Host Stephanie Potter speaks with Sanu Kaji Shrestha, an award winning environmentalist from Nepal and founder of FoST -- the Foundation for Sustainable Technologies which trains people in the use of sustainable technologies that save money, save energy and save the environment.  His recent honor was the Science and Technology Promotion Award for 2010 from Nepal Academy of Science and Technology (NAST), for his development of low cost cooking fuel made of recycled materials.

Dave DeAngelis speaks with sustainability expert Alan AtKisson about how we can accelerate innovation to support sustainability goals. Alan will be speaking on Monday, March 14th as part of the Illahee lecture series. The title of his lecture is “Accelerating Innovation.” Go to http://kboo.fm/illahee for more information.

And we'll hear an interview with Philip N. Howard on The Digital Origins of Dictatorship and Democracy. Rabia Yeaman speaks with Philip N. Howard, an Associate Professor of Communication at the University of Washington about his new book, THE DIGITAL ORIGINS OF DICTATORSHIP AND DEMOCRACY: Information Technology and Political Islam. (This program originally aired, Wednesday, February 16th)

When President Franklin D. Roosevelt conceived of and executed the New Deal -- his grand plan to lift the country out of the Great Depression -- his work was guided by demand-side economics. The government would spend money to put people to work building roads, schools, bridges, dams, community centers and a whole array of infrastructure projects, many of which are still in use today. In turn, these gainfully-employed Americans would circulate their wages through the economy, creating demand for goods and services of all kinds. The money needed to hire these workers was raised through a combination of deficit spending and taxation of the wealthy, at rates that would be considered scandalous today.