Bioneers: Nature, Culture and Spirit
12 episodes - English - Latest episode: almost 8 years ago - ★★★★★ - 15 ratingsThese deeply moving videos give a kaleidoscopic view from our greatest visionaries reconciling nature, culture and spirit in a revolution from the heart of nature. Restoring the Earth, our communities and our human wholeness requires a rediscovery of Earth-honoring reverence in our ethical and religious worldviews: our interdependence with the web of life, each other and the cosmos. It’s a change of heart inspired by wonder, reverence and gratitude. Since 1990, Bioneers has acted as a fertile hub of social and scientific innovators with practical and visionary solutions for the world’s most pressing environmental and social challenges. Visit www.bioneers.org to learn more about our programs, annual conference and local gatherings. Cover image by Sam Brown (www.ceruleansam.com)
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Global Mash-Up: Moving Toward a Wisdom Culture | Kenny Ausubel
May 04, 2016 01:00 - 16 minutes - 51.8 MB VideoThe Bioneers Co-Founder depicts the dawning Next Enlightenment of interdependence, kinship and reverence. This speech was given at the 2013 Bioneers National Conference. Since 1990, Bioneers has acted as a fertile hub of social and scientific innovators with practical and visionary solutions for the world's most pressing environmental and social challenges. To experience talks like this, please join us at the Bioneers National Conference each October, and regional Bioneers Resilient Commun...
Faiths for Conservation | Dekila Chungyalpa
May 04, 2016 01:00 - 19 minutes - 81.3 MB VideoDekila Chungyalpa, buddhist and Director of the World Wildlife Fund's Sacred Earth Program, discusses the powerful role of faith in the environmental conservation movement. This speech was given at the 2013 Bioneers National Conference and is part of the Nature, Culture and Spirit Collection, Vol. 1. Since 1990, Bioneers has acted as a fertile hub of social and scientific innovators with practical and visionary solutions for the world's most pressing environmental and social challenges. ...
The Meaning of Wild | Paul Hawken
May 04, 2016 01:00 - 2 minutes - 7.17 MB VideoVisionary author Paul Hawken shares his understanding of the word "wild," emphasizing its positive attributes and contrasting it with what he sees as truly "crazy." "We see wild like, oh, its crazy or something like that...wild means original, it means innate." Since 1990, Bioneers has acted as a fertile hub of social and scientific innovators with practical and visionary solutions for the world's most pressing environmental and social challenges. To experience talks like this, please joi...
Light at the Edge of the World | Wade Davis
May 04, 2016 01:00 - 22 minutes - 51.6 MB VideoAuthor and anthropologist Wade Davis showcases other ways of living and thinking through stunning photographs and personal stories from his world travels, highlighting the beauty and importance of diversity. This speech was given at the 2001 Bioneers National Conference. Since 1990, Bioneers has acted as a fertile hub of social and scientific innovators with practical and visionary solutions for the world's most pressing environmental and social challenges. To experience talks like this, ...
The End of Sustainability | Paul Hawken
May 04, 2016 01:00 - 24 minutes - 65.9 MB VideoSocial entrepreneur and author Paul Hawken challenges the conflicting duality between the profit-driven world of business and media and a world that ensures the commons to support all life for future generations. “The sustainability movement, without forsaking its understanding of living systems, resources, conservation, and biology, must move from a resource flow model of saving the Earth to a model based on human rights, the rights to food, the rights to livelihood, the rights to culture an...
The Botanical Dimension of Our Human Evolutionary Next Steps | Jeffrey Bronfman
March 22, 2016 01:00 - 21 minutes - 243 MB VideoLegendary storyteller, author and scholar of mythology, anthropology and psychology, Michael Meade will show why we desperately need to awaken the genius within each of us – not only to achieve personal fulfillment, but to have any hope of addressing our global crises, restore the natural world, and heal our culture. Accompanied by John Densmore, legendary drummer of The Doors, he will weave storytelling, performance, mythology and street savvy. Introduction by Nina Simons, Bioneers Co-Founde...
Plant Sacraments and the Mind of Nature | Paul Stamets, Katsi Cook and Jeffrey Bronfman
March 22, 2016 01:00 - 1 hour - 1.08 GB VideoCan plants help people access the intelligence in nature—the “mind of nature”—that we must learn to understand in order to supersede our ecologically destructive habits? This panel features Jeffrey Bronfman, founding member of the União do Vegetal church of the United States; Paul Stamets, master mycologist; Katsi Cook, renowned Mohawk midwife and environmental activist. Hosted by J.P. Harpignies, Bioneers Associate Producer. This panel took place at the 2014 Bioneers Annual Conference. Vide...
How Your Unique Genius Can Help Heal Nature and Culture | Michael Meade and John Densmore
March 22, 2016 01:00 - 34 minutes - 470 MB VideoLegendary storyteller, author and scholar of mythology, anthropology and psychology, Michael Meade will show why we desperately need to awaken the genius within each of us – not only to achieve personal fulfillment, but to have any hope of addressing our global crises, restore the natural world, and heal our culture. Accompanied by John Densmore, legendary drummer of The Doors, he will weave storytelling, performance, mythology and street savvy. Introduction by Nina Simons, Bioneers Co-Founde...
Becoming a Blessing | Rachel Naomi Remen, M.D.
March 22, 2016 01:00 - 30 minutes - 85 MB VideoDr. Rachel Naomi Remen draws on ancient Jewish traditional wisdom to propose that the future is determined by the potential of the present. A doctor and storyteller from a long line of Jewish physicians, she explores healing as an exercise in resetting how we view our lives. She shares poignant stories of her upbringing in a Jewish household with a grandfather who taught her the values of generosity and caring. This speech was given at the 2006 Bioneers National Conference. Since 1990, Bion...
Regeneration | Paul Hawken
March 22, 2016 01:00 - 29 minutes - 81.6 MB VideoPaul Hawken is a visionary social entrepreneur, the award-winning author of multiple landmark books including Blessed Unrest, The Ecology of Commerce and Natural Capitalism (co-author), and the Co-Founder of OneSun, a radically innovative solar energy technology company. In this speech, Hawken discusses his younger days, how and why he started a health food store in Boston in the 1970s, and our connection with nature and each other. "We have invented an economic system - then and now - that...
Survive and Thrive | John Mohawk
March 22, 2016 01:00 - 21 minutes - 59.4 MB VideoIn this expansive tour of human civilization leading to today's climate crisis, Native American scholar John Mohawk explores the interrelationship of climate change and human evolution. For most of our history as hunter-gatherers and farmers, we retained an intimate knowledge of the natural world that supported us, especially plants. That knowledge, he observes, is being lost at radical rates today. Re-establishing our intimacy and kinship with the plant world is key to surviving dramatic cli...
Intelligence in Nature | Jeremy Narby
March 17, 2016 01:00 - 25 minutes - 68.8 MB VideoIn this mesmerizing talk, Jeremy Narby shares the findings from his groundbreaking book Intelligence in Nature. He describes his quest around the globe to chronicle how leading-edge scientists are studying intelligence in nature and how nature learns. He uncovers a universal thread of highly intelligent behavior within the natural world, and asks the question: What can humanity learn from nature's economy and knowingness? Weaving together issues of animal cognition, evolutionary biology and p...