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!