Radio Series VII

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01-07 Nature’s Recipe Book: Life Shops at Home

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How would nature do it? Biomimicry is a revolutionary emerging science that models nature’s genius to design leading-edge technologies that work in harmony with nature, not against it. Janine Benyus, a “biologist at the design table,” shares mind-bending applications of nature’s time-tested recipes and survival tips. Transforming future technologies are the glue of the blue mussel, the beak of the kingfisher, and the interdependent roots of the Seven Sisters Oak.  Buy it!

02-07 Global Warming: A Climate of Peril and Promise

While human activity continues to devastate the atmosphere, a countervailing movement is afoot, evident in the deployment of alternative energy technologies and shifts in the design of our society. Author Bill McKibben portrays a hopeful vision of how Americans can achieve greater satisfaction—environmentally, culturally and spiritually—as addressing global warming improves our lives and relationships to community.  Buy it!

03-07 Thinking Like Cathedral Builders: Green Building for the Long Haul

Few people realize that poor design and inefficient buildings account for half America’s energy consumption and greenhouse gas emissions. Master builder John Abrams finds that tapping human ingenuity with a long view will serve future generations, the environment and the human spirit. The kind of green building Abrams employs necessarily addresses the architecture of communities, businesses and the human heart.  Buy it!

04-07 Making Tomorrow Today: The Power of Youth

Dynamic young people are surmounting considerable social and economic obstacles by following their dreams to create a better world. Jessica Rimington, Rhummanee Hang, Thenmozhi Soundararajan, Manuel Francisco, Caleb Ryen, Amalia Anderson, and Lily Dong are enlivening the horizon of positive possibilities with grace, courage and boundless creativity. They’ll settle for nothing less than justice, cultural preservation, and the defense of wild lands.  Buy it!

05-07 Going Local: From Wal-Mart to Small Mart

What are the hidden costs of lowest-cost products? Try socially irresponsible labor practices and environmental and community degradation, for starters. Author and economist Michael Shuman portrays how locally-owned businesses and localized economies are circulating innumerable benefits back into the community, while raising environmental quality and the quality of life.  Buy it!

06-07 Indigenous Peace Technologies: The Ancient Art of Getting Along

How do we create peace? What can we learn from indigenous societies who have addressed this profound question over thousands of years? From North America to the Kalahari, Jeannette Armstrong, Marlowe Sam, Evan Pritchard, Kxao =Oma and Megan Biesele share powerful stories of how indigenous social technologies have succeeded in resolving conflict, and still are.  Buy it!

07-07 A Fork in the Road: Make Friends with a Farmer

Local, 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 future food.
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08-07 Heart to Heart: Women’s Leadership in Transforming Culture

All too often, there’s a disconnect between how women are portrayed in popular culture and the media, and how women see and portray themselves. Sarah Crowell, Joanna Macy, Susan Griffin, Sofía Quintero and Akaya Windwood take apart gender politics and put them back together with the emotional intelligence that is shifting the definition of power and fostering new models of women’s leadership.  Buy it!

09-07 Green-Collar Justice: Another World Is Possible

One person’s trash is another person’s treasure, as the saying goes. Entrepreneur and activist Omar Freilla and “deconstruction” business owner Justin Green are solving for pattern: By working to eliminate waste, they are creating green collar jobs and improving the environment in some of the nation’s most underserved communities. 
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10-07 Forest Lifeboat: From Spirit Bears to Victoria’s Dirty Secret

How do you go from being a passionate tree-hugger to a business-suited change-maker on behalf of the forests? Enter ForestEthics program director Tzeporah Berman. With a string of conservation successes, including the “Amazon of the North,” her inspiring story shows how innovative market-based strategies, strange bedfellows, and public embarrassment are powerful tools to preserve the wild places that provide our essential ecosystem services. 
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11-07 War, Earth, and the Soul: The Warrior’s Path of Redemption

Is high-tech war that can annihilate human civilization and nature on a global scale really a viable response to conflict in the 21^st century? The traumatic wounding of war is so deep that it calls for more than antidepressants or stress management. Dr. Edward Tick’s heart-rending experience shows us that transforming the demons of war can lead to a redemptive path of healing and reverence for life.  Buy it!

12-07 Kicking the Habit: Sugar, Fat and Junk-Food Junkies

You do what you eat. Groundbreaking medical research now shows that what we eat is directly connected to how we behave. Maggie Adamek’s research for The Sugar Project tracks how the changing American diet has made profound health impacts on behavior, especially among our children. Transforming how we feed ourselves is showing that food is medicine that can change negative behavior dramatically.  Buy it!

13-07 Intelligence In Nature: Coming Full Circle

What do octopuses, bees, plants and slime molds have in common with human beings? For one thing, they exhibit the ability to solve problems and make decisions. Author and anthropologist Jeremy Narby reveals his astonishing research on the profound intelligence active throughout nature. After all, how could people be intelligent if the nature that created us were not even more intelligent?  Buy it!

Radio Series VI

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Part 1: Nature Heals All Wounds: Spirals, Seashells and Molecular Architecture
In the burgeoning field of biomimicry, Bioneers are designing a technological civilization that harmonizes with nature’s operating instructions. Inventor Jay Harman models the forms and dynamics of water with astounding results. Chemist Paul Anastas is re-inventing “Green Chemistry” that transforms how we make things. Imitating nature is paying off for the economy, people and the planet.  Buy It!

Part 2: Surviving Climate Change: Plants, People and Place
How secure is a far-flung global economy—and our food supply—in a time of climate change? Native American historian John Mohawk explores how civilizations have coped with previous Earth changes, or have collapsed. Seedsman and author Gary Nabhan expresses the power of restoring reciprocal relationships with the foods we eat. Both present compelling perspectives for conserving our collective knowledge of our relationship to plants, and for looking to the local.
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Part 3: Time is Not Money: Waking from the Workaholic American Dream
What are the most precious resources on Earth? Oil? Gold? Water? Is time our real gold? Author Vicki Robin faced a life-threatening illness and awakened to the true value of time. John De Graaf, producer of the film and book Affluenza, charts how U.S. residents spend time very differently from Europeans. What would the alternative to overwork and the workaholic American dream look like?  Buy It!

Part 4: Aligning Business with Biology: Breakthrough Eco-nomics
Bioneers are successful employing the market the economics of nature to demonstrate how we can solve two of our most intractable environmental challenges: energy and agriculture. In a few decades, the U.S. can get completely off oil, as physicist Amory Lovins compellingly shows. Economist and anthropologist Jason Clay presents profitable examples of modeling nature’s economics, from clean shrimp farms in Asia to healthy potatoes in Wisconsin.  Buy It!

Part 5: Hear Me, Don’t Fear Me: Youth Jam Future
Wisdom comes from the mouths of babes, as the saying goes. Experience the inspiring chorus of young people standing strong today in defense of their future, the Earth, and justice. We hear the eloquent voices of change-maker Severn Cullis-Suzuki, indigenous youth leader Clayton Thomas-Müller, writer Will Roy, filmmaker Chaille Stovall, and poet Drew Dellinger.  Buy It!

Part 6: Who’s Got Next? Cultivating Feminine-Centered Leadership in a Post Hip- Hop Era
Can young women and women of all ages act—personally or politically—with strength, courage and dignity from a place of internalized self-loathing? Entrepreneur, musician and performance artist Rha Goddess offers an alternative: the celebration, empowerment, healing and transformation of humanity through the uplifting of the hearts, minds, and souls of young women.  Buy It!

Part 7: The Clash of Civilizations: Liberation Ecology and the New Superpower
There is indeed a clash of civilizations, today between a sustainable civilization and a disposable one. Author and social entrepreneur Paul Hawken identifies a new superpower: the mighty river of global popular movements with real solutions. He tracks the unprecedented phenomenon of this biggest movement in the history of the world, the diverse face of a rising new culture of restoration, of reconciliation, of healing.  Buy It!

Part 8: Mother Ocean: Every Breath We Take
Mother Ocean, the very source of life, the keystone of the planet’s complex ecological balance and climate, today stands in dire peril. The world-renowned oceanographer Sylvia Earle reminds us of the imperative of protecting and restoring the ocean. Marine biologist Wallace J. Nichols illustrates how the “Ocean Revolution” led by countless heroes worldwide is working to restore and conserve the creatures and life of the seas.  Buy It!

Part 9: Transforming Tragedy: Linking Personal with Planetary Healing
As every person now carries a “body burden” of toxic chemicals, it’s inescapably evident that what we do to our surroundings ends up back in our cells. We are the environment. Environmental health visionary Michael Lerner believes that environmental health will be the central human rights issue of the 21st century. The wounds we all carry in our bodies are the same the wounds we inflict on the Earth. A global movement is now arising for healing both person and planet.  Buy It!

Part 10: On the Ground of Democracy: The Second American Revolution
Genetically engineered plants. Big box stores. Social-security privatization. Animal factory farms. Attorney Thomas Linzey says that the pattern that connects all of these is corporations. With his help, the unlikeliest people in the unlikeliest of places are successfully challenging corporate authority, re-writing the laws of the land, and reclaiming democracy and their environment.  Buy It!

Part 11: We are the Land: The Compact of Kinship
Most Americans agree that the environment must be protected. But what do we mean when we say “environment?” Native peoples say that our sense of connection to the land, expressed in our good wishes to protect the environment, needs to go deeper. Restoring that connection to salmon, elk, rivers, and the land are Native American ecologists and educators Dennis Martinez, Jeanette Armstrong, and Enrique Salmón. They know in their bones that we’re all relatives.  Buy It!

Part 12: Frame or Get Framed: When Stories Change, the World Changes
Estate Tax or Death Tax? Living Wage or Right To Work? Debates are not decided on the virtue of the facts or the science. These days someone is always framing the issue. Author, broadcaster and psychotherapist Thom Hartmann says we cannot overestimate the double-edged importance of stories in our lives.  Buy It!

Part 13: How Close Does It Have to Get? The Open Space of Democracy
In her writing and her life, Terry Tempest Williams reflects an expression of something better and higher in each of us. Here she wrestles with the question: “What are you willing to die for?” She weaves stories of personal loss and triumph that illuminate the idea that, perhaps, in the end, democracy is about listening—deeply, openly, even with a broken heart. Because, she says, the heart is the first home of democracy.  Buy It!

Radio Series V

Revolution from the Heart of Nature: Radio Series V

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Part 1: Close Encounters of the Biological Kind: Learning from the Locals

Nature bats last, but more importantly, it's her playing field. Wouldn't it be wise to learn the ground rules and how to play by them? Join naturalist Janine Benyus as she describes her exploration of biomimicry, the art of imitating nature's evolutionary genius to serve human ends harmlessly. What can the Namibian beetle teach us about coping with drought?  Buy It!

Part 2: You Are Where You Eat: Trans-farming Urban Food and Growing Community

LaDonna Redmond and Wil Bullock live in communities where 12-year-olds suffer heart attacks, and where it's easier to buy a semi-automatic weapon than an organic tomato. But they are changing that reality, providing access to fresh, healthy foods, and re-establishing the connections between food and community.  Buy It!

Part 3: A Thing Unseen: The New Superpower of Global Popular Movements

Despite its apparent dominance, is globalization a house of cards? With world opinion against it rising, globalization appears to be unraveling. Maude Barlow describes her experience in Cancun at the WTO Summit; Tom Hayden marks the birth of the next global superpower; and Holly Near invokes the spirit of a rising in the world.  Buy It!

Part 4: The Next Wave of Women and Power: Cultivating Women's Leadership

Young women across the U.S. are stepping boldly into their power. From the heart of Native American and urban communities, this generation of engaged women is taking leadership beyond old models of hierarchy and self-sacrifice. Vickie Downey, Rha Goddess and Lateefah Simon express the soul and passion at the center of new collaborative, egalitarian approaches to promoting positive social and environmental change.  Buy It!

Part 5: All My Relations: Indigenous Vision

In these ecologically dangerous times, many call for a fundamental change of heart if we are to restore vital ecosystems. Oren Lyons, Leslie Gray and John Mohawk remind us of the values that sustained people for thousands of years in a balance that supported the land. They offer direction toward nothing less than a value change for survival.  Buy It!

Part 6: Connecting the Drops (Designing the Way Out)

Could Los Angeles stop draining water from the Colorado River and 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.  Buy It!

Part 7: Tattooing the River: People, Place and the Art of Diversity

Award-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.  Buy It!

Part 8: Blue Gold: Who Owns the Rain?

As water tables plummet and a billion of us lack access to clean water, large global corporations are gearing up to charge us for the rain. Changemaker Maude Barlow describes how companies are turning water into a commodity; and we hear from Nancy Price about what people are doing around the world to stop it.  Buy It!

Part 9: Seeing the Forest for the Trees: An Ecology of the Heart

Nine out of ten Americans strongly favor wilderness protection, but federal policy actually threatens such preservation. In her decades of work at the U.S. Forest Service, Gloria Flora faced threats and harassment as she tried to protect the forest commons. She tells us that in order to sustain landscapes, we need to sustain ourselves, and in order to sustain ourselves, we need to sustain landscapes.  Buy It!

Part 10: Think Globally, Act Non-Locally: Prayer, Healing and Fertility

Can consciousness change the actual outside physical world at a distance? Dr. Larry Dossey says it can. He describes how major scientific studies are revealing the healing power of intercessory prayer and distant intentionality. The revolutionary environmental implications of these studies in the field of medicine are just beginning to be understood.  Buy It!

Part 11: Light at the Crossroads: Environment Meets Social Justice

Environmental destruction leads to scarcity and scarcity leads to conflict, so restoring the environment is key to peace. Yet those working for the environment and those working for social justice have not linked arms until recently. Van Jones invites us to bring down the social walls that we ourselves have built, and work together to counter the timeworn strategy of divide and conquer that benefits ruling elites.  Buy It!

Part 12: A Sense of Wonder: Ecological Literacy and the Facts of Life

Does our very survival now depend on our ability to understand the facts of life - nature's operating instructions - and how to live by them? Join the Center for Ecoliteracy's Fritjof Capra, Zenobia Barlow and Esther Cook to learn how experiential, participatory education in the environment is revolutionizing education from kindergarten through high school through an education of the heart.  Buy It!

Part 13: Unembedding the Media: Going Where the Silence Is

Today, a mere eight corporations control over 70 percent of the world's media. Journalist and radio broadcaster Thom Hartmann reminds us that until recently the media were part of the commons, protected by government for the public good. Executive producer and host of Democracy Now! Amy Goodman says that how the media uses the public airwaves is up to us.  Buy It!

Radio Series IV

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PART 1: THE ALPHABET VS. THE GODDESS – HOW THE TECHNOLOGY OF IMAGES IS FEMINIZING THE PLANET AND RESTORING THE ENVIRONMENT

Is it just a coincidence that the wholesale destruction of the environment paralleled the decline of Goddess-worshipping cultures and the traditional power of women in society? Author and surgeon Leonard Shlain provocatively attributes both to the rise of alphabetic literacy. Buy It!

PART 2: ECOLOGICAL MEDICINE – HEALING HEALTH CARE

Did 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. Buy It!

PART 3: ECOLOGICAL DESIGN – THE ARCHITECTURE OF NATURE AND DEMOCRACY

John Todd, an ecological designer in the field of biomimicry, imitates nature’s evolutionary genius to serve human ends harmlessly by 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?" Buy It!

PART 4: ORGANIC AND BEYOND – TOWARD THE DE-INDUSTRIALIZATION OF AGRICULTURE

The biology of farming is complex and requires attentiveness to nature’s own ways of doing things, characterized by interdependence of relationships. Author and attorney Andrew Kimbrell is leading the Organic and Beyond Movement—a food revolution that offers health and food security for future generations and rejects the destructive industrial food production model. Buy It!

PART 5: THE TROJAN GENE – GENETIC ENGINEERING AND THE FUTURE OF NATURE

A handful of profit-driven biotechnology corporations are rewriting the genetic code of the tree of life, radically altering the composition of our food and releasing self-replicating genetic pollution into the natural world. Farmer Percy Schmeiser, technology expert Andrew Kimbrell, and Native American professor and farmer John Mohawk explore the implications of genetic engineering on the food we eat, the farmers who raise our food, the natural world and society. Buy It!

PART 6: THE ART OF RELATIONSHIPS – FROM ECOLOGY TO HEALING

Ecology 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. Buy It!

PART 7: WHO'S IN CHARGE? HOW COMMUNITIES ARE OUTLAWING CORPORATE FACTORY FARMING

Why can powerful corporations legally pollute communities and override local decision making? Attorney Tom Linzey is working to restore democracy by challenging the underlying laws and assumptions that give corporations civil rights without civil responsibilities. Buy It!

PART 8: RACE AND PLACE – A BIRTHRIGHT TO CREATION

It’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 well-being of both their places and their health.
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PART 9: PEACE MEANS COMING BACK TO THE TABLE – TRANSFORMING URBAN WAR ZONES

War is a daily reality for many people living in the inner city, and restoring the environment starts by first restoring people. Aqeela Sherrills from Watts in South Central Los Angeles, who brokered the historic peace treaty between the notorious gangs the Crips and the Bloods, sees that model now spreading across the country and the world.
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PART 10: RESTORING LIFE'S FABRIC – THE BIOLOGICAL BOTTOM LINE

Is the economy the most important thing? Canadian geneticist, author, and television producer David Suzuki says the economy is just a subset of ecology. Drawing on native wisdom and state-of-the-art science, he vividly demonstrates that what we do to what surrounds us, we do to ourselves, and suggests how to restore the fabric of the biosphere. Buy It!

PART 11: RETURNING TO THE ROUNDHOUSE – REVOLUTION FROM THE HEART OF WOMAN

The environment in developing countries of the South has often suffered most, and how these nations relate to the environment from here on is a make-it-or break-it factor in planetary survival for all of us. Ethiopian visionary Bogaletch Gebre depicts how the interconnecting forces of environment, economy, women, health and ecological technologies are creating a future environment of hope. Buy It!

PART 12: INDIGENEITY – BECOMING NATIVE, STAYING NATIVE

What 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. Buy It!

PART 13: THE END OF SUSTAINABILITY – THE ENVIRONMENT AS A HUMAN RIGHT

A 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. Buy It!

Radio Series III

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PART 1: THE DUH PRINCIPLE: BETTER SAFE THAN SORRY

"Look before you leap." "Better safe than sorry." These simple mottos express the heart of the precautionary principle, which acts as a lens for scientific choices, "an insurance policy against our own ignorance." Carolyn Raffensperger and Sharyle Patton share stories that put flesh and bone on this golden rule.  Buy It!

PART 2: THE WONDERS OF GAIA – NATURE IS SYMBIOTIC

"Why plant a garden when you can put plants to work for you in your own body?" This is one of the mind bending questions Lynn Margulis, one of the greatest cross-disciplinary scientific thinkers and educators of our epoch, asks. She, ethnobotanist Wade Davis and mycologist Paul Stamets weave tales of amazing plant intelligence like the "Hat Thrower Mushroom" and animals that eat light.  Buy It!

PART 3: ENERGY SECURITY – THE GROWTH OF SOFT ENERGY SYSTEMS

The recent energy "crisis" in California triggered the worst reflexes of many business and political leaders, who clamored for more fossil fuel power plants and fewer environmental limits. With the September 11th attacks has come the increased recognition that how we make and distribute energy is nearly impossible to protect. The Rocky Mountain Institute’s Hunter Lovins and renewable energy expert David Katz examine how these challenges present opportunities for dramatic shifts in energy production.  Buy It!

PART 4: LIGHT AT THE EDGE OF THE WORLD – REINVENTING THE POETRY OF DIVERSITY

Author/ethnobotanist/anthropologist, Wade Davis, has been from Borneo to Tibet to Haiti, from the high Arctic to the Andes and Amazon as an explorer of our planet’s wondrous cultural and biological diversity. He has found a fire burning over the Earth, taking with it plants and animals, cultures, languages, ancient skills and visionary wisdom. Quelling this flame and reinventing the poetry of diversity is the most important challenge of our times.  Buy It!

PART 5: GREENING MEDICINE – THE MAINSTREAMING OF HERBS

Herbalism has finally broken through into mainstream medicine. Dr. Tieraona Low Dog, a physician/herbalist is a pioneer of this new paradigm. She questions modern medicine while practicing it. She explores the special relationship that exists between plants and humans and presents exciting evidence that validates the traditional use of medicines like — garlic!  Buy It!

PART 6: SOIL AND SOUL – THE FUTURE OF FARMING

What are the hidden costs of agribusiness, with its chemical dependent mega farms? Poor nutrition and physical and mental illness, connected to poor nutrition, are on the rise in the United States. Farmers Michael Ableman and Joel Salatin express the soul that is returning to farming the land. Here come the chicken tractors, and the pigorators.  Buy It!

PART 7: I HEARD THE VOICE OF A PORKCHOP – THE THEORETICAL PROMISE VERSUS THE ACTUAL PERILS OF GENETICALLY MODIFIED ORGANISMS (GMO’S)

Master soil scientist Elaine Ingham describes a genetically modified organism she discovered in her screening work that if released, could have devastated global plant life. Writer Michael Pollan probes issues from food safety to the evolutionary significance of the power to genetically modify life and Peter Montague, the editor of Rachel’s Environment and Health News, reports on grassroots political actions that are beginning to render genetic engineering accountable to the public.  Buy It!

PART 8: LESS IS MORE – TOWARD A ZERO-DISCHARGE INDUSTRY

How about creating an industry that emits no poisons into the environment? Direct action eco-heroine Diane Wilson has used civil disobedience to fight such chemical giants as Union Carbide and Dupont. She tried to sink her shrimp boat on Formosa Plastics’ toxic effluent pipe and won a zero discharge agreement. Professor of Environmental Engineering Jack Matson tells how chemical plants can and are achieving zero discharge.  Buy It!

PART 9: DAUGHTERS OF THOREAU – NOT TOO WELL BEHAVED

On his deathbed, Henry David Thoreau said his only regret was that he had been too well behaved. Julia Butterfly Hill, Diane Wilson, and Terri Swearingen, three of the most imaginative, inspiring and courageous direct action heroines of our era share their experiences and show us how courage and commitment can stop mountains from being moved.  Buy It!

PART 10: PLANTS AND PEOPLE – WHO'S CULTIVATING WHOM?

Award-winning journalist for the New York Times Magazine, Michael Pollan, author of The Botany of Desire: A Plant’s Eye View of the World takes a fresh perspective on the co-evolution of people and plants. Ethnobotanist/artist Kathleen Harrison, who has been working with the Mazatec people of Oaxaca, delves into the human-sacred plant sacrament relationship.  Buy It!

PART 11: GETTING THE REAL STORY – BYPASSING CORPORATE MEDIA

The rise of new communications technologies capable of linking us as never before coincides with an unprecedented bid by the corporate media to monopolize the message. How can media be used to catalyze a national and global conversation about what really matters? Peter Montague the editor of Rachel’s Environment and Health News, Mark Sommer, the Executive Director of the Mainstream Media Project, Elise Hoeg of the Rainforest Action Network describe strategies that are working.  Buy It!

PART 12: NATURE AS HEALER – RESTORING LIFE AND COMMUNITY

Anna Marie Carter, the "Seed Lady" of Watts, shares heartful stories of community renewal that have grown from her work building free organic gardens for residents of south central Los Angeles. T. Allen Comp presents his extraordinary work with AMD&ART, a non-profit that has combined public art, environmental improvement and community engagement in treating abandoned mine drainage in Appalachia.  Buy It!

PART 13: NATURE AND SPIRIT – IT'S ALL CONNECTED

Global healing requires a spiritual transformation of every aspect of life. Rabbi Michael Lerner of Tikkun Magazine, author/educator Matthew Fox and Joanna Macy, eco-philosopher and scholar of Buddhism speak of the profound interconnectedness of all life and the experience of joy, courage and community we need to engage in the healing of the world.  Buy It!

Radio Series II

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PART 1: RE-IMAGINING DESIGN – BECOMING TOOLS OF NATURE
with William McDonough

William McDonough has long been at the forefront of what he calls "the next industrial revolution." McDonough suggests that the growth/no growth struggle between business interests and environmentalists is absurd. The real question is "what do you want to grow?" What would the world be like if the by-products of human ambitions and activities were always wetlands, wildlands and beauty?  Buy It!

PART 2: GAIAN WONDERS OF THE CO-EVOLUTIONARY DANCE
with Steven Foster, Jennifer Greene, Paul Stamets, Terry Tempest Williams, and Peter Warshall

Who needs TV when the waves at the beach are phosphorescing, the fungal internet is pulsing, and the laws of physics are being broken all around us by...water? These Bioneers celebrate the wonders of nature they encounter in their work for the Earth and explore, among other things, "the ocean eye" and variations on a nematode worm.  Buy It!

PART 3: ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE – RISING FROM THE FLAMES
with Terri Swearingen, Henry Clark, and Carwil James

From the oil fields in Nigeria, to an Ohio school yard down wind from a toxic incinerator, to a Richmond, California community surrounded by industry, inspiring stories of tragedy and the heroic victories of everyday people who are standing up to the deadly practices of big business polluters.  Buy It!

PART 4: BIOMIMICRY – INNOVATION INSPIRED BY NATURE
with Janine Benyus

Leaders in the fields of agriculture, architecture, the arts, design, physics, engineering, theology, ecology and economics are rediscovering the genius of nature. And it’s the genius of nature, they say, that just might save us. In this program Janine Benyus gives us an introduction to some of the true "biotechnologies", technologies that rather than seeking to dominate the natural world, draw from the wisdom of the Earth.  Buy It!

PART 5: TREE OF KNOWLEDGE – TREE OF LIFE: TOWARDS AN AGRICULTURE OF RELATIONSHIPS
with Joel Salatin and Fred Kirschenmann, and author Wes Jackson

Agriculture or industrial farming, as it is practiced today, may be the single most destructive human activity against the Earth that we currently employ. In response, a movement toward Restorative Farming that looks to nature for its direction, is gaining momentum. The hunger for organic foods has never been greater. Millions of consumers are creating the demand that supports farm biodiversity and a healthy food supply.  Buy It!

PART 6: REWILDING THE EARTH – NURTURING THE WEB OF LIFE
with Dave Foreman and Dennis Martinez

Ecosystems are collapsing and Dave Foreman is working to return large carnivores, "keystone species," like the wolf and the jaguar to the American West. Native American Dennis Martinez is a restorative ecologist who would say the true "keystone species" has traditionally been indigenous humans. This program explores successful approaches to restoring habitat that uncover two fascinating views of nature and our place in it.  Buy It!

PART 7: GLOBALIZATION, THE ENVIRONMENT, AND LIVING TOWARD THE LOCAL
with Jerry Mander,Kevin Danaher, Alisa Gravitz, and Leslie McEachern

Every dollar we spend is a vote for or against the Earth. These Bioneers call us to recognize that economics is actually a subset of ecology, not the other way around. Behind most environmental harm is an economic motive, so how do we move from the love of money to the love of life? In this program: the many faces of activism.  Buy It!

PART 8: KNOWLEDGE FROM INTIMACY – REVALUING THE FEMININE
with Paula Gunn Allen, Susan Griffin, China Galland, Nina Simons, and Luisah Teish

Here we acknowledge the "sheroic" work of five women who represent the millions of women who, in their work for the Earth, embody the "fierce feminine." Feminine qualities, they say, that are in all of us no matter our gender - qualities most called for in these pivotal times. These qualities are proof that where women lead life succeeds. 
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PART 9: HONORING THE HERITAGE OF BLACK FARMERS ON THE LAND
with J.L. Chestnut

Black farmers have been leaving the land at three and a-half times the rate of other farmers. It turns out that this loss of black farmers is due less to farming policies and practices than it is to generations of institutional racism. Civil Rights attorney J.L. Chestnut, in a brilliant and emotional speech, tells the story of the successful historic litigation against the USDA on behalf of these farmers.  Buy It!

PART 10: FIRST NATIONS AND THE FUTURE OF THE EARTH
with Rebecca Adamson, Paula Gunn Allen, and John Mohawk

Indigenous peoples were the first "Bioneers", who worked with nature in a reciprocal relationship - giving back as much as they took. This program highlights startling new studies that have identified "biodiversity hotspots" around the globe, lands that are critical to the health of the biosphere, lands which are under the care of indigenous peoples, and are identified by multinational business interests as prime targets for massive resource extraction.  Buy It!

PART 11: GLOBAL GREEN PLANS AND URBAN DESIGN
with Mark Hertsgaard and Francesca Vietor

Solutions, solutions, solutions. From the Global Green Deal, a comprehensive plan for restoring the Earth, to the inspiring programs and policies of one city that is going green. This program is full of practical strategies to turn eco-centered visions into living realities that deliver jobs and profits.  Buy It!

PART 12: THE AGE OF EXTINCTION AND EMERGING ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH MOVEMENT
with Michael Lerner

Who doesn’t know someone touched by the nightmare of cancer? Scientists have proven that 70-90% of cancers are caused by environmental factors. Why is it so hard to fathom that human health and the health of the Earth are inseparable? The Environmental Health Movement could become THE most potent force for restoring the Earth. 
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PART 13: NATURE AND SPIRIT – IT'S ALL ALIVE
with John Mohawk, Luisah Teish, Matthew Fox, Julia Butterfly Hill, Starhawk, and Paula Gunn Allen

Faith leaders and activists share their views on our role as human beings in the great web of life. What does it mean to be a mammal? Do the oaks need humans as much as humans need oaks? What What does a lover of the Earth do with the pain and losses of the beloved?  Buy It!

Radio Series I

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PART 1: BIONEERS: WORKING WITH NATURE TO HEAL NATURE

Bioneers founder and co-executive director Kenny Ausubel and co-executive director Nina Simons introduce us to "biological pioneers" Anna Edey, John Todd and Hunter Lovins who are imitating living systems to restore the web of life.  Buy It!

PART 2: CLIMATE CHANGE AND THE NEXT INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION

Author and climate change expert Bill McKibben takes us into the unstable future that is already showing itself. Amory Lovins presents inspiring industrial design innovations that are capable of shrinking human impacts on the biosphere by over 90%.  Buy It!

PART 3: NATURAL CAPITALISM AND GREEN DESIGN

What would life be like if the monetary value of Gaia's services such as pollination, oxygen production, and soil fertility were taken into account Paul Hawken, Amory Lovins and William McDonough highlight existing methods and emerging solutions, which are transforming commerce toward ecological principles.  Buy It!

PART 4: THE ORIGINAL INSTRUCTIONS: IT'S ALL RELATIVES

What were the original instructions that tribal communities lived by for the vast majority of human existence? Native leaders Oren Lyons, Rebecca Adamson, Katsi Cook, Melissa Nelson, and writer Malcolm Margolin invoke the Original Instructions.  Buy It!

PART 5: QUANTUM JAZZ – IT'S ALL CONNECTED

Biochemist Mae Won Ho, physicist Fritjof Capra, and John Mohawk trace an organic revolution that is emerging in the field of science that spells good news for the Earth.  Buy It!

PART 6: BIOREMEDIATION – IN NATURE EVERYBODY IS SOMEBODY'S LUNCH

Bioneers Dan Dagget, Paul Stamets, and John Todd show how cows, mushrooms, fungi and "living machines," are being used to restore Superfund sites, "eat" diesel spills and decontaminate soil and water.  Buy It!

PART 7: WISE WOMEN OF THE EARTH – IT'S ALL INTELLIGENT

In this program we explore the restoration of the feminine and the feminization of the restoration, with a dance, a 'Mam'on, a meditation, and a prayer with Nina Simons, Mohawk midwife Katsi Cook, authors Starhawk and Terry Tempest Williams, Marta Benevides and performance artist Kirstin Wilson.  Buy It!

PART 8: GENETIC ENGINEERING OR GENETIC ROULETTE?

What lies behind the fascination to tinker with the building blocks of life? Kenny Ausubel and Andrew Kimbrell shed light on the disturbing genetic engineering debate and activist Luke Anderson reports from the successful campaign that has derailed the spread of "biological pollution" in Great Britain and Europe.  Buy It!

PART 9: BIODYNAMIC GROWING – SACRED COWS AND COSMIC SCIENCE

Industrial agriculture is the single most destructive human activity against the environment. Hugh Lovel, Peter ProctorFred Kirschenmann present an amazing approach to agriculture, stemming from the ideas of Rudolph Steiner, founder of Waldorf Education, which grows nutritious foods and restores land and water.  Buy It!

PART 10: WORLD TRADE WITH A HUMAN FACE

Alert to the rights violations and ecological damage being done by the "Economization of the Globe", Anita Roddick, David Korten and Kevin Danaher are working not just to slow the corporate limousine down, or change its color to green, but to pull up the pavement it is running on.  Buy It!

PART 11: ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH AND THE POLITICS OF CANCER

While the medical establishment has been losing the celebrated war on cancer, it has conducted a very successful campaign against promising alternative approaches. Kenny Ausubel and Samuel Epstein, M.D. present one of the greatest scandals of the 20th century and call attention to the rising tide of alternative medicine approaches.  Buy It!

PART 12: WISDOM AT THE END OF THE HOE – FARMING AS IF BIOLOGY MATTERED

What is it like living at a plant's pace? Is the gardener growing the garden or is the garden transforming the gardener? John Jeavons, Starhawk, Cathrine Sneed, Bob Cannard and Penny Livingston point to the genuine solutions for farming in harmony with the Earth. They are restoring soils and restoring souls.  Buy It!

PART 13: NATURE AND SPIRIT – IT'S ALL ALIVE

Bioneers recognize that ethnical solutions to the ecological challenges we face must be accompanied by a change of heart. Terry Tempest Williams, Luisah Teish, Julia Butterfly Hill, Matthew Fox and Oren Lyons celebrate the sacredness of all life and call to the hero's heart in each of us for the restoration of our home, the beautiful Earth. Anita Roddick, David Korten and Kevin Danaher are working not just to slow the corporate limousine down, or change its color to green, but to pull up the pavement it is running on.  Buy It!

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War, Earth, And The Soul: The Warrior’s Path Of Redemption

Psychotherapist Ed Tick believes that the traumatic wounding of war is not a stress disorder, but “a wound that is so deep and so holistic that it disturbs every aspect of our functioning.” The author of War and the Soul, Dr. Tick is a widely recognized expert who has treated many veterans and survivors of the Vietnam War, World War II, the Holocaust, and now, the War in Iraq.

This Bioneers special radio program exposes the devastating power of technological warfare on people and the land. It questions whether war is really a viable response to conflict in the 21st century, given its destruction to human civilization and nature on a global scale. War, Earth, and the Soul: The Warrior’s Path of Redemption also tells the emotional story of one veteran’s journey back to Vietnam where his soul finally begins to find peace. His experience shows us that confronting the demons of war can lead to a path of healing and reverence for life.

Duration: 30 minutes

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Bioneers radio programming has won ten awards in international competitions, including the New York Festivals and the Crystal Communicator Awards. Bioneers: Revolution from the Heart of Nature Radio Series is now in its seventh year of production and is heard in over 160 communities across the U.S. and Canada.

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For information on how to obtain a CD copy of this program or for the downlink schedule, please contact Carol Martinez from WFMT at 773-279-2112 or email cmartinez@wfmt.com.

For information on premiums (CD of the program and contact information for obtaining copies of Ed Tick’s book War and the Soul), please contact Kai Huschke at kai@bioneers.org or 505-986-0366, ext. 128.