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The World Peace Diet has been called one of the most important books of the 21st century: the foundation of a new society based on the truth of the interconnectedness of all life. It is the first book to make explicit the invisible connections between our meals and our broad range of problems -psychological, social, and spiritual, as well as health and environmental. It offers powerful ways we can all experience healing and peace and contribute to a positive transformation of human consciousness.

Zion is Utah's first national park. Audio Journeys explores this 100-year-old national park with a park ranger.

As a species, we have been killing ourselves by the millions in war after war throughout history. Now, finally, we have the power of knowledge to end forever, or at the very least drastically reduce, all this human slaughter. Freedom gives us the answer. Until all people everywhere enjoy this freedom, we must foster at least some freedom where none exists, to lessen mass killing by war.

In the highlands of Honduras, a few hundred Lenca people cling tenaciously to their culture, their customs, and each other. On a road trip through Mesoamerica, we find markets and countyside villages. (This Audio Journey is also available in our MesoAmerica Series.)

Audio Journeys are explores this one-of-a-kind monolith known to Native Americans as Bear Mountain. We walk around the base while a park ranger interprets what this unique formation is and the ecology that surrounds it.

Audio Journeys explores the Maya Music Museum in La Antigua, Guatemala, with the museum founder and director. (This Audio Journey is also available in our MesoAmerica Series.)

With 25 years of poetry slam governance at Chicago's famous Green Mill Jazz Lounge, poetry slam founder and emcee Marc Kelly Smith welcomes poets to perform in the open mic, feature and daring poetry slam competition. Listen to the live, raucous words of today's best performance poets with great music and audience participation.

Audio Journeys explores ancient history and centuries-old structures, inculding an anquduct, and view new and old art. We also visit a lapidary specializing in local gems.

Audio Journeys explores the ancient ruins of a Mayan village in El Salvador. Twenty kilometers northwest of San Salvador, the capital of El Salvador, is the 650-year-old village of Joya de Ceren, the only UNESCO World Heritage Site in El Salvador.

What makes this site unique is that the everyday life of the Mayans was preserved when around 600 A.D. a volcano erupted spewing volcanic ashes that covered the land, caused the common people to flee their homes.

Audio Journeys explores the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan, including the ancient city of Petra. Over 2,600 years old, Petra is a UNESCO World Heritage Site.

Petra is the legacy of the Nabateaeans, an industrious Arab people who settled in south Jordan more than 2,600 years ago, dominating the trade routes of ancient Arabia. With our guide, Mohammad Mofal, we walk through the outer Siq, a steep sided gorge. Its early in the morning, we are on our way to the Treasury.

Tikal was a major center of Mayan civilization for centuries. Today Tikal National Park is still used by Mayans for ceremonies. Tikal is also home to thousands of animals and plants. We find out about some from our guide.

Audio Journeys by Travel Radio International explores one of the wildest towns in the West. At the end of a box canyon, near precious metal deposits, Deadwood lured such famous Old West characters as Wild Bill Hickok and Calamity Jane. Deadwood might have been torn down and forgotten, except that it also holds the distinction of being the town where an angry assailant killed Wild Bill Hickok while he was on his honeymoon.

Audio Journeys by Travel Radio International explores Freiburg Germany, the gateway to the Black Forest. We take a tram to the top of the mountain trail head, and with our naturalist guide, we explore this important ecological treasure of Europe.

The Baltimore Clipper ship Frolic was bound from Canton, China, to San Francisco with household goods for gold miners. The shipwreck of the Frolic lead to the founding of the town of Mendocino, California, and the discovery of redwood trees. We speak with archeologists who are studying this important early California event. The Frolic Shipwreck is now a California Underwater State Park.

Audio Journeys by Travel Radio International explores one of the largest canal systems in the United States. The Erie Canal no longer flows through Syracuse, but along its former banks, the weigh station was restored as a museum.

We arrive in San Jose, from a small boat across Lake Petén Itzá. There are few roads into the region. This quiet lakeside hill town has a Mayan and Spanish Language School.

On a busy canal lined street in Amsterdam, Anne Frank and her Jewish family hid from the Nazis near the end of WWII. Anne Frank wrote accounts of their lives in this confinement. Learning from the one radio they shared and quietly listened to, Anne hoped her diary would be published. It was published posthumously, by her father; Anne's only relative to survive the Nazi death camps.

Its sugar bush time in the maple tree forests of Canada. In March and April the sap from the maple trees flow. This thin sticky sap becomes one of Canada's most popular exports, maple syrup. Audio Journeys are on the Kings Road east of Quebec City exploring a sugar stack that welcomes visitors year round to their outdoor recreation center. We visit the only Ice Hotel in North America - a chilling experience.

Audio Journeys explores Copan, the ancient cultural center of Honduras. For years, Copán has been renowned for its magnificent Mayan ruins, a designated World Heritage Site believed by archeologists to be the cultural center, the Paris, of the Maya world.

Audio Journeys explores the Leo Carrillo Ranch Historic Park, a few minutes from the Pacific Ocean and downtown Carlsbad, California. In 1937 vaudeville and silver-screen actor, Leo Carrillo (the Cisco Kid) purchased, and preserved over 2,000 acres of the southwest US's rolling hills. This was a retreat for Leo, his wife, their adopted daughter, and their numerous friends from Hollywood.