Episodes – Page 17

White House Chronicle 7022: Cities with Heart

June 15, 2015 by

Thomas Paine, renowned landscape architect and principal of AGER, discusses his book Cities with Heart.

White House Chronicle 7020: Utilities in the Solar Age

May 27, 2015 by

Air Date: May 15, 2015
Guests: David Owens, Edison Electric Institute; Bill Loveless, journalist
Topic: Utilities in the Solar Age

White House Chronicle 7019: Jimmy Doolittle and the Raid that Avenged Pearl Harbor

May 18, 2015 by

May 5th 2015: Author James M. Scott on Jimmy Doolittle and the Raid that Avenged Pearl Harbor

White House Chronicle 7014: Naomi Thompson on Diversity in the American University

May 5, 2015 by

April 5th, 2015: Naomi Thompson, Associate Vice President for the Office of Community, Equity and Diversity, University of Rhode Island

White House Chronicle 7013: A Third Way on Immigration

April 16, 2015 by

March 29th, 2015 Llewellyn King interviews Mark Jason, Director of the Immigrant Tax Inquiry Group, about the logistics of the group’s proposed immigrant tax plan.

Llewellyn and Linda on Washington DC, Labor, and ISIS

March 25, 2015 by

March 20th, 2015: Co-hosts Llewellyn King and Linda Gasparello talk about Washington DC, the changing nature of work, and ISIS’s destruction of ancient Mesopotamian artifacts.

Bamboo: The Miracle Grass

March 4, 2015 by

Llewellyn and Linda talk with Troy Wiseman, CEO and founder of EcoPlanet Bamboo, to discuss the potential applications of bamboo in our society.

EcoPlanet Bamboo: http://www.ecoplanetbamboo.com/

A Vietnamese Artist’s Journey: White House Chronicle

February 15, 2015 by

February 7th, 2015: Llewellyn King and Linda Gasparello sit down with concert pianist, composer and painter Chau-Giang Thi Nguyen to talk about her experiences in Vietnam and America.

President Obama’s 2016 Budget; The Vaccines Controversy

February 15, 2015 by

February 9th, 2015: Llewellyn King and Linda Gasparello sit down with Edward Achorn of the Providence Journal to discuss President Obama’s proposed budget for 2016 and the latest iteration of the debate around vaccinations.

Chinese Hegemony in the South China Sea: White House Chronicle

December 7, 2014 by

December 7th, 2014 Linda and Llewellyn talk with Congressional adviser Barry Nolan on China’s hegemonic takeover of the South China Sea.

Mobilizing Science, Lessons from the Energy Crisis

There are lessons to be learned in the COVID-19 crisis from the energy crisis, which broke in the winter of 1973 and extended into the early 1980s. Projections were dire. At a session of the Aspen Institute’s energy section one year, we looked at how the country could deal with an economic downturn to a […]

Electricity Is the Silent Friend as We Battle the Silent Enemy

Nothing will be the same again. Those are words that challenge the heart and the imagination. The heart because, as in a death or the loss of a job, some things will be very missed. The imagination because it needs inspired speculation to know how the present crisis will reshape the way we live; how […]

How to Manage Time — When There Seems to Be Too Much of It

There is plenty of time in Botswana. I mention this because suddenly many people around the world are finding time hanging heavily as the coronavirus rages. But there are cultures where time is part of the ethos, where filling it is an art. For example, look to shepherds in the Middle East, building complex cairns […]

Slim Pickings in Northern Supermarkets? Try Southern Recipes

Linda Gasparello

As I surveyed what remained on the shelves at the supermarket I frequent in Rhode Island, I was reminded of the saying, “One man’s trash is another man’s treasure.” Hurricane or coronavirus pandemic, Rhode Islanders — as befits their mostly Italian heritage and food preference — had cleared the shelves and frozen food cases of […]