Jared Diamond’s new book The World Until Yesterday: What Can We Learn from Traditional Societies is causing a lot of uproar. During the next several years Nicaragua hopes to revolutionize how and where its energy comes from. A former Rush Hospital nurse helps send bicycles overseas.
For Global Activism, we talk with Alice Teisan, an avid cyclist diagnosed with Chronic Fatigue Syndrome in 1992. Despite her major health setback, she channeled her passion for bicycling into helping others suffering from disabilities globally. She created His Wheels International, out of her own home, recycling old bicycles and their parts to send overseas.
Worldview examines how countries like France and Germany reconcile and forgive and whether reconciliation works for other seemingly-intractable conflicts.
A group of Republican and Democratic senators have come out strong in support of immigration reform. And a new play at Chicago Shakespeare Theater sheds light on life and sex in Europe's last dictatorship.
Violence continued on the streets of Egypt for the fifth straight day. Gays face violence and oppression in post-coup Honduras. Photographer Tim Laman and ornithologist Ed Scholes find out more about rare species of birds in New Guinea.
Canada’s indigenous movement Idle No More calls for more sustainable development. Milos Stehlik stops by to discuss the panoply of black-and-white movies showing in Chicago this weekend. Global citizen Nari Safavi helps listeners plan their international weekend.
WGN reporter Randi Belisomo has a passion for bringing clean water to those in need. She has traveled with the non-profit Living Water International to several locations, including Haiti, and just led a trip to El Salvador this past November. Worldview gets an update on her work.
