Bioneers: Revolution from the Heart of Nature – March 17, 2025
An award-winning series featuring social and scientific innovators with creative solutions to the most pressing challenges we face.
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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.
History doesn’t repeat itself, but it rhymes. 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 – with Julian Brave NoiseCat, Dr. LaNada War … Continued
The influences of Africans and Black Americans on food and agriculture is rooted in ancestral African knowledge and traditions of shared labor, worker co-ops and botanical polycultures. Karen Washington and Bryant Terry talk about how Black Food culture is weaving the threads of a rich African agricultural heritage with the liberation of economics from an … Continued
Globally, women experience some of the harshest challenges in wartime and the climate crisis while simultaneously remaining caretakers to their families, communities, and the Earth. Zainab Salbi is a humanitarian, author and media host who has dedicated her life to empowering women on the frontlines in conflict zones and climate crisis zones. Her vision is … Continued
As author Michael Pollan observes: “The two biggest crises humanity faces today are tribalism and the environmental crisis. They both involve the objectifying of the other – whether that other is nature or other people.” How do we re-weave that web of relationships, and focus on our likenesses rather than our differences? In this program, … Continued
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.”
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.