John Eger and Dean Calbreath talk with Bob Kelly, CEO of The San Diego Foundation, the largest community foundation in the region concerned with art and culture, the environment, civil society and those other public issues that form the "glue" holding a community together.Kelly has made philanthropy a mission for the Foundation and now receives increasingly more monies from San Diego citizens hoping to give back to the community."Endow San Diego" a communication strategy the Foundation launched two years ago has generated almost 150,000,000 dollars.

John Eger and Dean Calbreath talk with Joe Panetta, CEO of BIOCOM which represents the bio medical, bio tech and life sciences industries in the greater San Diego Region. This industry group now leads the world in medical advances ranging from breakthrough discoveries in Alzheimer's research to gene sequencing. Within the next decade, the Biocom industry is poised to revolutionize the health care and medical industries. BIOCOM will host BIO 2008 in San Diego June 17-20, the world's largest conference on bio medical research and development.

John Eger talks with Dr. Sanford Ehrlich, Executive Director of SDSU's Entrepreneurial Management Center (EMC) about their role in providing students and early stage companies in the region, the support needed to launch inventive and innovative companies. The EMC recently hosted the well known "Venture Challenge" drawing students from around the world competing for recognition in the high takes field of entrepreneurial management .The EMC also provides education, research and expertise in collaboration with other community enterprises and the Federal government.

Roger Showley, co-hosting for Eger and Calbreath, talks with Vicky Granowitz, Chair of the City's Park and Recreation subcommittee responsible for the future of Balboa Park. The Park faces a backlog of deferred maintenance estimated at a minimum of $238 million. Mayor Jerry Sanders has charged the Balboa Park Committee with finding a solution to the deficit and a strategy for the park's future. In a report called "The Soul of San Diego: Keeping Balboa Park Magnificent in its Second Century," (www.balboapark.org) citizens are asked their opinion; several public forums are also planned.

Dean Calbreath discusses US/Mexican trade and commerce with James Clark Director of the San Diego Regional Chamber of Commerce's Mexico Business Center. The San Diego/Tijuana corridor is known worldwide as a global resource. Calbreath and Clark talk about the challenges facing the region as well as the opportunities for increased cooperation.

John Eger and Dean Calbreath talk to Carolyn Chase , founder of San Diego EarthWorks-- the non-profit organizers of the largest Earth Day festival in the country. She is also past Chapter Chair of the San Diego Sierra Club, and served for five years as a Planning Commissioner for the City of San Diego. More recently, Carolyn helped found, "Move San Diego", a coalition of community members, environmentalists and business leaders committed to improving our region's transportation planning so that the transit systems are put into place that are required to support the region's smart growth policies. See http://www.earthdayweb.org/

John Eger and three students from SDSU's new School of Journalism and Media Studies--Steve Plantz, Josh Babin and Megan Burks--talk about recycling in San Diego. They interviewed Kara Hwang from the Lux Art Institute, James Prince from Recycle Depot, and Stephen Grealy from the City of San Diego about the issues facing San Diego becoming a "green" community. KPBS-TV will focus on this topic in an Envision special broadcast March 20 at 8 pm.

John Eger and Dean Calbreath talk with Larry Rosenstock, the founding principal of High Tech High (HTH) and now, CEO of a new cutting edge educational enterprise is turning out students well prepared to meet the challenges of the new knowledge based global economy.HTH has plans to create 10 more schools throughout California, and have recently created a graduate school for higher education. Funded in part by San Diego business and the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, HTH is a model not only for California but perhaps the U.S. as it rethinks what we must do as a nation to succeed let alone survive in the creative and innovative era.

John Eger and Dean Calbreath talk with Gary Knight, CEO of San Diego North Economic Development Council about the tremendous growth of north county and some of the infrastructure problems associated with such growth. Water, electricity and transportation issues loom large . Cooperation between the cities of the region and industry; and with other organizations in the region are imperative; as well as giving north county an identity in the wake of globalization.

John Eger talks with Vice President of the Economic Development Corporation Andrew Poat about the EDC's Partnership for the Global Economy. This effort involving hundreds of San Diego's civic government and academic leaders is designed to increase awareness of the importance of innovation to the region's success. The Partnership is also hoping to identify four to six major opportunities to enhance the region's position in the world.

Guest host Gloria Penner, KPBS, talks to UCSD geriatrician Dr. John Daly about Alzheimer's disease. Dr. Daly explained that Alzheimer's is likely to cripple the fastest growing segment of our population, i.e. the Baby Boomers as they reach 85 years and older. The prediction, according to the Dept. of Health and Human Services, is that those who reach 85 years of age have nearly a 50% chance of developing Alzheimer's. The financial burden on families and the health care system will be enormous.

John Eger talks with Derrick Cartwright , Executive Director of The San Diego Museum of Art and David Lang, Executive Director of the Balboa Park Culture Partnership, about the importance of art and culture to a vibrant productive community. As 2015 is the 100 th anniversary of the Park they expressed their hope that all San Diegans will help celebrate the Park including participation in a number of decisions which will be occurring over the next several months. Included in that list is the Mayor's recent inquiry to transfer the Park to a non profit conservatory as New York and several other cities have already done. March 8 is the kick off for the beginning of that public discussion. They also talked about the vital role of art and culture, and indeed, all cultural institutions to work collaboratively to help foster a creative and innovative economy and society.

John Eger and Dean Calbreath talk to Union Tribune reporters Lori Weisberg and Roger Showley about San Diego's General Plan to make San Diego a "livable place". The Plan which affects transit, housing, real estate and development for the city, is the first new plan to surface in over 5 years. It is expected to be widely discussed and debated in public forums before the City Council votes sometime in March.

Roger Showley compared the plan to that of the "City of Villages" plan which was never fully adopted mostly because of the call for more density in housing, and the lack of public awareness and evaluation of such plans. Showley also talked about some of the cities successful innovations-- particularly downtown-- and the upcoming 100 anniversary of Balboa Park.

John Eger and Dean Calbreath talk to John Kao, author of Innovation Nation, one of the top ten books of 2007 as reported by Business Week Magazine. Kao, a pianist and jazz musician, trained as a MD and as a psychiatrist taught creativity and entrepreneurship at Harvard for twelve years. Innovation Nation defines innovation --a concept not well understood-- and outlines what and why the US needs to do to succeed let alone survive in the new economy. San Diego is already a hub of innovation Kao said but does not yet have a global brand.

John Eger hosts Dr. Mary Walshok, Associate Vice Chancellor and Dean of Extended Studies at UCSD to talk about the vital role of the "third sector" in fostering an innovative economy. Walshok emphasized the importance of small, entrepreneurial companies to creating jobs, dollars and quality of life in the new global economy. She pointed out that the non-profit sector itself was huge and growing and directly responsible for educating more people to new ways of taking advantage of globalization. "Connect," the "San Diego Dialogue" and "Global Connect" were cited as examples of industry, government and University cooperation.

Dr. Mary Walshok, Associate Vice Chancellor and Dean of Extended Studies at UCSD

Dean Calbreath and guest co-host Gloria Penner from KPBS, host Supervisor Ron Roberts to talk about how best to avert dangers of another regional fire in San Diego; and in particular a more regional approach to government. The importance of China as both a threat and opportunity is explored. Ron Roberts believes strongly we need to be better organized to capitalize on the world's shift to a global knowledge economy.

Dean Calbreath talks with Greg Horowitt, Executive Director and Co-founder of Global Connect to discuss the model for bringing entrepreneurs, industry, government and academe together to create new commercial enterprises. Based on UCSD's Connect program, Global Connect now operates in over 20 countries worldwide and provides a sustainable business model for collaboration and cooperation among new businesses.

Greg Horowitt, Executive Director and Co-founder of Global Connect. Global Connect provides a sustainable business model for collaboration and cooperation among new businesses.

Gloria Penner and John Eger talk with Dr. Martin Paulus, Professor in Residence Department of Psychiatry, Laboratory of Biological Dynamics and Theoretical Medicine, University of California San Diego and Gary Warth, reporter for the North County Times to discuss the scourge of methamphetamine abuse in the region as well as other addictions and their neurobiological bases.

Cowhey discusses the Pacific Century and the rise of China and India and the opportunities for cooperation and collaboration. Despite China's restrictions on a free press, Cowhey predicts China will become a significant player in the innovation economy.

More with Peter Cowhey, Dean of International Relations and Pacific Studies graduate school at UCSD.

Kevin Carroll, Executive Director of the American Electronics Assoc. , whose national chapter has called for a "Sputnik Summit" because the U.S. has fallen so far behind China and the rest of the world in the high tech economy. Carroll describes the problems and offers potential solutions to meeting the global challenges of the innovation economy.

The Computer Lab played a large role in helping KPBS and the citizens of San Diego see exactly where October 2007 fires were burning in the region and their intensity. The lab is doing similar work on earthquakes and tsunamis and cooperating with NASA and Google to create new products and services to help citizens around the world in distress.

More with Eric Frost, Director of the Computer Visualization Laboratory at SDSU