Dr Amy Novatt is known for her direct talk on the issue of women's health. Medical science has never been more advanced in treating and caring for women, yet many obstacles to women gaining access to healthcare still exist. Dr. Novatt has a frank one-on-one discussion with journalist Kitty Pilgrim about the breakthroughs and setbacks in the field of women's reproductive health.

Produced by Kitty Pilgrim, Matty Rosenberg, and Jennifer Hammoud @ Radio Free Rhinecliff

NYC based, jewelry designer, Christina Malle tries to empower people to ask questions about where gold, silver and gemstones are from. She says the more frequently that consumers pose questions, the sooner we will have transparency and traceability in the jewelry supply chains.

Why is this important? To enable accountability, practically non-existant today. The current opacity in the “luxury” sector means that predatory practices towards miners and environmental degradations continue essentially unchecked. She strives to add beauty to the world — via jewelry — but not at the expense of people and planet. The first step is asking where materials are from, how they got here and their impact on people and planet along the way.

Produced by Kitty Pilgrim, Matty Rosenberg, and Jennifer Hammoud @ Radio Free Rhinecliff

In 2002, Ian and Genevieve (Jenny) Giddy purchased a 60 hectare (148 acre) cattle farm bordering Chirripó National Park in southern Costa Rica. and then added 700 more acres to replant and conserve high-altitude montane primary forest, with an enormous diversity of tropical trees, birds, insects and other flora and fauna.

From its beginnings as a reforestation project, Cloudbridge has grown along with its forests to expand and develop projects on not just reforestation, but conservation, education and research as well. So far, the restoration project has been a great success, through either planting or natural regeneration, tree cover has been re-established over almost the entire reserve. This allows us to focus on the next phase of regeneration, planting climax species in the understory that will slowly take over from the pioneer species over the next several decades, and, eventually, return the reserve to a climax forest composition.

Produced by Kitty Pilgrim, Matty Rosenberg, and Jennifer Hammoud @ Radio Free Rhinecliff