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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Restorative Justice: From Harm to Healing | Fania Davis & Cameron Simmons
August 23, 2022 13:00 - 29 minutesOakland, 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 ab...
Taking Wing: Feminine Leadership from the Heartbeat of Earth | Zainab Salbi
August 16, 2022 02:36 - 29 minutesGlobally, 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. Gl...
Ripples of Community Resilience: Small Acts, Big Change
August 10, 2022 04:27 - 29 minutesIn 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. This is an episode of the Bioneers: Revolution from the Heart of Nature series....
Tribe of the New Flame: The Agroecology Revolution
July 26, 2022 13:00 - 29 minutesSmall 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. To learn more about Migue...
Busting the Myth of Primate Patriarchy: The Nature of Sex and Gender in Our Ape Relatives | Frans de Waal
July 19, 2022 20:05 - 28 minutesWorld-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 This is an episode of t...
Shamans and Scientists: Changing the Landscape of Power | Mark Plotkin
July 14, 2022 03:46 - 29 minutesAs 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 r...
Who Is an American? Is Our Democracy as Unequal as Our Economy? | Heather McGhee
June 28, 2022 13:00 - 29 minutesBy 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? Per...
When Truth Is Dangerous: The Power of Independent Media | Amy Goodman & Monika Bauerlein
June 21, 2022 13:00 - 29 minutesToday, 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 ...
The Reluctant Psychonaut: How Psychedelics Changed Michael Pollan’s Mind
June 14, 2022 13:00 - 29 minutesA 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, an...
Real Change: The Political Gets Personal | Danny Glover & Phaedra Ellis-Lamkins
June 07, 2022 13:00 - 27 minutesHow 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 ...
Got Dirt? Get Soil! Ditch the Plow, Cover Up and Grow Diversity
May 31, 2022 19:25 - 28 minutesThe 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 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 ...
Sharkskin, Hippo Sweat and the Wood-Wide Web: From Flat Earth to Whole Earth Thinking |
May 18, 2022 04:03 - 27 minutesThe 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, ...
Laboring for Justice: See No Stranger | Valarie Kaur
May 10, 2022 13:00 - 29 minutesIn 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....
No More Stolen Sisters: Stopping the Abuse and Murder of Native Women and Girls
May 03, 2022 19:43 - 29 minutesMay 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. ******************************* Jessica Alva. Khadija Rose Britton. H...
Nourishing the Future: Creating a Just and Healthy Food System for All
April 26, 2022 13:00 - 28 minutesCommunities 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. This is an episod...
Ecstatic Revolt: The New Mythos of Eve | V, formerly Eve Ensler
April 19, 2022 19:29 - 28 minutesAs 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 ve...
Plastic Planet: Stopping Big Oil, Big Plastic, and Big Misdirection
April 12, 2022 13:00 - 29 minutesAfter 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 pet...
Building the Solidarity Economy: Awakening to Our Mutuality and Shifting the Terrain of Power | Manuel Pastor
April 05, 2022 13:00 - 29 minutesAt 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 an...
Breaking the Male Code: The Tyranny of Masculinity | Tony Porter, Dallas Goldtooth, George Lipsitz and Eve Ensler
March 29, 2022 13:00 - 27 minutesTo 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 ...
California Genocide and Resilience with Corrina Gould PT. 1
March 25, 2022 07:31 - 28 minutesCalifornia 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...
Indigenous Rising: From Alcatraz to Standing Rock
March 08, 2022 20:44 - 29 minutesHistory 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/ Fea...
They Don’t Call Her Mother Earth for Nothing: Women Re-imagining the World | Alice Walker, Joanna Macy and others
March 01, 2022 14:00 - 28 minutesTransformational 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, Sar...
Why Equity is Good for Everyone: Changing the Story, Changing the World | john a. powell & Heather McGhee
February 15, 2022 14:00 - 29 minutesHow 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....
Bending Toward Justice: The Arc of Black Lives Matter | Patrisse Cullors
February 08, 2022 21:00 - 29 minutesThere 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 dese...
Whale Whisperers: Making Deep Contact | James Nestor
February 01, 2022 14:00 - 28 minutesIn 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 Keyno...
Tattooing the River: People, Place and the Art of Diversity
February 01, 2022 07:00 - 29 minutesAward-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.
Natural Magic: The Earth Hospitality Enterprise - ONE HOUR SPECIAL
February 01, 2022 07:00 - 59 minutesNatural 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 ...
Next Gen Farmers: A Land-Loving Story | Severine v T Fleming
January 25, 2022 14:00 - 27 minutesIn 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 farm...
We're All Chimps: Or Are Animals People Too? | Deborah and Roger Fouts
January 18, 2022 21:16 - 27 minutesIn 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
January 05, 2022 05:48 - 29 minutesFrom 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 e...
A Return to Wholeness: Storytelling as a Healing Art | Rachel Naomi Remen
January 01, 2022 07:00 - 29 minutes“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 ...
Digital Democracy: The Cyberworld of Citizen Activism | Brad Friedman, John Stauber, and Joan Blades
January 01, 2022 07:00 - 28 minutesGarbage 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 ...
Connecting the Drops: Restoring Ecology and Social Ecology in Los Angeles | Andy Lipkis
January 01, 2022 07:00 - 29 minutesCould 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.
Cuba’s Organic Agriculture: Aberration or Model for the World? | Kevin Danaher, Greg Watson, and Anuradha Mittal
January 01, 2022 07:00 - 1 hourCuba 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 Da...
Digital Media: Collaboration and Movement Building in a Data-Driven Society | Matthew Monahan, Ben Knight, Edward West, and Ingrid Sanders
January 01, 2022 07:00 - 1 hourTo 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.
Bending Toward Justice: The Arc of Black Lives Matter
January 01, 2022 07:00 - 29 minutesIn 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 ...
Eco-Governance | Kirsten Schwind, Jessie Lerner, and Trathen Heckman
January 01, 2022 07:00 - 1 hourWhat 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.
Formless Warriors: 21st Century Wisdom from Old-Growth Cultures | Enei Begaye, Dune Lankard and Hawk Rosales
January 01, 2022 07:00 - 29 minutesFor 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 know...
Cultivating Dynamic Power, Catalyzing the Movement | J. Miakoda Taylor
January 01, 2022 07:00 - 1 hourWhat 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.
Education for Sustainability | Kirk Bergstrom, Jaimie Cloud, and Linda Booth Sweeney
January 01, 2022 07:00 - 1 hourConnect 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.
Ecological Design: On the Ground and in the Water | John Todd & David Orr
January 01, 2022 07:00 - 29 minutesJohn 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?"
All Love Begins with Seeing: Poetry and Justice for All | Shailja Patel
January 01, 2022 07:00 - 28 minutesShailja 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 beautif...
Ecological Medicine: Healing Health Care | Andrew Weil, M.D. & Charlotte Brody
January 01, 2022 07:00 - 29 minutesDid 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
January 01, 2022 07:00 - 29 minutesWhat 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.
Aligning Profits with the Public Good: The Future of Impact Investing
January 01, 2022 07:00 - 1 hourHow 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 Powe...
Climate Intensive – Natural Systems And Working Lands
January 01, 2022 07:00 - 58 minutesClimate 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, Schu...
Becoming Fully Human: The Covenant of the Original Instructions | Winona LaDuke, John Trudell and Evon Peter
January 01, 2022 07:00 - 29 minutesThe 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 tran...
Globalocal: The Migration of Grassroots Solutions | Mallika Dutt, Jay Vavra & Shannon Horst
January 01, 2022 07:00 - 28 minutesInnovations 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 Hor...
From Soap Operas to Avatars: Digital Diplomacy and Making Fiction into Fact | Rita J. King and Joshua S. Fouts
January 01, 2022 07:00 - 29 minutesImagine 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 ...
A Fantastic Object: Social Capitalism and the United States of Europe | Steven Hill
January 01, 2022 07:00 - 29 minutes“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 Eur...