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Eco-Nomics
Bioneers Newsletter 9.11.25 — On 9/21, let’s prove that the solar movement can’t be stopped

The world is turning to the sun. On Sun Day, we’ll show that no political setback can block the clean energy future.

Eco-Nomics
Sun Day 2025: Deborah Moore on Building a Nationwide Movement for Clean Energy

Third Act strategist Deborah Moore shares how Sun Day is mobilizing communities across the U.S. to demand clean energy solutions — and how you can be part of it.

Ecological Medicine
Inside the Wild Pharmacy: How Chimpanzees Use Medicinal Plants and Why It Matters for Us

When researcher Elodie Freymann set out to study how chimpanzees use the forest as a medicine cabinet, she uncovered surprising connections between animal and human health — and why protecting these shared resources is critical for our future.

Food and Farming
Real Organic: An Interview with Linley Dixon, Co-Director, Real Organic Project

Linley Dixon is a soil scientist and organic farmer who also worked evaluating the materials that organic farmers use. That’s when she learned of the USDA’s failure to enforce important aspects of the organic law and became a leader the fight to keep organic real.

Eco-Nomics
Bioneers Newsletter 8.28.25 — A Call to Action: Resisting Oligarchy, Reclaiming Democracy

Billionaires, courts, and corporate power are rewriting the rules — but the fight isn’t over.

Justice
Reclaiming Democracy in 2025: 7 Powerful Lessons in Civic Participation

What will it take to fix our democracy? Four civic leaders share seven powerful lessons on reimagining public service, building community power, and making change from the inside out.

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Justice
Supreme Oligarchy: How Billionaires and the Supreme Court are Betraying the Promise of America
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Author, broadcaster and scholar Thom Hartmann warns of the existential threat of a virulent new oligarchy: the third frontal assault by the ultra-wealthy in American history to use their concentrated economic power to seize maximum political power - and overthrow democracy once and for all.

Nature, Culture and Spirit
How Elephants Call Each Other by Name: Joyce Poole on a Lifetime of Listening

In this moving conversation, elephant behaviorist Joyce Poole shares the groundbreaking discovery that reshapes how we understand language, memory, and the deep intelligence of one of Earth’s most extraordinary species.

Food and Farming
Regenerative Landscaper: An Interview with Permaculture Designer Erik Ohlsen

Erik Ohlsen, author of the award-winning book, "Regenerative Landscaper," talks about his activism, and how a healing crisis redirected his life and put him on the path to become a permaculture designer and entrepreneur. He also shares his approach to landscape design and how humans can become an ecological keystone species and a positive force on the land.

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