Bioneers: Revolution From the Heart of Nature | Bioneers Radio Series show

Bioneers: Revolution From the Heart of Nature | Bioneers Radio Series

Summary: The Bioneers: Revolution from the Heart of Nature is an award-winning annual 13-part radio and audio 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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 Beloved Community: Hello, My Other Self - Ilarion "Larry" Merculieff and Guadalupe Avila | Bioneers Radio Series XI (2011) | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 28:30

Hello, My Other Self. In todays radically shifting world, the name of the game is resilience - the capacity of both human and ecological systems to absorb disturbance, roll with the punches and come up standing. Resilience arises from building community - enduring relationships and networks that hold cultural memory in the same way seeds regenerate a forest after a fire. Indigenous leaders Ilarion Larry Merculieff and Guadalupe Avila come from old-growth cultures that have sustained community over centuries and millennia.

 Globalocal: The Migration of Grassroots Solutions - Mallika Dutt, Jay Vavra and Shannon Horst | Bioneers Radio Series XI (2011) | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 27:30

The Migration of Grassroots Solutions. Innovations 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 Horst employs holistic rangeland management techniques to stop the spread of deserts in Africa, the U.S. and worldwide. Whats spreading fastest is hope

 Bread and Roses: Time Poverty, Super-Wealth and the Politics of Happiness - Annie Leonard and John de Graaf | Bioneers Radio Series XI (2011) | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 28:30

Time Poverty, Super-Wealth and the Politics of Happiness. At the same time the Great Recession has inflicted enormous pain and suffering, it has also caused people to take a deeper look at whats 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: Whats the economy for, anyway? Is it a voracious cycle of perpetual growth and more stuff? Or can we create growth within the natural limits of the planet to produce sufficiency, a high quality of life and real happiness?!

 All Love Begins with Seeing: Poetry and Justice for All - Shailja Patel | Bioneers Radio Series XI (2011) | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 28:30

Poetry and Justice for All. Shailja Patels 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 beautiful to be denied.

 From Slavery to Stardust: What Would Healing Look Like? - Thomas DeWolf, Belvie Rooks and Dedan Gills | Bioneers Radio Series XI (2011) | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 28:30

What Would Healing Look Like? Whats it like to be in someone elses skin? What if the color of the skin is different say, black and white? What might happen when the descendants of a white slave trader and of black people who were enslaved meet?That is the brave and wrenching journey embraced by Thomas DeWolf, whose white ancestors were once the nations biggest slave traders, and Belvie Rooks and Dedan Gills, descendants of African people who were enslaved. Together they depict their remarkable journey to discover what healing looks like

 An Oil Spill Runs Through It: Corporate Power and the Sliming of American Democracy - Jeff Clements, John Bonifaz and Dr. Riki Ott | Bioneers Radio Series XI (2011) | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 27:29

Corporate Power and the Sliming of American Democracy. Some say the modern environmental movement was born in an oil spill in April 1970. Enraged by the first television images of the massive crude oil spill off the pristine Santa Barbara coast, 20 million Americans took to the streets chanting with one voice: Protect Mother Earth. Constitutional attorneys Jeff Clements and John Bonifaz join with biologist and democracy advocate Dr. Riki Ott to explore new strategies to overcome the relentless fight put up by big oil and big business. Could it mean a 28th Amendment to the Constitution?

 The Organic Revolution: From Hippie to Hip to Scale - Gary Hirshberg | Bioneers Radio Series XI (2011) | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 28:30

From 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, Hirshberg has demonstrated that environmentally and socially responsible business can also be profitable.

 Education for Action: Reinventing Everything - David Orr, Anthony Cortese and Jess Rimington | Bioneers Radio Series XI (2011) | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 28:30

Reinventing Everything. Perhaps the single greatest systems error of human civilization is the illusion that people are somehow separate from nature not subject to the ground rules for the rest of the web of life. As a result, were getting an environmental education the hard way -- because when you fight nature, you lose. Join ecoliteracy leaders David Orr and Dr. Anthony Cortese and young educational social entrepreneur Jess Rimington for an inspiring teach-in on how educators and students are creating a living curriculum for an engaged society thats solving problems while studying them.

 Future Generations Are Screaming: The Clean Energy Climate Challenge - Susan Marshall, John Fogarty, Alec Loorz and James Hansen | Bioneers Radio Series XI (2011) | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 27:30

The 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 their lives. NASAandapos;s chief climatologist James Hansen says theres still time.

 Beloved Community: Hello, My Other Self - Ilarion "Larry" Merculieff and Guadalupe Avila | Bioneers Radio Series XI (2011) | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 27:24

Hello, My Other Self. In todays radically shifting world, the name of the game is resilience - the capacity of both human and ecological systems to absorb disturbance, roll with the punches and come up standing. Resilience arises from building community - enduring relationships and networks that hold cultural memory in the same way seeds regenerate a forest after a fire. Indigenous leaders Ilarion Larry Merculieff and Guadalupe Avila come from old-growth cultures that have sustained community over centuries and millennia.

 From Slavery to Stardust: What Would Healing Look Like? - Thomas DeWolf, Belvie Rooks and Dedan Gills | Bioneers Radio Series XI (2011) | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 27:14

What Would Healing Look Like? Whats it like to be in someone elses skin? What if the color of the skin is different say, black and white? What might happen when the descendants of a white slave trader and of black people who were enslaved meet?That is the brave and wrenching journey embraced by Thomas DeWolf, whose white ancestors were once the nations biggest slave traders, and Belvie Rooks and Dedan Gills, descendants of African people who were enslaved. Together they depict their remarkable journey to discover what healing looks like

 Tears in the Eyes: Dr. Jane Goodall's Reasons for Hope - Dr. Jane Goodall | Bioneers Radio Series XI (2011) | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 27:19

Rainbow in the Heart: Dr. Jane Goodalls Reasons for Hope. The visionary primatologist and conservationist Dr. Jane Goodall revolutionized primatology and helped us realize how close our kinship is with the animal kin-dom. It has been 50 years since Dr. Jane, as shes affectionately known, began her intensive solitary studies of chimp behavior In Africas Gombe National Forest and inspired the world to save the rapidly dwindling populations and their habitats. Today her compelling vision in action to restore people, animals and planet is delivering real hope.

 From Slavery to Stardust: What Would Healing Look Like? - Thomas DeWolf, Belvie Rooks and Dedan Gills | Bioneers Radio Series XI (2011) | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 28:30

What Would Healing Look Like? Whats it like to be in someone elses skin? What if the color of the skin is different say, black and white? What might happen when the descendants of a white slave trader and of black people who were enslaved meet?That is the brave and wrenching journey embraced by Thomas DeWolf, whose white ancestors were once the nations biggest slave traders, and Belvie Rooks and Dedan Gills, descendants of African people who were enslaved. Together they depict their remarkable journey to discover what healing looks like

 Education for Action: Reinventing Everything - David Orr, Anthony Cortese and Jess Rimington | Bioneers Radio Series XI (2011) | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 27:15

Reinventing Everything. Perhaps the single greatest systems error of human civilization is the illusion that people are somehow separate from nature not subject to the ground rules for the rest of the web of life. As a result, were getting an environmental education the hard way -- because when you fight nature, you lose. Join ecoliteracy leaders David Orr and Dr. Anthony Cortese and young educational social entrepreneur Jess Rimington for an inspiring teach-in on how educators and students are creating a living curriculum for an engaged society thats solving problems while studying them.

 Women and Power: "Power Over" or "Power To"? - Gloria Feldt and Reinette Senum | Bioneers Radio Series XI (2011) | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 27:28

Power Over or Power To? The future belongs to women. Around the world, women are inspiring each other to envision a world where women lead, but quite differently. Women are spontaneously redefining power and shaping it in novel ways. According to social justice advocate Gloria Feldt and community advocate Reinette Senum, leadership begins inside with power to rather than power over. How is the leadership of women benefitting us all?

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