Bioneers: Revolution From the Heart of Nature
520 episodes - English - Latest episode: 11 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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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.
The Art of Relationships: From Ecology to Healing | Fritjof Capra, Jeannette Armstrong. and Jeanne Achterberg
January 01, 2022 07:00 - 29 minutesEcology 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.
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?"
Lifting Women’s Voices in the Media: Tools, Models and Practices
January 01, 2022 07:00 - 1 hourJoin 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...
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.
The End of Sustainability: The Environment as a Human Right | Paul Hawken
January 01, 2022 07:00 - 29 minutesA 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 Karmic Moment: Why Men Must Step Up Now to End Rape Culture | Eve Ensler
January 01, 2022 07:00 - 6 minutesIn 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 ...
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.
Kimberlé Crenshaw on the Origins of the #SayHerName Campaign
January 01, 2022 07:00 - 11 minutesAt 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.
True Biotechnologies: Nature’s Best Climate Change Solutions | Janine Benyus, Stephan Dewar, David Orr and Jay Harman
January 01, 2022 07:00 - 29 minutesSome 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.
Race and Place: A Birthright to Creation | Greg Watson, Martha Arguello & Carl Anthony
January 01, 2022 07:00 - 29 minutesIt’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.
The Golden Rule: Restoring the Earth by Restoring Human Dignity | Paul Hawken
January 01, 2022 07:00 - 29 minutes"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 in...
The Healing Potential of Psychedelics: Breakthroughs in Research
January 01, 2022 07:00 - 1 hourAfter 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 ...
Indigenous Visionary Plant Traditions
January 01, 2022 07:00 - 1 hourFirst 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 Sa...
Don’t Fence Me In: Linked Landscapes, Citizen Science and Wild Nature | Justin Brashares and Mary Ellen Hannibal
January 01, 2022 07:00 - 28 minutesAs 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.
A Love That Is Wild: Why Wilderness Matters in the 21st Century | Terry Tempest Williams
January 01, 2022 07:00 - 29 minutesWriter, 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. Find out more about Terry Tempest Williams and how you can engage with her c...
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.
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.
Bread and Roses: Time Poverty, Super-Wealth and the Politics of Happiness - Annie Leonard and John de Graaf
January 01, 2022 07:00 - 28 minutesAt 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 ...
Farmacology - Soil Health And Medicine | Daphne Miller, Timothy J. LaSalle, Josh Whiton, and Arty Mangan
January 01, 2022 07:00 - 1 hourDaphne 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 far...
Art as a Vehicle for Social Change: Edge-Walking with Favianna Rodriguez
January 01, 2022 07:00 - 1 hourIn 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.
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 ...
A Fork in the Road: Make Friends with a Farmer | Michael Ableman
January 01, 2022 07:00 - 29 minutesLocal, 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
Designing a World for the 100%, by the 100% | Elizabeth Thompson, Erin Meezan, Jane Harrison, and Dawn Danby
January 01, 2022 07:00 - 1 hourLeading 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, Autod...
Shamans Through Time: Tricksters, Healers, Voodoo Priests and Anthropologists
January 01, 2022 07:00 - 1 hourWith 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. Ar...
Indigenize the Law: Tribal Rights of Nature Movements - PT 2 | Casey Camp-Horinek
December 10, 2021 14:00 - 39 minutesThis 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 tin...
Democracy vs Plutocracy: Behind Every Great Fortune Lies a Great Crime | Thom Hartmann, Stacy Mitchell & Maurice BP-Weeks
December 07, 2021 20:46 - 29 minutesIn 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
November 30, 2021 14:00 - 28 minutes“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
November 16, 2021 14:00 - 34 minutesThe 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 Rig...
The Green New Deal: Launching the Great Transformation | Demond Drummer & Tom Hayden
November 03, 2021 23:46 - 28 minutesAs 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
October 26, 2021 13:00 - 28 minutesNative 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
October 19, 2021 13:00 - 28 minutesDeep 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
October 08, 2021 20:33 - 30 minutesHey 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 CE...
Indigenous Women Rising: Upholding the Hoop of Life
October 05, 2021 19:46 - 28 minutesFrom 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...
Jaguars, Goats and Acequias: Cultivating the Landscape of a Wild Earth | Lani Malmberg, Miguel Santistevan & Peter Warshall
September 28, 2021 13:00 - 28 minutesDo 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 bril...
Blue Revolution: Regenerative Ocean Farming | Bren Smith
September 14, 2021 13:00 - 29 minutesIn 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.
Leading From the Feminine: Keepers of the Cradle of Life
September 07, 2021 13:00 - 54 minutesWhat 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.
Vice to Virtue: From Carbon Crisis to Carbon Farming | Calla Rose Ostrander and John Wick
August 31, 2021 13:00 - 27 minutesHow 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 ...
Cultural Mindshift: Full Spectrum Sustainability and Resilience
August 24, 2021 13:00 - 28 minutesClimate 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.
Climbing Out of the Man Box: What Does Healthy Manhood Look Like?
August 18, 2021 00:25 - 29 minutesThere 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.
Nature’s Phoenix: Fire As Medicine
August 03, 2021 13:00 - 27 minutesContemporary 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.
The Apology: Love Means Having to Say You’re Sorry | Eve Ensler
July 27, 2021 13:00 - 29 minutesThey 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 ...
Who Is an American? Is Our Democracy As Unequal As Our Economy? | Heather McGhee
July 20, 2021 13:00 - 28 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...
Tribe of the New Flame: The Agroecology Revolution | Miguel Altieri & Alex Eaton
July 06, 2021 15:36 - 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 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 found...
Backlash Moment: Converging at the Crossroads of Identity and Justice | Kimberlé Crenshaw
June 22, 2021 13:00 - 27 minutesWhen 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. Vis...
When Truth is Dangerous: The Power of Independent Media | Monika Bauerlein & Amy Goodman
June 15, 2021 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 ...
Got Dirt? Get Soil! Ditch the Plow, Cover Up and Grow Diversity | Anne Biklé & David Montgomery
June 07, 2021 16:00 - 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 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 eve...
We’re a Culture, Not a Costume: Fighting Racism in Schools | Dahkota Brown, Chiitaanibah Johnson, Jayden Lim, & Naelyn Pike
May 25, 2021 19:54 - 28 minutesNative 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
May 18, 2021 19:41 - 28 minutesIf 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
May 11, 2021 13:00 - 29 minutesForests 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 o...