Guest Profile: Alan Weisman
Author of COUNTDOWN - Our Last, Best Hope For A Future On Earth. Alan Weisman is the author of several books, including The World Without Us: an international best-seller translated in 34 languages, a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award, and winner of the Wenjin Book Prize of the National Library of China. His work has been selected for many anthologies, including Best American Science Writing. An award-winning journalist, his reports have appeared in Harper's, The New York Times Magazine, The Atlantic Monthly, Discover, Vanity Fair, Wilson Quarterly, Mother Jones, and Orion, and on NPR. A former contributing editor to the Los Angeles Times Magazine, he is a senior radio producer for Homelands Productions. He lives in western Massachusetts.
Website: www.CountdownbyAlanWeisman.com
Alan Weisman's Shows:
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| Sep 01, 2025 |
It’s evident that we can no longer ignore the ravages of our climate changes and our human complicity. We can despair about it or pitch in and mitigate what we can and carve out a new less devastating future. We’ll talk to journalist Alan Weisman about his research into people who have found a way to reach for that more promising future despite the current of unconsciousness that we find ourselves in. |
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| Jul 18, 2007 |
Editor and Chief of Utne Magazine joins us for his favorite topic...Author of The World Without Us - about how the world would work without people |
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