Bioneers Radio Series

The Seaweed Rebellion: Saving the Earth by Saving the Oceans

cfoster — Mon, 30 Jun 2008 18:56:22 -0400

Perhaps we should call it Watershed Earth. We’re made of water, totally dependent on it, yet it in turn depends on us to play our part in a good way.

Becoming Fully Human: the Covenant of the Original Instructions

cfoster — Fri, 20 Jun 2008 11:57:32 -0400

The Original Instructions represent the ancient empirical wisdom of Traditional Ecological Knowledge earned over generations and millennia by people living closely with the land and each other.

The Golden Rule: Restoring the Earth by Restoring Human Dignity

cfoster — Wed, 11 Jun 2008 16:37:35 -0400

Could Western civilization’s oldest ethical instructions of the Golden Rule hold acute relevance to our planetary environmental crisis?

Jaguars, Goats and Acequias: Cultivating the Landscape of a Wild Earth

cfoster — Wed, 11 Jun 2008 16:21:09 -0400

Do you think of the wilderness as something far away?

Toxic Trespassing: The Inside Story of the Love Canal Uprising

cfoster — Tue, 27 May 2008 11:22:47 -0400

Few people know how a hostage-taking incident transformed a shy housewife from the working-class community near Niagara Falls into one of the founding mothers of the environmental justice movement.

Green-Collar Jobs: Laboring into the Next Economy

cfoster — Mon, 19 May 2008 17:52:15 -0400

Labor leader César Chavez helped ban DDT. Truckers are helping address appalling asthma rates at the filthy port of Los Angeles.

Beyond the Bar Code: The Local Food Revolution

cfoster — Mon, 12 May 2008 18:33:26 -0400

Because industrial agriculture is the single most destructive human activity against the environment, what we put on our collective plate and how we grow our food are going to be among the most dec

Taking Back the Country From the Nation: Finding the Light in the Shadows

cfoster — Mon, 05 May 2008 15:39:08 -0400

“We know what’s wrong,” says the iconic Jungian psychotherapist and author James Hillman, “but do we know that knowing what’s wrong is some of what’s wrong?”

Digital Democracy: The Cyberworld of Citizen Activism

cfoster — Mon, 28 Apr 2008 16:17:36 -0400

Garbage in, garbage out, as the early computer innovators remarked about information. A vital free press is the single most important feedback loop in a democracy.

Justice or Just Us: Environmental Justice as a Universal Human Right

Mon, 21 Apr 2008 16:43:47 -0400

The current industrial system generates 94 percent waste. It all lands somewhere, often ultimately in our bodies. A society that wastes its resources also wastes its people.