pressure that cracks open rock underground, releasing natural gas. This process can deplete and contaminate local water, damage the environment and threaten public health. The toxic results of hydraulic fracturing, or natural gas fracking have been documented by Land And Water Watch, including the contamination of drinking water, cattle quarantines, sheep deaths, and dangerous explosions in states across the country. This drilling practice is beginning in Longmont, so concerned citizens have formed the group Don’t Frack Longmont.

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At Horizons Middle School in Boulder  science students  took on the topic of climate change and produced skits to demonstrate what they learned. We begin the series of broadcasts with an open discussion about what three of the students learned so far. We will continue with more discussions, skits and a song.

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They are the hub for services needed by child abuse victims and their families. Denver Children’s Advocacy Center has representatives from many disciplines who work together in the best interests of the children to provide an immediate response and ongoing support for recovery from the trauma of abuse or violence. Host Kenny Skinner learns more from Dr. Jerry.

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