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A WORLD OF POSSIBILITIES - Corn: that most American of grains. These days corn is feed, fuel and ubiquitous sweetener, the biggest of business and some say the core of an industrial food system that's unhealthy for people, livestock and soils. Join us as we trace corn's origins back to Mesoamerica and conduct a forensic exam on the hybridized, genetically modified corn we know today.

This Week's Guests:
Aaron Woolf, Director of King Corn
Ricardo Salvador, Associate Professor of Agronomy at Iowa State University
Mark Muller, Director of Environment and Agriculture at the Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy

A World of Possibilities - There have always been brilliant innovators working outside established institutions. With the emergence of open systems of innovation made possible by the Internet, now a far wider range of individuals, teams and institutions can participate in the problem-solving process. Not only for technical challenges, but for those thorny social problems which have eluded the best minds of our time.

Guests:
Dwayne Spradlin, President and Chief Executive Officer, InnoCentive
Maria Blair, Associate Vice President and Managing Director, Rockefeller Foundation

A World of Possibilities - Legendary folksinger and social activist Pete Seeger is receiving long-delayed appreciation for his immense contribution to American music and culture. In this intimate conversation, Pete recalls it all through the prism of mellowed memory, his personal reflections on his life, times and his country's future laced with the sounds of his now-quavering but still strong voice. Happy 90th B-Day, Pete.

WORLD OF POSSIBILITIES - Largely beneath radar, a new private military contracting industry is taking shape, financed by public funds with close connections to those making life and death decisions about when and where to go to war. We'll investigate this shadowy world and its role in the business of war making.

Guests:
Pratap Chatterjee, Managing Editor and Program Director, CorpWatch
Marc Garlasco, Senior Military Analyst, Human Rights Watch
Jim Ross, Human Rights Watch
Peter Singer, Director, Project on U.S. Policy Towards the Islamic World; Foreign Policy Studies, Brookings Institution

A WORLD OF POSSIBILITIES - Everywhere we look our systems are collapsing in terminal dysfunction. It’s forcing us to reinvent the way we do just about everything. But the infrastructure in place to catalyze the kinds of breakthrough innovation we need is still haphazard and inefficient. What kinds of institutions and incentives need to be put in place to spur the innovations we most need to be more efficient and effective?

Guests:
Fred Block, Professor of Sociology, University of California, Davis
Keith Schneider, Communications Director, Apollo Alliance

A WORLD OF POSSIBILITIES - To many Americans, Africa is a continent of unmitigated suffering, plagued by poverty and war. Yet those who know the people well say there's an energy and resilience that enables them to make much of what little good fortune comes their way. As the industrial powers scour the continent for mineral treasure, we examine how a younger generation can negotiate a better deal for their people.

A World of Possibilities - If necessity is the mother of invention, there’s certainly plenty of necessity to go around these days. But are we doing all we can to incubate the innovations we most urgently need? We’ll learn about how to harness our collective genius to address our most urgent needs, and about new threats that could derail our best efforts.

Guests:
Lawrence Lessig, Founder, Center for Internet and Society. C. Wendell and Edith M. Carlsmith Professor of Law, Stanford Law School
Scott Anthony, President, Innosight LLC

WORLD OF POSSIBLITIES RETURNS MARCH 3rd

KSER SPECIAL:    In The Mix: Conversations With Artists...Between Races Mixed Race is the fastest growing minority in America.

Just as each racial/ethnic group influences and changes artistic styles and movements, Mixed Race artists help to create fusion and bridges cultural and traditional differences.

Martin Luther King, Jr. Celebrations in Snohomish Co.

To mark the start of Black History Month, KSER presents an edited presentation by two remarkable voices from the Civil Rights effort in America: Coach Herman Boone and Myrlie Evers-Williams. 

A World of Possibilities - At a moment when most all the systems that govern our lives have lost their grip on reality, we're forced to rethink and reinvent the way we do just about everything. Crucial to that transformation is learning how to innovate faster and better than ever before. In this weeks show, two leading students of innovation consider the pivotal role that experimentation plays in achieving eventual success.

Guests:
Gifford Pinchot III, former President, Bainbridge Graduate Institute

The New Abolitionists: Millennial Promise & Faithful Purpose in the Movement to Eradicate Poverty

Global poverty has moved from the margins to the center of concern for constituencies ranging from rock stars like Bono to evangelical Christian groups to the United Nations Millennium Campaign and, in the process, has drawn together progressives and conservatives, religionists and secularists, wealthy and poor nations. Join us to find out if differences can be put aside to meet the world's needs.

Guests:
Wahu Kaara, Marina Ponti, Ron Sider, Christopher Sinankwa, Peter Vander Meulen

A World of Possibilities - It seemed the good times would never end. Pennies from heaven even rained down on Wal-Mart shoppers. Until one day in the fall of 2008, it all came crashing down.

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