Synopsis
This weekly hour-long program is a forum for powerful conversations with the philosophers, scientists, activists, healers, artists and others who are leading the movements to restore our beleaguered planet to its natural balance. The show deals with the most urgent questions facing the next generation of Earth stewards. How do we reverse ecological damages and create a culture of regeneration? How do we confront the psychological challenges of an uncertain future, while healing the age-old wounds of alienation from nature?
Episodes
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THERESA TWO BULLS on Uniting to Reclaim the Black Hills /50
30/08/2017 Duration: 01h05minTheresa Two Bulls is an attorney, prosecutor and politician in the United States and the Oglala Sioux Tribe. Support the show
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ALNOOR LADHA on Capitalists and Other Cannibals /49
14/08/2017 Duration: 01h04minAlnoor Ladha's discusses neoliberal capitalism, the global economic system and how we can work ourselves out of it. Support the show
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JASMINE FUEGO on Social Permaculture and Harnessing the Power of Festival Culture /48
12/08/2017 Duration: 01h03minJasmine Fuego is an activist, artist and permaculturist redefining the transformational festival scene by bridging the gap between art and action. Support the show
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CHIEF CALEEN SISK on the Fight for Free and Wild Salmon Rivers /47
28/06/2017 Duration: 01h21minAyana is joined by Chief Caleen Sisk, spiritual leader of the Winnemem Wintu Tribe of Northern California, to explore how the forces of industrial society have attempted to tame and exploit living waters, and how Indigenous stewards are facing the subsequent ecological predicament. Support the show
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STARHAWK on the Roots and Shoots of Earth-based Community /46
13/05/2017 Duration: 57minStarhawk is one of the most respected voices in modern earth-based spirituality, and a cofounder of Reclaiming, an activist branch of modern Pagan religion. She is a veteran of progressive movements, from anti-war to anti-nukes, and is deeply committed to bringing the techniques and creative power of spirituality to political activism. Support the show
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ERIEL DERANGER on Radicality Amid Expanding Tar Sands /45
23/04/2017 Duration: 01h16minIn this episode we speak with activist Eriel Tchekwie Deranger about the largest industrial project in the world, the Tarsands in Alberta, Canada, and strategize about the future of the fossil fuel resistance. Support the show
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BREN SMITH on Underwater Food Forests For Ailing Oceans /44
27/03/2017 Duration: 56minHaving spent his life on the seas from Newfoundland to Alaska, Bren Smith has witnessed the collapse of global fisheries. Over the last decade and a half, he has developed methods of vertical 3D ocean farming and is determined to pioneer and popularize a food system that carries marine restoration in its architecture. Support the show
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LYLA JUNE on Resistance and Forgiveness in the Final Years of Patriarchy /43
14/03/2017 Duration: 56minLyla June retraces the origins of oppression of European women, men and earth-based cultures through to recent histories of genocide, inter-generational trauma, and the enduring forces that seek to destroy Indigenous women and the earth. Support the show
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LYLA JUNE on the Endangered Diversity of Language and Life /42
10/03/2017 Duration: 51minLyla June is a musician, public speaker and internationally recognized performance poet. Descended from Diné (Navajo) and Tsétsêhéstâhese (Cheyenne) lineages, her personal mission in life is to grow closer to Creator by learning how to love deeper.Support the show
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STEPHEN JENKINSON on Ancestry and Misanthropy /41
08/12/2016 Duration: 01h04minStephen Jenkinson is an activist, teacher, author, and farmer, with a masters degree in theology from Harvard University and a masters degree in social work from the University of Toronto. Formerly a program director at a major Canadian hospital and medical-school assistant professor, Jenkinson is now a sought-after workshop leader, speaker, and consultant to palliative care and hospice organizations. He is the founder of the Orphan Wisdom School and the subject of the documentary film Griefwalker. Support the show
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NINA SIMONS on the Holistic Endeavor of Shifting Culture /40
11/10/2016 Duration: 58minToday we are joined by the co-founder and president of Bioneers, Nina Simons, an award winning social entrepreneur and visionary thinker. Support the show
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FAITH GEMMILL & PRINCESS LUCAJ on an Arctic Untouched by Oil /39
18/09/2016 Duration: 01h01minToday we’re speaking Faith Gemmill, a Pit River/ Wintu and Neets’ aii Gwich’in Athabascan earth defender from Arctic Village, Alaska. Also joining us is Princess Lucaj. She is the former Executive Director of the Gwich’in Steering Committee and Alaska Director at the Indigenous Leadership Institute. Support the show
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PETER McCOY on Fungi for Personal and Planetary Healing /38
18/08/2016 Duration: 55minToday, the conversation with Radical Mycology’s Peter McCoy probes onward, as we invoke the powers of fungi in Earth healing and the integration of human societies into our delicate and compromised biosphere. Support the show
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PETER McCOY on Fungi and the Birth of the Modern Psyche /37
20/07/2016 Duration: 58minWe welcome back Peter McCoy, who leads us through the earliest evidence of the fungal “queendom” in the development of culture and human intelligence, and shows how understanding fungal biology and mycelial webs can steer our social experiments. Support the show
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MONIQUE VERDIN & CHERRI FOYTLIN on the Gulf Coast’s Unsound Future /36
05/07/2016 Duration: 58minWe look deep into the challenges faced by frontline Indigenous activists in the Mississippi Delta with Monique Michelle Verdin, creator of the film My Louisiana Love and Cherri Foytlin, author of "Spill It! The Truth About the Deep Water Horizon Oil Rig Explosion." Support the show
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ROBIN WALL KIMMERER on Indigenous Knowledge for Earth Healing /35
14/05/2016 Duration: 58minDr. Kimmerer is a mother, scientist, writer, Distinguished Teaching Professor of Environmental Biology at the SUNY College of Environmental Science and Forestry in Syracuse, NY, and the founding Director of the Center for Native Peoples and the Environment. Support the show
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JILL STEIN on the Fertile Grounds for Revolution /34
21/04/2016 Duration: 58minJill Stein is the Green Party’s 2016 candidate for President of the United States. Support the show
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DIANA BERESFORD-KROEGER on Replanting the Global Forest, Part Two /33
04/04/2016 Duration: 58minLearn more about Diana's amazing upcoming film "The Call of the Forest: The Forgotten Wisdom of Trees" at http://dianasjourney.comSupport the show
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DIANA BERESFORD-KROEGER on Replanting the Global Forest, Part One /32
11/03/2016 Duration: 58minDiana Beresford-Kroeger is a one-woman force of regeneration of the biosphere! A botanist, medical biochemist and self-defined "renegade scientist," she brings together ethnobotany, horticulture, spirituality and alternative medicine to reveal a path toward better stewardship of the natural world. Support the show
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ROSEMARY GLADSTAR on Uniting Plant Savers /31
23/02/2016 Duration: 58minRosemary Gladstar is a pioneer in the herbal movement and has been called the 'godmother of American Herbalism'.Support the show