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In this age of global weirding where climate disruption has tumbled the Goldilocks effect into unruly surges of too much... more

History doesn’t repeat itself, but it rhymes. From the historic Indigenous occupation of Alcatraz Island in 1969 to the fossil... more

In this episode, Indigenous scholar and organizer Nick Estes explores how Indigenous land-based and Earth-centered societies are advancing regenerative solutions... more

What will it take to begin to heal the deep wounds between women and men? What is the role of... more

After accomplished stints as a journalist, author and diplomat, and studying theology at Yale Divinity School, Krista Tippett was struck... more

Through colonization, hyper capitalism, and unaddressed trauma, many of us have forgotten how to play our part in the orchestra... more

When we allow our hearts to be broken open by hearing the stories of our fellow human beings, we build... more

Dr. Shane Gero, a visionary marine biologist, is angling to crack the code of sperm whale communication. His mind-bending research... more

Native American students face racism throughout their education, from racist mascots to the historical erasure of the American genocide from... more

These days, scientists are starting to talk like shamans and shamans are starting to talk like scientists. So says anthropologist... more

Yurok fisherman and tribal leader Sammy Gensaw and environmental scientist-turned-activist Craig Tucker share the epic story of how Indigenous leadership... more

In this episode, award-winning lawyer and climate justice organizer Colette Pichon-Battle lays out a bold vision for a new organizing... more

Housing is a human right, or so says the International Declaration of Human Rights. But could we organize our economies... more

In this episode on community wealth building, we look at how communities are working to transform their local economies by... more

Today’s corporate, capitalist economy is radically unequal, ecologically unsustainable, and embedded in recurring boom-and-bust cycles of crisis. Not surprisingly, people... more

In this special episode of the Bioneers, guest host Laura Flanders explores “Community Wealth Building,” a model that democratizes the... more

In this moment of radical transformation, shifting the societal pronoun from “me, me, me” to “we” may be the single... more

What does it mean to bring the “feminine” forward in leadership from diverse cultural and ethnic perspectives? How might a... more

Ever since women won the right to vote in 1920, women leaders and their allies have sought to pass an... more

Global healing requires a spiritual transformation of every aspect of life. Rabbi Michael Lerner of Tikkun Magazine, author/educator Matthew Fox... more

History doesn’t repeat itself, but it rhymes. From the historic Indigenous occupation of Alcatraz Island in 1969 to the fossil... more

We plug into the real world Matrix – the digital Wild West of surveillance capitalism that dominates this Age of... more

Labor organizer and Founder of One Fair Wage, Saru Jayaraman, takes us inside one of the fiercest labor struggles to... more

In a world that’s unraveling from climate disruption and gaping inequality, another climate crisis confronts us: the climate of hate... more

Aligning business with biology, disruptive design uses systems thinking to create models that show what “good” really looks like. Two... more

By around 2044, the U.S. will become a majority-minority nation. This seismic demographic shift has triggered a cultural earthquake, provoking... more

Today, three to five giant corporations control up to 80% of almost every industry and marketplace. These monopolies depress wages,... more

To transform our culture from its focus on dominance and hierarchy to one of connection, empathy and collaboration, it’s vital... more

As a backlash against LGBTQ rights escalates into an authoritarian crusade, acclaimed author and queer activist Taylor Brorby asks how... more

In a world that’s unraveling from climate disruption and gaping inequality, another climate crisis confronts us: the climate of hate... more

At the core of our civilizational breakdown is an extractive economy that wastes both nature and people, at the same... more

There is a growing movement to redefine manhood, and to address ways that violence is baked into our cultural expectations... more

As we hurtle into the Sixth Age of Extinctions, we face the cataclysmic loss of half the world’s biological diversity.... more

Writer, naturalist and activist Terry Tempest Williams asks “Can we love ourselves, each other and the Earth enough to change?”... more

What’s it like to be in someone else’s skin? What if the color of the skin is different – say,... more

In this second of a two-part program, we plunge into the mind-bending proposition that we get a second chance to... more

Calling someone an “animal” means they’re less than human – not worthy of respect, rights, or even of life itself.... more

In this moment of radical transformation, shifting the societal pronoun from “me, me, me” to “we” may be the single... more

The Rights of Nature movement launched internationally in 2006 and is growing fast. Driven primarily by tribes and citizen-led communities,... more

As a backlash against LGBTQ rights escalates into an authoritarian crusade, acclaimed author and queer activist Taylor Brorby asks how... more

Forests have long occupied a fertile landscape in the human imagination. Places of mystery and magic – of wildness and... more

New, democratized access to powerful analytical and mapping tools is transforming our understanding of the natural world – and with... more

The influences of Africans and Black Americans on food and agriculture is rooted in ancestral African knowledge and traditions of... more

Visionary clean energy entrepreneur Danny Kennedy explores the promise and challenges of the epic civilizational transition to renewable energy. Without... more

Climate is the trip wire for every other foundational ecological and biological system – as well as the basis for... more

Our physical health is intimately tied to environmental health, as well as to our emotional and spiritual ecology. Visionary physician... more

What would it feel like to live in a world where our built environment was as elegant as nature's designs?... more

Although colonial systems of oppression have radically damaged relationships between tribal communities and their traditional lands, a new generation of... more

Leseliey Welch and Indra Lusero, parents and birth justice advocates, are helping to lead a movement to create community birth... more

Climate disruption is harmful to your health. Dr. Linda Rudolph and Dr. Barbara Sattler are showing how our success or... more

In this time of radical upheaval and change, fulfilling the promise of a “more perfect union” in the United States... more

Yurok fisherman and tribal leader Sammy Gensaw and environmental scientist-turned-activist Craig Tucker share the epic story of how Indigenous leadership... more

Native American students face racism throughout their education, from racist mascots to the historical erasure of the American genocide from... more

Erosion and evolution. Shadow and light. Death and rebirth. These are some of the strands that the acclaimed author, naturalist... more

Dr. Shane Gero, a visionary marine biologist, is angling to crack the code of sperm whale communication. His mind-bending research... more

“Art is not a mirror held up to reality, but a hammer with which to shape it.” (Bertolt Brecht). John Densmore,... more

World-renowned primatologist Professor Frans de Waal explores the nature of sex and gender among our cousins the apes, and how... more

We are told that our personal health is our individual responsibility based on our own choices. Yet, the biological truth... more

Contemporary Western fire science is integrating what Indigenous Peoples discovered over thousands of years of observation, and trial and error:... more

Ecuadorians have voted to ban oil drilling in one of the most biodiverse places on the planet, the Yasuní National Park, situated... more

What will it take to begin to heal the deep wounds between women and men? What is the role of... more

How does a virtue become a vice? How does a basic building block of life turn into a threat to... more

"Why plant a garden when you can put plants to work for you in your own body?" This is one... more

As a backlash against LGBTQ rights escalates into an authoritarian crusade, acclaimed author and queer activist Taylor Brorby asks how... more

Today, there’s a renaissance of independent journalism dedicated to holding power accountable. Political pressures are mounting to break up media... more

The profit-hungry agribusiness empire of the 20th century institutionalized farming practices that continue to degrade soils across the U.S. and... more

In a world that’s unraveling from climate disruption and gaping inequality, another climate crisis confronts us: the climate of hate... more

By around 2044, the U.S. will become a majority-minority nation. This seismic demographic shift has triggered a cultural earthquake, provoking... more

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What we do to each other, we do to the Earth. To protect our common home, we’re being called upon... more

After World War II, the U.S. government worked with industry to create a single-use, disposable consumer culture as a way... more

Youth movements are rising to restore people and planet. De’Anthony Jones, a former President of the Environmental Students Organization at Sacramento... more

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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.... more

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Did you ever ask yourself who in their right mind would invent a convenience to keep food fresh that would... more