Saving Nature Means Saving Ourselves
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.”
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Bioneers: Revolution from the Heart of Nature
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An award-winning series featuring social and scientific innovators with creative solutions to the most pressing challenges we face.
At the core of our civilizational breakdown is an extractive economy that wastes both nature and people, at the same time it is Hoovering extreme wealth up to the billionaire class. But with breakdown comes breakthrough. Professor Manuel Pastor believes we’re living through a moment of profound transformation. It will come down to what we … Continued
Visionary urban planners and community organizers recognize that effectively addressing the climate crisis requires drawing down carbon out of the atmosphere and sequestering it back where it belongs in natural systems. Urban forestry is a nature-based solution that can simultaneously address the parallel crises of climate change and wealth inequality. With Brett KenCairn, Boulder city … Continued
Architect and designer Jason F. McLennan takes the revolution from the heart of nature and the human heart into our built environment.
A deep conversation between Angela Glover Blackwell and john a. powell, two long-time friends and leaders in a quest toward building a multicultural democracy.
Kate Lundquist and Brock Dolman of the Occidental Arts and Ecology Center are part of a passionate global movement to bring back our rodent relatives who show us how to heal nature by working with nature.
From the historic Indigenous occupation of Alcatraz Island in 1969 to the fossil fuel fights throughout Canada and the U.S. today, Indigenous resistance illuminates an activism founded in a spiritual connection with the web of life and the human community.
Yurok fisherman and tribal leader Sammy Gensaw and environmental scientist-turned-activist Craig Tucker share the epic story of how Indigenous leadership and non-Indian allyship made the impossible inevitable: the biggest-ever dam removal and salmon restoration in history.
Today, three to five giant corporations control up to 80% of almost every industry and marketplace. These monopolies depress wages, exploit workers, and decimate small businesses. Stacy Mitchell from the Institute for Local Self Reliance has been a leader in a growing anti-monopoly movement with a broad political base. Can this emerging movement – along with bold federal antitrust action – create a force that can challenge corporate power for the first time in decades?
We plug into the digital Wild West of surveillance capitalism and the unholy alliance between Big Tech and Big Brother. Our guide is Cindy Cohn, director of Electronic Frontier Foundation.
Award-winning lawyer and climate justice organizer Colette Pichon-Battle lays out a bold vision for a new organizing project designed to model bioregional democratic climate action. The aim is to transform the Gulf South and Appalachia away from the lethal matrix of fossil fuel extraction and extractive economics. Instead, the regional vision is for a regenerative … Continued