A Conversation With Cousteau

"The Sea is Everything"

Jean-Michel Cousteau talks about his new book "My Father, The Captain: My Life with Jacques Cousteau." released on the 100th anniversary of his late father's birth on June 10th 1910.
Jean-Michel Cousteau, who is also President of the Ocean Futures Society and Executive Producer of Ocean Adventures on PBS, talks about the disaster in the Gulf and how to avoid future oil spills.

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Visit the Ocean Futures Society

Earth Day’s Denis Hayes

40 years ago this year Denis Hayes left his graduate studies at Harvard to coordinate the first Earth Day - an event often credited with launching the modern American environmental movement. Today, Hayes is President & CEO of the Bullitt Foundation, a $100 million environmental foundation located in Seattle. An environmental lawyer by training, Hayes has published more than 100 articles, books, and papers on energy and the environment. He says the early motivation for cleaning up the environment stemmed from the location of his childhood home in Camas, Washington …

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Visit Denis Hayes at The Earth Day Network

Just Call Me Darcelle

Walter Cole is Darcelle. In fact the title of the recent run of his one man show is the above. His nearly eight decades of life is spent in Oregon. he went from a shy, quiet boy, growing up in Linnton, where he coped with the untimely death of his mother and abuse from his father, to becoming Portland's most celebrated drag queen. The journey is the point of "Just Call Me Darcelle."

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Visit: Darcelle XV

Keep Portland Weird

Music Millennium owner Terry Currier brought the saying "Keep Portland Weird" to the city. Economist Joe Cortright says it makes perfect economic sense to keep Portland weird...and zappos.com CEO Tony Hsieh uses “how weird are you”? as a gauge to hire new employees.So it seems that a certain amount of weirdness is not only OK … but highly desirable …

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Joe Cortright, president and principal economist with Impresa
Terry Currier, owner of Music Millennium
Tony Hsieh, CEO of Zappos.com

A blank wall inspires an art mural in Beaverton

Chuck Wilson said to his wife one day, " I'm tired of looking at a blank wall. Would you be willing to paint a mural there?" Award winning artist Gina Wilson replied, "Sure.'

By the next day, Beaverton Sub Station owner Chuck Wilson had called the mayor, the Arts Commission and the owner of the building with the blank wall, Ickabod's Tavern. Everyone thought the idea was wonderful, but there was a catch.

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Helen Hollick pens a different path for the legend of Arthur

”I was just so intrigued that he might have been real though all of the stories of the knights of the Round Table, the Holy Grail, Camelot and Lancelot were said to be just made up. But as soon as I realized that maybe there was a real Arthur, I became fascinated.”

Author Helen Hollick remembers the stories she read as a child about Merlin and the young Arthur. But for Helen, it was somthing in the back of a book that actually brought another sort of magic into her life.

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Erin Donley: Marketing Her Truth and Yours

I was looking for an occupation that was really in line with my own truth. One that was engaging my creativity and integrity, where I was giving back in a deeper way."

Erin Donley's, Marketing Your Truth, began with an ending. Her first job in radio sales taught her a great deal about media and marketing but after eight years, she realized it was time to move on.

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Patrick Gracewood: Sculpting a Living

“My first job out of school was sculpting for a high end mannequin company. I went from sculpting one life-size sculpture a semester to doing one every week and a half and getting paid for it. I had a beautiful studio and I was getting paid to do what I loved."

Portland, Oregon sculptor, Patrick Gracewood is living a creative life and making a living with his sculpture work for many different businesses.

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The Weitzers: A Passionate Life

"We could hear the sounds of suburban development marching toward us like a tidal wave. Pretty soon, I was teaching many of those who visited my bamboo oasis."

David and Janice Weitzer's passion for bamboo, food and yoga has led them to establish several successful home-based businesses.  Following their own needs and personal passions, this couple currently operates a bamboo business, a massage therapy practice, a private yoga school and traditional Thai Massage classes.

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Jan vonBergen: Building on Cultural Influences

“It was all based on food, their way of showing us the culture was through the food, beautiful fabrics, clothing, some of the customs. They would make these curry dinners and that’s how we celebrated these cultures. And my parents would go to auction houses and they collected a lot of their furniture, some of it was Asian table fabrics and kimonos. And my grandparent's house, too, was filled with antiques.”

Jan’s interest in art started in her childhood at the family dinner table where ethnic dishes were served up with side discussions of the culture, textiles and art from around the world.

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From the past to the future: Beaverton's new mural celebrates youth and hope

“My intention is not to portray a beautiful world, my intention is to portray a world that is real but also one where we can overcome problems."  

Working with 15 students from Merlo Station High School, Hector Hernandez, created a mural concept that spans the solar system, early Beaverton, the threat of global warming and technological development to a hopeful resolution for the future generation and their children. 

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Teresa Sullivan: Telling stories with beads

“In the same way we wear a wedding ring to tell that we’re married, there are people who wear beaded adornment that tells others that, I’m ready to marry or I am married and have a son that’s a warrior.”

Teresa Sullivan is a story- teller in beads.  The stories she tells in her beaded tapestries, jewelry and sculpture are about the power of people discovering their abilities; from super heroines of comics and science fiction to the real mentors of her life.

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Margie Lee: Following an intuitive path through art and life

“I have done a lot of different things, but I think that’s the way my art developed. It’s not just a straight path, that’s for sure.”

Margie Lee’s life path has led her across the country and Europe, and across the fields of geology, literature and art.

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