Host Marliese Franklin looks at two questions on today's show...

1. How do performers make ice cream? Rudy Speerschneider of Mostlandia sets the stage.

2. Are we an "Irradiation Nation?" Wenonah Hauter discusses her new book, "Zapped: Irradiation and the Death of Food." 

The guest is filmmaker Todd Darling, who talks about his film A Snow Mobile for George, he motors across America in search of what drives environmental policy at the
Bush White House. Fired up by a question over a used snowmobile in the Sierra
Nevada, he visits Yurok Indians in Northern California, cowboys in Wyoming, and
Wall Street workers in New York City. 

Host Barbara Bernstein talks about organic farming certification with Chris Schreiner
of Oregon Tilth, Moreland Farmers' Market Manager Laura Wendel and several
farmers who have gone through the federal organic certification process, and
some who have not.

Host David Barsamian interviews Maude Barlow about The Global Water Crisis. Maude Barlow is the National Chairperson of the Council of Canadians, Canada's largest public advocacy organization, and the co-founder of
the Blue Planet Project, working internationally for the right to water. She is the recipient of the Lannan Cultural Freedom Fellowship Award, and the Right Livelihood Award, the alternative Nobel Prize. Her latest book is Blue Covenant: The Global Water Crisis.
 

Bill Resnick explores rising food prices and world hunger and what the UN and the major countries are (not) doing.
He also looks at climate change and Congress with a critique of
the very inadequate, indeed, counterproductive response. The bill being discussed subsidizes nuclear energy. Luz Maria Gordillo reviews Sex and the City, the movie. Frann Michel hosts a segment of the Well-Read Red on solidarities between LGBTQ and immigrant activism.  And we'll hear more music by Pink Martini and an exploration of their politics.