Bioneers: Revolution From the Heart of Nature

Beaver Believers: How to Restore Planet Water

it@bioneers.org (Bioneers) — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 13:00:00 -0000

In this age of global weirding where climate disruption has tumbled the Goldilocks effect into unruly surges of too much and too little water, the restoration of beavers offers ancient nature-based solutions to the tangle of challenges bedeviling human civilization. Droughts, floods, soil erosion, climate change, biodiversity loss – you name it, and beaver is on it.

In this episode, Kate Lundquist and Brock Dolman of the Occidental Arts and Ecology Center share their semi-aquatic journey to becoming Beaver Believers. They are part of a passionate global movement to bring back our rodent relatives who show us how to heal nature by working with nature.

Featuring

Kate Lundquist, co-director of the Occidental Arts & Ecology Center’s WATER Institute and the Bring Back the Beaver Campaign in Sonoma County, is a conservationist, educator and ecological artist who works with landowners, communities and resource agencies to uncover obstacles, identify strategic solutions, and generate restoration recommendations to assure healthy watersheds, water security, listed species recovery and climate change resiliency.

Brock Dolman, co-founded (in 1994) the Occidental Arts and Ecology Center where he co-directs the WATER Institute. A wildlife biologist and watershed ecologist, he has been actively promoting “Bringing Back Beaver in California” since the early 2000s. He was given the Salmonid Restoration Federation’s coveted Golden Pipe Award in 2012: “…for his leading role as a proponent of “working with beavers” to restore native habitat.

Resources

Beaver Believer: How Massive Rodents Could Restore Landscapes and Ecosystems At Scale
Fire and Water: Land and Watershed Management in the Age of Climate Change
Brock Dolman – Basins of Relations: A Reverential Rehydration Revolution
From Kingdom to Kin-dom: Acting As If We Have Relatives Brock Dolman, Paul Stamets and Brian Thomas Swimme
The WATER Institute’s Beaver in California reader
Deep Dive: Intelligence in Nature
Earthlings: Intelligence in Nature | Bioneers Newsletter

This is an episode of Nature’s Genius, a Bioneers podcast series exploring how the sentient symphony of life holds the solutions we need to balance human civilization with living systems. Visit the series page to learn more.

The Native American LandBack Movement Reaches Urban America

it@bioneers.org (Bioneers) — Wed, 01 Apr 2026 01:28:00 -0000

Corrina Gould is a celebrated activist of the First Peoples of the Bay Area and a leader in the LandBack Movement. She has helped forge a model for returning stolen land to Native American Tribes and restoring sacred sites in a defiant act of remembrance and resistance against cultural erasure.

Featuring

Corrina Gould, born and raised in the village of Huchiun (now known as Berkeley CA), is the Tribal Chair for the Confederated Villages of Lisjan Nation and co-founded and is the Lead Organizer for Indian People Organizing for Change, a small Native-run organization; as well as of the Sogorea Te’ Land Trust, an urban Indigenous women-led organization within her ancestral territory.

Resources

Sogorea Te’ Land Trust

Landback: Restoring People, Place and Purpose
A conversation with Cara Romero, Corrina Gould, PennElys Droz, and Kawenniiosta Jock

Corrina Gould – Resilience and Rematriation | Bioneers 2025

California Genocide and Resilience and Returning to What Was Lost and Stolen with Corrina Gould | Indigeneity Conversations Podcast Series

This is an episode of the Bioneers: Revolution from the Heart of Nature series. Visit the radio and podcast homepage to learn more.

The Quest to Decode Whale-speak

it@bioneers.org (Bioneers) — Thu, 26 Mar 2026 17:55:00 -0000

When members of Project CETI (the Cetacean Translation Initiative) witnessed the birth of a sperm whale, they observed a breathtaking scene of cooperation and communication that few humans on earth have ever seen. The extraordinary experience was both a scientific milestone as well as one more strand in the web of sperm whale culture that this innovative project is studying. The Project CETI team leverages world-leading technology and science in a quest to understand nonhuman animal communication. At the same time, the scientists leading the project are keeping an ethical throughline, placing the health and well being of whales at the center of the effort. As we get tantalizingly closer to truly communicating with other species, the question becomes not only whether we can, but whether we should - and what the implications are if we do.

This is an episode of Nature’s Genius, a Bioneers podcast series exploring how the sentient symphony of life holds the solutions we need to balance human civilization with living systems. Visit the series page to learn more.

Featuring

David Gruber is the Founder & President of Project CETI (Cetacean Translation Initiative), a nonprofit, interdisciplinary scientific and conservation initiative on a mission to listen to and translate the communication of sperm whales. He is a Distinguished Professor of Biology and Environmental Sciences at the City University of New York, Baruch College & The CUNY Graduate Center.

Resources

Project CETI

DavidGru ber.com

Earthlings Newsletter: Intelligence in Nature

Credits

Executive Producer: Kenny Ausubel

Written by: Cathy Edwards and Kenny Ausubel

Producer: Cathy Edwards

Producer: Teo Grossman

Senior Producer and Station Relations: Stephanie Welch

Associate Producer: Emily Harris

Host and Consulting Producer: Neil Harvey

Production Assistance: Mika Anami

Interview Recording Engineers: Rod Akil at KPFA and Bill Siegmund, Digital Island Studios, LLC

How Would Nature Do It?

it@bioneers.org (Bioneers) — Wed, 18 Mar 2026 12:55:00 -0000

Mother Nature is the ultimate designer. After all, since life first emerged on Earth, she’s had 3.8 billion years of evolutionary R&D to get it right. Biomimicry is the art and science of learning from this ineffable genius: tapping into the patterns of nature to live harmoniously with life’s principles.

We meet Janine Benyus, known as the “godmother of modern biomimicry”.

Reconnecting the River

it@bioneers.org (Bioneers) — Wed, 11 Mar 2026 23:51:00 -0000

Yurok Attorney Amy Cordalis is one of many Indigenous leaders who have fought for the un-damming and healing of the majestic Klamath River Basin, spanning Oregon and California. She tells the story of the decades-long struggle to remove dams that have choked the life flow of the river and severed salmon migratory routes, and how a combination of traditional ecological knowledge, environmental law, and old-fashioned diplomacy helped remove 4 of 6 dams and ushered in a $515 million settlement agreement to restore the river and riparian lands.

Featuring

Amy Cordalis (Yurok Tribe member whose ceremony family is from Rek-woi at the mouth of the Klamath River), a devoted advocate for Indigenous rights and environmental restoration as well as a fisherwoman, attorney, and mother deeply rooted in the traditions of her people, is the co-founder and Executive Director of the Ridges to Riffles Indigenous Conservation Group and leads efforts to support tribes in protecting their sovereignty, lands, and waters, including the historic Klamath Dam Removal project.

Credits

Executive Producer: Kenny Ausubel

Written by: Cathy Edwards and Kenny Ausubel

Producer: Cathy Edwards

Senior Producer and Station Relations: Stephanie Welch

Producer: Teo Grossman

Associate Producer: Emily Harris

Host and Consulting Producer: Neil Harvey

Production Assistance: Mika Anami

How the Chicken Crossed the Road To Build a Regenerative Food System

it@bioneers.org (Bioneers) — Wed, 11 Mar 2026 23:42:00 -0000

Visionary agricultural innovator Reginaldo Haslett-Marroquin unearths a startling natural-world template for building a global movement that puts the chicken at the heart of bioregional food systems. These Poultry-Centered Regenerative Agroforestry farms can both renew the land and ultimately support the hundreds of millions of small farmers who produce 70% of the world’s food.

More than Human Life: Advancing Rights for The Natural World

it@bioneers.org (Bioneers) — Wed, 25 Feb 2026 14:00:00 -0000

Scientific evidence is increasingly supporting the theory that the Earth is alive and replete with intelligence. In fact, the wild diversity of earthly organisms exhibits the characteristics that human beings attribute to personhood. How is it then, by the law, that a corporation is a person, but nature is not? What if we expand the anthropocentric boundaries of our systems of laws, rights and responsibilities to encompass ALL living beings? How would this new legal story affect our relationship with our vast other-than-human Earth family? In this episode, we imagine a planet with rights for all, with visionary lawyer César Rodríguez-Garavito.

César Rodríguez-Garavito, a Professor of Clinical Law, Chair of the Center for Human Rights and Global Justice, and founding Director of the More Than Human Life (MOTH) Program and the Earth Rights Advocacy Program (all based at NYU School of Law), is a human rights and environmental justice scholar and practitioner whose work and publications focus on climate change, Indigenous peoples’ rights, and the human rights movement.

Resources

More-Than-Human-Life (MOTH)

Report Assessing the Implementation of the Los Cedros Ruling in Ecuador | MOTH

César Rodríguez-Garavito – More-Than-Human Rights: Pushing the Boundaries of Legal Imagination to Re-Animate the World | Bioneers 2025 Keynote

Deep Dive: Intelligence in Nature

Earthlings: Intelligence in Nature | Bioneers Newsletter

Credits

Executive Producer: Kenny Ausubel

Written by: Cathy Edwards and Kenny Ausubel

Producer: Cathy Edwards

Senior Producer and Station Relations: Stephanie Welch

Producer: Teo Grossman

Associate Producer: Emily Harris

Host and Consulting Producer: Neil Harvey

Production Assistance: Mika Anami

Graphic Designer: Megan Howe

What if Plants are Conscious?

it@bioneers.org (Bioneers) — Tue, 24 Feb 2026 23:33:00 -0000

Plants make up over 80% of life on earth. No animal would exist without plants’ ultimate magic trick of turning sunlight into food. Today, scientists are unearthing a wild, weird world of vegetal genius. But how can we truly understand beings so radically different from ourselves? We consider the emerging science of plants from the vantage points of philosophy and ethics, with Harvard scholar Rachael Petersen.

Black Food: Liberation, Food Justice and Stewardship | Karen Washington & Bryant Terry

it@bioneers.org (Bioneers) — Wed, 18 Feb 2026 14:00:00 -0000

The influences of Africans and Black Americans on food and agriculture is rooted in ancestral African knowledge and traditions of shared labor, worker co-ops and botanical polycultures.

In this episode, we hear from Karen Washington and Bryant Terry on how Black Food culture is weaving the threads of a rich African agricultural heritage with the liberation of economics from an extractive corporate food oligarchy. The results can be health, conviviality, community wealth, and the power of self-determination.

Featuring

⁠Karen Washington⁠, co-owner/farmer of ⁠Rise & Root Farm⁠, has been a legendary activist in the community gardening movement since 1985. Renowned for turning empty Bronx lots into verdant spaces, Karen is: a former President of the NYC Community Garden Coalition; a board member of: the NY Botanical Gardens, Why Hunger, and NYC Farm School; a co-founder of Black Urban Growers (BUGS); and a pioneering force in establishing urban farmers’ markets.

⁠Bryant Terry⁠ is the Chef-in-Residence of MOAD, the Museum of the African Diaspora in San Francisco, and an award-winning author of a number of books that reimagine soul food and African cuisine within a vegan context. His latest book is ⁠Black Food: Stories, Art and Recipes from Across the African Diaspora⁠.

Credits

Executive Producer: Kenny Ausubel
Written by: Kenny Ausubel and Arty Mangan
Senior Producer and Station Relations: Stephanie Welch
Program Engineer and Music Supervisor: Emily Harris
Producer: Teo Grossman
Host and Consulting Producer: Neil Harvey
Production Assistance: Monica Lopez
Additional music: ⁠Ketsa⁠

Resources

⁠The Farmer and the Chef: A Conversation Between Two Black Food Justice Activists⁠

⁠Karen Washington – 911 Our Food System Is Not Working⁠

⁠Working Against Racism in the Food System⁠

⁠Black Food: An Interview with Chef Bryant Terry⁠

⁠The Food Web Newsletter⁠

This is an episode of the Bioneers: Revolution from the Heart of Nature series. Visit the ⁠radio and podcast homepage⁠ to learn more.

Social Medicine: Restoring Public Health by Changing Society

it@bioneers.org (Bioneers) — Wed, 11 Feb 2026 14:00:00 -0000

We are told that our personal health is our individual responsibility based on our own choices. Yet, the biological truth is that human health is dependent upon the health of nature’s ecosystems and our social structures. Decisions that negatively affect these larger systems and eventually affect us are made without our consent as citizens and, often, without our knowledge. Dr. Rupa Marya, former Associate Professor of Medicine at UC San Francisco, and co-founder of the Do No Harm Coalition, says “social medicine” means dismantling harmful social structures that directly lead to poor health outcomes, and building new structures that promote health and healing.

This is an episode of the Bioneers: Revolution from the Heart of Nature series. Visit the ⁠radio and podcast homepage⁠ to learn more.

Community Resilience: When the Love in the Air Is Thicker than the Smoke

it@bioneers.org (Bioneers) — Wed, 04 Feb 2026 14:00:00 -0000

With climate-driven disasters becoming the new normal, building resilience is the grail. Communities around the world are developing models created out of practical necessity. We hear on-the-ground stories from two different communities building resilience in the wake of serial disasters. Estrella Santiago Perez and her innovative community rights organization ENLACE have helped organize a collection of marginalized neighborhoods in San Juan, Puerto Rico to overcome the twin catastrophes of Hurricane Maria and a failed government. And far away in the fire-ravaged communities near California’s relatively well-off wine country, Trathen Heckman helped lead the nonprofit grassroots group Daily Acts to build a resilience network from the ground up with engaged citizens action, civil society groups and Sonoma County government agencies.

This is an episode of the Bioneers: Revolution from the Heart of Nature series. Visit the ⁠radio and podcast homepage⁠ to learn more.

Plastic Planet: Stopping Big Oil, Big Plastic, and Big Misdirection

it@bioneers.org (Bioneers) — Wed, 21 Jan 2026 14:00:00 -0000

After World War II, the U.S. government worked with industry to create a single-use, disposable consumer culture as a way to ensure ongoing market prosperity. Who benefited? Consumer product companies like Coca-Cola, and the fossil fuel industry, whose petrochemicals are at the source. The result? Plastic pollution is now found in virtually every living organism – including humans – and is one of the worst threats to ocean ecosystems. Now, a global resistance movement is rising to abolish petrochemical plastics and to shift to a zero-waste, circular economy.

Anna Cummins, Deputy Director and Co-Founder of the Five Gyres Institute. With more than 20 years experience in environmental non-profit work—including marine conservation, coastal watershed management, community relations, and bilingual and sustainability education—Anna is an expert in the field.

Credits

Executive Producer: Kenny Ausubel

Written by: Monica Lopez and Kenny Ausubel

Senior Producer and Station Relations: Stephanie Welch

Host and Consulting Producer: Neil Harvey

Producer: Teo Grossman

Program Engineer and Music Supervisor: Emily Harris

Production Assistance: Claire Reynolds

This is an episode of the Bioneers: Revolution from the Heart of Nature series. Visit the ⁠radio and podcast homepage⁠ to learn more.

Erosion and Evolution: Our Undoing is Our Becoming | Terry Tempest Williams

it@bioneers.org (Bioneers) — Wed, 14 Jan 2026 14:00:00 -0000

Erosion and evolution. Shadow and light. Death and rebirth. These are some of the strands that the acclaimed author, naturalist and activist Terry Tempest Williams weaves together in the face of today’s broken world. Standing in the lineage of the greatest nature writers, she links her deepest inner experiences with the state of the web of life. In this program, Williams asks: How do we find the strength to not look away at all that is breaking our hearts? Hands on the earth, we remember where the source of our authentic power comes from. We have to go deeper. She also explores histories of privilege, religion, and identity in Utah, and how reconciling her experiences with these cultural strands have helped unleash and shape her voice as a storyteller who translates the voice of nature and speaks for justice.

Featuring

Terry Tempest Williams, one of the greatest living authors from the American West, is also a longtime award-winning conservationist and activist, who has taken on, among other issues, nuclear testing, the Iraq War, the neglect of women’s health, and the destruction of nature, especially in her beloved “Red Rock” region of her native Utah and in Alaska.

Credits:

Executive Producer: Kenny Ausubel
Written by: Monica Lopez and Kenny Ausubel
Senior Producer and Station Relations: Stephanie Welch
Host and Consulting Producer: Neil Harvey
Producer: Teo Grossman
Program Engineer and Music Supervisor: Emily Harris
Production Assistance: Claire Reynolds

Music was made available by:

Jami Sieber at ⁠JamiSieber.com⁠
Gigi Masin at ⁠MusicFromMemory.com⁠
APM

This is an episode of the Bioneers: Revolution from the Heart of Nature series. Visit the ⁠radio and podcast homepage⁠ to learn more.

The Nature of Language and the Language of Nature

it@bioneers.org (Bioneers) — Wed, 07 Jan 2026 14:00:00 -0000

Over 7,000 languages are spoken around the world. Each one reflects a rich ecosystem of ideas - seeds that grow into a multitude of worldviews. Today, many of these immeasurably precious knowledge systems are endangered - often spoken by just a handful of people. We hear from two Indigenous language champions, Jeannette Armstrong and Rowen White. They reflect on the words, stories, songs and ideas that influence our very conception of nature, and our place within it.

Featuring

Jeannette Armstrong, Ph.D., (Okanagan) is an Indigenous author, teacher, ecologist, and a culture bearer for her Native language. She is also Co-founder of the ⁠En'owkin Centre⁠.

Rowen White (Mohawk) is a seed keeper and farmer, and part of the Indigenous Seed Keepers Network. She operates a living seed bank called ⁠Sierra Seeds⁠.

Resources

⁠En’owkin Centre⁠

⁠Indigenous Seed Keepers Network⁠

⁠Sierra Seeds⁠

⁠Language Keepers: The Struggle for Indigenous Language Survival in California⁠

⁠Hand Talk, Native American Sign Language⁠

⁠Native Seed Rematriation⁠

Credits

Executive Producer: Kenny Ausubel

Written by: Cathy Edwards and Kenny Ausubel

Produced by: Cathy Edwards

Senior Producer and Station Relations: Stephanie Welch

Associate Producer: Emily Harris

Host and Consulting Producer: Neil Harvey

Program Engineers: Kaleb Wentzel Fisher and Emily Harris

Producer: Teo Grossman

Graphic Designer: Megan Howe

How, Then, Might We Live? with Krista Tippett & Azita Ardakani

it@bioneers.org (Bioneers) — Wed, 31 Dec 2025 14:00:00 -0000

After accomplished stints as a journalist, author and diplomat, and studying theology at Yale Divinity School, Krista Tippett was struck by a significant gap in the media landscape—a lack of deep, intelligent conversations to explore the spiritual, ethical and moral aspects of human life. What began as a national public radio show in 2003 evolved into the multiple award-winning podcast “⁠On Being⁠” (“wisdom to replenish and orient in a tender, tumultuous time to be alive.”) Gifted with insatiable curiosity, profound relational intelligence, a poetic sensibility, and an ability to unearth revelatory ideas to live by, Krista creates spaces where wisdom can emerge. With her interdisciplinary and cross-sectoral whole systems overview, she’s hosted luminaries as disparate as Mary Oliver, Thich Nhat Hahn, Isabel Wilkerson and Desmond Tutu, among many more. Listen to this rare intimate, live interview with her friend, insightful strategist, philanthropist and activist Azita Ardakani.

This is an episode of the Bioneers: Revolution from the Heart of Nature series. Visit the ⁠radio and podcast homepage⁠ to learn more.

Saving Nature Means Saving Ourselves | Dr. Rae Wynn-Grant

it@bioneers.org (Bioneers) — Wed, 24 Dec 2025 14:00:00 -0000

Dr. Rae Wynn-Grant shares her personal odyssey as a wildlife ecologist, conservation biologist and co-host of the famed TV nature show “Wild Kingdom.” As a scientist dedicated to protecting and conserving the diversity of the web of life, she reminds us that, as human beings, we are part of nature. It’s all connected, and it’s high time to bring about peaceful coexistence, not only with nature, but with one another.

Rae Wynn-Grant, Ph.D., is a wildlife ecologist and conservation biologist, creator of the award-winning podcast “Going Wild with Dr. Rae Wynn-Grant,” co-host of Mutual of Omaha’s “Wild Kingdom,” and author of “⁠Wild Life: Finding My Purpose in an Untamed World⁠.”

Resources

⁠Rae Wynn-Grant – Wild Life: How Personal Journeys are Essential to Sustainable Leadership in Environmental Science⁠ | Bioneers 2024 Keynote

⁠Rae Wynn-Grant – Becoming a Wildlife Ecologist in a Rugged World⁠ | Excerpt from “Wild Life: Finding My Purpose in an Untamed World”

Credits

Executive Producer: Kenny Ausubel

Written by: Leo Hornak and Kenny Ausubel

Senior Producer and Station Relations: Stephanie Welch

Program Engineer and Music Supervisor: Emily Harris

Producer: Teo Grossman

Host and Consulting Producer: Neil Harvey

Production Assistance: Leo Hornak and Monica Lopez

This is an episode of the Bioneers: Revolution from the Heart of Nature series. Visit the ⁠radio and podcast homepage⁠ to learn more.

Busting the Myth of Primate Patriarchy: The Nature of Sex and Gender in Our Ape Relatives

it@bioneers.org (Bioneers) — Wed, 17 Dec 2025 14:00:00 -0000

The late world-renowned primatologist Professor Frans de Waal (1948-2024) explores the nature of sex and gender among our cousins the apes, and how gender diversity is a common and pervasive potential on nature’s masculine-feminine continuum. In the quest to overcome human gender inequality, he suggests that our focus needs to be on the inequality.

Featuring

The late Frans B. M. de Waal, Ph.D., was a Dutch/American biologist and primatologist widely renowned for his work on the behavior and social intelligence of primates. C. H. Candler Professor Emeritus at Emory University, de Waal was elected to the U.S. National Academy of Sciences and was declared one of The Worlds’ 100 Most Influential People Today by Time magazine in 2007. The author of numerous highly influential books including Chimpanzee Politics, Our Inner Ape, and Different: Gender Through the Eyes of a Primatologist.

Executive Producer: Kenny Ausubel

Written by: Kenny Ausubel

Senior Producer and Station Relations: Stephanie Welch

Program Engineer and Music Supervisor: Emily Harris

Producer: Teo Grossman

Host and Consulting Producer: Neil Harvey

Production Assistance: Anna Rubanova

Resources

Read an excerpt from Different: Gender Through the Eyes of a Primatologist

Living Links Center for the Advanced Study of Ape and Human Evolution

This is an episode of the Bioneers: Revolution from the Heart of Nature series. Visit the ⁠radio and podcast homepage⁠ to learn more.

Laboring for Justice: See No Stranger

it@bioneers.org (Bioneers) — Fri, 12 Dec 2025 07:26:00 -0000

In a world that’s unraveling from climate disruption and gaping inequality, another climate crisis confronts us: the climate of hate and othering. Award-winning scholar and educator Valarie Kaur says to overcome racism and nationalism, we must not succumb to rage and grief. As someone who has spent much of her life challenging horrific injustices and intolerance, Kaur learned the lesson that historical nonviolent change-makers understood: social movements must be grounded in an ethic of love. She founded the Revolutionary Love Project, and has emerged as one of the most important voices of the American Sikh community, and a highly influential faith leader on the national stage.

Featuring

Valarie Kaur, born into a family of Sikh farmers who settled in California in 1913, is a seasoned civil rights activist, award-winning filmmaker, lawyer, faith leader, and founder of the Revolutionary Love Project, which seeks to champion love as a public ethic and wellspring for social action.

Executive Producer: Kenny Ausubel

Written by: Monica Lopez and Kenny Ausubel

Senior Producer and Station Relations: Stephanie Welch

Host and Consulting Producer: Neil Harvey

Producer: Teo Grossman

Program Engineer and Music Supervisor: Emily Harris

Production Assistance: Claire Reynolds

Music includes pieces by:

Edamame, EdamameBeats.com

This is an episode of the Bioneers: Revolution from the Heart of Nature series. Visit the ⁠radio and podcast homepage⁠ to learn more.

The Apology: Love Means Having to Say You’re Sorry

it@bioneers.org (Bioneers) — Wed, 03 Dec 2025 14:00:00 -0000

These are some of the agonizing questions that the artist, playwright, performer and activist Eve Ensler, now known as V chose to face to resolve her own relationship with her abusive late father. She did it by writing a book, ⁠The Apology⁠.

In writing it, she tried to imagine being her father. Who was he? What allowed him to do such terrible harms? Could she free herself from this prison of the past? Could she free both of them?

Featuring

V (formerly Eve Ensler), Tony Award-winning playwright, performer, and one of the world’s most important activists on behalf of women’s rights, is the author of many plays, including, most famously the extraordinarily influential and impactful The Vagina Monologues, which has been performed all over the globe in 50 or so languages.

Credits

Executive Producer: Kenny Ausubel

Written by: Kenny Ausubel

Senior Producer and Station Relations: Stephanie Welch

Host and Consulting Producer: Neil Harvey

Producer: Teo Grossman

Program Engineer and Music Supervisor: Emily Harris

Additional music was made available by:

Ketsa at ⁠FreeMusicArchive.org⁠
Gigi Masin at ⁠MusicFromMemory.com⁠

This is an episode of the Bioneers: Revolution from the Heart of Nature series. Visit the ⁠radio and podcast homepage⁠ to learn more.

When Truth Is Dangerous: The Power of Independent Media | Amy Goodman & Monika Bauerlein

it@bioneers.org (Bioneers) — Wed, 26 Nov 2025 14:00:00 -0000

In this program, we hear from two veteran journalists who lead two of the most courageous and successful independent media outlets in the United States: Monika Bauerlein, the CEO of ⁠Mother Jones magazine⁠, and Amy Goodman, host and executive producer of ⁠Democracy Now!⁠

Resources

⁠Video of Monika Bauerlein's Keynote speech at Bioneers 2019⁠

⁠Video of Amy Goodman's speech at Bioneers 2017⁠

Visit the ⁠radio and podcast homepage⁠ to find out more.

Toward a More Perfect Union

it@bioneers.org (Bioneers) — Wed, 19 Nov 2025 14:00:00 -0000

In this time of radical upheaval and change, fulfilling the promise of a “more perfect union” in the United States means building a multi-racial democracy through transformative solidarity. As the Founder-in-Residence at Policy Link, Professor Angela Glover Blackwell has spent decades advancing racial and economic equity at the national and local levels. She says the fate of the wealthiest nation on Earth depends on what happens to the very people who’ve been left behind.

Angela Glover Blackwell, one of the nation’s most prominent, award-winning social justice advocates, is “Founder-in-Residence” at PolicyLink, the organization she started in 1999 to advance racial and economic equity that has long been a leading force in improving access and opportunity in such areas as health, housing, transportation, and infrastructure. The host of the “Radical Imagination” podcast and a professor at the Goldman School of Public Policy at UC Berkeley, Angela, before PolicyLink, served as Senior Vice President at The Rockefeller Foundation and founded the Urban Strategies Council. She serves on numerous boards and advisory councils, including the inaugural Community Advisory Council of the Federal Reserve and California’s Task Force on Business and Jobs Recovery.

Resources

From Othering to Belonging with Angela Glover Blackwell and john a. powell

Transformative Solidarity for a Thriving Multiracial Democracy with Angela Glover Blackwell

This is an episode of the Bioneers: Revolution from the Heart of Nature series. Visit the radio and podcast homepage to learn more.

Designing for a Regenerative Future: What’s Love Got to Do with It?

it@bioneers.org (Bioneers) — Wed, 12 Nov 2025 14:00:00 -0000

What would it feel like to live in a world where our built environment was as elegant as nature's designs? What if our living and working spaces nurtured our human communities and quality of life? Architect and designer Jason F. McLennan takes the revolution from the heart of nature and the human heart into our built environment. He is shifting the fateful civilizational inflection point we face - from degradation to regeneration - from fear to love.

Featuring Jason F. McLennan, one of the world’s most influential visionaries in contemporary architecture and green building, is a highly sought-out designer, consultant and thought leader. A winner of Engineering News Record’s National Award of Excellence and of the prestigious Buckminster Fuller Prize (which was, during its 10-year trajectory, known as “the planet’s top prize for socially responsible design”), Jason has been showered with such accolades as “the ‘Wayne Gretzky’ of the green building industry and a “World Changer” (by GreenBiz magazine).

Resources

Jason McLennan Keynote Bioneers 2022 – From Reconciliation to Regeneration

Deep Community Resilience: Preparing for the Coming Age, Place-By-Place | Jason F. McLennan

Child-Centered Planning: A New Specialized Pattern Language Tool | Jason F. McLennan

Visit the episode page for transcript and more information.

This is an episode of the Bioneers: Revolution from the Heart of Nature series. Visit the radio and podcast homepage to learn more.

Got Dirt? Get Soil! The Benefits of Regenerative Agriculture

it@bioneers.org (Bioneers) — Wed, 05 Nov 2025 14:00:00 -0000

The profit-hungry agribusiness empire of the 20th century institutionalized farming practices that continue to degrade soils across the U.S. and globally. We face a fork in the road: collapse or regeneration? The good news is that we know what we need to begin an agricultural and ecological renaissance – a literal rebirth.

Biologist Anne Biklé and geologist David Montgomery share one of the good news stories that show how the solutions residing in nature surpass our conception of what’s even possible.

The Power of Art for Healing and Justice | Joy Harjo & Cara Romero

it@bioneers.org (Bioneers) — Wed, 22 Oct 2025 13:00:00 -0000

In this program, we drop in on a remarkable conversation between two world-renowned Native American women artists. National Poet Laureate and musician Joy Harjo riffs with distinguished photographer Cara Romero. They discuss how life is art, and how they make their art to reflect the lived truths of their cultures and people.

This is an episode of the Bioneers: Revolution from the Heart of Nature series. Visit the radio and podcast homepage to learn more.

Poetic Justice: Joy Harjo’s Artistic Journey in the Story Field

it@bioneers.org (Bioneers) — Wed, 15 Oct 2025 22:27:00 -0000

National Poet Laureate and musician Joy Harjo shares her artistic journey as a Native American woman into what she calls the “story field.” She says that in these times of radical disruption, chaos and disturbance, great creativity also pours forth… and we all play a part in which way the story will go.

Joy Harjo is an internationally renowned performer and writer of the Muscogee Nation. She served three terms as the 23rd Poet Laureate of the United States from 2019-2022 and is winner of the Poetry Society of America’s 2024 Frost Medal, Yale’s 2023 Bollingen Prize for American Poetry, and was recently honored with a National Humanities Medal.

Credits

Executive Producer: Kenny Ausubel

Written by: Kenny Ausubel

Senior Producer and Station Relations: Stephanie Welch

Associate Producer: Emily Harris

Producer: Teo Grossman

Host and Consulting Producer: Neil Harvey

Production Assistance: Mika Anami

This program features music by Joy Harjo and from Nagamo Publishing, the Indigenous-created music library.

Watch Joy Harjo's Keynote – Bioneers 2025

This is an episode of the Bioneers: Revolution from the Heart of Nature series. Visit the radio and podcast homepage to learn more.

Seeing the Forest for the Trees

it@bioneers.org (Bioneers) — Wed, 08 Oct 2025 13:00:00 -0000

We trek into the ancient old-growth forest where the trees reveal an ecological parable: A forest is a mightily interwoven community of diverse life that runs on symbiosis. With: Doctors Suzanne Simard and Teresa Ryan, ecologists whose work has helped reveal an elaborate tapestry of kinship, cooperation and mutual aid.

Featuring

Dr. Sm’hayetsk Teresa Ryan is Gitlan, Tsm’syen. Indigenous Knowledge and Natural Science Lecturer at the University of British Columbia Faculty of Forestry, Forest & Conservation Sciences. As a fisheries/aquatic/forest ecologist, she is currently investigating relationships between salmon and healthy forests.

Dr. Suzanne Simard, Professor of Forest Ecology at the University of British Columbia and author of the bestselling, Finding the Mother Tree, is a highly influential, researcher on the frontier of plant communication and intelligence.

Resources

⁠Forest Wisdom, Mother Trees and the Science of Community⁠ | Bioneers Podcast

⁠Suzanne Simard – Dispatches From the Mother Trees⁠ | Bioneers 2021 Keynote

⁠Suzanne Simard – Dealing with Backlash Against Nature-Based Solutions to Climate Change⁠ | Bioneers 2024 Keynote

⁠The Wood Wide Web: The Intelligent Underground Mycelial Network ⁠| Bioneers interview with Suzanne Simard

⁠Unraveling the Secrets of Salmon: An Indigenous Exploration of Forest Ecology and Nature’s Intelligence⁠ | Bioneers interview with Teresa Ryan

⁠Teresa Ryan: How Trees Communicate⁠ | Bioneers 2017 Keynote

⁠Deep Dive: Intelligence in Nature⁠

⁠Earthlings: Intelligence in Nature⁠ | Bioneers Newsletter

Credits

Executive Producer: Kenny Ausubel
Written by: Cathy Edwards and Kenny Ausubel
Produced by: Cathy Edwards
Senior Producer and Station Relations: Stephanie Welch
Host and Consulting Producer: Neil Harvey
Program Engineer and Music Supervisor: Emily Harris
Producer: Teo Grossman
Graphic Designer: Megan Howe

Tears in the Eyes, Rainbow in the Heart: Dr. Jane Goodall’s Reasons for Hope

it@bioneers.org (Bioneers) — Thu, 02 Oct 2025 21:32:00 -0000

The late visionary primatologist and conservationist Dr. Jane Goodall revolutionized primatology and helped us realize how close our kinship is with the animal kin-dom. Dr. Jane, as she’s affectionately known, began her intensive solitary studies of chimp behavior in Africa’s Gombe National Forest. She inspired the world to save the rapidly dwindling populations and their habitats. Her compelling vision lives on to inspire hope.

The Restorative Revolution: How Indigenous Leadership and Allyship Catalyzed the Biggest River Restoration in US History

it@bioneers.org (Bioneers) — Wed, 01 Oct 2025 13:00:00 -0000

Yurok fisherman and tribal leader Sammy Gensaw and environmental scientist-turned-activist Craig Tucker share the epic story of how Indigenous leadership and non-Indian allyship made the impossible inevitable: the biggest-ever dam removal and salmon restoration in history. It represented a literal watershed moment; unprecedented co-equal decision-making between the tribes and their historical nemesis – the US government.

Once complete in 2024, the project will liberate the Klamath river and several tributaries to once again run free across 400-miles from Oregon through California and into the Pacific Ocean.

Featuring

Sammy Gensaw (Yurok) is the Founding Director of the Ancestral Guard, Artist, Yurok Language Speaker, Singer, Writer, Cultural/Political/Environmental Activist, Regalia Maker, Mediator, Youth Leader & Fisherman.

Craig Tucker has 20+ years of advocacy and activism experience, especially working with tribal members, fishermen and farmers in the Klamath Basin on dam removal, traditional fire management, gold mining, and water policy, and is the founder and Principal of Suits and Signs Consulting.

Indigenous Forum – Undam the Klamath! How Tribes Led the Largest River Restoration Project in US History | Bioneers 2023

The river that came back to life: a journey down the reborn Klamath | The Guardian

Executive Producer: Kenny Ausubel
Written by: Kenny Ausubel
Senior Producer and Station Relations: Stephanie Welch
Host and Consulting Producer: Neil Harvey
Program Engineer and Music Supervisor: Emily Harris
Producer: Teo Grossman

The Universe Beneath Our Feet: Mapping the Mycelial Web of Life

it@bioneers.org (Bioneers) — Wed, 24 Sep 2025 13:00:00 -0000

Imagine an underground web of mind-boggling complexity, a bustling cosmopolis beneath your feet. Quadrillions of miles of tiny threads in the soil pulsate with real-time messages, trade vital nutrients, and form life-giving symbiotic partnerships. This is the mysterious realm of fungi. In this program, acclaimed visionary biologists Toby Kiers and Merlin Sheldrake will guide us through the intricate wonders of the mycorrhizal fungal networks that make life on Earth possible.

Featuring

Toby Kiers, Ph.D., is the Executive Director and Chief Scientist of SPUN (the Society for the Protection of Underground Networks) and a Professor of Evolutionary Biology at VU, Amsterdam.

Merlin Sheldrake, Ph.D., is a biologist and writer with a background in plant sciences, microbiology, ecology, and the history and philosophy of science. He is currently a research associate of the Vrije University Amsterdam, works with the SPUN, and sits on the advisory board of the Fungi Foundation.

Credits:

Executive Producer: Kenny Ausubel

Written by: Cathy Edwards and Kenny Ausubel

Produced by: Cathy Edwards

Senior Producer and Station Relations: Stephanie Welch

Host and Consulting Producer: Neil Harvey

Program Engineer and Music Supervisor: Emily Harris

Producer: Teo Grossman

Merlin Sheldrake – How Fungi Make our Worlds | Bioneers 2024 Keynote

Merlin Sheldrake and Toby Kiers – Mapping, Protecting and Harnessing the Mycorrhizal Networks that Sustain Life on Earth | Bioneers 2024 Panel Discussion

Interview with Merlin Sheldrake, Author of Entangled Life

Deep Dive: Intelligence in Nature

Earthlings: Intelligence in Nature | Bioneers Newsletter

SPUN (the Society for the Protection of Underground Networks)

Fungi Foundation

Creating a World Where Everyone Belongs: From a Change of Heart to System Change

it@bioneers.org (Bioneers) — Wed, 17 Sep 2025 13:00:00 -0000

In this moment of radical transformation, shifting the societal pronoun from “me, me, me” to “we” may be the single most transformational pivot we can make in order for anything else to work. Our destiny is ultimately collective.

How can we overcome corrosive divisions and separations that are tearing us apart and create a world where everyone belongs?

In this program, we dip into a deep conversation on this topic between Angela Glover Blackwell and john a. powell, two long-time friends and leaders in a quest toward building a multicultural democracy.

Featuring

Angela Glover Blackwell is Founder-in-Residence at ⁠PolicyLink⁠, the organization she started in 1999 to advance racial and economic equity. One of the nation’s most prominent, award-winning social justice advocates, she serves on numerous boards and advisory councils, including the inaugural Community Advisory Council of the Federal Reserve and California’s Task Force on Business and Jobs Recovery.

john a. powell is the Director of the ⁠Othering and Belonging Institute⁠ and Professor of Law, African American, and Ethnic Studies at UC Berkeley. A former National Legal Director of the ACLU, he co-founded the ⁠Poverty & Race Research Action Council⁠ and serves on the boards of several national and international organizations. His latest book is: ⁠Racing to Justice: Transforming our Concepts of Self and Other to Build an Inclusive Society⁠.

Resources

⁠From Othering to Belonging | Bioneers 2022 Panel Discussion with Angela Glover Blackwell and john a. powell⁠

⁠Angela Glover Blackwell – Transformative Solidarity for a Thriving Multiracial Democracy | Bioneers 2022 Keynote Address⁠

⁠john a. powell – Healing Across Divides: Building Bridges to Challenge Systemic Injustice | Bioneers 2020 Keynote Address⁠

Credits

Executive Producer: Kenny Ausubel
Written by: Kenny Ausubel
Senior Producer and Station Relations: Stephanie Welch
Program Engineer and Music Supervisor: Emily Harris
Host and Consulting Producer: Neil Harvey
Producer: Teo Grossman
Production Assistance: Anna Rubanova and Monica Lopez

This is an episode of the Bioneers: Revolution from the Heart of Nature series. Visit the ⁠radio and podcast homepage⁠ to learn more.

Laboring For Justice: See No Stranger

it@bioneers.org (Bioneers) — Thu, 04 Sep 2025 20:41:00 -0000

In a world that’s unraveling from climate disruption and gaping inequality, another climate crisis confronts us: the climate of hate and othering. Award-winning scholar and educator Valarie Kaur says to overcome racism and nationalism, we must not succumb to rage and grief. As someone who has spent much of her life challenging horrific injustices and intolerance, Kaur learned the lesson that historical nonviolent change-makers understood: social movements must be grounded in an ethic of love. She founded the ⁠Revolutionary Love Project⁠, and has emerged as one of the most important voices of the American Sikh community, and a highly influential faith leader on the national stage.

The theme music is co-written by the Baka Forest People of Cameroon and Baka Beyond, from the album East to West. Find out more at ⁠globalmusicexchange.org⁠.

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This is an episode of the Bioneers: Revolution from the Heart of Nature series. Visit the ⁠radio and podcast homepage⁠ to learn more.

From Scarcity to Abundance: How Collective Governance Can Transform the Climate Crisis

it@bioneers.org (Bioneers) — Wed, 27 Aug 2025 13:00:00 -0000

In this episode, award-winning lawyer and climate justice organizer Colette Pichon Battle lays out a bold vision for a new organizing project designed to model bioregional democratic climate action. The aim is to transform the Gulf South and Appalachia away from the lethal matrix of fossil fuel extraction and extractive economics. Instead, the regional vision is for a regenerative future of clean energy democracy, and an equitable, inclusive economy.

Featuring

Colette Pichon Battle, a generational native of Bayou Liberty, Louisiana, is an award-winning lawyer and prominent climate justice organizer. After 17 years leading the Gulf Coast Center for Law and Policy, she co-founded Taproot Earth to create connections and power across issues, movements, and geographies.

Credits

Executive Producer: Kenny Ausubel

Written by: Kenny Ausubel

Senior Producer and Station Relations: Stephanie Welch

Program Engineer and Music Supervisor: Emily Harris

Producer: Teo Grossman

Host and Consulting Producer: Neil Harvey

Songs in this Episode: ‘Good Morning New Orleans’ by Kermit Ruffins; ‘What Goes Around Comes Around’ by Rebirth Brass Band, provided by Basin Street Records in New Orleans, Louisiana

Colette Pichon Battle – Expanding Our Movements for Climate Justice | Bioneers 2024 Keynote

“Let’s Get Behind the Frontlines” with Colette Pichon Battle | Audio Excerpt

From Climate Crisis to Climate Justice | Bioneers Newsletter

Taproot Earth

This is an episode of the Bioneers: Revolution from the Heart of Nature series. Visit the radio and podcast homepage to learn more.

Supreme Oligarchy: How Billionaires and the Supreme Court are Betraying the Promise of America

it@bioneers.org (Bioneers) — Wed, 20 Aug 2025 13:00:00 -0000

Author, broadcaster and scholar Thom Hartmann warns of the existential threat of a virulent new oligarchy: the third frontal assault by the ultra-wealthy in American history to use their concentrated economic power to seize maximum political power - and overthrow democracy once and for all.

Featuring

Thom Hartmann, a best-selling author of over 30 books in print and host of the #1 progressive talk show host in America for more than a decade, has co-written and been featured in 6 documentaries with Leonardo DiCaprio about climate change.

Credits

Executive Producer: Kenny Ausubel

Written by: Kenny Ausubel

Senior Producer and Station Relations: Stephanie Welch

Associate Producer: Emily Harris

Producer: Teo Grossman

Host and Consulting Producer: Neil Harvey

Resources

Thom Hartmann – Supreme Oligarchy at the Gates | Bioneers 2025 Keynote

Thom Hartmann – All Life Is Organized Around Democracy | Bioneers 2020 Keynote

Democracy v. Plutocracy: Behind Every Great Fortune Lies a Great Crime | Bioneers Podcast

Kenny Ausubel – Hostile Takeover | Bioneers 2025 Keynote

This is an episode of the Bioneers: Revolution from the Heart of Nature series. Visit the radio and podcast homepage to learn more.

Indigenous Rising: From Alcatraz to Standing Rock

it@bioneers.org (Bioneers) — Wed, 13 Aug 2025 13:00:00 -0000

History doesn’t repeat itself, but it rhymes. From the historic Indigenous occupation of Alcatraz Island in 1969 to the fossil fuel fights throughout Canada and the U.S. today, Indigenous resistance illuminates an activism founded in a spiritual connection with the web of life and the human community – with Julian Brave NoiseCat, Dr. LaNada War Jack and Clayton Thomas-Müller.

Featuring

⁠Julian Brave NoiseCat⁠ is a polymath whose work spans journalism, public policy, research, art, activism and advocacy. He serves as Director of Green Strategy at ⁠Data for Progress⁠, as well as “Narrative Change Director” for the ⁠Natural History Museum⁠ artist and activist collective.
Dr. LaNada War Jack is an enrolled member of the ⁠Shoshone Bannock Tribes⁠ of the Fort Hall Indian Reservation in Idaho.
Clayton Thomas-Müller is a member of the ⁠Mathias Colomb Cree Nation⁠, also known as Pukatawagan, in Northern Manitoba. He serves as the “Stop it at the Source” campaigner with ⁠350.org⁠.

This is an episode of the Bioneers: Revolution from the Heart of Nature series. Visit the ⁠radio and podcast homepage⁠ to learn more.

Take This Job and Shove It: The Great Resignation or The Great Revolt? | Saru Jayaraman

it@bioneers.org (Bioneers) — Wed, 06 Aug 2025 13:00:00 -0000

Labor organizer and Founder of One Fair Wage, Saru Jayaraman, takes us inside one of the fiercest labor struggles to challenge a mighty oligarchy: The food, beverage and restaurant industry. Workers are walking off the job and refusing historically low wages. She says if “we the people” stand with workers as they face this powerful lobby, they can win.

Featuring

Saru Jayaraman, President of ⁠One Fair Wage⁠ and Director of the ⁠Food Labor Research Center at UC Berkeley⁠, co-founded (after 9/11) the ⁠Restaurant Opportunities Center⁠ (ROC), which grew into a national movement of restaurant workers, employers and consumers. Saru has won many prestigious awards for her advocacy and is the author of four books including: ⁠One Fair Wage: Ending All Subminimum Pay in America⁠ and ⁠Bite Back: People Taking on Corporate Food and Winning⁠.

Resources

⁠Saru Jayaraman – The Great Revolution: What A Worker Power Moment Can Mean for Climate Justice⁠ | Bioneers 2023 Keynote

⁠Saru Jayaraman – We the People: Workers Rising for Fair Wages⁠ | Bioneers 2017 Keynote

⁠Inside the Campaign to Abolish the Subminimum Wage in 25 States by 2026⁠ | Inequality.org

This is an episode of the Bioneers: Revolution from the Heart of Nature series. Visit the ⁠radio and podcast homepage⁠ to learn more.

None of Your Business: Claiming Our Digital Privacy Rights, Reclaiming Democracy

it@bioneers.org (Bioneers) — Wed, 30 Jul 2025 13:00:00 -0000

We plug into the real world Matrix – the digital Wild West of surveillance capitalism that dominates this Age of Information. Behind it is the unholy alliance between Big Tech and Big Brother. Privacy is the first casualty and democracy dies with it. Our guide is Cindy Cohn, director of Electronic Frontier Foundation, with her decades of experience challenging digital authoritarianism.

Featuring

Cindy Cohn, the Executive Director of the Electronic Frontier Foundation since 2015, served as EFF’s Legal Director as well as its General Counsel from 2000 to 2015. Among other honors, Ms. Cohn was named to The Non-Profit Times 2020 Power & Influence TOP 50 list, and in 2018, Forbes included Ms. Cohn as one of America’s Top 50 Women in Tech.

Resources

⁠Cindy Cohn – The Climate Fight is Digital⁠ | Bioneers 2024 Keynote

⁠Tools from Electronic Frontier Foundation⁠

Credits

Executive Producer: Kenny Ausubel

Written by: Kenny Ausubel

Additional production and writing: Leo Hornak

Senior Producer and Station Relations: Stephanie Welch

Program Engineer and Music Supervisor: Emily Harris

Producer: Teo Grossman

Host and Consulting Producer: Neil Harvey

This is an episode of the Bioneers: Revolution from the Heart of Nature series. Visit the ⁠radio and podcast homepage⁠ to learn more.

The Rising Anti-Monopoly Movement: Overcoming Economic Tyranny

it@bioneers.org (Bioneers) — Wed, 23 Jul 2025 13:00:00 -0000

Today, three to five giant corporations control up to 80% of almost every industry and marketplace. These monopolies depress wages, exploit workers, and decimate small businesses. Stacy Mitchell from the Institute for Local Self Reliance has been a leader in a growing anti-monopoly movement with a broad political base. Can this emerging movement – along with bold federal antitrust action – create a force that can challenge corporate power for the first time in decades?

Featuring

⁠Stacy Mitchell⁠, a Maine-based writer, strategist, and policy advocate whose work focuses on dismantling concentrated corporate power and building thriving communities and a healthy democracy, has played a leading role in today’s growing anti-monopoly movement. She is Co-Executive Director of the ⁠Institute for Local Self-Reliance⁠ (ILSR) and the author of ⁠Big-Box Swindle: The True Cost of Mega-Retailers and the Fight for America’s Independent Businesses⁠, and co-author of the influential report: ⁠Amazon’s Stranglehold⁠.

Resources

⁠Stacy Mitchell – Democracy vs. Big Tech: How We Can Win the Fight Against Monopoly Power | Bioneers 2024 Keynote⁠

⁠Democracy v. Plutocracy: Behind Every Great Fortune Lies a Great Crime⁠

⁠Our Economic Future: Achieving a More Equitable Society by Radically Rethinking Our Guiding Economic Ideas | Bioneers Reade⁠

Credits

Executive Producer: Kenny Ausubel
Written by: Kenny Ausubel
Senior Producer and Station Relations: Stephanie Welch
Program Engineer and Music Supervisor: Emily Harris
Producer: Teo Grossman
Host and Consulting Producer: Neil Harvey

This is an episode of the Bioneers: Revolution from the Heart of Nature series. Visit the ⁠radio and podcast homepage⁠ to learn more.

Democracy v. Plutocracy: Breaking Up is Hard to Do

it@bioneers.org (Bioneers) — Wed, 16 Jul 2025 13:00:00 -0000

In this second of our two-part program, we join Thom Hartmann, Stacy Mitchell and Maurice BP-Weeks to survey the landscape of rising antitrust movements to break the stranglehold of corporate power and level the playing field for a democratized economy.

Featuring

Thom Hartmann, the top progressive talk show host in America for over a decade, a four-time Project Censored Award-winning journalist, and bestselling author. Learn more at his website.
Stacy Mitchell, Co-Director of the Institute for Local Self-Reliance, which produces research and develops policy to counter corporate control and build thriving, equitable communities.
Maurice BP-Weeks, Co-Executive Director of ACRE (Action Center on Race and the Economy) where he works on campaigns to create equitable communities by dismantling systems of wealth extraction in Black and Brown communities.

The Hidden History of Monopolies by Thom Hartmann

Fighting Monopoly Power | Institute for Local Self-Reliance

All Life Is Organized Around Democracy | Thom Hartmann’s keynote address to the Bioneers 2020 Conference

Democracy vs. Plutocracy panel discussion (video) | Bioneers 2020 Conference

Our Economic Future | Bioneers Reader eBook

This is an episode of the Bioneers: Revolution from the Heart of Nature series. Visit the radio and podcast homepage to learn more.

Democracy v. Plutocracy: Behind Every Great Fortune Lies a Great Crime

it@bioneers.org (Bioneers) — Wed, 09 Jul 2025 13:00:00 -0000

In this first part of a two-part program, we travel back and forth in time to explore the battle between democracy and plutocracy that goes back to the very founding of the United States.

The extreme concentration of corporate power and the prevalence of monopoly are indeed inarguable. If the solution is once again to throw the tea in the harbor, what does that look like in the 21st century?

In today’s new Gilded Age of rule by the wealthy, rising anti-trust movements are challenging the stranglehold of corporate monopoly.

Featuring

Thom Hartmann, the top progressive talk show host in America for over a decade, a four-time Project Censored Award-winning journalist, and bestselling author. Learn more at his website.
Stacy Mitchell, Co-Director of the Institute for Local Self-Reliance, which produces research and develops policy to counter corporate control and build thriving, equitable communities.
Maurice BP-Weeks, Co-Executive Director of ACRE (Action Center on Race and the Economy) where he works on campaigns to create equitable communities by dismantling systems of wealth extraction in Black and Brown communities.

Resources

The Hidden History of Monopolies by Thom Hartmann

All Life Is Organized Around Democracy | Thom Hartmann’s keynote address to the Bioneers 2020 Conference

Democracy vs. Plutocracy panel discussion (video) | Bioneers 2020 Conference

Our Economic Future | Bioneers Reader eBook

This is an episode of the Bioneers: Revolution from the Heart of Nature series. Visit the radio and podcast homepage to learn more.

Who Is an American? Is Our Democracy as Unequal as Our Economy?

it@bioneers.org (Bioneers) — Wed, 02 Jul 2025 13:00:00 -0000

By around 2044, the U.S. will become a majority-minority nation. This seismic demographic shift has triggered a cultural earthquake, provoking a radical spike in hate crimes. In times of massive disruption and economic stress, what Carl Jung called the “shadow side of the psyche” comes into play: the pronounced psychological tendency in the collective psyche is to project these shadow qualities with unusual potency onto whomever people see as “the other.” But is there also a deeper story? Perhaps the question to ask is: Who benefits? In this half hour, we hear from Heather McGhee of Demos. She sees a direct connection between today’s extreme inequality and this peak moment of racial panic and white anxiety.

This is an episode of the Bioneers: Revolution from the Heart of Nature series. Visit the radio and podcast homepage to learn more.

A Conversation with David Rothenberg

it@bioneers.org (Bioneers) — Wed, 25 Jun 2025 06:50:00 -0000

Dive into a conversation between Bioneers senior producer J.P. Harpignies and David Rothenberg. David is a musician, composer, author, naturalist, philosopher, and an independent publisher. He’s been a unique and fascinating explorer of humanity’s connections to the natural world for more than four decades.

⁠Watch the video version of this conversation⁠

One of David’s unique forms of experimentation in his extensive travels has been not only his recordings of bird and whale and other animal songs, but his attempts to engage with other species in musical exchanges. Quite a few have been captured on film and discussed in his many books. David has released some 40 albums under his own name and collaborated with many prominent musicians. Someone recently said that David has “played with everyone from Peter Gabriel to Pauline Oliveros, Suzanne Vega, Scanner, cicadas, humpbacks, frogs, Estonian pond organisms” and many others.

JP invited David to recount some of the key episodes in his career trajectory, unpack some of his guiding ideals and passions, and regale us with anecdotes from an extremely full life.

To learn more about the extraordinary intelligence of life inherent in fungi, plants and animals, check out Bioneers' Earthlings newsletter. Each issue delves into captivating stories and research that promise to reshape your perception of our fellow Earthlings – and point toward a profound shift in how we all inhabit this planet together. You can subscribe at bioneers.org/earthlings

When No News is Bad News: The Struggle to Save Local Journalism

it@bioneers.org (Bioneers) — Wed, 18 Jun 2025 22:30:00 -0000

The most critical feedback loop in a democracy is a free press and access to vital information. Yet decades of corporate consolidation allowed giant conglomerates to annihilate local news outlets and predatory hedge funds are leaving news deserts in their wake. In 2025, a fifth of people in the U.S. live with little or no access to local news and three quarters of newspaper jobs have been axed over the last 20 years. But new models are crystallizing to fill the void, thanks to innovating journalists and publishers.

Featuring

Larry Ryckman, co-founder and Editor of The Colorado Sun, was previously: Senior Editor at The Denver Post; Managing Editor at The Gazette in Colorado Springs; and City Editor at the Greeley Tribune.

Madeleine Bair, founder of El Tímpano, an award-winning civic media organization designed with and for the Bay Area’s Latino and Mayan immigrant communities.

Jacob Simas, Oakland-based Community Journalism Director at Cityside Journalism Initiative.

Credits

Executive Producer: Kenny Ausubel

Written by: Claire Reynolds & Kenny Ausubel

Producer: Claire Reynolds

Senior Producer and Station Relations: Stephanie Welch

Associate Producer: Emily Harris

Producer: Teo Grossman

Interview Recording Engineer: Rod Akil at KPFA studios

Production Assistance: Kaleb Wentzel Fisher

Host and Consulting Producer: Neil Harvey

This is an episode of the Bioneers: Revolution from the Heart of Nature series. Visit the radio and podcast homepage to for show notes and more.

Raced and Classed: The Journey From Diversity to Equity

it@bioneers.org (Bioneers) — Wed, 11 Jun 2025 20:31:00 -0000

What we do to each other, we do to the Earth. To protect our common home, we’re being called upon to bridge our differences to create beloved community and peaceful coexistence. A new generation of visionary change-makers is reframing the race conversation, and designing new tools to transform our unconscious biases and create justice. With: Racial justice pathfinders Rinku Sen, Saru Jayaraman and Malkia Cyril.

This is an episode of the Bioneers: Revolution from the Heart of Nature series. Visit the ⁠radio and podcast homepage⁠ to learn more.

Staying Alive: Reconciling Nature, Culture and Gay Rights

it@bioneers.org (Bioneers) — Wed, 04 Jun 2025 13:00:00 -0000

As a backlash against LGBTQ rights escalates into an authoritarian crusade, acclaimed author and queer activist Taylor Brorby asks how we can still be fighting this battle? As a writer addressing the fossil fuel industry’s acceleration in the midst of climate chaos, Taylor is forced to choose between the existential crises of the assaults on nature and on LGBTQ people. It’s all connected, he says, as he seeks to reconcile nature, culture, diversity and belonging.

Featuring

Taylor Brorby, a Fellow in Environmental Humanities and Environmental Justice at the Tanner Humanities Center at the University of Utah, is an award-winning, widely published writer and poet as well as a contributing editor at North American Review who also serves on the editorial boards of Terrain.org and Hub City Press. Taylor regularly speaks around the country on issues related to extractive economies, queerness, disability, and climate change, and is the author of Boys and Oil: Growing up gay in a fractured land; Crude: Poems; Coming Alive: Action and Civil Disobedience; and co-editor of Fracture: Essays, Poems, and Stories on Fracking in America.

Resources

Video | Taylor Brorby – Raising Hell: Censorship, Carbon Capture, and Being Gay on the Great Plains

Learn more about Taylor Brorby at taylorbrorby.com

Credits

Executive Producer: Kenny Ausubel

Written by: Kenny Ausubel

Senior Producer and Station Relations: Stephanie Welch

Host and Consulting Producer: Neil Harvey

Program Engineer and Music Supervisor: Emily Harris

Producer: Teo Grossman

This is an episode of the Bioneers: Revolution from the Heart of Nature series. Visit the radio and podcast homepage to learn more.

Nature’s Intelligence: Coming Down from the Pedestal

it@bioneers.org (Bioneers) — Thu, 29 May 2025 01:51:00 -0000

In this episode, Bioneers Senior Producer J.P. Harpignies speaks with Narby about how the very language and words we use reveal the topography and limits of our worldview, including Western culture’s adamant centuries-long but now increasingly discredited assumption that intelligence is restricted only to human beings.

Legalizing Nature’s Rights: How Tribal Nations are Leading the Fastest Growing Environmental Movement in History

it@bioneers.org (Bioneers) — Wed, 21 May 2025 13:00:00 -0000

The Rights of Nature movement launched internationally in 2006 and is growing fast. Driven primarily by tribes and citizen-led communities, more than three dozen cities, townships and counties across the U.S. have adopted such laws to create legally enforceable rights for ecosystems to exist, flourish, regenerate and evolve.

Native American attorneys, Frank Bibeau and Samantha Skenandore, and legal movement leader Thomas Linzey report from the front lines how they are honing their strategies to protect natural systems for future generations.

Featuring

Frank Bibeau, an enrolled member of the Minnesota Chippewa Tribe, is an activist and tribal attorney who works extensively on Chippewa treaty and civil rights, sovereignty and water protection.

Thomas Linzey, Senior Legal Counsel for the Center for Democratic and Environmental Rights (CDER), an organization committed to advancing the legal rights of nature and environmental rights globally.

Samantha Skenandore (Ho-Chunk/Oneida), Attorney/Of-Counsel at Quarles & Brady LLP, has vast knowledge and experience in working on matters involving on both federal Indian law and tribal law.

Resources

⁠Mari Margil and Thomas Linzey – Changing Everything: The Global Movement for the Rights of Nature⁠

⁠The Rights of Nature Movement in Indian Country and Beyond: From Grassroots to Mainstream⁠

⁠Bioneers Rights of Nature Deep Dive⁠

This is an episode of the Bioneers: Revolution from the Heart of Nature series. Visit the ⁠radio and podcast homepage⁠ to learn more.

Declarations of Interdependence: A Story of Storytelling | Baratunde Thurston

it@bioneers.org (Bioneers) — Wed, 14 May 2025 13:00:00 -0000

Since time immemorial, storytellers have held an exalted role in human societies, because stories illustrate parables that help us make sense of the world and survive. In this episode, we hitch a ride with comedian, writer, futurist, technologist, and storyteller Baratunde Thurston. At this perilous existential threshold that will determine the fate of the human experiment, he knows that the story of the battle is equally the battle of the story.

Featuring

Baratunde Thurston, a writer, communicator, and creator and host of the How To Citizen podcast, is also a founding partner and writer at Puck. His newest creation is Life With Machines, a YouTube podcast focusing on the human side of the A.I. revolution. Author of the bestselling comedic memoir, How To Be Black, Baratunde also serves on the boards of Civics Unplugged and the Brooklyn Public Library and lives in Southern California.

Credits

Executive Producer: Kenny Ausubel
Written by: Kenny Ausubel
Senior Producer and Station Relations: Stephanie Welch
Associate Producer: Emily Harris
Producer: Teo Grossman
Host and Consulting Producer: Neil Harvey

Resources

Watch Baratunde Thurston's 2025 Bioneers Keynote – From Me to We, A Story of Interdependence

This is an episode of the Bioneers: Revolution from the Heart of Nature series. Visit the radio and podcast homepage to learn more.

Why Equity is Good for Everyone: Changing the Story, Changing the World | john a. powell & Heather McGhee

it@bioneers.org (Bioneers) — Wed, 07 May 2025 13:00:00 -0000

How do we change the story of corrosive racial inequity? First, we have to understand the stories we tell ourselves. In this program, racial justice innovators john a. powell and Heather McGhee show how empathy, honesty and the recognition of our common humanity can change the story to bridge the racial divides tearing humanity and the Earth apart.

john a. powell is the Director of the ⁠Othering and Belonging Institute⁠ and Professor of Law, African American, and Ethnic Studies at UC Berkeley. His latest book is: ⁠Racing to Justice: Transforming our Concepts of Self and Other to Build an Inclusive Society⁠. Watch his keynote from the 2017 Bioneers Conference: https://bioneers.org/john-a-powell-co-creating-alternative-spaces-to-heal-bioneers-2017/
Heather McGhee, distinguished senior fellow and former president of ⁠Demos⁠, is an award-winning thought leader on the national stage whose writing and research appear in numerous outlets, including The New York Times and The Nation. Her latest book is ⁠The Sum of Us: What Racism Costs Everyone and How We Can Prosper Together.⁠ Watch her keynote from the 2017 Bioneers Conference: https://bioneers.org/heather-mcghee-a-new-we-the-people-for-a-sustainable-future/

This is an episode of the Bioneers: Revolution from the Heart of Nature series. Visit the ⁠radio and podcast homepage⁠ to find out how to hear the program on your local station and how to subscribe to the podcast.

No More Stolen Sisters: Stopping the Abuse and Murder of Native Women and Girls

it@bioneers.org (Bioneers) — Wed, 30 Apr 2025 13:00:00 -0000

These stories are shocking, harrowing and heartbreaking. But then again, when your heart breaks, the cracks are where the light shines through.

Featuring

Morning Star Gali, Ozawa Bineshi Albert, Simone Senogles, Kandi White, and Casey Camp Horinek.

Resources

The Coalition to Stop Violence Against Native Women

The Intercept: A New Film Examines Sexual Violence as a Feature of the Bakken Oil Boom

Restoring Justice for Indigenous Peoples: MMIW Initiative

The Mendocino Voice: Community groups begin painting mural honoring Khadijah Britton and highlighting MMIW in Ukiah

This is an episode of the Bioneers: Revolution from the Heart of Nature series. Visit the radio and podcast homepage to learn more.

The Charging Twenties: Now is the Time to Build a Solar-Powered Civilization

it@bioneers.org (Bioneers) — Wed, 23 Apr 2025 13:00:00 -0000

Visionary clean energy entrepreneur Danny Kennedy explores the promise and challenges of the epic civilizational transition to renewable energy. Without doubt, the shift has hit the fan, but will we make the transition in time to avert complete climate breakdown? Danny Kennedy says we can – and the real heroes will be millions of clean energy entrepreneurs and startups, in partnership with the determined leadership of Indigenous Peoples arising worldwide.

Featuring

Danny Kennedy, with a long background in eco activism, has become one of the nation’s leading figures in clean-technology entrepreneurship and the capitalization of the transition to a “green” economy. Kennedy is currently CEO of New Energy Nexus, a global nonprofit providing funds, accelerators, and networks to drive clean energy innovation and adoption.

Credits

Executive Producer: Kenny Ausubel

Written by: Kenny Ausubel

Senior Producer and Station Relations: Stephanie Welch

Host and Consulting Producer: Neil Harvey

Program Engineer and Music Supervisor: Emily Harris

Producer: Teo Grossman

Resources

Danny Kennedy – The Charging 20s | Bioneers 2023 Keynote

Danny Kennedy – Optimizing the Energy Transition | Bioneers 2016 Keynote

This is an episode of the Bioneers: Revolution from the Heart of Nature series. Visit the radio and podcast homepage to learn more.

Bioneers presents Future Ecologies: Sea / Garden

it@bioneers.org (Bioneers) — Wed, 16 Apr 2025 13:00:00 -0000

We are sharing an episode from our friends at Future Ecologies. Future Ecologies is a podcast exploring our eco-social relationships through stories, science, music, and soundscapes. Every episode is an invitation to see the world in a new light — weaving together narrative and interviews with expert knowledge holders. We will be back next week with an episode of the Bioneers. Here is more about the episode we are featuring:

Food security, climate adaptation, and vibrant biodiversity all in one place — welcome to the ancient and diverse technologies of Sea Gardening.

These widespread (but often overlooked) monumental rock features are proof positive of thriving Indigenous maricultural systems all around the Pacific Rim, since time immemorial.

These spaces are not only simply stunningly beautiful spots to hang out, they're also a powerful symbol of eco-cultural restoration; of Indigenous sovereignty, self-determination, and internationalism; of relationship building; and of the kind of future that is possible as we adapt to a changing climate and rising sea levels. We hope you find them as inspiring as we do.

Join us as we visit a sea garden, learn about how they work, and meet a few of the people bringing them back to life.

Visit futureecologies.net/listen/fe-6-2-sea-garden for full credits, links, citations, photos, a transcript, and more.

Radical Transparency: Mapping the Earth from the Ground to the Cloud

it@bioneers.org (Bioneers) — Wed, 02 Apr 2025 16:00:00 -0000

In this program, we explore the boundless possibilities of digital maps and platforms with Rebecca Moore, visionary founder of Google Earth Outreach and Google Earth Engine.

This is an episode of the Bioneers: Revolution from the Heart of Nature series. Visit the radio and podcast homepage to learn more.

Urban Forests: A Nature-Based Solution to Climate Breakdown and Inequality

it@bioneers.org (Bioneers) — Tue, 18 Mar 2025 16:00:00 -0000

Visionary urban planners and community organizers recognize that effectively addressing the climate crisis requires drawing down carbon out of the atmosphere and sequestering it back where it belongs in natural systems. Urban forestry is a nature-based solution that simultaneously addresses the parallel crises of climate change and wealth inequality. With Brett KenCairn, Boulder city Senior Advisor and Samira Malone, Urban Forestry Program Manager at the Urban Sustainability Directors Network.

The Nature of Language and the Language of Nature

it@bioneers.org (Bioneers) — Tue, 11 Mar 2025 20:15:00 -0000

Featuring

Jeannette Armstrong, Ph.D., (Okanagan) is an Indigenous author, teacher, ecologist, and a culture bearer for her Native language. She is also Co-founder of the En'owkin Centre.

Rowen White (Mohawk) is a seed keeper and farmer, and part of the Indigenous Seed Keepers Network. She operates a living seed bank called Sierra Seeds.

Resources

En’owkin Centre

Indigenous Seed Keepers Network

Sierra Seeds

Language Keepers: The Struggle for Indigenous Language Survival in California

Hand Talk, Native American Sign Language

Native Seed Rematriation

Credits

Executive Producer: Kenny Ausubel

Written by: Cathy Edwards and Kenny Ausubel

Produced by: Cathy Edwards

Senior Producer and Station Relations: Stephanie Welch

Associate Producer: Emily Harris

Host and Consulting Producer: Neil Harvey

Program Engineers: Kaleb Wentzel Fisher and Emily Harris

Producer: Teo Grossman

Graphic Designer: Megan Howe

Beaver Believers: How to Restore Planet Water

it@bioneers.org (Bioneers) — Tue, 04 Mar 2025 17:00:00 -0000

Featuring

Resources

Beaver Believer: How Massive Rodents Could Restore Landscapes and Ecosystems At Scale

Fire and Water: Land and Watershed Management in the Age of Climate Change

Brock Dolman – Basins of Relations: A Reverential Rehydration Revolution

From Kingdom to Kin-dom: Acting As If We Have Relatives Brock Dolman, Paul Stamets and Brian Thomas Swimme

The WATER Institute’s Beaver in California reader

Bioneers – Where Water, Flows Life Thrives - Ensuring Drought Resilience and Water Security for Farms, People and Ecosystems

Credits

Executive Producer: Kenny Ausubel
Written by: Kenny Ausubel
Senior Producer and Station Relations: Stephanie Welch
Program Engineer and Music Supervisor: Emily Harris
Producer: Teo Grossman
Host and Consulting Producer: Neil Harvey
Production Assistance: Monica Lopez
Graphic Designer: Megan Howe

Seeing the Forest for the Trees

it@bioneers.org (Bioneers) — Tue, 25 Feb 2025 17:00:00 -0000

Featuring

Resources

Forest Wisdom, Mother Trees and the Science of Community | Bioneers Podcast

Suzanne Simard – Dispatches From the Mother Trees | Bioneers 2021 Keynote

Suzanne Simard – Dealing with Backlash Against Nature-Based Solutions to Climate Change | Bioneers 2024 Keynote

The Wood Wide Web: The Intelligent Underground Mycelial Network | Bioneers interview with Suzanne Simard

Unraveling the Secrets of Salmon: An Indigenous Exploration of Forest Ecology and Nature’s Intelligence | Bioneers interview with Teresa Ryan

Teresa Ryan: How Trees Communicate | Bioneers 2017 Keynote

Deep Dive: Intelligence in Nature

Earthlings: Intelligence in Nature | Bioneers Newsletter

Credits

Executive Producer: Kenny Ausubel
Written by: Cathy Edwards and Kenny Ausubel
Produced by: Cathy Edwards
Senior Producer and Station Relations: Stephanie Welch
Host and Consulting Producer: Neil Harvey
Program Engineer and Music Supervisor: Emily Harris
Producer: Teo Grossman
Graphic Designer: Megan Howe

Nature's Genius: A Bioneers Podcast Series

it@bioneers.org (Bioneers) — Tue, 18 Feb 2025 17:24:00 -0000

Nature’s Genius is a Bioneers podcast series exploring how the sentient symphony of life holds the solutions we need to balance human civilization with living systems. For all the talk about the Age of Information, what we’re really entering is the Age of Nature. As we face the reality that, as humans, we have the capacity to destroy the conditions conducive to life, avoiding this fate requires a radical change in our relationship to nature, and how we view it. Looking to nature to heal nature, and ourselves, is essential.

Traditional Indigenous wisdom and modern science show us that everything is connected and that the solutions we need are present in the sentient symphony of life. We can learn from the time-tested principles, processes, and dynamics that have allowed living systems to flourish during 3.8 billion years of evolution.

In this enlightening series, we visit with scientists, ecologists, Indigenous practitioners of Traditional Ecological Knowledge, community organizers, and authors reporting from the frontlines of ecological restoration. They explore the intelligence inherent in nature and show us how to model human organization on living systems.

Guests featured in the series include: Jeannette Armstrong - Co-Founder, Enwokin Centre; Brock Dolman - Co-Founder and Program Director, Occidental Arts and Ecology Center; Erica Gies - Author and Journalist; Brett KenCairn - Founding Director of Center for Regenerative Solutions; Toby Kiers - Professor of Evolutionary Biology and Co-Founder of SPUN; Kate Lundquist - Water Institute Co-Director, Occidental Arts and Ecology Center; Samira Malone - Urban Forestry Program Manager, Urban Sustainability Directors Network; Teresa Ryan - Teaching and Learning Fellow, Forest and Conservation Sciences Dept., Univ. of British Columbia; Merlin Sheldrake - Biologist and Author; Suzanne Simard - Author and Prof. of Forest Ecology, Univ. of British Columbia; Rowen White - Seedkeeper/Farmer and Author from the Mohawk community of Akwesasne

Credits

Executive Producer: Kenny Ausubel
Written by Cathy Edwards and Kenny Ausubel
Produced by Cathy Edwards
Senior Producer: Stephanie Welch
Program Engineer and Music Supervisor: Emily Harris
Producer: Teo Grossman
Host and Consulting Producer: Neil Harvey
Post Production Assistants: Monica Lopez and Kaleb Wentzel-Fisher
Graphic Designer: Megan Howe

The Universe Beneath Our Feet: Mapping the Mycelial Web of Life

it@bioneers.org (Bioneers) — Tue, 18 Feb 2025 17:00:00 -0000

Imagine an underground web of mind-boggling complexity, a bustling cosmopolis beneath your feet. Quadrillions of miles of tiny threads in the soil pulsate with real-time messages, trade vital nutrients, and form life-giving symbiotic partnerships. This is the mysterious realm of fungi. Acclaimed visionary biologists Toby Kiers and Merlin Sheldrake guide us through the intricate wonders of the mycorrhizal fungal networks that make life on Earth possible.

Featuring

Toby Kiers, Ph.D., is the Executive Director and Chief Scientist of SPUN (the Society for the Protection of Underground Networks) and a Professor of Evolutionary Biology at VU, Amsterdam.

Credits

Executive Producer: Kenny Ausubel
Written by: Cathy Edwards and Kenny Ausubel
Produced by: Cathy Edwards
Senior Producer: Stephanie Welch
Program Engineer and Music Supervisor: Emily Harris
Host and Consulting Producer: Neil Harvey
Producer: Teo Grossman
Graphic Design: Megan Howe

Resources

Merlin Sheldrake – How Fungi Make our Worlds | Bioneers 2024 Keynote

Merlin Sheldrake and Toby Kiers – Mapping, Protecting and Harnessing the Mycorrhizal Networks that Sustain Life on Earth | Bioneers 2024 Panel Discussion

Interview with Merlin Sheldrake, Author of Entangled Life

Deep Dive: Intelligence in Nature

Earthlings: Intelligence in Nature | Bioneers Newsletter

SPUN (the Society for the Protection of Underground Networks)

Fungi Foundation

What Does Water Want?

it@bioneers.org (Bioneers) — Tue, 18 Feb 2025 17:00:00 -0000

Water makes life possible. From the tiniest bacteria to the tallest tree, every living thing relies on this irreplaceable substance. Erica Gies, author of “Water Always Wins,” explores water’s unique role in the web of life, and how we might repair and reshape our relationship with it. Rather than telling water what to do, maybe we should start by asking what it wants?

Featuring

Erica Gies is an independent journalist, National Geographic Explorer, and the author of “Water Always Wins: Thriving in an age of drought and deluge.” She covers water, climate change, plants and wildlife for Scientific American, The New York Times, bioGraphic, Nature, and other publications.

Credits

Executive Producer: Kenny Ausubel
Written by: Cathy Edwards and Kenny Ausubel
Produced by: Cathy Edwards
Senior Producer and Station Relations: Stephanie Welch
Host and Consulting Producer: Neil Harvey
Program Engineer and Music Supervisor: Emily Harris
Producer: Teo Grossman
Production Assistance: Kaleb Wentzel Fisher and Monica Lopez
Graphic Designer: Megan Howe

Resources

Erica Gies – The Slow Water Movement: How to Thrive in an Age of Drought and Deluge | Bioneers 2024 Keynote

Embracing Slow Water: Rediscovering the True Nature of Earth’s Lifeline | Excerpt from “Water Always Wins”

Deep Dive: Intelligence in Nature

Earthlings: Intelligence in Nature | Bioneers Newsletter

Deep Listening: Whale Culture, Interspecies Communication, and Knowing Your Place

it@bioneers.org (Bioneers) — Wed, 12 Feb 2025 14:00:00 -0000

Dr. Shane Gero, a visionary marine biologist, is angling to crack the code of sperm whale communication. His mind-bending research is transforming what we thought we knew about these ancient leviathans. It’s calling on us to embrace the reality that perhaps we’ve long suspected: Sperm whales are living meaningful, intelligent and complex lives whose cultures suggest that whales are people too. What can whale culture teach us, and can deep listening help us learn to coexist respectfully in kinship with these guardians of the deep?

Featuring

Shane Gero, Ph.D., is a Canadian whale biologist, Scientist-in-Residence at Ottawa’s Carleton University, and a National Geographic Explorer. He is the founder of The Dominica Sperm Whale Project and the Biology Lead for Project CETI. His science appears in numerous magazines, books, and television; and most recently was the basis for the Emmy Award winning series, Secrets of the Whales. Learn more at shanegero.com.

Credits

Executive Producer: Kenny Ausubel
Written by: Teo Grossman and Kenny Ausubel
Senior Producer and Station Relations: Stephanie Welch
Host and Consulting Producer: Neil Harvey
Program Engineer and Music Supervisor: Emily Harris
Special Engineering Support: Eddie Haehl at KZYX

Resources

Shane Gero – Preserving Animal Cultures: Lessons from Whale Wisdom | Bioneers 2023 Keynote

Deep Dive: Intelligence in Nature

This is an episode of the Bioneers: Revolution from the Heart of Nature series. Visit the podcast homepage to learn more.

Black Food: Liberation, Food Justice and Stewardship | Karen Washington & Bryant Terry

it@bioneers.org (Bioneers) — Wed, 05 Feb 2025 14:00:00 -0000

The influences of Africans and Black Americans on food and agriculture is rooted in ancestral African knowledge and traditions of shared labor, worker co-ops and botanical polycultures.

Featuring

Karen Washington, co-owner/farmer of Rise & Root Farm, has been a legendary activist in the community gardening movement since 1985. Renowned for turning empty Bronx lots into verdant spaces, Karen is: a former President of the NYC Community Garden Coalition; a board member of: the NY Botanical Gardens, Why Hunger, and NYC Farm School; a co-founder of Black Urban Growers (BUGS); and a pioneering force in establishing urban farmers’ markets.

Bryant Terry is the Chef-in-Residence of MOAD, the Museum of the African Diaspora in San Francisco, and an award-winning author of a number of books that reimagine soul food and African cuisine within a vegan context. His latest book is Black Food: Stories, Art and Recipes from Across the African Diaspora.

Credits

Executive Producer: Kenny Ausubel
Written by: Kenny Ausubel and Arty Mangan
Senior Producer and Station Relations: Stephanie Welch
Program Engineer and Music Supervisor: Emily Harris
Producer: Teo Grossman
Host and Consulting Producer: Neil Harvey
Production Assistance: Monica Lopez
Additional music: Ketsa

Resources

The Farmer and the Chef: A Conversation Between Two Black Food Justice Activists

Karen Washington – 911 Our Food System Is Not Working

Working Against Racism in the Food System

Black Food: An Interview with Chef Bryant Terry

The Food Web Newsletter

This is an episode of the Bioneers: Revolution from the Heart of Nature series. Visit the radio and podcast homepage to learn more.

Re-Weaving the Web of Belonging

it@bioneers.org (Bioneers) — Thu, 30 Jan 2025 14:00:00 -0000

As author Michael Pollan observes: “The two biggest crises humanity faces today are tribalism and the environmental crisis. They both involve the objectifying of the other – whether that other is nature or other people.” How do we re-weave that web of relationships, and focus on our likenesses rather than our differences?

In this program, racial justice advocates john a. powell, Eriel Deranger and Anita Sanchez explore how overcoming the illusion of separateness from nature and each other requires building bridges rather than burning them. They say the fate of the world depends on it.

Featuring

john a. powell, Director of the Othering and Belonging Institute and Professor of Law, African American, and Ethnic Studies at UC Berkeley.
Eriel Deranger (Athabasca Chipewyan First Nation), Executive Director of Indigenous Climate Action.
Anita Sanchez, bestselling author, consultant, trainer and executive coach specializing in indigenous wisdom, diversity and inclusion, leadership, culture and promoting positive change in our world.

Credits

Executive Producer: Kenny Ausubel
Written by: Kenny Ausubel
Senior Producer and Station Relations: Stephanie Welch
Host and Consulting Producer: Neil Harvey
Producer: Teo Grossman
Program Engineer and Music Supervisor: Emily Harris

Saving Nature Means Saving Ourselves | Dr. Rae Wynn-Grant

it@bioneers.org (Bioneers) — Mon, 27 Jan 2025 19:19:00 -0000

Rae Wynn-Grant, Ph.D., is a wildlife ecologist and conservation biologist, creator of the award-winning podcast “Going Wild with Dr. Rae Wynn-Grant,” co-host of Mutual of Omaha’s “Wild Kingdom,” and author of “Wild Life: Finding My Purpose in an Untamed World.”

Resources

Rae Wynn-Grant – Wild Life: How Personal Journeys are Essential to Sustainable Leadership in Environmental Science | Bioneers 2024 Keynote

Rae Wynn-Grant – Becoming a Wildlife Ecologist in a Rugged World | Excerpt from “Wild Life: Finding My Purpose in an Untamed World”

Credits

Executive Producer: Kenny Ausubel
Written by: Leo Hornak and Kenny Ausubel
Senior Producer and Station Relations: Stephanie Welch
Program Engineer and Music Supervisor: Emily Harris
Producer: Teo Grossman
Host and Consulting Producer: Neil Harvey
Production Assistance: Leo Hornak and Monica Lopez

This is an episode of the Bioneers: Revolution from the Heart of Nature series. Visit the radio and podcast homepage to learn more.Saving Nature Means Saving Ourselves | Dr. Rae Wynn-Grant

Social Medicine: Restoring Public Health by Changing Society | Dr. Rupa Marya

it@bioneers.org (Bioneers) — Wed, 15 Jan 2025 14:00:00 -0000

We are told that our personal health is our individual responsibility based on our own choices. Yet, the biological truth is that human health is dependent upon the health of nature’s ecosystems and our social structures. Decisions that negatively affect these larger systems and eventually affect us are made without our consent as citizens and, often, without our knowledge. Dr. Rupa Marya, Associate Professor of Medicine at UC San Francisco, and Faculty Director of the Do No Harm Coalition, says “social medicine” means dismantling harmful social structures that directly lead to poor health outcomes, and building new structures that promote health and healing.

Learn more about Rupa Marya and her work here.

Designing for a Regenerative Future: What’s Love Got to Do with It? | Jason F. McLennan

it@bioneers.org (Bioneers) — Wed, 08 Jan 2025 14:00:00 -0000

Featuring Jason F. McLennan, one of the world’s most influential visionaries in contemporary architecture and green building, is a highly sought-out designer, consultant and thought leader. A winner of Engineering News Record’s National Award of Excellence and of the prestigious Buckminster Fuller Prize (which was, during its 10-year trajectory, known as “the planet’s top prize for socially responsible design”), Jason has been showered with such accolades as “the ‘Wayne Gretzky’ of the green building industry and a “World Changer” (by GreenBiz magazine).

Resources

Jason McLennan Keynote Bioneers 2022 – From Reconciliation to Regeneration

Deep Community Resilience: Preparing for the Coming Age, Place-By-Place | Jason F. McLennan

Child-Centered Planning: A New Specialized Pattern Language Tool | Jason F. McLennan

Visit the episode page for transcript and more information.

This is an episode of the Bioneers: Revolution from the Heart of Nature series. Visit the radio and podcast homepage to learn more.

Awakening the Genius in Everyone: When the Calling Keeps Calling | Michael Meade

it@bioneers.org (Bioneers) — Wed, 01 Jan 2025 14:00:00 -0000

If people are to find creative ways of living together and healing both culture and nature, the awakening of individual genius may be the deepest and most imaginative way to approach the seemingly impossible tasks that face contemporary cultures.

Renowned storyteller, performer, author, activist and scholar Michael Meade weaves threads of timeless wisdom traditions into myths for today’s global crisis. Meade says each of us is woven into the soul of the world, and we’re uniquely needed at this mythic moment to become active agents in the co-creation, re-creation and re-imagination of culture and nature. With: Michael Meade and John Densmore.

This is an episode of the Bioneers: Revolution from the Heart of Nature series. Visit the radio and podcast homepage to learn more.

Erosion and Evolution: Our Undoing is Our Becoming | Terry Tempest Williams

it@bioneers.org (Bioneers) — Wed, 25 Dec 2024 14:00:00 -0000

Erosion and evolution. Shadow and light. Death and rebirth. These are some of the strands that the acclaimed author, naturalist and activist Terry Tempest Williams weaves together in the face of today’s broken world. Standing in the lineage of the greatest nature writers, she links her deepest inner experiences with the state of the web of life. In this program, Williams asks: How do we find the strength to not look away at all that is breaking our hearts? Hands on the earth, we remember where the source of our authentic power comes from. We have to go deeper. She also explores histories of privilege, religion, and identity in Utah, and how reconciling her experiences with these cultural strands have helped unleash and shape her voice as a storyteller who translates the voice of nature and speaks for justice.

Featuring

Terry Tempest Williams, one of the greatest living authors from the American West, is also a longtime award-winning conservationist and activist, who has taken on, among other issues, nuclear testing, the Iraq War, the neglect of women’s health, and the destruction of nature, especially in her beloved “Red Rock” region of her native Utah and in Alaska.

Credits

Executive Producer: Kenny Ausubel
Written by: Monica Lopez and Kenny Ausubel
Senior Producer and Station Relations: Stephanie Welch
Host and Consulting Producer: Neil Harvey
Producer: Teo Grossman
Program Engineer and Music Supervisor: Emily Harris

Music

Theme music is co-written by the Baka Forest People of Cameroon and Baka Beyond, from the album East to West. Find out more at globalmusicexchange.org.

Additional music was made available by:

Jami Sieber at JamiSieber.com
Music From Memory at MusicFromMemory.com

This is an episode of the Bioneers: Revolution from the Heart of Nature series. Visit the radio and podcast homepage to learn more.

The Apology: Love Means Having to Say You’re Sorry

it@bioneers.org (Bioneers) — Wed, 18 Dec 2024 14:00:00 -0000

In writing it, she tried to imagine being her father. Who was he? What allowed him to do such terrible harms? Could she free herself from this prison of the past? Could she free both of them?

Featuring

V (formerly Eve Ensler), Tony Award-winning playwright, performer, and one of the world’s most important activists on behalf of women’s rights, is the author of many plays, including, most famously the extraordinarily influential and impactful The Vagina Monologues, which has been performed all over the globe in 50 or so languages.

Credits

Executive Producer: Kenny Ausubel

Written by: Kenny Ausubel

Senior Producer and Station Relations: Stephanie Welch

Host and Consulting Producer: Neil Harvey

Producer: Teo Grossman

Program Engineer and Music Supervisor: Emily Harris

Additional music was made available by:

Ketsa at FreeMusicArchive.org
Gigi Masin at MusicFromMemory.com

This is an episode of the Bioneers: Revolution from the Heart of Nature series. Visit the radio and podcast homepage to learn more.

Beaver Believers: How to Restore Planet Water | Kate Lundquist & Brock Dolman

it@bioneers.org (Bioneers) — Wed, 11 Dec 2024 14:00:00 -0000

Featuring

Resources

Beaver Believer: How Massive Rodents Could Restore Landscapes and Ecosystems At Scale

Fire and Water: Land and Watershed Management in the Age of Climate Change

Brock Dolman – Basins of Relations: A Reverential Rehydration Revolution

From Kingdom to Kin-dom: Acting As If We Have Relatives Brock Dolman, Paul Stamets and Brian Thomas Swimme

The WATER Institute’s Beaver in California reader

Credits

Executive Producer: Kenny Ausubel
Written by: Kenny Ausubel
Senior Producer and Station Relations: Stephanie Welch
Program Engineer and Music Supervisor: Emily Harris
Producer: Teo Grossman
Host and Consulting Producer: Neil Harvey
Production Assistance: Monica Lopez

This is an episode of the Bioneers: Revolution from the Heart of Nature series. Visit the radio and podcast homepage to learn more.

Indigenous Rising: From Alcatraz to Standing Rock

it@bioneers.org (Bioneers) — Tue, 26 Nov 2024 14:00:00 -0000

History doesn’t repeat itself, but it rhymes. From the historic Indigenous occupation of Alcatraz Island in 1969 to the fossil fuel fights throughout Canada and the U.S. today, Indigenous resistance illuminates an activism founded in a spiritual connection with the web of life and the human community – with Julian Brave NoiseCat, Dr. LaNada War Jack and Clayton Thomas-Müller.

Featuring

Julian Brave NoiseCat is a polymath whose work spans journalism, public policy, research, art, activism and advocacy. He serves as Director of Green Strategy at Data for Progress, as well as “Narrative Change Director” for the Natural History Museum artist and activist collective.
Dr. LaNada War Jack is an enrolled member of the Shoshone Bannock Tribes of the Fort Hall Indian Reservation in Idaho.
Clayton Thomas-Müller is a member of the Mathias Colomb Cree Nation, also known as Pukatawagan, in Northern Manitoba. He serves as the “Stop it at the Source” campaigner with 350.org.

Indigenous Eco-Nomics: Ancestors of the Future | Nick Estes

it@bioneers.org (Bioneers) — Wed, 20 Nov 2024 14:00:00 -0000

In this episode, Indigenous scholar and organizer Nick Estes explores how Indigenous land-based and Earth-centered societies are advancing regenerative solutions and campaigns to transform capitalism. “Eco-nomics” puts Indigenous leadership at the forefront of assuring a habitable planet.

Featuring

Nick Estes, Ph.D. (Kul Wicasa/Lower Brule Sioux), is a Professor at the University of Minnesota and a member of the Oak Lake Writers Society, a group of Dakota, Nakota and Lakota writers. In 2014, he was a co-founder of The Red Nation in Albuquerque, NM, an organization dedicated to the liberation of Native people from capitalism and colonialism. He serves on its editorial collective and writes its bi-weekly newsletter. Nick Estes is also the author of: Our History Is the Future: Standing Rock Versus the Dakota Access Pipeline, and the Long Tradition of Indigenous Resistance.

Resources

Nick Estes – The Age of the Water Protector and Climate Chaos (video) | Bioneers 2022 Keynote

Indigenous Pathways to a Regenerative Future (video) | Bioneers 2021 Panel

The Red Deal: Indigenous Action to Save Our Earth | The Red Nation

Indigenous Resistance Against Carbon | Indigenous Environmental Network

Credits

Executive Producer: Kenny Ausubel
Written by: Kenny Ausubel
Senior Producer and Station Relations: Stephanie Welch
Program Engineer and Music Supervisor: Emily Harris
Producer: Teo Grossman
Host and Consulting Producer: Neil Harvey
Production Assistance: Anna Rubanova

This is an episode of the Bioneers: Revolution from the Heart of Nature series. Visit the radio and podcast homepage to learn more.

Patriarchy: Thousands of Years Old But Only a Few Days Deep

it@bioneers.org (Bioneers) — Wed, 13 Nov 2024 14:00:00 -0000

What will it take to begin to heal the deep wounds between women and men? What is the role of men in this transformation? Cynthia Brix and Will Keepin from Gender Reconciliation International say that only by bringing these wounds into the light can we heal them. Patriarchy destroys men’s souls, too, so a revolution in gender relations can liberate women and men.

The Gender Equity and Reconciliation process seeks to heal the profound wounds around gender, sexuality, and relational intimacy. It brings together people of all sexual orientations and genders to jointly confront gender disharmony to reach healing reconciliation. Will and Cynthia have developed the method over 24 years, introducing the practices in nine countries. Gender reconciliation’s startling successes in South Africa have played a role in transforming that country’s AIDS and HIV policies, and exciting new academic research on the program is underway at two South African universities. Learn more about the work of Will Keepin and Cynthia Brix via their organization, Gender Reconciliation International.

Cynthia Brix and Will Keepin speaking at 2016 Bioneers Conference

This is an episode of the Bioneers: Revolution from the Heart of Nature series. Visit the radio and podcast homepage to learn more.

How, Then, Might We Live? with Azita Ardakani and Krista Tippett

it@bioneers.org (Bioneers) — Fri, 08 Nov 2024 01:39:00 -0000

After accomplished stints as a journalist, author and diplomat, and studying theology at Yale Divinity School, Krista Tippett was struck by a significant gap in the media landscape—a lack of deep, intelligent conversations to explore the spiritual, ethical and moral aspects of human life. What began as a national public radio show in 2003 evolved into the multiple award-winning podcast “On Being” (“wisdom to replenish and orient in a tender, tumultuous time to be alive.”) Gifted with insatiable curiosity, profound relational intelligence, a poetic sensibility, and an ability to unearth revelatory ideas to live by, Krista creates spaces where wisdom can emerge. With her interdisciplinary and cross-sectoral whole systems overview, she’s hosted luminaries as disparate as Mary Oliver, Thich Nhat Hahn, Isabel Wilkerson and Desmond Tutu, among many more. Listen to this rare intimate, live interview with her friend, insightful strategist, philanthropist and activist Azita Ardakani.

This is an episode of the Bioneers: Revolution from the Heart of Nature series. Visit the radio and podcast homepage to learn more.

Reconnecting with the Earth and Each Other | Claudia Peña & Erin Matariki Carr

it@bioneers.org (Bioneers) — Thu, 31 Oct 2024 04:07:00 -0000

Through colonization, hyper capitalism, and unaddressed trauma, many of us have forgotten how to play our part in the orchestra of the natural world. Join a conversation between two remarkable activists and legal practitioners from different continents, working in different communities, but who happen to share a belief in the power of creative expression help us reconnect to the entire web of life. They discuss interdependence, forgotten ways of relating to each other and all species, and how well-harmonized songs can bring delight and balance to the human spirit, to trees and plants and to our fellow fauna.

Resources

Video of this conversation from the 2024 Bioneers Conference

Featuring

Erin Matariki Carr, of Ngāi Tūhoe and Ngāti Awa descent, lives in her traditional homelands in Aotearoa/New Zealand and works in law and policy, with a focus on the interface between Indigenous and Western legal systems and methodologies. She previously worked as Manager of Planning & Design to create and implement policies under the world-first legislation conferring legal personhood to the Te Urewera rainforest. Matariki is currently a project lead at RIVER, where she focuses on the constitutional transformation movement in Aotearoa with a number of other teams, including Tūmanako Consultants and Te Kuaka NZA.

Learn more at weareriver.earth

Claudia Peña, Executive Director of For Freedoms, an artist collective that centers art and creativity as a catalyst for transformative connection and collective liberation, serves on the faculty at UCLA School of Law and in that school’s Gender Studies Department. She is also the founding Co-Director of the Center for Justice at UCLA, home of the Prison Education Program, which creates innovative courses that enable faculty and students to learn from and alongside currently incarcerated participants. Claudia has devoted her life to justice work through community organizing, transformative and restorative justice, consciousness-raising across silos, coalition-building, teaching, advocacy through law and policy, and the arts.

Learn more at forfreedoms.com

This is an excerpt from a conversation recorded at a Bioneers conference. Visit the radio and podcast homepage to learn more.

Spirit in Action: Three Virtues for the 21st Century | Sister Simone Campbell

it@bioneers.org (Bioneers) — Fri, 25 Oct 2024 02:28:00 -0000

When we allow our hearts to be broken open by hearing the stories of our fellow human beings, we build community and compassion. That is the passionate message of Sister Simone Campbell, one of the most renowned figures in contemporary faith-based progressive activism. She and the other rebel Nuns on the Bus are touring the country, bridging divides, transforming politics and keeping the faith.

Featuring

Sister Simone Campbell is a poet, social justice attorney and one of the nation’s most influential faith-based progressive activists. She led the famous 2012 “Nuns on the Bus” tour to challenge Congressional budget proposals that radically slashed programs for the poor. She shares her vision of how we can heal our divisions and differences, create a renewed sense of community, and build a far more just, peaceful, verdant and compassionate world. Introduction by Reverend Sally Bingham, Interfaith Power and Light.

Resources

Sister Simone Campbell speaking at Bioneers 2015

This is an episode of the Bioneers: Revolution from the Heart of Nature series. Visit the radio and podcast homepage to learn more.

Deep Listening: Whale Culture, Interspecies Communication, and Knowing Your Place | Shane Gero

it@bioneers.org (Bioneers) — Wed, 16 Oct 2024 13:00:00 -0000

Dr. Shane Gero, a visionary marine biologist, is angling to crack the code of sperm whale communication. His mind-bending research is transforming what we thought we knew about these ancient leviathans. It’s calling on us to embrace the reality that perhaps we’ve long suspected: Sperm whales are living meaningful, intelligent and complex lives whose cultures suggest that whales are people too. What can whale culture teach us, and can deep listening help us learn to coexist respectfully in kinship with these guardians of the deep?

Featuring

Resources

Shane Gero – Preserving Animal Cultures: Lessons from Whale Wisdom | Bioneers 2023 Keynote

Deep Dive: Intelligence in Nature

Credits

Executive Producer: Kenny Ausubel

Written by: Teo Grossman and Kenny Ausubel

Senior Producer and Station Relations: Stephanie Welch

Host and Consulting Producer: Neil Harvey

Program Engineer and Music Supervisor: Emily Harris

Special Engineering Support: Eddie Haehl at KZYX

We’re a Culture, Not a Costume: Fighting Racism In Schools

it@bioneers.org (Bioneers) — Wed, 02 Oct 2024 23:42:00 -0000

Native American students face racism throughout their education, from racist mascots to the historical erasure of the American genocide from textbooks. In this passionate conversation, Indigenous Rights Activists Dahkota Brown, Chiitaanibah Johnson, Jayden Lim, and Naelyn Pike share stories of their own experiences and how they are working to abolish racism in schools.

This is an episode of the Bioneers: Revolution from the Heart of Nature series. Visit the radio and podcast homepage to learn more.

Nature’s Intelligence: Coming Down from the Pedestal | Jeremy Narby and J.P. Harpignies

it@bioneers.org (Bioneers) — Wed, 25 Sep 2024 13:00:00 -0000

These days, scientists are starting to talk like shamans and shamans are starting to talk like scientists. So says anthropologist and author Jeremy Narby. And, he says, we need to talk about talking – because words matter. In this episode, Bioneers Senior Producer J.P. Harpignies speaks with Narby about how the very language and words we use reveal the topography and limits of our worldview, including Western culture’s adamant centuries-long but now increasingly discredited assumption that intelligence is restricted only to human beings.

The Restorative Revolution: How Indigenous Leadership and Allyship Catalyzed the Biggest River Restoration in US History

it@bioneers.org (Bioneers) — Wed, 18 Sep 2024 13:00:00 -0000

Once complete in 2024, the project will liberate the Klamath river and several tributaries to once again run free across 400-miles from Oregon through California and into the Pacific Ocean.

Featuring

Resources

Indigenous Forum – Undam the Klamath! How Tribes Led the Largest River Restoration Project in US History | Bioneers 2023

Credits

Executive Producer: Kenny Ausubel
Written by: Kenny Ausubel
Senior Producer and Station Relations: Stephanie Welch
Host and Consulting Producer: Neil Harvey
Program Engineer and Music Supervisor: Emily Harris
Producer: Teo Grossman

This is an episode of the Bioneers: Revolution from the Heart of Nature series. Visit the radio and podcast homepage to learn more.

From Scarcity to Abundance: How Collective Governance Can Transform the Climate Crisis | Colette Pichon Battle

it@bioneers.org (Bioneers) — Tue, 10 Sep 2024 21:44:00 -0000

In this episode, award-winning lawyer and climate justice organizer Colette Pichon-Battle lays out a bold vision for a new organizing project designed to model bioregional democratic climate action. The aim is to transform the Gulf South and Appalachia away from the lethal matrix of fossil fuel extraction and extractive economics. Instead, the regional vision is for a regenerative future of clean energy democracy, and an equitable, inclusive economy.

Featuring

Colette Pichon Battle, a generational native of Bayou Liberty, Louisiana, is an award-winning lawyer and prominent climate justice organizer. After 17 years leading the Gulf Coast Center for Law and Policy, she co-founded Taproot Earth to create connections and power across issues, movements, and geographies.

Resources

Colette Pichon Battle – Expanding Our Movements for Climate Justice | Bioneers 2024 Keynote

Taproot Earth

Credits

Executive Producer: Kenny Ausubel

Written by: Kenny Ausubel

Senior Producer and Station Relations: Stephanie Welch

Program Engineer and Music Supervisor: Emily Harris

Producer: Teo Grossman

Host and Consulting Producer: Neil Harvey

Songs in this Episode: 'Good Morning New Orleans' by Kermit Ruffins; 'What Goes Around Comes Around' by Rebirth Brass Band, provided by Basin Street Records in New Orleans, Louisiana

This is an episode of the Bioneers: Revolution from the Heart of Nature series. Visit the radio and podcast homepage to learn more.

Commodity or Human Right? How Community Wealth Building Can Address the Housing Crisis

it@bioneers.org (Bioneers) — Thu, 29 Aug 2024 20:38:00 -0000

Housing is a human right, or so says the International Declaration of Human Rights. But could we organize our economies with that in mind? Across the country, communities have land and properties and people who need homes. What’s stopping us bringing them together in a way that increases community wealth and wellbeing for everyone? That’s the question we explore in this episode of our special series on community wealth building, produced in collaboration with the radio and tv show, Laura Flanders & Friends. Featuring Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor, Writer; Saoirse Gowan, Policy Associate with the Democracy Collaborative; Noni D. Session, Co-Founder and Executive Director of the East Bay Permanent Real Estate Cooperative.

This episode is part 1 of a 4-part series exploring how communities are working to transform their local economies by harnessing their assets, anchoring capital and resources locally to directly invest in that place and its people – from land to money and finance. Explore the full series here.

Resources

Democracy Collaborative

East Bay Permanent Real Estate Cooperative

Race for Profit: How Banks and the Real Estate Industry Undermined Black Homeownership

Our Economic Future: Achieving a More Equitable Society by Radically Rethinking Our Guiding Economic Ideas | Bioneers Reader

Guest Host

Laura Flanders is the host and executive producer of Laura Flanders & Friends, which airs on PBS stations nationwide. She is an Izzy-Award winning independent journalist, a New York Times bestselling author and the recipient of the Pat Mitchell Lifetime Achievement Award from the Women’s Media Center.

Credits

This series is co-produced by Bioneers and Laura Flanders & Friends

Laura Flanders & Friends Producers: Laura Flanders and Abigail Handel

Production Assistance: Jeannie Hopper and David Neumann

Bioneers Executive Producer: Kenny Ausubel

Senior Producer: Stephanie Welch

Producer: Teo Grossman

Host and Consulting Producer: Neil Harvey

Program Engineer and Music Supervisor: Emily Harris

Solidarity Economics: Taking It to the Bank to Build Community Wealth

it@bioneers.org (Bioneers) — Thu, 29 Aug 2024 20:22:00 -0000

In this episode on community wealth building, we look at how communities are working to transform their local economies by harnessing the assets that exist in their place. It’s the Kryptonite to the corporate model that extracts wealth from communities. Instead, they’re anchoring capital and resources locally to directly invest in that place and its people - from land to money and finance.

We hear from Nicole Ndumele from the Center for American Progress; Mike Strode, from The Kola Nut Collaborative; and Deyanira del Río of the New Economy Project.

Resources

Center for American Progress

New Economy Project

O pen Collective Foundation

The Kola Nut Collaborative

Our Economic Future: Achieving a More Equitable Society by Radically Rethinking Our Guiding Economic Ideas | Bioneers Reader

Guest Host

Credits

This series is co-produced by Bioneers and Laura Flanders & Friends

Laura Flanders & Friends Producers: Laura Flanders and Abigail Handel

Production Assistance: Jeannie Hopper and David Neumann

Bioneers Executive Producer: Kenny Ausubel

Senior Producer: Stephanie Welch

Producer: Teo Grossman

Host and Consulting Producer: Neil Harvey

Program Engineer and Music Supervisor: Emily Harris

From Wealth Supremacy to Community Wealth Building: Models for Democratizing the Economy

it@bioneers.org (Bioneers) — Thu, 29 Aug 2024 19:53:00 -0000

Today’s corporate, capitalist economy is radically unequal, ecologically unsustainable, and embedded in recurring boom-and-bust cycles of crisis. Not surprisingly, people are looking for alternatives. What if, instead of tweaking the system to reduce the damage, we reorganized entirely so that both local and national economies produced better outcomes for people, communities and the planet in the first place?

That’s the essence of community wealth building, the focus of this episode with guest host Laura Flanders, featuring Democracy Collaborative Distinguished Senior Fellow, Marjorie Kelly; Preston City Council Member, Matthew Brown in the UK; and community wealth building adviser to the Scottish Government, Neil McInroy.

This episode is part 2 of a 4-part series exploring how communities are working to transform their local economies by harnessing their assets, anchoring capital and resources locally to directly invest in that place and its people – from land to money and finance. Explore the full series here.

Resources

Democracy Collaborative

Wealth Supremacy: How the Extractive Economy and The Biased Rules of Capitalism Drive Today's Crises

Action Guide for Advancing Community Wealth Building in the United States | Democracy Collaborative

Gar Alperovitz – Replacing Corporate Capitalism: Why We Need a Next System | Bioneers 2018 Keynote

Our Economic Future: Achieving a More Equitable Society by Radically Rethinking Our Guiding Economic Ideas | Bioneers Reader

Guest Host

Credits

This series is co-produced by Bioneers and Laura Flanders & Friends

Laura Flanders & Friends Producers: Laura Flanders and Abigail Handel

Production Assistance: Jeannie Hopper and David Neumann

Bioneers Executive Producer: Kenny Ausubel

Senior Producer: Stephanie Welch

Producer: Teo Grossman

Host and Consulting Producer: Neil Harvey

Program Engineer and Music Supervisor: Emily Harris

Community Wealth Building: Democratizing the Economy

it@bioneers.org (Bioneers) — Thu, 29 Aug 2024 19:38:00 -0000

In this special episode of the Bioneers, guest host Laura Flanders explores “Community Wealth Building,” a model that democratizes the economy, creates more cooperative businesses, better care for communities, and builds wealth for the many, not just the few. This episode features American political economist, historian, and author Gar Alperovitz of the Democracy Collaborative, along with India Pierce Lee about her work with the Collaborative in Cleveland, Ohio; and John McMicken, Executive Director of Cleveland’s Evergreen Cooperative Corporation.

Guest Host

Credits

This series is co-produced by Bioneers and Laura Flanders & Friends

Laura Flanders & Friends Producers: Laura Flanders and Abigail Handel

Production Assistance: Jeannie Hopper and David Neumann

Bioneers Executive Producer: Kenny Ausubel

Senior Producer: Stephanie Welch

Producer: Teo Grossman

Host and Consulting Producer: Neil Harvey

Program Engineer and Music Supervisor: Emily Harris

Resources

Democracy Collaborative

Evergreen Cooperatives

How to Make a Democratic Economy | Laura Flanders & Friends

Action Guide for Advancing Community Wealth Building in the United States | Democracy Collaborative

Gar Alperovitz – Replacing Corporate Capitalism: Why We Need a Next System | Bioneers 2018 Keynote

Our Economic Future: Achieving a More Equitable Society by Radically Rethinking Our Guiding Economic Ideas | Bioneers Reader

Creating a World Where Everyone Belongs: From a Change of Heart to System Change

it@bioneers.org (Bioneers) — Wed, 28 Aug 2024 13:00:00 -0000

How can we overcome corrosive divisions and separations that are tearing us apart and create a world where everyone belongs?

Featuring

Angela Glover Blackwell is Founder-in-Residence at PolicyLink, the organization she started in 1999 to advance racial and economic equity. One of the nation’s most prominent, award-winning social justice advocates, she serves on numerous boards and advisory councils, including the inaugural Community Advisory Council of the Federal Reserve and California’s Task Force on Business and Jobs Recovery.

john a. powell is the Director of the Othering and Belonging Institute and Professor of Law, African American, and Ethnic Studies at UC Berkeley. A former National Legal Director of the ACLU, he co-founded the Poverty & Race Research Action Council and serves on the boards of several national and international organizations. His latest book is: Racing to Justice: Transforming our Concepts of Self and Other to Build an Inclusive Society.

Resources

From Othering to Belonging | Bioneers 2022 Panel Discussion with Angela Glover Blackwell and john a. powell

Angela Glover Blackwell – Transformative Solidarity for a Thriving Multiracial Democracy | Bioneers 2022 Keynote Address

john a. powell – Healing Across Divides: Building Bridges to Challenge Systemic Injustice | Bioneers 2020 Keynote Address

Credits

Executive Producer: Kenny Ausubel
Written by: Kenny Ausubel
Senior Producer and Station Relations: Stephanie Welch
Program Engineer and Music Supervisor: Emily Harris
Host and Consulting Producer: Neil Harvey
Producer: Teo Grossman
Production Assistance: Anna Rubanova and Monica Lopez

This is an episode of the Bioneers: Revolution from the Heart of Nature series. Visit the radio and podcast homepage to learn more.

Keepers of the Cradle of Life

it@bioneers.org (Bioneers) — Wed, 21 Aug 2024 19:32:00 -0000

What does it mean to bring the “feminine” forward in leadership from diverse cultural and ethnic perspectives? How might a spectrum of views help us to integrate relational intelligence into all our leadership? This hour long special features poet Noris Binet; Nikki Silvestri, former Executive Director of Green for All and The People's Grocery and Pat McCabe, or Woman Stands Shining, a Navajo teacher working on Indigenous frameworks for gender and all of life.

Equal Rights Amendment: Time’s Up

it@bioneers.org (Bioneers) — Wed, 21 Aug 2024 13:00:00 -0000

Ever since women won the right to vote in 1920, women leaders and their allies have sought to pass an Equal Rights Amendment to drive total equality and justice for women into the U.S. Constitution. It did pass in 1972, but fell three states short of ratification. Today’s next wave of the women’s movement might finally make the ERA a reality. Why is Constitutional protection so crucial? Join leading advocates Joan Blades (MomsRising co-founder), attorney Kimberle Crenshaw and Jessica Neuwirth (ERA Coalition President) to learn the true story of what’s at stake and how life would be different and better for women and men.

To learn more about Kimberle Crenshaw’s work, visit the African American Policy Forum. You can follow Joan Blades work at MomsRising, and Living Room Conversations. Follow the progress Jessica Neuwirth and others are making with the ERA Coalition.

See related media in our Green New Deal Media Collection.

This is an episode of the Bioneers: Revolution from the Heart of Nature series. Visit the radio and podcast homepage to learn more.

Nature and Spirit: It’s All Connected | Joanna Macy, Rabbi Michael Lerner & Matthew Fox

it@bioneers.org (Bioneers) — Thu, 15 Aug 2024 17:00:00 -0000

Global healing requires a spiritual transformation of every aspect of life. Rabbi Michael Lerner of Tikkun Magazine, author/educator Matthew Fox and Joanna Macy, eco-philosopher and scholar of Buddhism speak of the profound interconnectedness of all life and the experience of joy, courage and community we need to engage in the healing of the world.

Indigenous Rising: From Alcatraz to Standing Rock

it@bioneers.org (Bioneers) — Wed, 14 Aug 2024 13:00:00 -0000

History doesn’t repeat itself, but it rhymes. From the historic Indigenous occupation of Alcatraz Island in 1969 to the fossil fuel fights throughout Canada and the U.S. today, Indigenous resistance illuminates an activism founded in a spiritual connection with the web of life and the human community - with Julian NoiseCat, Dr. LaNada War Jack and Clayton Thomas Müller.

Featuring

Julian Brave NoiseCat is a polymath whose work spans journalism, public policy, research, art, activism and advocacy. He serves as Director of Green Strategy at Data for Progress, as well as “Narrative Change Director” for the Natural History Museum artist and activist collective.
Dr. LaNada War Jack is an enrolled member of the Shoshone Bannock Tribes of the Fort Hall Indian Reservation in Idaho.
Clayton Thomas-Müller is a member of the Mathias Colomb Cree Nation, also known as Pukatawagan, in Northern Manitoba. He serves as the “Stop it at the Source” campaigner with 350.org.

Resources

Faulty Infrastructure and the Impacts of the Dakota Access Pipeline | 2022 NDN Collective Climate Justice Report

From Alcatraz to Standing Rock and Beyond: On the Past 50 and Next 50 Years of Indigenous Activism | 2019 Bioneers Indigenous Forum

Julian Brave NoiseCat – Apocalypse Then & Now | 2021 Bioneers Keynote Address

Bioneers Indigeneity Curriculum | Free resources for educators covering Alcatraz, Standing Rock, and more

Credits

Executive Producer: Kenny Ausubel

Written by: Kenny Ausubel

Senior Producer and Station Relations: Stephanie Welch

Host and Consulting Producer: Neil Harvey

Producer: Teo Grossman

Program Engineer and Music Supervisor: Emily Harris

Production Assistance: Monica Lopez

Special thanks to Cara Romero and Alexis Bunten, co-producers of the Bioneers Indigeneity Forum.

This program features music by Justin Delorme, Chippewa Travelers and Mimi O’Bonsawin from Nagamo Publishing at Nagamo.ca.

This is an episode of the Bioneers: Revolution from the Heart of Nature series. Visit the radio and podcast homepage to learn more.

None of Your Business: Claiming Our Digital Privacy Rights, Reclaiming Democracy

it@bioneers.org (Bioneers) — Thu, 08 Aug 2024 18:15:00 -0000

Featuring

Resources

Cindy Cohn – The Climate Fight is Digital | Bioneers 2024 Keynote

Tools from Electronic Frontier Foundation

Credits

Executive Producer: Kenny Ausubel

Written by: Kenny Ausubel

Additional production and writing: Leo Hornak

Senior Producer and Station Relations: Stephanie Welch

Program Engineer and Music Supervisor: Emily Harris

Producer: Teo Grossman

Host and Consulting Producer: Neil Harvey

This is an episode of the Bioneers: Revolution from the Heart of Nature series. Visit the radio and podcast homepage to learn more.

Take This Job and Shove It: The Great Resignation or The Great Revolt? | Saru Jayaraman

it@bioneers.org (Bioneers) — Wed, 31 Jul 2024 13:00:00 -0000

Labor organizer and Founder of One Fair Wage, Saru Jayaraman, takes us inside one of the fiercest labor struggles to challenge a mighty oligarchy: The food, beverage and restaurant industry. Workers are walking off the job and refusing historically low wages. She says if “we the people” stand with workers as they face this powerful lobby, they can win.

Featuring

Saru Jayaraman, President of One Fair Wage and Director of the Food Labor Research Center at UC Berkeley, co-founded (after 9/11) the Restaurant Opportunities Center (ROC), which grew into a national movement of restaurant workers, employers and consumers. Saru has won many prestigious awards for her advocacy and is the author of four books including: One Fair Wage: Ending All Subminimum Pay in America and Bite Back: People Taking on Corporate Food and Winning.

Resources

Saru Jayaraman – The Great Revolution: What A Worker Power Moment Can Mean for Climate Justice | Bioneers 2023 Keynote

Saru Jayaraman – We the People: Workers Rising for Fair Wages | Bioneers 2017 Keynote

Inside the Campaign to Abolish the Subminimum Wage in 25 States by 2026 | Inequality.org

This is an episode of the Bioneers: Revolution from the Heart of Nature series. Visit the radio and podcast homepage to learn more.

Laboring For Justice: See No Stranger | Valerie Kaur

it@bioneers.org (Bioneers) — Wed, 17 Jul 2024 13:00:00 -0000

Featuring

Valarie Kaur, born into a family of Sikh farmers who settled in California in 1913, is a seasoned civil rights activist, award-winning filmmaker, lawyer, faith leader, and founder of the Revolutionary Love Project, which seeks to champion love as a public ethic and wellspring for social action.

Music

The theme music is co-written by the Baka Forest People of Cameroon and Baka Beyond, from the album East to West. Find out more at globalmusicexchange.org.

Additional music was made available by:

Edamame, EdamameBeats.com
Raydia, APMmusic.com
Jami Sieber, JamiSeiber.com

This is an episode of the Bioneers: Revolution from the Heart of Nature series. Visit the radio and podcast homepage to learn more.

Disruptive Design: What Good Looks Like | Cheryl Dahle and Jason F. McLennan

it@bioneers.org (Bioneers) — Wed, 10 Jul 2024 07:00:00 -0000

Aligning business with biology, disruptive design uses systems thinking to create models that show what “good” really looks like. Two winners of the 2012 Buckminster Fuller Challenge Award-visionary architect Jason McLennan of the acclaimed Living Building Challenge and entrepreneur Cheryl Dahle of The Future of Fish-demonstrate breakthrough systems designs that can transform major industries, create a healthy sustainable environment and make life beautiful and fun.

Resources

Jason McLennan – From Reconciliation to Regeneration

Deep Community Resilience: Preparing for the Coming Age, Place-By-Place | Jason F. McLennan

Child-Centered Planning: A New Specialized Pattern Language Tool | Jason F. McLennan

This is an episode of the Bioneers: Revolution from the Heart of Nature series. Visit the radio and podcast homepage to learn more.

Who Is an American? Is Our Democracy as Unequal as Our Economy? | Heather McGhee

it@bioneers.org (Bioneers) — Wed, 03 Jul 2024 07:00:00 -0000

By around 2044, the U.S. will become a majority-minority nation. This seismic demographic shift has triggered a cultural earthquake, provoking a radical spike in hate crimes. In times of massive disruption and economic stress, what Carl Jung called the “shadow side of the psyche” comes into play: the pronounced psychological tendency in the collective psyche is to project these shadow qualities with unusual potency onto whomever people see as “the other.” But is there also a deeper story? Perhaps the question to ask is: Who benefits? In this half hour, we hear from Heather McGhee of Demos. She sees a direct connection between today’s extreme inequality and this peak moment of racial panic and white anxiety.

FEATURING

Heather McGhee, distinguished senior fellow and former president of Demos, is an award-winning thought leader on the national stage whose writing and research appear in numerous outlets, including The New York Times and The Nation. Her latest book is The Sum of Us: What Racism Costs Everyone and How We Can Prosper Together.

RESOURCES

Heather McGhee's Keynote at Bioneers 2017 | A New “We The People” For a Sustainable Future

This is an episode of the Bioneers: Revolution from the Heart of Nature series. Visit the radio and podcast homepage to learn more.

The Rising Anti-Monopoly Movement: Overcoming Economic Tyranny | Stacy Mitchell

it@bioneers.org (Bioneers) — Wed, 26 Jun 2024 17:40:00 -0000

Today, three to five giant corporations control up to 80% of almost every industry and marketplace. These monopolies depress wages, exploit workers, and decimate small businesses. Stacy Mitchell from the Institute for Local Self Reliance has been a leader in a growing anti-monopoly movement with a broad political base. Can this emerging movement – along with bold federal antitrust action – create a force that can challenge corporate power for the first time in decades?

Featuring

Stacy Mitchell, a Maine-based writer, strategist, and policy advocate whose work focuses on dismantling concentrated corporate power and building thriving communities and a healthy democracy, has played a leading role in today’s growing anti-monopoly movement. She is Co-Executive Director of the Institute for Local Self-Reliance (ILSR) and the author of Big-Box Swindle: The True Cost of Mega-Retailers and the Fight for America’s Independent Businesses, and co-author of the influential report: Amazon’s Stranglehold.

Resources

Stacy Mitchell – Democracy vs. Big Tech: How We Can Win the Fight Against Monopoly Power | Bioneers 2024 Keynote

Democracy v. Plutocracy: Behind Every Great Fortune Lies a Great Crime

Our Economic Future: Achieving a More Equitable Society by Radically Rethinking Our Guiding Economic Ideas | Bioneers Reade

Credits

Executive Producer: Kenny Ausubel
Written by: Kenny Ausubel
Senior Producer and Station Relations: Stephanie Welch
Program Engineer and Music Supervisor: Emily Harris
Producer: Teo Grossman
Host and Consulting Producer: Neil Harvey

This is an episode of the Bioneers: Revolution from the Heart of Nature series. Visit the radio and podcast homepage to learn more.

Breaking the Male Code: The Tyranny of Masculinity | Eve Ensler, Tony Porter, Dallas Goldtooth & George Lipsitz

it@bioneers.org (Bioneers) — Thu, 20 Jun 2024 19:23:00 -0000

To transform our culture from its focus on dominance and hierarchy to one of connection, empathy and collaboration, it’s vital that we re-envision the essential (or archetypal) masculine, which changes everything. This rarely tackled topic is the subject of a deeply authentic dialogue among Playwright and activist Eve Ensler and three men working to change men and change the story: Tony Porter, co-founder, A Call To Men; Dallas Goldtooth, Indigenous activist, member of the 1491’s Native American comedy troupe; George Lipsitz, board president, African American Policy Forum.

This is an episode of the Bioneers: Revolution from the Heart of Nature series. Visit the radio and podcast homepage to learn more.

Staying Alive: Reconciling Nature, Culture and Gay Rights | Taylor Brorby

it@bioneers.org (Bioneers) — Thu, 13 Jun 2024 22:11:00 -0000

As a backlash against LGBTQ rights escalates into an authoritarian crusade, acclaimed author and queer activist Taylor Brorby asks how we can still be fighting this battle? As a writer addressing the fossil fuel industry’s acceleration in the midst of climate chaos, Taylor is forced to choose between the existential crises of the assaults on nature and on LGBTQ people. It’s all connected, he says, as he seeks to reconcile nature, culture, diversity and belonging.

Featuring

Taylor Brorby, a Fellow in Environmental Humanities and Environmental Justice at the Tanner Humanities Center at the University of Utah, is an award-winning, widely published writer and poet as well as a contributing editor at North American Review who also serves on the editorial boards of Terrain.org and Hub City Press. Taylor regularly speaks around the country on issues related to extractive economies, queerness, disability, and climate change, and is the author of Boys and Oil: Growing up gay in a fractured land; Crude: Poems; Coming Alive: Action and Civil Disobedience; and co-editor of Fracture: Essays, Poems, and Stories on Fracking in America.

Resources

Taylor Brorby's keynote Bioneers 2024 – Raising Hell: Censorship, Carbon Capture, and Being Gay on the Great Plains

Learn more about Taylor Brorby at taylorbrorby.com

This is an episode of the Bioneers: Revolution from the Heart of Nature series. Visit the radio and podcast homepage to learn more.

Laboring for Justice: See No Stranger | Valarie Kaur

it@bioneers.org (Bioneers) — Wed, 05 Jun 2024 10:00:00 -0000

Valarie Kaur, born into a family of Sikh farmers who settled in California in 1913, is a seasoned civil rights activist, award-winning filmmaker, lawyer, faith leader, and founder of the Revolutionary Love Project, which seeks to champion love as a public ethic and wellspring for social action.

This is an episode of the Bioneers: Revolution from the Heart of Nature series. Visit the radio and podcast homepage to find out how to hear the program on your local station and how to subscribe to the podcast.

For transcript and more about this program, visit: https://bioneers.org/laboring-for-justice-see-no-stranger/

Credits

Executive Producer: Kenny Ausubel

Written by: Monica Lopez and Kenny Ausubel

Senior Producer and Station Relations: Stephanie Welch

Host and Consulting Producer: Neil Harvey

Producer: Teo Grossman

Program Engineer and Music Supervisor: Emily Harris

Leveraging Donor Activism: Philanthropy’s Leading Edges

it@bioneers.org (Bioneers) — Sat, 01 Jun 2024 06:00:00 -0000

How are donors leveraging effective change beyond traditional pathways and norms? From shareholder activism to investment strategies and disinvestment campaigns, explore how foundations can be reshaped to be far more effective. Hosted by Jen Sokolove, Program Director, Compton Foundation. With: Lauren Embrey, President/CEO, Embrey Family Foundation; Tom Van Dyck, Senior Vice President and Financial Consultant, SRI Wealth Management Group at RBC Wealth Management; Jenifer Fernandez Ancona, Senior Director of Membership & Communications, Women Donors Network; Kristin Hull, CEO, Nia Global Solutions.

Recorded Friday, October 17, 2014 at the national Bioneers Summit Conference in San Rafael, California.

Building the Solidarity Economy: Awakening to Our Mutuality and Shifting the Terrain of Power | Manuel Pastor

it@bioneers.org (Bioneers) — Wed, 29 May 2024 20:21:00 -0000

At the core of our civilizational breakdown is an extractive economy that wastes both nature and people, at the same time it is Hoovering extreme wealth up to the billionaire class. But with breakdown comes breakthrough. Professor Manuel Pastor believes we’re living through a moment of profound transformation. It will come down to what we do – or don’t do – at this moment of radical change.

In this episode, we hear from Pastor on how shocks to the system are precipitating a great awakening and growing movements to transform the economy to our economy.

Featuring

Manuel Pastor, Ph.D., Distinguished Professor of Sociology and American Studies & Ethnicity at USC and Director of its Equity Research Institute, has long been one of the most important scholars and activists working on the economic, environmental and social conditions facing low-income urban communities and the social movements seeking to change those realities. He has held many prominent academic posts, won countless prestigious awards and fellowships for his activism and scholarship, and is the author and co-author of many important, highly influential tomes.

Resources

Solidarity Economics: Why Mutuality and Movements Matter | 2021 Book by Manuel Pastor and Chris Benner

SolidarityEconomics.org | Joint Project of the Equity Research Center (ERI) at the University of Southern California and the Institute for Social Transformation at UC Santa Cruz

Manuel Pastor – Solidarity Economics: Mutuality, Movements and Momentum | 2021 Bioneers Keynote Address

Solidarity Economics: Our Economy, Our Planet, Our Movements | 2021 Bioneers Panel

Bioneers Reader: Our Economic Future | Free eBook

This is an episode of the Bioneers: Revolution from the Heart of Nature series. Visit the radio and podcast homepage to learn more.

Toxic Trespassing: The Inside Story of the Love Canal Uprising | Lois Gibbs

it@bioneers.org (Bioneers) — Fri, 24 May 2024 06:00:00 -0000

Few people know how a hostage-taking incident transformed a shy housewife from the working-class community near Niagara Falls into one of the founding mothers of the environmental justice movement. Spark-plug community organizer Lois Gibbs traces the electrifying arc that led from sick children to an international rallying cry for human rights. Because, says Gibbs, “It is just not right morally or ethically that somebody with a corporate interest, with a dollar interest, is making a decision each and every day in this country about who lives and who dies.”

Climbing Out of the Man Box: What Does Healthy Manhood Look Like? | Kevin Powell

it@bioneers.org (Bioneers) — Wed, 22 May 2024 13:00:00 -0000

There is a growing movement to redefine manhood, and to address ways that violence is baked into our cultural expectations of masculinity. Courageous, visionary men are rising to the challenge. One of those men is activist, writer and public speaker Kevin Powell. In this half-hour, Powell boldly and bravely discusses his experiences with toxic masculinity and his journey to redefine what it means to be a man.

Kevin Powell - Re-defining Manhood: A Message to Men, to Boys, to Us All | Bioneers 2018 Keynote

To find out more about Kevin Powell and his work, please visit his website.

This is an episode of the Bioneers: Revolution from the Heart of Nature series. Visit the radio and podcast homepage to learn more.

Shamans and Scientists: Changing the Landscape of Power | Mark Plotkin

it@bioneers.org (Bioneers) — Wed, 15 May 2024 13:00:00 -0000

As we hurtle into the Sixth Age of Extinctions, we face the cataclysmic loss of half the world’s biological diversity. 80% of the remaining biodiversity is on Indigenous lands. Ethnobotanist and Indigenous rights advocate Mark Plotkin of the Amazon Conservation Team tells us how scientists are helping protect the people who will protect the land, and the age-old wisdom that’s imperative for our future.

This is an episode of the Bioneers: Revolution from the Heart of Nature series. Visit the radio and podcast homepage to learn more.

A Love That Is Wild: Why Wilderness Matters in the 21st Century | Terry Tempest Williams

it@bioneers.org (Bioneers) — Wed, 24 Apr 2024 13:00:00 -0000

Writer, naturalist and activist Terry Tempest Williams asks “Can we love ourselves, each other and the Earth enough to change?” She invokes our deepest humanity to honor and protect the wilderness that’s the cauldron of evolution – and of our own imagination. “Our power lies in the love of our homelands,” she tells us in this eloquent, heartfelt tour-de-force, and protecting the wild requires bringing democracy home.

Featuring

Terry Tempest Williams, one of the greatest living authors from the American West, is also a longtime award-winning conservationist and activist, who has taken on, among other issues, nuclear testing, the Iraq War, the neglect of women’s health, and the destruction of nature, especially in her beloved “Red Rock” region of her native Utah and in Alaska.
Find out more about Terry Tempest Williams and how you can engage with her campaigns and efforts by visiting her website.

This is an episode of the Bioneers: Revolution from the Heart of Nature series. Visit the radio and podcast homepage to learn more.

From Slavery to Stardust: What Would Healing Look Like?

it@bioneers.org (Bioneers) — Wed, 17 Apr 2024 23:03:00 -0000

What’s it like to be in someone else’s skin? What if the color of the skin is different – say, black and white? What might happen when the descendants of a white slave trader and of black people who were enslaved meet? That is the brave and wrenching journey embraced by Thomas DeWolf, whose white ancestors were once the nation’s biggest slave traders, and Belvie Rooks and Dedan Gills, descendants of African people who were enslaved. Together they depict their remarkable journey to discover what healing looks like.

This is an episode of the Bioneers: Revolution from the Heart of Nature series. Visit the radio and podcast homepage to learn more.

The Blue Economy: Too Good Not to Be True | Bren Smith

it@bioneers.org (Bioneers) — Mon, 08 Apr 2024 15:00:00 -0000

In this second of a two-part program, we plunge into the mind-bending proposition that we get a second chance to remake our broken food economy. Bren Smith, co-founder and co-Executive Director of GreenWave, has created a revolutionary polycultural farming model that has low upfront costs, is easily scalable, and can help mitigate climate change. It’s called regenerative ocean farming and aims to redesign the food economy away from destructive profit-driven practices and agribusiness monopolies in favor of democratizing the food economy.

Under the Skin We’re All Kin: Reading the Minds of Animals | Carl Safina

it@bioneers.org (Bioneers) — Thu, 04 Apr 2024 16:38:00 -0000

Calling someone an “animal” means they’re less than human – not worthy of respect, rights, or even of life itself. But in truth -- and in biological fact -- human beings ARE animals. Scientists continue to find that intelligence and what we call “consciousness” appear to saturate all of nature. Clearly it’s high time to think differently about just what it means to be an animal. Can we know what it’s like to be other-than-human? How can we see into the minds of animals? Visionary naturalist, author and conservationist Carl Safina says that the first step is paying attention and observing. And, he suggests, if we had humility, we’d have everything.

Creating a World Where Everyone Belongs: From a Change of Heart to System Change | Angela Glover Blackwell & and john a. powell

it@bioneers.org (Bioneers) — Wed, 27 Mar 2024 07:22:00 -0000

How can we overcome corrosive divisions and separations that are tearing us apart and create a world where everyone belongs?

In this program, we dip into a deep conversation on this topic between Angela Glover Blackwell and john a. powell, two long-time friends and leaders in a quest toward building a multicultural democracy.

Featuring

Resources

From Othering to Belonging | Bioneers 2022 Panel Discussion with Angela Glover Blackwell and john a. powell

Angela Glover Blackwell – Transformative Solidarity for a Thriving Multiracial Democracy | Bioneers 2022 Keynote Address

john a. powell – Healing Across Divides: Building Bridges to Challenge Systemic Injustice | Bioneers 2020 Keynote Address

This is an episode of the Bioneers: Revolution from the Heart of Nature series. Visit the radio and podcast homepage to learn more.

Legalizing Nature’s Rights: How Tribal Nations are Leading the Fastest Growing Environmental Movement in History

it@bioneers.org (Bioneers) — Thu, 21 Mar 2024 23:43:00 -0000

In this program, Native American attorneys, Frank Bibeau and Samantha Skenandore, and legal movement leader Thomas Linzey report from the front lines how they are honing their strategies to protect natural systems for future generations.

Featuring

Frank Bibeau, an enrolled member of the Minnesota Chippewa Tribe, is an activist and tribal attorney who works extensively on Chippewa treaty and civil rights, sovereignty and water protection.

Samantha Skenandore (Ho-Chunk/Oneida), Attorney/Of-Counsel at Quarles & Brady LLP, has vast knowledge and experience in working on matters involving on both federal Indian law and tribal law.

Resources

Mari Margil and Thomas Linzey – Changing Everything: The Global Movement for the Rights of Nature

The Rights of Nature Movement in Indian Country and Beyond: From Grassroots to Mainstream

Bioneers Rights of Nature Deep Dive

This is an episode of the Bioneers: Revolution from the Heart of Nature series. Visit the radio and podcast homepage to learn more.

Staying Alive: Reconciling Nature, Culture and Gay Rights

it@bioneers.org (Bioneers) — Tue, 05 Mar 2024 15:00:00 -0000

Forest Wisdom, Mother Trees and the Science of Community | Suzanne Simard

it@bioneers.org (Bioneers) — Wed, 28 Feb 2024 13:00:00 -0000

Forests have long occupied a fertile landscape in the human imagination. Places of mystery and magic – of wildness and wisdom – of vision and dreaming. Yet beyond mythic realms of imagination, we’ve largely treated forests as inert physical resources to satisfy human needs and desires. The main operative science behind this commodification has been market science – how to extract maximum resources and profits.

Suzanne Simard is a revolutionary researcher who is transforming the science of forest ecology and coming full circle to the wisdom held by First Peoples and traditional land-based cultures from time immemorial. The story Simard is uncovering can change our story for how we live on Earth and with each other – for the long haul.

Featuring

Suzanne Simard, Professor of Forestry at the University of British Columbia, is an expert in the synergies and complexities of forests and the development of sustainable forest stewardship practices. Her groundbreaking research centers on the relationships between plants, microbes, soils, carbon, nutrients and water that underlie the adaptability of ecosystems, especially the below-ground fungal networks that connect trees and facilitate interplant communication. Learn more about Suzanne Simard and her work at her website.

Explore More

Dispatches From the Mother Trees, Suzanne Simard’s keynote address to the 2021 Bioneers Conference, in which she discusses the dire global consequences of logging old-growth rainforests, and nature-based solutions that combine Western science and Indigenous knowledge for preserving and caring for these invaluable forest ecosystems for future generations.

Lessons from the Underground, a panel discussion from the 2021 Bioneers Conference featuring Suzanne Simard as well as Anne Biklé and David R. Montgomery, a wife and husband team of scientific researchers whose groundbreaking work on the microbial life of soil has revealed its crucial importance to human wellbeing and survival. Moderated by Bioneers’ Restorative Food Systems Director Arty Mangan.

Intelligence in Nature, a deep-dive resource featuring leading experts in this burgeoning field.

What We Owe Our Trees, an article by Jill Lepore in the New Yorker.

This is an episode of the Bioneers: Revolution from the Heart of Nature series. Visit the radio and podcast homepage to learn more.

Radical Transparency: Mapping the Earth from the Ground to the Cloud | Rebecca Moore

it@bioneers.org (Bioneers) — Wed, 21 Feb 2024 19:00:00 -0000

In this program, we explore the boundless possibilities of digital maps and platforms with Rebecca Moore, visionary founder of Google Earth Outreach and Google Earth Engine.

This is an episode of the Bioneers: Revolution from the Heart of Nature series. Visit the radio and podcast homepage to learn more.

Black Food: Liberation, Food Justice and Stewardship | Karen Washington & Bryant Terry

it@bioneers.org (Bioneers) — Tue, 06 Feb 2024 14:00:00 -0000

The influences of Africans and Black Americans on food and agriculture is rooted in ancestral African knowledge and traditions of shared labor, worker co-ops and botanical polycultures.

In this episode, we hear from Karen Washington and Bryant Terry on how Black Food culture is weaving the threads of a rich African agricultural heritage with the liberation of economics from an extractive corporate food oligarchy. The results can be health, conviviality, community wealth, and the power of self-determination.

The Charging Twenties: Now is the Time to Build a Solar-Powered Civilization | Danny Kennedy

it@bioneers.org (Bioneers) — Wed, 17 Jan 2024 14:00:00 -0000

Visionary clean energy entrepreneur Danny Kennedy explores the promise and challenges of the epic civilizational transition to renewable energy. Without doubt, the shift has hit the fan, but will we make the transition in time to avert complete climate breakdown? Danny Kennedy says we can - and the real heroes and sheroes will be millions of clean energy entrepreneurs and startups, in partnership with the determined leadership of Indigenous Peoples arising worldwide.

Cultural Mindshift: Full Spectrum Sustainability and Resilience

it@bioneers.org (Bioneers) — Wed, 10 Jan 2024 22:05:00 -0000

Climate is the trip wire for every other foundational ecological and biological system – as well as the basis for human civilization. As we face the long climate emergency, fortunately, skillful pathfinders are banding together to transform our ways of living and bring resilience from the ground up into widespread practice. With Berkeley’s Chief Resilience Officer, Timothy Burroughs, Professor David W. Orr, and financial adviser Tom Van Dyck.

Inner Resilience: Back to Our True Nature | Dr. Gabor Maté

it@bioneers.org (Bioneers) — Wed, 20 Dec 2023 06:23:00 -0000

Our physical health is intimately tied to environmental health, as well as to our emotional and spiritual ecology. Visionary physician Dr. Gabor Maté explores the deepest psychological, emotional and social forces leading to our society’s poor health and unhappiness. He says we have the capacity to heal both ourselves and the planet by reconnecting with our true nature as empathic, nurturing, social beings.

This is an episode of the Bioneers: Revolution from the Heart of Nature series. Visit the radio and podcast homepage to learn more.

Designing for a Regenerative Future: What’s Love Got to Do with It? | Jason F. McLennan

it@bioneers.org (Bioneers) — Tue, 05 Dec 2023 14:00:00 -0000

Resources

Jason McLennan Keynote Bioneers 2022 – From Reconciliation to Regeneration

Deep Community Resilience: Preparing for the Coming Age, Place-By-Place | Jason F. McLennan

Child-Centered Planning: A New Specialized Pattern Language Tool | Jason F. McLennan

Visit the episode page for transcript and more information.

This is an episode of the Bioneers: Revolution from the Heart of Nature series. Visit the radio and podcast homepage to learn more.

The Path Home: Restoring Native Lands and Traditional Ecological Knowledge

it@bioneers.org (Bioneers) — Wed, 29 Nov 2023 14:00:00 -0000

Although colonial systems of oppression have radically damaged relationships between tribal communities and their traditional lands, a new generation of First Nations activists is working to restore those connections and safeguard Indigenous identity for future generations. They’re protecting traditional territories and sacred sites from harm, and renewing Indigenous land stewardship. With: Eriel Deranger of the Athabasca Chipewyan First Nation, Valentin Lopez, Amah Mutsun Tribal Band, and Cara Romero, from the Mohave-based Chemehuevi Tribe.

Midwifing a Movement: Community Birth Centers and the Care Economy | Leseliey Welch & Indra Lusero

it@bioneers.org (Bioneers) — Wed, 15 Nov 2023 06:02:00 -0000

Leseliey Welch and Indra Lusero, parents and birth justice advocates, are helping to lead a movement to create community birth centers across the nation. To help address the maternal and infant mortality crisis, they’re realizing a vision where midwives are the leaders in care in a reclamation of the normal physiologic process of birth. They say birth centers provide racially and culturally reverent care founded in safety, love and trust.

Featuring

Leseliey Welch, MPH, MBA, is Co-founder of Birth Detroit (Detroit's first freestanding birth center) and Birth Center Equity, a mom and a tireless advocate for work that makes communities stronger, healthier and more free.

Indra Lusero is a Colorado licensed attorney, founder of Elephant Circle and the Birth Rights Bar Association, designed Colorado’s ambitious Birth Equity bill package.

Resources

Reclaiming Birth: The Movement for Safe, Reverent, and Equitable Maternity Care in America

This is an episode of the Bioneers: Revolution from the Heart of Nature series. Visit the radio and podcast homepage to learn more.

Climate Health, Your Health: Prevention Is Protection | Dr. Linda Rudolph & Dr. Barbara Sattler

it@bioneers.org (Bioneers) — Tue, 07 Nov 2023 19:07:00 -0000

Climate disruption is harmful to your health. Dr. Linda Rudolph and Dr. Barbara Sattler are showing how our success or failure as a civilization may well hinge on how ingenious, nimble and socially just our public health systems can become in restoring the ecosystem health on which all health depends. And doing the right thing is good for our health.

This is an episode of the Bioneers: Revolution from the Heart of Nature series. Visit the radio and podcast homepage to learn more.

Toward a More Perfect Union: Unleashing the Promise in Us All | Angela Glover Blackwell

it@bioneers.org (Bioneers) — Tue, 31 Oct 2023 21:11:00 -0000

In this time of radical upheaval and change, fulfilling the promise of a “more perfect union” in the United States means building a multi-racial democracy through transformative solidarity. As the Founder-in-Residence at Policy Link, Professor Angela Glover Blackwell has spent decades advancing racial and economic equity at the national and local levels. She says the fate of the wealthiest nation on Earth depends on what happens to the very people who’ve been left behind.

Featuring

Resources

From Othering to Belonging with Angela Glover Blackwell and john a. powell

Transformative Solidarity for a Thriving Multiracial Democracy with Angela Glover Blackwell

This is an episode of the Bioneers: Revolution from the Heart of Nature series. Visit the radio and podcast homepage to learn more.

The Restorative Revolution: How Indigenous Leadership and Allyship Catalyzed the Biggest River Restoration in US History

it@bioneers.org (Bioneers) — Thu, 19 Oct 2023 13:00:00 -0000

Yurok fisherman and tribal leader Sammy Gensaw and environmental scientist-turned-activist Craig Tucker share the epic story of how Indigenous leadership and non-Indian allyship made the impossible inevitable: the biggest-ever dam removal and salmon restoration in history. It represented a literal watershed moment; unprecedented co-equal decision-making between the tribes and their historical nemesis - the US government. Once complete in 2024, the project will liberate the Klamath river and several tributaries to once again run free across 400-miles from Oregon through California and into the Pacific Ocean.

Featuring

Sammy Gensaw (Yurok) is the Founding Director of the Ancestral Guard, Artist, Yurok Language Speaker, Singer, Writer, Cultural/Political/Environmental Activist, Regalia Maker, Mediator, Youth Leader & Fisherman.

Resources

Indigenous Forum – Undam the Klamath! How Tribes Led the Largest River Restoration Project in US History | Bioneers 2023

This is an episode of the Bioneers: Revolution from the Heart of Nature series. Visit the radio and podcast homepage to learn more.

We're a Culture, Not a Costume: Fighting Racism in Schools - Dahkota Brown, Chiitaanibah Johnson, Jayden Lim, and Naelyn Pike

it@bioneers.org (Bioneers) — Tue, 10 Oct 2023 19:27:57 -0000

Erosion and Evolution: Our Undoing is Our Becoming | Terry Tempest Williams

it@bioneers.org (Bioneers) — Tue, 03 Oct 2023 12:00:00 -0000

Deep Listening: Whale Culture, Interspecies Communication, and Knowing Your Place | Shane Gero

it@bioneers.org (Bioneers) — Mon, 25 Sep 2023 18:14:04 -0000

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Resources

Shane Gero – Preserving Animal Cultures: Lessons from Whale Wisdom | Bioneers 2023 Keynote

Deep Dive: Intelligence in Nature

This is an episode of the Bioneers: Revolution from the Heart of Nature series. Visit the radio and podcast homepage to learn more.

Art As Social Change: Birthing the Dawn Of A New Day | John Densmore & Climbing PoeTree

it@bioneers.org (Bioneers) — Tue, 19 Sep 2023 22:59:49 -0000

“Art is not a mirror held up to reality, but a hammer with which to shape it.” (Bertolt Brecht). John Densmore, legendary drummer of the Doors, joins visionary spoken word duo Climbing PoeTree in an exploration of creativity and social change. This episode of the Bioneers features exclusive interviews with the artists and a special Bioneers performance of Jim Morrison’s poem, “American Prayer”.

Busting the Myth of Primate Patriarchy: The Nature of Sex and Gender in Our Ape Relatives | Frans de Waal

it@bioneers.org (Bioneers) — Wed, 13 Sep 2023 00:00:48 -0000

World-renowned primatologist Professor Frans de Waal explores the nature of sex and gender among our cousins the apes, and how gender diversity is a common and pervasive potential on nature’s masculine-feminine continuum. In the quest to overcome human gender inequality, he suggests that our focus needs to be on the inequality.

Featuring

Frans B. M. de Waal, Ph.D., is a Dutch/American biologist and primatologist widely renowned for his work on the behavior and social intelligence of primates. C. H. Candler Professor Emeritus at Emory University, de Waal has been elected to the U.S. National Academy of Sciences and was declared one of The Worlds’ 100 Most Influential People Today by Time magazine in 2007. The author of numerous highly influential books including Chimpanzee Politics and Our Inner Ape, his most recent is: Different: Gender Through the Eyes of a Primatologist.

Resources

Read an excerpt from Different: Gender Through the Eyes of a Primatologist

Living Links Center for the Advanced Study of Ape and Human Evolution

This is an episode of the Bioneers: Revolution from the Heart of Nature series. Visit the radio and podcast homepage to learn more.

Social Medicine: Restoring Public Health by Changing Society | Dr. Rupa Marya

it@bioneers.org (Bioneers) — Tue, 05 Sep 2023 19:18:02 -0000

We are told that our personal health is our individual responsibility based on our own choices. Yet, the biological truth is that human health is dependent upon the health of nature’s ecosystems and our social structures. Decisions that negatively affect these larger systems and eventually affect us are made without our consent as citizens and, often, without our knowledge. Dr. Rupa Marya, Associate Professor of Medicine at UC San Francisco, and Faculty Director of the Do No Harm Coalition, says "social medicine" means dismantling harmful social structures that directly lead to poor health outcomes, and building new structures that promote health and healing.

Learn more about Rupa Marya and her work here.

This is an episode of the Bioneers: Revolution from the Heart of Nature series. Visit the radio and podcast homepage to learn more.

Nature’s Phoenix: Fire As Medicine

it@bioneers.org (Bioneers) — Tue, 29 Aug 2023 13:00:00 -0000

Contemporary Western fire science is integrating what Indigenous Peoples discovered over thousands of years of observation, and trial and error: fire is key to optimizing forest vitality and biodiversity. The merging of these two ways of knowing could signal the end to our misguided policy of fire suppression, and the beginning of fire-resilient communities with a new relationship to one of nature’s most elemental and fearful forces. With fire ecologists Chad Hanson and Frank Kanawha Lake.

This is an episode of the Bioneers: Revolution from the Heart of Nature series. Visit the radio and podcast homepage to learn more.

Amazon Visions: Solutions for Saving the Lungs of the Planet

it@bioneers.org (Bioneers) — Tue, 22 Aug 2023 13:00:00 -0000

Ecuadorians have voted to ban oil drilling in one of the most biodiverse places on the planet, the Yasuní National Park, situated in the Amazon rainforest. This historic vote will hopefully set an important precedent for the future of climate policy. To celebrate this historic win, we're revisiting some voices from those on the front lines of protecting the Amazon.

If the rate of destruction doesn’t change, by the year 2020 most of the Amazon ecosystem – the lungs of the planet – will be destroyed or irreparably damaged. But not if these visionary leaders can help it. Amazon Watch founder Atossa Soltani has supported local indigenous peoples to protect the rainforest and their lifeways. Legendary rainforest champion Marina Silva , Brazil’s past Minister of the Environment and Presidential candidate, offers deep wisdom and vision.

Patriarchy: Thousands of Years Old But Only a Few Days Deep

it@bioneers.org (Bioneers) — Tue, 15 Aug 2023 13:00:00 -0000

This is an episode of the Bioneers: Revolution from the Heart of Nature series. Visit the radio and podcast homepage to learn more.

Vice To Virtue: From Carbon Crisis to Carbon Farming

it@bioneers.org (Bioneers) — Tue, 08 Aug 2023 18:33:47 -0000

How does a virtue become a vice? How does a basic building block of life turn into a threat to life? And how do you turn that vice back into a virtue? In this half-hour we visit with two unlikely pathfinders who are helping to revolutionize farming. Calla Rose Ostrander and John Wick of the Marin Carbon Project are taking carbon out of the atmosphere and putting it back where it belongs: in the soil. In so doing, they’re also revitalizing the soil, conserving water, and building agricultural resilience. Scaling up these revolutionary regenerative methods can offset the climate destabilization, which that threatens to confound agriculture and endanger our food supply.

Check out Bioneers' Deep Dive on Carbon Farming where you can read articles, watch videos and catch up on current related news.

This is an episode of the Bioneers: Revolution from the Heart of Nature series. Visit the radio and podcast homepage to learn more.

The Wonders of Gaia: Nature is Symbiotic | Lynn Margulis, Wade Davis & Paul Stamets

it@bioneers.org (Bioneers) — Tue, 01 Aug 2023 17:59:00 -0000

"Why plant a garden when you can put plants to work for you in your own body?" This is one of the mind bending questions Lynn Margulis, one of the greatest cross-disciplinary scientific thinkers and educators of our epoch, asks. Margulis, ethnobotanist Wade Davis and mycologist Paul Stamets weave tales of amazing plant intelligence like the "Hat Thrower Mushroom" and animals that eat light.

Staying Alive: Reconciling Nature, Culture and Gay Rights | Taylor Brorby

it@bioneers.org (Bioneers) — Tue, 01 Aug 2023 13:00:00 -0000

Visit the episode page for more show notes and transcript.

This is an episode of the Bioneers: Revolution from the Heart of Nature series. Visit the radio and podcast homepage to learn more.

When Truth Is Dangerous: The Power of Independent Media | Amy Goodman & Monika Bauerlein

it@bioneers.org (Bioneers) — Thu, 27 Jul 2023 00:00:25 -0000

In this program, we hear from two veteran journalists who lead two of the most courageous and successful independent media outlets in the United States: Monika Bauerlein, the CEO of Mother Jones magazine, and Amy Goodman, host and executive producer of Democracy Now!

Resources

Video of Monika Bauerlein's Keynote speech at Bioneers 2019

Video of Amy Goodman's speech at Bioneers 2017

Got Dirt? Get Soil! Ditch the Plow, Cover Up and Grow Diversity

it@bioneers.org (Bioneers) — Tue, 18 Jul 2023 13:00:00 -0000

Biologist Ann Biklé and geologist David Montgomery share one of the good news stories that show how the solutions residing in nature surpass our conception of what’s even possible.

Featuring

David R. Montgomery, a Seattle-based MacArthur Fellow and professor of Geomorphology at the University of Washington and the author of award-winning popular-science books that have been translated into nine languages, is an internationally recognized geologist who studies landscape evolution and the effects of geological processes on ecological systems and human societies.

Anne Biklé, a biologist, science communicator, and public speaker, investigates and writes about connections between people, plants, food, health, and the environment. Her work has appeared in magazines, newspapers and radio, and her soil-building practices have been featured in independent and documentary films.

Resources

Learn more about David and Anne’s work and books at their website, dig2grow.com.

Explore Bioneers’ Regenerative Agriculture media hub to learn more about practices that increase biodiversity, build and enrich soil, improve watersheds, enhance ecosystem services, and increase soil carbon storage.

Subscribe to The Food Web, our food-and-farming newsletter sharing the stories and celebrating the people whose work builds local food systems that serve people and embed ecological stewardship into agricultural practices.

Laboring for Justice: See No Stranger | Valarie Kaur

it@bioneers.org (Bioneers) — Thu, 13 Jul 2023 04:42:35 -0000

Valarie Kaur, born into a family of Sikh farmers who settled in California in 1913, is a seasoned civil rights activist, award-winning filmmaker, lawyer, faith leader, and founder of the Revolutionary Love Project, which seeks to champion love as a public ethic and wellspring for social action.

For transcript and more about this program, visit: https://bioneers.org/laboring-for-justice-see-no-stranger/

Credits

Executive Producer: Kenny Ausubel

Written by: Monica Lopez and Kenny Ausubel

Senior Producer and Station Relations: Stephanie Welch

Host and Consulting Producer: Neil Harvey

Producer: Teo Grossman

Program Engineer and Music Supervisor: Emily Harris

Who Is an American? Is Our Democracy as Unequal as Our Economy? | Heather McGhee

it@bioneers.org (Bioneers) — Tue, 04 Jul 2023 13:00:00 -0000

By around 2044, the U.S. will become a majority-minority nation. This seismic demographic shift has triggered a cultural earthquake, provoking a radical spike in hate crimes. In times of massive disruption and economic stress, what Carl Jung called the “shadow side of the psyche” comes into play: the pronounced psychological tendency in the collective psyche is to project these shadow qualities with unusual potency onto whomever people see as “the other.” But is there also a deeper story? Perhaps the question to ask is: Who benefits? In this half hour, we hear from Heather McGhee of Demos. She sees a direct connection between today’s extreme inequality and this peak moment of racial panic and white anxiety.

Disruptive Design: What Good Looks Like | Jason McLennan & Cheryl Dahle

it@bioneers.org (Bioneers) — Wed, 28 Jun 2023 01:49:09 -0000

Aligning business with biology, disruptive design uses systems thinking to create models that show what “good” really looks like. Two winners of the 2012 Buckminster Fuller Challenge Award—visionary architect Jason McLennan of the acclaimed Living Building Challenge and entrepreneur Cheryl Dahle of The Future of Fish—demonstrate breakthrough systems designs that can transform major industries, create a healthy sustainable environment and make life beautiful and fun.

Take This Job and Shove It: The Great Resignation or The Great Revolt? | Saru Jayaraman

it@bioneers.org (Bioneers) — Wed, 21 Jun 2023 05:08:00 -0000

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Resources

Saru Jayaraman – The Great Revolution: What A Worker Power Moment Can Mean for Climate Justice | Bioneers 2023 Keynote

Saru Jayaraman – We the People: Workers Rising for Fair Wages | Bioneers 2017 Keynote

Raced and Classed: The Journey From Diversity to Equity | Rinku Sen, Saru Jarayaman and Malkia Cyril

it@bioneers.org (Bioneers) — Tue, 13 Jun 2023 13:00:00 -0000

This is an episode of the Bioneers: Revolution from the Heart of Nature series. Visit the radio and podcast homepage to learn more.

Plastic Planet: Stopping Big Oil, Big Plastic, and Big Misdirection | Anna Cummins

it@bioneers.org (Bioneers) — Tue, 06 Jun 2023 13:00:00 -0000

Featuring

Anna Cummins, Deputy Director and Co-Founder of the Five Gyres Institute. With more than 20 years experience in environmental non-profit work—including marine conservation, coastal watershed management, community relations, and bilingual and sustainability education—Anna is an expert in the field.

Credits

Executive Producer: Kenny Ausubel
Written by: Monica Lopez and Kenny Ausubel
Senior Producer and Station Relations: Stephanie Welch
Host and Consulting Producer: Neil Harvey
Producer: Teo Grossman
Program Engineer and Music Supervisor: Emily Harris

Additional music was made available by

Pictures of a Floating World, FreeMusicArchive.org
Mark Barrott, MarkBarrott.com

Youth Solutionaries: Future Present | De’Anthony Jones, Chloe Maxmin & Xiuhtezcatl Martinez

it@bioneers.org (Bioneers) — Tue, 23 May 2023 13:00:00 -0000

Youth movements are rising to restore people and planet. De’Anthony Jones, a former President of the Environmental Students Organization at Sacramento State, Chloe Maxmin, co-founder of Divest Harvard, and Xiuhtezcatl Martinez, hip-hop artist and Youth Director of Earth Guardians, say there’s no better time to be born than now because this generation gets to rewrite history. It could be known as the generation that brought forth a healthy, just, sustainable world for every generation to come.

Building the Solidarity Economy: Awakening to Our Mutuality and Shifting the Terrain of Power | Manuel Pastor

it@bioneers.org (Bioneers) — Tue, 16 May 2023 13:00:00 -0000

Featuring

Resources

Solidarity Economics: Why Mutuality and Movements Matter | 2021 Book by Manuel Pastor and Chris Benner

SolidarityEconomics.org | Joint Project of the Equity Research Center (ERI) at the University of Southern California and the Institute for Social Transformation at UC Santa Cruz

Manuel Pastor – Solidarity Economics: Mutuality, Movements and Momentum | 2021 Bioneers Keynote Address

Solidarity Economics: Our Economy, Our Planet, Our Movements | 2021 Bioneers Panel

Bioneers Reader: Our Economic Future | Free eBook

Beaver Believers: How to Restore Planet Water | Kate Lundquist & Brock Dolman

it@bioneers.org (Bioneers) — Tue, 02 May 2023 13:00:00 -0000

For more information and transcript, visit: https://bioneers.org/beaver-believers-how-to-restore-planet-water/

Resources

Beaver Believer: How Massive Rodents Could Restore Landscapes and Ecosystems At Scale

Fire and Water: Land and Watershed Management in the Age of Climate Change

Brock Dolman – Basins of Relations: A Reverential Rehydration Revolution

From Kingdom to Kin-dom: Acting As If We Have Relatives Brock Dolman, Paul Stamets and Brian Thomas Swimme

The WATER Institute’s Beaver in California reader

No More Stolen Sisters: Stopping the Abuse and Murder of Native Women and Girls

it@bioneers.org (Bioneers) — Thu, 27 Apr 2023 03:56:45 -0000

Jessica Alva Khadija Rose Britton. Hanna Harris. Anthonette Christine Cayedito. If you haven't heard of these women, it’s no surprise. They’re four of the untold number of Indigenous women and girls who have been murdered, kidnapped or gone mysteriously missing.

A significant number of victims are from communities that are subjected to the harmful presence of fossil fuel and mining companies. The extractive industry is ravaging Native nations where oil and blood have long run together. Add to this a dysfunctional police and legal hierarchy that leaves Indigenous women and their families with little support during the first crucial hours when they go missing, and little recourse to prosecute predators for their crimes.

In this program, powerful Native women leaders reveal the crisis of missing and murdered Indigenous women, and describe how they are taking action and building growing movements, including with non-Native allies. Morning Star Gali, Ozawa Bineshi Albert, Simone Senogles, Kandi White, and Casey Camp Horinek.

***These stories are shocking, harrowing and heartbreaking. But then again, when your heart breaks, the cracks are where the light shines through.

RESOURCES

The Coalition to Stop Violence Against Native Women

Sovereign Bodies Institute

MMIW USA

The Intercept: A New Film Examines Sexual Violence as a Feature of the Bakken Oil Boom

Restoring Justice for Indigenous Peoples: MMIW Initiative

The Mendocino Voice: Community groups begin painting mural honoring Khadijah Britton and highlighting MMIW in Ukiah

The Blue Economy: Too Good Not to Be True | Bren Smith

it@bioneers.org (Bioneers) — Mon, 17 Apr 2023 19:43:29 -0000

Creating a World Where Everyone Belongs: From a Change of Heart to System Change | Angela Glover Blackwell & john a. powell

it@bioneers.org (Bioneers) — Wed, 29 Mar 2023 13:00:00 -0000

How can we overcome corrosive divisions and separations that are tearing us apart and create a world where everyone belongs?

Featuring

Resources

From Othering to Belonging | Bioneers 2022 Panel Discussion with Angela Glover Blackwell and john a. powell

Angela Glover Blackwell - Transformative Solidarity for a Thriving Multiracial Democracy | Bioneers 2022 Keynote Address

john a. powell - Healing Across Divides: Building Bridges to Challenge Systemic Injustice | Bioneers 2020 Keynote Address

Credits

Executive Producer: Kenny Ausubel

Written by: Kenny Ausubel

Senior Producer and Station Relations: Stephanie Welch

Program Engineer and Music Supervisor: Emily Harris

Host and Consulting Producer: Neil Harvey

Producer: Teo Grossman

Production Assistance: Anna Rubanova and Monica Lopez

Molecular Psychology: Good Chemistry with Nature’s Green Chemistry

it@bioneers.org (Bioneers) — Tue, 07 Mar 2023 14:00:00 -0000

Did you ever ask yourself who in their right mind would invent a convenience to keep food fresh that would one day litter the landscape, wash up on every beach around the world and release toxic substances into the web of life and your body long after its short disposable life? Master green chemists and educators John Warner and Amy Cannon say all that is changing -- by necessity and by design. The radical growth of green chemistry is showing we can have good chemistry with the Earth by emulating nature’s green chemistry and do good business at the same time.

We’re All Chimps: Or Are Animals Persons Too? | Roger and Deborah Fouts

it@bioneers.org (Bioneers) — Tue, 28 Feb 2023 19:33:39 -0000

In Western civilization, human beings are considered the exceptional species and uniquely intelligent. Yet science is consistently revealing our intimate biological kinship with all species, especially the primates with whom we share 99% of our DNA. The breakthrough primatologist researchers Roger and Deborah Fouts take us on their amazing journey with chimpanzees that shows that, not only are people animals, but animals seem to be people too.

Featuring

Roger and Deborah Fouts co-founded and directed the Chimpanzee and Human Communication Institute (CHCI) at Central Washington University. CHCI facilitated research on primate communication, advocated for chimpanzee conservation, and served as a sanctuary for chimpanzees from 1993-2013.

Music co-written by the Baka Forest People of Cameroon and Baka Beyond from the album East to West. All royalties from Baka compositions and performances go to Baka Forest People, through the charity Global Music Exchange. Find out more at globalmusicexchange.org.

Additional music was made available by Sounds True, at SoundsTrue.com.

Legalizing Nature’s Rights: How Tribal Nations are Leading the Fastest Growing Environmental Movement in History with Frank Bibeau, Thomas Linzey, Samantha Skenandore

it@bioneers.org (Bioneers) — Tue, 14 Feb 2023 17:33:00 -0000

Featuring

Frank Bibeau, an enrolled member of the Minnesota Chippewa Tribe, is an activist and tribal attorney who works extensively on Chippewa treaty and civil rights, sovereignty and water protection.

Samantha Skenandore (Ho-Chunk/Oneida), Attorney/Of-Counsel at Quarles & Brady LLP, has vast knowledge and experience in working on matters involving on both federal Indian law and tribal law.

Resources

Mari Margil and Thomas Linzey – Changing Everything: The Global Movement for the Rights of Nature

The Rights of Nature Movement in Indian Country and Beyond: From Grassroots to Mainstream

Bioneers Rights of Nature Deep Dive

Bending Toward Justice: The Arc of Black Lives Matter with Patrisse Cullors

it@bioneers.org (Bioneers) — Tue, 31 Jan 2023 19:30:38 -0000

In 2018, Patrisse Cullors, co-founder of Black Lives Matter shared a moving speech at a Bioneers Conference. Cullors is a performance artist and award-winning organizer from Los Angeles, and is one of the most effective and influential movement builders of our era. She was a key figure in the fight to force the creation of the first civilian oversight commission of the LA Sheriff’s Department, but is most widely known as one of the three original co-founders of Black Lives Matter and for her recent, best-selling book, “When They Call You a Terrorist: A Black Lives Matter Memoir.”

Democracy v. Plutocracy: Breaking Up is Hard to Do | Thom Hartmann, Stacy Mitchell and Maurice B.P. Weeks

it@bioneers.org (Bioneers) — Mon, 23 Jan 2023 16:32:59 -0000

From local communities and states to federal policy, antitrust movements to dismantle monopolies are challenging the system that can be summed up as: Make Feudalism Great Again. Although breaking up is hard to do, we’ve broken up monopolies before. In this second of our two-part program, we join Thom Hartmann, Stacy Mitchell and Maurice B.P. Weeks to survey the landscape of rising antitrust movements to break the stranglehold of corporate power and level the playing field for a democratized economy.

Black Food: Liberation, Food Justice and Stewardship

it@bioneers.org (Bioneers) — Tue, 17 Jan 2023 23:07:43 -0000

The influences of Africans and Black Americans on food and agriculture is rooted in ancestral African knowledge and traditions of shared labor, worker coops and botanical polycultures.

Featuring

Resources

The Farmer and the Chef: A Conversation Between Two Black Food Justice Activists

Karen Washington – 911 Our Food System Is Not Working

Working Against Racism in the Food System

Black Food: An Interview with Chef Bryant Terry

The Food Web Newsletter

Credits

Executive Producer: Kenny Ausubel
Written by: Kenny Ausubel and Arty Mangan
Senior Producer and Station Relations: Stephanie Welch
Program Engineer and Music Supervisor: Emily Harris
Producer: Teo Grossman
Host and Consulting Producer: Neil Harvey
Production Assistance: Monica Lopez
Additional music: Ketsa

Tears in the Eyes, Rainbow in the Heart: Dr. Jane Goodall’s Reasons for Hope - Dr. Jane Goodall | Bioneers 25th Anniversary Greatest Hits Series (2014)

it@bioneers.org (Bioneers) — Tue, 10 Jan 2023 15:35:05 -0000

The visionary primatologist and conservationist Dr. Jane Goodall revolutionized primatology by showing how close our kinship is with the animal kin-dom. “Dr. Jane” has inspired the world to save the rapidly dwindling chimpanzee populations and their habitats. Her compelling vision to restore people, animals and planet is delivering real hope.

The Green New Deal: Launching the Great Transformation | Demond Drummer & Tom Hayden

it@bioneers.org (Bioneers) — Wed, 04 Jan 2023 01:23:15 -0000

As climate chaos and obscene inequality ravage people and planet, a new generation of visionaries is emerging to demand a bold solution: a Green New Deal. Is it a remedy that can actually meet the magnitude and urgency of this turning point in the human enterprise? With lifelong activist and politician Tom Hayden, and Demond Drummer of Policy Link.

Featuring

Tom Hayden (1939-2016) was one of the leading figures of the student, civil rights, anti-war and environmental movements of the 1960s, and went on to serve 18 years in the California legislature. Following his legislative career, he directed the Peace and Justice Resource Center.
Demond Drummer is Managing Director for Equitable Economy at Policy Link, and a Fellow at New Consensus, a nonprofit working to develop and promote the Green New Deal that has advised many progressive leaders and organizations, including Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and the Sunrise Movement.

Resources

The Green New Deal Bioneers Media Hub

Green New Deal Overview | New Consensus

The New Deal Wasn’t Intrinsically Racist by Adolph Reed Jr. | The New Republic

Credits

Executive Producer: Kenny Ausubel
Written by: Kenny Ausubel
Senior Producer and Station Relations: Stephanie Welch
Editorial and Production Assistance: Monica Lopez
Host and Consulting Producer: Neil Harvey
Producer: Teo Grossman
Program Engineer and Music Supervisor: Emily Harris

Kicking the Habit: Sugar, Fat and Junk-Food Junkies | Maggie Adamek

it@bioneers.org (Bioneers) — Sat, 31 Dec 2022 07:00:00 -0000

You do what you eat. Groundbreaking medical research now shows that what we eat is directly connected to how we behave. Maggie Adamek's research for The Sugar Project tracks how the changing American diet has made profound health impacts on behavior, especially among our children. Transforming how we feed ourselves is showing that food is medicine that can change negative behavior dramatically.

Re-Weaving the Web of Belonging: The Inside is Not, and the Outside is Too

it@bioneers.org (Bioneers) — Tue, 27 Dec 2022 14:00:00 -0000

In this program, racial justice advocates john a. powell, Eriel Deranger and Anita Sanchez explore how overcoming the illusion of separateness from nature and each other requires building bridges rather than burning them. They say the fate of the world depends on it.

Featuring

john a. powell, Director of the Othering and Belonging Institute and Professor of Law, African American, and Ethnic Studies at UC Berkeley.
Eriel Deranger (Athabasca Chipewyan First Nation), Executive Director of Indigenous Climate Action.
Anita Sanchez, bestselling author, consultant, trainer and executive coach specializing in indigenous wisdom, diversity and inclusion, leadership, culture and promoting positive change in our world.

Awakening the Genius in Everyone: When the Calling Keeps Calling | Michael Meade

it@bioneers.org (Bioneers) — Fri, 23 Dec 2022 06:03:38 -0000

Nature’s Intelligence: Coming Down from the Pedestal

it@bioneers.org (Bioneers) — Tue, 13 Dec 2022 16:57:08 -0000

These days, scientists are starting to talk like shamans and shamans are starting to talk like scientists. So says anthropologist and author Jeremy Narby. And, he says, we need to talk about talking – because words matter. In this episode, Bioneers Senior Producer J.P. Harpignies speaks with Jeremy Narby about how the very language and words we use reveal the topography and limits of our worldview, including Western culture’s adamant centuries-long but now increasingly discredited assumption that intelligence is restricted only to human beings.

Where Angels Fear To Tread: Making Art That Heals the Broken Places | Lily Yeh

it@bioneers.org (Bioneers) — Tue, 06 Dec 2022 22:28:00 -0000

How do we transform a vicious circle into a virtuous circle? How do we move from environmental degradation and the deterioration of human relations to restoration? From war to peace – from hatred to compassion – from isolation to community? How can one person make a crucial difference? Painter and professor Lily Yeh‘s approach to community healing takes that which is broken and creates something whole and wholly new and beautiful through public art. From Philadelphia to Rwanda, broken places are her canvases. People’s stories are the pigments. People’s talents and creativity are the tools. At the heart of her work is the transformation of human heart.

Video of Lily Yeh speaking at Bioneers 2009

Ripples of Community Resilience: Small Acts, Big Change

it@bioneers.org (Bioneers) — Mon, 28 Nov 2022 22:18:09 -0000

In neighborhoods across the country, citizens are building community resilience – one shovelful and one backyard at a time. Visionary citizen restorationists Trathen Heckman of Daily Acts and Jessie Lerner of Sustain Dane show how seemingly small acts like catching rain and growing food forests are turning green visions into action, with the help of local governments, school kids, businesses, artists and churches.

Designing for a Regenerative Future: What’s Love Got to Do with It? | Jason F. McLennan

it@bioneers.org (Bioneers) — Tue, 22 Nov 2022 22:19:00 -0000

Resources

Jason McLennan Keynote Bioneers 2022 – From Reconciliation to Regeneration

Deep Community Resilience: Preparing for the Coming Age, Place-By-Place | Jason F. McLennan

Child-Centered Planning: A New Specialized Pattern Language Tool | Jason F. McLennan

Visit the episode page for transcript and more information.

Inner Resilience: Back to Our True Nature - Dr. Gabor Mate

it@bioneers.org (Bioneers) — Mon, 14 Nov 2022 15:00:00 -0000

Our physical health is intimately tied to environmental health, and to our emotional and spiritual ecology. Visionary physician Dr. Gabor Maté explores the deepest psychological, emotional and social forces leading to our society’s poor health and unhappiness. He says we have the capacity to heal the planet and ourselves by reconnecting with our true nature as empathic, nurturing social beings.

Welcome the Water: Climate-Proofing for Resilience | Henk Ovink

it@bioneers.org (Bioneers) — Tue, 08 Nov 2022 14:00:00 -0000

In the face of global climate disruption, two billion people worldwide will be challenged by too much water, and nearly another two billion by not enough. When you fight nature, you lose, says Henk Ovink, a designer, the Principal of Rebuild by Design, and the first ever Special Envoy for International Water Affairs for the Kingdom of the Netherlands. He’s dramatically demonstrating on large scales how to shift our relationship to nature and to culture – and climate-proof our cities and coasts.

Featuring, Henk Ovink, the first Special Envoy for International Water Affairs for the Kingdom of the Netherlands. “Worldwide, water is the connecting issue, the number one global risk and the opportunity for comprehensive cultural change.” Ovink is Principal of Rebuild by Design and was Senior Advisor to the former US Presidential Hurricane Sandy Rebuilding Task. He was both Acting Director General of Spatial Planning and Water Affairs and Director National Spatial Planning for the Netherlands.

Learn more about Henk Ovink and his work by visiting Rebuild by Design.

Watch the Bioneers Conference talk from which some of the content in this episode was taken from.

Good Chemistry: Survival of the Most Compatible - John Warner

it@bioneers.org (Bioneers) — Mon, 31 Oct 2022 17:51:29 -0000

Nontoxic hair color from the recipes of beetles, and a potential Alzheimer’s cure derived from applying nature’s operating instructions. The world-renowned “co-father of green chemistry,” John Warner, says: “We’re learning to do everything we want to do without poisoning people or planet.” He’s showing how we can follow nature’s lead to create good chemistry with nature and our own health. The results are jaw-dropping.

We're a Culture, Not a Costume: Fighting Racism in Schools - Dahkota Brown, Chiitaanibah Johnson, Jayden Lim, and Naelyn Pike

it@bioneers.org (Bioneers) — Tue, 25 Oct 2022 19:52:00 -0000

The Sophia Century: When Women Come Into Co-Equal Partnership

it@bioneers.org (Bioneers) — Mon, 17 Oct 2022 17:01:18 -0000

Women-led movements arising around the world herald a profound shift that changes everything. Visionary women leaders Osprey Orielle-Lake, Leila Salazar and Lynne Twist report on the women leading the clean energy revolution in Africa, defending the Amazonian rainforest, and making peace in Liberia.

Toward a More Perfect Union: Unleashing the Promise in Us All with Angela Glover Blackwell

it@bioneers.org (Bioneers) — Tue, 11 Oct 2022 23:10:00 -0000

Featuring

Resources

From Othering to Belonging with Angela Glover Blackwell and john a. powell

Transformative Solidarity for a Thriving Multiracial Democracy with Angela Glover Blackwell

"Remembering Who We Are and Our Relations" with Julian Brave NoiseCat

it@bioneers.org (Bioneers) — Thu, 29 Sep 2022 13:00:00 -0000

In this episode, we speak with Julian Brave NoiseCat, an enrolled citizen of the Secwepemc, also known as Shuswap First Nation, in British Columbia.

Julian Brave NoiseCat explores the importance of connection and relationship, to family, to history, to place and to culture, threading his own story throughout a larger narrative about the deep trauma Indigenous people have experienced through colonization and the resilience and power that is emerging as individuals, tribes and nations work to reclaim their own stories and landscapes.

Julian is a fellow of New America and the Type Media Center, Vice President of Policy & Strategy at Data for Progress as well as one of the first visiting fellows of the Center for Racial Justice at the University of Michigan’s Ford School of Public Policy. In 2021, NoiseCat was named on the Time 100 list of emerging leaders.

This episode’s artwork features photography by Dauwila Harrison. Mer Young creates the series collage artwork.

Featuring

A prolific, widely published Indigenous journalist, writer, activist and policy analyst, Julian Brave NoiseCat has become a highly influential figure in the coverage and analysis of Environmental Justice and Indigenous issues as well as of national and global political and economic trends and policies.

Raised in Oakland, California, in a single-mother household, Julian is a proud member of the Canim Lake Band Tsq'escen and a descendant of the Lil'Wat Nation of Mount Currie. You can follow Julian on Twitter @jnoisecat.

Resources

Video of Julian Brave NoiseCat's Keynote speech at Bioneers 2021– Apocalypse Then & Now

Video of Indigenous Activism NOW: Talking Story With Clayton Thomas-Muller and Julian NoiseCat

Video of Julian's Keynote speech at Bioneers 219 The Indigenous Renaissance | Julian Brave NoiseCat

This is an episode of Indigeneity Conversations, a podcast series that features deep and engaging conversations with Native culture bearers, scholars, movement leaders, and non-Native allies on the most important issues and solutions in Indian Country. Bringing Indigenous voices to global conversations. Visit the Indigeneity Conversations homepage to learn more.

Returning to What Was Lost and Stolen with Corrina Gould

it@bioneers.org (Bioneers) — Wed, 21 Sep 2022 16:14:00 -0000

Defending land rights and preserving tribal culture is difficult for North American tribes, especially for those that do not have sovereign nation-to-nation status with the federal government. The lack of recognition of a tribe’s nationhood as a self-governing entity (as defined by the U.S. Constitution) has been explicitly used as a tool to continue to prevent Native peoples from living on the most desirable lands or protecting sacred lands that have been stolen.

We talk about these issues with Corrina Gould, a celebrated leader and activist of the First Peoples of the Bay Area from the Lisjan/Ohlone tribe of Northern California. She also co-founded the grassroots organization “Indian People Organizing for Change”, which works to defend and preserve sacred Ohlone shell mounds formed over generations.

Featuring

Corrina Gould (Lisjan/Ohlone) is the chair and spokesperson for the Confederated Villages of Lisjan, as well as the Co-Director for The Sogorea Te’ Land Trust, a women-led organization within the urban setting of her ancestral territory of the Bay Area that works to return Indigenous land to Indigenous people. Born and raised in her ancestral homeland, the territory of Huchiun, she is the mother of three and grandmother of four. Corrina has worked on preserving and protecting the sacred burial sites of her ancestors throughout the Bay Area for decades.

Resources

California Indian Genocide and Resilience | 2017 Bioneers panel in which four California Indian leaders share the stories of kidnappings, mass murders, and slavery that took place under Spanish, Mexican and American colonizations — and how today’s generation is dealing with the contemporary implications.

Climbing Out of the Man Box: What Does Healthy Manhood Look Like? | Kevin Powell

it@bioneers.org (Bioneers) — Tue, 20 Sep 2022 16:39:10 -0000

Featuring

Kevin Powell, a leading figure in the movement to redefine manhood and in contemporary American political, cultural and literary life as well as in the hip-hop arena, is the product of a single mother, absent father and severe poverty in his youth. In spite of those challenges he has become an acclaimed, prolific writer, authoring 13 books, including his autobiography, The Education of Kevin Powell: A Boy's Journey into Manhood.

Resources

Watch the full keynote and learn more about Kevin Powell and his work | Bioneers 2018 Keynote

Indigenous Eco-Nomics: Ancestors of the Future with Nick Estes

it@bioneers.org (Bioneers) — Mon, 12 Sep 2022 20:29:00 -0000

In this episode, Indigenous scholar and organizer Nick Estes explores how Indigenous land-based and Earth-centered societies are advancing regenerative solutions and campaigns to transform capitalism. An ancient “eco-nomics” today puts Indigenous leadership at the forefront of assuring a habitable planet.

Featuring

Nick Estes, Ph.D. (Kul Wicasa/Lower Brule Sioux), is Assistant Professor of American Studies at the University of New Mexico and a member of the Oak Lake Writers Society, a group of Dakota, Nakota and Lakota writers. In 2014, he was a co-founder of The Red Nation in Albuquerque, NM, an organization dedicated to the liberation of Native people from capitalism and colonialism. He serves on its editorial collective and writes its bi-weekly newsletter. Nick Estes is also the author of: Our History Is the Future: Standing Rock Versus the Dakota Access Pipeline, and the Long Tradition of Indigenous Resistance.

Resources

Nick Estes – The Age of the Water Protector and Climate Chaos (video) | Bioneers 2022 Keynote

Indigenous Pathways to a Regenerative Future (video) | Bioneers 2021 Panel

The Red Deal: Indigenous Action to Save Our Earth | The Red Nation

Indigenous Resistance Against Carbon | Indigenous Environmental Network

For more info on Nick Estes and show notes, please visit our radio page. This is an episode of the Bioneers: Revolution from the Heart of Nature series. Visit the radio and podcast homepage to find out how to hear the program on your local station and how to subscribe to the podcast.

3-D Ocean Farming: Making a Living on a Living Planet | Bren Smith

it@bioneers.org (Bioneers) — Wed, 31 Aug 2022 03:34:00 -0000

What if there are ways to sustainably harvest protein and nutritious vegetables from the seas in ways that restore coastlines, local economies, produces abundant food, and sequesters vast amounts of carbon dioxide? Pathfinding ocean farmer Bren Smith has cultivated a breakthrough method of near-shore aquaculture called 3-D Ocean Farming, which has the potential to transform our relationship with the ocean, make room again for the flourishing wild diversity of ocean animals, and launch a novel, delicious and authentically sustainable cuisine along with way.

Featuring

Bren Smith, co-executive director and co-founder of GreenWave and owner of Thimble Island Ocean Farm, pioneered the development of regenerative ocean farming. Bren is the winner of the 2015 Buckminster Fuller Challenge award. He is an Ashoka, Castanea, and Echoing Green Climate Fellow and James Beard Award-winning author of Eat Like a Fish: My Adventures Farming the Ocean to Fight Climate Change.

Resources

Video of Bren Smith speaking at Bioneers 2016

Why the Wild? Wilderness in the Anthropocene

it@bioneers.org (Bioneers) — Tue, 30 Aug 2022 04:00:00 -0000

In an era of climate change and sprawling human development, how can we conserve, manage and/or restore wilderness at scale? And what does “wilderness” mean in an epoch almost completely dominated by human activity? What role do wild places play, practically and spiritually?

Hosted by Jason Mark, Editor of the Earth Island Journal. With: Bruce Hamilton, Deputy Executive Director of the Sierra Club; Richard White, Professor of Environmental History at Stanford; Rue Mapp, award-winning founder of Outdoor Afro.

Recorded Friday, October 16, 2015 at the National Bioneers Conference in San Rafael, California.

Restorative Justice: From Harm to Healing | Fania Davis & Cameron Simmons

it@bioneers.org (Bioneers) — Tue, 23 Aug 2022 13:00:00 -0000

Oakland, California, has had the reputation of being one of the most dangerous cities in the country. Then the Restorative Justice movement started boldly showing how quickly that reputation can be turned around by arresting the cycle of youth violence and incarceration early, in schools and juvenile justice policies. With: Restorative Justice leaders Fania Davis and Cameron Simmons.

In remembrance of Cameron Simmons - a model of tenacity, courage and big hearted love.

For more information about Fania Davis and Restorative Justice work, visit rjoyoakland.org/

Video of Fania Davis, Cameron Simmons and Leanna Hudson speaking at Bioneers 2015

They Don’t Call Her Mother Earth for Nothing: Women Re-imagining the World (EXCERPT)

it@bioneers.org (Bioneers) — Mon, 22 Aug 2022 04:00:00 -0000

***THIS IS AN EXCERPT***

Transformational women leaders are restoring societal balance by showing us how to reconnect relationships – not only among people – but between people and the natural world. This astounding conversation among diverse women leaders provides a fascinating window into the soulful depths of what it means to restore the balance between our masculine and feminine selves to bring about wholeness, justice and true restoration of people and planet. Join Alice Walker, Jean Shinoda Bolen, Nina Simons, Sarah Crowell, Joanna Macy and Akaya Windwood to imagine a future where women, children, men and the planet can thrive.

Taking Wing: Feminine Leadership from the Heartbeat of Earth | Zainab Salbi

it@bioneers.org (Bioneers) — Tue, 16 Aug 2022 02:36:00 -0000

Globally, women experience some of the harshest challenges in wartime and the climate crisis while simultaneously remaining caretakers to their families, communities, and the Earth. Zainab Salbi is a humanitarian, author and media host who has dedicated her life to empowering women on the frontlines in conflict zones and climate crisis zones. Her vision is that the fate of humanity depends on elevating feminine leadership that offers a model for a new way of being – for both women and men.

Globally, women experience some of the harshest challenges in wartime and the climate crisis while simultaneously remaining caretakers to their families, communities, and the Earth. Zainab Salbi is a humanitarian, author and media host who has dedicated her life to empowering women on the frontlines in conflict zones and climate crisis zones. Her vision is that the fate of humanity depends on elevating feminine leadership that offers a model for a new way of being – for both women and men.

Featuring:

Zainab Salbi is a celebrated humanitarian, author, and journalist, co-founder of DaughtersforEarth.org, “Chief Awareness Officer” at FindCenter.com, host of the Redefined podcast, and founder of Women for Women International. The author of several books, including the bestseller, Between Two Worlds and, most recently, Freedom Is an Inside Job, she is also the creator and host of several TV shows, including #MeToo, Now What? on PBS.

Resources

Zainab Salbi – Daughters for Earth (video) | Bioneers 2022 Keynote

Daughters for Earth: Women and the Climate Change Movement (video) | Bioneers 2022 Panel

For more info on Zainab Salbi and show notes, please visit our radio page.

Ripples of Community Resilience: Small Acts, Big Change

it@bioneers.org (Bioneers) — Wed, 10 Aug 2022 04:27:08 -0000

Tribe of the New Flame: The Agroecology Revolution

it@bioneers.org (Bioneers) — Tue, 26 Jul 2022 13:00:00 -0000

Miguel Altieri is an agroecologist and entomologist at UC Berkeley who’s showing how farmers who embrace agroecology are building a movement based on self-sufficiency, food security and freedom from fossil fuels and corporate control. To learn more about Miguel Altieri's work, visit ESPM at UC Berkeley

Alex Eaton is the founder of “Sistema Bio”. This game-changing company helps farmers implement a simple technology that converts waste to energy, builds healthy soils, and holds the promise of massively reducing greenhouse gases and lifting people out of poverty. To learn more about Alex Eaton’s work, visit Sistema Biobolsa

Resources

See video of Alex Eaton's keynote speech at the 2018 Bioneers conference

Busting the Myth of Primate Patriarchy: The Nature of Sex and Gender in Our Ape Relatives | Frans de Waal

it@bioneers.org (Bioneers) — Tue, 19 Jul 2022 20:05:00 -0000

World-renowned primatologist Professor Frans de Waal explores the nature of sex and gender among our cousins the apes, and how gender diversity is a common and pervasive potential on nature’s masculine-feminine continuum. In the quest to overcome human gender inequality, he suggests that our focus needs to be on the inequality.

For full transcript and show notes, visit:

Resources

Bioneers article, Different: Gender Through the Eyes of a Primatologist with Frans de Waal

Shamans and Scientists: Changing the Landscape of Power | Mark Plotkin

it@bioneers.org (Bioneers) — Thu, 14 Jul 2022 03:46:39 -0000

Who Is an American? Is Our Democracy as Unequal as Our Economy? | Heather McGhee

it@bioneers.org (Bioneers) — Tue, 28 Jun 2022 13:00:00 -0000

By around 2044, the U.S. will become a majority-minority nation. This seismic demographic shift has triggered a cultural earthquake, provoking a radical spike in hate crimes. In times of massive disruption and economic stress, what Carl Jung called the “shadow side of the psyche” comes into play: the pronounced psychological tendency in the collective psyche is to project these shadow qualities with unusual potency onto whomever people see as “the other.” But is there also a deeper story? Perhaps the question to ask is: Who benefits? In this half hour, we hear from Heather McGhee of Demos. She sees a direct connection between today’s extreme inequality and this peak moment of racial panic and white anxiety.

Resources

Video of Heather McGhee's Keynote speech at Bioneers 2017

When Truth Is Dangerous: The Power of Independent Media | Amy Goodman & Monika Bauerlein

it@bioneers.org (Bioneers) — Tue, 21 Jun 2022 13:00:00 -0000

In this program, we hear from two veteran journalists who lead two of the most courageous and successful independent media outlets in the United States: Monika Bauerlein, the CEO of Mother Jones magazine, and Amy Goodman, host and executive producer of Democracy Now!

Resources

Video of Monika Bauerlein's Keynote speech at Bioneers 2019

Video of Amy Goodman's speech at Bioneers 2017

The Reluctant Psychonaut: How Psychedelics Changed Michael Pollan’s Mind

it@bioneers.org (Bioneers) — Tue, 14 Jun 2022 13:00:00 -0000

A quiet renaissance of serious medical research has once again arisen to study the therapeutic benefits of LSD and other psychedelics, including overcoming addiction and depression, and easing the existential terror of terminal illness. In this program, acclaimed journalist Michael Pollan shares a travelogue of his reportorial and personal journey with psychedelics. He slips through the rabbit hole into the mystery of consciousness itself, into the indivisible oneness of people and nature, and asks: could the transformational healing that psychedelics can bring on the personal ego level translate into cultural healing that could address the greatest issues of our time?

Resources

Video of Michael Pollan's keynote speech at the Bioneers 2018

Video of Plant Intelligence and Human Consciousness panel featuring Michael Poll at Bioneers 2018

Real Change: The Political Gets Personal | Danny Glover & Phaedra Ellis-Lamkins

it@bioneers.org (Bioneers) — Tue, 07 Jun 2022 13:00:00 -0000

How can we manifest the world we want, and who we want to be? Actor-activist Danny Glover and Phaedra Ellis-Lamkins, former CEO of Green For All, show how one sure path to resilience is to build community and social movements. That requires learning how to reach out across our differences – and it gets really personal.

Featuring

Danny Glover is an award-winning actor, producer, humanitarian and political activist with a performance career that spans more than 30 years.

Phaedra Ellis-Lamkins is a social justice advocate and businesswoman. Ellis-Lamkins is the co-founder and CEO of Promise, modern payment technology platform that provides alternative payment solutions for cities, counties, states and utility companies across the country and simplifies how people manage government payments, such as utilities, child support and parking tickets by offering customizable plans and providing digital payment options.

Got Dirt? Get Soil! Ditch the Plow, Cover Up and Grow Diversity

it@bioneers.org (Bioneers) — Tue, 31 May 2022 19:25:00 -0000

Biologist Ann Biklé and geologist David Montgomery share one of the good news stories that show how the solutions residing in nature surpass our conception of what’s even possible.

Featuring

Resources

Learn more about David and Anne’s work and books at their website, dig2grow.com.

Sharkskin, Hippo Sweat and the Wood-Wide Web: From Flat Earth to Whole Earth Thinking |

it@bioneers.org (Bioneers) — Wed, 18 May 2022 04:03:00 -0000

The genius of nature’s design, recipes and principles is serving as the inspiration for redesigning human civilization. This Biomimicry revolution is spawning a next industrial revolution. Biomimicry masters Janine Benyus and Jay Harman illuminate the forefront of nature-inspired design, including human organization and the power of networks.

Featuring:

Janine Benyus is a biologist, author, innovation consultant, and self proclaimed “nature nerd.” She may not have coined the term biomimicry, but she certainly popularized it in her 1997 book Biomimicry: Innovation Inspired by Nature.

Jay Harman is a pioneering scientist, inventor, and entrepreneur dedicated to creating breakthrough technologies through biomimicry.

In Biomimicry, she names an emerging discipline that emulates nature’s designs and processes (e.g., solar cells that mimic leaves) to create a healthier, more sustainable planet. Since the book’s release, Janine has evolved the practice of biomimicry, speaking around the world about what we can learn from the genius that surrounds us.

Resources:

biomimicry.org/

Explore the Bioneers media collection: bioneers.org/biomimicry/

Laboring for Justice: See No Stranger | Valarie Kaur

it@bioneers.org (Bioneers) — Tue, 10 May 2022 13:00:00 -0000

Valarie Kaur, born into a family of Sikh farmers who settled in California in 1913, is a seasoned civil rights activist, award-winning filmmaker, lawyer, faith leader, and founder of the Revolutionary Love Project, which seeks to champion love as a public ethic and wellspring for social action.

For transcript and more about this program, visit: https://bioneers.org/laboring-for-justice-see-no-stranger/

Credits

Executive Producer: Kenny Ausubel

Written by: Monica Lopez and Kenny Ausubel

Senior Producer and Station Relations: Stephanie Welch

Host and Consulting Producer: Neil Harvey

Producer: Teo Grossman

Program Engineer and Music Supervisor: Emily Harris

No More Stolen Sisters: Stopping the Abuse and Murder of Native Women and Girls

it@bioneers.org (Bioneers) — Tue, 03 May 2022 19:43:00 -0000

May 5 will mark National Day of Awareness for Missing and Murdered Native Women and Girls.

The date was designated in a 2017 resolution by U.S. Sens. Steve Daines, R-Montana, and Jon Tester, D-Montana, in response to the murder of Hanna Harris, a member of the Northern Cheyenne Tribe who disappeared in 2013 from Lame Deer, Montana, and to highlight other abductions and killings of Native American women in the United States.

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Jessica Alva. Khadija Rose Britton. Hanna Harris. Anthonette Christine Cayedito. If you haven’t heard of these women, it’s no surprise.

They’re four of the untold number of Indigenous women and girls who have been murdered, kidnapped or gone mysteriously missing. A significant number of victims are from communities that are subjected to the harmful presence of fossil fuel and mining companies. The extractive industry is ravaging Native nations where oil and blood have long run together.

Add to this a dysfunctional police and legal hierarchy that leaves Indigenous women and their families with little support during the first crucial hours when they go missing, and little recourse to prosecute predators for their crimes.

In this program, powerful Native women leaders reveal the crisis of missing and murdered Indigenous women, and describe how they are taking action and building growing movements, including with non-Native allies. Morning Star Gali, Ozawa Bineshi Albert, Simone Senogles, Kandi White, and Casey Camp Horinek.

These stories are shocking, harrowing and heartbreaking. But then again, when your heart breaks, the cracks are where the light shines through.

For more information and transcript, visit our episode page.

RESOURCES

Sovereign Bodies Institute

The Coalition to Stop Violence Against Native Women

The Intercept: A New Film Examines Sexual Violence as a Feature of the Bakken Oil Boom

Restoring Justice for Indigenous Peoples: MMIW Initiative

The Mendocino Voice: Community groups begin painting mural honoring Khadijah Britton and highlighting MMIW in Ukiah

Nourishing the Future: Creating a Just and Healthy Food System for All

it@bioneers.org (Bioneers) — Tue, 26 Apr 2022 13:00:00 -0000

Communities around the country are working to create a new food future founded in health, justice and ecological wellbeing. Community activists Malik Kenyatta Yakini and Oran Hesterman are transforming Detroit through urban agriculture and helping low-income and working families access healthy food. Cathryn Couch works with young people to cook and deliver healthy meals to people who are ill and struggling to put food on the table with a model program using food as medicine.

Ecstatic Revolt: The New Mythos of Eve | V, formerly Eve Ensler

it@bioneers.org (Bioneers) — Tue, 19 Apr 2022 19:29:00 -0000

As the creation story of Judeo-Christian beliefs, the biblical recounting of Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden has long had profound influence around the world. So what’s it like to be named Eve? World-renowned playwright and activist V, formerly Eve Ensler, explores her own personal journey into her namesake. The provocative author of “The Vagina Monologues” and founder of V-Day to end violence against women suggests there’s another story beneath the traditional story. For her, it’s both very personal – and very political.

Plastic Planet: Stopping Big Oil, Big Plastic, and Big Misdirection

it@bioneers.org (Bioneers) — Tue, 12 Apr 2022 13:00:00 -0000

Featuring:

Anna Cummins, Deputy Director and Co-Founder of the Five Gyres Institute. With more than 20 years experience in environmental non-profit work—including marine conservation, coastal watershed management, community relations, and bilingual and sustainability education—Anna is an expert in the field.

For more information and transcript, visit: bioneers.org/plastic-planet-stopping-big-oil-plastic-misdirection/

Credits

Executive Producer: Kenny Ausubel

Written by: Monica Lopez and Kenny Ausubel

Senior Producer and Station Relations: Stephanie Welch

Host and Consulting Producer: Neil Harvey

Producer: Teo Grossman

Program Engineer and Music Supervisor: Emily Harris

Building the Solidarity Economy: Awakening to Our Mutuality and Shifting the Terrain of Power | Manuel Pastor

it@bioneers.org (Bioneers) — Tue, 05 Apr 2022 13:00:00 -0000

In this episode, we hear from Pastor on how shocks to the system are precipitating a great awakening and growing movements to transform the economy to our economy. For more information and transcript, visit: https://bioneers.org/building-solidarity-economy-awakening-mutuality-shifting-terrain-power/

Resources:

Manuel Pastor keynote address for Bioneers Virtual Conference 2021

Manuel Pastor keynote address Bioneers Conference 2014

Credits

Executive Producer: Kenny Ausubel
Written by: Kenny Ausubel
Senior Producer and Station Relations: Stephanie Welch
Program Engineer and Music Supervisor: Emily Harris
Host and Consulting Producer: Neil Harvey
Producer: Teo Grossman
Production Assistance: Monica Lopez
Special thanks to Status Coup News for use of their interviews with workers on strike

Breaking the Male Code: The Tyranny of Masculinity | Tony Porter, Dallas Goldtooth, George Lipsitz and Eve Ensler

it@bioneers.org (Bioneers) — Tue, 29 Mar 2022 13:00:00 -0000

To transform our culture from its focus on dominance and hierarchy to one of connection, empathy and collaboration, it’s vital that we re-envision the essential (or archetypal) masculine, which changes everything. This rarely tackled topic is the subject of a deeply authentic dialogue among Playwright and activist V formerly, Eve Ensler, and three men working to change men and change the story: Tony Porter, co-founder, A Call To Men; Dallas Goldtooth, Indigenous activist, actor and member of the 1491’s Native American comedy troupe; George Lipsitz, board president, African American Policy Forum. To see a clip from the recorded panel at the Bioneers Conference, visit: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l0nhQWA_5HU

California Genocide and Resilience with Corrina Gould PT. 1

it@bioneers.org (Bioneers) — Fri, 25 Mar 2022 07:31:00 -0000

California Indians have survived some of the most extreme acts of genocide committed against Native Americans. Prior to the ongoing genocide under Spanish and American colonizations, California Indians were the most linguistically diverse and population dense First Peoples in the United States. We discuss this brutal history and survivance with Corrina Gould, Co-Founder and Co-Director of the Sogorea Te’ Land Trust. She is from the Lisjan/Ohlone tribe of Northern California. We talk about the importance of addressing that historical trauma, which caused deep wounds that still affect Indigenous Peoples today.

This episode’s artwork features photography by Cara Romero, Co-Director of the Bioneers Indigeneity Program as well as an award winning contemporary fine art photographer. Mer Young creates the series artwork.

For more information and transcript, visit: https://bioneers.org/california-genocide-and-resilience-with-corrina-gould/

Resources:

Credits:

Executive Producer: Kenny Ausubel
Co-Hosts and Producers: Cara Romero and Alexis Bunten
Senior Producer: Stephanie Welch
Associate Producer and Program Engineer: Emily Harris
Consulting Producer: Teo Grossman
Studio Engineers: Brandon Pinard and Theo Badashi
Tech Support: Tyson Russell

Indigenous Rising: From Alcatraz to Standing Rock

it@bioneers.org (Bioneers) — Tue, 08 Mar 2022 20:44:00 -0000

History doesn’t repeat itself, but it rhymes. From the historic Indigenous occupation of Alcatraz Island in 1969 to the fossil fuel fights throughout Canada and the U.S. today, Indigenous resistance illuminates an activism founded in a spiritual connection with the web of life and the human community - with Julian Brave NoiseCat, Dr. LaNada War Jack and Clayton Thomas Müller.

For more information and transcript, visit: https://bioneers.org/indigenous-rising-from-alcatraz-to-standing-rock/

Featuring

Julian Brave NoiseCat is a polymath whose work spans journalism, public policy, research, art, activism and advocacy. He serves as Director of Green Strategy at Data for Progress, as well as “Narrative Change Director” for the Natural History Museum artist and activist collective.
Dr. LaNada War Jack is an enrolled member of the Shoshone Bannock Tribes of the Fort Hall Indian Reservation in Idaho.
Clayton Thomas-Müller is a member of the Mathias Colomb Cree Nation, also known as Pukatawagan, in Northern Manitoba. He serves as the “Stop it at the Source” campaigner with 350.org.

Resources

From Alcatraz to Standing Rock and Beyond: On the Past 50 and Next 50 Years of Indigenous Activism | 2019 Bioneers Indigenous Forum

Julian Brave NoiseCat – Apocalypse Then & Now | 2021 Bioneers Keynote Address

Bioneers Indigeneity Curriculum | Free resources for educators covering Alcatraz, Standing Rock, and more

Credits

Executive Producer: Kenny Ausubel
Written by: Kenny Ausubel
Senior Producer and Station Relations: Stephanie Welch
Host and Consulting Producer: Neil Harvey
Producer: Teo Grossman
Program Engineer and Music Supervisor: Emily Harris
Production Assistance: Monica Lopez
Special thanks to Cara Romero and Alexis Bunten, co-producers of the Bioneers Indigeneity Forum

This program features music by Justin Delorme, Chippewa Travelers and Mimi O’Bonsawin from Nagamo Publishing at Nagamo.ca.

They Don’t Call Her Mother Earth for Nothing: Women Re-imagining the World | Alice Walker, Joanna Macy and others

it@bioneers.org (Bioneers) — Tue, 01 Mar 2022 14:00:00 -0000

Transformational women leaders are restoring societal balance by showing us how to reconnect relationships not only among people, but between people and the natural world. This astounding conversation among diverse women leaders provides a fascinating window into the soulful depths of what it means to restore the balance between our masculine and feminine selves to bring about wholeness, justice and true restoration of people and planet. With Alice Walker, Jean Shinoda Bolen, Nina Simons, Sarah Crowell, Joanna Macy and Akaya Winwood

Why Equity is Good for Everyone: Changing the Story, Changing the World | john a. powell & Heather McGhee

it@bioneers.org (Bioneers) — Tue, 15 Feb 2022 14:00:00 -0000

How do we change the story of corrosive racial inequity? First, we have to understand the stories we tell ourselves. In this program, racial justice innovators john a. powell and Heather McGhee show how empathy, honesty and the recognition of our common humanity can change the story to bridge the racial divides tearing humanity and the Earth apart.

john a. powell is the Director of the Othering and Belonging Institute and Professor of Law, African American, and Ethnic Studies at UC Berkeley. His latest book is: Racing to Justice: Transforming our Concepts of Self and Other to Build an Inclusive Society. Watch his keynote from the 2017 Bioneers Conference: https://bioneers.org/john-a-powell-co-creating-alternative-spaces-to-heal-bioneers-2017/
Heather McGhee, distinguished senior fellow and former president of Demos, is an award-winning thought leader on the national stage whose writing and research appear in numerous outlets, including The New York Times and The Nation. Her latest book is The Sum of Us: What Racism Costs Everyone and How We Can Prosper Together. Watch her keynote from the 2017 Bioneers Conference: https://bioneers.org/heather-mcghee-a-new-we-the-people-for-a-sustainable-future/

Bending Toward Justice: The Arc of Black Lives Matter | Patrisse Cullors

it@bioneers.org (Bioneers) — Tue, 08 Feb 2022 21:00:00 -0000

There are periods when history comes to a boil – when powerful forces of both destruction and creation result in massive social change. In 2020, the Black Lives Matter Movement emerged as the biggest protest movement in American history, and resounded worldwide. Patrisse Cullors, one of the co-founders of Black Lives Matter, tells the story of the birth of this powerful movement for racial justice, and shares her vision of a world where black people are actually free, a world that we all deserve to live in.

Watch Patrisse Cullors' Keynote at the 2018 Bioneers Conference: bioneers.org/patrisse-cullors-women-of-the-blacklivesmatter-movement/
Patrisse Cullors, a performance artist and award-winning organizer from Los Angeles, is one of the most effective and influential movement builders of our era. She was a key figure in the fight to force the creation of the first civilian oversight commission of LA’s Sheriff’s Department, but is most widely known as one of the three original co-founders of Black Lives Matter and for her recent, best-selling book, When They Call You a Terrorist: A Black Lives Matter Memoir.

Whale Whisperers: Making Deep Contact | James Nestor

it@bioneers.org (Bioneers) — Tue, 01 Feb 2022 14:00:00 -0000

In the late 20th century, a handful of scientists proved that aquatic mammals have advanced communication capabilities and a consciousness strikingly similar to humans. Author and adventurer James Nestor leads us on a deep dive into the mystery of marine mammal consciousness, and the story of how a small band of freedivers, pushing the limits of human endurance, is finding that saving the whales may become the story of the whales saving us.

Additional Resources / Show Notes

James Nestor Keynote at Bioneers

https://bioneers.org/james-nestor-new-approaches-to-cracking-the-communication-of-whales-and-dolphins-bioneers-2016/

Natural Magic: The Earth Hospitality Enterprise - ONE HOUR SPECIAL

it@bioneers.org (Bioneers) — Tue, 01 Feb 2022 07:00:00 -0000

Natural Magic is a one-hour special from Bioneers Radio that explores the time-tested processes, relationships and recipes that have allowed life to flourish during 3.8 billion years of evolution. Our guides are scientific and social innovators known as “the Bioneers.”

Luminaries featured in the program include globally renowned biologist and educator David Suzuki, bestselling author and environmental entrepreneur Paul Hawken, biomimicry master Janine Benyus, clean energy expert Amory Lovins and author and climate leader Bill Mckibben.

They say the solutions to our environmental challenges are largely present – if we just ask nature. They herald a revolution from the heart of nature – and the human heart.

Also Featuring:

Paul Stamets – Visionary myco-technologist working with mushrooms to heal the planet

John Mohawk – Turtle Clan Seneca elder and educator

Jeanne Achterberg – Pioneering researcher in medicine and psychology

Jeremy Narby – Anthropologist and author who has worked closely with Native Amazonian peoples

Dan Dagget – Pulitzer Prize nominated author for the book Beyond the Rangeland Conflict: Toward a West That Works

Nina Simons – BIoneers Co-founder

Kenny Ausubel – BIoneers Co-founder

Neil Harvey – Host

Tattooing the River: People, Place and the Art of Diversity

it@bioneers.org (Bioneers) — Tue, 01 Feb 2022 07:00:00 -0000

Award-winning painter Judy Baca describes how art can reconnect people to place, revive disappearing history, and repair cultural root systems. While working with at-risk youth to create The Great Wall of Los Angeles, the world's longest mural, Baca realized that restoring a disappeared river also meant restoring disappeared cultures.

Next Gen Farmers: A Land-Loving Story | Severine v T Fleming

it@bioneers.org (Bioneers) — Tue, 25 Jan 2022 14:00:00 -0000

In the next 20 years, farmland ownership in the U.S. will shift on a continental scale—400 million acres. Yet 70% of American farmland is owned by people 65 and older. How can we help young, motivated agrarians become successful farmers to whom retiring organic farmers can transmit their wisdom? How can we invest in the democratization of our land base? These questions drive Agrarian Trust, started by Greenhorns founder Severine v T Fleming, one of the most visionary leaders in the young farmers’ movement.

We're All Chimps: Or Are Animals People Too? | Deborah and Roger Fouts

it@bioneers.org (Bioneers) — Tue, 18 Jan 2022 21:16:00 -0000

In Western civilization, human beings are considered the exceptional species and uniquely intelligent. Yet science is consistently revealing our intimate biological kinship with all species, especially the primates with whom we share 99% of our DNA. Breakthrough primatologist researchers Roger and Deborah Fouts take us on their amazing journey with chimpanzees that shows that, not only are people animals, but animals seem to be people too.

Democracy v. Plutocracy: Breaking Up is Hard to Do | Thom Hartmann, Stacy Mitchell and Maurice B.P. Weeks

it@bioneers.org (Bioneers) — Wed, 05 Jan 2022 05:48:00 -0000

The Politics of Psychoactive Plants: Religious Freedom, Shamanism and Sacred Plants

it@bioneers.org (Bioneers) — Sat, 01 Jan 2022 07:00:00 -0000

Psychoactive plants are at the heart of many traditional and Indigenous spiritual and religious traditions, yet many have been outlawed or severely restricted. How does society determine religious freedom? With: Jeremy Narby on Amazonian shamanic knowledge; and Jeffrey Bronfman, the U.S. legal and spiritual representative of Brazil's União do Vegetal (UDV) church, whose legal victories for its U.S. domestic use of ayahuasca have taken it to the Supreme Court; moderated by Bioneers' J.P. Harpignies.

Intelligence in Nature: Jeremy Narby interviewed by J.P. Harpignies

it@bioneers.org (Bioneers) — Sat, 01 Jan 2022 07:00:00 -0000

Anthropologist Jeremy Narby’s life’s work has involved reconciling Western scientific views and assumptions with those of Indigenous cultures around the world. In this interview excerpt, Bioneers Senior Producer and author J.P. Harpignies talks to Narby about intelligence in nature, the limitations of language and more.

Climate Strategies from the Ground Up | Eriel Deranger, Adrianna Quintero, Annie Leonard, Christiana Wyly, and Osprey Orielle Lake

it@bioneers.org (Bioneers) — Sat, 01 Jan 2022 07:00:00 -0000

Four extraordinary women leaders share their perspectives on how to break through the stalemates that impede progress to build a world in which we can all thrive. They work in different spaces – from challenging governments and corporations to defending Indigenous people’s rights, education reform, movement building and investing in green businesses.

With: Eriel Deranger, Communications Manager of the Athabasca Chipewyan First Nation; Adrianna Quintero, Senior Attorney with the Natural Resources Defense Council and founder/Director of Voces Verdes; Annie Leonard, Executive Director of Greenpeace USA; Christiana Wyly, Executive Director of Food Choice Taskforce, Director of My Plate Planet initiative. Hosted by Osprey Orielle Lake, co-founder and Executive Director, Women’s Earth and Climate Action Network (WECAN).

Globalocal: The Migration of Grassroots Solutions | Mallika Dutt, Jay Vavra & Shannon Horst

it@bioneers.org (Bioneers) — Sat, 01 Jan 2022 07:00:00 -0000

Innovations usually arise locally. If conditions are right, they spread globally. That story is playing out around the world today. In India, human rights activist Mallika Dutt designed an elegant media campaign that successfully interrupts domestic violence live in real time. High school science educator Jay Vavra helped his San Diego students save endangered species in Africa by using simple genetic identification technologies in local African bush meat markets. Nonprofit leader Shannon Horst employs holistic rangeland management techniques to stop the spread of deserts in Africa, the U.S. and worldwide. What's spreading fastest is hope.

Psychedelic Empowerment and the Environmental Crisis: Re-Awakening Our Connection to the Gaian Mind

it@bioneers.org (Bioneers) — Sat, 01 Jan 2022 07:00:00 -0000

The late Terence McKenna was one of the most extraordinary personalities ever associated with visionary plants. One of the most gifted orators of the late 20th Century, he was a fascinatingly paradoxical figure: an absolutely charming but somewhat misanthropic mystic, a blindingly erudite genius who never achieved mainstream recognition, and a down-to-earth guy who advanced a range of astonishing prophetic scenarios. He brought verve and excitement to this field, and, since his tragic death in 2000, things have never been quite the same. Quite simply put, there will never be another like him. In this 1993 talk he initially delved into what was for him not his usual area of primary focus—our planetary environmental crisis, but in the end, Terence linked, in his inimitable voice, the fate of the biosphere to visionary plant use. Because time is so short, he argued, we need radically powerful means to communicate with the intelligence of the natural world because there has never been a time when hearing what that intelligence is trying to communicate has been more crucial, and sacred plants with long histories of shamanic use are, he argued, while not free of risks, the best tools for that job.

Food Literacy as a Catalyst for Social Change | Kirk Bergstrom and Alyson Wyli

it@bioneers.org (Bioneers) — Sat, 01 Jan 2022 07:00:00 -0000

Breakthrough food literacy initiatives are transforming communities, bringing people together in meaningful conversations. Learn how to design an effective food literacy program for your community, organization or school. With: Kirk Bergstrom, Executive Director, Nourish Initiative; Alyson Wylie, Health Education Specialist, Center for Nutrition and Activity Promotion, California State University, Chico.

Formless Warriors: 21st Century Wisdom from Old-Growth Cultures | Enei Begaye, Dune Lankard and Hawk Rosales

it@bioneers.org (Bioneers) — Sat, 01 Jan 2022 07:00:00 -0000

In the face of unprecedented pressures on their homelands and ways of life, indigenous leaders Enei Begaye, Dune Lankard, and Hawk Rosales are organizing in new ways to protect the environment--and spread their knowledge for the sake of all life on Earth and future generations.

All Love Begins with Seeing: Poetry and Justice for All | Shailja Patel

it@bioneers.org (Bioneers) — Sat, 01 Jan 2022 07:00:00 -0000

Shailja Patel's unique artistry is a provocative global mash-up of genres. Shes a slam poetry champion and star of her award-winning, one-woman play Migritude about the intricate webs of global migration and cultural identity. As an acclaimed poet of South Asian and Kenyan ancestry, through her fearless art she embodies the authentic voices of women, South Asians and Africans who are otherwise seldom heard. For her, the ultimate destination of poetry is justice -- too heart-breakingly beautiful to be denied.

Ecological Medicine: Healing Health Care | Andrew Weil, M.D. & Charlotte Brody

it@bioneers.org (Bioneers) — Sat, 01 Jan 2022 07:00:00 -0000

Did medicine's separation from nature propel our health care system into its current crisis? Join Dr. Andrew Weil and nurse and health activist Charlotte Brody as they describe how Ecological Medicine reunites the interdependence of medicine and nature, and restores the feminine principle in healing.

Indigeneity: Becoming Native, Staying Native | Jeannette Armstrong, Leslie Gray, and Katsi Cook

it@bioneers.org (Bioneers) — Sat, 01 Jan 2022 07:00:00 -0000

What would life be like if we could hear the land ask us to be a certain way, a way that leads us and the Earth back to wholeness and health? Native American activists, educators, and leaders Jeannette Armstrong,Leslie Gray, and Katsi Cook share an inspiring Earth-honoring vision of what it means to "re-indigenize" ourselves.

Green Chemistry and Biomimicry in STEM Education: Interdisciplinary Approaches | Amy Cannon and John Warner

it@bioneers.org (Bioneers) — Sat, 01 Jan 2022 07:00:00 -0000

The seminal co-founder of Green Chemistry, John Warner, and his esteemed partner, green chemistry educator Amy Cannon, are co-founders of the groundbreaking green chemistry education non-profit Beyond Benign. They’ll show how the combination of green chemistry and biomimicry in the STEM curriculum provides a unique opportunity to inspire students to make connections with the natural world and to use that inspi- ration to become creators of truly sustainable products and processes. They’ll focus on techniques and resources for adopting green chemistry and biomimicry throughout educational systems, highlighting K-12 and higher education programs aimed at transforming STEM education.

Recorded Saturday, October 17, 2015 at the National Bioneers Conference in San Rafael, California.

Race and Place: A Birthright to Creation | Greg Watson, Martha Arguello & Carl Anthony

it@bioneers.org (Bioneers) — Sat, 01 Jan 2022 07:00:00 -0000

It’s a fact of life that communities of color and low-income communities suffer the worst environmental damage. Urban planner Greg Watson, physician Martha Arguello, and activist and scholar Carl Anthony show how these communities have found practical ways to reclaim the health and wellbeing of both their places and their health.

A Return to Wholeness: Storytelling as a Healing Art | Rachel Naomi Remen

it@bioneers.org (Bioneers) — Sat, 01 Jan 2022 07:00:00 -0000

“The future may depend on our remembering that everything has in it a dream of itself. That the seeds of wholeness and the seeds of needed change are already present in all events and all people and every one of us. That the wholeness of the world can only be restored one heart at a time.” So says doctor and healer Rachel Naomi Remen. She has cultivated a new generation of doctors practicing whole-person medicine, with an unlikely message: Bless others out loud. The wholeness of the world is restored one heart at a time.

Find out more about Rachel Naomi Remen and how you can engage with her campaigns and efforts by visiting rachelremen.com

Farmacology - Soil Health And Medicine | Daphne Miller, Timothy J. LaSalle, Josh Whiton, and Arty Mangan

it@bioneers.org (Bioneers) — Sat, 01 Jan 2022 07:00:00 -0000

Daphne Miller, MD, had long suspected that human wellbeing and how our food is produced are intimately linked. She visited and studied seven innovative family farms around the country on a quest to discover the hidden connections between how we grow our food and our health, and she published her findings in "Farmacology: Total Health from the Ground Up" (also the basis for the award-winning documentary In Search of Balance). (Daphne begins speaking at 44:00.) Joining Daphne to discuss how farming techniques from seed choice to soil management have a direct impact on our health will be: Timothy J. LaSalle, Ph.D., co-founder and Co-Director of the Regenerative Agriculture Initiative at CSU Chico and first CEO of the Rodale Institute (Tim begins speaking at 3:50); and Josh Whiton, a highly successful eco-tech entrepreneur whose most recent project is MakeSoil.org (Josh begins speaking at 25:35). Hosted by Arty Mangan, Director of Bioneers’ Restorative Food Systems Program.

Becoming Fully Human: The Covenant of the Original Instructions | Winona LaDuke, John Trudell and Evon Peter

it@bioneers.org (Bioneers) — Sat, 01 Jan 2022 07:00:00 -0000

The Original Instructions represent the ancient empirical wisdom of Traditional Ecological Knowledge earned over generations and millennia by people living closely with the land and each other. They also comprise disarmingly simple counsel: be thankful, enjoy life and attend to the inner pollution that results in outer pollution. Indigenous leaders Winona LaDuke, John Trudell and Evon Peter voice these ancient instructions, which hold the keys to our survival as a species in the historic transition to a truly sustainable world.

Don’t Fence Me In: Linked Landscapes, Citizen Science and Wild Nature | Justin Brashares and Mary Ellen Hannibal

it@bioneers.org (Bioneers) — Sat, 01 Jan 2022 07:00:00 -0000

As lion populations crash in Africa, baboon numbers explode. Associate Professor of Ecology and Conservation Justin Brashares illuminates how to stem the cascading harms of nature out of balance. Visionary author Mary Ellen Hannibal recounts inspiring stories of citizen scientists restoring health to “the spine of the continent” from Alaska to Mexico by connecting nature back to itself.

Studying the Healing Potential Of Psychedelics

it@bioneers.org (Bioneers) — Sat, 01 Jan 2022 07:00:00 -0000

Hosted by the Multidisciplinary Association for Psychedelic Studies (MAPS). New research is providing a provocative look at the healing potential of certain psychedelic substances, possibly yielding a scientific foundation for re-evaluating public policies of prohibition and repression. With Ralph Metzner, consciousness explorer whose groundbreaking books include The Psychedelic Experience and Green Psychology; Rick Doblin, MAPS founder/President; and Valerie Mojeiko, a MAPS analyst of the healing potentials of MDMA (Ecstasy), LSD, lbogaine and other psychedelics.

Generation Green: Fulfilling the Promise of Jobs and Justice | Jerome Ringo and Billy Parish

it@bioneers.org (Bioneers) — Sat, 01 Jan 2022 07:00:00 -0000

Climate change. Energy crisis. Economic collapse. We live in a time of unprecedented global crisis and opportunity. There's a monumental amount of work to be done to make the transition to a restored world, yet young people are unemployed at astonishingly high rates. How can we unlock the green economic opportunities that will open the door to doing well by doing good for generation green and generations to come? Join Apollo Alliance president Jerome Ringo and clean energy leader Billy Parish for a hopeful glimpse into the organizations and programs that will give our children the opportunity to make a living and make a better world.

To learn more about the work the guests in this podcast are doing, visit Jerome at Zoetic Global, and Billy Parish at Mosaic.

Environmental Literacy and Social Justice | Beth Rattner, Juanita Chan, Kavita Gupta, Emily Schell, and Caleb Jordan-McDaniels

it@bioneers.org (Bioneers) — Sat, 01 Jan 2022 07:00:00 -0000

Environmental literacy and social justice are inextricably linked, and recent changes in California’s curricula fully encourage pedagogical exploration of this linkage. Three new academic content frameworks (in Science, History-Social Science, and Health) promote challenge-based learning, in which student inquiry leads to student action in local communities. Students are also discovering nature-inspired design, i.e. Biomimicry, as part of this process. In this session, a school district representative, a teacher, and a student, share their perspectives about this intersection of environmental literacy and social justice. The panel also leads hands-on immersion into the Biomimicry design process with a focus on ways to apply these methods in our own schools and communities.

With: Beth Rattner, Biomimicry Institute; Juanita Chan, Rialto Unified School District; Kavita Gupta, Freemont Union High School District. Moderated by Emily Schell, Executive Director, California Global Education Project; Caleb Jordan-McDaniels, Redwood High School.

Climate Intensive – Natural Systems And Working Lands

it@bioneers.org (Bioneers) — Sat, 01 Jan 2022 07:00:00 -0000

Climate change is showing us over and over again that nature bats last. The carbon sequestration potential of natural systems and managed agricultural landscapes is vast, representing nearly one third of the greenhouse gas emissions reductions we need to see. Transforming our food system represents another huge opportunity to reduce our overall greenhouse gas output. The real question is: how we can act on all this potential?

Featuring:

Greg Watson, Director of Policy and Systems Design, Schumacher Center for a New Economics

Renata Brillinger, Executive Director, California Climate and Agriculture Network

Ellie Cohen, Executive Director, Point Blue Conservation Science

Moderated by Teo Grossman, Senior Director of Programs & Research for Bioneers

Aligning Profits with the Public Good: The Future of Impact Investing

it@bioneers.org (Bioneers) — Sat, 01 Jan 2022 07:00:00 -0000

How can investment choices and strategies truly move the needle on large-scale change? Four leading entrepreneur/investors working to reinvent and re-imagine impact investing share strategies and projects. Hosted by Darian Rodriguez Heyman, former Craigslist Foundation Executive Director and SF Environment Commissioner. With: Silda Wall Spitzer, New World Capital, which invests primarily in green technologies; James Joaquin, co-founder of the venture capital firm Obvious Ventures; Catlin Powers of Sol Source, inventor, Research Fellow at Harvard’s Center for Health and the Global Environment.

Recorded Saturday, October 17, 2015 at the National Bioneers Conference in San Rafael, California.

Building Power from the Rubble: How Frontline Communities in El Salvador Are Creating | Mariel Nanasi, Estela Hernández, Karolo Aparicio, and

it@bioneers.org (Bioneers) — Sat, 01 Jan 2022 07:00:00 -0000

A movement of rural communities in El Salvador called La Coordinadora has led the way in community-based disaster preparedness, building a grassroots democracy movement, and influencing national policy. It’s featured in the new film and book This Changes Everything by Naomi Klein and Avi Lewis. Hosted by Mariel Nanasi, Executive Director/President, New Energy Economy. With: Estela Hernández, El Salvadoran Congresswoman; Karolo Aparicio, Executive Director, EcoViva, La Coordinadora’s U.S. sister organization; Avi Lewis, filmmaker, director of This Changes Everything.

Recorded Saturday, October 18, 2014 at the national Bioneers Summit Conference in San Rafael, California.

Indigenous Visionary Plant Traditions

it@bioneers.org (Bioneers) — Sat, 01 Jan 2022 07:00:00 -0000

First Peoples have long used key sacred plants as powerful healing tools and to communicate with the "mind of nature." In this truly unique session Bioneers associate producer and editor of Visionary Plant Consciousness J.P. Harpignies and ethnobotanist/artist Kat Harrison hosted deeply experienced practitioners of sacred plant traditions from the International Council of 13 Indigenous Grandmothers, including Mazatec Elder Julieta Casimiro; Maria Alice Campos Freire, a Madrinha in Brazil's Santo Daime Church; traditional Cheyenne dance leader, sculptress and writer Margaret Behan Red Spider Woman; and Bernadette Rebienot, Omyene healer and master of the lboga Bwiti Rite.

Carbon Farming: Soil Not Oil

it@bioneers.org (Bioneers) — Sat, 01 Jan 2022 07:00:00 -0000

Sequestering soil carbon is a critically important way to mitigate climate change. Hosted by John Roulac, founder and CEO of the groundbreaking organic superfood company, Nutiva. With: rancher John Wick, co-founder of the exemplary Marin Carbon Project, developing ways to increase durable carbon on his grazed grassland while increasing biodiversity and soil fertility and capturing the scientific data.

Recorded Saturday, October 17, 2015 at the National Bioneers Conference in San Rafael, California.

True Biotechnologies: Nature’s Best Climate Change Solutions | Janine Benyus, Stephan Dewar, David Orr and Jay Harman

it@bioneers.org (Bioneers) — Sat, 01 Jan 2022 07:00:00 -0000

Some of the best minds on the planet are busy cataloguing possible solutions to the crisis of climate chaos. Scientists, entrepreneurs and educators on technology’s cutting edge offer a broad array of bio-based solutions that are already working to transition us to a truly sustainable civilization. Biomimics Janine Benyus, Stephan Dewar, David Orr and Jay Harman offer a smorgasbord of startling solutions based on nature’s genius.

The Healing Potential of Psychedelics: Breakthroughs in Research

it@bioneers.org (Bioneers) — Sat, 01 Jan 2022 07:00:00 -0000

After decades of the repression and demonization of these substances, research trials around the country have been achieving remarkable results that validate the profound healing potential of psychedelics such as psilocybin and MDMA. Mounting evidence suggests they positively address such varied conditions as end-of-life anxiety, PTSD, and cluster headaches. Hosted by J.P. Harpignies, Bioneers Conference Associate Producer. With: Robert Barnhart, filmmaker of A New Understanding: The Science of Psilocybin; Philip Wolfson, M.D., leading MDMA researcher; Mitch Schultz, director of the film DMT: The Spirit Molecule.

Recorded Saturday, October 17, 2015 at the National Bioneers Conference in San Rafael, California.

The Healing Potential of Cannabidiol, MDMA and Entheogens

it@bioneers.org (Bioneers) — Sat, 01 Jan 2022 07:00:00 -0000

Amy Emerson, Director of Clinical Research at the Multidisciplinary Association for Psychedelic Studies (MAPS); Martin Lee, Director of Project CBD; and Ralph Metzner, legendary psychedelic research pioneer, share their insights into the state of knowledge about the potential curative properties of psychedelic substances.

Carbon, Climate, Food and Fiber | Rebecca Burgess, Ariel Greenwood and Guido Frosini

it@bioneers.org (Bioneers) — Sat, 01 Jan 2022 07:00:00 -0000

In this podcast excerpt from a Bioneers workshop, Rebecca Burgess, Ariel Greenwood, and Guido Frosini explain how drawing carbon from the atmosphere and capturing it in the soil can reverse climate change.

“Our soils have a carbon debt. Our atmosphere is gushing with carbon. The carbon over our heads is literally in the wrong place.” Rebecca Burgess

Rather than being the problem, carbon can be the solution to climate change by managing our landscapes to capture atmospheric carbon through photosynthesis and sequester it in the soil where it increases fertility and makes the land more drought resilient. Marin and Sonoma County ranchers and entrepreneurs are building local agricultural economies while regenerating ecosystems and sequestering carbon. The Fibershed Project, founded by Rebecca Burgess, is developing regional clothing production with a community of ecological farmers and artisans. Solar power, grey-water and recycling are all embedded aspects of the Fibershed’s. They have also implemented a Climate Beneficial Certification for their suppliers to ensure that from soil to garment production the stewardship of the environment and climate are paramount considerations.

Two young climate conscious ranchers who share the Fibershed’s ethos are Ariel Greenwood and Guido Frosini. Both balance deep ecology with landscape and livestock management and economic sustainability. Ariel, who describes herself as a “feral agrarian,” holistically manages a herd of cattle to regenerate ecosystems and restore water cycles by increasing biodiversity and sequestering carbon. Guido Frosini of True Grass Farms is an innovative land steward who balances soil and grass cycles with the intentional movement of livestock in a climate beneficial ranching system. Rebecca, Ariel and Guido share their experience, knowledge, and aspirations on this Food Web podcast: Carbon, Climate, Food and Fiber

Connecting the Drops: Restoring Ecology and Social Ecology in Los Angeles | Andy Lipkis

it@bioneers.org (Bioneers) — Sat, 01 Jan 2022 07:00:00 -0000

Could Los Angeles stop draining water from the Colorado River and the Sacramento Delta to become self-sufficient? That's a question that Andy Lipkis and his organization Tree People are tackling in an unprecedented alliance with public works agencies. Their work proves that the more we learn about how ecosystems operate, the more sustainably we can design our cities.

A Fork in the Road: Make Friends with a Farmer | Michael Ableman

it@bioneers.org (Bioneers) — Sat, 01 Jan 2022 07:00:00 -0000

Local, organic food is growing in popularity by leaps and bounds. Beyond the benefits to the growers, our health and the land, could it become a matter of survival? Author and farmer Michael Ableman shares his cross-country journey celebrating the reverent reconnection with food and the land that is transforming how we will produce our food.

Find out more about Michael Ableman and how you can engage with his campaigns and efforts by visiting http://michaelableman.com

Green-Collar Justice: Another World Is Possible | Omar Freilla and Justin Green

it@bioneers.org (Bioneers) — Sat, 01 Jan 2022 07:00:00 -0000

One person's trash is another person's treasure, as the saying goes. Entrepreneur and activist Omar Freilla and "deconstruction" business owner Justin Green are solving for pattern: By working to eliminate waste, they are creating green collar jobs and improving the environment in some of the nation's most underserved communities.

Citizen Science: DIY Knowledge To and From the People

it@bioneers.org (Bioneers) — Sat, 01 Jan 2022 07:00:00 -0000

Activists, scientists and grassroots groups are leveraging new technology and collaborative networks to accurately monitor the quality of the environment, expose governmental and corporate abuses, and enable large-scale ecological research to understand the web of life in the age of climate disruption. Hosted by Teo Grossman, Bioneers Director of Strategic Network Initiatives. With: Severine v T Fleming, Farm Hack; Shannon Dosemagen, founder/President, New Orleans-based Public Laboratory for Open Technology and Science; Brian Haggerty, co-designer, USA National Phenology Network, a multisectoral climate change research program using citizen scientists to monitor seasonal behavior of U.S. flora and fauna.

The Clash of Civilizations: Liberation Ecology and the New Superpower | Paul Hawken

it@bioneers.org (Bioneers) — Sat, 01 Jan 2022 07:00:00 -0000

There is indeed a clash of civilizations today, between a sustainable civilization and a disposable one. Author and social entrepreneur Paul Hawken identifies a new superpower: the mighty river of global popular movements with real solutions. He tracks the unprecedented phenomenon of this biggest movement in the history of the world, the diverse face of a rising new culture of restoration, of reconciliation, of healing.

Nature Heals All Wounds: Spirals, Seashells and Molecular Architecture | Jay Harman & Paul Anastas

it@bioneers.org (Bioneers) — Sat, 01 Jan 2022 07:00:00 -0000

In the burgeoning field of biomimicry, bioneers are designing a technological civilization that harmonizes with nature’s operating instructions. Inventor Jay Harman models the forms and dynamics of water with astounding results. Chemist Paul Anastas is re-inventing a “Green Chemistry” that transforms how we make things. Imitating nature is paying off for the economy, people and the planet.

Eco-Regional Design: Place Is the Space | Kirsten Schwind, David Orr, and Louise Bedsworth

it@bioneers.org (Bioneers) — Sat, 01 Jan 2022 07:00:00 -0000

How do we align political governance with ecological realities rooted in watersheds, foodsheds, culturesheds and regional economies? Hosted by: Kirsten Schwind, Bay Localize. With: David Orr, Distinguished Professor of Environmental Studies and Politics at Oberlin College; Louise Bedsworth, Deputy Director, California Governor’s Office of Planning and Research.

Forest Lifeboat: From Spirit Bears to Victoria’s Dirty Secret | Tzeporah Berman

it@bioneers.org (Bioneers) — Sat, 01 Jan 2022 07:00:00 -0000

How do you go from being a passionate tree-hugger to a business-suited change-maker on behalf of the forests? Enter ForestEthics Program Director Tzeporah Berman. With a string of conservation successes, including the "Amazon of the North," her inspiring story shows how innovative market-based strategies, strange bedfellows, and public embarrassment are powerful tools to preserve the wild places that provide our essential ecosystem services.

Heather McGhee On Confronting The Denial Of Racism

it@bioneers.org (Bioneers) — Sat, 01 Jan 2022 07:00:00 -0000

At the Bioneers Conference in 2017, we spoke with Heather McGhee, Distinguished Senior Fellow at the organization Demos. McGhee describes how the election of Barack Obama resulted in both a racial backlash and the illusion that we were suddenly living in a post-racial society. She also shares a hopeful story that demonstrates a pathway towards healing the divisions that harm us all.

From Soap Operas to Avatars: Digital Diplomacy and Making Fiction into Fact | Rita J. King and Joshua S. Fouts

it@bioneers.org (Bioneers) — Sat, 01 Jan 2022 07:00:00 -0000

Imagine this: A popular character on a Spanish-language soap opera resonates so deeply with viewers that they become empowered and educated about literacy. Avatars in the virtual world called Second Life enable people of all faiths to better understand and respect Islamic culture. Digital and media entrepreneur William Ryerson effectively uses innovative media for social change.

Digital citizen diplomats Joshua S. Fouts and Rita J. King design virtual games that help foster vibrant community and culture in the physical world. They're all demonstrating the game-changing power of technology to change the world for the better.

Honoring the Heritage of Black Farmers: On the Land | J.L. Chestnut

it@bioneers.org (Bioneers) — Sat, 01 Jan 2022 07:00:00 -0000

Black farmers have been leaving the land at three and a half times the rate of other farmers. It turns out that this loss of black farmers is due less to farming policies and practices than it is to generations of institutional racism. Civil Rights attorney J.L. Chestnut, in a brilliant and emotional speech, tells the story of the successful historic litigation against the USDA on behalf of these farmers.

Your Brain On Water

it@bioneers.org (Bioneers) — Sat, 01 Jan 2022 07:00:00 -0000

Hosted by marine biologist Wallace “J.” Nichols, research associate, California Academy of Sciences; co-founder, OceanRevolution.org; author of Blue Mind. New ways of understanding our relationship with the world’s oceans and the ability of healthy waters to provide health, happiness and creativity will be considered by a panel of athletes, scientists, artists, and adventurers. With: Kevin Weiner, post-doctoral fellow, Stanford University and Director of Public Communication, Institute for Applied Neuroscience; Nik Sawe, doctoral candidate, Emmett Interdisciplinary Program in Environment and Resources, Stanford University; and Andi Wong, Teaching Artist, Rooftop Alternative K-8 School.

Recorded Sunday, October 19, 2014 at the National Bioneers Conference in San Rafael, California.

The New Abolitionists: Farewell, Fossil Fuels | Sandra Steingraber and Bill McKibben

it@bioneers.org (Bioneers) — Sat, 01 Jan 2022 07:00:00 -0000

Facing climate disruption, it’s imperative to fast-forward the transition to power civilization on clean energy. The growing global movement to transition off fossil fuels is challenging the fossil fuel industry and its political domination. Renowned author and activist Bill McKibben and award-winning biologist and author Sandra Steingraber illuminate the frontlines of these New Abolitionists.

Conspiracy of Ancestors: The Indigeneity Essentials | Dr. Melissa Nelson

it@bioneers.org (Bioneers) — Sat, 01 Jan 2022 07:00:00 -0000

"A worldview that understands indigeneity is a paradigm of regeneration, a worldview rooted in enduring values in what we call our original instructions, common themes of reciprocity, of gratitude, of responsibility, of generosity, of forgiveness, of humility, of courage, of sacrifice, and of course love. But these values are not just words, we need to live them."

We’re all indigenous to planet Earth, but we’ve not been acting that way. Cultural ecologist, indigenous scholar and activist Dr. Melissa K. Nelson reminds native and non-native peoples alike that we all need to re-indigenize ourselves by learning and practicing nature’s operating instructions and the Original Instructions for how to be a human being. At this unprecedented moment of globalized environmental breakdown, it’s going to take the best of Western science and the indigenous science of Traditional Ecological Knowledge (TEK) to navigate this evolutionary keyhole.

Going Locavore: Urban Food Innovation and Community Transformation | Michael Pollan and Oran Hesterman

it@bioneers.org (Bioneers) — Sat, 01 Jan 2022 07:00:00 -0000

Our misbegotten industrial food system is one of our greatest vulnerabilities. Its dangerously fossil-fueled, toxic, monocultural and centralized. The real cost of cheap food is very high to both people and planet. Urban food innovators are designing vibrant new local food economies built on environmental and ecological integrity, sustainability, diversity and equity. Join author Michael Pollan, Fair Food Foundation CEO Oran Hesterman, faith-based change-maker James Ella James and student leader Victoria Carter for a smorgasbord of nourishing morsels from the emerging locavore movement.

Find out more about Michael Pollan at his website, and the work Oran Hesterman is doing at the Fair Food Network website.

Ecological Design: On the Ground and in the Water | John Todd & David Orr

it@bioneers.org (Bioneers) — Sat, 01 Jan 2022 07:00:00 -0000

John Todd, an ecological designer in the field of biomimicry, imitates nature's evolutionary genius to serve human ends harmlessly, using nature's processes as the design for buildings, technologies and practical solutions to environmental devastation. Educator David Orr suggests that true ecological design can take place only in a society willing to ask, "How would nature do it?"

Designing a World for the 100%, by the 100% | Elizabeth Thompson, Erin Meezan, Jane Harrison, and Dawn Danby

it@bioneers.org (Bioneers) — Sat, 01 Jan 2022 07:00:00 -0000

Leading women designers gathered by the Buckminster Fuller Institute (BFI) explore the principles of participatory design—inclusion, cooperation, community, regeneration—and how we can design a human world that meets everyone’s needs without harming the bio- sphere. Hosted by Elizabeth Thompson, BFI Executive Director. With: Erin Meezan, VP of Sustainability, Interface, Inc.; Jane Harrison, co-founder, PITCHAfrica/Waterbank Schools; Dawn Danby, Senior Sustainable Design Program Manager, Autodesk, Inc.

Art as a Vehicle for Social Change: Edge-Walking with Favianna Rodriguez

it@bioneers.org (Bioneers) — Sat, 01 Jan 2022 07:00:00 -0000

In times of strife, how can art serve as a healthy catalyst for positive transformation? Join San Francisco City Art Commissioner Dorka Keehn in a conversation about the frontlines of cultural revolution. With: Favianna Rodriguez, a renowned transnational interdisciplinary artist and cultural organizer focused on social change.

Recorded at the 2015 National Bioneers Conference in San Rafael, California.

Working With Nature to Heal Nature: Landscapes of Hope | John Liu

it@bioneers.org (Bioneers) — Sat, 01 Jan 2022 07:00:00 -0000

Just like our bodies, nature has a profound capacity for healing and self-repair. Filmmaker-turned-ecological-restorer John Liu shifted from documenting China's massive environmental and societal upheavals to filming a groundbreaking, large-scale ecosystem restoration cum local economic renewal. Prioritizing nature's ecological functions above producing goods and services, the groundbreaking work is spreading to other nations, with Liu as a global ambassador of dramatic ecosystem restoration wonders.

Shamanic Plant Messengers And The Fate Of The Earth

it@bioneers.org (Bioneers) — Sat, 01 Jan 2022 07:00:00 -0000

In this fascinating conversation, author and anthropologist Wade Davis and ethnobotanist Kathleen Harrison delve into the fascinating human relationship to consciousness altering plants, delving into the use of coffee, cacao, peyote, ayahuasca, and psilocybin by ancient and contemporary peoples, and the relevance these relationships may have for current human predicaments.

Security by Design: Environmental Security is Homeland Security | Amory Lovins and David Orr

it@bioneers.org (Bioneers) — Sat, 01 Jan 2022 07:00:00 -0000

"Three-quarters of our military expenditure is for forces whose primary mission is intervention in the Persian Gulf. If we got off the oil, we wouldn't need most of the forces we have, it would be a very different world, and I think a much safer as well as a fairer and richer one."

The concept of national security is moving beyond bullets, bombs, soldiers and warcraft to encompass the country’s internal resilience, health and environmental sustainability. What’s needed, say two leading environmental visionaries, is the equivalent of a wartime mobilization to create a sustainable planet including a far more decentralized infrastructure. Global energy strategist Amory Lovins and Oberlin College Professor David Orr advocate sustainability as the strategic imperative and foundation for a new national security narrative. The military is starting to agree.

A Karmic Moment: Why Men Must Step Up Now to End Rape Culture | Eve Ensler

it@bioneers.org (Bioneers) — Sat, 01 Jan 2022 07:00:00 -0000

In October 2016, before Trump was elected, Eve Ensler gave a visionary call at the Bioneers conference for men to put ending rape culture front and center in their lives and work.

Candidate Trump, said Eve, is a phenomenon – something larger than the person - because he’s channeling the unprocessed darkness in the environment and swirling it into ever-greater darkness. He’s carrying our collective karma, and we can change that.

Since then, serial scandals have continued to escalate until the dam burst with the Weinstein wake-up-call and the cultural tsunami of the #metoo movement. It’s a watershed moment, but little will actually change, says Eve, unless and until men step up to dismantle the patriarchy, transforming themselves in the process of ending this vicious system that destroys men’s souls as well.

The gender wound may be the deepest social wound of all. At this epic moment of seismic cultural change, what we do now will determine the future for decades to come. This is the moment to begin healing the gender wound once and for all. Please let us know what Eve’s words mean to you.

- Kenny Ausubel, Bioneers Co-Founder

The Green-Collar Economy: Jobs, Justice and Prosperity | Van Jones and Majora Carter

it@bioneers.org (Bioneers) — Sat, 01 Jan 2022 07:00:00 -0000

Just how dumb do they think we are? Who would believe that destroying the ecosystems on which all life depends, while dis-employing more and more people, is somehow good for the economy? But exactly that fiction of jobs versus the environment has been successfully marketed to us. Community organizers Van Jones and Majora Carter propose a radically simple solution for both environmental destruction and social inequality: Bring the rising green revolution to low-income, urban America.

Women and Entheogens | Kat Harrison, Annie Oak, Carolyn Garcia and Mariavittoria Mangini

it@bioneers.org (Bioneers) — Sat, 01 Jan 2022 07:00:00 -0000

The worlds of psychedelic research and culture have historically been heavily male, and the stories of some of the great women pioneers in these domains have not received the attention they deserve. This historic panel discussion brought together some of the most extraordinary women who have contributed to this field in their own very diverse ways. The intrepid ethnobotanist, artist and co-founder of Botanical Dimensions, Kat Harrison was joined by the legendary Carolyn “Mountain Girl” Garcia, a key figure in the Merry Pranksters and former wife of the late Grateful Dead guitarist; Annie Oak, founder of the Women’s Visionary Congress; and family nurse midwife with decades of experience, Mariavittoria Mangini, Ph.D.

Value Change for Survival: All My Relations | Chief Oren Lyons, Leslie Gray & John Mohawk

it@bioneers.org (Bioneers) — Sat, 01 Jan 2022 07:00:00 -0000

In these ecologically dangerous times, many call for a fundamental change of heart if we are to restore vital ecosystems. Oren Lyons, Leslie Gray and John Mohawk remind us of the values that sustained people for thousands of years in a balance that supported the land. They offer direction toward nothing less than a value change for survival.

Thanksgiving in the Cosmos: The Next Enlightenment |

it@bioneers.org (Bioneers) — Sat, 01 Jan 2022 07:00:00 -0000

The world has entered a period of radical creative destruction — of breakdown and breakthrough. The very fate of human civilization hangs in the balance. Where have we gone so wrong? Could it be our cosmology itself, our view of our place in the natural and cosmic order? As author Richard Tarnas observes, “World views create worlds.” Is a fundamental transformation of our civilization’s world view the gateway to our survival and flourishing as a species? In this Bioneers audio special, we take an experiential journey into cosmology, consciousness and change, with: Chief Oren Lyons, Native American leader from the Onondaga Nation of the Iroquois Confederacy; Richard Tarnas, the author of Cosmos and Psyche: Intimations of a New World View; and featuring music from Shaman’s Dream and Blue Tech.

Kimberlé Crenshaw on the Origins of the #SayHerName Campaign

it@bioneers.org (Bioneers) — Sat, 01 Jan 2022 07:00:00 -0000

At the Bioneers Conference in 2016, we spoke with visionary law professor and changemaker Kimberlé Crenshaw. A respected attorney, Crenshaw popularized the concept of intersectionality and was instrumental in the creation of the #SayHerName campaign to raise awareness about the many women and girls who are killed by the police.

The Varieties of Psychedelic Experiences

it@bioneers.org (Bioneers) — Sat, 01 Jan 2022 07:00:00 -0000

Shamanic botanical traditions and modern reinventions propose that certain plants may offer people a direct line to a profound ecological intelligence. Hosted by Bioneers Associate Producer J.P. Harpignies, editor of Visionary Plant Consciousness; with ethnobotanist, artist and plant-person extraordinaire Kat Harrison; CODEPINK co-founder, and board member of the Drug Policy Alliance, Jodie Evans; and Erik Davis, a scholar of spiritual subcultures, author of several classics, including Techgnosis, Nomad Codes, and The Visionary State: A Journey Through California’s Spiritual Landscapes.

Lifting Women’s Voices in the Media: Tools, Models and Practices

it@bioneers.org (Bioneers) — Sat, 01 Jan 2022 07:00:00 -0000

Join a diverse circle of women media-makers to hear how each learned to trust her own voice. They share stories and discuss effective strategies that can be applied to lift the voices of women of every age and perspective. Hosted by Jodie Evans, women’s media champion.

With: Jensine Larsen, founder of World Pulse; Neema Namadamu, internationally renowned Congolese civil society leader, founder of Hero Women Rising; Nicole Middleton, GlobalGirl Media activist.

Recorded Friday, October 16, 2015 at the National Bioneers Conference in San Rafael, California.

Carbon, Climate, Food and Fiber | Rebecca Burgess, Ariel Greenwood and Guido Frosini

it@bioneers.org (Bioneers) — Sat, 01 Jan 2022 07:00:00 -0000

“Our soils have a carbon debt. Our atmosphere is gushing with carbon. The carbon over our heads is literally in the wrong place.”… Rebecca Burgess

The solution to climate change is under our feet. Rebecca Burgess, of the Fibershed Project, explains how drawing carbon from the atmosphere and capturing it in the soil can reverse climate change. Rebecca, who is developing climate friendly local clothing production and carbon farming certification for her suppliers, is joined, in this excerpt from a Bioneers workshop, by holistic grazers Ariel Greenwood and Guido Frosini who are managing livestock while regenerating natural ecosystems.

Cultivating Dynamic Power, Catalyzing the Movement | J. Miakoda Taylor

it@bioneers.org (Bioneers) — Sat, 01 Jan 2022 07:00:00 -0000

What if we stop perceiving power and privilege as limited commodities? How do we collaborate in ways that generate dynamic power and create win-win strategies? Join J. Miakoda Taylor, Founding Director of Fierce Allies, in this interactive exploration.

Interview with Francis Huxley and Jeremy Narby

it@bioneers.org (Bioneers) — Sat, 01 Jan 2022 07:00:00 -0000

A rare interview with Jeremy Narby and the late Francis Huxley, legendary anthropologists in conversation with Bioneers Radio Host and consulting producer Neil Harvey. The interview took place at a Bioneers conference in 2002.

Shamans Through Time: Tricksters, Healers, Voodoo Priests and Anthropologists

it@bioneers.org (Bioneers) — Sat, 01 Jan 2022 07:00:00 -0000

With the illustrious anthropologist Francis Huxley of the renowned Huxley clan; a leading figure in Native American and American Studies, the late, beloved professor John Mohawk; and groundbreaking anthropological thinker and author Jeremy Narby. Practices by different Indigenous people around the world were labeled "shamanism" by anthropologists and dismissed as irrational superstition, but in the 20th century cultural observers began to see shamans in a new light, as creators of meaning. Are science and shamanism compatible? Is Indigenous knowledge safe for a modern, secular world?

The Cutting Edge of Psychedelics Research | Kathleen Harrison, Ralph Metzner, Charles Grob, Mariavittoria Mangini, Ph.D., and Alicia Danforth

it@bioneers.org (Bioneers) — Sat, 01 Jan 2022 07:00:00 -0000

Until recently, it has been very difficult to get approval for serious research into “mind-manifesting” plants and drugs. Leading figures in the field describe that potential and the status of current research. Hosted by Kat Harrison; with Ralph Metzner, Charles Grob, Mariavittoria Mangini, Ph.D., and Alicia Danforth.

Eco-Governance | Kirsten Schwind, Jessie Lerner, and Trathen Heckman

it@bioneers.org (Bioneers) — Sat, 01 Jan 2022 07:00:00 -0000

What does governance look like when it aligns with the ground truths of nature? How does culture change? What models exist? Hosted by Kirsten Schwind, co-founder/Director of Bay Localize. With: Jessie Lerner, Executive Director, Sustain Dane in Madison, Wiscon- sin, a state with eco-municipalities based on Sweden’s model; Trathen Heckman, Board President, Transition U.S., founder of Daily Acts.

Plants And Humans – Who Is Domesticating Whom?

it@bioneers.org (Bioneers) — Sat, 01 Jan 2022 07:00:00 -0000

The brilliant, award-winning contributor to the New York Times Magazine, Journalism professor and best-selling writer Michael Pollan, author most recently (May 2018) of How to Change Your Mind: What the New Science of Psychedelics Teaches Us About Consciousness, Dying, Addiction, Depression, and Transcendence, had a fascinating conversation back in 2001 with renowned anthropologist and ethnobotanist Wade Davis on the co-evolution of people and plants. Michael explained the importance of gardening to human evolution and Wade shared his insights into the centrality of plants in cultures from the jungles of Borneo to the secret “zombifying” herbal mixtures of Haiti. (2001)

Awakening Genius in Your Life | Michael Meade and John Densmore

it@bioneers.org (Bioneers) — Sat, 01 Jan 2022 07:00:00 -0000

The Art of Relationships: From Ecology to Healing | Fritjof Capra, Jeannette Armstrong. and Jeanne Achterberg

it@bioneers.org (Bioneers) — Sat, 01 Jan 2022 07:00:00 -0000

Ecology is the superb art of interdependent relationships. Author and physicist Fritjof Capra, Native American educator Jeannette Armstrong, and medical researcher Jeanne Achterberg describe the complex and interconnected relationships inherent in living systems that can help heal our environment, our societies, and us.

Intelligence in Nature: Coming Full Circle | Jeremy Narby

it@bioneers.org (Bioneers) — Sat, 01 Jan 2022 07:00:00 -0000

What do octopuses, bees, plants and slime molds have in common with human beings? For one thing, they exhibit the ability to solve problems and make decisions. Author and anthropologist Jeremy Narby reveals his astonishing research on the profound intelligence active throughout nature. After all, how could people be intelligent if the nature that created us were not even more intelligent?

Bending Toward Justice: The Arc of Black Lives Matter

it@bioneers.org (Bioneers) — Sat, 01 Jan 2022 07:00:00 -0000

From Kingdom to Kin-dom: Acting As If We Have Relatives | Brock Dolman, Paul Stamets and Brian Thomas Swimme

it@bioneers.org (Bioneers) — Sat, 01 Jan 2022 07:00:00 -0000

From the microbes to the mammals, all life shares far more in common than what makes us different. In other words, it’s all relatives. If we knew that literally we are water, that we are mushrooms, that we are stardust—instead of shredding the web of life, might we start acting as if we have relatives? Bioneers Brock Dolman, Paul Stamets and Brian Thomas Swimme reveal inspiring reflections in the gene pool that show life as a kin-dom, not a kingdom.

The Golden Rule: Restoring the Earth by Restoring Human Dignity | Paul Hawken

it@bioneers.org (Bioneers) — Sat, 01 Jan 2022 07:00:00 -0000

"There is an environmental movement and there is a social justice movement. If they could truly become one movement the transformation would be unimaginable.

When a black child in Oakland winces at the thought of an ancient tree being cut down in northern California, and when an ex logger in northern California winces at the thought of a teenager, a black teenager in Oakland, being cut down on those streets, then we’ll know that day has arrived."

Could Western civilization's oldest ethical instructions of the Golden Rule hold acute relevance to our planetary environmental crisis? Could restoring respect for human beings be the key to restoring the health of the planet? Author Paul Hawken has been tracking the rapid proliferation of nonprofit, non-governmental organizations around the world. It boils down to this: Taking care of nature means taking care of people, and taking care of people means taking care of nature.

Digital Democracy: The Cyberworld of Citizen Activism | Brad Friedman, John Stauber, and Joan Blades

it@bioneers.org (Bioneers) — Sat, 01 Jan 2022 07:00:00 -0000

Garbage in, garbage out, as the early computer innovators remarked about information. A vital free press is the single most important feedback loop in a democracy. New media including especially the Internet have challenged the supremacy of corporate media concentration and junk news. A brave new wave of activists such as Brad Friedman, John Stauber and Joan Blades are using digital media to restore the democratic lifeblood of a people’s media. They’re giving voice to the voiceless, checking and balancing corruption, and providing liberty and access for all.

You Are Where You Eat: Trans-farming Urban Food and Growing Community | Ladonna Redmond...

it@bioneers.org (Bioneers) — Sat, 01 Jan 2022 07:00:00 -0000

LaDonna Redmond and Wil Bullock live in communities where 12-year-olds suffer heart attacks, and where it's easier to buy a semi-automatic weapon than an organic tomato. But they are changing that reality, providing access to fresh, healthy foods, and re-establishing the connections between food and community.

Circles of Concern: The Secret Sauce of Social Movements | john a. powell and Manuel Pastor

it@bioneers.org (Bioneers) — Sat, 01 Jan 2022 07:00:00 -0000

From nature’s viewpoint, people are one species. Categories such as race, class, nation, religion and even many gender roles are human constructs. Yet the world is riven by exploitation and violence driven by these perceived divisions at an epic moment of demographic change toward the U.S. becoming a majority minority nation. john a. powell, Director of U.C. Berkeley’s Haas Institute for a Fair and Inclusive Society, and Manuel Pastor, Director of the Program for Environmental and Regional Equity at University of Southern California, show how to build effective movements to overcome these divisions and come together to solve the planetary emergency that threatens our common home.

Find out more about john a. powell and how you can engage with his campaigns and efforts by visiting the Berkeley Haas Institute.

Find out more about Manuel Pastor and how you can engage with his campaigns and efforts by visiting the USC Dornslife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences.

An Oil Spill Runs Through It: Corporate Power and the Sliming of American Democracy...

it@bioneers.org (Bioneers) — Sat, 01 Jan 2022 07:00:00 -0000

An Oil Spill Runs Through It: Corporate Power and the Sliming of American Democracy | Jeff Clements, John Bonifaz, and Dr. Riki Ott

Curbing Corporate Power to Develop a Just Food System | Joann Lo, Saru Jayaraman, Sriram Madhusoodanan, and Ben Burkett

it@bioneers.org (Bioneers) — Sat, 01 Jan 2022 07:00:00 -0000

Although powerful global corporations and their allies are trying to undermine progress toward sustainable and just food systems, unexpected collaborations among labor, women’s rights activists, family farmers and environmentalists are innovating strategies and alliances to assure a new course for our food systems. Hosted by Joann Lo, Executive Director, Food Chain Workers Alliance. With: Saru Jayaraman, Co-Director/founder, ROC United; Sriram Madhusoodanan, Value [the] Meal Director at Corporate Accountability International; Ben Burkett, President of the National Family Farm Coalition.

Aligning Business with Biology: Breakthrough Eco-nomics | Amory Lovins & Jason Clay

it@bioneers.org (Bioneers) — Sat, 01 Jan 2022 07:00:00 -0000

Bioneers are successfully employing the economics of nature to demonstrate how we can solve two of our most intractable environmental challenges: energy and agriculture. In a few decades, the U.S. can get completely off oil, as physicist Amory Lovins convincingly shows. Economist and anthropologist Jason Clay presents profitable examples of modeling nature's economics, from clean shrimp farms in Asia to healthy potatoes in Wisconsin.

Cuba’s Organic Agriculture: Aberration or Model for the World? | Kevin Danaher, Greg Watson, and Anuradha Mittal

it@bioneers.org (Bioneers) — Sat, 01 Jan 2022 07:00:00 -0000

Cuba developed, out of necessity, the most organic, sustainable agricultural system of any country. Is that model replicable in other parts of the world, or is it now likely to be overrun by industrial farming as ironically the easing of tensions with the U.S. opens the island up to the influx of capital and multinational corporate plutocrats? What can we learn from Cuba’s food system, and what are the risks to Cuban food security and sovereignty as its economic isolation ends?

With: Kevin Danaher, co-founder of Global Exchange and FairTradeUSA; Greg Watson, former Massachusetts Secretary of Agriculture; Anuradha Mittal, founder and Executive Director of the Oakland Institute.

Education for Sustainability | Kirk Bergstrom, Jaimie Cloud, and Linda Booth Sweeney

it@bioneers.org (Bioneers) — Sat, 01 Jan 2022 07:00:00 -0000

Connect with kindred educators in an emerging community of practice in this participatory session offering frameworks and tools for designing an effective Education for Sustainability (EfS) initiative in your community and/or school. Hosted by Kirk Bergstrom, filmmaker, educator, social entrepreneur, founder and Executive Director of WorldLink. With: Jaimie Cloud, President, Cloud Institute for Sustainability Education; Linda Booth Sweeney, award-winning author and systems educator.

Daughters of Thoreau: Not Too Well Behaved | Julia Butterfly Hill, Diane Wilson, and Terri Swearingen

it@bioneers.org (Bioneers) — Sat, 01 Jan 2022 07:00:00 -0000

On his deathbed Henry David Thoreau said his only regret was being too well behaved. Julia Butterfly Hill, Diane Wilson and Terri Swearingen, three of the most imaginative, inspiring and courageous direct action heroines of our era share their experiences and show us how courage and commitment can stop mountains from being moved.

Genetic Engineering or Genetic Roulette? | Kenny Ausubel, Andrew Kimbrell & Luke Anderson

it@bioneers.org (Bioneers) — Sat, 01 Jan 2022 07:00:00 -0000

What lies behind the fascination to tinker with the building blocks of life? Kenny Ausubel and Andrew Kimbrell shed light on the disturbing genetic engineering debate and activist Luke Anderson reports from the successful campaign that has derailed the spread of "biological pollution" in Great Britain and Europe.

Bread and Roses: Time Poverty, Super-Wealth and the Politics of Happiness - Annie Leonard and John de Graaf

it@bioneers.org (Bioneers) — Sat, 01 Jan 2022 07:00:00 -0000

At the same time the Great Recession has inflicted enormous pain and suffering, it has also caused people to take a deeper look at what's really important in our lives. Many are finding that time is not money: time is far more valuable. The acclaimed filmmakers and social entrepreneurs Annie Leonard (The Story of Stuff) and John de Graaf (Seattle Area Happiness Initiative) pop the Big Question: What's the economy for, anyway? Is it a voracious cycle of perpetual growth and more stuff? Or can we create growth within the natural limits of the planet to produce sufficiency, a high quality of life and real happiness?!

Awakening the Genius in Everyone: When the Calling Keeps Calling | Michael Meade

it@bioneers.org (Bioneers) — Sat, 01 Jan 2022 07:00:00 -0000

Heart To Heart - Womens Leadership In Transforming Culture | Sarah Crowell, Joanna Macy, Susan Griffin, Sofia Quintero, and Akaya Windwood

it@bioneers.org (Bioneers) — Sat, 01 Jan 2022 07:00:00 -0000

All too often, there’s a disconnect between how women are portrayed in popular culture and the media, and how women see and portray themselves. Sarah Crowell, Joanna Macy, Susan Griffin, Sofia Quintero and Akaya Windwood take apart gender politics and put them back together with an emotional intelligence that is shifting the definition of power and fostering new models of women’s leadership.

Just Like A Woman: Nature, Chemicals and the Feminization of Science | Charlotte Brody

it@bioneers.org (Bioneers) — Sat, 01 Jan 2022 07:00:00 -0000

There is a fundamental need to restore a female perspective to the male-dominated world of science. Is it any accident that the first person to sound the alarm about chemical pollution was Rachel Carson, a woman? These dangerous chemicals are “feminizing” all us critters by disrupting our hormone balances. How did we get here? And what can we do about it? Environmental health advocate Charlotte Brody suggests that female scientists, with a different way of seeing problems and solutions, may lead us toward a new and healthy approach to the connections between human health and the health of the planet.

The End of Sustainability: The Environment as a Human Right | Paul Hawken

it@bioneers.org (Bioneers) — Sat, 01 Jan 2022 07:00:00 -0000

A healthy environment is not just a biological issue, but also a fundamental human right. Acclaimed social entrepreneur and author Paul Hawken proposes that we need to go far beyond "sustainability" as a guiding principle and dare to create a restorative economic system founded in social equity and power for all.

A Fantastic Object: Social Capitalism and the United States of Europe | Steven Hill

it@bioneers.org (Bioneers) — Sat, 01 Jan 2022 07:00:00 -0000

“And so, the idea was how do you harness this capitalist engine to create a more broadly shared prosperity? And once they decided to do that, then they said, well, what do we do with this wealth if we’re going to make it more broadly shared? Do we just have everyone make more income? And they said, no. It makes more sense; let’s think about what are the things that people need in their lives.”

Despite suffering severe shocks from the 2008 global economic and banking crisis, nations of the European Union have provided the world with a potent new economic species. “Social Capitalism” shares prosperity more widely, institutionalizes broader national democracy, and creates long-term environmental sustainability. It includes universal healthcare that’s affordable, education for all that is often free, family-friendly work policies, and real worker participation in corporate decision-making. Europe watcher Steven Hill believes it may be the most important innovation in the world economy since the rise of the corporation – and we all have a “ringside seat to history.”

A Sense of Wonder: Ecological Literacy and the Facts of Life | Fritjof Capra, Zenobia Barlow and Esther Cook

it@bioneers.org (Bioneers) — Sat, 01 Jan 2022 07:00:00 -0000

Does our very survival now depend on our ability to understand the facts of life - nature's operating instructions - and how to live by them? Join the Center for Ecoliteracy's Fritjof Capra, Zenobia Barlow and Esther Cook to learn how experiential, participatory education in the environment is revolutionizing education from kindergarten through high school through an education of the heart. (pic from rawpixel.com)

Excerpt from Matthew Dillon of Seed Matters at Bioneers 2012

it@bioneers.org (Bioneers) — Sat, 01 Jan 2022 07:00:00 -0000

Short excerpt from Matthew Dillon of Seed Matters at Bioneers 2012, on how grassroots seed saving is an important political act.

Regenerative Agriculture Can Help Solve Climate Chaos

it@bioneers.org (Bioneers) — Sat, 01 Jan 2022 07:00:00 -0000

There are two great Will Allens in organic agriculture. One is a 6’7” former professional basketball player and founder of Growing Power in Milwaukee, the renowned urban agriculture training center. The other Will Allen is an organic farming pioneer and activist who started out as a professor at UC Santa Barbara, but was fired and jailed for his anti-Vietnam war activism. No longer able to work in academia, he took up farming following in his father’s footsteps.

Will’s zeal for justice and reform was transferred to agriculture. He founded the Sustainable Cotton Project (SCP) in 1990, which helped farmers transition to organic while reducing farmworker exposure to pesticides. SCP created markets for organic cotton selling to major manufacturers like Patagonia, Esprit, Levis, Marks and Spencer, and Nike.

Understanding that war creates more victims than heroes, Will became a founding member of Farms Not Arms (now the Farmer Veteran Coalition), which helps veterans heal from the trauma of war by training them for jobs in agriculture.

Will moved from California to Vermont to farm and became active in the Vermont GMO labeling law campaign. He farms with his wife Kate Duesterberg on 40 acres, producing a diversity of vegetables and fruits, grains, oil sunflower, dry beans, and ornamental and cut flowers. The farm has a certified kitchen producing organic products, and an organic coffee shop. The Cedar Circle Farm educational program hosts over a thousand school kids each year.

I sat down with Will at the 2016 Eco Farm Conference to talk about his work with Regeneration Vermont that promotes climate-friendly agriculture, social justice for farmworkers, stewardship of the natural environment and the production of healthy food. At the age of 80, Will is still a vital and transformative force, steadily pushing the food system to be more accountable, more in tune with nature and to be in service of human and ecosystem health.

Listen to the excerpt of my interview with Will Allen below.

Digital Media: Collaboration and Movement Building in a Data-Driven Society | Matthew Monahan, Ben Knight, Edward West, and Ingrid Sanders

it@bioneers.org (Bioneers) — Sat, 01 Jan 2022 07:00:00 -0000

To have any chance of success, highly creative, collaborative uses of new forms of digital media must be a cornerstone of any strategy for progressive social and environmental movements. Four leading innovators in this domain share their insights. Hosted by Matthew Monahan, Namaste Foundation. With: Ben Knight, co-founder of Loomio; Edward West, co-founder of Impact Hub Oakland and Hylo social network; Ingrid Sanders, founder of PopExpert, a crowd-sourced, community-driven platform.

A Love That Is Wild: Why Wilderness Matters in the 21st Century | Terry Tempest Williams

it@bioneers.org (Bioneers) — Sat, 01 Jan 2022 07:00:00 -0000

Find out more about Terry Tempest Williams and how you can engage with her campaigns and efforts by visiting her website

Conservation, Biodiversity and Innovative Philanthropy | Kris Tompkins, John D. Liu and Marina Silva

it@bioneers.org (Bioneers) — Sat, 01 Jan 2022 07:00:00 -0000

Hosted by Atossa Soltani, Founder and Executive Director of Amazon Watch, among the most effective groups in the world conserving the Amazon and its peoples.

Learn about the struggles to preserve some of the last large-scale vibrant ecosystems on Earth, crucial to the diversity of life on our planet, the climate and to our own species’ survival. Kris Tompkins describes the remarkable work she and her husband Doug Tompkins, Co-Founder of Esprit, are doing as conservation philanthropists and practitioners to create national parks that protect and restore wildlands and biodiversity, inspire care for the natural world, and generate healthy economic opportunities for communities in Patagonia in Chile and Argentina.

John Liu shows how understanding the true value of ecological functions including hydrological cycles, climate regulation and soil fertility reveals an astonishing cost-benefit ratio that points to both the ecological and economic imperative of large-scale ecological restoration worldwide, such as he has demonstrated in China and Rwanda. Marina Silva will describe what can and must be done to protect the forests and peoples of the Amazon while alleviating poverty.

With:

Kris Tompkins, conservationist, former CEO of Patagonia, who since 1993 has worked with her husband Doug Tompkins to create large wilderness conservation areas in Chile and Argentina;

John D. Liu, international filmmaker, conservationist and ecological restorationist;

Marina Silva, Brazilian environmental leader.

Future Generations Are Screaming: The Clean Energy Climate Challenge | Susan Marshall, John Fogarty, Alec Loorz, and James Hansen

it@bioneers.org (Bioneers) — Sat, 01 Jan 2022 07:00:00 -0000

The climate crisis is a crisis of governance and leadership. Will we move rapidly enough to realign our policies, politics and economy to stabilize the climate? Creative and innovative people from all walks of life are stepping forward to address the greatest challenge humanity has ever faced. Community organizers Susan Marshall and John Fogarty are taking power local. Youth advocate Alec Loorz is mobilizing young people worldwide for the defining issue of their lives. NASA's chief climatologist James Hansen says there's still time.

"Four Changes" by Gary Snyder

it@bioneers.org (Bioneers) — Sat, 01 Jan 2022 07:00:00 -0000

In July 2016, Jack Loeffler recorded Gary Snyder reading his updated version of 'Four Changes' in his home. This recorded version was prepared for and included in a major exhibition held at the History Museum of New Mexico at the Palace of the Governors in Santa Fe.

The exhibition was entitled 'Voices of Counterculture in the Southwest', and Snyder's rendering of 'Four Changes' aptly conveyed how deeply the counterculture movement helped nurture the emerging environmental movement. The impact of this manifesto is as powerful today as it was a half century ago and could not be more timely.

Four Changes at Age 50: A Celebration on the Environmental Movement’s First Manifesto of Contemplative Ecology

Introduction by Diana Hadley, Jack Loeffler, Gary Paul Nabhan and Jack Shoemaker

In the months before the first Earth Day in April 1970, mention of a prophetic manifesto seemed to crop up in nearly every serious discussion of what the nascent environmental movement should be and what values it should embody. That manifesto was conceived and shaped in the summer 1969, as poet Gary Snyder toured a number of college campuses around the United States and then entered into deeper discussions with a number of other poets, visionaries and activists in the San Francisco Bay area. Affectionately called “Chofu” by other radical environmentalists during that time, Snyder gradually refined their collective vision into a ten page draft document that became what we now know as Four Changes.

Several features of this manifesto were then, and still are, unique in the canon of writings considered foundational to the environmental movement. Snyder’s literary gifts shine through the manifesto with prescient, poetic and playfully comic qualities to them. The tone seemed as fresh and as “out of the box” as Leaves of Grass must have sounded when Whitman first sowed it onto the American earth a century earlier. The manifesto called for a radical shift in our relationship with the planet through changing the way we perceive population, pollution, consumption, and the transformation of our society and ourselves. In this manner, it foreshadowed later expressions of ecological thought that we now call contemplative ecology and deep ecology.

While it was in many ways anchored in Buddhist teachings, it was also precise in its understanding of modern ecological science and respectful of the place-based wisdom of the traditional ecological knowledge of the many indigenous cultures of the world. It did not privilege Western science over other ways of making sense of the environment, but welcomed dialogue and integration of many distinctive expressions.

Four Changes was also rooted in a mature understanding of the political ecology of power dynamics and disparities in access to resources that were ravaging our planet, its biological and cultural diversity. Parts of it were so pertinent to these issues that it was read into the Congressional Record on April 5th, 1970--- two and a half weeks before Earth Day flags were unfurled all around the world. In that sense, it was perhaps the first robust articulation of what we now call a yearning for environmental justice. Still, the tone was hopeful—that humankind could learn to respect, learn from and embrace the other-than-human-world. As Snyder later paraphrased one of the tenets of Four Changes, “Revolutionary consciousness is to be found among the most ruthlessly exploited classes: animals, trees, water, air, grasses.” It is time to heed the call of the prophetic Four Changes.

Indigenize the Law: Tribal Rights of Nature Movements - PT 2 | Casey Camp-Horinek

it@bioneers.org (Bioneers) — Fri, 10 Dec 2021 14:00:00 -0000

This is Part Two of our conversation with tribal elder and matriarch Casey Camp Horinek. We discuss why a tribally led movement is the best hope for the planet, and how the unique legal and political relationship between tribes and the U.S. federal government is advantageous in efforts to truly protect ecosystems. Casey also discusses the journey her tribe is taking as they explore the best ways to incorporate rights of nature into their legal framework.

Artwork for this episode includes tintype photography by Will Wilson (willwilson.photoshelter.com/index) and collage art by Mer Young (meryoung.com/).

For more information and transcript, visit the episode page: https://bioneers.org/indigenize-the-law-tribal-rights-of-nature-movements-casey-camp-horinek-2/

Resources:

Bioneers’ Indigeneity Program Rights of Nature Initiative

Rights of Nature Bioneers Media Hub

Casey Camp-Horinek: Aligning Human Law with Natural Law | 2019 Bioneers Conference Keynote Address

Democracy vs Plutocracy: Behind Every Great Fortune Lies a Great Crime | Thom Hartmann, Stacy Mitchell & Maurice BP-Weeks

it@bioneers.org (Bioneers) — Tue, 07 Dec 2021 20:46:48 -0000

In this first part of a two-part program, we travel back and forth in time to explore the battle between democracy and plutocracy. In today’s new Gilded Age of rule by the wealthy, rising anti-trust movements are challenging the stranglehold of corporate monopoly. This is “Democracy versus Plutocracy: Behind Every Great Fortune Lies a Great Crime” with leading democracy defenders Thom Hartmann, Stacy Mitchell and Maurice BP Weeks.

Cosmomimicry: We’re The Universe Mattering | David McConville

it@bioneers.org (Bioneers) — Tue, 30 Nov 2021 14:00:00 -0000

“If success or failure of this planet and of human beings depended on how I am and what I do, then how would I be and what would I do?” asked visionary designer Buckminster Fuller. Buckminster Fuller Institute Board President David McConville says our view of the universe profoundly shapes our future as a species, and it’s changing radically.

Indigenize the Law: Tribal Rights of Nature Movements - PT. 1 | Casey Camp-Horinek

it@bioneers.org (Bioneers) — Tue, 16 Nov 2021 14:00:00 -0000

The idea that a river or other natural feature is a living being, imbued with the right to live and thrive is nothing new to Indigenous Peoples around the world. In this episode with Matriarch Casey Camp-Horinek from the Ponca Nation, we talk about how a burgeoning indigenous-led Rights of Nature movement has the potential to protect ecosystems from destruction by granting legal rights to nature itself, and how many tribes are uniquely positioned for leadership to institute and uphold the Rights of Nature because of their sovereign legal status. This episode features collage artwork by Indigenous artist, Mer Young.

For more information and transcript, visit the episode page: https://bioneers.org/indigenize-the-law-tribal-rights-of-nature-movements-casey-camp-horinek-1/

Featuring:

Casey Camp-Horinek, a tribal Councilwoman of the Ponca Tribe of Oklahoma and Hereditary Drumkeeper of its Womens’ Scalp Dance Society, Elder and Matriarch, is also an Emmy award winning actress, author, and an internationally renowned, longtime Native and Human Rights and Environmental Justice activist. She led efforts for the Ponca tribe to adopt a Rights of Nature Statute and pass a moratorium on fracking on its territory, and has traveled and spoken around the world.

Resources:

Bioneers’ Indigeneity Program Rights of Nature Initiative

Rights of Nature Bioneers Media Hub

Casey Camp-Horinek: Aligning Human Law with Natural Law | 2019 Bioneers Conference Keynote Address

Credits:

Executive Producer: Kenny Ausubel

Co-Hosts and Producers: Cara Romero and Alexis Bunten

Senior Producer: Stephanie Welch

Associate Producer and Program Engineer: Emily Harris

Consulting Producer: Teo Grossman

Studio Engineers: Brandon Pinard and Theo Badashi

Tech Support: Tyson Russell

Web Design: Megan Howe

Mer Young creates the series collage artwork.

The Green New Deal: Launching the Great Transformation | Demond Drummer & Tom Hayden

it@bioneers.org (Bioneers) — Wed, 03 Nov 2021 23:46:00 -0000

As climate chaos and obscene inequality ravage people and planet, a new generation of visionaries is emerging to demand a bold solution: a Green New Deal. Is it a remedy that can actually meet the magnitude and urgency of this turning point in the human enterprise? With the late Tom Hayden, lifelong activist and politician, and Demond Drummer of Policy Link.

We’re a Culture, Not a Costume: Fighting Racism In Schools

it@bioneers.org (Bioneers) — Tue, 26 Oct 2021 13:00:00 -0000

Native American students face racism throughout their education, from racist mascots to the historical erasure of the American genocide from textbooks. In this passionate conversation, Indigenous Rights Activists Dahkota Brown, Chiitaanibah Johnson, Jayden Lim, and Naelyn Pike share stories of their own experiences and how they are working to abolish racism in schools.

Inalienable: Belonging to the Earth Community | Joanna Macy

it@bioneers.org (Bioneers) — Tue, 19 Oct 2021 13:00:00 -0000

Deep Ecology extends an inalienable right to life to all beings. Yet as the naturalist Aldo Leopold observed, “One of the penalties of an ecological education is that one lives alone in a world of wounds.” Either harden your shell, or be a doctor. Joanna Macy decided to be an Earth doctor. A systems theorist, author and lifelong activist, she describes how healing the world and healing your heart and soul go hand in hand.

Transforming Indigenous Stereotypes with Crystal Echo Hawk

it@bioneers.org (Bioneers) — Fri, 08 Oct 2021 20:33:00 -0000

Hey podcast listeners! We’re launching a new series called Indigeneity Conversations. Produced by Bioneers and hosted by Indigeneity Program Directors Cara Romero and Alexis Bunten. This series is dedicated to amplifying and uplifting Indigenous voices, experiences and solutions. New episodes will be released on this podcast feed, so stay tuned.

This series premiere episode features a conversation with Crystal Echo Hawk, an enrolled member of the Pawnee Nation of Oklahoma and President and CEO of IllumiNative and of Echo Hawk Consulting.

From racist mascots, to stereotypes in national creation myths like Thanksgiving, we have always faced misrepresentation and disrespect of our cultures and identities. Cultural appropriation and commodification of our cultures is commonplace, but Native activists, artists, youth, educators, legislators and our allies are changing that reality. We are winning battles to ban racist mascots and call out negative stereotypes in the media.

Indigenous Women Rising: Upholding the Hoop of Life

it@bioneers.org (Bioneers) — Tue, 05 Oct 2021 19:46:00 -0000

From the Canadian tar sands to the oil and natural gas fields of North America and the Amazon jungle, Indigenous peoples of the North and South are converging in one struggle. It is also the reconciliation of two different ways of knowing and being, between the head and heart, sometimes called The Eagle and The Condor. Five Indigenous women of the North and South are showing us how to keep fossil fuels on the ground and uphold our part of the hoop of life. With: Woman Stands Shining, Patricia Gualinga, Crystal Lameman, Eagle Woman, and Eriel Deranger.

Jaguars, Goats and Acequias: Cultivating the Landscape of a Wild Earth | Lani Malmberg, Miguel Santistevan & Peter Warshall

it@bioneers.org (Bioneers) — Tue, 28 Sep 2021 13:00:00 -0000

Do you think of the wilderness as something far away? Not in the age of climate change and human population growth. The real wilderness is always underfoot—the complex systems underlying life on Earth that we barely understand. It’s our inheritance, our guardianship to understand traditional and indigenous knowledge of Earth as a vast, cultivated landscape. Land managers such as Miguel Santistevan, Lani Malmberg and Peter Warshall celebrate the fact that we are all gardeners. They reveal brilliant innovations and ancient wisdom for how to get good at it.

The Blue Economy: Too Good Not to Be True | Bren Smith

it@bioneers.org (Bioneers) — Tue, 21 Sep 2021 13:00:00 -0000

Blue Revolution: Regenerative Ocean Farming | Bren Smith

it@bioneers.org (Bioneers) — Tue, 14 Sep 2021 13:00:00 -0000

In this first of a two-part program, we take a deep dive into regenerative ocean farming, an extraordinarily productive and low-impact way of producing vast quantities of food for a growing population. It has the potential to re-make agriculture from the bottom up, while regenerating oceans, farmlands, farmer livelihoods, and the climate.

With Bren Smith, co-executive director and co-founder of GreenWave.

Vice to Virtue: From Carbon Crisis to Carbon Farming | Calla Rose Ostrander and John Wick

it@bioneers.org (Bioneers) — Tue, 31 Aug 2021 13:00:00 -0000

Cultural Mindshift: Full Spectrum Sustainability and Resilience

it@bioneers.org (Bioneers) — Tue, 24 Aug 2021 13:00:00 -0000

Climbing Out of the Man Box: What Does Healthy Manhood Look Like?

it@bioneers.org (Bioneers) — Wed, 18 Aug 2021 00:25:00 -0000

Nature’s Phoenix: Fire As Medicine

it@bioneers.org (Bioneers) — Tue, 03 Aug 2021 13:00:00 -0000

The Apology: Love Means Having to Say You’re Sorry | Eve Ensler

it@bioneers.org (Bioneers) — Tue, 27 Jul 2021 13:00:00 -0000

They say love means never having to say you’re sorry. But what if that popular aphorism from the 1960’s is wrong and that love precisely means having to say you’re sorry? Can an apology release the trauma, grief, rage and disfigurement arising from past abuse? But what if the perpetrator does not apologize? Can you still resolve or reconcile the trauma and hurt? How? These are some of the agonizing questions that the artist, playwright, performer and activist Eve Ensler, now known as V chose to face to resolve her own relationship with her abusive late father. She did it by writing a book, The Apology. In writing it, she tried to imagine being her father. Who was he? What allowed him to do such terrible harms? Could she free herself from this prison of the past? Could she free both of them?

Who Is an American? Is Our Democracy As Unequal As Our Economy? | Heather McGhee

it@bioneers.org (Bioneers) — Tue, 20 Jul 2021 13:00:00 -0000

By around 2044, the U.S. will become a majority-minority nation. This seismic demographic shift has triggered a cultural earthquake, provoking a radical spike in hate crimes. In times of massive disruption and economic stress, what Carl Jung called the “shadow side of the psyche” comes into play: the pronounced psychological tendency in the collective psyche is to project these shadow qualities with unusual potency onto whomever people see as “the other.” But is there also a deeper story? Perhaps the question to ask is: Who benefits? In this half hour, we hear from Heather McGhee of Demos. She sees a direct connection between today’s extreme inequality and this peak moment of racial panic and white anxiety.

Under the Skin We’re All Kin: Reading the Minds of Animals | Carl Safina

it@bioneers.org (Bioneers) — Tue, 13 Jul 2021 13:00:00 -0000

Tribe of the New Flame: The Agroecology Revolution | Miguel Altieri & Alex Eaton

it@bioneers.org (Bioneers) — Tue, 06 Jul 2021 15:36:00 -0000

Small farmers around the world are building an agro-ecological revolution based on self-sufficiency, food security, and freedom from fossil fuels and corporate control. In this program, we hear from two visionary agroecology innovators. Miguel Altieri is an agroecologist and entomologist at U.C. Berkeley who’s showing how farmers who embrace agroecology are building a movement based on self-sufficiency, food security and freedom from fossil fuels and corporate control. Alex Eaton is the founder of “Sistema Bio”. This game-changing company helps farmers implement a simple technology that converts waste to energy, builds healthy soils, and holds the promise of massively reducing greenhouse gases and lifting people out of poverty.

Shamans and Scientists: Changing the Landscape of Power | Mark Plotkin

it@bioneers.org (Bioneers) — Tue, 29 Jun 2021 13:00:00 -0000

Backlash Moment: Converging at the Crossroads of Identity and Justice | Kimberlé Crenshaw

it@bioneers.org (Bioneers) — Tue, 22 Jun 2021 13:00:00 -0000

When Donald Trump rode a wave of white anxiety into the White House, it was part of a backlash to the Obama presidency, one that revealed an increasingly explicit white nationalism and revived an overtly exclusionary agenda: roll back rights and protections for people of color, immigrants, Muslims, women, and gay and transgender people. Then came the backlash to the backlash: a rapidly spreading awakening that all these peoples, movements and struggles are actually connected in one story. Visionary law professor and change-maker Kimberlé Crenshaw shows that it’s only at the crossroads of our many identities that will we will find a story big enough to embrace the diversity and complexity of our globalized 21st century world.

When Truth is Dangerous: The Power of Independent Media | Monika Bauerlein & Amy Goodman

it@bioneers.org (Bioneers) — Tue, 15 Jun 2021 13:00:00 -0000

Today, there’s a renaissance of independent journalism dedicated to holding power accountable. Political pressures are mounting to break up media monopolies and provide access to more voices. Independent and investigative media outlets are proliferating, often as nonprofits funded from the bottom up. In this program, we hear from two veteran journalists who lead two of the most courageous and successful independent media outlets in the United States: Monika Bauerlein, the CEO of Mother Jones magazine, and Amy Goodman, host and executive producer of Democracy Now!

Got Dirt? Get Soil! Ditch the Plow, Cover Up and Grow Diversity | Anne Biklé & David Montgomery

it@bioneers.org (Bioneers) — Mon, 07 Jun 2021 16:00:00 -0000

Biologist Anne Biklé and geologist David Montgomery share one of the good news stories that show how the solutions residing in nature surpass our conception of what’s even possible.

We’re a Culture, Not a Costume: Fighting Racism in Schools | Dahkota Brown, Chiitaanibah Johnson, Jayden Lim, & Naelyn Pike

it@bioneers.org (Bioneers) — Tue, 25 May 2021 19:54:00 -0000

Native American students face racism throughout their education, from racist mascots to the historical erasure of the American genocide from textbooks. In this passionate conversation, Indigenous Rights Activists Dahkota Brown, Chiitaanibah Johnson, Jayden Lim, and Naelyn Pike share stories of their own experiences and how they are working to abolish racism in schools.

Amazon Visions: Solutions for Saving the Lungs of the Planet | Atossa Soltani & Marina Silva

it@bioneers.org (Bioneers) — Tue, 18 May 2021 19:41:00 -0000

If the rate of destruction doesn’t change, by the year 2020 most of the Amazon ecosystem – the lungs of the planet - will be destroyed or irreparably damaged. But not if these visionary leaders can help it. Amazon Watch founder Atossa Soltani has supported local Indigenous peoples to protect the rainforest and their lifeways. Legendary rainforest champion Marina Silva, Brazil’s past Minister of the Environment and Presidential candidate, offers deep wisdom and vision.

Forest Wisdom, Mother Trees and the Science of Community | Suzanne Simard

it@bioneers.org (Bioneers) — Tue, 11 May 2021 13:00:00 -0000

Forests have long occupied a fertile landscape in the human imagination. Places of mystery and magic - of wildness and wisdom - of vision and dreaming. Yet beyond mythic realms of imagination, we’ve largely treated forests as inert physical resources to satisfy human needs and desires. The main operative science behind this commodification has been market science – how to extract maximum resources and profits.

Suzanne Simard is one of the revolutionary researchers transforming the science of forest ecology and coming full circle to the wisdom held by First Peoples and traditional land-based cultures from time immemorial. The story Simard is uncovering can change our story for how we live on Earth and with each other – for the long haul.

The Sophia Century: When Women Come Into Co-Equal Partnership

it@bioneers.org (Bioneers) — Tue, 04 May 2021 13:00:00 -0000

Laboring for Justice: See No Stranger | Valarie Kaur

it@bioneers.org (Bioneers) — Tue, 27 Apr 2021 13:00:00 -0000

Re-Weaving the Web of Belonging: “The Inside Is Not, and The Outside Is Too” | john a. powell, Eriel Deranger & Anita Sanchez

it@bioneers.org (Bioneers) — Fri, 16 Apr 2021 23:52:00 -0000

As author Michael Pollan observes: “The two biggest crises humanity faces today are tribalism and the environmental crisis. They both involve the objectifying of the other - whether that other is nature or other people.”

How do we re-weave that web of relationships, and focus on our likenesses rather than our differences?

In this program, racial justice advocates john a. powell, Eriel Deranger and Anita Sanchez explore how overcoming the illusion of separateness from nature and each other requires building bridges rather than burning them. They say the fate of the world depends on it.

No More Stolen Sisters: Stopping the Abuse and Murder of Native Women and Girls

it@bioneers.org (Bioneers) — Wed, 14 Apr 2021 01:37:00 -0000

In this program, powerful Native women leaders reveal the crisis of missing and murdered Indigenous women, and describe how they are taking action and building growing movements, including with non-Native allies. Morning Star Gali, Ozawa Bineshi Albert, Simone Senogles, Kandi White, and Casey Camp Horinek.

These stories are shocking, harrowing and heartbreaking. But then again, when your heart breaks, the cracks are where the light shines through.

The Path Home: Restoring Native Lands and Traditional Ecological Knowledge | Eriel Deranger, Valentin Lopez & Cara Romero

it@bioneers.org (Bioneers) — Tue, 06 Apr 2021 13:00:00 -0000

Although colonial systems of oppression have radically damaged relationships between tribal communities and their traditional lands, a new generation of First Nations activists is working to restore those connections and safeguard Indigenous identity for future generations. They’re protecting traditional territories and sacred sites from harm, and renewing Indigenous land stewardship. With: Eriel Deranger of the Athabasca Chipewyan First Nation, Valentin Lopez, Amah Mutsun Tribal Band, and Cara Romero, from the Mohave-based Chemehuevi Tribe.

Climate Health, Your Health: Prevention Is Protection | Dr. Linda Rudolph & Dr. Barbara Sattler

it@bioneers.org (Bioneers) — Wed, 31 Mar 2021 00:58:00 -0000

Power Struggle: The Unstoppable Rise of the Clean Energy Era | Danny Kennedy

it@bioneers.org (Bioneers) — Tue, 23 Mar 2021 13:00:00 -0000

Today in the fossil fuel-induced age of escalating climate disruption, the joker in the deck is the climate imperative to transition rapidly off fossil fuels worldwide. Clean energy has reached the proverbial tipping point - and the smart money is hot on the trail of the clean energy revolution. Entrepreneur and visionary change-maker Danny Kennedy says clean energy not only makes dollars, it makes sense, and this literal power struggle could take us from energy monopoly to energy democracy.

Community Resilience: When the Love in the Air Is Thicker than the Smoke | Estrella Santiago Perez & Trathen Heckman

it@bioneers.org (Bioneers) — Tue, 16 Mar 2021 13:00:00 -0000

With climate-driven disasters becoming the new normal, building resilience is the grail. Communities around the world are developing models created out of practical necessity. We hear on-the-ground stories from two different communities building resilience in the wake of serial disasters. Estrella Santiago Perez and her innovative community rights organization ENLACE have helped organize a collection of marginalized neighborhoods in San Juan, Puerto Rico to overcome the twin catastrophes of Hurricane Maria and a failed government. And far away in the fire-ravaged communities near California’s relatively well-off wine country, Trathen Heckman helped lead the nonprofit grassroots group Daily Acts to build a resilience network from the ground up with engaged citizens action, civil society groups and Sonoma County government agencies.

Erosion and Evolution: Our Undoing is Our Becoming | Terry Tempest Williams

it@bioneers.org (Bioneers) — Tue, 09 Mar 2021 14:00:00 -0000

They Don’t Call Her Mother Earth for Nothing: Women Re-imagining the World, AN HOUR LONG SPECIAL | Alice Walker, Jean Shinoda Bolen, Nina Simons, Sarah Crowell, Joanna Macy and Akaya Winwood

it@bioneers.org (Bioneers) — Tue, 02 Mar 2021 14:00:00 -0000

An hour long special on how transformational women leaders are restoring societal balance by showing us how to reconnect relationships not only among people, but between people and the natural world. This astounding conversation among diverse women leaders provides a fascinating window into the soulful depths of what it means to restore the balance between our masculine and feminine selves to bring about wholeness, justice and true restoration of people and planet. Alice Walker, Jean Shinoda Bolen, Nina Simons, Sarah Crowell, Joanna Macy and Akaya Winwood

Equal Rights Amendment: Times Up | Joan Blades, Kimberle Crenshaw & Jessica Neuwirth

it@bioneers.org (Bioneers) — Tue, 23 Feb 2021 22:50:00 -0000

Ever since women won the right to vote in 1920, they have been trying to pass an Equal Rights Amendment to the U.S. Constitution to ensure equality and justice in the eyes of the law. The Third Wave women’s movement might just make it a reality. MomsRising Director Joan Blades, attorney Kimberle Crenshaw, and ERA Coalition President Jessica Neuwirth tell us why the amendment is so important to address discrimination and harassment in the workplace and beyond.

Why Equity is Good for Everyone: Changing the Story, Changing the World | john a. powell and Heather McGhee

it@bioneers.org (Bioneers) — Mon, 15 Feb 2021 06:05:00 -0000

Plastic Planet: Stopping Big Oil, Big Plastic, and Big Misdirection | Anna Cummins

it@bioneers.org (Bioneers) — Tue, 09 Feb 2021 14:00:00 -0000

After World War II, the U.S. government worked with industry to create a single-use, disposable consumer culture as a way to ensure ongoing market prosperity. Who benefited? Consumer product companies like Coca-Cola, and the fossil fuel industry, whose petrochemicals are at the source. The result? Plastic pollution is now found in virtually every living organism – including humans - and is one of the worst threats to ocean ecosystems. Now, a global resistance movement is rising to abolish petrochemical plastics and to shift to a zero-waste, circular economy. With: Anna Cummins, Deputy Director and Co-Founder of the Five Gyres Institute.

Radical Transparency: Mapping the Planet from the Ground to the Cloud | Rebecca Moore

it@bioneers.org (Bioneers) — Tue, 02 Feb 2021 14:00:00 -0000

New, democratized access to powerful analytical and mapping tools is transforming our understanding of the natural world – and with it, our ability to meaningfully conserve, protect and restore our collective home – the biosphere. In this program, we explore the boundless possibilities of digital maps and platforms with Rebecca Moore, visionary founder of Google Earth Outreach and Google Engine.

Social Medicine: Restoring Public Health by Changing Society | Dr. Rupa Marya

it@bioneers.org (Bioneers) — Tue, 26 Jan 2021 14:00:00 -0000

We are told that our personal health is our individual responsibility based on our own choices. Yet, the biological truth is that human health is dependent upon the health of nature’s ecosystems and our social structures. Decisions that negatively affect these larger systems and eventually affect us are made without our consent as citizens and, often, without our knowledge. Dr. Rupa Marya, Associate Professor of Medicine at UC San Francisco, and Faculty Director of the Do No Harm Coalition, says "social medicine" means dismantling harmful social structures that directly lead to poor health outcomes, and building new structures that promote health and healing.

Raced and Classed: The Journey from Diversity to Equity | Rinku Sen, Saru Jarayaman and Malkia Cyril

it@bioneers.org (Bioneers) — Tue, 19 Jan 2021 14:00:00 -0000

What we do to each other, we do to the Earth. To protect our common home, we’re being called upon to bridge our differences to create beloved community and peaceful coexistence. A new generation of visionary change-makers is reframing the race conversation, and designing new tools to transform our unconscious biases and create justice. With Racial justice pathfinders Rinku Sen, Saru Jarayaman and Malkia Cyril.

Nature’s Intelligence: Interviewing the Vegetable Mind | Robin Kimmerer & Monica Gagliano

it@bioneers.org (Bioneers) — Tue, 12 Jan 2021 13:00:00 -0000

Are plants intelligent? If we knew their language what might they tell us? Potawatomi Indigenous ecologist and author Robin Kimmerer and evolutionary ecologist Monica Gagliano merge Traditional Ecological Knowledge with Western science for a surprising trip into the minds of mosses and chili seeds and the songs of corn. They agree what we really need today is a revolution in values, an “Honorable Harvest” of gratitude and reciprocity with our plant kin.

Flavors of a Whole Community: Ingredients for Food Justice | Nikki Henderson-Silvestri

it@bioneers.org (Bioneers) — Tue, 05 Jan 2021 14:00:00 -0000

How can a grocery store lift a community out of poverty? The People’s Grocery provides creative solutions to community health problems that stem from a lack of access to and knowledge about healthy, fresh foods. The personal journey of former Executive Director and home-grown food justice leader Nikki Henderson-Silvestri brings heart, soul and love to community health and wealth for the low-income community of West Oakland, California.

Beloved Community: Hello My Other Self | Ilarion “Larry” Merculieff and Guadalupe Avila

it@bioneers.org (Bioneers) — Wed, 30 Dec 2020 03:35:00 -0000

In today’s radically shifting world, the name of the game is resilience – the capacity of both human and ecological systems to absorb disturbance, roll with the punches and come up standing. Resilience arises from building community – enduring relationships and networks that hold cultural memory in the same way seeds regenerate a forest after a fire. Indigenous leaders Ilarion “Larry” Merculieff and Guadalupe Avila come from old-growth cultures that have sustained community over centuries and millennia.

Ecstatic Revolt: The New Mythos of Eve

it@bioneers.org (Bioneers) — Wed, 23 Dec 2020 06:05:00 -0000

As the creation story of Judeo-Christian beliefs, the biblical recounting of Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden has long had profound influence around the world. So what’s it like to be named Eve? World-renowned playwright and activist Eve Ensler explores her own personal journey into her namesake. The provocative author of “The Vagina Monologues” and founder of V-Day to end violence against women suggests there’s another story beneath the traditional story. For her, it’s both very personal – and very political.

Bending Toward Justice: The Arc of Black Lives Matter

it@bioneers.org (Bioneers) — Tue, 15 Dec 2020 08:00:00 -0000

Patrisse Cullors, one of the co-founders of Black Lives Matter, tells the story of the birth of this powerful movement for racial justice, and shares her vision of a world where black people are actually free, a world that we all deserve to live in.

Whale Whisperers: Making Deep Contact

it@bioneers.org (Bioneers) — Wed, 09 Dec 2020 20:46:00 -0000

In the late 20th century, a handful of scientists proved that aquatic mammals have advanced communication capabilities and a consciousness strikingly similar to humans. Author and adventurer James Nestor leads us on a deep dive into the mystery of marine mammal consciousness, and the story of how a small band of free divers, pushing the limits of human endurance, is finding that saving the whales may become the story of the whales saving us.

Patriarchy: Thousands of Years Old but Only a Few Days Deep

it@bioneers.org (Bioneers) — Wed, 02 Dec 2020 04:05:00 -0000

What will it take to begin to heal the deep wounds between women and men? What is the role of men in this transformation? Cynthia Brix and Will Keepin from Gender Reconciliation International say that only by bringing these wounds into the light can we heal them. Patriarchy destroys men’s souls, too, so a revolution in gender relations can liberate women and men.

Indigenous Peace Technologies: The Ancient Art of Getting Along

it@bioneers.org (Bioneers) — Tue, 24 Nov 2020 23:36:41 -0000

How do we create peace? What can we learn from indigenous societies who have addressed this profound question over thousands of years? From North America to the Kalahari, Jeannette Armstrong, Marlowe Sam, Evan Pritchard, Kxao=Oma and Megan Biesele share powerful stories of how indigenous social technologies have succeeded in resolving conflict, and still are.

Nourishing the Future: Creating a Just and Healthy Food System for All

it@bioneers.org (Bioneers) — Wed, 18 Nov 2020 02:57:13 -0000

Communities around the country are working to create a new food future founded in health, justice and ecological wellbeing. Community activists Malik Kenyatta Yakini and Oran Hesterman are transforming Detroit through urban agriculture and helping low-income and working families access healthy food. Cathryn Couch works with young people to cook and deliver healthy meals to people who are ill and struggling to put food on the table with a model program using food as medicine.

Real Change: The Political Gets Personal

it@bioneers.org (Bioneers) — Tue, 10 Nov 2020 00:51:53 -0000

How can we manifest the world we want, and who we want to be? Actor-activist Danny Glover and Phaedra Ellis-Lamkins, former CEO of Green For All, show how one sure path to resilience is to build community and social movements. That requires learning how to reach out across our differences – and it gets really personal.

We're a Culture, Not a Costume: Fighting Racism in Schools - Dahkota Brown, Chiitaanibah Johnson, Jayden Lim, and Naelyn Pike | Bioneers Radio Series 17 (2017)

it@bioneers.org (Bioneers) — Wed, 28 Oct 2020 03:08:00 -0000

Forest Wisdom, Mother Trees and the Science of Community | Suzanne Simard

it@bioneers.org (Bioneers) — Tue, 20 Oct 2020 17:13:00 -0000

Suzanne Simard is a revolutionary researcher who is transforming the science of forest ecology and coming full circle to the wisdom held by First Peoples and traditional land-based cultures from time immemorial. The story Simard is uncovering can change our story for how we live on Earth and with each other – for the long haul.

Restorative Justice: From Harm to Healing - Fania Davis and Cameron Simmons | Bioneers Radio Series XVI (2016)

it@bioneers.org (Bioneers) — Fri, 09 Oct 2020 20:47:00 -0000

Oakland, California, has had the reputation of being one of the most dangerous cities in the country. Then the Restorative Justice movement started boldly showing how quickly that reputation can be turned around by arresting the cycle of youth violence and incarceration early: in schools and juvenile justice policies. With: Restorative Justice leaders Fania Davis and Cameron Simmons.

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Breaking the Male Code: The Tyranny of Masculinity | Eve Ensler, Tony Porter, Dallas Goldtooth & George Lipsitz

it@bioneers.org (Bioneers) — Thu, 01 Oct 2020 15:27:00 -0000

No More Stolen Sisters: Stopping the Abuse and Murder of Native Women and Girls | Bioneers Radio Series

it@bioneers.org (Bioneers) — Tue, 22 Sep 2020 16:55:00 -0000

Jessica Alva. Khadija Rose Britton. Hanna Harris. Anthonette Christine Cayedito. If you haven't heard of these women, it’s no surprise. They’re four of the untold number of Indigenous women and girls who have been murdered, kidnapped or gone mysteriously missing.

These stories are shocking, harrowing and heartbreaking. But then again, when your heart breaks, the cracks are where the light shines through.

Indigenous Women Rising: Upholding the Hoop of Life - Woman Stands Shining, Patricia Gualinga, Crystal Lameman, Eagle Woman, and Eriel Deranger

it@bioneers.org (Bioneers) — Wed, 02 Sep 2020 21:13:00 -0000

From the Canadian tar sands to the oil and natural gas fields of North America and the Amazon jungle, Indigenous peoples of the North and South are converging in one struggle. It is also the reconciliation of two different ways of knowing and being, between the head and heart, sometimes called The Eagle and The Condor. Five Indigenous women of the North and South are showing us how to keep fossil fuels on the ground and uphold our part of the hoop of life. With: Woman Stands Shining, Patricia Gualinga, Crystal Lameman, Eagle Woman, and Eriel Deranger.

Cosmomimicry: We’re The Universe Mattering - David McConville

it@bioneers.org (Bioneers) — Fri, 28 Aug 2020 21:55:00 -0000

“If success or failure of this planet and of human beings depended on how I am and what I do, then how would I be and what would I do?” asked visionary designer Buckminster Fuller. Buckminster Fuller Institute Board President David McConville says our view of the universe profoundly shapes our future as a species, and it’s changing radically.

Spirit in the Air: Reform, Revolution and Regeneration - Tom Hayden | Bioneers Radio Series 16

it@bioneers.org (Bioneers) — Fri, 21 Aug 2020 07:00:00 -0000

In times of massive social change, personal biography can coincide with historical epochs to produce leaders who embody the spirit of the times. Lifelong activist, author, politician, and visionary Tom Hayden shares the long view of social change movements. He traces the arc of struggle that has led to this epic moment when the climate crisis and the crisis of inequality are colliding with global civilization and survival is the mother of invention.

Raced and Classed: The Journey From Diversity to Equity - Rinku Sen, Saru Jarayaman and Malkia Cyril | Bioneers Radio Series 16

it@bioneers.org (Bioneers) — Fri, 14 Aug 2020 07:00:00 -0000

Welcome the Water: Climate-Proofing for Resilience - Henk Ovink | Bioneers Radio Series XVI (2016)

it@bioneers.org (Bioneers) — Wed, 05 Aug 2020 07:00:00 -0000

In the face of global climate disruption, two billion people worldwide will be challenged by too much water, and nearly another two billion by not enough. When you fight nature, you lose, says Dutch water wizard and designer Henk Ovink. He’s dramatically demonstrating on large scales how to shift our relationship to nature and to culture - and climate-proof our cities and coasts.

Natures Phoenix: Fire As Medicine - Chad Hanson and Frank Kanawha Lake | Bioneers Radio Series 17

it@bioneers.org (Bioneers) — Fri, 31 Jul 2020 07:00:00 -0000

When Truth Is Dangerous: The Power of Independent Media - Monika Bauerlein and Amy Goodman

it@bioneers.org (Bioneers) — Mon, 13 Jul 2020 08:00:00 -0000

Today, there’s a renaissance of independent journalism dedicated to holding power accountable. Political pressures are mounting to break up media monopolies and provide access to more voices. Independent and investigative media outlets are proliferating, often as nonprofits funded from the bottom up. In this program, we hear from two veteran journalists who lead two of the most courageous and successful independent media outlets in the United States: Monika Bauerlein, the CEO of Mother Jones magazine, and Amy Goodman, host and executive producer of Democracy Now!

Vice To Virtue: From Carbon Crisis to Carbon Farming - Calla Rose Ostrander and John Wick

it@bioneers.org (Bioneers) — Mon, 13 Jul 2020 08:00:00 -0000

How does a virtue become a vice? How does a basic building block of life turn into a threat to life? And how do you turn that vice back into a virtue? In this half-hour we visit with two unlikely pathfinders who are helping to revolutionize farming. Calla Rose Ostrander and John Wick of the Marin Carbon Project are taking carbon out of the atmosphere and putting it back where it belongs: in the soil. In so doing, they’re also revitalizing the soil, conserving water, and building agricultural resilience. Scaling up these revolutionary regenerative methods can offset the climate destabilization, which that threatens to confound agriculture and endanger our food supply.

The Apology: Love Means Having to Say You’re Sorry - V (formerly known as Eve Ensler) | Bioneers Radio Series 13

it@bioneers.org (Bioneers) — Wed, 08 Jul 2020 07:00:00 -0000

They say love means never having to say you’re sorry. But what if that popular aphorism from the 1960’s is wrong and that love precisely means having to say you’re sorry? Can an apology release the trauma, grief, rage and disfigurement arising from past abuse? But what if the perpetrator does not apologize? Can you still resolve or reconcile the trauma and hurt? How? These are some of the agonizing questions that the artist, playwright, performer and activist Eve Ensler, now known as V chose to face to resolve her own relationship with her abusive late father. She did it by writing a book, The Apology. In writing it, she tried to imagine being her father. Who was he? What allowed him to do such terrible harms? Could she free herself from this prison of the past? Could she free both of them?

In Pursuit of Happiness: Becoming Beloved Community - John A. Powell and Grace Bauer | Bioneers Radio Series 13

it@bioneers.org (Bioneers) — Mon, 29 Jun 2020 07:00:00 -0000

It's obvious that we're not here for ourselves. That makes no evolutionary sense. There's something larger than us, and to the extent that we can live that and celebrate that, I think we're healthier, and then that's love. So I think if we think of love in this way, and a beloved community in this way, when we hold all this stuff together, together.

Plastic Planet: Stopping Big Oil, Big Plastic, and Big Misdirection - Anna Cummins | Bioneers Radio Series

it@bioneers.org (Bioneers) — Mon, 22 Jun 2020 07:00:00 -0000

After World War II, the U.S. government worked with industry to create a single-use, disposable consumer culture as a way to ensure ongoing market prosperity. Who benefited? Consumer product companies like Coca-Cola, and the fossil fuel industry, whose petrochemicals are at the source. The result? Plastic pollution is now found in virtually every living organism – including humans - and is one of the worst threats to ocean ecosystems. Now, a global resistance movement is rising to abolish petrochemical plastics and to shift to a zero-waste, circular economy. With: Anna Cummins, Deputy Director and Co-Founder of the Five Gyres Institute

Backlash Moment: Converging at the Crossroads of Identity and Justice - Kimberlé Crenshaw | Bioneers Radio Series 17

it@bioneers.org (Bioneers) — Mon, 01 Jun 2020 07:00:00 -0000

When Donald Trump rode a wave of white anxiety into the White House, it was part of a backlash to the Obama presidency, one that revealed an increasingly explicit white nationalism and revived an overtly exclusionary agenda: roll back rights and protections for people of color, immigrants, Muslims, women, and gay and transgender people. Then came the backlash to the backlash: a rapidly spreading awakening that all these peoples, movements and struggles are actually connected in one story. Visionary law professor and change-maker Kimberlé Crenshaw shows that it’s only at the crossroads of our many identities that will we will find a story big enough to embrace the diversity and complexity of our globalized 21st century world.

Real Change: The Political Gets Personal - Danny Glover and Phaedra Ellis-Lamkins | Bioneers Radio Series 14

it@bioneers.org (Bioneers) — Mon, 25 May 2020 18:00:00 -0000

Sharkskin, Hippo Sweat and the Wood-Wide Web: From Flat Earth to Whole Earth Thinking - Janine Benyus and Jay Harman | Bioneers Radio Series 14

it@bioneers.org (Bioneers) — Mon, 18 May 2020 18:00:00 -0000

The genius of nature’s design, recipes and principles is serving as the inspiration for redesigning human civilization. This Biomimicry revolution is spawning a next industrial revolution. Biomimicry masters Janine Benyus and Jay Harman illuminate the forefront of nature-inspired design, including human organization and the power of networks. For more information about this show visit: https://bioneers.org/sharkskin-hippo-sweat-and-the-wood-wide-web-from-flat-earth-to-whole-earth-thinking-janine/

Laboring For Justice: See No Stranger - Valarie Kaur | Bioneers Radio Series

it@bioneers.org (Bioneers) — Mon, 04 May 2020 07:00:00 -0000

In a world that’s unraveling from climate disruption and gaping inequality, another climate crisis confronts us: the climate of hate and othering. Award-winning scholar and educator Valarie Kaur says to overcome racism and nationalism, we must not succumb to rage and grief. As someone who has spent much of her life challenging horrific injustices and intolerance, Kaur learned the lesson that historical nonviolent change-makers understood: social movements must be grounded in an ethic of love. She founded the Revolutionary Love Project, and has emerged as one of the most important voices of the American Sikh community, and a highly influential faith leader on the national stage.

Growing Collective Intelligence: Democratizing Technology and Citizen Science - Ben Knight and Shannon Dosemagen | Bioneers Radio Series 16

it@bioneers.org (Bioneers) — Mon, 20 Apr 2020 07:00:00 -0000

A new wave of technologies designed to regenerate people, planet and democracy is emerging in ingenious ways. Designers are creating online software for democratic group decision-making that weaves diverse perspectives into a coherent whole. And citizen science is spreading low-tech, high-impact tools that empower communities to work directly with data and mapping that can save them from harm and hold perpetrators accountable. With: democracy technologist Ben Knight of Loomio, and citizen scientist Shannon Dosemagen of Public Lab.

Erosion and Evolution: Our Undoing is Our Becoming - Terry Tempest Williams | Bioneers Radio Series

it@bioneers.org (Bioneers) — Mon, 06 Apr 2020 18:00:00 -0000

Why the World Doesn't End: Recreation Myths of Nature and Culture - Michael Meade | Bioneers Radio Series 10

it@bioneers.org (Bioneers) — Mon, 30 Mar 2020 18:00:00 -0000

When a culture is disintegrating and the stories everybody believed in no longer fit, its time to rekindle our connection to ancient wisdom and universal truths. Mythologist, author and storyteller Michael Meade, founder of the Mosaic Multicultural Foundation, reminds us that the word apocalypse - which has come to mean the end of the world, actually means an unveiling. Once we penetrate that veil, its not the end - but the beginning of a new story the a new beginning to the old story.

Is Nothing Sacred? A Spiritual Response to the Ecological Crisis - Dekila Chungyalpa | Bioneers Radio Series XIV (2014)

it@bioneers.org (Bioneers) — Mon, 16 Mar 2020 18:00:00 -0000

Religion is the oldest, most compelling moral framework for social action. As director of World Wildlife Fund’s Sacred Earth Program, Buddhist Dekila Chungyalpa shows how religion and spiritual consciousness are emerging globally as powerful forces for restoring our relationship with nature and each other.

Community Resilience: When the Love in the Air Is Thicker than the Smoke | Bioneers Radio Series

it@bioneers.org (Bioneers) — Mon, 24 Feb 2020 18:11:00 -0000

*** Note: this program was produced prior to the recent earthquake in Puerto Rico, and focuses on how communities are still recovering from Hurricane Maria. *** With climate-driven disasters becoming the new normal, building resilience is the grail. Communities around the world are developing models created out of practical necessity. We hear on-the-ground stories from two different communities building resilience in the wake of serial disasters. Estrella Santiago Perez and her innovative community rights organization ENLACE have helped organize a collection of marginalized neighborhoods in San Juan, Puerto Rico to overcome the twin catastrophes of Hurricane Maria and a failed government. And far away in the fire-ravaged communities near California’s relatively well-off wine country, Trathen Heckman helped lead the nonprofit grassroots group Daily Acts to build a resilience network from the ground up with engaged citizens action, civil society groups and Sonoma County government agencies For more information on this episode, visit https://bioneers.org

Who Is An American? Is Our Democracy As Unequal As Our Economy? - Heather McGhee | Bioneers Radio Series XVIII (2018)

it@bioneers.org (Bioneers) — Mon, 03 Feb 2020 18:11:00 -0000

Ecstatic Revolt: The New Mythos of Eve | Eve Ensler

it@bioneers.org (Bioneers) — Mon, 27 Jan 2020 18:11:00 -0000

As the creation story of Judeo-Christian beliefs, the biblical recounting of Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden has long had profound influence around the world. So what’s it like to be named Eve? World-renowned playwright and activist Eve Ensler explores her own personal journey into her namesake. The provocative author of “The Vagina Monologues” and founder of V-Day to end violence against women suggests there’s another story beneath the traditional story. For her, it’s both very personal – and very political. For more information on this episode, visit https://bioneers.org

Earth Justice: Corporate Rights vs. The Rights of Nature - Thomas Linzey and Mari Margil | Bioneers 25th Anniversary Greatest Hits Series (2014)

it@bioneers.org (Bioneers) — Mon, 20 Jan 2020 18:00:00 -0000

Why does “corporate personhood” consistently override the legal rights of citizens? And what about the rights of nature? Join innovative environmental attorneys Thomas Linzey and Mari Margil for breakthroughs on the ground of democracy.

The Path Home: Restoring Native Lands and Traditional Ecological Knowledge - Eriel Deranger, Valentin Lopez and Cara Romero | Bioneers Radio Series XVI (2016)

it@bioneers.org (Bioneers) — Mon, 13 Jan 2020 07:00:00 -0000

Church Without a Roof: Keeping the Faith with Creation Care - Fletcher Harper, Sally Bingham, and G.L. Hodge | Bioneers Radio Series 13

it@bioneers.org (Bioneers) — Wed, 18 Dec 2019 07:00:00 -0000

For millennia, prophets, mystics and poets have illuminated the oneness of all life. Today biology is confirming that we are genetic kin with the entire diversity of life. Episcopal Reverends Fletcher Harper and Sally Bingham and Baptist Church Administrator G.L. Hodge preach the gospel of Creation Care that more and more faith communities are embracing in a historic shift.

Radical Patriotism: Growing Growers and Seeding Leaders for a Real Food Future - Severine von Tscharner Fleming, Tyler Webb,Sarita Role Schaffer, Nikki Henderson and Anim Steel | Bioneers Radio Series XII (2012))

it@bioneers.org (Bioneers) — Mon, 09 Dec 2019 07:00:00 -0000

Growing Growers and Seeding Leaders for a Real Food Future What happens when green turns to grey? Fewer than 5 percent of 2 million American farmers are under 45 years old. Bucking that trend is the next generation of unstoppable young farmers Severine von Tscharner Fleming, Tyler Webb, and Sarita Role Schaffer, along with renowned urban food innovator Nikki Henderson and real food advocate Amin Steele. With dirt under their nails and laptops at their fingertips, theyre reinventing a radical patriotism founded in a return to local agriculture and community. It runs on clean energy and knows how to move markets. It seeks greater self-sufficiency, self-determination and food justice, and the checkout line is the pulpit.

Indigenous Peace Technologies: The Ancient Art of Getting Along - Jeannette Armstrong, Marlowe Sam, Evan Pritchard, Kxao=Oma and Megan Biesele | Bioneers Radio Series 7

it@bioneers.org (Bioneers) — Mon, 04 Nov 2019 07:00:00 -0000

From North America to the Kalahari, Jeannette Armstrong, Marlowe Sam, Evan Pritchard, Kxao=Oma and Megan Biesele share powerful stories of how indigenous social technologies have succeeded in resolving conflict, and still are.

From Slavery to Stardust: What Would Healing Look Like? - Thomas DeWolf, Belvie Rooks, and Dedan Gills | Bioneers 25th Anniversary Greatest Hits Series (2014)

it@bioneers.org (Bioneers) — Mon, 19 Aug 2019 18:00:00 -0000

What might happen when the descendants of a white slave trader and of slaves meet? That is the brave and wrenching journey of Thomas DeWolf , whose white ancestors were once the nation’s biggest slave traders, and Belvie Rooks and Dedan Gills , descendants of enslaved African people.

Just Say No: Planet Hackers, Resistance Movements and Climate Justice - Naomi Klein and Clayton Thomas-Muller | Bioneers Radio Series 15

it@bioneers.org (Bioneers) — Mon, 12 Aug 2019 18:00:00 -0000

Climate change is more than an “issue.” According to renowned author and activist Naomi Klein, “It’s a civilizational wake-up call delivered in the language of fires, floods, storms and droughts.” She says it demands that we challenge the dominant economic policies of deregulated capitalism and bottomless resource extraction. She describes the transnational Blockadia movement that’s opposing fossil fuels and warns about geo-engineering fantasies. Canadian Indigenous leader Clayton Thomas-Muller of Idle No More reports from the front lines of the Native-led rights based movement to stop the drilling of the Canadian Tar Sands.

Taking a Breath: Healing the Inner Environment - Dr. James Gordon | Bioneers Radio Series 14

it@bioneers.org (Bioneers) — Mon, 05 Aug 2019 18:00:00 -0000

"What I’d like to do is to be able to bring the possibility for hope and healing to people everywhere who need it. And to engage people in helping and healing themselves and each other, and to create the opportunity for them to do that." Brain research is revealing astounding insights into the mechanisms of post-traumatic stress and neuroplasticity – the brain’s ability to be rewired and re-trained. The world today is ravaged by traumas – from war, privation and economic crashes to natural disasters and ongoing environmental degradation. In response, world-renowned psychiatrist Dr. James S. Gordon of the Center for Mind Body Medicine has trained thousands of teachers globally to advance ancient mind-body healing techniques of self-care to reconnect each individual with his or her own nature, with family and community, and with the natural world. The results are impressive. What might happen if we approach healing the environment from the inside out?

Radical Transparency: Mapping the Earth from the Ground to the Cloud - Rebecca Moore | Bioneers Radio Series

it@bioneers.org (Bioneers) — Tue, 30 Jul 2019 18:00:00 -0000

New, democratized access to powerful analytical and mapping tools is transforming our understanding of the natural world – and with it, our ability to meaningfully conserve, protect and restore our collective home – the biosphere. In this program, we explore the boundless possibilities of digital maps and platforms with Rebecca Moore, visionary founder of Google Earth Outreach and Google Engine.

Hanging On: Treetop Truths in Disruptive Times - Nalini Nadkarni | Bioneers Radio Series 14

it@bioneers.org (Bioneers) — Wed, 17 Jul 2019 18:00:00 -0000

Queen of the forest canopy” Nalini Nadkarni is riding a new current of innovative scientists uncovering previously unexplored wonders in the forest canopy. Her imaginative passion supersedes the boundaries of science to inspire and enlist people from all walks of life, transforming the truth of trees into environmental and social healing.

Under The Skin, We're All Kin: Reading the Minds of Animals - Carl Safina | Bioneers Radio Series XVIII (2018)

it@bioneers.org (Bioneers) — Mon, 01 Jul 2019 18:00:00 -0000

Calling someone an “animal” means they’re less than human – not worthy of respect, rights, or even of life itself. But in truth -- and in biological fact -- human beings ARE animals. Scientists continue to find that intelligence and what we call “consciousness” appear to saturate all of nature. Clearly it’s high time to think differently about just what it means to be an animal. Can we know what it’s like to be other-than-human? How can we see into the minds of animals? Visionary naturalist, author and conservationist Carl Safina says that the first step is paying attention and observing. And, he suggests, if we had humility, we’d have everything.

Tribe of the New Flame: The Agroecology Revolution - Alex Eaton and Miguel Altieri | Bioneers Radio Series

it@bioneers.org (Bioneers) — Mon, 17 Jun 2019 07:00:00 -0000

Small farmers around the world are building an agro-ecological revolution based on self-sufficiency, food security, and freedom from fossil fuels and corporate control. In this program, we hear from two visionary agroecology innovators. Miguel Altieri is an agroecologist and entomologist at UC Berkeley who’s showing how farmers who embrace agroecology are building a movement based on self-sufficiency, food security and freedom from fossil fuels and corporate control. Alex Eaton is the founder of “Sistema Bio”. This game-changing company helps farmers implement a simple technology that converts waste to energy, builds healthy soils, and holds the promise of massively reducing greenhouse gases and lifting people out of poverty.

Shamans and Scientists: Changing the Landscape of Power - Mark Plotkin | Bioneers Radio Series 17 (2017)

it@bioneers.org (Bioneers) — Mon, 10 Jun 2019 07:00:00 -0000

As we hurtle into the Sixth Age of Extinctions, we face the cataclysmic loss of half the world’s biological diversity. 80% of the remaining biodiversity is on Indigenous lands. Ethnobotanist and Indigenous rights advocate Mark Plotkin of the Amazon Conservation Team tells us how scientists are helping protect the people who will protect the land, and the age-old wisdom that’s imperative for our future.

Breaking the Male Code: The Tyranny of Masculinity - Eve Ensler, Tony Porter, Dallas Goldtooth and George Lipsitz | Bioneers Radio Series XVII (2017)

it@bioneers.org (Bioneers) — Mon, 03 Jun 2019 18:00:00 -0000

To transform our culture from its focus on dominance and hierarchy to one of connection, empathy and collaboration, it’s vital that we re-envision the essential (or archetypal) masculine, which changes everything. This rarely tackled topic is the subject of a deeply authentic dialogue among Playwright and activist Eve Ensler and three men working to change men and change the story: Tony Porter, co-founder, A Call To Men; Dallas Goldtooth, Indigenous activist, member of the 1491’s Native American comedy troupe; George Lipsitz, board president, African American Policy Forum.

Power Struggle: The Unstoppable Rise of the Clean Energy Era - Danny Kennedy | Bioneers Radio Series XVII (2017)

it@bioneers.org (Bioneers) — Mon, 20 May 2019 07:00:00 -0000

Today in the fossil fuel-induced age of escalating climate disruption, the joker in the deck is the climate imperative to transition rapidly off fossil fuels worldwide. Clean energy has reached the proverbial tipping point - and the smart money is hot on the trail of the clean energy revolution. Entrepreneur and visionary change-maker Danny Kennedy says clean energy not only makes dollars, it makes sense, and this literal power struggle could take us from energy monopoly to energy democracy.

Ripples of Community Resilience: Small Acts, Big Change - Trathen Heckman and Jessie Lerner | Bioneers Radio Series XV (2015)

it@bioneers.org (Bioneers) — Wed, 15 May 2019 18:00:00 -0000

In neighborhoods across the country, citizens are building community resilience – one shovelful and one backyard at a time. Visionary citizen restorationists Trathen Heckman of Daily Acts and Jessie Lerner of Sustain Dane show how seemingly small acts like catching rain and growing food forests are turning green visions into action, with the help of local governments, schoolkids, businesses, artists and churches.

Women Changing the Story: Mother Bears, Polar Bears and Women’s Leadership - Rose Aguilar, Sandra Steingraber, Vanessa Daniel, Eveline Shen | Bioneers Radio Series XIII (2013)

it@bioneers.org (Bioneers) — Tue, 07 May 2019 07:00:00 -0000

Women’s truths, perspectives and voices have been largely missing from the global conversation, but that is beginning to change as women awaken to their purposes and power. Courageous and eloquent women environmental and social justice leaders - journalist Rose Aguilar , biologist Sandra Steingraber , and reproductive justice advocates Vanessa Daniel and Eveline Shen - share their stories of how the leadership of women is changing the story and the world.

Vice To Virtue: From Carbon Crisis to Carbon Farming - Calla Rose Ostrander and John Wick

it@bioneers.org (Bioneers) — Mon, 29 Apr 2019 08:00:00 -0000

How does a virtue become a vice? How does a basic building block of life turn into a threat to life? And how do you turn that vice back into a virtue? In this half-hour we visit with two unlikely pathfinders who are helping to revolutionize farming. Calla Rose Ostrander and John Wick of the Marin Carbon Project are taking carbon out of the atmosphere and putting it back where it belongs: in the soil. In so doing, they’re also revitalizing the soil, conserving water, and building agricultural resilience. Scaling up these revolutionary regenerative methods can offset the climate destabilization, which that threatens to confound agriculture and endanger our food supply.

Where Angels Fear to Tread: Making Art that Heals the Broken Places - Lily Yeh | Bioneers Radio Series 10

it@bioneers.org (Bioneers) — Mon, 01 Apr 2019 16:00:00 -0000

How do we transform a vicious circle into a virtuous circle? How do we move from environmental degradation and the deterioration of human relations to restoration? From war to peace - from hatred to compassion - from isolation to community? How can one person make a crucial difference? Painter and professor Lily Yehs approach to community healing takes that which is broken and creates something whole and wholly new and beautiful through public art. From Philadelphia to Rwanda, broken places are her canvases. Peoples stories are the pigments. Peoples talents and creativity are the tools. At the heart of her work is the transformation of human heart.

Inner Resilience: Back to Our True Nature - Dr. Gabor Mate | Bioneers 25th Anniversary Greatest Hits Series (2014)

it@bioneers.org (Bioneers) — Mon, 25 Mar 2019 18:00:00 -0000

The Reluctant Psychonaut: How Psychedelics Changed Michael Pollan's Mind

it@bioneers.org (Bioneers) — Tue, 05 Mar 2019 07:00:00 -0000

A quiet renaissance of serious medical research has once again arisen to study the therapeutic benefits of LSD and other psychedelics, including overcoming addiction and depression, to easing the existential terror of terminal illness. In this program, acclaimed journalist Michael Pollan shares a travelogue of his reportorial and personal journey with psychedelics. He slips through the rabbit hole into the mystery of consciousness itself, into the indivisible oneness of people and nature, and asks: could the transformational healing that psychedelics can bring on the personal ego level translate into cultural healing that could address the greatest issues of our time?

Cultural Mindshift: Full Spectrum Sustainability and Resilience - Timothy Burroughs, David W.Orr, and Tom Van Dyck | Bioneers Radio Series 16 (2016)

it@bioneers.org (Bioneers) — Mon, 04 Mar 2019 07:00:00 -0000

Climate is the trip wire for every other foundational ecological and biological system – as well as the basis for human civilization. As we face the long climate emergency, fortunately, skillful pathfinders are banding together to transform our ways of living and bring resilience from the ground up into widespread practice. With Berkeley’s Chief Resilience Officer, Timothy Burroughs, Professor David W. Orr, and financial adviser Tom Van Dyck.

Welcome the Water: Climate-Proofing for Resilience - Henk Ovink | Bioneers Radio Series XVI (2016)

it@bioneers.org (Bioneers) — Mon, 11 Feb 2019 07:00:00 -0000

In the face of global climate disruption, two billion people worldwide will be challenged by too much water, and nearly another two billion by not enough. When you fight nature, you lose, says Dutch water wizard and designer Henk Ovink. He’s dramatically demonstrating on large scales how to shift our relationship to nature and to culture - and climate-proof our cities and coasts.

From Slavery to Stardust: What Would Healing Look Like? - Thomas DeWolf, Belvie Rooks, and Dedan Gills | Bioneers 25th Anniversary Greatest Hits Series (2014)

it@bioneers.org (Bioneers) — Mon, 04 Feb 2019 18:00:00 -0000

Is Nothing Sacred? A Spiritual Response to the Ecological Crisis - Dekila Chungyalpa | Bioneers Radio Series XIV (2014)

it@bioneers.org (Bioneers) — Mon, 28 Jan 2019 18:00:00 -0000

Under The Skin, We're All Kin: Reading the Minds of Animals - Carl Safina | Bioneers Radio Series XVIII (2018)

it@bioneers.org (Bioneers) — Mon, 07 Jan 2019 18:00:00 -0000

Calling someone an “animal” means they’re less than human – not worthy of respect, rights, or even of life itself. But in truth -- and in biological fact -- human beings ARE animals. Scientists continue to find that intelligence and what we call “consciousness” appear to saturate all of nature. Clearly it’s high time to think differently about just what it means to be an animal. Can we know what it’s like to be other-than-human? How can we see into the minds of animals? Visionary naturalist, author and conservationist Carl Safina says that the first step is paying attention and observing. And, he suggests, if we had humility, we’d have everything.

Who Is An American? Is Our Democracy As Unequal As Our Economy? - Heather McGhee | Bioneers Radio Series XVIII (2018)

it@bioneers.org (Bioneers) — Wed, 19 Dec 2018 18:00:00 -0000

Breaking the Male Code: The Tyranny of Masculinity - Eve Ensler, Tony Porter, Dallas Goldtooth and George Lipsitz | Bioneers Radio Series XVII (2017)

it@bioneers.org (Bioneers) — Mon, 17 Dec 2018 18:00:00 -0000

To transform our culture from its focus on dominance and hierarchy to one of connection, empathy and collaboration, it’s vital that we re-envision the essential (or archetypal) masculine, which changes everything. This rarely tackled topic is the subject of a deeply authentic dialogue among Playwright and activist Eve Ensler and three men working to change men and change the story: Tony Porter, co-founder, A Call To Men; Dallas Goldtooth, Indigenous activist, member of the 1491’s Native American comedy troupe; George Lipsitz, board president, African American Policy Forum.

Shamans and Scientists: Changing the Landscape of Power - Mark Plotkin | Bioneers Radio Series 17 (2017)

it@bioneers.org (Bioneers) — Thu, 29 Nov 2018 07:00:00 -0000

As we hurtle into the Sixth Age of Extinctions, we face the cataclysmic loss of half the world’s biological diversity. 80% of the remaining biodiversity is on Indigenous lands. Ethnobotanist and Indigenous rights advocate Mark Plotkin of the Amazon Conservation Team tells us how scientists are helping protect the people who will protect the land, and the age-old wisdom that’s imperative for our future.

Amazon Visions: Saving the Heart of the Planet - Atossa Soltani and Marina Silva | Bioneers Radio Series XIII (2013)

it@bioneers.org (Bioneers) — Thu, 15 Nov 2018 07:00:00 -0000

If the rate of destruction doesn’t change, by the year 2020 most of the Amazon ecosystem – the lungs of the planet - will be destroyed or irreparably damaged. But not if these visionary leaders can help it. Amazon Watch founder Atossa Soltani has supported local indigenous peoples to protect the rainforest and their lifeways. Legendary rainforest champion Marina Silva , Brazil’s past Minister of the Environment and Presidential candidate, offers deep wisdom and vision.

Escaping Control: Linking Gender, Social Movements and Democracy - Gloria Steinem | Bioneers 25th Anniversary Greatest Hits Series (2014)

it@bioneers.org (Bioneers) — Mon, 05 Nov 2018 18:00:00 -0000

World-renowned feminist, writer and change-maker Gloria Steinem connects the dots among disparate social movements to reveal the common patterns of oppression that underlie them all. From gender and race to democracy and universal spirituality, she weaves a unifying vision of a richly human and humane world where all people are valued for their uniqueness and full humanity.

Spirit in the Air: Reform, Revolution and Regeneration - Tom Hayden | Bioneers Radio Series XVI (2016)

it@bioneers.org (Bioneers) — Mon, 29 Oct 2018 07:00:00 -0000

The Marriage of the Sun and Moon: The Truth and Reconciliation of Gender - Pat McCabe, Cynthia Brix, Will Keepin and Pele Rouge | Bioneers Radio Series XIV (2014)

it@bioneers.org (Bioneers) — Tue, 23 Oct 2018 18:00:00 -0000

Today gender reconciliation is a burgeoning new movement for transformational healing. Gender reconciliation visionaries Pat McCabe, Cynthia Brix, Will Keepin and Pele Rouge share powerful stories of transformation from the personal to the societal, including the nation of South Africa.

Earth Justice: Corporate Rights vs. The Rights of Nature - Thomas Linzey and Mari Margil | Bioneers 25th Anniversary Greatest Hits Series (2014)

it@bioneers.org (Bioneers) — Mon, 24 Sep 2018 18:00:00 -0000

Cosmomimicry: We’re The Universe Mattering - David McConville | Bioneers Radio Series XIV (2014)

it@bioneers.org (Bioneers) — Mon, 17 Sep 2018 18:00:00 -0000

“If success or failure of this planet and of human beings depended on how I am and what I do, then how would I be and what would I do?” asked visionary designer Buckminster Fuller. Buckminster Fuller Institute Board President David McConville says our view of the universe profoundly shapes our future as a species, and it’s changing radically.

The Path Home: Restoring Native Lands and Traditional Ecological Knowledge - Eriel Deranger, Valentin Lopez and Cara Romero | Bioneers Radio Series XVI (2016)

it@bioneers.org (Bioneers) — Mon, 10 Sep 2018 07:00:00 -0000

Climate Health, Your Health: Prevention Is Protection - Dr. Linda Rudolph and Dr. Barbara Sattler | Bioneers Radio Series XVI (2016)

it@bioneers.org (Bioneers) — Tue, 04 Sep 2018 07:00:00 -0000

Climate disruption is harmful to your health. Dr. Linda Rudolph and Dr. Barbara Sattler are showing how our success or failure as a civilization may well hinge on how ingenious, nimble and socially just our public health systems can become in restoring the ecosystem health on which all health depends. And doing the right thing is good for our health.

Restorative Justice: From Harm to Healing - Fania Davis and Cameron Simmons | Bioneers Radio Series XVI (2016)

it@bioneers.org (Bioneers) — Wed, 29 Aug 2018 07:00:00 -0000

Oakland, California, has had the reputation of being one of the most dangerous cities in the country. Then the Restorative Justice movement started boldly showing how quickly that reputation can be turned around by arresting the cycle of youth violence and incarceration early: in schools and juvenile justice policies. With: Restorative Justice leaders Fania Davis and Cameron Simmons.

Spirit in Action: Three Virtues for the 21st Century - Sister Simone Campbell | Bioneers Radio Series XVI (2016)

it@bioneers.org (Bioneers) — Mon, 13 Aug 2018 07:00:00 -0000

When we allow our hearts to be broken open by hearing the stories of our fellow human beings, we build community and compassion. That is the passionate message of Sister Simone Campbell, one of the most renowned figures in contemporary faith-based progressive activism. She and the other rebel Nuns on the Bus are touring the country, bridging divides, transforming politics and keeping the faith.

Millions of Elders: Biomimicry and How Nature Would Do It - Dr. Dayna Baumeister and Marle Zanowick | Bioneers 25th Anniversary Greatest Hits Series (2014)

it@bioneers.org (Bioneers) — Tue, 07 Aug 2018 18:00:00 -0000

Biomimicry is decoding astonishing treasures from nature’s recipe book that we can mimic for our technological and industrial practices. Biomimicry Guild co-founder Dr. Dayna Baumeister chronicles the latest biomimicry inventions and educational breakthroughs. The U.S. Government’s first certified biomimicry professional, Marie Zanowick , shows how biomimicry is influencing federal policy and actions.

Growing Collective Intelligence: Democratizing Technology and Citizen Science - Ben Knight and Shannon Dosemagen | Bioneers Radio Series XVI (2016)

it@bioneers.org (Bioneers) — Tue, 31 Jul 2018 07:00:00 -0000

We're a Culture, Not a Costume: Fighting Racism in Schools - Dahkota Brown, Chiitaanibah Johnson, Jayden Lim, and Naelyn Pike | Bioneers Radio Series 17 (2017)

it@bioneers.org (Bioneers) — Mon, 23 Jul 2018 07:00:00 -0000

Art As Social Change: Birthing the Dawn Of A New Day - Climbing PoeTree and John Densmore | Bioneers Radio Series XIV (2014)

it@bioneers.org (Bioneers) — Wed, 18 Jul 2018 18:00:00 -0000

“Art is not a mirror held up to reality, but a hammer with which to shape it.” - Bertolt Brecht John Densmore, legendary drummer of the Doors, joins visionary spoken word duo Climbing PoeTree in an exploration of creativity and social change. This episode of Bioneers Radio features exclusive interviews with the artists and a special Bioneers performance of Jim Morrison's poem, "American Prayer".

We’re All Chimps: Or Are Animals Persons Too? - Roger and Deborah Fouts | Bioneers Radio Series 16 (2016)

it@bioneers.org (Bioneers) — Sun, 08 Jul 2018 07:00:00 -0000

A Parade of Dwarves: Democratizing Wealth for a New Economy - Gar Alpervoitz and Ted Howard | Bioneers Radio Series XIII (2013)

it@bioneers.org (Bioneers) — Mon, 25 Jun 2018 07:00:00 -0000

How extreme is wealth disparity in the US? Imagine every person in the economy walks by, in order of income from low to high, with heights proportional to what people make. You’d see mostly a parade of dwarves, with some unbelievable giants at the very end. Political economist and historian Gar Alperovitz and social entrepreneur Ted Howard of the Democracy Collaborative depict breakthrough models for breaking this vicious cycle by democratizing wealth, ownership and access to capital.

Natures Phoenix: Fire As Medicine - Chad Hanson and Frank Kanawha Lake | Bioneers Radio Series 17 (2017)

it@bioneers.org (Bioneers) — Wed, 20 Jun 2018 07:00:00 -0000

Breaking the Male Code: The Tyranny of Masculinity - Eve Ensler, Tony Porter, Dallas Goldtooth and George Lipsitz | Bioneers Radio Series XVII (2017)

it@bioneers.org (Bioneers) — Wed, 13 Jun 2018 18:00:00 -0000

To transform our culture from its focus on dominance and hierarchy to one of connection, empathy and collaboration, it’s vital that we re-envision the essential (or archetypal) masculine, which changes everything. This rarely tackled topic is the subject of a deeply authentic dialogue among Playwright and activist Eve Ensler and three men working to change men and change the story: Tony Porter, co-founder, A Call To Men; Dallas Goldtooth, Indigenous activist, member of the 1491’s Native American comedy troupe; George Lipsitz, board president, African American Policy Forum.

Vice To Virtue: From Carbon Crisis to Carbon Farming - Calla Rose Ostrander and John Wick

it@bioneers.org (Bioneers) — Mon, 04 Jun 2018 08:00:00 -0000

How does a virtue become a vice? How does a basic building block of life turn into a threat to life? And how do you turn that vice back into a virtue? In this half-hour we visit with two unlikely pathfinders who are helping to revolutionize farming. Calla Rose Ostrander and John Wick of the Marin Carbon Project are taking carbon out of the atmosphere and putting it back where it belongs: in the soil. In so doing, they’re also revitalizing the soil, conserving water, and building agricultural resilience. Scaling up these revolutionary regenerative methods can offset the climate destabilization, which that threatens to confound agriculture and endanger our food supply.

Green-Collar Jobs: Laboring into the Next Economy - Manuel Pastor, Maria Elena Durzazo, and Rev. Alexia Salvatierra | Bioneers Radio Series VIII (2008)

it@bioneers.org (Bioneers) — Thu, 03 May 2018 18:00:00 -0000

Labor leader Cesar Chavez helped ban DDT. Truckers are helping address appalling asthma rates at the filthy port of Los Angeles. And inner-city clergy, not suburbanites, led the latest victory against the big-box Wal-Mart stores sprawling over community open space. Unlikely allies? Environmental justice and labor leaders Manuel Pastor, Maria Elena Durazo and Rev. Alexia Salvatierra show us that in a truly sustainable economy, everybody is an environmentalist-and a healthy environment depends on economic justice.

Equal Rights Amendment: Time's Up - Joan Blades, Kimberle Crenshaw and Jessica Neuwirth | Bioneers Radio Series XVII (2017)

it@bioneers.org (Bioneers) — Mon, 05 Mar 2018 07:00:00 -0000

Whale Whisperers: Making Deep Contact - James Nestor | Bioneers Radio Series XVII (2017)

it@bioneers.org (Bioneers) — Mon, 12 Feb 2018 07:00:00 -0000

In the late 20th century, a handful of scientists proved that aquatic mammals have advanced communication capabilities and a consciousness strikingly similar to humans. Author and adventurer James Nestor leads us on a deep dive into the mystery of marine mammal consciousness, and the story of how a small band of freedivers, pushing the limits of human endurance, is finding that saving the whales may become the story of the whales saving us.

Patriarchy: Thousands of Years Old But Only a Few Days Deep - Cynthia Brix and Will Keepin | Bioneers Radio Series 17 (2017)

it@bioneers.org (Bioneers) — Mon, 22 Jan 2018 07:00:00 -0000

Spirit in Action: Three Virtues for the 21st Century - Sister Simone Campbell | Bioneers Radio Series XVI (2016)

it@bioneers.org (Bioneers) — Wed, 03 Jan 2018 07:00:00 -0000

A Karmic Moment: Why Men Must Step Up Now to End Rape Culture - Eve Ensler | Bioneers Radio Series

it@bioneers.org (Bioneers) — Mon, 18 Dec 2017 07:00:00 -0000

In October 2016, before Trump was elected, Eve Ensler gave a visionary call at the Bioneers conference for men to put ending rape culture front and center in their lives and work. Candidate Trump, said Eve, is a phenomenon – something larger than the person - because he’s channeling the unprocessed darkness in the environment and swirling it into ever-greater darkness. He’s carrying our collective karma, and we can change that. Since then, serial scandals have continued to escalate until the dam burst with the Weinstein wake-up-call and the cultural tsunami of the #metoo movement. It’s a watershed moment, but little will actually change, says Eve, unless and until men step up to dismantle the patriarchy, transforming themselves in the process of ending this vicious system that destroys men’s souls as well. The gender wound may be the deepest social wound of all. At this epic moment of seismic cultural change, what we do now will determine the future for decades to come. This is the moment to begin healing the gender wound once and for all. Please let us know what Eve’s words mean to you. - Kenny Ausubel, Bioneers Co-Founder

The Path Home: Restoring Native Lands and Traditional Ecological Knowledge - Eriel Deranger, Valentin Lopez and Cara Romero | Bioneers Radio Series XVI (2016)

it@bioneers.org (Bioneers) — Mon, 04 Dec 2017 07:00:00 -0000

Backlash Moment: Converging at the Crossroads of Identity and Justice - Kimberlé Crenshaw | Bioneers Radio Series 17 (2017)

it@bioneers.org (Bioneers) — Mon, 13 Nov 2017 07:00:00 -0000

When Donald Trump rode a wave of white anxiety into the White House, it was part of a backlash to the Obama presidency, one that revealed an increasingly explicit white nationalism and revived an overtly exclusionary agenda: roll back rights and protections for people of color, immigrants, Muslims, women, and gay and transgender people. Then came the backlash to the backlash: a rapidly spreading awakening that all these peoples, movements and struggles are actually connected in one story. Visionary law professor and change-maker Kimberlé Crenshaw shows that it’s only at the crossroads of our many identities that will we will find a story big enough to embrace the diversity and complexity of our globalized 21st century world.

Wounds To Warriors: In the Wound Lies the Gift - Aqeela Sherrills, Ed Tick, and Eve Ensler | Bioneers Radio Series IX (2009)

it@bioneers.org (Bioneers) — Mon, 06 Nov 2017 18:00:00 -0000

Wounded warriors have walked through fire. They carry the scars forever, yet many have somehow managed to heal even the most horrific of their emotional wounds. Rather than turning away from those unimaginable traumas of war, abuse and violence, what can we learn from looking respectfully at their wounds? Our veterans and other survivors are on a transformational, ethical, and spiritual journey. Aqeela Sherrills, Ed Tick, and Eve Ensler share their inspiring stories to help us discover how we might keep the peace.

Ecstatic Revolt: The New Mythos of Eve - Eve Ensler | Bioneers Radio Series XV (2015)

it@bioneers.org (Bioneers) — Wed, 01 Nov 2017 18:00:00 -0000

As the creation story of Judeo-Christian beliefs, the biblical recounting of Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden has long had profound influence around the world. So what’s it like to be named Eve? World-renowned playwright and activist Eve Ensler explores her own personal journey into her namesake. The provocative author of “The Vagina Monologues” and founder of V-Day to end violence against women suggests there’s another story beneath the traditional story. For her, it’s both very personal – and very political.

3-D Ocean Farming: Making a Living on a Living Planet - Bren Smith | Bioneers Radio Series XVII (2017)

it@bioneers.org (Bioneers) — Mon, 16 Oct 2017 18:00:00 -0000

What if there are ways to sustainably harvest protein and nutritious vegetables from the seas in ways that restore coastlines, local economies, produces abundant food, and sequesters vast amounts of carbon dioxide? Pathfinding ocean farmer Bren Smith has cultivated a breakthrough method of near-shore aquaculture called 3-D Ocean Farming, which has the potential to transform our relationship with the ocean, make room again for the flourishing wild diversity of ocean animals, and launch a novel, delicious and authentically sustainable cuisine along with way.

Mending the Earth: One Team and Everybody Wins - Tom Goldtooth, Anishnabe Winona LaDuke, Ilarion Merculief and The White Buffalo Souldier | Bioneers Radio Series XIV (2014)

it@bioneers.org (Bioneers) — Mon, 09 Oct 2017 18:00:00 -0000

The way we see the world creates the world. If a new way of seeing is needed, what might that look like? Indigenous leaders Dakota-Dine Tom Goldtooth, Anishnabe Winona LaDuke, Aleut Ilarion Merculief and The White Buffalo Souldiers conjure a new paradigm that begins with a change of heart.

Not Fate But Choice: Reinventing Fire for the Clean Energy Era - Amory Lovins | Bioneers Radio Series XII (2012)

it@bioneers.org (Bioneers) — Mon, 02 Oct 2017 07:00:00 -0000

Reinventing Fire for the Clean Energy Era - The internationally acclaimed energy and design strategist Amory Lovins shows how by 2050 we can run our energy system with no oil, coal or nuclear power. He says we can achieve that vision with clean energy and energy conservation, led by business, without an act of Congress or any new inventions. By making this transition, we can save more than $5 trillion and double the size of the US economy.

Real Change: The Political Gets Personal - Danny Glover and Phaedra Ellis-Lamkins | Bioneers Radio Series XIV (2014)

it@bioneers.org (Bioneers) — Mon, 25 Sep 2017 18:00:00 -0000

Natures Phoenix: Fire As Medicine - Chad Hanson and Frank Kanawha Lake | Bioneers Radio Series XVII (2017)

it@bioneers.org (Bioneers) — Mon, 18 Sep 2017 07:00:00 -0000

Welcome the Water: Climate-Proofing for Resilience - Henk Ovink | Bioneers Radio Series XVI (2016)

it@bioneers.org (Bioneers) — Mon, 11 Sep 2017 07:00:00 -0000

In the face of global climate disruption, two billion people worldwide will be challenged by too much water, and nearly another two billion by not enough. When you fight nature, you lose, says Dutch water wizard and designer Henk Ovink. He’s dramatically demonstrating on large scales how to shift our relationship to nature and to culture - and climate-proof our cities and coasts.

Power Struggle: The Unstoppable Rise of the Clean Energy Era - Danny Kennedy | Bioneers Radio Series XVII (2017)

it@bioneers.org (Bioneers) — Mon, 14 Aug 2017 07:00:00 -0000

Today in the fossil fuel-induced age of escalating climate disruption, the joker in the deck is the climate imperative to transition rapidly off fossil fuels worldwide. Clean energy has reached the proverbial tipping point - and the smart money is hot on the trail of the clean energy revolution. Entrepreneur and visionary change-maker Danny Kennedy says clean energy not only makes dollars, it makes sense, and this literal power struggle could take us from energy monopoly to energy democracy.

In Pursuit of Happiness: Becoming Beloved Community - John A. Powell and Grace Bauer | Bioneers Radio Series XIII (2013)

it@bioneers.org (Bioneers) — Mon, 07 Aug 2017 07:00:00 -0000

The Path Home: Restoring Native Lands and Traditional Ecological Knowledge - Eriel Deranger, Valentin Lopez and Cara Romero | Bioneers Radio Series XVI (2016)

it@bioneers.org (Bioneers) — Mon, 24 Jul 2017 07:00:00 -0000

Breaking the Male Code: The Tyranny of Masculinity - Eve Ensler, Tony Porter, Dallas Goldtooth and George Lipsitz | Bioneers Radio Series XVII (2017)

it@bioneers.org (Bioneers) — Mon, 17 Jul 2017 18:00:00 -0000

To transform our culture from its focus on dominance and hierarchy to one of connection, empathy and collaboration, it’s vital that we re-envision the essential (or archetypal) masculine, which changes everything. This rarely tackled topic is the subject of a deeply authentic dialogue among Playwright and activist Eve Ensler and three men working to change men and change the story: Tony Porter, co-founder, A Call To Men; Dallas Goldtooth, Indigenous activist, member of the 1491’s Native American comedy troupe; George Lipsitz, board president, African American Policy Forum.

Good Jobs, Clean Environment: Both or Neither - Roxanne Brown and Charlotte Brody | Bioneers Radio Series XII (2012)

it@bioneers.org (Bioneers) — Mon, 19 Jun 2017 07:00:00 -0000

Both or Neither - The emerging green economy promises to provide large-scale job creation while healing the Earth and building the middle class. Roxanne Brown, Assistant Legislative Director for the United Steelworkers and Steering Committee member of the BlueGreen Alliance, describes how this national partnership of major labor unions and environmental organizations is expanding the number and quality of jobs in the green economy. BlueGreen Alliance Director of Chemicals, Public Health and Green Chemistry Charlotte Brody portrays the real-time societal transformation underway when workers and environmentalists find common ground and also honestly acknowledge their differences.

Whale Whisperers: Making Deep Contact - James Nestor | Bioneers Radio Series XVII (2017)

it@bioneers.org (Bioneers) — Mon, 05 Jun 2017 07:00:00 -0000

In the late 20th century, a handful of scientists proved that aquatic mammals have advanced communication capabilities and a consciousness strikingly similar to humans. Author and adventurer James Nestor leads us on a deep dive into the mystery of marine mammal consciousness, and the story of how a small band of freedivers, pushing the limits of human endurance, is finding that saving the whales may become the story of the whales saving us.

Growing Collective Intelligence: Democratizing Technology and Citizen Science - Ben Knight and Shannon Dosemagen | Bioneers Radio Series XVI (2016)

it@bioneers.org (Bioneers) — Mon, 29 May 2017 07:00:00 -0000

Shamans and Scientists: Changing the Landscape of Power - Mark Plotkin | Bioneers Radio Series 17 (2017)

it@bioneers.org (Bioneers) — Mon, 22 May 2017 07:00:00 -0000

As we hurtle into the Sixth Age of Extinctions, we face the cataclysmic loss of half the world’s biological diversity. 80% of the remaining biodiversity is on Indigenous lands. Ethnobotanist and Indigenous rights advocate Mark Plotkin of the Amazon Conservation Team tells us how scientists are helping protect the people who will protect the land, and the age-old wisdom that’s imperative for our future.

Nourishing the Future: Creating a Just and Healthy Food System for All - Malik Kenyatta Yakini, Oran Hesterman and Cathryn Couch | Bioneers Radio Series XVI (2016)

it@bioneers.org (Bioneers) — Mon, 15 May 2017 07:00:00 -0000

Raced and Classed: The Journey From Diversity to Equity - Rinku Sen, Saru Jarayaman and Malkia Cyril | Bioneers Radio Series XVI (2016)

it@bioneers.org (Bioneers) — Mon, 08 May 2017 07:00:00 -0000

Climate Health, Your Health: Prevention Is Protection - Dr. Linda Rudolph and Dr. Barbara Sattler | Bioneers Radio Series XVI (2016)

it@bioneers.org (Bioneers) — Mon, 01 May 2017 07:00:00 -0000

Welcome the Water: Climate-Proofing for Resilience - Henk Ovink | Bioneers Radio Series XVI (2016)

it@bioneers.org (Bioneers) — Mon, 24 Apr 2017 07:00:00 -0000

In the face of global climate disruption, two billion people worldwide will be challenged by too much water, and nearly another two billion by not enough. When you fight nature, you lose, says Dutch water wizard and designer Henk Ovink. He’s dramatically demonstrating on large scales how to shift our relationship to nature and to culture - and climate-proof our cities and coasts.

Hanging On: Treetop Truths in Disruptive Times - Nalini Nadkarni | Bioneers Radio Series XIV (2014)

it@bioneers.org (Bioneers) — Wed, 19 Apr 2017 18:00:00 -0000

Wounds To Warriors: In the Wound Lies the Gift - Aqeela Sherrills, Ed Tick, and Eve Ensler | Bioneers Radio Series IX (2009)

it@bioneers.org (Bioneers) — Mon, 10 Apr 2017 18:00:00 -0000

Cultural Mindshift: Full Spectrum Sustainability and Resilience - Timothy Burroughs, David W.Orr, and Tom Van Dyck | Bioneers Radio Series XVI (2016)

it@bioneers.org (Bioneers) — Mon, 03 Apr 2017 07:00:00 -0000

Climate is the trip wire for every other foundational ecological and biological system – as well as the basis for human civilization. As we face the long climate emergency, fortunately, skillful pathfinders are banding together to transform our ways of living and bring resilience from the ground up into widespread practice. With Berkeley’s Chief Resilience Officer, Timothy Burroughs, Professor David W. Orr, and financial adviser Tom Van Dyck.

Good Chemistry: Survival of the Most Compatible - John Warner | Bioneers Radio Series XV (2015)

it@bioneers.org (Bioneers) — Mon, 27 Mar 2017 18:00:00 -0000

Swimming Our Talk: Blue Mind, Ocean Heart - Wallace J. Nichols, Philippe and Alexandra Cousteau, and the Truckee High School Enviro-lution Club | Bioneers Radio Series XII (2012)

it@bioneers.org (Bioneers) — Wed, 01 Mar 2017 07:00:00 -0000

Blue Mind, Ocean Heart - Illuminating the magical underwater world, Jacques Cousteaus 1960s films and TV show caused a sea change by moving the hearts and minds of tens of millions. Marine biologist Wallace J. Nichols, ocean advocates Philippe and Alexandra Cousteau, and the Truckee High School Envirolution Club are among the rising tides of passionate innovators making remarkable advances to understand and restore the waters of the world. Their inspiring stories give good reason for hope, including the scientific fact that we have a blue mind born in and of the ocean to guide us.

Church Without a Roof: Keeping the Faith with Creation Care - Fletcher Harper, Sally Bingham, and G.L. Hodge | Bioneers Radio Series XIII (2013)

it@bioneers.org (Bioneers) — Wed, 22 Feb 2017 07:00:00 -0000

The Marriage of the Sun and Moon: The Truth and Reconciliation of Gender - Pat McCabe, Cynthia Brix, Will Keepin and Pele Rouge | Bioneers Radio Series XIV (2014)

it@bioneers.org (Bioneers) — Wed, 08 Feb 2017 18:00:00 -0000

The Sophia Century: When Women Come Into Co-Equal Partnership - Osprey Orielle-Lake, Leila Salazar, and Lynne Twist | Bioneers Radio Series XIV (2014)

it@bioneers.org (Bioneers) — Wed, 01 Feb 2017 18:00:00 -0000

100% Renewables: Late and Fast - Billy Parish and Marco Krapels | Bioneers Radio Series XIV (2014)

it@bioneers.org (Bioneers) — Wed, 18 Jan 2017 16:00:00 -0000

Governments and businesses are recognizing climate chaos as the threat multiplier from hell. The answer is not business as usual. How about crowdfunding and democratizing investment in clean energy? Young change-maker turned clean energy entrepreneur Billy Parish, founder of Mosaic, and banker Marco Krapels, co-founder of The Solutions Project, say 100% renewable energy is both possible and imperative.

Regeneration: Wisdom of the Wild, Generosity of the Heart - Paul Hawken | Bioneers 25th Anniversary Greatest Hits Series (2014)

it@bioneers.org (Bioneers) — Wed, 04 Jan 2017 18:00:00 -0000

“For the first time in history, a civilization - its people, companies and governments - is trying to arrest the downspin and understand how to live on Earth, a watershed in human existence.” Globally renowned social entrepreneur and author Paul Hawken eloquently portrays how we will win a sustainable future by losing the delusion we’re here on Earth for only ourselves.

Where Angels Fear to Tread: Making Art that Heals the Broken Places - Lily Yeh | Bioneers Radio Series X (2010)

it@bioneers.org (Bioneers) — Tue, 27 Dec 2016 16:00:00 -0000

How do we transform a vicious circle into a virtuous circle? How do we move from environmental degradation and the deterioration of human relations to restoration? From war to peace - from hatred to compassion - from isolation to community? How can one person make a crucial difference? Painter and professor Lily Yehs approach to community healing takes that which is broken and creates something whole and wholly new and beautiful through public art. From Philadelphia to Rwanda, broken places are her canvases. Peoples stories are the pigments. Peoples talents and creativity are the tools. At the heart of her work is the transformation of human heart.

Making Tomorrow Today: The Power of Youth - Jessica Rimington, Rhummanee Hang, Thenmozhi Soundararajan, Manuel Francisco, Caleb Ryen, Amalia Anderson and Lily Dong

it@bioneers.org (Bioneers) — Wed, 14 Dec 2016 18:00:00 -0000

Dynamic young people are surmounting considerable social and economic obstacles by following their dreams to create a better world. Jessica Rimington, Rhummanee Hang, Thenmozhi Soundararajan, Manuel Francisco, Caleb Ryen, Amalia Anderson and Lily Dong are enlivening the horizon of positive possibilities with grace, courage and boundless creativity. They’ll settle for nothing less than justice, cultural preservation and the defense of wild lands.

Escaping Control: Linking Gender, Social Movements and Democracy - Gloria Steinem | Bioneers 25th Anniversary Greatest Hits Series (2014)

it@bioneers.org (Bioneers) — Wed, 07 Dec 2016 18:00:00 -0000

Mending the Earth: One Team and Everybody Wins - Tom Goldtooth, Anishnabe Winona LaDuke, Ilarion Merculief and The White Buffalo Souldier | Bioneers Radio Series XIV (2014)

it@bioneers.org (Bioneers) — Wed, 23 Nov 2016 18:00:00 -0000

A Parade of Dwarves: Democratizing Wealth for a New Economy - Gar Alpervoitz and Ted Howard | Bioneers Radio Series XIII (2013)

it@bioneers.org (Bioneers) — Wed, 09 Nov 2016 07:00:00 -0000

How Close Does It Have to Get? The Open Space of Democracy - Terry Tempest Williams | Bioneers Radio Series VI (2006)

it@bioneers.org (Bioneers) — Wed, 02 Nov 2016 18:00:00 -0000

Celebrated author Terry Tempest Williams elegantly blends language with landscape and regales the audience with deeply personal stories of transformation, both personal and political. She challenges us to bypass political rhetoric and opt for a deeper conversation about democracy. For her, the test of true patriotism is not what we are willing to die for, but what we are willing to give our lives to.

Real Change: The Political Gets Personal - Danny Glover and Phaedra Ellis-Lamkins | Bioneers Radio Series XIV (2014)

it@bioneers.org (Bioneers) — Wed, 26 Oct 2016 18:00:00 -0000

Taking a Breath: Healing the Inner Environment - Dr. James Gordon | Bioneers Radio Series XIV (2014)

it@bioneers.org (Bioneers) — Wed, 19 Oct 2016 18:00:00 -0000

Art As Social Change: Birthing the Dawn Of A New Day - Climbing PoeTree and John Densmore | Bioneers Radio Series XIV (2014)

it@bioneers.org (Bioneers) — Wed, 12 Oct 2016 18:00:00 -0000

Indigenous Peace Technologies: The Ancient Art of Getting Along - Jeannette Armstrong, Marlowe Sam, Evan Pritchard, Kxao=Oma and Megan Biesele | Bioneers Radio Series VII (2007)

it@bioneers.org (Bioneers) — Wed, 05 Oct 2016 07:00:00 -0000

Growing Collective Intelligence: Democratizing Technology and Citizen Science - Ben Knight and Shannon Dosemagen | Bioneers Radio Series XVI (2016)

it@bioneers.org (Bioneers) — Wed, 28 Sep 2016 07:00:00 -0000

Nourishing the Future: Creating a Just and Healthy Food System for All - Malik Kenyatta Yakini, Oran Hesterman and Cathryn Couch | Bioneers Radio Series XVI (2016)

it@bioneers.org (Bioneers) — Wed, 21 Sep 2016 07:00:00 -0000

The Path Home: Restoring Native Lands and Traditional Ecological Knowledge - Eriel Deranger, Valentin Lopez and Cara Romero | Bioneers Radio Series XVI (2016)

it@bioneers.org (Bioneers) — Wed, 14 Sep 2016 07:00:00 -0000

Fire in the Belly: Women Leading Social Change - Pennie Opal Plant, Colette Pichon Battle and Adrianna Quintero | Bioneers Radio Series XVI (2016)

it@bioneers.org (Bioneers) — Wed, 07 Sep 2016 07:00:00 -0000

Harm to one is harm to all—and prevention is a question of human survival. From oil refinery accidents in California to the aftermath of the BP oil disaster in the Gulf South, leaders Pennie Opal Plant and Colette Pichon Battle are on the frontlines, organizing their communities to stop the harms of the extraction economy and climate disruption. Activist-attorney Adrianna Quintero is making sure the voices of those most affected are heard helping awaken the “sleeping giant” of Latino voters.

Restorative Justice: From Harm to Healing - Fania Davis and Cameron Simmons | Bioneers Radio Series XVI (2016)

it@bioneers.org (Bioneers) — Wed, 31 Aug 2016 07:00:00 -0000

Oakland, California, has had the reputation of being one of the most dangerous cities in the country. Then the Restorative Justice movement started boldly showing how quickly that reputation can be turned around by arresting the cycle of youth violence and incarceration early: in schools and juvenile justice policies. With: Restorative Justice leaders Fania Davis and Cameron Simmons.

Spirit in the Air: Reform, Revolution and Regeneration - Tom Hayden | Bioneers Radio Series XVI (2016)

it@bioneers.org (Bioneers) — Wed, 24 Aug 2016 07:00:00 -0000

Cultural Mindshift: Full Spectrum Sustainability and Resilience - Timothy Burroughs, David W.Orr, and Tom Van Dyck | Bioneers Radio Series XVI (2016)

it@bioneers.org (Bioneers) — Wed, 17 Aug 2016 07:00:00 -0000

Climate is the trip wire for every other foundational ecological and biological system – as well as the basis for human civilization. As we face the long climate emergency, fortunately, skillful pathfinders are banding together to transform our ways of living and bring resilience from the ground up into widespread practice. With Berkeley’s Chief Resilience Officer, Timothy Burroughs, Professor David W. Orr, and financial adviser Tom Van Dyck.

Climate Health, Your Health: Prevention Is Protection - Dr. Linda Rudolph and Dr. Barbara Sattler | Bioneers Radio Series XVI (2016)

it@bioneers.org (Bioneers) — Wed, 10 Aug 2016 07:00:00 -0000

Spirit in Action: Three Virtues for the 21st Century - Sister Simone Campbell | Bioneers Radio Series XVI (2016)

it@bioneers.org (Bioneers) — Wed, 03 Aug 2016 07:00:00 -0000

Raced and Classed: The Journey From Diversity to Equity - Rinku Sen, Saru Jarayaman and Malkia Cyril | Bioneers Radio Series XVI (2016)

it@bioneers.org (Bioneers) — Wed, 27 Jul 2016 07:00:00 -0000

Welcome the Water: Climate-Proofing for Resilience - Henk Ovink | Bioneers Radio Series XVI (2016)

it@bioneers.org (Bioneers) — Wed, 20 Jul 2016 07:00:00 -0000

In the face of global climate disruption, two billion people worldwide will be challenged by too much water, and nearly another two billion by not enough. When you fight nature, you lose, says Dutch water wizard and designer Henk Ovink. He’s dramatically demonstrating on large scales how to shift our relationship to nature and to culture - and climate-proof our cities and coasts.

We’re All Chimps: Or Are Animals Persons Too? - Roger and Deborah Fouts | Bioneers Radio Series XVI (2016)

it@bioneers.org (Bioneers) — Wed, 13 Jul 2016 07:00:00 -0000

From Slavery to Stardust: What Would Healing Look Like? - Thomas DeWolf, Belvie Rooks, and Dedan Gills | Bioneers 25th Anniversary Greatest Hits Series (2014)

it@bioneers.org (Bioneers) — Mon, 25 Apr 2016 18:00:00 -0000

Education for Action: Reinventing Everything - David Orr, Anthony Cortese and Jess Rimington | Bioneers Radio Series XI (2011)

it@bioneers.org (Bioneers) — Mon, 18 Apr 2016 07:00:00 -0000

Reinventing Everything. Perhaps the single greatest systems error of human civilization is the illusion that people are somehow separate from nature not subject to the ground rules for the rest of the web of life. As a result, were getting an environmental education the hard way -- because when you fight nature, you lose. Join ecoliteracy leaders David Orr and Dr. Anthony Cortese and young educational social entrepreneur Jess Rimington for an inspiring teach-in on how educators and students are creating a living curriculum for an engaged society thats solving problems while studying them.

Molecular Psychology: Good Chemistry with Nature's Green Chemistry - John Warner and Amy Cannon | Bioneers Radio Series XI (2011)

it@bioneers.org (Bioneers) — Mon, 11 Apr 2016 17:00:00 -0000

Good Chemistry with Natures Green Chemistry. Did you ever ask yourself who in their right mind would invent a convenience to keep food fresh that would one day litter the landscape, wash up on every beach around the world and release toxic substances into the web of life and your body long after its short disposable life? Master green chemists and educators John Warner and Amy Cannon say all that is changing -- by necessity and by design. The radical growth of green chemistry is showing we can have good chemistry with the Earth by emulating natures green chemistry and do good business at the same time.

Inalienable: Belonging to the Earth Community - Joanna Macy | Bioneers Radio Series XIV (2014)

it@bioneers.org (Bioneers) — Mon, 04 Apr 2016 18:00:00 -0000

Deep Ecology extends an inalienable right to life to all beings. Yet as the naturalist Aldo Leopold observed, “One of the penalties of an ecological education is that one lives alone in a world of wounds.” Either harden your shell, or be a doctor. Joanna Macy decided to be an Earth doctor. A systems theorist, author and lifelong activist, she describes how healing the world and healing your heart and soul go hand in hand.

Is Nothing Sacred? A Spiritual Response to the Ecological Crisis - Dekila Chungyalpa | Bioneers Radio Series XIV (2014)

it@bioneers.org (Bioneers) — Mon, 28 Mar 2016 18:00:00 -0000

Art As Social Change: Birthing the Dawn Of A New Day - Climbing PoeTree and John Densmore | Bioneers Radio Series XIV (2014)

it@bioneers.org (Bioneers) — Mon, 21 Mar 2016 18:00:00 -0000

The Marriage of the Sun and Moon: The Truth and Reconciliation of Gender - Pat McCabe, Cynthia Brix, Will Keepin and Pele Rouge | Bioneers Radio Series XIV (2014)

it@bioneers.org (Bioneers) — Mon, 14 Mar 2016 18:00:00 -0000

Sharkskin, Hippo Sweat and the Wood-Wide Web: From Flat Earth to Whole Earth Thinking - Janine Benyus and Jay Harman | Bioneers Radio Series XIV (2014)

it@bioneers.org (Bioneers) — Mon, 07 Mar 2016 18:00:00 -0000

Cosmomimicry: We’re The Universe Mattering - David McConville | Bioneers Radio Series XIV (2014)

it@bioneers.org (Bioneers) — Mon, 29 Feb 2016 18:00:00 -0000

“If success or failure of this planet and of human beings depended on how I am and what I do, then how would I be and what would I do?” asked visionary designer Buckminster Fuller. Buckminster Fuller Institute Board President David McConville says our view of the universe profoundly shapes our future as a species, and it’s changing radically.

Mending the Earth: One Team and Everybody Wins - Tom Goldtooth, Anishnabe Winona LaDuke, Ilarion Merculief and The White Buffalo Souldier | Bioneers Radio Series XIV (2014)

it@bioneers.org (Bioneers) — Mon, 22 Feb 2016 18:00:00 -0000

Shapeshifting Detroit: Overcoming Drive-By Economics - Malik Kenyatta Yakini, Lottie Spady and Sister Gloria Rivera | Bioneers Radio Series XIV (2014)

it@bioneers.org (Bioneers) — Mon, 15 Feb 2016 18:00:00 -0000

The citizens of Detroit are challenging the failed policies that have long favored corporate wealth over the well being of city residents. Leading change-makers Malik Kenyatta Yakini, Lottie Spady and Sister Gloria Rivera are seeding community resilience with one of the most robust urban agricultural movements in the U.S., while contradicting the manipulative media narratives that justify oppression.

Don’t Fence Me In: Linked Landscapes, Citizen Science And Wild Nature - Justin Brashares And Mary Ellen Hannibal | Bioneers Radio Series XIV (2014)

it@bioneers.org (Bioneers) — Mon, 08 Feb 2016 18:00:00 -0000

The Sophia Century: When Women Come Into Co-Equal Partnership - Osprey Orielle-Lake, Leila Salazar, and Lynne Twist | Bioneers Radio Series XIV (2014)

it@bioneers.org (Bioneers) — Mon, 01 Feb 2016 18:00:00 -0000

100% Renewables: Late and Fast - Billy Parish and Marco Krapels | Bioneers Radio Series XIV (2014)

it@bioneers.org (Bioneers) — Mon, 25 Jan 2016 16:00:00 -0000

Real Change: The Political Gets Personal - Danny Glover and Phaedra Ellis-Lamkins | Bioneers Radio Series XIV (2014)

it@bioneers.org (Bioneers) — Mon, 18 Jan 2016 18:00:00 -0000

Where Angels Fear to Tread: Making Art that Heals the Broken Places - Lily Yeh | Bioneers Radio Series X (2010)

it@bioneers.org (Bioneers) — Mon, 04 Jan 2016 16:00:00 -0000

How do we transform a vicious circle into a virtuous circle? How do we move from environmental degradation and the deterioration of human relations to restoration? From war to peace - from hatred to compassion - from isolation to community? How can one person make a crucial difference? Painter and professor Lily Yehs approach to community healing takes that which is broken and creates something whole and wholly new and beautiful through public art. From Philadelphia to Rwanda, broken places are her canvases. Peoples stories are the pigments. Peoples talents and creativity are the tools. At the heart of her work is the transformation of human heart.

From Bows and Arrows to Laptops: Marrying Traditional Knowledge with Web Technology to Save the Amazon - Chief Almir Narayamago Surui and Rebecca Moore | Bioneers Radio Series X (2010)

it@bioneers.org (Bioneers) — Mon, 28 Dec 2015 17:00:00 -0000

Forty years ago when a logging road was blasted deep into the heart of the Brazilian Amazon, the outside world discovered the Surui people. Contact with the Western world led to their decimation by disease, warfare and illegal logging and mining. The Surui organized to save themselves and their homeland by electing a young leader to tell their story to the world. Chief Almir Narayamoga Surui traveled from the Amazon rainforest to the Google-plex to ask for help to bring his people back from the brink of extinction and save their precious rainforest. The collaboration with Google Earth Outreach manager Rebecca Moore has helped map a next world that marries the best of tradition and conservation with the best of high technology. Translation by Vasco van Roosmalen.

Busting the Drug War: The Dawn of Drug Policy Reform - Ethan Nadelmann | Bioneers Radio Series X (2010)

it@bioneers.org (Bioneers) — Mon, 21 Dec 2015 14:00:00 -0000

Ethan Nadelmann, founder/director of the Drug Policy Alliance, the nation’s leading drug policy reform organization, traces the hidden history of drugs laws, which are intimately connected with racism and the political exploitation of people’s fears. He offers a set of practical and effective policy reforms that are now being advocated by a rising tide of former drug warriors.

From Soap Operas to Avatars: Digital Diplomacy and Making Fiction into Fact - William Ryerson, Joshua S. Fouts and Rita J. King | Bioneers Radio Series X (2010)

it@bioneers.org (Bioneers) — Mon, 07 Dec 2015 17:00:00 -0000

A popular character on a Spanish-language soap opera resonates so deeply with viewers that they become empowered and educated about reproductive health. Avatars in the virtual world called Second Life enable people of all faiths to better understand and respect Islamic culture. A global communications network crosses the digital divide to help women around the world share solutions for improving everyday life. Digital and media entrepreneurs Jensine Larsen and William Ryerson effectively use innovative media for social change. Digital citizen diplomats Joshua S. Fouts and Rita J. King design virtual games that help foster vibrant community and culture in the physical world. Theyre all demonstrating the game-changing power of technology to change the world for the better.

Reinhabit, Rehydrate, Regenerate: Permaculture Designs for an Enduring Planet - Darren Doherty and Brock Dolman | Bioneers Radio Series X (2010)

it@bioneers.org (Bioneers) — Mon, 30 Nov 2015 18:00:00 -0000

Half of Americans cannot name one component of the water cycle upon which all life depends. Yet water is at the root of every human endeavor - from manufacturing to agriculture, energy production and waste management. No water, no life. Join master permaculture designers Darren J. Doherty and Brock Dolman for both practical and poetic ways to re-educate earthlings in soil and water literacy. Their practical vision for regenerating ecological integrity and social resiliency prepares us for the challenges of climate change and environmental stress. But above all, they illuminate inspired pathways for restoring nature and people in the re-enchantment of Earth.

Planting Buildings: The Living Building Challenge - Jason McLennan | Bioneers Radio Series X (2010)

it@bioneers.org (Bioneers) — Mon, 23 Nov 2015 18:00:00 -0000

A living building is like a flower, planted and rooted to its place. It collects its energy from the sun. It harvests its water from the rain. This building does not pollute. It engages actively with the environmental around it. And its beautiful and inspiring. This is natures blueprint for building a better world, says visionary architect Jason McLennan. He designed the Living Building Challenge 2.0 to raise the bar on green building: meet or exceed what nature provides. While the standards seem impossibly high, it may be simpler than we imagined.

Generation Green: Fulfilling the Promise of Jobs and Justice - Jerome Ringo and Billy Parish | Bioneers Radio Series X (2010)

it@bioneers.org (Bioneers) — Mon, 16 Nov 2015 07:00:00 -0000

Climate change. Energy crisis. Economic collapse. We live in a time of unprecedented global crisisand opportunity. Theres a monumental amount of work to be done to make the transition to a restored world, yet young people are unemployed at astonishingly high rates. How can we unlock the green economic opportunities that will open the door to doing well by doing good for generation green and generations to come?Join Apollo Alliance president Jerome Ringo and clean energy leader Billy Parish for a hopeful glimpse into the organizations and programs that will give our children the opportunity to make a living and make a better world.

Earth Justice: Corporate Rights vs. The Rights of Nature - Thomas Linzey and Mari Margil | Bioneers 25th Anniversary Greatest Hits Series (2014)

it@bioneers.org (Bioneers) — Mon, 09 Nov 2015 18:00:00 -0000

Sisters in Spirit: Women Transforming the World - Jensine Larsen and Sally Roesch Wagner | Bioneers Radio Series X (2010)

it@bioneers.org (Bioneers) — Mon, 02 Nov 2015 18:00:00 -0000

History is a tale told by the winners. How then can we reclaim the voices of those who have been historically written out - silenced through the ages? Perhaps as women write herstory into history, well see clearly the eternal power, brilliance and unique value of womens contributions. Join media innovator Jensine Larsen and feminist historian Sally Roesch Wagner as they share the emerging landscape of an inclusive, sustainable and just society at whose heart is the leadership of women.

Why the World Doesn't End: Recreation Myths of Nature and Culture - Michael Meade | Bioneers Radio Series X (2010)

it@bioneers.org (Bioneers) — Mon, 26 Oct 2015 18:00:00 -0000

Becoming a Habitat: Motherhood, Faith and the Environmental Human Rights Movement - Sandra Steingraber | Bioneers Radio Series X (2010)

it@bioneers.org (Bioneers) — Mon, 19 Oct 2015 18:00:00 -0000

We live in a society dependent on toxic chemicals. Today about 287 such chemicals trespass inside the blood of newborns and inside all of us without our consent. Despite the odds, ecologist, author and mother Sandra Steingraber is an optimist. She’s betting that the burgeoning global environmental human rights movement will free us from our deadly dependency. She believes our grandchildren will look back on us and marvel that our economy was once dependent on toxic chemicals and they will think of it as unthinkable

Going Locavore: Urban Food Innovation and Community Transformation - Michael Pollan, James Ella James and Victoria Carter | Bioneers Radio Series X (2010)

it@bioneers.org (Bioneers) — Mon, 12 Oct 2015 18:00:00 -0000

Our misbegotten industrial food system is one of our greatest vulnerabilities. It's dangerously fossil-fueled, toxic, monocultural and centralized. The real cost of cheap food is very high to both people and planet. Urban food innovators are designing vibrant new local food economies built on environmental and ecological integrity, sustalnability, diversity and equity. Join author Michael Pollan, Fair Food Foundation CEO Oran Hesterman, faith-based change-maker James Ella James and student leader Victoria Carter for a smorgasbord of nourishing morsels from the emerging locavore movement.

Ecstatic Revolt: The New Mythos of Eve - Eve Ensler | Bioneers Radio Series XV (2015)

it@bioneers.org (Bioneers) — Mon, 05 Oct 2015 18:00:00 -0000

As the creation story of Judeo-Christian beliefs, the biblical recounting of Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden has long had profound influence around the world. So what’s it like to be named Eve? World-renowned playwright and activist Eve Ensler explores her own personal journey into her namesake. The provocative author of “The Vagina Monologues” and founder of V-Day to end violence against women suggests there’s another story beneath the traditional story. For her, it’s both very personal – and very political.

Youth Solutionaries: Future Present - De’Anthony Jones, Chloe Maxmin and Xiuhtezcatl Martinez | Bioneers Radio Series XV (2015)

it@bioneers.org (Bioneers) — Mon, 21 Sep 2015 18:00:00 -0000

Youth movements are rising to restore people and planet. De’Anthony Jones, a former President of the Environmental Students Organization at Sacramento State, Chloe Maxmin, co-founder of Divest Harvard, and Xiuhtezcatl Martinez, hip-hop artist and Youth Director of Earth Guardians, say there’s no better time to be born than now because this generation gets to rewrite history. It could be known as the generation that brought forth a healthy, just, sustainable world for every generation to come.

Archetypes in Every Woman: Renaissance of the Feminine - Jean Shinoda Bolen, Luisah Teish, and Sri Swamini Svatmavidyananda | Bioneers Radio Series XV (2015)

it@bioneers.org (Bioneers) — Mon, 10 Aug 2015 18:00:00 -0000

Archetypal stories guide our lives in profound and largely unconscious ways. Through reframing classic mythologies, we explore the resurgence of the archetypal feminine and its relationship to nature through a multi-cultural lens, with Jean Shinoda Bolen, author and Jungian therapist; Luisah Teish, author and priestess in the Ifa Orisha tradition; Sri Swamini Svatmavidyananda, teacher of Hindu Vedanta philosophy.

They Don't Call Her Mother Earth for Nothing: Women Re-imagining the World - Alice Walker, Jean Shinoda Bolen, Nina Simons, Sarah Crowell, Joanna Macy and Akaya Windwood | Bioneers Radio Series IX (2009)

it@bioneers.org (Bioneers) — Mon, 13 Jul 2015 18:00:00 -0000

Game-Changing Climate Leadership: What Happens In California Doesn’t Stay in California - Tom Hayden, Vien Truong and Wade Crowfoot | Bioneers Radio Series XV (2015)

it@bioneers.org (Bioneers) — Mon, 13 Jul 2015 18:00:00 -0000

As the world’s eighth largest economy, California is emerging as the potential game-changer for global climate leadership. Using strategic alliances and smart policies that integrate ecology, economy and justice, these climate leaders show how: Tom Hayden, lifelong activist and former California State Senator; Vien Truong, Environmental Equity Director, Greenlining Institute; Wade Crowfoot, Senior Advisor to Gov. Jerry Brown.

Climbing Mt. Sustainability: Doing Well by Doing Good in the New Ecology of Business - Ray Anderson | Bioneers Radio Series IX (2009)

it@bioneers.org (Bioneers) — Mon, 06 Jul 2015 18:00:00 -0000

A handful of global business leaders are blazing trails to a biologically based "eco-nomics." They are fundamentally recalculating core assumptions to allow business to make good returns killing the planet. Ray Anderson, leading-edge founder and CEO of Interface, the world's largest modular carpet company, articulates his bold vision to operate the company to take from the Earth only that which the Earth can renew rapidly and naturally. His mission is a zero footprint by the year 2020. He calls on the entire industrial system to join him on the remarkable path to Mt. Sustainability.

Wounds To Warriors: In the Wound Lies the Gift - Aqeela Sherrills, Ed Tick, and Eve Ensler | Bioneers Radio Series IX (2009)

it@bioneers.org (Bioneers) — Mon, 29 Jun 2015 18:00:00 -0000

Can't Buy Me Love: Annie Leonard's Story of Stuff - Annie Leonard | Bioneers Radio Series IX (2009)

it@bioneers.org (Bioneers) — Mon, 15 Jun 2015 18:00:00 -0000

As the consumer feeding frenzy has gone global, each seemingly innocuous purchase of stuff we make today leaves behind a devastating legacy of waste that will envelop and even poison future generations for centuries to come. Ironically, it's not like all this stuff is making us any happier. Acclaimed filmmaker and environmental advocate Annie Leonard says we have choices to make, right now. Are we consumers? Or are we citizens of planet Earth? How can we change the self-destructive story before it's too late? And won't we be happier if we do?

Business for the Common Good: Building Local Living Economies in the Age of Climate Change - Judy Wicks | Bioneers Radio Series IX (2009)

it@bioneers.org (Bioneers) — Mon, 08 Jun 2015 18:00:00 -0000

As we navigate the onset of climate change, we're witness to the rapid obsolescence of the human systems built on the assumption of cheap oil. The clock is running out on expensive (and vulnerable) practices such as the long-distance, fossil-fueled global supply chains that transport the average bite of food 1,200 miles to reach our plates. Inevitably communities are moving toward a greater re-localization of such basics as food, energy and water. And that makes sense because that's how nature is organized. Famed restaurateur and local food advocate Judy Wicks is at the forefront of the movement to redefine business practices, grow greater security and nourish sustainable communities.

Fair Food: Ending Slavery in the Fields - Lucas Benitez | Bioneers Radio Series IX (2009)

it@bioneers.org (Bioneers) — Mon, 01 Jun 2015 18:00:00 -0000

Would you believe, here at the beginning of the 21st century, that every order of fast-food served with a slice of tomato is part of a system of slavery and labor abuse that exists right here in the United States? The intense demand for cheap food from the largest corporate buyers drives farm workers into the ground. The courageous labor organizer Lucas Benitez calls for reform at all levels of the food supply chain -from growers and buyers to fast-food corporations and organic grocery chains. And he includes everyone who eats, because we have the market power to demand better treatment of those who harvest our food.

Beyond the Vagina Monologues - Eve Ensler | Bioneers Radio Series IX (2009)

it@bioneers.org (Bioneers) — Mon, 25 May 2015 18:00:00 -0000

For a decade, the award-winning play "The Vagina Monologues" has pro vided a startling window into the conflicted complexity of women's relationships to their bodies and pervasive worldwide violence against women. By revealing the deeply personal stories of women and their private parts, world-renowned playwright and women's rights activist Eve Ensler gave birth to a global movement to end violence against women and girls with the non-profit organization V Day. V Day has raised more than $60 million to support grassroots anti-violence groups around the world through performances of this ground breaking theater work.

The Green-Collar Economy: Jobs, Justice and Prosperity - Van Jones and Majora Carter | Bioneers Radio Series IX (2009)

it@bioneers.org (Bioneers) — Mon, 18 May 2015 18:00:00 -0000

Just how dumb do they think we are? Who would believe that destroying the ecosystems on which all life depends, while dis-employing more and more people, is somehow good for the economy? But exactly that fiction of jobs versus the environment has been successfully marketed to us. Community organizers Van Jones and Majora Carter propose a radically simple solution for both environmental destruction and social inequality: Bring the rising green revolution to low-income, urban America.

Formless Warriors: 21st Century Wisdom from Old-Growth Cultures - Enei Begaye, Dune Lankard and Hawk Rosales | Bioneers Radio Series IX (2009)

it@bioneers.org (Bioneers) — Mon, 11 May 2015 18:00:00 -0000

For thousands of years, First Peoples have successfully managed the complex reciprocal relationships between biological and human cultures using Traditional Ecological Knowledge (TEK). Yet no prior human civilization has ever faced the globalized ecological collapse occurring now. In the face of unprecedented pressures on their homelands and ways of life, indigenous leaders Enei Begaye, Dune Lankard and Hawk Rosales are organizing in new ways to protect the environment-and spread their knowledge for the sake of all life on Earth and future generations.

Eco Schools: Educating for Sustainable Communities - Fritjof Capra, Cheryl Charles, and David Orr | Bioneers Radio Series IX (2009)

it@bioneers.org (Bioneers) — Mon, 04 May 2015 18:00:00 -0000

Most American schools are flunking out when it comes to how well they integrate ecological literacy across the curriculum. And many are doing no better than a C average with the idea that schools should be actively engaged in sustaining the natural and social communities in which they exist. Fritjof Capra, co-founder of the Center for Ecoliteracy, Cheryl Charles, from the Children and Nature Network, and leading environmental educator David Orr explore what's working for the A+ schools that are successfully integrating ecological awareness, understanding and practices throughout the curriculum and the community.

True Biotechnologies:Nature’s 100 Best Solutions for Climate Change - Janine Benyus, Stephan Dewar, David Orr and Jay Harman | Bioneers Radio Series IX (2009)

it@bioneers.org (Bioneers) — Mon, 27 Apr 2015 18:00:00 -0000

Some of the best minds on the planet are busy cataloguing possible solutions to the crisis of climate chaos. Scientists, entrepreneurs and educators on technology's cutting edge offer a broad array of bio-based solutions that are already working to transition us to a truly sustainable civilization. Biomimics Janine Benyus, Stephan Dewar, David Orr and Jay Hannan offer a smorgasbord of startling solutions based on nature's genius.

What's Good for Life Wins: The Biomimicry Scientific Revolution - Janine Benyus, Jason McCiennan and Bob Hawkins | Bioneers Radio Series IX (2009)

it@bioneers.org (Bioneers) — Mon, 20 Apr 2015 18:00:00 -0000

Bathing suits modeled on sharkskin that win the Olympics. Low-energy display screens based on peacock feathers. Nature has done everything human societies want to do technologically-without mining the past or mortgaging the future. Acclaimed author, naturalist and biomimicry leaders Janine Benyus, Jason McCiennan and Bob Hawkins uncork a mind-boggling bouquet of breakthrough innovations that, like nature, create conditions conducive to life. This genuine scientific revolution shows why preserving nature and biological diversity is our best survival strategy.

Regeneration: Wisdom of the Wild, Generosity of the Heart - Paul Hawken | Bioneers 25th Anniversary Greatest Hits Series (2014)

it@bioneers.org (Bioneers) — Mon, 02 Feb 2015 18:00:00 -0000

Betting Big on a Native Dream: Coming Home to a “We” Culture - Greg Sarris | Bioneers 25th Anniversary Greatest Hits Series (2014)

it@bioneers.org (Bioneers) — Mon, 26 Jan 2015 18:00:00 -0000

Being an Indian in modern times has given rise to Indian casinos. Chairman Greg Sarris of the Federated Indians of Graton Rancheria found himself staring down the barrel of massive community resistance. Was it possible to create a casino that would uphold traditional values and benefit Native land and local communitie.

Inner Resilience: Back to Our True Nature - Dr. Gabor Mate | Bioneers 25th Anniversary Greatest Hits Series (2014)

it@bioneers.org (Bioneers) — Mon, 19 Jan 2015 18:00:00 -0000

From Slavery to Stardust: What Would Healing Look Like? - Thomas DeWolf, Belvie Rooks, and Dedan Gills | Bioneers 25th Anniversary Greatest Hits Series (2014)

it@bioneers.org (Bioneers) — Mon, 05 Jan 2015 18:00:00 -0000

Escaping Control: Linking Gender, Social Movements and Democracy - Gloria Steinem | Bioneers 25th Anniversary Greatest Hits Series (2014)

it@bioneers.org (Bioneers) — Mon, 29 Dec 2014 18:00:00 -0000

Earth Justice: Corporate Rights vs. The Rights of Nature - Thomas Linzey and Mari Margil | Bioneers 25th Anniversary Greatest Hits Series (2014)

it@bioneers.org (Bioneers) — Mon, 22 Dec 2014 18:00:00 -0000

Wounds to Warriors: In the Wound Lies the Gift - Aqeela Sherrills, Ed Tick, and Eve Ensler | Bioneers 25th Anniversary Greatest Hits Series (2014)

it@bioneers.org (Bioneers) — Mon, 15 Dec 2014 18:00:00 -0000

Wounded warriors have walked through fire. Facing the unimaginable traumas of war, abuse, and violence, what can we learn from looking respectfully at their wounds? Aqeela Sherrills , Ed Tick , and Eve Ensler share their inspiring stories to help us discover how we might keep the peace.

Molecular Psychology: Good Chemistry with Nature's Green Chemistry - John Warner and Amy Cannon | Bioneers 25th Anniversary Greatest Hits Series (2014)

it@bioneers.org (Bioneers) — Mon, 08 Dec 2014 18:00:00 -0000

Master green chemists and educators John Warner and Amy Cannon say the radical growth of green chemistry is showing we can have good chemistry with the Earth by emulating nature’s green chemistry, and do good business at the same time.

Security by Design: Environmental Security is Homeland Security - David Orr and Amory Lovins| Bioneers 25th Anniversary Greatest Hits Series (2014)

it@bioneers.org (Bioneers) — Mon, 01 Dec 2014 18:00:00 -0000

The concept of national security is changing to encompass the nation’s internal resilience, health and environmental sustainability. What’s needed is the equivalent of a wartime mobilization to create a sustainable planet, say global energy strategist Amory Lovins and Oberlin College Professor David Orr . Sustainability is the strategic imperative and foundation for a new national security narrativ.

The New Abolitionists: Farewell, Fossil Fuels - Sandra Steingraber and Bill McKibben| Bioneers 25th Anniversary Greatest Hits Series (2014)

it@bioneers.org (Bioneers) — Mon, 24 Nov 2014 18:00:00 -0000

Facing climate disruption, it’s imperative to fast-forward the transition to clean energy. The global movement to abolish fossil fuels is challenging the industry and its political domination. Renowned author and activist Bill McKibben and award-winning biologist and author Sandra Steingraber illuminate the frontline fight of these New Abolitionists.

Going Locavore - Michael Pollan, Oran Hesterman, James Ella James, and Victoria Carter| Bioneers 25th Anniversary Greatest Hits Series (2014)

it@bioneers.org (Bioneers) — Mon, 17 Nov 2014 18:00:00 -0000

Our misbegotten food system is one of our greatest vulnerabilities. It's dangerously fossil fueled, toxic, monocultural and centralized. The real cost of cheap food is very high — to both people and planet. Urban food innovators are designing vibrant new local food economies built on environmental and ecological integrity, sustainability, diversity and equality. Join author Michael Pollan, Fair Food Foundation CEO Oran Hesterman, faith-based change-maker James Ella James and student leader Victoria Carter for a smorgasbord of nourishing morsels from the emerging locavore movement.

Tears in the Eyes, Rainbow in the Heart: Dr. Jane Goodall’s Reasons for Hope - Dr. Jane Goodall | Bioneers 25th Anniversary Greatest Hits Series (2014)

it@bioneers.org (Bioneers) — Mon, 10 Nov 2014 18:00:00 -0000

Inalienable: Belonging to the Earth Community - Joanna Macy | Bioneers Radio Series XIV (2014)

it@bioneers.org (Bioneers) — Mon, 06 Oct 2014 18:00:00 -0000

Deep Ecology extends an inalienable right to life to all beings. Yet as the naturalist Aldo Leopold observed, “One of the penalties of an ecological education is that one lives alone in a world of wounds.” Either harden your shell, or be a doctor. Joanna Macy decided to be an Earth doctor. A systems theorist, author and lifelong activist, she describes how healing the world and healing your heart and soul go hand in hand.

Is Nothing Sacred? A Spiritual Response to the Ecological Crisis - Dekila Chungyalpa | Bioneers Radio Series XIV (2014)

it@bioneers.org (Bioneers) — Mon, 29 Sep 2014 18:00:00 -0000

Art As Social Change: Birthing the Dawn Of A New Day - Climbing PoeTree and John Densmore | Bioneers Radio Series XIV (2014)

it@bioneers.org (Bioneers) — Mon, 22 Sep 2014 18:00:00 -0000

The Marriage of the Sun and Moon: The Truth and Reconciliation of Gender - Pat McCabe, Cynthia Brix, Will Keepin and Pele Rouge | Bioneers Radio Series XIV (2014)

it@bioneers.org (Bioneers) — Mon, 15 Sep 2014 18:00:00 -0000

Sharkskin, Hippo Sweat and the Wood-Wide Web: From Flat Earth to Whole Earth Thinking - Janine Benyus and Jay Harman | Bioneers Radio Series XIV (2014)

it@bioneers.org (Bioneers) — Mon, 08 Sep 2014 18:00:00 -0000

Cosmomimicry: We’re The Universe Mattering - David McConville | Bioneers Radio Series XIV (2014)

it@bioneers.org (Bioneers) — Mon, 01 Sep 2014 18:00:00 -0000

“If success or failure of this planet and of human beings depended on how I am and what I do, then how would I be and what would I do?” asked visionary designer Buckminster Fuller. Buckminster Fuller Institute Board President David McConville says our view of the universe profoundly shapes our future as a species, and it’s changing radically.

Mending the Earth: One Team and Everybody Wins - Tom Goldtooth, Anishnabe Winona LaDuke, Ilarion Merculief and The White Buffalo Souldier | Bioneers Radio Series XIV (2014)

it@bioneers.org (Bioneers) — Mon, 25 Aug 2014 18:00:00 -0000

Shapeshifting Detroit: Overcoming Drive-By Economics - Malik Kenyatta Yakini, Lottie Spady and Sister Gloria Rivera | Bioneers Radio Series XIV (2014)

it@bioneers.org (Bioneers) — Mon, 18 Aug 2014 18:00:00 -0000

Don’t Fence Me In: Linked Landscapes, Citizen Science And Wild Nature - Justin Brashares And Mary Ellen Hannibal | Bioneers Radio Series XIV (2014)

it@bioneers.org (Bioneers) — Mon, 11 Aug 2014 18:00:00 -0000

The Sophia Century: When Women Come Into Co-Equal Partnership - Osprey Orielle-Lake, Leila Salazar, and Lynne Twist | Bioneers Radio Series XIV (2014)

it@bioneers.org (Bioneers) — Mon, 04 Aug 2014 18:00:00 -0000

100% Renewables: Late and Fast - Billy Parish and Marco Krapels | Bioneers Radio Series XIV (2014)

it@bioneers.org (Bioneers) — Mon, 30 Jun 2014 18:00:00 -0000

Real Change: The Political Gets Personal - Danny Glover and Phaedra Ellis-Lamkins | Bioneers Radio Series XIV (2014)

it@bioneers.org (Bioneers) — Mon, 23 Jun 2014 18:00:00 -0000

Hanging On: Treetop Truths in Disruptive Times - Nalini Nadkarni | Bioneers Radio Series XIV (2014)

it@bioneers.org (Bioneers) — Mon, 16 Jun 2014 18:00:00 -0000

Hanging On: Treetop Truths in Disruptive Times - Nalini Nadkarni | Bioneers Radio Series XIV (2014)

it@bioneers.org (Bioneers) — Mon, 16 Jun 2014 18:00:00 -0000

Inner Resilience: Back to Our True Nature - Dr. Gabor Maté | Bioneers Radio Series XIII (2013)

it@bioneers.org (Bioneers) — Wed, 13 Nov 2013 07:00:00 -0000

A Parade of Dwarves: Democratizing Wealth for a New Economy - Gar Alpervoitz and Ted Howard | Bioneers Radio Series XIII (2013)

it@bioneers.org (Bioneers) — Wed, 13 Nov 2013 07:00:00 -0000

Women Changing the Story: Mother Bears, Polar Bears and Women’s Leadership - Rose Aguilar, Sandra Steingraber, Vanessa Daniel, Eveline Shen | Bioneers Radio Series XIII (2013)

it@bioneers.org (Bioneers) — Wed, 13 Nov 2013 07:00:00 -0000

Resilience From the Ground Up: A New Strategic Narrative - Bill McKibben, Carolyne Stayton, Mary Gonzales, and Colonel Mark "Puck" Mykleby | Bioneers Radio Series XIII (2013)

it@bioneers.org (Bioneers) — Wed, 13 Nov 2013 07:00:00 -0000

As we enter what Paul Gilding calls the Great Disruption – it’s only a matter of when, not whether, the world will change course on the scale of a wartime mobilization – this time to restore nature and human communities. Author and 350.org founder Bill McKibben, Transition U.S. leader Carolyne Stayton, community organizer Mary Gonzales and retired Marine Colonel Mark “Puck” Mykleby show how people are building a national movement to create resilience from the ground up in local communities and regions.

Church Without a Roof: Keeping the Faith with Creation Care - Fletcher Harper, Sally Bingham, and G.L. Hodge | Bioneers Radio Series XIII (2013)

it@bioneers.org (Bioneers) — Wed, 13 Nov 2013 07:00:00 -0000

Amazon Visions: Saving the Heart of the Planet - Atossa Soltani and Marina Silva | Bioneers Radio Series XIII (2013)

it@bioneers.org (Bioneers) — Wed, 13 Nov 2013 07:00:00 -0000

If the rate of destruction doesn’t change, by the year 2020 most of the Amazon ecosystem – the lungs of the planet - will be destroyed or irreparably damaged. But not if these visionary leaders can help it. Amazon Watch founder Atossa Soltani has supported local indigenous peoples to protect the rainforest and their lifeways. Legendary rainforest champion Marina Silva , Brazil’s past Minister of the Environment and Presidential candidate, offers deep wisdom and vision.

Betting Big on a Dream: Coming Home to a “We” Culture - Greg Sarris | Bioneers Radio Series XIII (2013)

it@bioneers.org (Bioneers) — Wed, 13 Nov 2013 07:00:00 -0000

Given the extreme economic disenfranchisement of Native American tribes, being an Indian in modern times has given rise to Indian casinos. Chairman Greg Sarris of the Federated Indians of Graton Rancheria found himself staring down the barrel of massive community resistance. Was it possible to create a casino that would uphold traditional values and benefit the land and local community? You wouldn’t want to bet against him.

One Percent Solutions: Climate Disruption, Fossil Billionaires and Democracy Deficits - Victor Menotti, John A. Powell, and Steven Hill | Bioneers Radio Series XIII (2013)

it@bioneers.org (Bioneers) — Wed, 13 Nov 2013 07:00:00 -0000

Conspicuous climate disruption is here now. At the same time, a global super-elite of fossil fuel mega-billionaires has cinched a political stranglehold on American democracy, energy policies and politics. How can these rogue financial titans be stopped? Activist Victor Menotti, legal scholar John A. Powell, and author and political operative Steven Hill outline strategies for rapid transformative change.

In Pursuit of Happiness: Becoming Beloved Community - John A. Powell and Grace Bauer | Bioneers Radio Series XIII (2013)

it@bioneers.org (Bioneers) — Mon, 19 Aug 2013 07:00:00 -0000

It's obvious that we're not here for ourselves. That makes no evolutionary sense. There's something larger than us, and to the extent that we can live that and celebrate that, I think we're healthier, and then that's love.So I think if we think of love in this way, and a beloved community in this way, when we hold all this stuff together, together.

Disruptive Design: What Good Looks Like - Cheryl Dahle and Jason F. McLennan | Bioneers Radio Series XIII (2013)

it@bioneers.org (Bioneers) — Wed, 14 Aug 2013 07:00:00 -0000

One of the things that the children wanted in their school, which a lot of kids would want if they had the opportunity, is a river flowing through their classroom. Kids like that kind of thing, and engineers immediately have a kind of tick that develops. [laughter] No, you can't have a river. But in this case, what the team decided, well, this is a living building, perhaps we should listen to the students.

The New Abolitionists: Farewell, Fossil Fuels - Sandra Steingraber and Bill McKibben | Bioneers Radio Series XIII (2013)

it@bioneers.org (Bioneers) — Wed, 07 Aug 2013 07:00:00 -0000

I don't want to write words that fill jail cells, and yet it is my abiding responsibility to protect my children from harm and plan for their future. And my neighbors feel the same way. If the air, food and water out of which our children's bodies are constructed are contaminated, we can't do our job as parents. If the day comes when I can be a better mother inside of jail than outside, I will be that mother.

Regeneration: Wisdom of the Wild, Generosity of the Heart - Paul Hawken | Bioneers Radio Series XIII (2013)

it@bioneers.org (Bioneers) — Wed, 31 Jul 2013 07:00:00 -0000

What we're trying to do is not about winning, it's about losing, and it's about losing this burden of having to make it, to be rich, to be comfortable, to be seen, to be famous, to be followed, to be friended, to be known. We don't need all that because it's an upside down world and the winners are the losers. And what we lose is the delusion and suffering that we are here on Earth for ourselves. That is such a delusion, you know. Takers suffer always.

Flavors of a Whole Community: Recipes for Food Justice - Nikki Henderson | Bioneers Radio Series XIII (2013)

it@bioneers.org (Bioneers) — Mon, 10 Jun 2013 07:00:00 -0000

How can a grocery store lift a community out of poverty? The People’s Grocery provides creative solutions to community health problems that stem from a lack of access to and knowledge about healthy, fresh foods. The personal journey of Executive Director and home-grown food justice leader Nikki Henderson brings heart, soul and love to community health and wealth for the low-income community of West Oakland, California.

A World That Works For All: Fireflies, Dumpsters, Soft Power and the Design Science Revolution - Elizabeth Thompson, Shelia Kennedy and Joel Edel | Bioneers Radio Series XII (2012)

it@bioneers.org (Bioneers) — Fri, 29 Jun 2012 07:00:00 -0000

Fireflies, Dumpsters, Soft Power and the Design Science Revolution - The visionary designer and architect R. Buckminster Fullers remarkable legacy inspires new generations to create the Design Science Revolution he first called for in the 1960s. Elizabeth Thompson, executive director of the Buckminster Fuller Institute (BFI), brings to life Buckys vision, along with contemporary BFI Challenge Award recipients. Sheila Kennedy, Professor of Architecture at MIT, and John Edel, Director of the Chicago Sustainable Manufacturing Center, whose imaginative design innovations address humanitys most pressing problems.

Taking a Breath: Healing the Inner Environment - Dr. James S. Gordon | Bioneers Radio Series XII (2012)

it@bioneers.org (Bioneers) — Fri, 29 Jun 2012 07:00:00 -0000

Healing the Inner Environment - Brain research is revealing astounding insights into the mechanisms of post-traumatic stress and neuroplasticity the brains ability to be rewired and re-trained. The world today is ravaged by traumas from war, privation and economic crashes to natural disasters and ongoing environmental degradation. In response, world-renowned psychiatrist Dr. James S. Gordon of the Center for Mind Body Medicine has trained thousands of teachers globally to advance ancient mind-body healing techniques of self-care to reconnect each individual with his or her own nature, with family and community, and with the natural world. The results are impressive. What might happen if we approach healing the environment from the inside out?

Conspiracy of Ancestors: The Indigeneity Essentials - Melissa K. Nelson | Bioneers Radio Series XII (2012)

it@bioneers.org (Bioneers) — Fri, 29 Jun 2012 07:00:00 -0000

The Indigeneity Essentials - Were all indigenous to planet Earth, but weve not been acting that way. Cultural ecologist, indigenous scholar and activist Dr. Melissa K. Nelson reminds native and non-native peoples alike that we all need to re-indigenize ourselves by learning and practicing natures operating instructions and the Original Instructions for how to be a human being. At this unprecedented moment of globalized environmental breakdown, its going to take the best of Western science and the indigenous science of Traditional Ecological Knowledge (TEK) to navigate this evolutionary keyhole.

Escaping Control: Linking Gender, Social Movements and Democracy - Gloria Steinem | Bioneers Radio Series XII (2012)

it@bioneers.org (Bioneers) — Fri, 29 Jun 2012 07:00:00 -0000

Linking Gender, Social Movements and Democracy - World-renowned feminist, writer and change-maker Gloria Steinem connects the dots among disparate social movements to reveal the common patterns of oppression that underlie them all. From gender and race to democracy and universal spirituality, she applies her razor intellect, compassionate heart and nuanced eye to weave a unifying vision of a richly human and humane world where all people are valued for their uniqueness and full humanity - neither treated as property, nor defined by labels or stereotypes.

Passing Through: Farming Fields of Dreams - Michael Ableman | Bioneers Radio Series XII (2012)

it@bioneers.org (Bioneers) — Fri, 29 Jun 2012 07:00:00 -0000

Farming Fields of Dreams - Our food and farming systems may top the list of the most destructive abuses of land in history. What needs to change? What models are there to guide us? Visionary organic farmer, food system entrepreneur and award-winning writer/photographer Michael Ableman reflects on what it will take to restore healthy thriving lands and a functional and equitable food system with access for all. How will we feed the worlds growing population and provide access to healthy food? As locavores know, the answers hit close to home.

Not Fate But Choice: Reinventing Fire for the Clean Energy Era - Amory Lovins | Bioneers Radio Series XII (2012)

it@bioneers.org (Bioneers) — Fri, 29 Jun 2012 07:00:00 -0000

Good Jobs, Clean Environment: Both or Neither - Roxanne Brown and Charlotte Brody | Bioneers Radio Series XII (2012)

it@bioneers.org (Bioneers) — Fri, 29 Jun 2012 07:00:00 -0000

A Fantastic Object: Social Capitalism and the United States of Europe - Steven Hill | Bioneers Radio Series XII (2012)

it@bioneers.org (Bioneers) — Fri, 29 Jun 2012 07:00:00 -0000

Social Capitalism and the United States of Europe - Despite suffering severe shocks from the 2008 global economic and banking crisis, nations of the European Union have provided the world with a potent new economic species. Social Capitalism shares prosperity more widely, institutionalizes broader national democracy, and creates long-term environmental sustainability. It includes universal healthcare thats affordable, education for all that is often free, family-friendly work policies, and real worker participation in corporate decision-making. Europe watcher Steven Hill believes it may be the most important innovation in the world economy since the rise of the corporation and we all have a ringside seat to history.

Security by Design: Environmental Security is Homeland Security - Amory Lovins and David Orr | Bioneers Radio Series XII (2012)

it@bioneers.org (Bioneers) — Fri, 29 Jun 2012 07:00:00 -0000

Environmental Security is Homeland Security - The concept of national security is moving beyond bullets, bombs, soldiers and warcraft to encompass the countrys internal resilience, health and environmental sustainability. Whats needed, say two leading environmental visionaries, is the equivalent of a wartime mobilization to create a sustainable planet including a far more decentralized infrastructure. Global energy strategist Amory Lovins and Oberlin College Professor David Orr advocate sustainability as the strategic imperative and foundation for a new national security narrative. The military is starting to agree.

Swimming Our Talk: Blue Mind, Ocean Heart - Wallace J. Nichols, Philippe and Alexandra Cousteau, and the Truckee High School Enviro-lution Club | Bioneers Radio Series XII (2012)

it@bioneers.org (Bioneers) — Fri, 29 Jun 2012 07:00:00 -0000

Working With Nature to Heal Nature: Landscapes of Hope - John Liu | Bioneers Radio Series XII (2012)

it@bioneers.org (Bioneers) — Thu, 28 Jun 2012 07:00:00 -0000

Landscapes of Hope - Just like our bodies, nature has a profound capacity for healing and self-repair. Filmmaker-turned-ecological-restorer John Liu shifted from documenting Chinas massive environmental and societal upheavals to filming a groundbreaking, large-scale ecosystem restoration cum local economic renewal. Prioritizing natures ecological functions above producing goods and services, the groundbreaking work is spreading to other nations, with Liu as a global ambassador of dramatic ecosystem restoration wonders.

Radical Patriotism: Growing Growers and Seeding Leaders for a Real Food Future - Severine von Tscharner Fleming, Tyler Webb,Sarita Role Schaffer, Nikki Henderson and Anim Steel | Bioneers Radio Series XII (2012))

it@bioneers.org (Bioneers) — Wed, 23 May 2012 07:00:00 -0000

Reinhabit, Rehydrate, Regenerate: Permaculture Designs for an Enduring Planet - Darren Doherty and Brock Dolman | Bioneers Radio Series 10 (2010)

it@bioneers.org (Bioneers) — Mon, 12 Jul 2010 07:00:00 -0000

Planting Buildings: The Living Building Challenge - Jason McLennan | Bioneers Radio Series X (2010)

it@bioneers.org (Bioneers) — Mon, 12 Jul 2010 07:00:00 -0000

Becoming a Habitat: Motherhood, Faith and the Environmental Human Rights Movement - Sandra Steingraber | Bioneers Radio Series X (2010)

it@bioneers.org (Bioneers) — Mon, 12 Jul 2010 07:00:00 -0000

We live in a society dependent on toxic chemicals. Today about 287 such chemicals trespass inside the blood of newborns and inside all of us - without our consent. Despite the odds, ecologist, author and mother Sandra Steingraber is an optimist. Shes betting that the burgeoning global environmental human rights movement will free us from our deadly dependency. She believes our grandchildren will look back on us and marvel that our economy was once dependent on toxic chemicals - and they will think of it as unthinkable.

Earth Justice: Corporate Rights vs. The Rights of Nature - Thomas Linzey and Mari Margil | Bioneers Radio Series X (2010)

it@bioneers.org (Bioneers) — Mon, 12 Jul 2010 07:00:00 -0000

Life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness have long been held as the inalienable rights of the American people. Then why is it that corporate personhood consistently overrides the legal rights of citizens? And what about the rights of nature?Do rivers, mountains, whales or ecosystems - have inalienable rights that guarantee their interests? Join innovative environmental attorneys Thomas Linzey and Mari Margil for breakthroughs on the ground that are redefining democracy. In the 21st century, is it time to move from a Declaration of Independence to a Declaration of Interdependence?

Busting the Drug War: The Dawn of Drug Policy Reform - Ethan Nadelmann | Bioneers Radio Series X (2010)

it@bioneers.org (Bioneers) — Mon, 12 Jul 2010 07:00:00 -0000

Why the World Doesnandapos;t End: Recreation Myths of Nature and Culture - Michael Meade | Bioneers Radio Series X (2010)

it@bioneers.org (Bioneers) — Mon, 12 Jul 2010 07:00:00 -0000

Sisters in Spirit: Women Transforming the World - Jensine Larsen and Sally Roesch Wagner | Bioneers Radio Series X (2010)

it@bioneers.org (Bioneers) — Mon, 12 Jul 2010 07:00:00 -0000

Don’t Mourn, Organize: Power and Passion for Environmental Justice and Democracy - Mary Gonzales and Peggy Shepard | Bioneers Radio Series X (2010)

it@bioneers.org (Bioneers) — Mon, 12 Jul 2010 07:00:00 -0000

Somewhere in a typical American city, a woman wakes up to the noxious odors of a nearby sewage treatment plant. Her daughter carries a rescue inhaler to school. Like hundreds of her neighbors, this woman is sick and tired of being sick and tired. Women and men from vulnerable communities everywhere are rising up to gain equal access to clean water and air, equal environmental enforcement and protection, and equitable land use and planning. Impassioned community organizers Mary Gonzales and Peggy Shepard show us all how successful environmental justice campaigns across the U.S. are raising the voices of people of color and low-income communities and creating a better world for everyone.

Where Angels Fear to Tread: Making Art that Heals the Broken Places - Lily Yeh | Bioneers Radio Series X (2010)

it@bioneers.org (Bioneers) — Mon, 12 Jul 2010 07:00:00 -0000

How do we transform a vicious circle into a virtuous circle? How do we move from environmental degradation and the deterioration of human relations to restoration? From war to peace - from hatred to compassion - from isolation to community? How can one person make a crucial difference? Painter and professor Lily Yehs approach to community healing takes that which is broken and creates something whole and wholly new and beautiful through public art. From Philadelphia to Rwanda, broken places are her canvases. Peoples stories are the pigments. Peoples talents and creativity are the tools. At the heart of her work is the transformation of human heart.

From Bows and Arrows to Laptops: Marrying Traditional Knowledge with Web Technology to Save the Amazon - Chief Almir Narayamago Surui and Rebecca Moore | Bioneers Radio Series X (2010)

it@bioneers.org (Bioneers) — Mon, 12 Jul 2010 07:00:00 -0000

Generation Green: Fulfilling the Promise of Jobs and Justice - Jerome Ringo and Billy Parish | Bioneers Radio Series X (2010)

it@bioneers.org (Bioneers) — Mon, 12 Jul 2010 07:00:00 -0000

From Soap Operas to Avatars: Digital Diplomacy and Making Fiction into Fact - William Ryerson, Joshua S. Fouts and Rita J. King | Bioneers Radio Series X (2010)

it@bioneers.org (Bioneers) — Mon, 12 Jul 2010 07:00:00 -0000

Going Locavore: Urban Food Innovation and Community Transformation - Michael Pollan, Oran Hesterman, James Ella James and Victoria Carter | Bioneers Radio Series X (2010)

it@bioneers.org (Bioneers) — Mon, 12 Jul 2010 07:00:00 -0000