Lonny Shavelson

You’ve probably heard about people who try to eat only food grown locally. Now in Northern California, a woman has vowed that everything she wears for the next year will be made from local, natural fibers. She calls it the Fibershed Project.

A California homeowner, obsessed with saving energy, meets the challenge to renovate his house to meet the highest green building standards.

For our Global Hit Monday, we’re playing a fusion of sorts, a mix of the pounding, hip-swaying drums of Afro-Cuban jazz and lilting New York Jewish tunes. Lonny Shavelson went to a concert in San Francisco featuring that musical mashup.

Rabbi Leo Trepp is 97 years old. He now lives in San Francisco but he grew up in Germany. He is the last living rabbi who led German-Jewish communities during the Nazi holocaust. Lonny Shavelson sent us a radio report.

Today’s Global Hit starts on the Caribbean Island of St. Vincent in 1635. Two slave ships wrecked there, and the slaves escaped. They mixed in with the native Caribs, giving birth to a new Afro-Caribbean culture; the Garifuna. Lonny Shavelson reports.