Bioneers: Revolution From the Heart of Nature
520 episodes - English - Latest episode: 10 days ago - ★★★★★ - 180 ratingsThe Bioneers: Revolution from the Heart of Nature is an award-winning series featuring breakthrough solutions for people and planet. The greatest social and scientific innovators of our time celebrate the genius of nature and human ingenuity. The kaleidoscopic scope covers biomimicry, ecological design, social and racial justice, women’s leadership, ecological medicine, indigenous knowledge, spirituality and psychology. It’s leading-edge, hopeful, charismatic, provocative, timely and timeless – like nothing you’ve heard before.
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Future Generations Are Screaming: The Clean Energy Climate Challenge - Susan Marshall, John Fogarty, Alec Loorz and James Hansen | Bioneers Radio Series XI (2011)
July 12, 2011 07:00 - 27 minutes - 25.1 MBThe Clean Energy Climate ChallengeThe 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 th...
The Organic Revolution: From Hippie to Hip to Scale - Gary Hirshberg | Bioneers Radio Series XI (2011)
July 12, 2011 07:00 - 27 minutes - 25.1 MBFrom Hippie to Hip to Scale. Though still small in the big picture, organic food has come all the way -- from hippie to hip to mainstream since the Sixties. But can organic food and fair food ever feed seven billion people? How can the entire food chain become sustainable? And does sustainability stack up to profitability? Visionary food entrepreneur Gary Hirshberg answers those questions with a resounding yes. As founder and CEO of Stonyfield Farm, the worlds largest organic yogurt company, ...
Why the World Doesnandapos;t End: Recreation Myths of Nature and Culture - Michael Meade | Bioneers Radio Series X (2010)
July 12, 2010 07:00 - 29 minutesWhen 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.
Busting the Drug War: The Dawn of Drug Policy Reform - Ethan Nadelmann | Bioneers Radio Series X (2010)
July 12, 2010 07:00 - 28 minutes - 26.1 MBEthan 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.
Becoming a Habitat: Motherhood, Faith and the Environmental Human Rights Movement - Sandra Steingraber | Bioneers Radio Series X (2010)
July 12, 2010 07:00 - 28 minutes - 26.1 MBWe 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...
Generation Green: Fulfilling the Promise of Jobs and Justice - Jerome Ringo and Billy Parish | Bioneers Radio Series X (2010)
July 12, 2010 07:00 - 28 minutes - 26.1 MBClimate 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 f...
Generation Green: Fulfilling the Promise of Jobs and Justice - Jerome Ringo and Billy Parish | Bioneers Radio Series X (2010)
July 12, 2010 07:00 - 29 minutesClimate 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 f...
Earth Justice: Corporate Rights vs. The Rights of Nature - Thomas Linzey and Mari Margil | Bioneers Radio Series X (2010)
July 12, 2010 07:00 - 29 minutesLife, 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 centur...
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)
July 12, 2010 07:00 - 28 minutes - 26.1 MBForty 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 ...
Planting Buildings: The Living Building Challenge - Jason McLennan | Bioneers Radio Series X (2010)
July 12, 2010 07:00 - 28 minutes - 26.1 MBA 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 ...
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)
July 12, 2010 07:00 - 28 minutes - 26.1 MBA 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 ...
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)
July 12, 2010 07:00 - 29 minutesA 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 ...
Reinhabit, Rehydrate, Regenerate: Permaculture Designs for an Enduring Planet - Darren Doherty and Brock Dolman | Bioneers Radio Series 10 (2010)
July 12, 2010 07:00 - 29 minutesHalf 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...
Reinhabit, Rehydrate, Regenerate: Permaculture Designs for an Enduring Planet - Darren Doherty and Brock Dolman | Bioneers Radio Series X (2010)
July 12, 2010 07:00 - 28 minutes - 26.1 MBHalf 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...
Where Angels Fear to Tread: Making Art that Heals the Broken Places - Lily Yeh | Bioneers Radio Series X (2010)
July 12, 2010 07:00 - 28 minutes - 26.1 MBHow 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 a...
Sisters in Spirit: Women Transforming the World - Jensine Larsen and Sally Roesch Wagner | Bioneers Radio Series X (2010)
July 12, 2010 07:00 - 29 minutesHistory 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.
Don’t Mourn, Organize: Power and Passion for Environmental Justice and Democracy - Mary Gonzales and Peggy Shepard | Bioneers Radio Series X (2010)
July 12, 2010 07:00 - 29 minutesSomewhere 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 Pe...
Planting Buildings: The Living Building Challenge - Jason McLennan | Bioneers Radio Series X (2010)
July 12, 2010 07:00 - 29 minutesA 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 ...
Sisters in Spirit: Women Transforming the World - Jensine Larsen and Sally Roesch Wagner | Bioneers Radio Series X (2010)
July 12, 2010 07:00 - 28 minutes - 26.1 MBHistory 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.
Going Locavore: Urban Food Innovation and Community Transformation - Michael Pollan, Oran Hesterman, James Ella James and Victoria Carter | Bioneers Radio Series X (2010)
July 12, 2010 07:00 - 29 minutesOur 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 le...