Many of the discussions occurring today deal with everything that is amiss in our local, national, and global lives.
A sustainable life that not only benefits one being but all beings on the planet; a life that can begin to bring balance back to our Mother Earth.

It begins with you and it can begin today.

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We all know the conventional wisdom of how products are made and how they are used, then disposed of.  When we saw this video that filled in the gaps, we had to share.  We wanted to share this one because we feel that it represents the current state of affairs we are in and what we are doing to ourselves.  My question is, will we wake up too late.  This is THE crisis of the 21^st Century.  What will it take for us to act?  I fear the answer, and hope you see the urgency like we do.

When I found this on YouTube it was recommended by the editors there, not a bad choice if you ask me.  It had the following description: “From its extraction through sale, use and disposal, all the stuff in our lives affects communities at home and abroad, yet most of this is hidden from view. The Story of Stuff is a 20-minute, fast-paced, fact-filled look at the underside of our production and consumption patterns. The Story of Stuff exposes the connections between a huge number of environmental and social issues, and calls us together to create a more sustainable and just world. It’ll teach you something, it’ll make you laugh, and it just may change the way you look at all the stuff in your life forever.”

Check out their website (http://StoryOfStuff.org). Time for us to re-think what we do, and make the world a better place as a result of use, not destroy the one thing we will always need to continue as a species, the Earth.

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This is the current plan for this season shows.  We are currently working on the who, where, & the when parts of these.  If you see your listed as a guest, we will be contacting you for your details and or to arrange the time & place for the recording.

If you don’t see what you would like to see here, or have a suggestion for a show, share it with us by either filling out a Guest Request, or you can Contact Us, or even just comment on this page below.

1. Volume II Issue 1 – Introduction Show – This one is where we set the whole show up and start the ball rolling with how the shows will go and be.  So, check this one out if you wanna know what this podcast is all about now it is not about just politics.
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2. Volume II Issue 2 – Modern News Media - This one is to highlight some of the issues in today’s mass media markets, and what some small pod-casters are doing about it.
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   3. Marley
3. Volume II Issue 3 – Modern Sex in the City – This one is about relationships and the exploits of some of our guests.
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   3. Anonymous Girl #1
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   5. Anonymous Boy #1
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4. Volume II Issue 4 – Saint Louis Art & Recycling – This one is about all the awesome things that make up the art scene here in Saint Louis..
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5. Volume II Issue 5 – Technology Trends – This one focuses on problems with the internet and or emerging technologies and how they might be put to better use.
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6. Volume II Issue 6 – Religion vs. Spiritualism – This one is focuses on issues that we see with religion in general and it’s alternatives.
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   4. Daniel
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7. Volume II Issue 7 – Environmental Issues – This one focuses on the abuses and tragedies that we as Americans are responsible for and what we could do to redeem ourselves.
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8. Volume II Issue 8 – Immigration – A discussion of the current views on immigrants and immigration and the good things that can come from it.
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9. Volume II Issue 9 - Legalization vs. Prohibition – This one is about the issues that exist and what we think should happen.
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10. Volume II Issue 10 – TBA – TBA.
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11. Volume II Issue 11 – TBA – TBA.
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12. Volume II Issue 12 – TBA – TBA.
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The Design of Life with Richard Dawkins

The session was titled “The Design of Life,” and the TED audience was probably expecting remarks about evolution’s role in our history from biologist Richard Dawkins. Instead, he launched into a full-on appeal for atheists to make public their beliefs and to aggressively fight the incursion of religion into politics and education (quoting Douglas Adams in the bargain). Scientists and intellectuals hold very different beliefs about God from the American public, he says, yet they are cowed by the overall political environment. Dawkins’ scornful tone drew strongly mixed reactions from the audience; some stood and applauded his courage. Others wondered whether his strident approach could do more harm than good. Dawkins went on to publish The God Delusion and become perhaps the world’s best-known atheist.

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This argument that human-caused carbon emissions are merely a drop in the bucket compared to greenhouse gases generated by volcanoes has been making its way around the rumor mill for years. And while it may sound plausible, the science just doesn’t back it up.

Read more: Valcanoes Release Carbon Dioxide – The Daily Green

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“Equipment installed in the huge C-130 transport aircraft used by the military for laying carpets of landmines across combat zones has been adapted to deposit the trees in remote areas including parts of Scotland.

An idea, originally from a former RAF pilot, Jack Walters, of Bridgnorth, Shropshire, has been developed by the US manufacturer Lockheed Martin Aerospace so that 900,000 young trees can be planted in a day.” – The Gardian To learn more click here.

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Here is a list of potential topics that we feel are fruitful and relevant to today’s society and each could stand on their own as a show topic  Please use these topics as a guild to choose from when filling out the form below.

• Censorship & Free Speech
• Abortion
• Addiction
• Advertising
• Animal Right
• Apathy
• Art & Saint Louis
• Artificial Intelligence
• Big Business
• Black Markets
• Catastrophe & Change
• CBT & REBT
• Children & Technology
• Class-ism
• Community
• Consumerism
• Cradle to Cradle
• Credit & Debt
• Design vs Utilitarianism
• Divorce
• Economics
• Education vs. Indoctrination
• Efficiency vs. Equity
• Enlightening
• Environmental Issues
• Ethics & Morality
• Euthanasia & Aging
• Evolutionary Psychology
• Extremism & Nationalism
• Food
• Free Trade
• Freedom of Information
• Genetics
• Globalism
• Governmental Roles
• Graphic Design
• Housing
• Human Enrichment
• Human Rights
• Human Trafficking
• Immigration
• Inspiration
• Intellectual Copyrights
• Internet Privacy
• Legalization vs. Prohibition
• Life & Loss
• Mainstream vs. Underground
• Marriage vs. Partnership
• Media & Politics
• Modern Culture Violence
• Modern Day Ritual
• Modern Gender Roles
• Modern Mythology
• Modern New Media
• Modern Publishing
• Money
• Movies & Theater
• Nano-technology
• Narcissism
• Nuclear Weapons
• Obesity
• Opinions vs. Facts
• Parenting
• Permaculture
• Pollution & Big Business
• Pornography
• Privacy
• Psycho-Pharmaceuticals
• Psychology of Design
• Racism
• Real Grass Roots Change
• Recycling
• Relationships & Marriage
• Relationships
• Relationships
• Religion & Government
• Religion vs. Spirituality
• Restorative Justice
• Sex & Media
• Sexism
• Slow Living
• Social Justice
• Social Media
• Social Obligation
• Social Responsibility
• Social Taboos
• Space Exploration
• Sports
• Stereotyping & Profiling
• Technology
• The Tipping Point
• True Altruism
• Truth
• Universal Health-care
• Urban Ecology
• Virtues of Selfishness
• VR vs. RW
• War
• What is a good life?

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The United States is unusual among the industrial democracies in the rigidity of the system of ideological control – ”indoctrination,” we might say – exercised through the mass media. ~ Noam Chomsky

The Free Person’s Roundtable is a virtual community forum and podcast available on iTunes that aims to affect real-world change through dialogue and discussion.  The FPR podcast is a platform for public opinion that features free-thinking and progressive-minded people defining and commenting on the issues that they see as relevant in their lives and their very own visions for a better future. The topics discussed will include anything that has impact on our daily lives from education, religion, environment, technology, to health care, media, society, or art — the basic “A to Z’s” of life. We will also throw in some entertainment and fun because in the end we need to laugh along the way.

By discussing issues close to our hearts and daily lives, we hope to uncover the real sources that are negatively impacting our lives and discover alternatives.  When we try to come to solutions through unfiltered and uncensored dialogues, we open the door for new ideas.  By featuring the free persons of our podcast thinking freely for themselves, we hope to get people engaged, first in dialogue, and ultimately in actively improving their communities.

Media for the Rest of Us – Joining the New Paradigm

The media is too concentrated, too few people own too much. There’s really five companies that control 90 percent of what we read, see and hear. It’s not healthy. ~ Ted Turner

Recently, major media news has become increasingly political, corporate, destructive, and divisive.  Too often, big media censors our radical ideas labeling them as too outrageous for the mainstream.  Yet, some of those very same radical ideas, the truly original and innovative ones, can vastly change and help heal society.  In the current media system, we are reduced to being taxpayers, voters, viewers, workers, or just commodities. Rarely are we ever considered to be an intelligent, independent, and free thinking people with solutions.

FPR believes, we are all very able individuals capable of examining problems in our communities and acting independently to solve those issues at a grass roots level.  The FPR podcast is designed to create that forum for: we, the creative, self-aware, and independent people to partake in constructive, informative, and enlightening discourse.

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We promise to always work completely independent of any mainstream major media market, without the help of any politicians, or be controlled by any big corporate investments. Come and join the new paradigm of democratized media. ~ The FPR Hosts

Dru: Describes himself as an Anarcho-Syndicalist with Georgistic tendencies. Dru is a resident of the Midwest by way of an upbringing on the East coast. He was taught at a young age that having a stand is better than having your opinion made for you, and that it is your responsibility to hold the powers that be to the light.

TBA: Looking for a new host… if you are interested, contact Dru.

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