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Bioneers: Revolution From the Heart of Nature
The Bioneers: Revolution from the Heart of Nature is an award-winning 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 des...
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Seeing the Forest for the Trees
We trek into the ancient old-growth forest where the trees reveal an ecological parable: A forest is a mightily interwoven community of diverse life t...
Tears in the Eyes, Rainbow in the Heart: Dr. Jane Goodall’s Reasons for Hope
The late visionary primatologist and conservationist Dr. Jane Goodall revolutionized primatology and helped us realize how close our kinship is with t...
The Restorative Revolution: How Indigenous Leadership and Allyship Catalyzed the Biggest River Restoration in US History
Yurok fisherman and tribal leader Sammy Gensaw and environmental scientist-turned-activist Craig Tucker share the epic story of how Indigenous leaders...
The Universe Beneath Our Feet: Mapping the Mycelial Web of Life
Imagine an underground web of mind-boggling complexity, a bustling cosmopolis beneath your feet. Quadrillions of miles of tiny threads in the soil pul...
Creating a World Where Everyone Belongs: From a Change of Heart to System Change
In this moment of radical transformation, shifting the societal pronoun from “me, me, me” to “we” may be the single most transformational pivot we can...
Laboring For Justice: See No Stranger
In a world that’s unraveling from climate disruption and gaping inequality, another climate crisis confronts us: the climate of hate and othering. Awa...
From Scarcity to Abundance: How Collective Governance Can Transform the Climate Crisis
In this episode, award-winning lawyer and climate justice organizer Colette Pichon Battle lays out a bold vision for a new organizing project designed...
Supreme Oligarchy: How Billionaires and the Supreme Court are Betraying the Promise of America
Author, broadcaster and scholar Thom Hartmann warns of the existential threat of a virulent new oligarchy: the third frontal assault by the ultra-weal...
Indigenous Rising: From Alcatraz to Standing Rock
History doesn’t repeat itself, but it rhymes. From the historic Indigenous occupation of Alcatraz Island in 1969 to the fossil fuel fights throughout...
Take This Job and Shove It: The Great Resignation or The Great Revolt? | Saru Jayaraman
Labor organizer and Founder of One Fair Wage, Saru Jayaraman, takes us inside one of the fiercest labor struggles to challenge a mighty oligarchy: The...
None of Your Business: Claiming Our Digital Privacy Rights, Reclaiming Democracy
We plug into the real world Matrix – the digital Wild West of surveillance capitalism that dominates this Age of Information. Behind it is the unholy...
The Rising Anti-Monopoly Movement: Overcoming Economic Tyranny
Today, three to five giant corporations control up to 80% of almost every industry and marketplace. These monopolies depress wages, exploit workers, a...
Democracy v. Plutocracy: Breaking Up is Hard to Do
From local communities and states to federal policy, antitrust movements to dismantle monopolies are challenging the system that can be summed up as:...
Democracy v. Plutocracy: Behind Every Great Fortune Lies a Great Crime
In this first part of a two-part program, we travel back and forth in time to explore the battle between democracy and plutocracy that goes back to th...
Who Is an American? Is Our Democracy as Unequal as Our Economy?
By around 2044, the U.S. will become a majority-minority nation. This seismic demographic shift has triggered a cultural earthquake, provoking a radic...
A Conversation with David Rothenberg
Dive into a conversation between Bioneers senior producer J.P. Harpignies and David Rothenberg. David is a musician, composer, author, naturalist, phi...
When No News is Bad News: The Struggle to Save Local Journalism
The most critical feedback loop in a democracy is a free press and access to vital information. Yet decades of corporate consolidation allowed giant c...
Raced and Classed: The Journey From Diversity to Equity
What we do to each other, we do to the Earth. To protect our common home, we’re being called upon to bridge our differences to create beloved communit...
Staying Alive: Reconciling Nature, Culture and Gay Rights
As a backlash against LGBTQ rights escalates into an authoritarian crusade, acclaimed author and queer activist Taylor Brorby asks how we can still be...
Nature’s Intelligence: Coming Down from the Pedestal
These days, scientists are starting to talk like shamans and shamans are starting to talk like scientists. So says anthropologist and author Jeremy Na...
Legalizing Nature’s Rights: How Tribal Nations are Leading the Fastest Growing Environmental Movement in History
The Rights of Nature movement launched internationally in 2006 and is growing fast. Driven primarily by tribes and citizen-led communities, more than...
Declarations of Interdependence: A Story of Storytelling | Baratunde Thurston
Since time immemorial, storytellers have held an exalted role in human societies, because stories illustrate parables that help us make sense of the w...
Why Equity is Good for Everyone: Changing the Story, Changing the World | john a. powell & Heather McGhee
How do we change the story of corrosive racial inequity? First, we have to understand the stories we tell ourselves. In this program, racial justice i...
No More Stolen Sisters: Stopping the Abuse and Murder of Native Women and Girls
In this program, powerful Native women leaders reveal the crisis of missing and murdered Indigenous women, and describe how they are taking action and...
The Charging Twenties: Now is the Time to Build a Solar-Powered Civilization
Visionary clean energy entrepreneur Danny Kennedy explores the promise and challenges of the epic civilizational transition to renewable energy. Witho...
Bioneers presents Future Ecologies: Sea / Garden
We are sharing an episode from our friends at Future Ecologies. Future Ecologies is a podcast exploring our eco-social relationships through stories,...
Radical Transparency: Mapping the Earth from the Ground to the Cloud
New, democratized access to powerful analytical and mapping tools is transforming our understanding of the natural world – and with it, our ability to...
Urban Forests: A Nature-Based Solution to Climate Breakdown and Inequality
Visionary urban planners and community organizers recognize that effectively addressing the climate crisis requires drawing down carbon out of the atm...
The Nature of Language and the Language of Nature
Over 7,000 languages are spoken around the world. Each one reflects a rich ecosystem of ideas - seeds that grow into a multitude of worldviews. Today,...
Beaver Believers: How to Restore Planet Water
In this age of global weirding where climate disruption has tumbled the Goldilocks effect into unruly surges of too much and too little water, the res...
Seeing the Forest for the Trees
We trek into the ancient old-growth forest where the trees reveal an ecological parable: A forest is a mightily interwoven community of diverse life t...
Nature's Genius: A Bioneers Podcast Series
Nature’s Genius is a Bioneers podcast series exploring how the sentient symphony of life holds the solutions we need to balance human civilization wit...
The Universe Beneath Our Feet: Mapping the Mycelial Web of Life
Imagine an underground web of mind-boggling complexity, a bustling cosmopolis beneath your feet. Quadrillions of miles of tiny threads in the soil pul...
What Does Water Want?
Water makes life possible. From the tiniest bacteria to the tallest tree, every living thing relies on this irreplaceable substance. Erica Gies, autho...
Deep Listening: Whale Culture, Interspecies Communication, and Knowing Your Place
Dr. Shane Gero, a visionary marine biologist, is angling to crack the code of sperm whale communication. His mind-bending research is transforming wha...
Black Food: Liberation, Food Justice and Stewardship | Karen Washington & Bryant Terry
The influences of Africans and Black Americans on food and agriculture is rooted in ancestral African knowledge and traditions of shared labor, worker...
Re-Weaving the Web of Belonging
As author Michael Pollan observes: “The two biggest crises humanity faces today are tribalism and the environmental crisis. They both involve the obje...
Saving Nature Means Saving Ourselves | Dr. Rae Wynn-Grant
Dr. Rae Wynn-Grant shares her personal odyssey as a wildlife ecologist, conservation biologist and co-host of the famed TV nature show “Wild Kingdom.”...
Social Medicine: Restoring Public Health by Changing Society | Dr. Rupa Marya
We are told that our personal health is our individual responsibility based on our own choices. Yet, the biological truth is that human health is depe...
Designing for a Regenerative Future: What’s Love Got to Do with It? | Jason F. McLennan
What would it feel like to live in a world where our built environment was as elegant as nature's designs? What if our living and working spaces nurtu...